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"Pay it Forward Week" concludes

Julie Sidoni and Scott Schaffer (editor's note - the last names were never shown so the spelling is taken from the station's Web site)
A married couple and news anchors from WNEP-16 in Wilkes-Barre, PA

They are playing for Marley's Mission - it's a fairly localized (around the Scranton area) charity started by parents whose daughter had undergone a trauma. It uses equine therapy to help children start trusting again.

Topic Tree: (unrandomized)
- Atonement
- Day Jobs
- Language
- Famous Women
- Word Games
- TV Fan Mail
- Happy Hour
- Christmas Remixed
- The Final Word
- Hyper Text

Topic Tree: (randomized)
- TV Fan Mail
- Atonement
- Language
- The Final Word
- Word Games
- Happy Hour
- Famous Women
- Christmas Remixed
- Day Jobs
- Hyper Text

Question #1 (Hyper Text)
A Brooklyn teen quickly thumbed "Ei, Ei, Oh!" and other parts of what nursery rhyme to win the 2010 National Texting Championship?
A - Humpty Dumpty
B - Old MacDonald
C - Jack and Jill
D - Little Bo Peep

Julie hums a little bit of the tune before giving the couple's final answer.

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Answer: B (Old MacDonald)
Value: $25,000
Bank: $25,000

High fives all around.

Question #2 (Day Jobs)
In addition to inventing his famous telegraph code, Samuel Morse was known as one of the 19th century's premier what?
A - playwrights
B - pianists
C - poets
D - portrait painters

Scott doesn't have a guess but Julie ponders and says she thinks she knows but isn't sure she knows it strongly enough. Scott says they could jump the question because they already have the $25,000. They decide to JTQ.

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Answer: D (portrait painters)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $25,000 (no change)

That wasn't the answer Julie was thinking.

Question #3 (Christmas Remixed)
"Three shotgun shells, two hunting dogs and some parts to a Mustang GT" are lyrics in Jeff Foxworthy's version of what carol?
A - O Christmas Tree
B - Joy to the World
C - The 12 Days of Christmas
D - Deck the Halls

Julie says she's from Elk(?) County, PA and she knows Jeff Foxworthy.

Spoiler

Answer: C (The 12 Days of Christmas)
Value: $5,000
Bank: $30,000

Question #4 (Famous Women)
Released publicly in 2009, a home movie shot in Amsterdam in 1941 is the only known existing film footage of whom?
A - Marie Curie
B - Amelia Earhart
C - Florence Nightengale
D - Anne Frank

Spoiler

Answer: D (Anne Frank)
Value: $100
Bank: $30,100

Question #5 (Happy Hour)
What is the ticker symbol for the Boston Beer Company on the New York Stock Exchange?
A - SAM
B - PBR
C - BUD
D - MGD

Julie looks at Scott and says, "It's all you." Scott identifies

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PBR as Pabst Blue Ribbon, BUD as Budweiser and MGD as Miller Genuine Draft, then notes that SAM would be for Samuel Adams, which is the Boston Beer Company.

Scott confesses that he knows a little something about beer.

Spoiler

Answer: A (SAM)
Value: $3,000
Bank: $33,100

Question #6 (Word Games)
Which of these words is an anagram of the name of the country that features Mount Everest on its northern border?
A - plane
B - moan
C - rain
D - braise

Spoiler

Answer: A (plane)
Value: $500
Bank: $33,600

commercial break

Question #7 (The Final Word)
The last entry in the Scrabble Players Dictionary, "zzz" is defined as "used to suggest the sound of" what?
A - laughing
B - snoring
C - sneezing
D - crying

Scott says to Julie, "You should know this," prompting "oohs" from the audience. Meredith says Scott might want to walk away; Julie pushes him and he says, "Does someone else want to take me home tonight?"

Spoiler

Answer: B (snoring)
Value: $15,000
Bank: $48,600

Question #8 (Language)
Which of these words is used in Germany to refer to a type of elite high school?
A - gymnasium
B - cafeteria
C - laboratory
D - auditorium

Scott thinks it's either

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A

or

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C

. Julie thinks they should ask the audience.

ATA results

A - 40%
B - 3%
C - 39%
D - 18%

Julie says she thought that might happen since Scott had said what he thought it was. Scott really thinks it's

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A

. Julie asks if he's feeling lucky; his reply is that he's not feeling that lucky. Julie says their only option is to jump, so they use their second JTQ.

Spoiler

Answer: A (gymnasium)
Value: $10,000
Bank: $48,600 (no change)

Question #9 (Atonement)
To atone for its thirty-year occupation until 1943, what country agreed in 2008 to pay Libya $5 billion?
A - Germany
B - Italy
C - France
D - Portugal

Scott says it couldn't be

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Germany

. He thinks it might be

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Italy

but then says that

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Portugal

is sitting there looking at him, taunting him. Julie says that if it were their money they'd go for it but Marley's Mission really needs the money so they decide to walk away

Spoiler

Answer: B (Italy)
Value: $
Bank: $24,300 (final winnings)

commercial break

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #9 (Atonement)
To atone for its thirty-year occupation until 1943, what country agreed in 2008 to pay Libya $5 billion?
A - Germany
B - Italy
C - France
D - Portugal

Scott says it couldn't be

Spoiler

Germany

. He thinks it might be

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Italy

but then says that

Spoiler

Portugal

is sitting there looking at him, taunting him. Julie says that if it were their money they'd go for it but Marley's Mission really needs the money so they decide to walk away

Spoiler

Answer: B (Italy)
Value: $
Bank: $24,300 (final winnings)

Never paid much attention to history lessons about World War II, huh, Scott?

Here's an article about Julie and Scott's appearance.

http://www.timesleader.com/news/WNEP_an ... -2010.html



They were playing for Marley's Mission and Scott was a MAWG in a blue shirt. So close and yet so far!

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:"Pay it Forward Week" concludes

They are playing for Marley's Mission - it's a fairly localized (around the Scranton area) charity started by parents whose daughter had undergone a trauma. It uses equine therapy to help children start trusting again.

I wonder if the money will go to restock their library with Equus dvd's.

Question 1 referred to a Brooklyn "teen," right? --Bob

Bob78164 wrote:Question 1 referred to a Brooklyn "teen," right? --Bob

Right.

MarleysGh0st wrote:

Bob78164 wrote:Question 1 referred to a Brooklyn "teen," right? --Bob

Right.

They asked about the texting championships last year too. Something to keep an eye out for in 2011.

-M

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Julie Sedoni and Scott Schafer (transcriptionist's note - the last names were never shown so this is a best-guess approximation)
A married couple and news anchors from WNEP-16 in Wilkes-Barre, PA

The WNEP website spells their names as Scott Schaffer & Julie Sidoni.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:"Pay it Forward Week" concludes

Julie Sidoni and Scott Schaffer (editor's note - the last names were never shown so the spelling is taken from the station's Web site)
A married couple and news anchors from WNEP-16 in Wilkes-Barre, PA

They are playing for Marley's Mission - it's a fairly localized (around the Scranton area) charity started by parents whose daughter had undergone a trauma. It uses equine therapy to help children start trusting again.

Shout-out to our favorite gh0st!

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #3 (Christmas Remixed)
"Three shotgun shells, two hunting dogs and some parts to a Mustang GT" are lyrics in Jeff Foxworthy's version of what carol?
A - O Christmas Tree
B - Joy to the World
C - The 12 Days of Christmas
D - Deck the Halls

Julie says she's from Elk(?) County, PA and she knows Jeff Foxworthy.

Spoiler

Answer: C (The 12 Days of Christmas)
Value: $5,000
Bank: $30,000

I'm part of an ensemble that is doing the entertainment for our church's Christmas banquet. One of the songs we're singing is "The 12 Groovy Days of Christmas", featuring gifts such as "an 8-track by the Partridge Family".

Another relatively simple stack. Nihil obstat®.

Here's another article about Marley's Mission and the fundraiser/viewing party they had for this appearance.

http://www.timesleader.com/AbingtonJour ... -2010.html

They still don't explain if the charity is named after me or my cousin Bob or whatever.

MarleysGh0st wrote:Here's another article about Marley's Mission and the fundraiser/viewing party they had for this appearance.

http://www.timesleader.com/AbingtonJour ... -2010.html

They still don't explain if the charity is named after me or my cousin Bob or whatever.

Is this what you're looking for?

http://www.marleysmission.com/about/

MarleysGh0st wrote:Here's another article about Marley's Mission and the fundraiser/viewing party they had for this appearance.

http://www.timesleader.com/AbingtonJour ... -2010.html

They still don't explain if the charity is named after me or my cousin Bob or whatever.

My mission was best stated by Bob Dylan:

Everybody must get stoned!

ulysses5019 wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:Here's another article about Marley's Mission and the fundraiser/viewing party they had for this appearance.

http://www.timesleader.com/AbingtonJour ... -2010.html

They still don't explain if the charity is named after me or my cousin Bob or whatever.

Is this what you're looking for?

http://www.marleysmission.com/about/

I don't know. At the risk of Beast accusing me of not reading something closely enough, I don't see any specific explanation of who "Marley" is. Is she the five-year-old girl mentioned in the first paragraph?

Finally, an article that explains where the name "Marley's Mission" came from.

http://thetimes-tribune.com/lifestyles- ... -1.1103598

So far, around 30 children have received equine therapy through Marley's Mission, which was named for Ms. Loposky's daughter's pet guinea pig.

They use horses for their therapy, but they named the organization after a guinea pig?