WWTBAM Bored

Nicole Jurado
Lansing, MI
Secretary, college student and mother of two

Nicole's audition was four days before her wedding. She flew all night, took the test, and made it back in time for the wedding.

Nicole's husband, Andrew is in the audience. Nicole is hoping to buy a house with the money she wins. She's promised her son a dog--her son has already picked out the name "Shadow"--so they need a bigger house with room for one.

We're shown a picture of five-year-old Bobby and nine-month-old Isaac.

Question Topics:
* Two of a Kind
* Air Supply
* Shake Shake Shake
* Hippos
* Tricky Dick
* Top Shelf
* Salt Water
* What in the World?
* Go for a Spin-Off
* (Namesakes)
* (Food Chain)
* (Tight Clothes)
* (Magazine Rack)
* (Workaday Week)
* (American Heroes )

Today's Expert is journalist Rene Sylar, whom we see in her home in Chappaqua, NY.

$4,000 * Go for a Spin-Off
Premiering in 2008, the TV show subtitled "The Sarah Connor Chronicles" is a spin-off of what popular sci-fi movie series?

A: Star Trek B: The Matrix
C: Alien D: Terminator

Answer

D: Terminator ( 24 )

$8,000 * What in the World?
What is Danity Kane?

A: Las Vegas magic act B: Female pop group
C: Teen magazine D: Breakfast cereal

Answer

B: Female pop group ( 21 )

$16,000 * Salt Water
The Mozambique Channel is an arm of what ocean?

A: Atlantic Ocean B: Arctic Ocean
C: Indian Ocean D: Pacific Ocean

Nicole: Oh my gosh! I've been studying my bodies of water. But, umm-- Would that be--

Meredith: Ten seconds.

Nicole: I'm pretty sure it's Indian Ocean, C, final answer.

Meredith makes a grimace.

Nicole: No?

Meredith: Yes! Yes, it is.

Answer

C: Indian Ocean ( 7 )

$25,000 * Top Shelf
Fittingly, the producers of the French liqueur Grand Marnier own a Caribbean plantation that grows what?

A: Oranges B: Coffee beans
C: Sugarcane D: Cacao beans

Answer

A: Oranges ( 16 )

-- Commercial Break --

Brian Haseltine is introduced as the On Deck Contestant. Two weeks ago he was in the audience and took the audition test.

$50,000 * Tricky Dick
Richard Nixon helped finance his first Congressional campaign in 1946 with money he made doing what?

A: Collecting scrap metal B: Teaching bar exam classes
C: Selling brushes door-to-door D: Playing high-stakes poker

With 36 seconds left, Nicole decides to call her Grampa Charlie.
She makes that decision before her PAF team are introduced, but all their names and photos are still displayed, briefly. They are Charles, Punta Gorda, FL; Kimberly, Lansing, MI; and Robert, Lansing, MI.

Meredith says she thinks she knows Charlie. He once sat in the Hot Seat, himself; he says that Meredith threw him off by flirting with him. After Charlie and Meredith have their chat, Nicole reads the Q & A.

Charlie: (After mumbling something unintelligible) Selling brushes door-to-door.

Nicole: How sure are you?

Unidentified background voice: It's a guess.

Charlie: It's a guess.

With 34 seconds left, Nicole decides to Ask The Expert.

Rene: OK, I'm pretty sure it's not playing high-stakes poker. Ummm, I can only be logical, here. I would say that it would be either B or C.

Nicole: OK.

Rene: I don't really see Richard Nixon collecting scrap metal.

Nicole: Right. Yeah.

Rene: Or playing high-stakes poker, for that matter. So I would go B or C, but really not sure.

Nicole: OK, great! Thank you, so much!

With 31 seconds left, Nicole decides to Double Dip.

Answer

Nicole's first answer is C.
Nicoles second answer is B.

D: Playing high-stakes poker ( 9 )

Nicole leaves with $25,000.

ATA on Danity Kane. Not confident enough to go for my gut instinct, but this is a perfect ATA-type question.

No idea how I knew the Nixon one. Must have read it somewhere and it stuck in the back of my mind.

Too bad she couldn't get further in the stack. I don't think that'll be enough for the house.

gsabc wrote:No idea how I knew the Nixon one. Must have read it somewhere and it stuck in the back of my mind.

I read about that in a novel by Homer Hickam, The Ambassador's Son. The novel has Nixon meeting JFK (and James Michener) in the South Pacific during WWII, where Nixon is a supply officer. JFK finds himself temporarily short of a PT boat and plays against Nixon in a high-stakes poker game for one.

I'm really happy for Nicole. She immediately endeared herself to me in the green room by telling me I looked like one of my all-time favorite America's Next Top Model contestants. She may have been a liar, but she was a sweet liar and I'm glad she did well!

$50,000 * Tricky Dick
Richard Nixon helped finance his first Congressional campaign in 1946 with money he made doing what?

A: Collecting scrap metal B: Teaching bar exam classes
C: Selling brushes door-to-door D: Playing high-stakes poker

I expect my whole neighborhood heard me repeatedly yelling at the TV, "poker!"

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$50,000 * Tricky Dick
Richard Nixon helped finance his first Congressional campaign in 1946 with money he made doing what?

A: Collecting scrap metal B: Teaching bar exam classes
C: Selling brushes door-to-door D: Playing high-stakes poker

For the second time this week, the BAM writers have stolen my material. The very first subject of the very first game of "Double Dare" that I hosted (same game and same forum on which I used the Cadillac clue before it showed up in Madame's stack) was "Richard Nixon" and one of the clues was "He won enough money at poker to finance his first political campaign".

http://www.angelfire.com/tv2/upn62/BRB_ ... dd1-1.html

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:With 36 seconds left, Nicole decides to call her Grampa Charlie.

She makes that decision before her PAF team are introduced, but all their names and photos are still displayed, briefly. They are Charles, Punta Gorda, FL; Kimberly, Lansing, MI; and Robert, Lansing, MI.

Meredith says she thinks she knows Charlie. He once sat in the Hot Seat, himself; he says that Meredith threw him off by flirting with him.

Charlie Wilcox, Punta Gorda, FL... a contestant in December 2004. He left with $1,000 after incorrectly answering how much a "fifth" of liquor is.

http://syndi0405.homestead.com/121604.html

Nihil obstat®

Bob Juch wrote:

$50,000 * Tricky Dick
Richard Nixon helped finance his first Congressional campaign in 1946 with money he made doing what?

A: Collecting scrap metal B: Teaching bar exam classes
C: Selling brushes door-to-door D: Playing high-stakes poker

I expect my whole neighborhood heard me repeatedly yelling at the TV, "poker!"

They may have thought you were watching something nasty.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: Nicole Jurado
Lansing, MI
Secretary, college student and mother of two

Nicole's audition was four days before her wedding. She flew all night, took the test, and made it back in time for the wedding.

At least she was an eager contestant, unlike some.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$8,000 * What in the World?
What is Danity Kane?

A: Las Vegas magic act B: Female pop group
C: Teen magazine D: Breakfast cereal

Answer

B: Female pop group ( 21 )

Lifeline time - although I guessed the right answer from the comfort of my recliner. ATA, figuring this is something they'd know.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$16,000 * Salt Water
The Mozambique Channel is an arm of what ocean?

A: Atlantic Ocean B: Arctic Ocean
C: Indian Ocean D: Pacific Ocean

Nicole: Oh my gosh! I've been studying my bodies of water. But, umm-- Would that be--

Meredith: Ten seconds.

Nicole: I'm pretty sure it's Indian Ocean, C, final answer.

Meredith makes a grimace.

Nicole: No?

Meredith: Yes! Yes, it is.

Answer

C: Indian Ocean ( 7 )

Not so much a "bodies of water" question as a geography question. If you know where Mozambique is, the answer follows.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Brian Haseltine is introduced as the On Deck Contestant. Two weeks ago he was in the audience and took the audition test.

Uh, oh. When they showed Brian I commented to elwing that this meant Nicole was going to miss the next question.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$50,000 * Tricky Dick
Richard Nixon helped finance his first Congressional campaign in 1946 with money he made doing what?

A: Collecting scrap metal B: Teaching bar exam classes
C: Selling brushes door-to-door D: Playing high-stakes poker

With 36 seconds left, Nicole decides to call her Grampa Charlie.
She makes that decision before her PAF team are introduced, but all their names and photos are still displayed, briefly. They are Charles, Punta Gorda, FL; Kimberly, Lansing, MI; and Robert, Lansing, MI.

Meredith says she thinks she knows Charlie. He once sat in the Hot Seat, himself; he says that Meredith threw him off by flirting with him. After Charlie and Meredith have their chat, Nicole reads the Q & A.

Charlie: (After mumbling something unintelligible) Selling brushes door-to-door.

Nicole: How sure are you?

Unidentified background voice: It's a guess.

Charlie: It's a guess.

With 34 seconds left, Nicole decides to Ask The Expert.

Rene: OK, I'm pretty sure it's not playing high-stakes poker. Ummm, I can only be logical, here. I would say that it would be either B or C.

Nicole: OK.

Rene: I don't really see Richard Nixon collecting scrap metal.

Nicole: Right. Yeah.

Rene: Or playing high-stakes poker, for that matter. So I would go B or C, but really not sure.

Nicole: OK, great! Thank you, so much!

With 31 seconds left, Nicole decides to Double Dip.

Answer

Nicole's first answer is C.
Nicoles second answer is B.

D: Playing high-stakes poker ( 9 )

I'd be using lifeilnes here, too, starting with PAF, hoping this would be a fairly simple Google. I don't think this particular expert would know this (although she's introduced as a journalist). If the PAF doesn't come through it's time to walk because I have no good way to choose the DD answers.

To show you how much times have changed
High Stakes winnings at poker $6000.00
Financing a campaign for that winnings plus savings total $10,000.00
Winning latest world series of poker 9.1 million
Financing a campaign today PRICELESS

Ouch. Three lifelines not helping Nicole answer correctly was tough. I was pulling for her thoughout her game, but the "freebie" for $50K was tricky. It shows how unpredictable the game is, too.