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Ted Farrell
Philadelphia, PA
Police Detective

Ted got advice from his family: "Be nice to meredith" and "Don't mess up."

Question Topics:
Astrologers
Famous Paintings
Roots
On Animals
Heads of State
Famous Names
The Continents
Composers
The Mayflower
Rock Albums
Quite Trendy
Asia AKA
Sesame Street
Taking Notes
Words & Phrases

$500 - Words & Phrases
A person who finds himself in a situation he thinks he cannot manage will often say, "I'm in way over my" what?
A: Hips B: Head
C: Heels D: Hot seat

Spoiler

B: Head (8)

$1000 - Taking Notes
Which of these government-issued items is referred to formally as a "Federal Reserve note"?
A: Dollar bill B: Driver's license
C: Green card D: Passport

Spoiler

A: Dollar bill (9)

$2000 - Sesame Street
Sesame Street's Elmo urges kids to wash their hands in a 2009 series of public service ads abotu what subject?
A: Littering B: Drugs
C: Bullies D: Swine flu

Spoiler

D: Swine flu (10)

$3,000 - Asia AKA
Because the country is at such high altitude, Tibet is known by what "homey" nickname?
A: The Front Door of the World B: The Kitchen of the World
C: The Roof of the World D: The Hallway of the World

Spoiler

C: The Roof of the World (7)

$5,000 - Quite Trendy
Sported by celebes like Johnny Depp and Adam Lambert, "guyliner" is a male take on what traditionally female fashion?
A: Purses B: Pantyhose
C: High heels D: Eye makeup

Spoiler

D: Eye makeup (8)

-- Commercial Break --

Ted sees himself as the guy who is always coming close to winning, but not quite. He wants today to be his day. Ted's wife Eileen is sitting in the relationship seat.

$7,500 - Rock Albums
A simple image of a beam of light being refracted is depicted on the cover of what iconic 1973 album?
A: The Dark Side of the Moon B: Born in the U.S.A.
C: Abbey Road D: Purple Rain

Ted gives the not completely correct, but correct enough, answer of "Led Zeppelin, A, The Dark Side of the Moon, final answer."

Spoiler

A: The Dark Side of the Moon (21)

$10,000 - The Mayflower
On the Mayflower's historic voyage to America, a child was born at sea and given what unusual name?
A: Humility Cooper B: Desire Minter
C: Oceanus Hopkins D: Resolved White

With 20 seconds remaining, Ted decides to Ask the Audience.

ATA results

ATA: A: 16% B: 7% C: 71% D: 6%

Ted decides to answer

Spoiler

C

Spoiler

C: Oceanus Hopkins (16)

$12,500 - Composers
Using his initials for its title, "WAM!" is a performance piece by the Washington Ballet about what classical composer?
A: Mahler B: Mendelssohn
C: Mozart D: Monteverdi

Spoiler

C: Mozart (22)

$15,000 - The Continents
Cape Agulhas, and not the nearby Cape of Good Hope, is the southernmost point of what continent?
A: Africa B: Australia
C: Asia D: South America

With 20 seconds remaining, Ted decides to Ask The Expert.

ATE discussion

Baratunde knows this, he is "99.267%" sure that the answer is A: Africa.

Ted decides to answer

Spoiler

A

Spoiler

A: Africa (17)

-- Commercial Break --
Today's Home Game thingy is 'Swine Flu'

tomorrow teaser

$100,000
Aristotle wrote that what animal "which is reputed to enjoy immunity from all other illnesses, is occasionally subject to flatulency"?
A: Goat B: Elephant
C: Dog D: Lion

Ted's daughter Liz is about to get married, his other daughter Erin is pregnant.

$25,000 - Famous Names
The late actor Heath Ledger was reportedly named after the troubled male protagonist of what classic novel?
A: Great Expectations B: Jane Eyre
C: Wuthering Heights D: Heart of Darkness

With 23 seconds remaining, Ted decides to Double Dip.

His first answer is

Spoiler

C

, and is correct.

Spoiler

C: Wuthering Heights (20)

-- HORN!! --

Ted will return tomorrow to go for $50,000.

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BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$2000 - Sesame Street
Sesame Street's Elmo urges kids to wash their hands in a 2009 series of public service ads abotu what subject?
A: Littering B: Drugs
C: Bullies D: Swine flu

Swine flu... <grumble>®

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$7,500 - Rock Albums
A simple image of a beam of light being refracted is depicted on the cover of what iconic 1973 album?
A: The Dark Side of the Moon B: Born in the U.S.A.
C: Abbey Road D: Purple Rain

Couldn't the writers have come up with better wrong answers than those three? None of those other albums came out in any year in the 1970s.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$15,000 - The Continents
Cape Agulhas, and not the nearby Cape of Good Hope, is the southernmost point of what continent?
A: Africa B: Australia
C: Asia D: South America

I always confuse Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn. Ask the Celebrity.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: Ted Farrell
Philadelphia, PA
Police Detective

Ted got advice from his family: "Be nice to meredith" and "Don't mess up."

Don't mess up indeed.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$10,000 - The Mayflower
On the Mayflower's historic voyage to America, a child was born at sea and given what unusual name?
A: Humility Cooper B: Desire Minter
C: Oceanus Hopkins D: Resolved White

With 20 seconds remaining, Ted decides to Ask the Audience.

ATA results

ATA: A: 16% B: 7% C: 71% D: 6%

Ted decides to answer

Spoiler

C

Spoiler

C: Oceanus Hopkins (16)

Without TDC® do you suppose Ted might have been able to figure this one out?

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$15,000 - The Continents
Cape Agulhas, and not the nearby Cape of Good Hope, is the southernmost point of what continent?
A: Africa B: Australia
C: Asia D: South America

With 20 seconds remaining, Ted decides to Ask The Expert.

ATE discussion

Baratunde knows this, he is "99.267%" sure that the answer is A: Africa.

Ted decides to answer

Spoiler

A

Spoiler

A: Africa (17)

I don't like the expert giving his assurance level so precisely but at least he's coming up with right answers.

Good for Ted on reaching the third tier!

Must be sweeps. Not the toughest questions I have seen lately and the obvious answer on the Mayflower Q turns out to be the correct answer.

tanstaafl2 wrote:Must be sweeps. Not the toughest questions I have seen lately and the obvious answer on the Mayflower Q turns out to be the correct answer.

That show was planned for broadcast two weeks earlier. My local station screwed up and broadcast the lead-in - starting with color bars - and it showed title info that had the planned broadcast date.

Bob Juch wrote:

tanstaafl2 wrote:Must be sweeps. Not the toughest questions I have seen lately and the obvious answer on the Mayflower Q turns out to be the correct answer.

That show was planned for broadcast two weeks earlier. My local station screwed up and broadcast the lead-in - starting with color bars - and it showed title info that had the planned broadcast date.

But wasn't two weeks ago still at the start of sweeps?

Bob Juch wrote:

tanstaafl2 wrote:Must be sweeps. Not the toughest questions I have seen lately and the obvious answer on the Mayflower Q turns out to be the correct answer.

That show was planned for broadcast two weeks earlier. My local station screwed up and broadcast the lead-in - starting with color bars - and it showed title info that had the planned broadcast date.

Two weeks earlier? I know that they bumped up the special week with Regis hosting in December, but what would have caused shifting the second week?

earendel wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$10,000 - The Mayflower
On the Mayflower's historic voyage to America, a child was born at sea and given what unusual name?
A: Humility Cooper B: Desire Minter
C: Oceanus Hopkins D: Resolved White

With 20 seconds remaining, Ted decides to Ask the Audience.

ATA results

ATA: A: 16% B: 7% C: 71% D: 6%

Ted decides to answer

Spoiler

C

Spoiler

C: Oceanus Hopkins (16)

Without TDC® do you suppose Ted might have been able to figure this one out?

I don't think so, as he had 20 seconds left when he ATA'd...

Estonut wrote:

earendel wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$10,000 - The Mayflower
On the Mayflower's historic voyage to America, a child was born at sea and given what unusual name?
A: Humility Cooper B: Desire Minter
C: Oceanus Hopkins D: Resolved White

With 20 seconds remaining, Ted decides to Ask the Audience.

ATA results

ATA: A: 16% B: 7% C: 71% D: 6%

Ted decides to answer

Spoiler

C

Spoiler

C: Oceanus Hopkins (16)

Without TDC® do you suppose Ted might have been able to figure this one out?

I don't think so, as he had 20 seconds left when he ATA'd...

I think he recognized (or should have been able to recognize) the obvious link between "sea" and "Oceanus," but he couldn't decide if TPTB really were asking for the obvious answer at the $10K level or if this was another in the abundant, new crop of WWOQs.

After all, they didn't use the tell-tale word "fittingly".

MarleysGh0st wrote:I think he recognized (or should have been able to recognize) the obvious link between "sea" and "Oceanus," but he couldn't decide if TPTB really were asking for the obvious answer at the $10K level or if this was another in the abundant, new crop of WWOQs.

After all, they didn't use the tell-tale word "fittingly".

Wouldn't it have been a WBBWOQ, had one of the possible answers been "Robert Juch IV?"