Transcript 6/26/2009 - Frank Cardia
Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2009 7:15 pm
Frank Cardia
Moonachie, NJ
Mortgage broker
Frank got the call to be on the show on his birthday, but it was only the second-best present he received. His 19-month old son Drew Alexander got him a key chain that read, "My Father, My Hero".
Topic Tree:
- All Together Now
- The Oval Office
- Joke Origins
- Don't Mess with Taxes
- Celebrated Composers
- The Hail Mary
- TV Pets
- Islands
- The Searchers
- To The Moon!
- The Sound of Music
- Don't Get Burned
- Political Comedies
- Two Scoops
- 'Tis the Season
$100 - Because it coincides with the yearly flowering of trees and weeds, March is considered the start of what medical "season"?
A - dandruff season
B - heartburn season
C - allergy season
D - nasal spray-palooza
Frank says his wife would kill him if he didn't know the answer to this one.
$200 - A long-running ad campaign promises "two scoops of raisins" in every box of a popular brand of what?
A - pasta
B - cereal
C - pet food
D - crackers
$300 - Which of these Kevin Costner films is a political comedy?
A - Swing Vote
B - Message in a Bottle
C - The Bodyguard
D - Tin Cup
Frank lets the clock tick down to 6 seconds before deciding to "poll" the audience.
Frank goes with the audience.
$500 - What do the "S" and "P" stand for in "SPF", the abbreviation typically found on bottles of sunscreen?
A - solar pigmentation
B - skin peeling
C - summer preservation
D - sun protection
$1000 - According to the lyrics of a famous song from "The Sound of Music", what musical note is "a long, long way to run"?
A - fa
B - do
C - re
D - mi
Frank says he's going to have to use a phone a friend, stopping the clock with 9 seconds remaining. On his PAF list are Susan, from Sparta, NJ; Gary, from Toms River, NJ; and Rose, from Toms River, NJ. Frank chooses Susan.
Frank has earned the Ask the Expert lifeline. Today, as all week, the expert is the host of CNBC's "On the Money", Carmen Wong Ulrich.
$2000 - In 2008, what country joined the "space race" with the launch of its first-ever lunar orbiter, the Chandrayaan-1?
A - Australia
B - Canada
C - Germany
D - India
Frank mulls over the question and finally decides to ask the expert, stopping the clock with 16 seconds remaining.
commercial break
$4000 - In 2008, the American Film Institute named the classic film "The Searchers" the greatest movie of all time in what genre?
A - Gangster
B - Western
C - Mystery
D - Epic
Frank doesn't know this so he's going to have to walk away. The clock stops with 18 seconds left.
Moonachie, NJ
Mortgage broker
Frank got the call to be on the show on his birthday, but it was only the second-best present he received. His 19-month old son Drew Alexander got him a key chain that read, "My Father, My Hero".
Topic Tree:
- All Together Now
- The Oval Office
- Joke Origins
- Don't Mess with Taxes
- Celebrated Composers
- The Hail Mary
- TV Pets
- Islands
- The Searchers
- To The Moon!
- The Sound of Music
- Don't Get Burned
- Political Comedies
- Two Scoops
- 'Tis the Season
$100 - Because it coincides with the yearly flowering of trees and weeds, March is considered the start of what medical "season"?
A - dandruff season
B - heartburn season
C - allergy season
D - nasal spray-palooza
Frank says his wife would kill him if he didn't know the answer to this one.
Spoiler
C - allergy season (3)
A - pasta
B - cereal
C - pet food
D - crackers
Spoiler
B - cereal (8)
A - Swing Vote
B - Message in a Bottle
C - The Bodyguard
D - Tin Cup
Frank lets the clock tick down to 6 seconds before deciding to "poll" the audience.
ATA results
ATA results:
A - 86%
B - 5%
C - 3%
D - 6%
A - 86%
B - 5%
C - 3%
D - 6%
Spoiler
A - Swing Vote (5)
A - solar pigmentation
B - skin peeling
C - summer preservation
D - sun protection
Spoiler
D - sun protection (8)
A - fa
B - do
C - re
D - mi
Frank says he's going to have to use a phone a friend, stopping the clock with 9 seconds remaining. On his PAF list are Susan, from Sparta, NJ; Gary, from Toms River, NJ; and Rose, from Toms River, NJ. Frank chooses Susan.
PAF results
Frank reads the entire question and the answers. Susan immediately gives him the right answer, ending the call with 13 seconds on the PAF clock.
Spoiler
A - fa (8)
$2000 - In 2008, what country joined the "space race" with the launch of its first-ever lunar orbiter, the Chandrayaan-1?
A - Australia
B - Canada
C - Germany
D - India
Frank mulls over the question and finally decides to ask the expert, stopping the clock with 16 seconds remaining.
ATE results
Carmen says that she's very familiar with where the root of "Chandrayaan" comes from, so she's going to go with "D - India". Frank says that's what he was thinking.
Spoiler
D - India (13)
$4000 - In 2008, the American Film Institute named the classic film "The Searchers" the greatest movie of all time in what genre?
A - Gangster
B - Western
C - Mystery
D - Epic
Frank doesn't know this so he's going to have to walk away. The clock stops with 18 seconds left.
Spoiler
B - western (18)