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Phil Sambol
Newton, MA
Retired electrical engineer

With his free time, Phil says he's a degenerate gambler and spends a lot of time in the casinos. Phil says you gotta play games where the casino advantage is small: craps, baccarat and blackjack.

Question Topics:
* Seeing Double
* Magazines
* Surf & Turf
* Mr. Mayor
* Moonlighting
* Totally Surreal
* The Bible
* Boy Bands
* At the Movies
* Obama
* Hip-Hop Style
* Advertising
* Halloween Costumes
* Little Help
* Supreme Leaders


$500 * Supreme Leaders
"Supreme Pontiff" is the official title of what prominent figure?

A: Nancy Pelosi B: Pope Benedict
C: Gordon Brown D: Martha Stewart

Answer

B: Pope Benedict ( 8 )

$1,000 * Little Help
Thimbles are commonly used by people performing what task?

A: Cooking B: Sewing
C: Building fires D: Sweeping

Answer

B: Sewing ( 11 )

$2,000 * Halloween Costumes
If you dress as little Bo Peep for Halloween, you should look like a female what?

A: Shepherd B: Firefighter
C: Chef D: Pirate

Answer

A: Shepherd ( 11 )

-- Commercial Break --

Phil auditioned over a year ago. He had given up hope until a couple weeks ago, when he got The Call.

$3,000 * Advertising
Gidget, a 15-year-old Chihuahua who passed away in 2009, was best known as the "spokesdog" for what restaurant chain?

A: Subway B: Taco Bell
C: Pizza Hut D: KFC

Answer

B: Taco Bell ( 11 )

$5,000 * Hip-Hop Style
Popularized in the 1980s by hip-hop stars like the duo Kid 'N Play, a "high-top fade" is a distinctive style of what?

A: Gold chain B: Convertible car
C: Leather jacket D: Haircut

With 9 seconds left, Phil decides to Ask The Audience.

ATA

A: 0% B: 3% C: 0% D: 97%

Answer

D: Haircut ( 7 )

$7,500 * Obama
Barack Obama's parents hail from what two very different places?

A: Alabama and Angola B: Kansas and Kenya
C: South Dakota and Somalia D: Tennessee and Tanzania

With 20 seconds left, Phil decides to Ask The Expert. Today's expert is the anchor of Good Morning America weekend edition, Bill Weir.

Bill: All right, Phil, my gambling man, here we go. Oh, yeah, I don't even have to read all of the options on this one. It is B: Kansas and Kenya.

Phil: I like it! I thank you, very much!

Bill: My pleasure. I'll see you at the craps table.

Phil: Okay!

Answer

B: Kansas and Kenya (17 )

-- Commercial Break --

You're In the Hot Seat Home Game
Today's Winning Answer

Spoiler

A: Shepherd

Sneak Peak at One of the Next Episode's Questions

$5,000
By capitalizing the first three letters of its name, the supermarket brand E. L. Fudge gives away that it is part of what bigger company?

A: Pillsbury B: Frito-Lay
C: Keebler D: Nestlé

$10,000 * At the Movies
Which of these popular films does not share its name with a main character in the film?

A: Juno B: Hitch
C: Troy D: Ray

Answer

C: Troy ( 22 )

$12,500 * Boy Bands
What do you get if you multiply the number of original Backstreet Boys by the number of New Kids on the Block?

A: 16 B: 20
C: 24 D: 25

Phil doesn't know and says it could be anything. He takes his $10,000 and goes.

Answer

D: 25 ( 0 )

-- The Horn --

After Phil talked about being a gambler, I was sure he'd recognize good odds and use the DD. Alas, he got stuck at the (second) worst level, risking $5K to win only $2.5K*.

<sigh>



*And he apparently discounted heavily his chance of winning anything beyond that.

Nihil obstat®

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Phil Sambol
Newton, MA
Retired electrical engineer

With his free time, Phil says he's a degenerate gambler and spends a lot of time in the casinos. Phil says you gotta play games where the casino advantage is small: craps, baccarat and blackjack.

Another likeable contestant.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$5,000 * Hip-Hop Style
Popularized in the 1980s by hip-hop stars like the duo Kid 'N Play, a "high-top fade" is a distinctive style of what?

A: Gold chain B: Convertible car
C: Leather jacket D: Haircut

With 9 seconds left, Phil decides to Ask The Audience.

ATA

A: 0% B: 3% C: 0% D: 97%

Answer

D: Haircut ( 7 )

My oldest son was a fan of this group and I can still see their fades.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$7,500 * Obama
Barack Obama's parents hail from what two very different places?

A: Alabama and Angola B: Kansas and Kenya
C: South Dakota and Somalia D: Tennessee and Tanzania

With 20 seconds left, Phil decides to Ask The Expert. Today's expert is the anchor of Good Morning America weekend edition, Bill Weir.

Bill: All right, Phil, my gambling man, here we go. Oh, yeah, I don't even have to read all of the options on this one. It is B: Kansas and Kenya.

Phil: I like it! I thank you, very much!

Bill: My pleasure. I'll see you at the craps table.

Phil: Okay!

Answer

B: Kansas and Kenya (17 )

Well it's obvious that Phil's not a birther.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$12,500 * Boy Bands
What do you get if you multiply the number of original Backstreet Boys by the number of New Kids on the Block?

A: 16 B: 20
C: 24 D: 25

Phil doesn't know and says it could be anything. He takes his $10,000 and goes.

Answer

D: 25 ( 0 )

Time for me to use a lifeline. I'll ATA and hope they remember the numbers.

And I believe reruns start next week?

I think there are two more weeks of first run shows in June, no?

zachhoran1 wrote:I think there are two more weeks of first run shows in June, no?

Yes, later in June, according to 15QuestionsAway.

15QuestionsAway wrote:Constance Boardman will be back in the hot seat on Monday, June 14, leading off the final two weeks of season 8. There's two weeks of repeats after this week (ending May 28).

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