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Beeman521
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Bill McDonald

#1 Post by Beeman521 » Wed Dec 05, 2007 4:47 pm

Has anyone seen today's show with this guy on there? A friend of mine knows him and cannot watch.
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Re: Bill McDonald

#2 Post by MarleysGh0st » Wed Dec 05, 2007 8:07 pm

Beeman521 wrote:Has anyone seen today's show with this guy on there? A friend of mine knows him and cannot watch.
Ummm, why not?
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#3 Post by Ritterskoop » Wed Dec 05, 2007 8:12 pm

Transcript is up now. He's doing well, and is very likable. He's from Nashville, but says he's originally from Mississippi, and moved "up north". He reasoned out a Memphis question not everyone would get.
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they asked what country's old capital Memphis was named for, and he knew that the current city had a sports arena called the Pyramid, so he worked out it must be Egypt
I thought his lifeline usage was perfect.
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He had all four LLs at 50K, and ATA about what condiment the U.S. has put in solders' packaged meals since the 80s. I thought it was unlikely the audience would contribute much at higher levels, and all it takes is several audience members who've served or had family members serve to get a good spike on this one, and he did. I'd stopped the tape to decide my own LL usage, and said I would ATA and then STQ if there was no good spike. He got 59%, and the others 20, 15, and 6. If one of them had been 30, it would've been a problem for me.
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#4 Post by ToLiveIsToFly » Thu Dec 06, 2007 11:44 am

This is a different Bill McDonald from the one who was in last year's Jeopardy TOC, right? I think I heard somewhere he had been on BAM a long time ago...

If this is true, how many other instances of contestants with the same name are there?
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#5 Post by MarleysGh0st » Thu Dec 06, 2007 12:03 pm

ToLiveIsToFly wrote:This is a different Bill McDonald from the one who was in last year's Jeopardy TOC, right? I think I heard somewhere he had been on BAM a long time ago...
Yes, different Bill MacDonalds. That one won $125K back in the first run of the show, in August 1999. He's also a regular on the J! board.

http://www.j-archive.com/showplayer.php ... +MacDonald
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