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Christine Wertheimer
Bellevue, WA
Homemaker

Christine still has her two JTQ lifelines.

Topic Tree:

Name That Month
Deluxe Quarters
More Reality
Dissing the King
Baby Names
Higher Education
Ove It or Leave It
Lip Service
Military Slang
Niche Sports

Topic Tree: (randomized)

Niche Sports
Dissing the King
Military Slang
Higher Education
Deluxe Quarters
(Name that Month)
(More Reality)
(Lip Service)
(Ove It or Leave It)
(Baby Names)

Question 6 – Deluxe Quarters
On a quarter issued in 2009, what musician became the first black American prominently featured by himself on a circulating U.S. coin?
A. Duke Ellington
B. Miles Davis
C. Louis Armstrong
D. Charlie Parker

JTQ 1

Spoiler

A. Duke Ellington
$7K
Bank - $31,100

Question 7 – Higher Education
Which of these 20th century presidents graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point?
A. Dwight Eisenhower
B. John Kennedy
C. Ronald Reagan
D. Bill Clinton

Christine laughs.
Meredith: Is that a happy laugh?
Christine: No. That’s a double “Oh, crud.”

JTQ 2

Spoiler

A. Dwight Eisenhower
$15K
Bank - $31,100

Question 8 – Military Slang
The U.S. military uses a fleet of “Unmanned Aerial Vehicles” that are commonly called what in the media?
A. Drones
B. Grunts
C. Choppers
D. Cruisers

Spoiler

A. Drones
$10K
Bank - $41,100

Question 9 – Dissing the King
“He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns” is a quote form the Declaration of Independence referring to whom?
A. King James II
B. King Charles I
C. King Edward VII
D. King George III

Christine says she’s not sure, but she came here to play and is going to take a guess.

Spoiler

D. King George III
$5K
Bank - $46,100

Question 10 – Niche Sports
In “timbersports,” athletes compete in events modeled on the day-to-day tasks of what occupation?
A. Fisherman
B. Blacksmith
C. Miner
D. Lumberjack

Spoiler

D. Lumberjack
$500
Bank – $46,600

$100K On a 2008 spacewalk, a U.S. astronaut dropped what $100,000 object, which floated away and later burned up in the atmosphere?
A. Solar panel
B. Space suit glove
C. Flashlight
D. Tool bag

Christine is sure it wouldn’t be a

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space suit glove

, because that would be bad on the astronaut’s

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hand

.

She goes on to say that a

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tool bag

would be too large to drop.

Christine decides to make

Spoiler

flashlight

her final answer.

Christine leaves with $25K

Spoiler

D. Tool bag

commercial break

Didn't see part one of her run-and can't find the transcript for Friday.

Question 6-JTQ. No idea.

Question 7-easy US history. Any future game show contestant would be wise to study this stuff. There have been only 2 Presidents to graduate from West Point, Grant and Eisenhower.

Question 8-easy (especially if you pay attention to the news)

Question 9-she GUESSED on King George III? Who did she think it was? Good grief.

Question 10-very easy.

$100K-ouch. I had it between flashlight and tool bag. Where's the Double Dip????

Kazoo65 wrote:Where's the Double Dip????

In an alternate reality somewhere between this one and one with the Phone Game.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Christine Wertheimer
Bellevue, WA
Homemaker

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 6 – Deluxe Quarters
On a quarter issued in 2009, what musician became the first black American prominently featured by himself on a circulating U.S. coin?
A. Duke Ellington
B. Miles Davis
C. Louis Armstrong
D. Charlie Parker

JTQ 1

Spoiler

A. Duke Ellington
$7K
Bank - $31,100

Regrettably I'd be using JTQ also. I don't know near enough about the specialty quarters.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 8 – Military Slang
The U.S. military uses a fleet of “Unmanned Aerial Vehicles” that are commonly called what in the media?
A. Drones
B. Grunts
C. Choppers
D. Cruisers

Spoiler

A. Drones
$10K
Bank - $41,100

I'm not sure why the category is "Military Slang" since the term "drone" isn't a slang term and it's used in the media, not the military.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$100K On a 2008 spacewalk, a U.S. astronaut dropped what $100,000 object, which floated away and later burned up in the atmosphere?
A. Solar panel
B. Space suit glove
C. Flashlight
D. Tool bag

Christine is sure it wouldn’t be a

Spoiler

space suit glove

, because that would be bad on the astronaut’s

Spoiler

hand

.

She goes on to say that a

Spoiler

tool bag

would be too large to drop.

Christine decides to make

Spoiler

flashlight

her final answer.

Christine leaves with $25K

Spoiler

D. Tool bag

Technically the astronaut didn't "drop" it. He released it and momentum carried it away.

I'd be going for the $250K question with a JTQ left.

earendel wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 6 – Deluxe Quarters
On a quarter issued in 2009, what musician became the first black American prominently featured by himself on a circulating U.S. coin?
A. Duke Ellington
B. Miles Davis
C. Louis Armstrong
D. Charlie Parker

JTQ 1

Spoiler

A. Duke Ellington
$7K
Bank - $31,100

Regrettably I'd be using JTQ also. I don't know near enough about the specialty quarters.

I'm familiar with the state quarters, but I don't recall ever seeing one of the D.C. quarters.

The first US coin to depict a black person was this one from 2003, featuring Lewis and Clark and a slave named York.



I believe that York and Duke are the only 2 blacks who have been depicted. "Ellington beat out designs featuring abolitionist Frederick Douglass and astronomer Benjamin Banneker." according to this article, so all potential designs for Washingto, DC, featured an African American.

-M

By my calculations, this transcript has an error in the bank amount, occurring on Q4.

The transcript says ...

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Q Value Bank
1 3K
2 5K 8K
3 1K 9K
4 100 6100
5 25K 31600
(Change in show)
6 7K 31100
7 15K 31100
8 10K 41100
9 5K 46100
10 500 46600
11 100K (missed) 25K

But my calculations say ...

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Q Value Bank
1 3K
2 5K 8K
3 1K 9K
4 100 9100
5 25K 34100
(Change in show)
6 7K
7 15K
8 10K 44100
9 5K 49100
10 500 49600
11 100K (missed) $25,000

I did not see this show. Did the values for the bank come straight from the show, or was it a transcription error?

I really don't mean to be anal ... just striving to have accurate info in the transcripts.

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I also realize this point is somewhat moot, given the end result of Christine's game.

Thanks.