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Carl Bartucca
Mahopac, NY
Firefighter

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At the Movies

$500 (At the Movies)- “Chick flicks” are movies aimed primarily at what audience?

A- Children B- Teenagers
C- Women D- The Purdues

Spoiler

C- Women (10)

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”Final answeh”. Transcriber’s note- is it a requirement that a New York firefighter have a thick New York accent? They all seem to!

$1,000 (Brand Names)- What grocery store brand famously uses the slogan “When it rains it pours?”

A- Morton Salt B- Skippy Peanut Butter
C- Wonder Bread D- Minute Rice

Spoiler

A- Morton Salt (8)

$2,000 (Incense)- A container used for burning incense, a censer is traditionally swung by what figure?

A- Chef B- Judge
C- Priest D- Sailor

Spoiler

C- Priest (10)

$3,000 (Foreign Phrases)- What is the last word in the common French expression defined as “a quality that is difficult to describe”?

A- Je B- Ne
C- Quoi D- Sais

Spoiler

C- Quoi (5)

$5,000 (Word Origins)- Derived from a Polish word meaning “old woman”, a babka is what type of dessert?

A- Cake B- Custard
C- Hard candy D- Sorbet

Spoiler

A- Cake (10)

Commercial Break

One of Monday’s questions, worth $25,000:

Spoiler

Dating back to ARPANET, the first computer network developed by the Department of Defense, how old did the Internet turn in 2009?

A- 20 years B- 30 years
C- 40 years D- 50 years

$7,500 (Birthdays)- If a person is born on March 15th, on what day would he celebrate his “half birthday”?

A- May 15 B- July 15
C- September 15 D- November 15

At 17 seconds, Carl asks the audience.

ATA Results:

Spoiler

A- 5%, B- 1%, C- 90%, D- 4%

Spoiler

C- September 15 (11)

$10,000 (Same Name)- The name of U2’s bass guitarist is also the first two names of what famous civil rights leader?

A- Ralph David Abernathy B- Martin Luther King, Jr.
C- Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. D- Wyatt Tee Walker

At 9 seconds, Carl Phones a Friend.

His crew:

Joanne: New York, NY
Gerry: Brooklyn, NY
Larry: New York, NY

Carl calls Joanne, his sister-in-law. She thinks it’s

Spoiler

A

, but is not 100% sure.

At 7 seconds, Ralph Double Dips.

His first guess is

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A

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His second guess is

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C

Spoiler

C- Adam Calyton Powell, Jr. (0)

HORN- after his “wild guess”, Carl will come back to go for $12,500.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: At the Movies

$500 (At the Movies)- “Chick flicks” are movies aimed primarily at what audience?

A- Children B- Teenagers
C- Women D- The Purdues

Did they actually spell choice D like this? I don't get the joke if they did.

Seems like maybe it should be "The Perdues".

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Carl Bartucca
Mahopac, NY
Firefighter

Well, he's a WE® but not a WE/WE® at least.

And since he used his PAF, no problems with changing over for the next contestant. (I thought they might not have a carryover).

Nihil obstat®.

andrewjackson wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: At the Movies

$500 (At the Movies)- “Chick flicks” are movies aimed primarily at what audience?

A- Children B- Teenagers
C- Women D- The Purdues

Did they actually spell choice D like this? I don't get the joke if they did.

Seems like maybe it should be "The Perdues".

They actually did. Maybe they thought Boilermakers would really enjoy chick flicks.

Phil Ken Sebbin wrote:

andrewjackson wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: At the Movies

$500 (At the Movies)- “Chick flicks” are movies aimed primarily at what audience?

A- Children B- Teenagers
C- Women D- The Purdues

Did they actually spell choice D like this? I don't get the joke if they did.

Seems like maybe it should be "The Perdues".

They actually did. Maybe they thought Boilermakers would really enjoy chick flicks.

Only after they drank a few.

Phil Ken Sebbin wrote:

andrewjackson wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: At the Movies

$500 (At the Movies)- “Chick flicks” are movies aimed primarily at what audience?

A- Children B- Teenagers
C- Women D- The Purdues

Did they actually spell choice D like this? I don't get the joke if they did.

Seems like maybe it should be "The Perdues".

They actually did. Maybe they thought Boilermakers would really enjoy chick flicks.

Seems unlikely.

Universities over 10,000 students with the highest male-to-female ratio. Stat given is percentage male:

1. Embry Riddle Aeronautical University 0.7969
2. Georgia Institute of Technology 0.7325
3. Rochester Institute of Technology 0.6848
4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 0.6611
5. Central Texas College 0.6585
6. Santiago Canyon College 0.658
7. Carnegie Mellon University 0.6324
8. Purdue University - Main Campus 0.5891
9. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 0.5882
10. Utah Valley State College 0.5804

Purdue is easily the largest university on that list with 40,000 students at the West Lafayette campus. Va Tech is next biggest with 28,000.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Carl Bartucca
Mahopac, NY

Borderline WE®

Nihil obstat® so far.

andrewjackson wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: At the Movies

$500 (At the Movies)- “Chick flicks” are movies aimed primarily at what audience?

A- Children B- Teenagers
C- Women D- The Purdues

Did they actually spell choice D like this? I don't get the joke if they did.

Seems like maybe it should be "The Perdues".

They did indeed spell it that way- I stopped the tape to be sure.

Jeemie wrote:

andrewjackson wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: At the Movies

$500 (At the Movies)- “Chick flicks” are movies aimed primarily at what audience?

A- Children B- Teenagers
C- Women D- The Purdues

Did they actually spell choice D like this? I don't get the joke if they did.

Seems like maybe it should be "The Perdues".

They did indeed spell it that way- I stopped the tape to be sure.

I think I just got the joke. Perdue is a major chicken processing company, run by three generations of the Perdue family. So the joke is that a family that processes chickens would enjoy "chick flicks."
http://www.perdue.com/company/history/generations.html

andrewjackson wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: At the Movies

$500 (At the Movies)- “Chick flicks” are movies aimed primarily at what audience?

A- Children B- Teenagers
C- Women D- The Purdues

Did they actually spell choice D like this? I don't get the joke if they did.

Seems like maybe it should be "The Perdues".

When I was on Super Millionaire, I asked my boss for a couple of days off from work. He told me to let Regis know that he went to Purdue. My AP advised me to make a joke out of it. I was going to mention it to Regis when we chatted. Then, after I won a lot of money, I would say to the camera: "Listen to this, boss! Go Fighting Irish! Beat those Boilermakers!" Alas, I never got the chance.

TheConfessor wrote:

Jeemie wrote:

andrewjackson wrote:
Did they actually spell choice D like this? I don't get the joke if they did.

Seems like maybe it should be "The Perdues".

They did indeed spell it that way- I stopped the tape to be sure.

I think I just got the joke. Perdue is a major chicken processing company, run by three generations of the Perdue family. So the joke is that a family that processes chickens would enjoy "chick flicks."
http://www.perdue.com/company/history/generations.html

I'm sure that's the joke that was intended.

Spelling FAIL.