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Adam Pinson
Pinson, AL
History teacher

Adam's family founded the town of Pinson in the 1850s.

Adam is nervous about what he'll call Meredith. He has a habit of calling women "ma'am," but he does it to be polite, not because he means Meredith is old.

Adam's parents, Robert and Nancy, and his fiancee, Rachel, are in the audience. His dad has diabetes and Adam is going through the process of giving him a kidney transplant.


Question Topics:
* Chill Out
* The High Court
* The Gene Pool
* TV Dinners
* South America
* The Night Watchman
* Hannah Montana
* Movie Villains
* Sing Sing Sing
* Yoga
* Call Me Al
* The Ticker
* Etiquette
* Animal Parts
* At the Market


$100 * At the Market
As suggested by its name, which of the following is commonly sold at a farmers' market?

A: Computer software B: Fresh produce
C: Shoes D: Old MacDonald's junk

Answer

B: Fresh produce ( 6 )

$200 * Animal Parts
Which of these animals does not have thighs?

A: Ostrich B: Dolphin
C: Lion D: Camel

Answer

B: Dolphin ( 7 )

$300 * Etiquette
Emily Post advises, "Don't hog the weight machines" in an article titled "Manners Do's and Don't at the" what?

A: Gym B: Dentist
C: Supermarket D: Movie theater

Answer

A: Gym ( 7 )

$500 * The Ticker
By definition, which of these surgeries is performed on the heart?

A: Appendectomy B: Coronary bypass
C: Lobotomy D: Rhinoplasty

Answer

B: Coronary bypass ( 6 )

$1,000 * Call Me Al
"Does Al only do parodies of other songs?" is a question answered on the official Web site of what notable American?

A: Al Pacino B: Al Sharpton
C: Weird Al Yankovic D: Al Roker

Answer

C: Weird Al Yankovic ( 6 )

-- Commercial Break --

$2,000 * Yoga
Which of these flowers has a common yoga pose named after it?

A: Linden B: Lotus
C: Lavender D: Lilac

Answer

B: Lotus ( 24 )

$4,000 * Sing Sing Sing
When repeated three times, which of these words does not become the title of a Top 40 pop song?

A: Fun B: Say
C: Bad D: Bye

With 12 seconds left, Adam decides to Ask The Audience.

ATA: A: 14% B: 29% C: 47% D: 10%

Answer

C: Bad ( 8 )

$8,000 * Movie Villains
In the 2008 comedy "Get Smart," special agent Maxwell Smart battles what sinister-sounding organization?

A: EEVIL B: CRYME
C: ROTTIN D: KAOS

Answer

D: KAOS ( 20 )

-- Commercial Break --

Adam and Rachel are getting married in nine days; Adam's dad will be his Best Man. Adam and Rachel are planning on going to Savannah, Georgia for their honeymoon. If he wins some money here, maybe they can go eat at better restaurants.

$16,000 * Hannah Montana
In 2008, teen queen Miley Cyrus caused a minor scandal when she posed for racy photographs in what magazine?

A: Vanity Fair B: Rolling Stone
C: Vogue D: Seventeen

With 22 seconds left, Adam decides to Ask The Expert, who today is Dave Carger, a senior writer at Entertainment Weekly.

Dave: Ah, Vanity Fair! That's a breeze!

Meredith: You're sure?

Dave: Oh, yeah! It's in my--this is my industry.

Meredith: Yeah, you mean if you got it wrong, you'd be really bad, huh?

Dave: Yeah, I would feel like a complete idiot. But I feel pretty confident that it's Vanity Fair.

Answer

A: Vanity Fair ( 19 )

$25,000 * The Night Watchman
Primarily known only by his first name, the famous Dutch artist Rembrandt had what last name?

A: Van Rijn B: Bruegel
C: Grunewald D: Vermeer

Answer

A: Van Rijn ( 20 )

$50,000 * South America
One of the largest estuaries in the world, South America's Rio de la Plata is located between what two countries?

A: Ecuador & Peru B: Uruguay & Argentina
C: Colombia & Venezuela D: Brazil & French Guiana

With 29 seconds left, Adam decides to Phone A Friend.
Adam's PAF team are Oakleigh, Pinson, AL; Michael, Birmingham, AL; and Glenn Allen, Dora, AL.
Adam decides to call Glenn Allen.

Glenn: Uruguay--what's the--what are the choices again?

Adam: Ecuador & Peru, Uruguay & Argentina, Colombia & Venezuela, Brazil & French Guiana, seven seconds!

Glenn: Uruguay & Argentina. I'll say I'm about 75% sure.

Adam: Thank you, sir!

Answer

B: Uruguay & Argentina ( 27 )

Adam will return on tomorrow's show.


Edited to correct the topic listed next to the $1,000 question.

$4k-16k: Three in a row in the "pop culture / entertainment" realm, and finally one for this weeks E.W. magazine crew.

$50K, Not as obvious as the last stack 25K, but another question for a soccer fan. Rio de la Plata means River Plate, which is a famous Argentinian soccer team that plays in Buenos Aires, right on the border with Uruguay.

No problemo through $25K. PAF with Google or a world atlas at $50K. Looking at $100K with ATA, ATE and DD left.

TV Dinners - are we going to get a variant of "what was in the first one"?

I'd love to know what the "Chill Out" question is. Creator of air conditioning or refrigeration? Science on absolute zero? Something about Chill Wills?

Adam Pinson was the runner-up in the 2005 Jeopardy! College Tournament, winning $50,000.

The 500K question category 'The High Court' was the category listed at the same dollar level in my stack.

Aside from hoping in general that everyone runs the stack, I'm really hoping to get to see this one in particular.

---Jay

That Rio de la Plata aka River Plate should be one for a history teach.

Battle of the River Plate and the scuttling of the Graf Spee.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_River_Plate

etaoin22 wrote:That Rio de la Plata aka River Plate should be one for a history teach.

Battle of the River Plate and the scuttling of the Graf Spee.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_River_Plate

But in this case, "Plata" means "Silver".

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:* Chill Out
* The High Court
* The Gene Pool
* TV Dinners
* South America
* The Night Watchman
* Hannah Montana
* Movie Villains
* Sing Sing Sing
* Yoga
* Call Me Al
* The Ticker
* Etiquette
* Animal Parts
* At the Market

There's that Hannah Montana question again. "Night Watchman" sounds like Rembrandt, which is possible PAF usage. And what kind of $1M category is "Chill Out"?

$300: OK, I need to ask the audience on this one. Supermarket was a nasty distractor for me.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$1,000 * Yoga (sic)
"Does Al only do parodies of other songs?" is a question answered on the official Web site of what notable American?

A: Al Pacino B: Al Sharpton
C: Weird Al Yankovic D: Al Roker

A shout-out to one of our beloved MM.

$16K: I remember this controversy, so (thankfully) I didn't need the lifelines.

$25K: Oh, thank God it was something as simple as Rembrandt's last name. I knew this before the choices came up.

$50K: An easy question if you know that "plata" is Spanish for "silver" and Argentina comes from the Latin word for "silver. Thankfully, B was the only choice that included Argentina.

TV Dinners will be the $100,000 question. It could be something in my wheelhouse. But I'll have three lifelines for it just in case.

Adam's in a pretty good position, too. With his DD, he's got a good shot at winning the $100K.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Adam Pinson
Pinson, AL
History teacher

Adam's family founded the town of Pinson in the 1850s.

Interesting. According to my mother, our familiy founded a town in Indiana called Fortville. But I can't find anything to substantiate that.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Adam is nervous about what he'll call Meredith. He has a habit of calling women "ma'am," but he does it to be polite, not because he means Meredith is old.

I do the same thing, even to women much younger than I.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Adam's parents, Robert and Nancy, and his fiancee, Rachel, are in the audience. His dad has diabetes and Adam is going through the process of giving him a kidney transplant.

Another "medical needs" contestant.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$4,000 * Sing Sing Sing
When repeated three times, which of these words does not become the title of a Top 40 pop song?

A: Fun B: Say
C: Bad D: Bye

With 12 seconds left, Adam decides to Ask The Audience.

ATA: A: 14% B: 29% C: 47% D: 10%

Answer

C: Bad ( 8 )

A is by the Beach Boys, B is by Michael Jackson and D is by either N*SYNC or the Back Street Boys (I can never keep them straight).

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$16,000 * Hannah Montana
In 2008, teen queen Miley Cyrus caused a minor scandal when she posed for racy photographs in what magazine?

A: Vanity Fair B: Rolling Stone
C: Vogue D: Seventeen

With 22 seconds left, Adam decides to Ask The Expert, who today is Dave Carger, a senior writer at Entertainment Weekly.

Dave: Ah, Vanity Fair! That's a breeze!

Meredith: You're sure?

Dave: Oh, yeah! It's in my--this is my industry.

Meredith: Yeah, you mean if you got it wrong, you'd be really bad, huh?

Dave: Yeah, I would feel like a complete idiot. But I feel pretty confident that it's Vanity Fair.

Answer

A: Vanity Fair ( 19 )

Finally! A question that is right in the wheelhouse of the expert.

It's a nihil obstat® stack for me so far.

NellyLunatic1980 wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$1,000 * Yoga (sic)

D'oh!

This audience can be so picky!

earendel wrote: .... snipped text and emphasis added
A is by the Beach Boys, B is by Michael Jackson and D is by either N*SYNC or the Back Street Boys (I can never keep them straight).
.....

Wow, I didn't know that was your job. Maybe you should have not worried about it and just let them enjoy their orientation without interference.

---Jay

frogman042 wrote:

earendel wrote: .... snipped text and emphasis added
A is by the Beach Boys, B is by Michael Jackson and D is by either N*SYNC or the Back Street Boys (I can never keep them straight).
.....

Wow, I didn't know that was your job. Maybe you should have not worried about it and just let them enjoy their orientation without interference.

---Jay

LOL! You just made my morning!

frogman042 wrote:

earendel wrote: .... snipped text and emphasis added
A is by the Beach Boys, B is by Michael Jackson and D is by either N*SYNC or the Back Street Boys (I can never keep them straight).
.....

Wow, I didn't know that was your job. Maybe you should have not worried about it and just let them enjoy their orientation without interference.

---Jay

Thanks, Jay! I needed a good laugh and this was it.

frogman042 wrote:

earendel wrote: .... snipped text and emphasis added
A is by the Beach Boys, B is by Michael Jackson and D is by either N*SYNC or the Back Street Boys (I can never keep them straight).
.....

Wow, I didn't know that was your job. Maybe you should have not worried about it and just let them enjoy their orientation without interference.

---Jay

That was funny right there. I don't care who you are.

Interesting. According to my mother, our familiy founded a town in Indiana called Fortville. But I can't find anything to substantiate that.

I didn't know your name was Earendel Fort.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$4,000 * Sing Sing Sing
When repeated three times, which of these words does not become the title of a Top 40 pop song?

A: Fun B: Say
C: Bad D: Bye

A shout-out to my "Epizeuxis" LS of 10/13/04!

ulysses5019 wrote:

Interesting. According to my mother, our familiy founded a town in Indiana called Fortville. But I can't find anything to substantiate that.

I didn't know your name was Earendel Fort.

Well, as my mother tells it, the family was French (LaForte). They married into the Bakers (my mother's maiden name), and in turn my mother married someone with my last name.