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Margaret Goolsby
Brooklyn, NY
stay-at-home mom, and single mom, has 15-year-old daughter
Thrifty, everything she has comes from junk yards, thrift shops
However she got her outfit from her sister (Mere liked it)

Topic Tree
Internet Origins
Topsy Turvy
Out in Space
Patent Pending
Small Ball
Just a Phase
Ladies First
Oprah's Book Club
Cooking Class
In the News
Foreign Travel
TV Legends
Old Sayings
Good Eats
Idioms


$500 (Idioms):
A statement that makes you feel less confident is commonly said to take the wind out of your what?
A. Sails B. Wheels
C. Gears D. Viagra prescription

Spoiler

A. Sails [:08]

$1000 (Good Eats):
Which of these sandwich ingredients is typically available in two styles -- creamy and chunky?
A. Bread B. Mayonnaise
C. Lunch meat D. Peanut butter

Spoiler

D. Peanut butter (:10)

$2000 (Old Sayings):
An old saying, similar to "let the buyer beware," warns against purchasing what animal "in a poke?"
A. Snake B. Pig
C. Crow D. Fish

Spoiler

B. Pig (:10)

$3000 (TV Legends):
Pittsburgh honored what hometown TV legend in 2009 with a statue portraying him in a familiar pose: seated, tying his shoes?
A. Johnny Carson B. Dick Clark
C. Walter Cronkite D. Mister Rogers


ATA at :08

ATA

A-1% B-4% C-3% D-92%

Spoiler

D. Mister Rogers (:07)

$5000 (Foreign Travel):
In 2009, Barack Obama was hailed by locals as a "new Tutankhamen" during a historic visit to what country?
A. Egypt B. Japan
C. Argentina D. Sweden

Spoiler

A. Egypt [:08]

$7500 (In the News):
In 2009, anchorman Lou Dobbs left what TV network after having worked there for two decades?
A. PBS B. ABC
C. CNN D. CBS


ATE at :22

ATE

Asked if she is confident in TV, Margaret Cho says "as long as it is all about Project Runway."
(dogs barking in background)
"That's CNN"
Mere asks about the dogs. Margaret Cho says someone is at the door and the dogs are barking.
"they say it is CNN too"
M. Cho starts to give an explanation of why she knows it is CNN, and Mere interrupts the story and tells Margaret to get the door before the dogs kill whatever's out there.

Spoiler

Margaret (the contestant) "I don't watch CNN, I don't have cable, I know it's none of the others"

C. CNN (:15)

Commercial break

Mere says with the money she wins, Margaret would like to open up her own treasure shop.

$10K (Cooking Class):
Which of these food terms derives from a Swedish phrase meaning "bread-and-butter table"?
A. Kugel B. Smorgasbord
C. Ambrosia D. Fondue

Spoiler

B. Smorgasbord (:22)

$12.5K (Oprah's Book Club):
A 2009 pick by Oprah's Book Club, "Say You're One of Them" is a collection of stories set where?
A. South America B. Asia
C. Africa D. Europe

Spoiler

C. Africa (:25)

$15K (Ladies First):
Which of the prestigious "Seven Sisters" women's colleges has actually been coeducational since 1969?
A. Bryn Mawr B. Wellesley
C. Mount Holyoke D. Vassar


DD at :22

Spoiler

First answer B was incorrect.

Second answer correct

D. Vassar (:11)
Mere mentions that she knows it and remembers when it went co-ed

$25K (Just a Phase):
The human body enters a state known as the "cephalic phase" in preparation for doing what?
A. Eating a meal B. Going to sleep
C. Exercising D. Speaking in public

"I think I'll just keep what I have" as time ran out

Spoiler

A. Eating a meal (:00)

Walk-$15K

Commercial break

preview for tomorrow

$12.5K
In Texas Hold'Em poker slang, a player who is looking at "fishhooks" has a pair of what?
A. Aces B. Jacks
C. Kings D. Fours

$25K-I'd use DD and choose A and B. I've never heard of the brain going through a phase while exercising or public speaking.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$5000 (Foreign Travel):
In 2009, Barack Obama was hailed by locals as a "new Tutankhamen" during a historic visit to what country?
A. Egypt B. Japan
C. Argentina D. Sweden

Spoiler

A. Egypt [:08]

Did this really happen?

Then why didn't SSS rant about it here?

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Margaret Goolsby
Brooklyn, NY

WE®

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$25K (Just a Phase):
The human body enters a state known as the "cephalic phase" in preparation for doing what?
A. Eating a meal B. Going to sleep
C. Exercising D. Speaking in public

Going to Greek once again, cephalic comes from the Greek word for head. Unfortunately, that doesn't make this question a slam dunk for me because it leaves two logical possibilities: A and D. So I will Double Dip.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Margaret Goolsby
Brooklyn, NY
stay-at-home mom, and single mom, has 15-year-old daughter. Thrifty, everything she has comes from junk yards, thrift shops. However she got her outfit from her sister (Mere liked it)

Another WE® <*yawn*>

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$1000 (Good Eats):
Which of these sandwich ingredients is typically available in two styles -- creamy and chunky?
A. Bread B. Mayonnaise
C. Lunch meat D. Peanut butter

Spoiler

D. Peanut butter (:10)

If you're eating crunchy mayonnaise, something's wrong somewhere.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$12.5K (Oprah's Book Club):
A 2009 pick by Oprah's Book Club, "Say You're One of Them" is a collection of stories set where?
A. South America B. Asia
C. Africa D. Europe

Spoiler

C. Africa (:25)

Time for me to ATA. This is an area I should bone up on - it's been a category on J! in the past and might be again.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$15K (Ladies First):
Which of the prestigious "Seven Sisters" women's colleges has actually been coeducational since 1969?
A. Bryn Mawr B. Wellesley
C. Mount Holyoke D. Vassar

DD at :22

Spoiler

First answer B was incorrect.

Second answer correct

D. Vassar (:11)
Mere mentions that she knows it and remembers when it went co-ed

One of my sons' best friends went to Vassar after high school. They were on the soccer team together.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$25K (Just a Phase):
The human body enters a state known as the "cephalic phase" in preparation for doing what?
A. Eating a meal B. Going to sleep
C. Exercising D. Speaking in public

"I think I'll just keep what I have" as time ran out

Spoiler

A. Eating a meal (:00)

"Cephalic" would suggest something related to the brain or head, but that doesn't really help. I'm certain the expert won't help, and I can't narrow it down enough for the DD, so I'd walk. My guess would have been "going to sleep".

Pastor Fireball wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Margaret Goolsby
Brooklyn, NY

WE®

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$25K (Just a Phase):
The human body enters a state known as the "cephalic phase" in preparation for doing what?
A. Eating a meal B. Going to sleep
C. Exercising D. Speaking in public

Going to Greek once again, cephalic comes from the Greek word for head. Unfortunately, that doesn't make this question a slam dunk for me because it leaves two logical possibilities: A and D. So I will Double Dip.

How does "head" eliminate "sleep"?

-M

themanwho wrote:

Pastor Fireball wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Margaret Goolsby
Brooklyn, NY

WE®

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$25K (Just a Phase):
The human body enters a state known as the "cephalic phase" in preparation for doing what?
A. Eating a meal B. Going to sleep
C. Exercising D. Speaking in public

Going to Greek once again, cephalic comes from the Greek word for head. Unfortunately, that doesn't make this question a slam dunk for me because it leaves two logical possibilities: A and D. So I will Double Dip.

How does "head" eliminate "sleep"?

-M

My thoughts exactly.

ulysses5019 wrote:

themanwho wrote:

Pastor Fireball wrote: WE®


Going to Greek once again, cephalic comes from the Greek word for head. Unfortunately, that doesn't make this question a slam dunk for me because it leaves two logical possibilities: A and D. So I will Double Dip.

How does "head" eliminate "sleep"?

-M

My thoughts exactly.

Sleep concerns just the brain, not the whole head.

I looked up cephalic phase, and it turns out that the term is a misnomer. Despite the Greek root, the head is not even involved in it. The cephalic phase is when the stomach produces gastric acid for food digestion before a person even eats anything. So in hindsight, I got lucky because my knowing that "kephale" meant "head" was completely irrelevant to the cephalic phase.

If anything, this question proved that despite my grasp of Greek and Latin roots, I could still potentially get caught in one of the question writers' traps.

Pastor Fireball wrote:I looked up cephalic phase, and it turns out that the term is a misnomer. Despite the Greek root, the head is not even involved in it. The cephalic phase is when the stomach produces gastric acid for food digestion before a person even eats anything. So in hindsight, I got lucky because my knowing that "kephale" meant "head" was completely irrelevant to the cephalic phase.

If anything, this question proved that despite my grasp of Greek and Latin roots, I could still potentially get caught in one of the question writers' traps.

*Ahem* - abscission.