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Alexis Kopperman
Cherry Hill, NJ
Retired teacher

Meredith pronounces the last name as if it were "Kooperman". Alexis still does a little teaching on the side. She teaches other teachers.

Topic Tree: (Not shown until after commercial break)
- Honest Abe
- Perfumers
- Very Superstitious
- The Midnight Ride
- Canada
- Bad Moons Rising
- Jimmy Carter
- Pop Music
- Celebrity Products
- Big Business
- Sitcoms
- Soft Drinks
- Sports Lingo
- Gimme Your Digits
- What's the Skinny?

$500 - The mischevious pasttime known as "skinny-dipping" entails swimming without any what?
A - goggles
B - lifeguards
C - clothing
D - idea how creepy it looks

Spoiler

C - clothing

Alexis says she'd never do anything like that.

$1000 - What finger on the human hand does Merriam-Webster define as "thick" and "analogous in position to the big toe"?
A - thumb
B - pinky
C - ring finger
D - middle finger

Spoiler

A - thumb (11)

Alexis says

Spoiler

"Thumbs up" and makes the appropriate gesture. Meredith adds, "Two thumbs up."

$2000 - The term "netman" refers to a person who plays which of these sports?
A - golf
B - baseball
C - tennis
D - football

Alexis says she's only aware of one of these that has a net.

Spoiler

C - tennis (8)

$3000 - Which of these popular soft drinks got its start in the 1920s under the name "Fruit Smack"?
A - Nesquick
B - V8
C - Coca-Cola
D - Kool-Aid

Alexis thinks, but can't come up with the answer herself so she decides to Ask the Audience, stopping the clock with 5 seconds.

ATA results

A - 2%
B - 2%
C - 6%
D - 90%

Spoiler

D - Kool-Aid (4)

commercial break

Alexis taught math for 36 years and now she teaches other teachers how to teach. She won a Presidential award for teachers of math, met the Clintons and had breakfast with Ted Kennedy. Alexis' husband Sid is in the relationship seat.

$5000 - What classic TV sitcom was based on a novel by H. Richard Hornberger, a surgeon from Maine who served in the Korean War?
A - M*A*S*H
B - F Troop
C - Green Acres
D - Hogan's Heroes

Spoiler

A - M*A*S*H (12)

$7500 - Headquartered in Decatur, IL, Archer Daniels Midland is one of the world's largest processors of what?
A - coal
B - paper
C - petroleum
D - grain

Alexis wastes little time in deciding to Ask the Expert. The clock stops with 24 seconds remaining.

ATE conversation

A.J. reviews the question and says he thought they were a defense contractor. He doesn't think it's grain. His instinct is leading him to either coal or petroleum. He asks what Alexis was thinking and she replies that she had no clue. He asks if she has any lifelines and she says she has the Double Dip. Then she asks him if there's any coal in Illinois. A.J. says that's a good question, since when he thinks of coal he thinks of West Virginia. Alexis says that when she thinks about petroleum she thinks about Texas and the south. Then she asks if grain is a midwestern kind of thing. A.J. says it is. Alexis says it's clear that we don't know this together; A.J. agrees, although he says he likes her reasoning. If he were to Double Dip he'd make grain one of his answers because she's convinced him. She asks him what his second choice would be and he says "paper". She says that she's going to make those her final answers because it's basically a free guess anyway since she's at $5000.

After the conversation ends Alexis immediately asks for the Double Dip, stopping the clock with 22 seconds.

DD results

Alexis makes D her first final answer. "It's the one that made the most sense," Meredith
replies.

Spoiler

D - grain (22)

commercial break

Meredith asks if Alexis is feeling comfortable in the Hot Seat; Alexis says no.

$10000 - In 2005, Sarah Jessica Parker launched her first fragrance, an "intentionally quiet" scent named what?
A - Sparkle
B - Lovely
C - Luminous
D - Adore

Alexis thinks long and hard and with 3 seconds left she gives her final answer.

Spoiler

B - Lovely (3)

"No way!" Alexis exclaims when Meredith tells her the answer. She didn't know it but figured she'd go for it anyway.

$12500 - What unlikely 68-year old singer received a co-author credit for Michael Jackson's 2009 posthumous single "This is It"?
A - Frankie Valli
B - Paul Anka
C - Dolly Parton
D - Jerry Lee Lewis

Spoiler

B - Paul Anka (25)

$15000 - Named for Jimmy Carter, the Carter Center is a human-rights organization affiliated with what university?
A - Stanford
B - Rice
C - Emory
D - Duke

She knows that it's Georgia and her guess would be that it's

Spoiler

Emory

but she's not that sure, she's out of lifelines and $10,000 is nice number so she's "outta there."

Spoiler

C - Emory (walks at :08)

As she starts to leave Meredith says that they can't give her $10,000. Alexis looks shocked for a moment until
Meredith says, "it's because you earned $12,500."


THE HORN!!!!!


Look-ahead question:
$7500 - What retailer's do-it-yourself approach was once the subject of a Time magazine article titled, "The Store that Runs on a Wrench"?
A - IKEA
B - Target
C - Staples
D - Best Buy

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Look-ahead question:
$7500 - What retailer's do-it-yourself approach was once the subject of a Time magazine article titled, "The Store that Runs on a Wrench"?
A - IKEA
B - Target
C - Staples
D - Best Buy

So repeats are starting with the week of 2/15.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$3000 - Which of these popular soft drinks got its start in the 1920s under the name "Fruit Smack"?
A - Nesquick
B - V8
C - Coca-Cola
D - Kool-Aid

Had the name never been changed to Kool-Aid, I would probably bet a dollar that many confused drug addicts would try to snort it.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$5000 - What classic TV sitcom was based on a novel by H. Richard Hornberger, a surgeon from Maine who served in the Korean War?
A - M*A*S*H
B - F Troop
C - Green Acres
D - Hogan's Heroes

Technically, the movie was based on the book.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$10000 - In 2005, Sarah Jessica Parker launched her first fragrance, an "intentionally quiet" scent named what?
A - Sparkle
B - Lovely
C - Luminous
D - Adore

This question came up during Buzztime Trivia the last time that I was at BWW, about a week and a half ago. Since I did not know this at the time of the taping, I would've asked the audience if I had been in the HS.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$12500 - What unlikely 68-year old singer received a co-author credit for Michael Jackson's 2009 posthumous single "This is It"?
A - Frankie Valli
B - Paul Anka
C - Dolly Parton
D - Jerry Lee Lewis

I never read about this, so I would've asked A.J. and hoped for the best. If he didn't give me a certain answer or a good second choice, I would've walked away rather than lock in an answer or use the DD.

Pastor Fireball wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$12500 - What unlikely 68-year old singer received a co-author credit for Michael Jackson's 2009 posthumous single "This is It"?
A - Frankie Valli
B - Paul Anka
C - Dolly Parton
D - Jerry Lee Lewis

I never read about this, so I would've asked A.J. and hoped for the best. If he didn't give me a certain answer or a good second choice, I would've walked away rather than lock in an answer or use the DD.

Oh, Fireball! You mean if TPTB ever did grace you with The Call, you'd be one of those contestants who'd slink away in the middle tier with the DD on the table?

Here's an article about Alexis's appearance. Nothing there we don't know from the transcript--aside from a plug for the Movie Week auditions.

http://www.courierpostonline.com/articl ... 006/news01

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$7500 - Headquartered in Decatur, IL, Archer Daniels Midland is one of the world's largest processors of what?
A - coal
B - paper
C - petroleum
D - grain

Alexis wastes little time in deciding to Ask the Expert. The clock stops with 24 seconds remaining.

ATE conversation

A.J. reviews the question and says he thought they were a defense contractor. He doesn't think it's grain. His instinct is leading him to either coal or petroleum. He asks what Alexis was thinking and she replies that she had no clue. He asks if she has any lifelines and she says she has the Double Dip. Then she asks him if there's any coal in Illinois. A.J. says that's a good question, since when he thinks of coal he thinks of West Virginia. Alexis says that when she thinks about petroleum she thinks about Texas and the south. Then she asks if grain is a midwestern kind of thing. A.J. says it is. Alexis says it's clear that we don't know this together; A.J. agrees, although he says he likes her reasoning. If he were to Double Dip he'd make grain one of his answers because she's convinced him. She asks him what his second choice would be and he says "paper". She says that she's going to make those her final answers because it's basically a free guess anyway since she's at $5000.

After the conversation ends Alexis immediately asks for the Double Dip, stopping the clock with 22 seconds.

DD results

Alexis makes D her first final answer. "It's the one that made the most sense," Meredith
replies.

Spoiler

D - grain (22)

A.J. really performed brilliantly as a Stop The Damned Clock lifeline, here, didn't he? In some alternate universe, I suppose that the "expert" would have made the those logical deductions, if the answer wasn't immediately recognized. Even after Alexis led him to dismiss coal and oil, he couldn't think about how logical having a paper industry in Illinois would be, and so he convinced her to burn the DD.

Next season, I sure hope we don't see too many instances of contestants talking about "free guesses" on the $7,500 (formerly $2,000) question.

MarleysGh0st wrote:

Pastor Fireball wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$12500 - What unlikely 68-year old singer received a co-author credit for Michael Jackson's 2009 posthumous single "This is It"?
A - Frankie Valli
B - Paul Anka
C - Dolly Parton
D - Jerry Lee Lewis

I never read about this, so I would've asked A.J. and hoped for the best. If he didn't give me a certain answer or a good second choice, I would've walked away rather than lock in an answer or use the DD.

Oh, Fireball! You mean if TPTB ever did grace you with The Call, you'd be one of those contestants who'd slink away in the middle tier with the DD on the table?

Well, if it wasn't for TDC®, I could've had enough time to go through the four singers and figure out which one was 68 years old last year. Or at least figure out that Dolly Parton was 5 years too young and Jerry Lee Lewis was 5 years too old. I had no clue how old Frankie Valli is. He's been around forever, but he still looks like he's in his 40s.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: $7500 - Headquartered in Decatur, IL, Archer Daniels Midland is one of the world's largest processors of what?
A - coal
B - paper
C - petroleum
D - grain

Alexis wastes little time in deciding to Ask the Expert. The clock stops with 24 seconds remaining.

ATE conversation

A.J. reviews the question and says he thought they were a defense contractor. He doesn't think it's grain. His instinct is leading him to either coal or petroleum. He asks what Alexis was thinking and she replies that she had no clue. He asks if she has any lifelines and she says she has the Double Dip. Then she asks him if there's any coal in Illinois. A.J. says that's a good question, since when he thinks of coal he thinks of West Virginia. Alexis says that when she thinks about petroleum she thinks about Texas and the south. Then she asks if grain is a midwestern kind of thing. A.J. says it is. Alexis says it's clear that we don't know this together; A.J. agrees, although he says he likes her reasoning. If he were to Double Dip he'd make grain one of his answers because she's convinced him. She asks him what his second choice would be and he says "paper". She says that she's going to make those her final answers because it's basically a free guess anyway since she's at $5000.

After the conversation ends Alexis immediately asks for the Double Dip, stopping the clock with 22 seconds.

DD results

Alexis makes D her first final answer. "It's the one that made the most sense," Meredith
replies.

Spoiler

D - grain (22)

Just for future reference, there is lots of coal in

Spoiler

Illinois

. It used to be one of the top producers of coal but it has high sulfur coal. Demand for low sulfur western coal has reduced production in

Spoiler

Illinois

.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Alexis Kopperman
Cherry Hill, NJ
Retired teacher

Meredith pronounces the last name as if it were "Kooperman". Alexis still does a little teaching on the side. She teaches other teachers.

Meredith got the last name right after the commercial break. Presumably someone corrected her.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$2000 - The term "netman" refers to a person who plays which of these sports?
A - golf
B - baseball
C - tennis
D - football

Alexis says she's only aware of one of these that has a net.

Spoiler

C - tennis (8)

Well, if by "football" one means "soccer" then the keeper could be a "netman".

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$3000 - Which of these popular soft drinks got its start in the 1920s under the name "Fruit Smack"?
A - Nesquick
B - V8
C - Coca-Cola
D - Kool-Aid

Alexis thinks, but can't come up with the answer herself so she decides to Ask the Audience, stopping the clock with 5 seconds.

ATA results

A - 2%
B - 2%
C - 6%
D - 90%

Spoiler

D - Kool-Aid (4)

I guess "soft" as opposed to "hard" (that is, containing alcohol). Since Kool-Aid is the only one with fruit flavor, that's the answer.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$7500 - Headquartered in Decatur, IL, Archer Daniels Midland is one of the world's largest processors of what?
A - coal
B - paper
C - petroleum
D - grain

Alexis wastes little time in deciding to Ask the Expert. The clock stops with 24 seconds remaining.

ATE conversation

A.J. reviews the question and says he thought they were a defense contractor. He doesn't think it's grain. His instinct is leading him to either coal or petroleum. He asks what Alexis was thinking and she replies that she had no clue. He asks if she has any lifelines and she says she has the Double Dip. Then she asks him if there's any coal in Illinois. A.J. says that's a good question, since when he thinks of coal he thinks of West Virginia. Alexis says that when she thinks about petroleum she thinks about Texas and the south. Then she asks if grain is a midwestern kind of thing. A.J. says it is. Alexis says it's clear that we don't know this together; A.J. agrees, although he says he likes her reasoning. If he were to Double Dip he'd make grain one of his answers because she's convinced him. She asks him what his second choice would be and he says "paper". She says that she's going to make those her final answers because it's basically a free guess anyway since she's at $5000.

After the conversation ends Alexis immediately asks for the Double Dip, stopping the clock with 22 seconds.

DD results

Alexis makes D her first final answer. "It's the one that made the most sense," Meredith
replies.

Spoiler

D - grain (22)

It took them long enough to realize that "grain is a midwestern kind of thing". Of course they do have petroleum in Illinois (we pass oil wells on I-64 on the way to St. Louis) and may even have some coal.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$10000 - In 2005, Sarah Jessica Parker launched her first fragrance, an "intentionally quiet" scent named what?
A - Sparkle
B - Lovely
C - Luminous
D - Adore

Alexis thinks long and hard and with 3 seconds left she gives her final answer.

Spoiler

B - Lovely (3)

No idea, so I'll ATA.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$12500 - What unlikely 68-year old singer received a co-author credit for Michael Jackson's 2009 posthumous single "This is It"?
A - Frankie Valli
B - Paul Anka
C - Dolly Parton
D - Jerry Lee Lewis

Spoiler

B - Paul Anka (25)

My first thought was Kenny Loggins, but when that name wasn't on the list, the answer seemed obvious.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$15000 - Named for Jimmy Carter, the Carter Center is a human-rights organization affiliated with what university?
A - Stanford
B - Rice
C - Emory
D - Duke

She knows that it's Georgia and her guess would be that it's

Spoiler

Emory

but she's not that sure, she's out of lifelines and $10,000 is nice number so she's "outta there."

Spoiler

C - Emory (walks at :08)

As she starts to leave Meredith says that they can't give her $10,000. Alexis looks shocked for a moment until
Meredith says, "it's because you earned $12,500."

I thought it might have been Mercer, but since that wasn't a choice, it's Emory.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:THE HORN!!!!!

And so the season comes to a less-than-dramatic conclusion.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Look-ahead question:
$7500 - What retailer's do-it-yourself approach was once the subject of a Time magazine article titled, "The Store that Runs on a Wrench"?
A - IKEA
B - Target
C - Staples
D - Best Buy

Meredith's voice said this would be Monday's question, but since the show's going into reruns this must have been a repeat.

When the Expert said that Archer Daniels Midland is a defense contractor, I nearly fell out of the chair. I knew the correct answer was "grain", as I can remember back in the 90's when they ran ads in Time magazine proclaiming themselves to be "supermarket to the world." I'm glad she got the expert to talk out the answer with her.

$10K-ask the audience. I have no idea about celeb perfumes.


$12.5K-no idea. ATE or DD.

$15K-I knew this one, remembering that Carter is from Georgia and Emory is the only school in Georgia listed.