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Ring of Fire

Kellie Wilko - Layton, UT
Max Nussenbaum - Newton, MA
Mike Pulcini - Fairport, NY
Jillian Elliott - Indianapolis, IN
Anthony Sloan - Washington, DC
Don Farrell - Franklin, TN
Dina Grassi - Lake Hiawatha, NJ
Kim Burress - Dover, FL
Brian Slope - Berlin, PA
Jessica Pliner - San Francisco, CA

Fastest Finger
Put these notorious box-office bombs in the order of their first theatrical release, starting with the earliest.
A - Gigli
B - Ishtar
C - Glitter
D - Waterworld

Spoiler

B-D-C-A

Kellie Wilko
Mike Pulcini
Anthony Sloan - 6.09 seconds
Dina Grassi
Brian Slope - 5.39 seconds
Jessica Pliner
Kim Burress
Don Farrell
Jillian Elliott
Max Nussenbaum

Brian Slope
Berlin, PA
Computer Science Teacher

Regis: "You know, I tried to learn computers. And I don't think it's going to last. It's one of those passing fads."

Brian teaches high school kids. Regis is sure the whole class is cheering right now.

Where in the World?
Satellite TV
Big Cheese
Historic Age
Russian Players
Micro-Blogging
Sing it Again
What a Country!
Elmer Fudd
Air Supply
Outdated Technology
Foreign Cuisine
Fancy Words
Big Sandy
Celebrity Couples

Tonight's expert - Wolf Blitzer, the anchor of CNN's The Situation Room.

Regis: "Wolf, are you in the situation room right now?"
Wolf: "I am not in the situation room, but I am very near the situation room."
Regis: "Gotta stay close in case a situation develops!"

$100 - Which of these celebrity couples is an example of a same-sex couple?
A - Tom Cruise & Katie Holmes
B - Ellen DeGeneres & Portia de Rossi
C - Jay-Z and Beyonce
D - Emeril Lagasse & Chef Boyardee

Brian interrupts the audience's laughter on the last choice to give his answer.

Spoiler

B - Ellen Degeneres & Portia de Rossi (3)

$200 - The World Championship of Sand Sculpture requires that sculptures be made only of sand and what liquid?
A - Coffee
B - Juice
C - Water
D - Milk

Spoiler

C - Water (9)

$300 - Telling a person that he is altitudinous is a fancy way of saying that he is very what?
A - Shy
B - Well-Dressed
C - Handsome
D - Tall

Spoiler

D - Tall (8)

$500 - Asian Sensations is a supermarket brand that sells several varieties of frozen what?
A - Enchiladas
B - Wiener schnitzels
C - Egg rolls
D - Pizzas

Spoiler

C - Egg rolls

$1,000 - On Wired magazine's Web site, which of these objects was not included on a 2009 list of "100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About"?
A - 8-track cartridges
B - Answering machines
C - Typewriters
D - Mobile phones

Spoiler

D - Mobile phones

commercial break

A special treat from your transcriptionist: Tonight's commercials

Save your Rollover minutes on AT&T's FamilyTalk plan.
CVS automatically refills your prescription, so don't be one of the 61 million Americans who don't get their prescriptions filled.
Brawny can do it all.
What matters to you matters to JC Penney.
All new Wednesday, Wipeout goes ball-istic.

Brian and Regis chat about being a teacher. Brian mentioning how interesting it is teaching some of his friends' kids. Regis comments on the importance of teachers.

In the companion seat is Jill, Brian's wife, who is also an educator.

Brian's biggest fear is getting emotional if he were to win the million dollars.

$2,000 - Which of these names is trademarked by the Sealed Air Corporation?
A - Bubble Wrap
B - Post-It Notes
C - Velco
D - Slinky

Spoiler

A - Bubble Wrap (22)

$4,000 - What Shakespeare role does Elmer Fudd tackle in a 1944 cartoon in which he says, "What wight on yonder window bweaks?"
A - Othello
B - Hamlet
C - Romeo
D - Macbeth

Regis repeats the phrase, "What wight on yonder window bweaks?" Brian gives his answer before Regis begins reading the four choices.

Spoiler

C - Romeo (22)

$8,000 - Due to the rich diversity of its animal species, what island nation is known to ecologists [Regis at first mispronounces this as "ecolologist"] as the "8th continent"?
A - Sri Lanka
B - Madagascar
C - Cuba
D - Taiwan

Brian stops the clock at 16 seconds to ATA.

ATA Results

A - 3%
B - 91%
C - 4%
D - 2%

Spoiler

B - Madagascar (7)

"They may not look that smart, but they actually are!" Regis mentions the upcoming Sherri Shepherd.

commercial break

Tonight's commercials, Round 2

Kohl's Back-to-School sale begins this Wednesday at 8 am.
Try three OutBack Steakhouse meals at just $9.95 each.
The Time Traveler's Wife is magnificent and moving.
Treat yourself to a Dell Inspiron laptop (to the tune of "Lollipop").
ABC's Shaq vs. series premiere.
Volcano nachos at Taco Bell change a man.
Funds are going fast at your Chevy dealer.
At 11, why a school district gave students an excuse to stay home.

We come back to a clip of Kevin Olmstead's historic $2.18 million win. He is in the audience tonight. Kevin's biggest investment? "Went into a condo, and then, a minivan."

Brian mentions that his house needs some serious renovations, and that he and his wife have a plan to put in a plaque that says, "These renovations made possible by Regis Philbin." Regis is flattered, but Brian "works over" Regis into chipping in a few dollars.

$16,000 - Released just before President Obama took office, what R&B group remade an old hit with the 2009 single "Solid (as Barack)"?
A - Kool & the Gang
B - Sly & the Family Stone
C - Earth, Wind, & Fire
D - Ashford & Simpson

Brian stops the clock at 11 seconds to PAF.

Brian's PAF Team
Chris, Friedina, PA
Jerald, Pittsburgh, PA
Scott, Washington, DC

Brian thinks Scott might be helpful with music.

PAF Results

Brian says the question and answer choices word for word. Scott thinks Ashford & Simpson wrote the song, and his best guess is that they released the song as well.

Brian decides to ATE with 6 seconds on the clock.
Regis: "Let's go down there, to the big man, in the Situation Room."

ATE Results

Wolf doesn't want to screw up Brian, by Regis coaxes Wolf into saying what he thinks it is. Wolf says his gut is making him think that it's C, Earth, Wind, & Fire. He knows they visited the White House after Obama was inaugurated, and that they were the first group to do so. Wolf also loves E,W,&F.

Shaking his head, Brian decides to DD, with 3 seconds left.

DD Results

Brian's first answer, C - Earth, Wind, & Fire, is wrong. His second answer is D - Ashford & Simpson.

Spoiler

D - Ashford & Simpson (1)

Regis: "How can we ever believe Wolf Blitzer again??"

$25,000 - Who are "The Twitter Guys"?
A - Nate Silver & Shai Agassi
B - Steven Chu & Paul Krugman
C - Evan Williams & Biz Stone
D - Stephen Schwartz & Webb Miller

This is "right up [Brian's] alley," since this is a computer question.

Spoiler

C - Evan Williams & Biz Stone (9)

commercial break

Commercials, Round 3

Introducing Quilted Northern's Ultra Flush toilet paper.
Just sign on and drive on at Mazda's summer drive event.
A demonstration of Pledge's dust and allergen-fighting power.
Julie loves Target.
Bing!
ABC presents a new comedy about raising a family, The Middle.

Regis directs potential contestants to ABC.com

$50,000 - Which of these men is the National Hockey League's 2009 MVP and not a character in a play by Anton Checkov?
A - Alexander Ovechkin
B - Konstantin Treplev
C - Mikhael Astrov
D - Boris Trigorin

Spoiler

A - Alexander Ovechkin (33)

$100,000 - What age was Rosa Parks on the day in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery bus?
A - 22
B - 32
C - 42
D - 52

Brian says it was before his time, to which Regis replies, "Really?" Brian decides to walk away with $50,000 as the clock runs down to 0.

Spoiler

C - 42

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$4,000 - What Shakespeare role does Elmer Fudd tackle in a 1944 cartoon in which he says, "What wight on yonder window bweaks?"
A - Othello
B - Hamlet
C - Romeo
D - Macbeth

Regis repeats the phrase, "What wight on yonder window bweaks?" Brian gives his answer before Regis begins reading the four choices.

Regis mispronounced "bweaks" both times. He pronounced it as if he were saying "bleaks". And good for Brian for locking in an answer before the host even reads off the choices. That's one way to speed up the show.

$25K: I don't use Twitter, so I'm in a bit of trouble here. I know who three of these eight people are. Nate Silver is a political blogger. Steven Chu is the Secretary of Energy. Paul Krugman is a columnist and Nobel-winning economist. I have no clue if any of them use Twitter. I'll ask the audience.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$50,000 - Which of these men is the National Hockey League's 2009 MVP and not a character in a play by Anton Checkov?
A - Alexander Ovechkin
B - Konstantin Treplev
C - Mikhael Astrov
D - Boris Trigorin

Wow, I am so proud of myself right now. I hate hockey... but that didn't stop me from blurting out Ovechkin before the choices came up.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$100,000 - What age was Rosa Parks on the day in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery bus?
A - 22
B - 32
C - 42
D - 52

Pretty easy question if you know how old Rosa Parks was when she passed away a couple of years ago. I was pretty sure that she was in her 90s, so that put her birth year in the 1910s and made age 42 the most reasonable choice.

I would be going for $250,000 with three lifelines.

ATA at $16 K with a Google PAF follow-up if they don't know.

Sitting at the $250K question with (hopefully) 3 LLs left.

On the twitter question, I didn't remember Evan Williams, but I knew Biz Stone was a twitter guy. I remember reading a story either in a magazine or newspaper about Twitter before it became big.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$4,000 - What Shakespeare role does Elmer Fudd tackle in a 1944 cartoon in which he says, "What wight on yonder window bweaks?"
A - Othello
B - Hamlet
C - Romeo
D - Macbeth

Regis repeats the phrase, "What wight on yonder window bweaks?" Brian gives his answer before Regis begins reading the four choices.

I was waiting for Regis to read the choices, pronouncing the correct one "Womeo." Instead, he just repeated the quotation while the clock was running, which saved some time.

He got more front page press at his local paper:

Ivy Slope, Brian Slope’s 8-year-old daughter, said after her father’s appearance Tuesday on “Who Wants to be a Millionaire” that she is proud of her dad, even though he stopped short of the seven-digit-prize.

http://www.dailyamerican.com/articles/2 ... ews930.txt


Image of the front page (Today only) from the Newseum:

http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages ... al&b_pge=1



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$100 - Which of these celebrity couples is an example of a same-sex couple?
A - Tom Cruise & Katie Holmes
B - Ellen DeGeneres & Portia de Rossi
C - Jay-Z and Beyonce
D - Emeril Lagasse & Chef Boyardee

The gag answer are also a couple of the same sex, even if they aren't a "same-sex couple". No sir, I don't like it.

$50,000 - Which of these men is the National Hockey League's 2009 MVP and not a character in a play by Anton Checkov?
A - Alexander Ovechkin
B - Konstantin Treplev
C - Mikhael Astrov
D - Boris Trigorin

This is a beautiful question.

-M

themanwho wrote:$100 - Which of these celebrity couples is an example of a same-sex couple?
A - Tom Cruise & Katie Holmes
B - Ellen DeGeneres & Portia de Rossi
C - Jay-Z and Beyonce
D - Emeril Lagasse & Chef Boyardee

The gag answer are also a couple of the same sex, even if they aren't a "same-sex couple". No sir, I don't like it.

I was going to post that I wonder what TPTB would have done, had he answered "D"?