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Leonard Kingsley
Wilmington, DE
Tax attorney

Leonard has a secret for success: he collects all the fortunes from fortune cookies and burns them before buying lottery tickets, to release the luck. He burned about twenty fortunes before coming on the show.


Question Topics (Unrandomized):
* The Olympics
* Not Like Us
* Funny Animals
* Teenybopper Pop
* Archaeology
* Good Casting
* Hot Wheels
* Store Openings
* Reality Stars
* Night Moves

Question Topics (Randomized):
* Funny Animals
* Good Casting
* Not Like Us
* Hot Wheels
* Archaeology
* Teenybopper Pop
* Night Moves
* Reality Stars
* Store Openings
* The Olympics


Question #1 * The Olympics
Gold medals from every Summer Olympics since 1912 have been won by a former, current or future student of what university?

A: Univ. of North Carolina B: Notre Dame
C: Univ. of Southern California D: Princeton

Leonard hates to do it this early, but he has to jump the question.

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Univ. of Southern California
Question Value: $5,000
Bank: $0

Question #2 * Store Openings
In 1956, entrepreneur Chuck Williams established a store in what California town to sell French cookware?

A: Pasadena B: Berkeley
C: Carmel D: Sonoma

Answer/Value/Bank

D: Sonoma
Question Value: $7,000
Bank: $7,000

Question #3 * Reality Stars
Featuring airline pilot Jake Pavelka, the 2010 season of what reality show was subtitled "On the Wings of Love"?

A: Top Chef B: The Bachelor
C: Survivor D: Project Runway

Answer/Value/Bank

B: The Bachelor
Question Value: $15,000
Bank: $22,000

Question #4 * Night Moves
What phrase completes the name of a popular slumber party game that begins, "Light as a Feather"?

A: Stiff as a Board B: Round as a Ball
C: Soft as a Pillow D: Loud as a Bell

Leonard has never been to a slumber party where they played this game. He asks the audience.

ATA

A: 53% B: 2% C: 43% D: 2%

Leonard is going to jump the question.

Answer/Value/Bank

A: Stiff as a Board
Question Value: $2,000
Bank: $22,000

Question #5 * Teenybopper Pop
Which of the four Jonas brothers is referred to as the "bonus Jonas" because, as the youngest, he is not an official part of the band?

A: Kevin B: Joe
C: Nick D: Frankie

Answer/Value/Bank

D: Frankie
Question Value: $10,000
Bank: $32,000

-- Commercial Break --


Question #6 * Archaeology
In 2008, archaeologists in Jordan announced that they may have discovered what biblical figure's legendary mines?

A: Queen of Sheba B: John the Baptist
C: Methuselah D: King Solomon

Answer/Value/Bank

D: King Solomon
Question Value: $100
Bank: $32,100

Question #7 * Hot Wheels
Because of their decorative trim, what type of automobiles popularized the nickname "woodies" in the '60s?

A: Station wagons B: Pickup trucks
C: Convertibles D: Jeeps

Answer/Value/Bank

A: Station wagons
Question Value: $1,000
Bank: $33,100

Question #8 * Not Like Us
F. Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote that what type of people "are different from you and me"?

A: The very rich B: The very smart
C: The very pretty D: The very old

Answer/Value/Bank

A: The very rich
Question Value: $3,000
Bank: $36,100

Question #9 * Good Casting
What singer did Martin Scorsese cast to play siren Jean Harlow in his 2004 movie "The Aviator"?

A: Faith Hill B: Courtney Love
C: Gwen Stefani D: Christina Aguilera

Leonard saw the movie, but he doesn't remember who played Jean Harlow. He walks away with $18,050.

Answer

C: Gwen Stefani

-- Commercial Break --

Question 1-NFC. This was at the top of the un-randomized stack, so I figured it would be a hard one. JTQ.

Questions 2-this was easy, as was Question 3.

Question 4-what is this??? never heard of this game. The audience (although they were right) seemed split between A and C. I'd JTQ right away.

Question 5-OK, I know about Joe, Nick, and Kevin. This is easy pop culture thanks to People magazine.

Question 6-easy.

Questions 7 through 9 were easy for me, too.

Question #1 * The Olympics
Gold medals from every Summer Olympics since 1912 have been won by a former, current or future student of what university?

A: Univ. of North Carolina B: Notre Dame
C: Univ. of Southern California D: Princeton

Hey, this was an easy one.

Kazoo65 wrote: Question 4-what is this??? never heard of this game. The audience (although they were right) seemed split between A and C. I'd JTQ right away.

This one is so easy. It's right after the pillow fights and right before the experimental lesbianism....

FannytheBull wrote:

Kazoo65 wrote: Question 4-what is this??? never heard of this game. The audience (although they were right) seemed split between A and C. I'd JTQ right away.

This one is so easy. It's right after the pillow fights and right before the experimental lesbianism....

The phrase "stiff as a board" gives me pause...

ulysses5019 wrote:

FannytheBull wrote:

Kazoo65 wrote: Question 4-what is this??? never heard of this game. The audience (although they were right) seemed split between A and C. I'd JTQ right away.

This one is so easy. It's right after the pillow fights and right before the experimental lesbianism....

The phrase "stiff as a board" gives me pause...

Yay for somebody noting that!

Btw, Uly, do you know any of the USC Song Girls? (Serious question, not stiff as a board lesbian joke....)

FannytheBull wrote:

ulysses5019 wrote:

FannytheBull wrote:
This one is so easy. It's right after the pillow fights and right before the experimental lesbianism....

The phrase "stiff as a board" gives me pause...

Yay for somebody noting that!

Btw, Uly, do you know any of the USC Song Girls? (Serious question, not stiff as a board lesbian joke....)

I know them all to some degree and am FB friends with several. I went to school at SC with one's dad.

FannytheBull wrote:

Kazoo65 wrote: Question 4-what is this??? never heard of this game. The audience (although they were right) seemed split between A and C. I'd JTQ right away.

This one is so easy. It's right after the pillow fights and right before the experimental lesbianism....

My thought when I saw the ATA percentages -- "So, 47% of the audience was men."

(Really, men that apparently have never watched a movie where preteen or teen girls have a sleepover. )

ulysses5019 wrote:

Question #1 * The Olympics
Gold medals from every Summer Olympics since 1912 have been won by a former, current or future student of what university?

A: Univ. of North Carolina B: Notre Dame
C: Univ. of Southern California D: Princeton

Hey, this was an easy one.

Because it is mentioned multiple times during the coverage of the Summer Olympics?

ulysses5019 wrote:

FannytheBull wrote:

ulysses5019 wrote:

The phrase "stiff as a board" gives me pause...

Yay for somebody noting that!

Btw, Uly, do you know any of the USC Song Girls? (Serious question, not stiff as a board lesbian joke....)

I know them all to some degree and am FB friends with several. I went to school at SC with one's dad.

Some of them (maybe half a dozen or so) were on Don't Forget the Lyrics this week, cheering on the one who was a contestant. Her name was Erin Askew (? on the last name) and she was very cute and charming.

And quite entertaining, even though it was a theme week and she wasn't a "real" contestant......

FannytheBull wrote:

ulysses5019 wrote:

FannytheBull wrote:
Yay for somebody noting that!

Btw, Uly, do you know any of the USC Song Girls? (Serious question, not stiff as a board lesbian joke....)

I know them all to some degree and am FB friends with several. I went to school at SC with one's dad.

Some of them (maybe half a dozen or so) were on Don't Forget the Lyrics this week, cheering on the one who was a contestant. Her name was Erin Askew (? on the last name) and she was very cute and charming.

And quite entertaining, even though it was a theme week and she wasn't a "real" contestant......

Yes, I know Erin and her parents. She just had knee surgery and is done as a song girl. I had heard that they were on the show. Did she forget any lyrics? She is a WE (the dancing kind) and her sister is in NY and a dancer/actress also.

Wowsers. This would have been a tough stack for me: I did not 'know' the answers to any of the first six questions, although I was able to reason out the answers to four of them: the Olympics one was kind of easy when you think about the athletic programs at the different schools and the successes of their athletes, King Solomon's Mines is obvious, I cook a lot so 'Sonoma' seemed right, and although I don't watch any 'reality' shows, I know enough about them to know that 'Bachelor' is the only one where 'love' would be involved. But being the manly sort of man that I mainly am, I had NFC about the sleepovers or Jonas brothers, and would have had to burn the ATA and/or JTQ on those.

ulysses5019 wrote:

FannytheBull wrote:

ulysses5019 wrote:

I know them all to some degree and am FB friends with several. I went to school at SC with one's dad.

Some of them (maybe half a dozen or so) were on Don't Forget the Lyrics this week, cheering on the one who was a contestant. Her name was Erin Askew (? on the last name) and she was very cute and charming.

And quite entertaining, even though it was a theme week and she wasn't a "real" contestant......

Yes, I know Erin and her parents. She just had knee surgery and is done as a song girl. I had heard that they were on the show. Did she forget any lyrics? She is a WE (the dancing kind) and her sister is in NY and a dancer/actress also.

That is the one, she of the gorgeous dimples. She yakked on It's Still Rock and Roll to Me for the big bucks, but she got the lyrics to Under My Thumb, which was pretty impressive coming from a cheerful thing such as herself. I can't remember exactly, but I think her charity was some LA inner city education thing.

That sucks about her knee, I hope it doesn't end her dancing aspirations (I love WEs!). Her parents were in the audience and I thought damn, her mom looks young! And then I realized that she is in college, so her mom IS young......

ulysses5019 wrote:

FannytheBull wrote:

ulysses5019 wrote:

I know them all to some degree and am FB friends with several. I went to school at SC with one's dad.

Some of them (maybe half a dozen or so) were on Don't Forget the Lyrics this week, cheering on the one who was a contestant. Her name was Erin Askew (? on the last name) and she was very cute and charming.

And quite entertaining, even though it was a theme week and she wasn't a "real" contestant......

Yes, I know Erin and her parents. She just had knee surgery and is done as a song girl. I had heard that they were on the show. Did she forget any lyrics? She is a WE (the dancing kind) and her sister is in NY and a dancer/actress also.

Found it!

FannytheBull wrote:

ulysses5019 wrote:

FannytheBull wrote:
Some of them (maybe half a dozen or so) were on Don't Forget the Lyrics this week, cheering on the one who was a contestant. Her name was Erin Askew (? on the last name) and she was very cute and charming.

And quite entertaining, even though it was a theme week and she wasn't a "real" contestant......

Yes, I know Erin and her parents. She just had knee surgery and is done as a song girl. I had heard that they were on the show. Did she forget any lyrics? She is a WE (the dancing kind) and her sister is in NY and a dancer/actress also.

That is the one, she of the gorgeous dimples. She yakked on It's Still Rock and Roll to Me for the big bucks, but she got the lyrics to Under My Thumb, which was pretty impressive coming from a cheerful thing such as herself. I can't remember exactly, but I think her charity was some LA inner city education thing.

That sucks about her knee, I hope it doesn't end her dancing aspirations (I love WEs!). Her parents were in the audience and I thought damn, her mom looks young! And then I realized that she is in college, so her mom IS young......

Here she is post-op in the stands at the last home football game. And her mom and dad are probably in their mid forties. I will have to get a copy of her show.

FannytheBull wrote:Her parents were in the audience and I thought damn, her mom looks young! And then I realized that she is in college, so her mom IS young......

I got disgusted with American Idol when it got to the point where most of the contestants' parents were younger than I. (Well, that and the fact the show has gone to hell, but that's beside the point...)

ulysses5019 wrote:

FannytheBull wrote:

ulysses5019 wrote:
Yes, I know Erin and her parents. She just had knee surgery and is done as a song girl. I had heard that they were on the show. Did she forget any lyrics? She is a WE (the dancing kind) and her sister is in NY and a dancer/actress also.

That is the one, she of the gorgeous dimples. She yakked on It's Still Rock and Roll to Me for the big bucks, but she got the lyrics to Under My Thumb, which was pretty impressive coming from a cheerful thing such as herself. I can't remember exactly, but I think her charity was some LA inner city education thing.

That sucks about her knee, I hope it doesn't end her dancing aspirations (I love WEs!). Her parents were in the audience and I thought damn, her mom looks young! And then I realized that she is in college, so her mom IS young......

Here she is post-op in the stands at the last home football game. And her mom and dad are probably in their mid forties. I will have to get a copy of her show.

Found it!

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Leonard Kingsley
Wilmington, DE
Tax attorney

Leonard has a secret for success: he collects all the fortunes from fortune cookies and burns them before buying lottery tickets, to release the luck. He burned about twenty fortunes before coming on the show.

Meredith shoud have asked him how many lotteries he's won using this method.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #1 * The Olympics
Gold medals from every Summer Olympics since 1912 have been won by a former, current or future student of what university?

A: Univ. of North Carolina B: Notre Dame
C: Univ. of Southern California D: Princeton

Leonard hates to do it this early, but he has to jump the question.

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Univ. of Southern California
Question Value: $5,000
Bank: $0

With apologies to uly, I would have done the same thing.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #3 * Reality Stars
Featuring airline pilot Jake Pavelka, the 2010 season of what reality show was subtitled "On the Wings of Love"?

A: Top Chef B: The Bachelor
C: Survivor D: Project Runway

Answer/Value/Bank

B: The Bachelor
Question Value: $15,000
Bank: $22,000

I knew this because he was later on DWTS.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #4 * Night Moves
What phrase completes the name of a popular slumber party game that begins, "Light as a Feather"?

A: Stiff as a Board B: Round as a Ball
C: Soft as a Pillow D: Loud as a Bell

Leonard has never been to a slumber party where they played this game. He asks the audience.

ATA

A: 53% B: 2% C: 43% D: 2%

Leonard is going to jump the question.

Answer/Value/Bank

A: Stiff as a Board
Question Value: $2,000
Bank: $22,000

I'd ATA also. Slumber parties are largely girl things, aren't they? I'm guessing that the answer is because this is related to a "levitation" game that I've seen done (but not at a slumber party).

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #7 * Hot Wheels
Because of their decorative trim, what type of automobiles popularized the nickname "woodies" in the '60s?

A: Station wagons B: Pickup trucks
C: Convertibles D: Jeeps

Answer/Value/Bank

A: Station wagons
Question Value: $1,000
Bank: $33,100

Not just any station wagons but the "town & country" models.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #9 * Good Casting
What singer did Martin Scorsese cast to play siren Jean Harlow in his 2004 movie "The Aviator"?

A: Faith Hill B: Courtney Love
C: Gwen Stefani D: Christina Aguilera

Leonard saw the movie, but he doesn't remember who played Jean Harlow. He walks away with $18,050.

Answer

C: Gwen Stefani

Didn't see the movie, but I've got one JTQ left, so I'll use it here.