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1Q Contestant
Perry Sandler
Summit, NJ
Marketing consultant looking for work so $1,000 means a lot.

A popular dish, panini is the pluralization of panino, an Italian word meaning "small" what?
A - fruit
B - nut
C - bread
D - fish

Spoiler

C (bread)

THE END OF GAME "NOISE"

No frakkin' way this was Mike Beeman's question 11 ($100k). It's about a level 3 question given the other answers.

Meredith didn't make the usual disclosures about playing the next question in his stack, so either an untelevised player bombed out after Mike Beeman or TPTB pulled this question out of somewhere else. If there was an untelevised player after Mike Beeman, my compliments to the show's editors on a job well done.

I was at the last tapings of season 9 and saw one question contestants receive their questions the way they have since the start of the season, so I know there hasn't been a rule change.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:1Q Contestant
Perry Sandler
Summit, NJ
Marketing consultant looking for work so $1,000 means a lot.

A popular dish, panini is the pluralization of panino, an Italian word meaning "small" what?
A - fruit
B - nut
C - bread
D - fish

Spoiler

C (bread)

Under ordinary circumstances this should have been Mike Beeman's $100K question, but there's no way that this question was worth that much. My guess is that they wanted to save the high-level questions and pulled this one from another stack.

15QuestionsAway wrote:No frakkin' way this was Mike Beeman's question 11 ($100k). It's about a level 3 question given the other answers.

Meredith didn't make the usual disclosures about playing the next question in his stack, so either an untelevised player bombed out after Mike Beeman or TPTB pulled this question out of somewhere else. If there was an untelevised player after Mike Beeman, my compliments to the show's editors on a job well done.

I was at the last tapings of season 9 and saw one question contestants receive their questions the way they have since the start of the season, so I know there hasn't been a rule change.

I was present at the taping (I was the previous contestant) and there wasn't a player who bombed out as far as I know. I think they just got the question from another stack.

kmk355 wrote:I was present at the taping (I was the previous contestant) and there wasn't a player who bombed out as far as I know. I think they just got the question from another stack.

Yeah, it seemed too smooth for there to have been another contestant after Mike Beeman. Maybe they experimented with offering the one question contestant a question not in the previous player's stack, and then reverted. All of the one question contestants I saw during the last five episodes taped received questions from the prior player's stack.

Since there were quite a few contestants that didn't do too well earlier in the (televised) week, the question may have come from one of their stacks instead. I'll have to have a look through the topics and see if I can figure it out.

You played a great game by the way. Enjoy your prize - I'm sure you'll put it to good use!

I think I've figured out where this question came from.

It looks like the third question in Jill Brim's stack (from Wednesday, December 15). If you recall, she bombed out after question 2.

The topic would have been "Source of Food", and the question difficulty would have been 2, given her pre-randomized topic tree. Both the topic and difficulty seem to fit this question.