WWTBAM Bored

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: Meredith Brannon
Dallas, NC

Meredith owes her apppearance to her mom, Gail. Meredith is notoriously late for everything and actually missed two auditions, so Gail signed her up for another one without telling her and escorted her to the studio for it. Gail is in the audience, now.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$25,000 * Soccer
In soccer, kicking the ball between the defender's legs is a maneuver known as a what?

A: Clove B: Pepper
C: Curry D: Nutmeg

With 23 seconds left, Meredith decides to Phone A Friend.
Meredith's PAF team are Andy, Gastonia, NC; Chad, Charlotte, NC; and Gaither, Dallas, NC.
Meredith decides to call Chad. She repeats the question and answers twice.

Chad: Clove, nutmeg?

Meredith: Four seconds!

Chad: I'm not sure.

With 19 seconds left, Meredith decides to Ask The Expert. Meredith Vieira tells her that Dave was on the show earlier this week and got every question he was asked right.

Dave: Gosh, Meredith, I'm gonna be not much help for you here. My hunch is to say a pepper, but I really don't feel confident about that at all.

With 17 seconds left, Meredith decides to Double Dip.

Answer

Meredith's first answer is B: Pepper.
Meredith's second answer is C: Curry.

Meredith falls to $1,000.

D: Nutmeg ( 14 )

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: $25,000 * Soccer
In soccer, kicking the ball between the defender's legs is a maneuver known as a what?

A: Clove B: Pepper
C: Curry D: Nutmeg

[snip]

With 19 seconds left, Meredith decides to Ask The Expert. Meredith Vieira tells her that Dave was on the show earlier this week and got every question he was asked right.

Dave: Gosh, Meredith, I'm gonna be not much help for you here. My hunch is to say a pepper, but I really don't feel confident about that at all.

The origins of the word are a point of debate. According to Alex Leith's book Over the Moon, Brian - The Language of Football, "nuts refers to the testicles of the player through whose legs the ball has been passed and nutmeg is just a development from this". The use of the word nutmeg to mean leg in Cockney rhyming slang has also been put forward as an explanation. The most likely source, however, was postulated by Peter Seddon in his book "Football Talk - The Language And Folklore Of The World's Greatest Game". Nutmegs were a valuable commodity and exporters would regularly place wooden replicas in the ships to England to make up the weight. To be 'nutmegged' implied stupidity on the part of the receiver. It soon caught on in football, implying that the player whose legs the ball had been played through had been tricked, or, nutmegged.

MarleysGh0st wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: $25,000 * Soccer
In soccer, kicking the ball between the defender's legs is a maneuver known as a what?

A: Clove B: Pepper
C: Curry D: Nutmeg

[snip]

With 19 seconds left, Meredith decides to Ask The Expert. Meredith Vieira tells her that Dave was on the show earlier this week and got every question he was asked right.

Dave: Gosh, Meredith, I'm gonna be not much help for you here. My hunch is to say a pepper, but I really don't feel confident about that at all.

Another prime example of why "experts" who aren't experienced with WWTBAM aren't effective. This isn't your wheelhouse, Dave, but this is the only opportunity in the whole stack not dominated by the damned clock and this is all you can contribute? You can't even let your mind wander and speculate a little? Even if only to allow Meredith more thinking time on her own?

Sports is far outside my wheelhouse, too, but there was time enough for me to conclude that the only reason a spice would be an appropriate choice for this sports term was if it was a play on words, considering a particular part of the anatomy in close proximity to this shot.