Transcript 12/19/2007 - Amanda Liang (carryover contestant)
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 9:24 pm
Amanda Liang
New York City, NY
Amanda is a homemaker and her husband Adrian is in the relationship seat. Their baby is due in a few months. It's a boy but they don't want to share the name in front of a national audience. She's been focused on the show; after it's over she can focus on the baby.
Amanda has all of her lifelines available.
$300 - Made from a hollowed-out tree trunk, a dugout is a type of what seafaring vessel?
A - submarine
B - raft
C - barge
D - canoe
$500 - Which of these entries from the Cassell Dictionary of Slang means "very closely"?
A - like a baby's bottom
B - like white on rice
C - like a bump on a log
D - like a dog in shoes
$1K - Due to the uplifting sendoff it provides, which of these Dr. Seuss books is a traditional gift for high school graduates?
A - Yertle the Turtle
B - Oh, the Places You'll Go!
C - Horton Hatches the Egg
D - Bartholomew and the Oobleck
Meredith asks if when Amanda gets excited the baby kicks. Amanda replies that the baby's probably asleep. "We must be boring him," Meredith quips.
$2K - What U.S. state has two Congressional districts, with Portland in one and Bangor in the other?
A - Kansas
B - West Virginia
C - Maine
D - Idaho
$4K - A popular Spanish nickname, "El Jefe" literally means what?
A - the lover
B - the doctor
C - the cowboy
D - the boss
Amanda knows this because her father is called this at his company.
$8K - In math, the approximate value of pi is always used to calculate which of the following?
A - volume of a pyramid
B - surface area of a sphere
C - area of a parallelogram
D - volume of a cube
ATA results:
A - 19%
B - 67%
C - 3%
D - 11%
That wasn't the one that Amanda was leaning toward. She decides to go with the audience's answer.
$16K - Which of these Denzel Washington movies is not based on a true story?
A - Remember the Titans
B - Antwone Fisher
C - Cry Freedom
D - Mo' Better Blues
Commercial break
Amanda says this is one of the highlights of her life, especially meeting Meredith. Amanda keeps a blog - her family and friends are mostly in California and she wanted a way to keep them up to date. She tracks celebrity citings - she's seen 17 but Meredith is the highlight.
$25K - What nation freed itself from Communist rule in 1989 through a peaceful uprising called the "Velvet Revolution"?
A - Romania
B - Yugoslavia
C - Czechoslovakia
D - Hungary
Amanda immediately asks to use her Phone-a-Friend and call Katie, her best friend. Amanda simply asks, "What country had the Velvet Revoltuion?" then spells "velvet". She reads the answers. Katie says, "Czechoslovakia". Amanda asks, "How sure are you?" Katie answers, "Still checking...I feel pretty good about Czechoslovakia." Amanda goes with that answer.
$50K - Wnen performing the Valsalva maneuver, people often do which of the following?
A - elevate their legs
B - lie on their stomachs
C - pinch their noses
D - interlace their fingers
Amanda has no idea so she switches the question.
$50K (STQ) - Of the 192 member states of the United Nations, which was admitted most recently?
A - Tuvalu
B - Montenegro
C - Switzerland
D - Serbia
Amanda asks for the 50/50, leaving B and C. It's a free guess and Amanda says, "It's such an oddball guess that I'm going to guess C, Switzerland." She leaves with $25K.
ANSWERS:
$300 - D (canoe)
$500 - B (like white on rice)
$1K - B (Oh, the Places You'll Go!)
$2K - C (Maine)
$4K - D (the boss)
$8K - B (surface area of a sphere)
$16K - D (Mo' Better Blues)
$25K - C (Czechoslovakia)
$50K - C (pinch their noses)
$50K (STQ) - B (Montenegro)
New York City, NY
Amanda is a homemaker and her husband Adrian is in the relationship seat. Their baby is due in a few months. It's a boy but they don't want to share the name in front of a national audience. She's been focused on the show; after it's over she can focus on the baby.
Amanda has all of her lifelines available.
$300 - Made from a hollowed-out tree trunk, a dugout is a type of what seafaring vessel?
A - submarine
B - raft
C - barge
D - canoe
$500 - Which of these entries from the Cassell Dictionary of Slang means "very closely"?
A - like a baby's bottom
B - like white on rice
C - like a bump on a log
D - like a dog in shoes
$1K - Due to the uplifting sendoff it provides, which of these Dr. Seuss books is a traditional gift for high school graduates?
A - Yertle the Turtle
B - Oh, the Places You'll Go!
C - Horton Hatches the Egg
D - Bartholomew and the Oobleck
Meredith asks if when Amanda gets excited the baby kicks. Amanda replies that the baby's probably asleep. "We must be boring him," Meredith quips.
$2K - What U.S. state has two Congressional districts, with Portland in one and Bangor in the other?
A - Kansas
B - West Virginia
C - Maine
D - Idaho
$4K - A popular Spanish nickname, "El Jefe" literally means what?
A - the lover
B - the doctor
C - the cowboy
D - the boss
Amanda knows this because her father is called this at his company.
$8K - In math, the approximate value of pi is always used to calculate which of the following?
A - volume of a pyramid
B - surface area of a sphere
C - area of a parallelogram
D - volume of a cube
ATA results:
A - 19%
B - 67%
C - 3%
D - 11%
That wasn't the one that Amanda was leaning toward. She decides to go with the audience's answer.
$16K - Which of these Denzel Washington movies is not based on a true story?
A - Remember the Titans
B - Antwone Fisher
C - Cry Freedom
D - Mo' Better Blues
Commercial break
Amanda says this is one of the highlights of her life, especially meeting Meredith. Amanda keeps a blog - her family and friends are mostly in California and she wanted a way to keep them up to date. She tracks celebrity citings - she's seen 17 but Meredith is the highlight.
$25K - What nation freed itself from Communist rule in 1989 through a peaceful uprising called the "Velvet Revolution"?
A - Romania
B - Yugoslavia
C - Czechoslovakia
D - Hungary
Amanda immediately asks to use her Phone-a-Friend and call Katie, her best friend. Amanda simply asks, "What country had the Velvet Revoltuion?" then spells "velvet". She reads the answers. Katie says, "Czechoslovakia". Amanda asks, "How sure are you?" Katie answers, "Still checking...I feel pretty good about Czechoslovakia." Amanda goes with that answer.
$50K - Wnen performing the Valsalva maneuver, people often do which of the following?
A - elevate their legs
B - lie on their stomachs
C - pinch their noses
D - interlace their fingers
Amanda has no idea so she switches the question.
$50K (STQ) - Of the 192 member states of the United Nations, which was admitted most recently?
A - Tuvalu
B - Montenegro
C - Switzerland
D - Serbia
Amanda asks for the 50/50, leaving B and C. It's a free guess and Amanda says, "It's such an oddball guess that I'm going to guess C, Switzerland." She leaves with $25K.
ANSWERS:
$300 - D (canoe)
$500 - B (like white on rice)
$1K - B (Oh, the Places You'll Go!)
$2K - C (Maine)
$4K - D (the boss)
$8K - B (surface area of a sphere)
$16K - D (Mo' Better Blues)
$25K - C (Czechoslovakia)
$50K - C (pinch their noses)
$50K (STQ) - B (Montenegro)