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Amy Nienaber
Riverdale, IA
Sleep technician

Amy has developed sleep disorders from trying to help others with their problems.

Today’s ATE is advertising legend and television host, Donny Deutsch.

Topic Tree:

Big Brains
Sizing Things Up
Shakespeare
Toys & Games
Bookstores
Acupuncture
South Carolina
Dr. Seuss
Medical Degrees
As Time Goes By
Fatty Foods
The Nobel Prize
Holiday Songs
Businessmen
Title Characters

$500 Which of these literary title characters is famous for his poor posture?
A. The Wizard of Oz
B. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
C. Huckleberry Finn
D. The Sloucher in the Rye

Spoiler

B. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (7)

$1K In the 1920s, businessman Joyce C. Hall attached the suffix “mark” to the end of his name to create a company that sold what?
A. Bed mattresses
B. Light bulbs
C. Greeting cards
D. Car tires

Spoiler

C. Greeting cards (9)

$2K In the holiday carol “The Twelve Days of Christmas,” what people are “a-milking”?
A. Pipers
B. Lords
C. Maids
D. Drummers

Spoiler

C. Maids (10)

$3K In 2009, Barack Obama became the third sitting president to win a Nobel Prize in what field?
A. Economics
B. Literature
C. Medicine
D. Peace

Spoiler

D. Peace (10)

$5K By definition, the semisolid fat obtained from rendered pork fat is called what?
A. Lard
B. Margarine
C. Mascarpone
D. Gelatin

Spoiler

A. Lard (9)

$7.5K How long is a fortnight?
A. Four days
B. Fourteen days
C. Forty days
D. Four hundred days

Spoiler

B. Fourteen days (24)

$10K Which of these medical degrees is obtained by a person who wants to treat animals instead of humans?
A. DD
B. DC
C. DVM
D. MSN

Spoiler

C. DVM (24)

commercial break

$12.5K Exploring the feud between the Yooks and the Zooks, what 1984 Dr. Seuss book was a parable about the Cold War arms race?
A. The Lorax
B. Horton Hears a Who
C. Yertle the Turtle
D. The Butter Battle Book

Amy makes Yertle the Turtle her final answer.

Amy leaves with $5K

Spoiler

D. The Butter Battle Book (22)

Answers:
$500 B. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
$1K C. Greeting cards
$2K C. Maids
$3K D. Peace
$5K A. Lard
$7.5K B. Fourteen days
$10K C. DVM
$12.5K D. The Butter Battle Book

She left with all her lifelines. I bet the audience might know this one.

A nihil obstat* stack for me.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$12.5K Exploring the feud between the Yooks and the Zooks, what 1984 Dr. Seuss book was a parable about the Cold War arms race?
A. The Lorax
B. Horton Hears a Who
C. Yertle the Turtle
D. The Butter Battle Book

Amy makes Yertle the Turtle her final answer.

Amy leaves with $5K

Spoiler

D. The Butter Battle Book (22)

A more difficult version of this question was the $32,000 question the one and only time I spoke to Regis. I was unable to give the contestant sufficient help, and she walked with $16,000. --Bob

Bob78164 wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$12.5K Exploring the feud between the Yooks and the Zooks, what 1984 Dr. Seuss book was a parable about the Cold War arms race?
A. The Lorax
B. Horton Hears a Who
C. Yertle the Turtle
D. The Butter Battle Book

Amy makes Yertle the Turtle her final answer.

Amy leaves with $5K

Spoiler

D. The Butter Battle Book (22)

A more difficult version of this question was the $32,000 question the one and only time I spoke to Regis. I was unable to give the contestant sufficient help, and she walked with $16,000. --Bob

I knew someone had had a variation on this book before.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$7.5K How long is a fortnight?
A. Four days
B. Fourteen days
C. Forty days
D. Four hundred days

I have a feeling that this question has been asked before on the PT show.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$12.5K Exploring the feud between the Yooks and the Zooks, what 1984 Dr. Seuss book was a parable about the Cold War arms race?
A. The Lorax
B. Horton Hears a Who
C. Yertle the Turtle
D. The Butter Battle Book

A retread of erstwhile BB lulu5123's $32,000 question.

Nihil obstat®

Bob78164 wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$12.5K Exploring the feud between the Yooks and the Zooks, what 1984 Dr. Seuss book was a parable about the Cold War arms race?
A. The Lorax
B. Horton Hears a Who
C. Yertle the Turtle
D. The Butter Battle Book

Amy makes Yertle the Turtle her final answer.

Amy leaves with $5K

Spoiler

D. The Butter Battle Book (22)

A more difficult version of this question was the $32,000 question the one and only time I spoke to Regis. I was unable to give the contestant sufficient help, and she walked with $16,000. --Bob

I do not recall the question. Did it ask the contestant to name the feuding parties? (It is odd for PTBAM to have a $32,000 question that one would call difficult, especially in comparison to the syndicated version.)

Appa23 wrote:

Bob78164 wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$12.5K Exploring the feud between the Yooks and the Zooks, what 1984 Dr. Seuss book was a parable about the Cold War arms race?
A. The Lorax
B. Horton Hears a Who
C. Yertle the Turtle
D. The Butter Battle Book

Amy makes Yertle the Turtle her final answer.

Amy leaves with $5K

Spoiler

D. The Butter Battle Book (22)

A more difficult version of this question was the $32,000 question the one and only time I spoke to Regis. I was unable to give the contestant sufficient help, and she walked with $16,000. --Bob

I do not recall the question. Did it ask the contestant to name the feuding parties? (It is odd for PTBAM to have a $32,000 question that one would call difficult, especially in comparison to the syndicated version.)

The original question asked what issue was spoofed in "The Butter Battle Book".

NellyLunatic1980 wrote:

Appa23 wrote:

Bob78164 wrote:A more difficult version of this question was the $32,000 question the one and only time I spoke to Regis. I was unable to give the contestant sufficient help, and she walked with $16,000. --Bob

I do not recall the question. Did it ask the contestant to name the feuding parties? (It is odd for PTBAM to have a $32,000 question that one would call difficult, especially in comparison to the syndicated version.)

The original question asked what issue was spoofed in "The Butter Battle Book".

I think she had Yertle the Turtle confused with "Bert" the Turtle who advised people to "Duck and Cover" if they saw the flash of the nuclear bomb.

NellyLunatic1980 wrote:

Appa23 wrote:

Bob78164 wrote:A more difficult version of this question was the $32,000 question the one and only time I spoke to Regis. I was unable to give the contestant sufficient help, and she walked with $16,000. --Bob

I do not recall the question. Did it ask the contestant to name the feuding parties? (It is odd for PTBAM to have a $32,000 question that one would call difficult, especially in comparison to the syndicated version.)

The original question asked what issue was spoofed in "The Butter Battle Book".

I guess that its difficulty was found in the choices of wrong answers.

Appa23 wrote:

NellyLunatic1980 wrote:

Appa23 wrote:
I do not recall the question. Did it ask the contestant to name the feuding parties? (It is odd for PTBAM to have a $32,000 question that one would call difficult, especially in comparison to the syndicated version.)

The original question asked what issue was spoofed in "The Butter Battle Book".

I guess that its difficulty was found in the choices of wrong answers.

The full question:

The 1984 Dr. Seuss bestseller "The Butter Battle Book" spoofs what topic?
A: Nuclear arms race B: World trade
C: Vegetarianism D: Fad diets

Here's a very brief article about Amy's appearance.

http://www.qctimes.com/news/local/artic ... 03286.html

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: Amy Nienaber
Riverdale, IA
Sleep technician

Amy has developed sleep disorders from trying to help others with their problems.

This had to be a joke.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Today’s ATE is advertising legend and television host, Donny Deutsch.

Never heard of him.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: $12.5K Exploring the feud between the Yooks and the Zooks, what 1984 Dr. Seuss book was a parable about the Cold War arms race?
A. The Lorax
B. Horton Hears a Who
C. Yertle the Turtle
D. The Butter Battle Book

Amy makes Yertle the Turtle her final answer.

Amy leaves with $5K

Spoiler

D. The Butter Battle Book (22)

Wowzers! She was doing so well, too.

I'm beginning to think that $50K is the new million with the present-day SyndieBAM. No advance press or TV promos for big winners in the middle of ratings sweeps month. And more contestants walking or crashing before $25K. This is not the same show we came to know and love.

gsabc wrote:I'm beginning to think that $50K is the new million with the present-day SyndieBAM. No advance press or TV promos for big winners in the middle of ratings sweeps month. And more contestants walking or crashing before $25K. This is not the same show we came to know and love.

I'd say $25K is the new million.

I knew 7 of the 10 ToT $1M questions cold. My score on the recent $25K ones (when they got that far) is worse.