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FF Question
Put these dance crazes in the order they first became all the rage in the U.S., starting with the earliest.

A: The Hustle B: The Twist
C: The Achy Breaky Heart D: The Moonwalk

Answer

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FF Results
Robert Brown
Liz Bollinger - 8.50s
Randy Davis
Scott Gardner - 8.46s
Eddie Lawhorn - 7.19s - Winner
Xann Wilson - 7.23s
Kathy Hall
Michael Rooney
JaNelle Pluff

Eddie Lawhorn (mikehardware)
Huntsville, AL

Eddie is 51 years old and recently unemployed.

Regis: Recently? How recently?

Eddie: Like, uhh, Friday, a week ago.

Eddie is a computer software guy, software testing and all that stuff. He tells folks that he's a professional nerd.

Question Topics:
* Opening Act
* Topsy Turvy
* Big Busts
* The Simpsons
* The Gloved One
* Cold Hard Cash
* You Rule!
* Stop That!
* Monster Devices
* No Girls Allowed
* Bulls on Parade
* Culinary Schooling
* Envelope, Please
* Sticks of Gum
* Romance Language

$100 * Romance Language
By definition, pillow talk is a discussion between two people who are where?

A: At dinner B: In bed
C: On a bus D: On the set of "Millionaire"

Answer

B: In bed ( 9 )

$200 * Sticks of Gum
Acccording to Wrigley, what brand of chewing gum has been the nation's top-selling cinnamon gum since 1987?

A: Juicy Fruit B: Doublemint
C: Big Red D: Spearmint

Answer

C: Big Red ( 7 )

$300 * Envelope, Please
Which of these awards is presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences to honor excellence on the internet?

A: Grammy B: Webby
C: Emmy D: Tony

Answer

B: Webby ( 11 )

$500 * Culinary Schooling
Which of these food names consists of two words that each happen to be the name of a prominent American university?

A: Fava bean B: Maple syrup
C: Pine nut D: Brown rice

Answer

D: Brown rice ( 8 )

$1,000 * Bulls on Parade
A crowd of people are running away from a bull on the cover of the 2008 Fodor's guide to what country?

A: Spain B: Australia
C: Russia D: Egypt

Answer

A: Spain ( 10 )

-- Commercial Break --

$2,000 * No Girls Allowed
Because it focuses on the relationship of its two male stars, which of these 2009 films was often labeled a "bromance"?

A: Taken B: Angels & Demons
C: Paul Blart: Mall Cop D: I Love You, Man

Eddie doesn't see a lot of movies. With 19 seconds left, he decides to Ask The Audience.

ATA: A: 2% B: 4% C: 6% D: 88%

Eddie: I Love You, Regis. D, final answer.

Answer

D: I Love You, Man ( 14 )

$4,000 * Monster Devices
A device some people fear will accidentally create a black hole, the Large Hadron Collider is a what?

A: Particle accelerator B: High-powered laser
C: Supercomputer D: Gamma-ray telescope

Answer

A: Particle accelerator ( 19 )

$8,000 * Stop That!
What bad habit has the technical name rhinotillexomania?

A: Nail-biting B: Nose-picking
C: Thumb-sucking D: Teeth-grinding

Answer

B: Nose-picking ( 21 )

Eddie's wife, Kay, is in the audience. She's feeling excited, but very stressed.

Regis: How do you think I feel? Eddie just told me he loves me. But anyway!

$16,000 * You Rule!
Because one of her rulings ended a 1995 strike, Supreme Court pick Sonia Sotomayor has been called "the judge that saved" what?

A: Detroit B: Science
C: Baseball D: Farmers

Answer

C: Baseball ( 15 )

$25,000 * Cold Hard Cash
If you have three bills, each one featuring a different face from Mount Rushmore that appears on paper currency, how much money do you have?

A: $8 B: $17
C: $35 D: $80

Eddie: That would be Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln. That's a one, two and five, so A: $8, final answer.

Answer

A: $8 ( 16 )

$50,000 * The Gloved One
Which of the following accurately describes the clothing Michael Jackson wears on the cover of the 1982 album "Thriller"?

A: White shirt, white jacket, black pants B: White shirt, black jacket, black pants
C: Black shirt, white jacket, white pants D: Black shirt, black jacket, white pants

With 29 seconds left, Eddie decides to Phone A Friend.

Eddie's PAF team are Jonathan, Gilbertsville, PA; Bob, Los Angeles, CA; and Joey, New York, NY.

Eddie calls Joey, paraphrasing the question as "Image of Michael Jackson's Thriller album. I need to know what he's wearing".

Joey: Repeat the question, please?

Eddie: Album cover of Thriller. What's he wearing?

Joey: He's wearing a black shirt, a white jacket and white pants. Is that one of the choices?

Eddie: Yes.

Joey: 100% sure. Got get'em, Mike.

Regis: That's what Joey says! Joey says he's 100% sure, so what do you think now, big boy?

Eddie: I'm going for C, final answer.

Answer

C: Black shirt, white jacket, white pants ( 28 )

Eddie is going to stop now, so tonight's celebrity can answer one question. He'll be back on Sunday night.

-- Commercial Break --

You're doing great! Unfortunately, the Steelers-Cardinals pre-season game was on here, so I didn't get to watch. You deserve to do well -- you provided transcripts for the WWTBAM syndicated shows for us. Can't wait to see you Sunday!

basketball_junkie wrote:You're doing great! Unfortunately, the Steelers-Cardinals pre-season game was on here, so I didn't get to watch. You deserve to do well -- you provided transcripts for the WWTBAM syndicated shows for us. Can't wait to see you Sunday!

If you watch a Pittsburgh station, it will be on in the wee hours. --Bob

Finally. It's on here in LA. The benefits of not having a pro team in LA. Well, except for USC. Gotta beat the bored Bruins to the punch.

Bob78164 wrote:

basketball_junkie wrote:You're doing great! Unfortunately, the Steelers-Cardinals pre-season game was on here, so I didn't get to watch. You deserve to do well -- you provided transcripts for the WWTBAM syndicated shows for us. Can't wait to see you Sunday!

If you watch a Pittsburgh station, it will be on in the wee hours. --Bob

basketball junkie, where are you?

If you watch WTAE, it'll be on Saturday MORNING (early hours of Aug 15) at 2:05 AM.

Many props to the Clem-Mike connection. I'm very thankful to Eddie for allowing me to see the $100,000 Simpsons question. Great play, and good thing for you that Connie Chung is a Sunday expert. Take 'em for a million!

I am curious if the "Sunday" show was taped right after this show, or did Mike actually have a chance to re-collect his thoughts overnight.

It is no fun being on a 10+ question roll, and then "cooled" over a break for a quick wardrobe change.

Appa23 wrote:I am curious if the "Sunday" show was taped right after this show, or did Mike actually have a chance to re-collect his thoughts overnight.

It is no fun being on a 10+ question roll, and then "cooled" over a break for a quick wardrobe change.

The "Sunday" show was the first one taped on Monday August 3.



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I just saw Eddie win the FF. And I only have one question Eddie, why didn't you get as excited when we played NTN at Danny K's?

That was awesome when Clem ended the PAF call by saying "Go get 'em, Mike!" I was wondering if Reege would pick up on that, but apparently he didn't.

The kind of perkitude that Eddie/Mike showed when winning the FF can't be faked.

Spoiler

Although the AP's seem to think it can; at the Aug. 3 taping when he carried over, the video of his reaction to making the hotseat was shown (I don't know if that will be shown on Sunday's broadcast). Also, during a commercial break, I overheard an AP telling some of the ROF'ers to react like MikeHardware had in the event that they were to win an FF themselves.

Well-played, Eddie! And I'm glad you got to carry over so that I was able to meet you on Monday night!

Got the FF, but not fast enough, I don't think

25K: Have $2.00 bill in my wallet just waiting for a question about it.
And am still not sure I wouldn't have panicked at doing the addition in the seconds available to me. An ATA would buy time here, & if I needed it would have used it solely for that purpose. Let's pretend I don't.

50: Despite having seen about 72 billion Jackson things since his death, including shots of this cover, clips of the video, etc, would have had to PAF a Googler here.

I like that the Googler came through; I thought when they said "what was the question?" about 2/3 through the time, they would not come up with an answer in time.

Hope I get home in time to see the end of this Sunday, or if not, my VCR/converter box combo isn't fritzing on me. I looked for the 1st show (of which I missed the 1st contestant) on ABC.com for 2 days after it aired; if they're there now, &/or on hulu.com, I'll try try again.

Dadgum, I hate I missed all this excitement. I was at a bar chasing that Atlantis trip from NTN and they had the football game on every TV that wasn't showing trivia. Congratulations anyway Mike/Edddie! It sounds like you are doing great.

Awesome, simply awesome run Mike. I can't wait for part deux. I think Regis was really enjoying you too

Your poor wife looked so nervous and stressed. Hope you get her some nice bling to make up for it LOLOLOL

Quick mini-recap to go over my first (and very possibly last) PaF experience

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: With 29 seconds left, Eddie decides to Phone A Friend.

Eddie's PAF team are Jonathan, Gilbertsville, PA; Bob, Los Angeles, CA; and Joey, New York, NY.

Eddie calls Joey, paraphrasing the question as "Image of Michael Jackson's Thriller album. I need to know what he's wearing".

My thought process was as follows: "Wait! I saw that album in the office! It's where he's lying down with the white jacket and white pants I thi-HOLY CRAP! WHY THE HELL AREN'T YOU GOOGLING????!?!!!

The Googling commences and the results are a mix of Jackson photos, shots of his Thriller music video and the cover which I pinpointed quickly having seen it but just to make sure I asked him to

Joey: Repeat the question, please?

Eddie: Album cover of Thriller. What's he wearing?

And I wanted to spell it out clearly since the answer was long...

Joey: He's wearing a black shirt, a white jacket and white pants. Is that one of the choices?

Eddie: Yes.

Joey: 100% sure. Got get'em, Mike.

And the Bored shout-out at the end since I had the time. So now I wait with bated breath to find out how Mike finishes on Sunday!!

Regis: That's what Joey says! Joey says he's 100% sure, so what do you think now, big boy?

Eddie: I'm going for C, final answer.

Answer

C: Black shirt, white jacket, white pants ( 28 )

What a gorgeous, beautiflul thing - that dynamic duo of Mike and Clem!

I'm still smiling ear to ear after watching your show, Eddie. Can't wait to see the rest. So, so happy for you and your wife.

absolutely wow.

^ My thoughts exactly. With the lackluster contestants we've seen this week, it makes it that much more awesome to see our own BBs show everyone how it's done. So darn proud!

Thanks for the PaF recap, clem. This was a textbook example of how the Phone-A-Friend should work. I am curious to know what your Google terms were.

-M

themanwho wrote:Thanks for the PaF recap, clem. This was a textbook example of how the Phone-A-Friend should work. I am curious to know what your Google terms were.

-M

It sounded a little shaky when Clem asked for the question again, but the results were excellent.

themanwho wrote:Thanks for the PaF recap, clem. This was a textbook example of how the Phone-A-Friend should work. I am curious to know what your Google terms were.

-M

"Thriller album cover" brings up the album cover itself on the first page so there's no need to click on a link.

Good run Mike and a good use of the PAF.

I'm very curious to find out if the remaining questions he gets can be guessed from the category clues (they are so often obtuse) and how much attempted cramming he did over the weekend.

Bob78164 wrote:

basketball_junkie wrote:You're doing great! Unfortunately, the Steelers-Cardinals pre-season game was on here, so I didn't get to watch. You deserve to do well -- you provided transcripts for the WWTBAM syndicated shows for us. Can't wait to see you Sunday!

If you watch a Pittsburgh station, it will be on in the wee hours. --Bob

The wee hours of SATURDAY morning.

2:05 AM Saturday morning, to be precise.

I sincerely hope that "The Simpsons" does not pertain to "Wallace Simpson's family" or "famous people (who I never heard of, except for Wallace, or Oh G-d maybe Jessica & Ashley) in history named Simpson".

Otherwise, those categories don't look crammable.

Good work, Mr. Hardware.

Retroactive good luck the rest of the way.

I don't know what Clem's search temrm were, but I clicked on Google Images (which i would haev done if I had been the PAF called and Eddie cued me in the exact same way) and typed Thriller"

That's all you need- the album cover is the predominant image that shows up.

I may have done "michael jackson" thriller just to make sure.

Anyway- just because Eddie said to treat him like any other contestant, I have to say on this stack, I would be where he was with ATA, ATE, and DD remaining- I didn't see I Love You Man, but remembered it had been referred to constantly in the media as a "bromance" (as a matter of fact, it was what I was looking for before the answer choices came up).

I may have had a brief panic on the Mt. Rushmore question, but hopefully would have calmed down enough to get it. You handled that one smoothly, Eddie!

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Eddie Lawhorn (mikehardware)
Huntsville, AL

Yay!

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$4,000 * Monster Devices
A device some people fear will accidentally create a black hole, the Large Hadron Collider is a what?

A: Particle accelerator B: High-powered laser
C: Supercomputer D: Gamma-ray telescope

Hee hee... I remember when we had an entire discussion about this on the Bored.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$50,000 * The Gloved One
Which of the following accurately describes the clothing Michael Jackson wears on the cover of the 1982 album "Thriller"?

A: White shirt, white jacket, black pants B: White shirt, black jacket, black pants
C: Black shirt, white jacket, white pants D: Black shirt, black jacket, white pants

With 29 seconds left, Eddie decides to Phone A Friend.

Eddie's PAF team are Jonathan, Gilbertsville, PA; Bob, Los Angeles, CA; and Joey, New York, NY.

This may be a first for us. The first time that we see the faces of all BBs on the PAF screen. Fantastic PAF work, Joey! Now hopefully, Eddie will get a decent Expert on Sunday night.

I remember Michael wearing a white jacket on the "Thriller" album. I never paid attention to the shirt or pants. I'd Double Dip on A and C.