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Daniel Lee
Englewood, NJ

Daniel is a new dad and a new U.S. citizen. He hopes to start a new business with the money he wins today. Daniel says his new son, Travis, is a funny guy, kind of like an emotional, messy roommate who is always home when he is and gets away with cuteness.

Question Topics (Unrandomized):
* Body Language
* U.S. Presidents
* Creepy Literature
* Sports Sexism?
* Hairy Situation
* Apt Movie Titles
* Disconnected Countries
* TV Tributes
* War Games
* Fashion & Fitness

Question Topics (Randomized):
* Body Language
* Apt Movie Titles
* U.S. Presidents
* Hairy Situation
* Sports Sexism?
* War Games
* Creepy Literature
* Disconnected Countries
* TV Tributes
* Fashion & Fitness


Question #1 * Fashion & Fitness
Medical studies have shown that long-term wearing of which of these fashion items can cause thickening of the Achilles tendon?

A: High heels B: Slippers
C: Nylon stockings D: Toe rings

Answer/Value/Bank

A: High heels
Question Value: $15,000
Bank: $15,000

Question #2 * TV Tributes
In July 2010, TBS aired special episodes of what sitcom to honor the passing of New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner?

A: Seinfeld B: Just Shoot Me
C: Friends D: Will & Grace

Answer/Value/Bank

A: Seinfeld
Question Value: $3,000
Bank: $18,000

Question #3 * Disconnected Countries
Though located on the coast of Spain, the "Rock" of Gibraltar is controlled by what country, which uses it as a military base?

A: France B: United States
C: Italy D: Great Britain

Daniel thinks he knows this, but he's a little hesitant, because he's nervous. He decides to Ask The Audience.

Meredith: I hear an audience member going "Noooo!"

Daniel: That guy doesn't have to vote! Just kidding.

ATA

A: 12% B: 10% C: 8% D: 70%

Daniel actually (initially) thought it was France, but he was thinking it could be Great Britain.

Answer/Value/Bank

D: Great Britain
Question Value: $2,000
Bank: $20,000

-- Commercial Break --


Question #4 * Creepy Literature
A man awakes to find himself transformed into a giant insect in "The Metamorphosis," a well-known novella by whom?

A: Vladimir Nabokov B: Albert Camus
C: Jean-Paul Sartre D: Franz Kafka

Daniel has heard of this, but, while he's sure it's right in some people's wheelhouse, it's not in his. He decides to Jump The Question.

Answer/Value/Bank

D: Franz Kafka
Question Value: $100
Bank: $20,000

Question #5 * War Games
In the classic game "Battleship," which of these positions coincidentally shares its name with a variety of plastic explosive?

A: A-7 B: C-4
C: E-9 D: F-1

Answer/Value/Bank

B: C-4
Question Value: $1,000
Bank: $21,000

Question #6 * Sports Sexism?
At the Winter Olympics, female athletes are not allowed to compete in which of these disciplines?

A: Curling B: Snowboarding
C: Ice hockey D: Ski jumping

Daniel says women definitely play the other three sports, before giving his answer. Meredith pauses before responding and Daniel gets a worried look on his face as the music fades away, before she tell him that he got it.

Answer

D: Ski jumping

Meredith makes Daniel wait to see how much the question is worth.


-- Commercial Break --

Value/Bank

Question Value: $500
Bank: $21,500

Question #7 * Hairy Situation
Ambrose Burnside, whose elaborate facial whiskers gave us the term "sideburns," was a famous what?

A: Civil War general B: Opera singer
C: Vaudeville comedian D: Baseball player

Daniel is 50% sure it's

Spoiler

A

, but this is so hard.

Meredith: Would it help to walk back and forth, pacing?

Daniel: Can I?

Meredith: Of course, you can!

Daniel does so, and the audience applauds.

Daniel: I get applause for walking around. This is great!

Daniel: [Returning to the Hot Podium] Ummmm.

Meredith: So that must have popped the right answer into your head, no?

No response from Daniel.

Meredith: Okaaay.

Daniel: I'm gonna go with

Spoiler

A: General.

Meredith: Final?

Daniel: Final.

Meredith: Awwwww, Daniel. [pause] No walking, do a jig! You got it right.

Meredith repeats the request for a jig, and Daniel does a side to side arm motion.

We're shown a picture of Burnside and his sideburns.

Daniel:

Spoiler

I didn't picture the uniform. It's easy with the uniform!

Answer/Value/Bank

A: Civil War general
Question Value: $25,000
Bank: $46,500

-- Commercial Break --


Daniel took the gamble on the last queston because he wanted to see this next category and he felt that using his last lifeline would be giving up the opportunity to go further in the game.

Daniel's sister, Sonia, is in the audience. Meredith asks how she feels about how her brother is doing.

Sonia: Oh, it's amazing! I cried!

Question #8 * U.S. Presidents
Until he legally changed his name when he was a teenager, Bill Clinton had what family name?

A: Duncan B: Ingram
C: Blythe D: Higgins

Daniel remembers hearing this answer, but he can't remember. He's pretty sure it's

Spoiler

Higgins

.

Daniel goes with

Spoiler

D: Higgins,

final answer. He falls to $1,000.

Answer/Value

C: Blythe
Question Value: unrevealed

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Daniel Lee
Englewood, NJ

Daniel is a new dad and a new U.S. citizen. He hopes to start a new business with the money he wins today. Daniel says his new son, Travis, is a funny guy, kind of like an emotional, messy roommate who is always home when he is and gets away with cuteness.[/qujote]
Congratulations on two achievements, Daniel.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #6 * Sports Sexism?
At the Winter Olympics, female athletes are not allowed to compete in which of these disciplines?

A: Curling B: Snowboarding
C: Ice hockey D: Ski jumping

Daniel says women definitely play the other three sports, before giving his answer. Meredith pauses before responding and Daniel gets a worried look on his face as the music fades away, before she tell him that he got it.

Answer

D: Ski jumping

Although there is a move afoot to eliminate this prejudicial position in time for the Sochi Olympics.

All in all a good run, and some tough questions for a new citizen (Burnside and Clinton spring to mind).

Nihil obstat®.

I know he could have jumped but this is the one time I felt the audience legitimately screwed him out of winning in the long run. You could see he kept pointing and talking to some guy in the audience. I was about three seats next to him during that act. He would not shut up, nor would others around him. When he was about to answer to anything, he groaned. When he wanted to Jump, he shouted, "No!" He constantly freaked the contestant out, which was all edited out. You can see the contestant getting annoyed by it. You can see Meredith even talking to him. The one time the dude didn't shout anything is the one time he was wrong. Figures.

During the meeting after taping I was sure to mention this, because I felt terrible for the guy. We all felt for him. The sideburns question took him a good 15 minutes to answer. He was terrified of that. We were all relieved, but man did we feel awful for him when he lost.

Incidentally I was chosen for the audience game by one of the staffers who didn't know me. Equally figures. One time I get selected to win anything and I'm so ineligible it's sad.

Second stack I've seen this season where I'm confident I'd have made it through the first round. --Bob

Bob78164 wrote:Second stack I've seen this season where I'm confident I'd have made it through the first round.

That's quite some confidence with 2 questions unseen. Have you never "been sure" of an answer, to find out you were wrong?

Estonut wrote:

Bob78164 wrote:Second stack I've seen this season where I'm confident I'd have made it through the first round.

That's quite some confidence with 2 questions unseen. Have you never "been sure" of an answer, to find out you were wrong?

Well, if he hasn't used any lifelines yet and he has two questions to go, I'd say he could be confident of making it to the next level since all he has to do is JTQ twice and he's there.

earendel wrote:

Estonut wrote:

Bob78164 wrote:Second stack I've seen this season where I'm confident I'd have made it through the first round.

That's quite some confidence with 2 questions unseen. Have you never "been sure" of an answer, to find out you were wrong?

Well, if he hasn't used any lifelines yet and he has two questions to go, I'd say he could be confident of making it to the next level since all he has to do is JTQ twice and he's there.

Unless, as I said, he is "sure" of one of those two answers, saves the JtQ, gives the wrong answer and falls out.

Estonut wrote:

earendel wrote:

Estonut wrote:That's quite some confidence with 2 questions unseen. Have you never "been sure" of an answer, to find out you were wrong?

Well, if he hasn't used any lifelines yet and he has two questions to go, I'd say he could be confident of making it to the next level since all he has to do is JTQ twice and he's there.

Unless, as I said, he is "sure" of one of those two answers, saves the JtQ, gives the wrong answer and falls out.

There is always that. But that's why he said "confident", not "guaranteed". Under the same circumstances I'd be pretty confident also.

thealexdavis wrote:I know he could have jumped but this is the one time I felt the audience legitimately screwed him out of winning in the long run. You could see he kept pointing and talking to some guy in the audience. I was about three seats next to him during that act. He would not shut up, nor would others around him. When he was about to answer to anything, he groaned. When he wanted to Jump, he shouted, "No!" He constantly freaked the contestant out, which was all edited out. You can see the contestant getting annoyed by it. You can see Meredith even talking to him. The one time the dude didn't shout anything is the one time he was wrong. Figures.

During the meeting after taping I was sure to mention this, because I felt terrible for the guy. We all felt for him. The sideburns question took him a good 15 minutes to answer. He was terrified of that. We were all relieved, but man did we feel awful for him when he lost.

What meeting after the taping? And wasn't Paul doing his job to warn the audience not to say anything when they're not supposed to? In the tapings I've gone to, I've generally been very impressed with the self-discipline of the audience in this regard (with the occasional exception of a loudmouth or two, who might possibly have had psychological problems).

thealexdavis wrote:Incidentally I was chosen for the audience game by one of the staffers who didn't know me. Equally figures. One time I get selected to win anything and I'm so ineligible it's sad.

Can you tell us more about how they select someone for that game? I presume it's all "at their discretion," i.e., they're looking for sparkling personalities in the brief moments they might have contact with the audience.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Daniel is 50% sure it's

Spoiler

A

, but this is so hard.

Meredith: Would it help to walk back and forth, pacing?

Daniel: Can I?

Meredith: Of course, you can!

Daniel does so, and the audience applauds.

Daniel: I get applause for walking around. This is great!

Marley: You get applause for walking around. This is stupid!

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Daniel: [Returning to the Hot Podium] Ummmm.

Meredith: So that must have popped the right answer into your head, no?

No response from Daniel.

Meredith: Okaaay.

Oh, gosh, Meredith, more "interaction" doesn't actually improve the game play. How can that be?



While I'm criticizing the stunts that Meredith promoted, here, I should point out that I liked Daniel. He certainly sounded like a BB, even if he was having trouble with some of the questions (and with audience distractions).

What meeting after the taping? And wasn't Paul doing his job to warn the audience not to say anything when they're not supposed to? In the tapings I've gone to, I've generally been very impressed with the self-discipline of the audience in this regard (with the occasional exception of a loudmouth or two, who might possibly have had psychological problems).

Paul did, but this guy would not listen. This was the final taping of this set of audience, and this is really when the started getting bad so he was on his way out anyway. And I just had a meeting/interview with the new executive producer and someone else after. Just asked a few questions and did some catching up with some old friends on the show.

Can you tell us more about how they select someone for that game? I presume it's all "at their discretion," i.e., they're looking for sparkling personalities in the brief moments they might have contact with the audience.

I mean if nothing else, they are truly picking a random audience member. But, and I know this sounds incredibly egotistical so I'm sorry, they I'd guess they are looking for younger attractive people dressed well. But they are randomly selected during the commercial break. Some guy comes around with a clipboard, scans the audience, and comes up and asks if they want to do it. Then they just had the lady run to the other side of the audience, where she entered from, so the cameras could easily get her entrance.

There was a semi-long stop for some reason after Daniel lost and they had to retape his exit twice. He had to sit there (they obviously bring out stools during breaks) for a good 5-10 extra minutes after he lost.

thealexdavis wrote:I'd guess they are looking for younger attractive people dressed well.

[catty]This wasn't the case during the taping I attended. [/catty] He was funny and personable, though.

thealexdavis wrote:

Can you tell us more about how they select someone for that game? I presume it's all "at their discretion," i.e., they're looking for sparkling personalities in the brief moments they might have contact with the audience.

I mean if nothing else, they are truly picking a random audience member. But, and I know this sounds incredibly egotistical so I'm sorry, they I'd guess they are looking for younger attractive people dressed well. But they are randomly selected during the commercial break. Some guy comes around with a clipboard, scans the audience, and comes up and asks if they want to do it. Then they just had the lady run to the other side of the audience, where she entered from, so the cameras could easily get her entrance.

Okay, so they appear to make a spur-of-the-moment selection, instead of picking out someone who they had chatted with earlier, while standing in line or possibly while Paul is working the audience. But I'd still classify this as an "arbitrary" selection, not a "random" one; an important difference to me, who would never fall into the "younger attractive people dressed well" category.

So I guess the audience needs to root for contestants to bomb out at the start of the final taping segment, so that one of them might get the chance to play, now.