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Kierre Daniels
Schenectady, NY
Works for the New York State Senate
Communications Specialist

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$100 A person who smells bad is often said to “stink to high” what?
A. Himalayas
B. Heaven
C. Hawaii
D. Havarti cheese

Spoiler

B. Heaven ( 8 )

$200 Appropriately, the West Coast Swing is the official dance of what U.S. state?
A. Maine
B. Ohio
C. California
D. Florida

Spoiler

C. California (10)

$300 Scooby-Dee, Scooby-Dum and Ruby-Doo are all “relatives” of a well-known cartoon character who is what type of animal?
A. Bird
B. Dog
C. Horse
D. Snake

Spoiler

B. Dog (10)

$500 Which of these common sizes of batteries is the largest?
A. AAA
B. AA
C. C
D. D

Spoiler

D. D (10)

$1K The A&E reality series “Jacked” chronicles a specially trained unit of police officers who pursue what criminals?
A. Car thieves
B. Inside traders
C. Check forgers
D. Drug dealers

Spoiler

A. Car thieves (9)

$2K Frank Mundus, a legendary shark fisherman who died in 2008, is said to have been the inspiration for what iconic movie character?
A. Dr. Strangelove
B. Det. Virgil Tibbs
C. Travis Bickle
D. Captain Quint

ATA (17)

1% A. Dr. Strangelove
1% B. Det. Virgil Tibbs
9% C. Travis Bickle
89% D. Captain Quint

Spoiler

D. Captain Quint (12)

commercial break

$4K Which of these French words is a preposition meaning “at the home of”?
A. Sans
B. Avant
C. Chez
D. Avec

Spoiler

C. Chez (15)

$8K The 2008 comedy “My Best Friend’s Girl” shares its title with a 1978 hit song by what group?
A. The Cars
B. The Eagles
C. Dire Straits
D. Talking Heads

PAF (12)

Kierre’s PAF team:

Michael from Buffalo, NY – brother-in-law
Larry from Cazenovia, NY – brother-in-law
Shane from Clifton Park, NY – coworker

PAF – Michael

Michael is not sure, but thinks it might be The Cars.

DD (10)

Kierre’s first choice is correct.

Spoiler

A. The Cars (10)

$16K Which of these U.S. presidents had a vice president who was indicted for murder?
A. Thomas Jefferson
B. Richard Nixon
C. Abraham Lincoln
D. Franklin D. Roosevelt

Spoiler

A. Thomas Jefferson ( 18 )

commercial break

$25K Which of these adjectives are used to classify crude oil based on its sulfur content?
A. Hot and cold
B. Rough and smooth
C. Loose and tight
D. Sweet and sour

Spoiler

D. Sweet and sour (16)

$50K What is the only Central American nation with English as its official language?
A. Belize
B. Guatemala
C. Panama
D. Honduras

Spoiler

A. Belize ( 38 )

commercial break

$100K Every year, thousands of Americans line up to receive an embrace from “the Hugging Saint,” an Indian guru named what?
A. Veda
B. Daya
C. Amma
D. Shanti

ATE (36)

Ogi says he’s not going to be much help and that he wouldn’t risk $100K on this question.
Ogi says he has heard of Shanti, but doesn’t know if the others are actual gurus or names the question writers made up.
He recommends that Kierre walk, but that his hunch is Shanti, 10% confident.

Kierre decides to leave with $50K.

Spoiler

C. Amma ( 18 )

horn

Answers:
$100 B. Heaven
$200 C. California
$300 B. Dog
$500 D. D
$1K A. Car thieves
$2K D. Captain Quint
$4K C. Chez
$8K A. The Cars
$16K A. Thomas Jefferson
$25K D. Sweet and sour
$50K A. Belize
$100K C. Amma

A rare easy stack up to $100K for me.

I never heard of the "hugging saint" guy. I doubt the audience would help much at that level, and we saw how Ogi did with this one, so I would probably PaF first.

$500: Uh-oh! I don't use C or D batteries, so I have no idea which of those is the largest. I'll have to ask the audience.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: $25K Which of these adjectives are used to classify crude oil based on its sulfur content?
A. Hot and cold
B. Rough and smooth
C. Loose and tight
D. Sweet and sour

This is a rewrite of a Season 1 SynBAM question. http://www.wwtbam.biz/transcript.php?type=1&id=320

$50K: No clue on this one. I'll ask Ogi.

$100K: No clue on this one, either. I'll PAF.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: $25K Which of these adjectives are used to classify crude oil based on its sulfur content?
A. Hot and cold
B. Rough and smooth
C. Loose and tight
D. Sweet and sour

Spoiler

D. Sweet and sour (16)

This was asked in reverse during the Llamarama recently reaired on GSN. This was a higher dollar level, presumably because I think many people have heard the terms 'sweet' and 'sour' related to crude oil not knowing why those terms are used. They would get the $25K question above but use a LL or walk on the one below.

Dana Fingado Llamarama
125,000
Crude oil is classified as "sweet" or "sour" based on its content of what substance?
A. sulfur. B. zinc
C. magnesium. D. phosphorus

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: Kierre Daniels
Schenectady, NY
Works for the New York State Senate
Communications Specialist

Does he work for the Senate as a communications specialist (read: PR flack)?

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$2K Frank Mundus, a legendary shark fisherman who died in 2008, is said to have been the inspiration for what iconic movie character?
A. Dr. Strangelove
B. Det. Virgil Tibbs
C. Travis Bickle
D. Captain Quint

ATA (17)

1% A. Dr. Strangelove
1% B. Det. Virgil Tibbs
9% C. Travis Bickle
89% D. Captain Quint

Spoiler

D. Captain Quint (12)

I thought this was an easy question but elwing had no idea. I suggested that "captain" might be a clue, but she replied that a captain could be a military rank not related to any maritime profession.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$8K The 2008 comedy “My Best Friend’s Girl” shares its title with a 1978 hit song by what group?
A. The Cars
B. The Eagles
C. Dire Straits
D. Talking Heads

PAF (12)

Kierre’s PAF team:

Michael from Buffalo, NY – brother-in-law
Larry from Cazenovia, NY – brother-in-law
Shane from Clifton Park, NY – coworker

PAF – Michael

Michael is not sure, but thinks it might be The Cars.

DD (10)

Kierre’s first choice is correct.

Spoiler

A. The Cars (10)

Time for my first lifeline. Since I didn't need one earlier (Kierre, why did you use your ATA when you knew the answer?) I'll use it here.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$25K Which of these adjectives are used to classify crude oil based on its sulfur content?
A. Hot and cold
B. Rough and smooth
C. Loose and tight
D. Sweet and sour

Spoiler

D. Sweet and sour (16)

I was expecting just "sweet".

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$50K What is the only Central American nation with English as its official language?
A. Belize
B. Guatemala
C. Panama
D. Honduras

Spoiler

A. Belize ( 38 )

Kierre said he remembered this from 7th grade. Since Belize=British Honduras it's not too hard a question.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$100K Every year, thousands of Americans line up to receive an embrace from “the Hugging Saint,” an Indian guru named what?
A. Veda
B. Daya
C. Amma
D. Shanti

ATE (36)

Ogi says he’s not going to be much help and that he wouldn’t risk $100K on this question.
Ogi says he has heard of Shanti, but doesn’t know if the others are actual gurus or names the question writers made up.
He recommends that Kierre walk, but that his hunch is Shanti, 10% confident.

Kierre decides to leave with $50K.

Spoiler

C. Amma ( 18 )

I have no idea, but I do have three lifelines. This seems like a good time to use a Google PAF.

So I'd be going for $250K with ATE and DD remaining.

ATA on the $8K, PAF with Google on the $100K.

The rest I knew.

earendel wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$2K Frank Mundus, a legendary shark fisherman who died in 2008, is said to have been the inspiration for what iconic movie character?
A. Dr. Strangelove
B. Det. Virgil Tibbs
C. Travis Bickle
D. Captain Quint

ATA (17)

1% A. Dr. Strangelove
1% B. Det. Virgil Tibbs
9% C. Travis Bickle
89% D. Captain Quint

Spoiler

D. Captain Quint (12)

I thought this was an easy question but elwing had no idea. I suggested that "captain" might be a clue, but she replied that a captain could be a military rank not related to any maritime profession.

Elwing doesn't remember Jaws?

MarleysGh0st wrote:Elwing doesn't remember Jaws?

I remember Jaws quite vividly.

My older brothers, who were supposed to take me to some kids' movie, instead took me to see Jaws when I was not quite 7 years old.

I loved it.

My mom found out later- once she found out I wasn't scared by it, I think she wondered if I was going to grow up to be some kind of psychopath (she still punished my brothers).

My nine-year-old son is the same way, BTW- he has seen movies that would keep my wife up at night, and he doesn't bat an eyelash. He has had one of the most well-developed abilities of distinguishing reality from fantasy that I've seen since he was about four years old.

A couple of years ago, he and his grandmother were watching some movie (can't remember which one), and after one scene, she said "That was pretty gruesome!".

In a most matter-of-fact voice, my son replied, "Oh...it gets a lot worse than that".

Jeemie wrote:I remember Jaws quite vividly.

My older brothers, who were supposed to take me to some kids' movie, instead took me to see Jaws when I was not quite 7 years old.

I loved it.

You've got cool older brothers!

And a cool son, too!

Lots of coverage of Kierre's appearance!

http://www.dailygazette.com/news/2009/mar/16/0316_Game/

http://capitalnews9.com/content/headlin ... fault.aspx

His 6-year-old daughter surprised him on the show with a video message where she told the audience her dad was going to win money to buy her a pony.

Way to put him on the hook!

http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/st ... ory=REGION

Daniels is no stranger to game shows: He came in second place during an appearance on a 2003 episode of "Jeopardy." But that time, he only took away $2,000, which just paid for the trip out to California.

Oh, 2003, not last season.

Daniels had already tried out a couple of times for "Millionaire," once not passing the written test, the next time not doing well in the subsequent interview.

So a second interview was enough. <sigh>

But will Daniels go for game show appearance No. 3 � maybe on a show like ''Deal or No Deal'' or ''Wheel of Fortune''?

''I'm torn. I don't know if I want to be a professional game show contestant,'' said Daniels, who grew up in San Diego. ''The two I've been on are pretty good. I may retire from the game show contestant field.''

Blasphemy!

Certainly, he's been on the best two of the bunch, and DoND and WoF don't compare to them.

But there's always 5th Grader!

This makes 10 people in a row who made it up to at least $25,000. Is this a record for SyndiBAM?

MarleysGh0st wrote:

earendel wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$2K Frank Mundus, a legendary shark fisherman who died in 2008, is said to have been the inspiration for what iconic movie character?
A. Dr. Strangelove
B. Det. Virgil Tibbs
C. Travis Bickle
D. Captain Quint

ATA (17)

1% A. Dr. Strangelove
1% B. Det. Virgil Tibbs
9% C. Travis Bickle
89% D. Captain Quint

Spoiler

D. Captain Quint (12)

I thought this was an easy question but elwing had no idea. I suggested that "captain" might be a clue, but she replied that a captain could be a military rank not related to any maritime profession.

Elwing doesn't remember Jaws?

elwing never saw Jaws. Nor have I, for that matter, but I've seen bits and pieces enough to know who Quint was.

MarleysGh0st wrote:

But will Daniels go for game show appearance No. 3 - maybe on a show like ''Deal or No Deal'' or ''Wheel of Fortune''?

''I'm torn. I don't know if I want to be a professional game show contestant,'' said Daniels, who grew up in San Diego. ''The two I've been on are pretty good. I may retire from the game show contestant field.''

Blasphemy!

Certainly, he's been on the best two of the bunch, and DoND and WoF don't compare to them.

But there's always 5th Grader!

After J! there's not another show I'd want to be on, either. And I think that 5th Grader is no longer in production.

earendel wrote:elwing never saw Jaws. Nor have I, for that matter, but I've seen bits and pieces enough to know who Quint was.

Never? Are you two afraid of scary movies? It's a classic!

And it's replayed on TV often enough.

earendel wrote:And I think that 5th Grader is no longer in production.

Have you heard something I haven't? Something about actual cancellation, rather than just being between seasons?

5th Grader was supposed to be on track for syndication, although they said the bad economy might put the damper on that.

MarleysGh0st wrote:

earendel wrote:elwing never saw Jaws. Nor have I, for that matter, but I've seen bits and pieces enough to know who Quint was.

Never? Are you two afraid of scary movies? It's a classic!

And it's replayed on TV often enough.

Ear's too busy sailing his boat up in the heavens, and Elwing hangs out with the birds.

When do they have time to watch a movie about a fish?

MarleysGh0st wrote:

earendel wrote:elwing never saw Jaws. Nor have I, for that matter, but I've seen bits and pieces enough to know who Quint was.

Never? Are you two afraid of scary movies? It's a classic!

And it's replayed on TV often enough.

No, it's just not a movie that ever interested me. As for elwing, her cinematic tastes are almost non-existent (she's not much of a movie fan period).

MarleysGh0st wrote:

earendel wrote:And I think that 5th Grader is no longer in production.

Have you heard something I haven't? Something about actual cancellation, rather than just being between seasons?

5th Grader was supposed to be on track for syndication, although they said the bad economy might put the damper on that.

I haven't heard anything definite, but rather than put it back on the air, they put Dollhouse on Friday night, an indication to me that they don't intend to revive 5th Grader. I'd love to be proved wrong, and I'd love it even more if they'd call me to be a contestant (I did apply).

earendel wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:

earendel wrote:And I think that 5th Grader is no longer in production.

Have you heard something I haven't? Something about actual cancellation, rather than just being between seasons?

5th Grader was supposed to be on track for syndication, although they said the bad economy might put the damper on that.

I haven't heard anything definite, but rather than put it back on the air, they put Dollhouse on Friday night, an indication to me that they don't intend to revive 5th Grader. I'd love to be proved wrong, and I'd love it even more if they'd call me to be a contestant (I did apply).

You're trying to get on "5th Grader", I'm trying to get on "Lyrics"... and for all we know, we may both be SOL.

owenziligation wrote:This makes 10 people in a row who made it up to at least $25,000. Is this a record for SyndiBAM?

Nope. My group who taped in Orlando had everyone except two get to $25K or more. There were more than ten in a row during the two weeks of shows from that.

Bob Juch wrote:

owenziligation wrote:This makes 10 people in a row who made it up to at least $25,000. Is this a record for SyndiBAM?

Nope. My group who taped in Orlando had everyone except two get to $25K or more. There were more than ten in a row during the two weeks of shows from that.

Oh, yeah. I forgot about those. Thanks for the info.

NellyLunatic1980 wrote:You're trying to get on "5th Grader", I'm trying to get on "Lyrics"... and for all we know, we may both be SOL.

TheFutonCritic.COM shows the same status for both shows:

STATUS:
on hiatus or fate to be determined

It's better than being cancelled!