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Jim McSweeney
Palmer Lake, CO
Airline baggage ramp manager

Jim treats every bag with tender loving care as if it were his own.

Topic tree:
- Hello, Dolly!
- Opening Night
- Check Your Mailbox
- Surreal Paintings
- The Middle Man
- Prize Winners
- TV Moms
- The Service
- Olympic Gymnasts
- Spanish Dishes
- The Word Jumble
- Heaven Sent
- Card Games
- Far Away Television
- Itsy Bitsy Spider

$100 - The violin spider gets its name because it has a mark on its back that resembles a what?
A - kitchen appliance
B - musical instrument
C - motor vehicle
D - tattoo of Itzhak Perlman

Spoiler

B - musical instrument (4)

$200 - The Chinese show "Super Girl," in which viewers vote for their favorite singer, is widely described as an Asian version of what?
A - Dancing with the Stars
B - American Idol
C - Top Chef
D - Project Runway

Spoiler

B - American Idol (6)

$300 - As its name imples, the card game solitare requires how many people to play?
A - six
B - four
C - two
D - one

Spoiler

D - one (9)

$500 - In his 1971 song "Take Me Home, Country Roads," what state does John Denver refer to as "almost heaven"?
A - West Virginia
B - Nebraska
C - North Carolina
D - Kentucky

Spoiler

A - West Virginia (9)

$1K - Fittingly, "moon starer" is an anagram of which of these words?
A - coroner
B - decorator
C - astronomer
D - carpenter

Spoiler

Jim says he's not very good with anagrams but "fittingly" helps him with this one.

C - astronomer (3)

commercial break

Jim had two goals - the second one was to get to $1000. His first goal was just to get in the Hot Seat; he's been trying for five years. Better to be persistent than smart, he adds. His wife Kathy and daughter Mary are in the relationship seats. Jim has earned the "Ask the Expert" lifeline. This time Meredith introduces AJ Jacobs as the author of "The Year of Living Biblically". Meredith asks him about it. He says that he took down every rule in the Bible and followed them. By the end he had a three-foot long beard and was walking around New York City in a robe and sandals.

$2K - What are the two main ingredients of the popular Spanish dish "arroz con pollo"?
A - rice and chicken
B - tomatoes and beef
C - chilies and pork
D - cheese and beans

Spoiler

Jim's had his share of this over the years.

A - rice and chicken (18)

Before asking the question Meredith says that she knows that Jim was at the Olympics in Beijing with his family so maybe this will be a good category for him.

$4K - In 1996, Olympic gymnast Kerri Strug landed her gold-medal-clinching vault despite what injury?
A - broken finger
B - pulled hamstring
C - dislocated shoulder
D - sprained ankle

Spoiler

Jim breathes an audible sigh, then with 11 seconds remaining on the clock he decides to Double Dip. He makes D his first final answer.

D - sprained ankle (11)

After the answer is revealed Jim says he remembered her coach having to carry her off so he knew it wasn't any of the others.

$8K - By definition, a "noncom" is an enlisted member of the U.S. armed forces who is what?
A - noncombattive
B - noncommittal
C - noncommissioned
D - noncommunicative

Spoiler

C - noncommissioned (21)

$16K - Of these women featured on a 2008 list of "TiVo's Top TV Moms," which one is a cartoon character?
A - Lois Griffin
B - Vivian Banks
C - Maria Barone
D - Bree van de Kamp

Spoiler

Jim mulls the question over, deciding to Ask the Audience and stopping the clock at 13 seconds.

ATA results:
A - 87%
B - 4%
C - 3%
D - 6%

Jim likes those odds so he makes the audience's answer his final answer.

A - Lois Griffin (10)

commercial break

$25K - Awarded in the past to such luminaries as Rem Koolhaas and Renzo Piano, the Pritzker Prize is an annual award in what field?
A - painting
B - dance
C - architecture
D - classical music

Spoiler

Jim chuckles as he ponders the question. With 10 seconds remaining on the clock he decides to Ask the Expert. "OK, I feel OK about this," AJ says. "You have a good feeling?" Jim asks. "A semi-good feeling," AJ replies. "Last time I didn't get it right, so if I get this wrong I beg your Biblical forgiveness. You have to give me Biblical forgiveness. But I do believe Rem Koolhaas is an architect. The Pritzker Prize is about architecture. I'm not 100% sure but that would be my guess." The call ends and Jim says, "OK, AJ, I'm going to go with your answer; we'll either win or go down in flames together."

C - architecture (4)

THE HORN!!!!!!

Jim will return on Monday with only his Phone a Friend lifeline remaining.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Jim McSweeney
Palmer Lake, CO
Airline baggage ramp manager

Jim treats every bag with tender loving care as if it were his own.

What do you want, Jim? A cookie? That's your job!

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:- Hello, Dolly!
- Opening Night
- Check Your Mailbox
- Surreal Paintings
- The Middle Man
- Prize Winners
- TV Moms
- The Service
- Olympic Gymnasts
- Spanish Dishes
- The Word Jumble
- Heaven Sent
- Card Games
- Far Away Television
- Itsy Bitsy Spider

Another good stack.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Jim had two goals - the second one was to get to $1000. His first goal was just to get in the Hot Seat; he's been trying for five years.

WGAS. Some of us have been trying for ten years.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$25K - Awarded in the past to such luminaries as Rem Koolhaas and Renzo Piano, the Pritzker Prize is an annual award in what field?
A - painting
B - dance
C - architecture
D - classical music

I'm pretty sure this is a recycled question from PTBAM. A high-level question, if I'm not mistaken.

Nihil obstat®

$4K-Double Dip on B and D. I remember the injury had something to do with her leg, so eliminated A and C right away.
$ 25K1-I knew what the Pritzker Prize is for-I think (as someone else mentioned) this was asked on PTBAM-or it may have been on J!.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Jim had two goals - the second one was to get to $1000. His first goal was just to get in the Hot Seat; he's been trying for five years. Better to be persistent than smart, he adds.

I was hoping to hear some details of this five year quest. How many times did he audition, how many times did he pass the written test, how many times did he interview and what was different about the last time than any previous times?

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:This time Meredith introduces AJ Jacobs as the author of "The Year of Living Biblically". Meredith asks him about it. He says that he took down every rule in the Bible and followed them. By the end he had a three-foot long beard and was walking around New York City in a robe and sandals.

Does anyone else's beard grow 3" a month? I know my rate is nowhere near that.

First time in ages that I would be looking at the 50K with all my lifelines.

Holy Crappola Batman.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Jim McSweeney
Palmer Lake, CO
Airline baggage ramp manager

A MAWG in a blue shirt!!

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Jim had two goals - the second one was to get to $1000. His first goal was just to get in the Hot Seat; he's been trying for five years. Better to be persistent than smart, he adds.

Has CindyBAM been on for five years?

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:This time Meredith introduces AJ Jacobs as the author of "The Year of Living Biblically". Meredith asks him about it. He says that he took down every rule in the Bible and followed them. By the end he had a three-foot long beard and was walking around New York City in a robe and sandals.

Not surprisingly he did a piece on NPR about this. He said he tried to live the whole Bible, not just the Old Testament; I wondered what he did when there were conflicts between the two.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$25K - Awarded in the past to such luminaries as Rem Koolhaas and Renzo Piano, the Pritzker Prize is an annual award in what field?
A - painting
B - dance
C - architecture
D - classical music

Spoiler

Jim chuckles as he ponders the question. With 10 seconds remaining on the clock he decides to Ask the Expert. "OK, I feel OK about this," AJ says. "You have a good feeling?" Jim asks. "A semi-good feeling," AJ replies. "Last time I didn't get it right, so if I get this wrong I beg your Biblical forgiveness. You have to give me Biblical forgiveness. But I do believe Rem Koolhaas is an architect. The Pritzker Prize is about architecture. I'm not 100% sure but that would be my guess." The call ends and Jim says, "OK, AJ, I'm going to go with your answer; we'll either win or go down in flames together."

C - architecture (4)

One thing an expert needs to do is to "sell" the answer. AJ didn't do a very good job of this, although Jim did finally go with his answer.

earendel wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Jim had two goals - the second one was to get to $1000. His first goal was just to get in the Hot Seat; he's been trying for five years. Better to be persistent than smart, he adds.

Has CindyBAM been on for five years?

Since September 2002, ear. This is season seven.