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Bill McDonald
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 4:47 pm
by Beeman521
Has anyone seen today's show with this guy on there? A friend of mine knows him and cannot watch.
Re: Bill McDonald
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 8:07 pm
by MarleysGh0st
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?
Bill's doing great!
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 8:12 pm
by Ritterskoop
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.
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.
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.
Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 11:44 am
by ToLiveIsToFly
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?
Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 12:03 pm
by MarleysGh0st
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