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Transcript January 30, 2008

Karyn Beach
Screenwriter
Charlotte, NC

The very first thing she wrote was picked up and made into a movie starring Danny Glover.
She wrote a 19 minute short film called PNOK (Primary Next of Kin). After her best friend's
husband went to Iraq and she saw what she went through she wrote a short movie about it.


$100
During an appointment, what professional often asks a person to remove his
clothes and don a loose-fitting gown?

A: Doctor
B: Used car dealer
C: Accountant
D: Naughty real estate agent


$200
Which of these interjections is commonly used when a person wants silence?

A: Egads!
B: Eek!
C: Yikes!
D: Shush!


$300
Which of these flower varieties has a common nickname consisting of the
last three letters of its names?

A: Chrysanthemum
B: Gardenia
C: Violet
D: Carnation


$500
In its title, an article posted online in 2007 asks the age-old fitness
question "Can You Get Six Pack Abs Without" what?

A: Chin-ups
B: Crunches
C: Push-ups
D: Squats


$1000
Which sign of the zodiac is traditionally represented by a pair of fish?

A: Gemini
B: Scorpio
C: Libra
D: Pisces


Commercial Break

During the commercial break, someone from the audience yelled out about
how great Karyn looked in her orange shirt. Karyn's co-workers gave her
birthday money to go shopping before coming on the show. Karyn also
recently lost 35 pounds.


$2000
Due to it's deep & powerful sound, what brass instrument is traditionally
the only one of its kind in an orchestra?

A: Tuba
B: Trombone
C: French horn
D: Trumpet


$4000
The Comedy Central Web site indecision2008.com primarily features humorous
commentary on what topic?

A: Nuclear disarmament
B: Global warming
C: The Presidential election
D: The stock market


$8000
Muscatel is a sweet-flavored type of what?

A: Coffee
B: Wine
C: Milk
D: Vodka


$16000
Indonesia is part of a group of nations known as what?

A: Maldives
B: Micronesia
C: East Indies
D: French Polynesia

Geography is not Karyn's strong suit.

ATA:

A: 11%
B 35%
C: 38%
D: 16%


50/50 leaves:

B: Micronesia
C: East Indies


Karyn calls her co-worker Steve Parker. She was afraid he was
gonna be a little "talkie", but he only gives her the answer and
nothing else.



$25,000
"He merely told the unhappy Present to recite the Past" is a line
from a W. H. Auden poem titled "In Memory of" whom?

A: Charles Darwin
B. Marcel Proust
C: Karl Marx
D: Sigmund Freud


Karyn says it's between Darwin who looks at the past, but the unhappy
past makes her think its Freud & it's a game, she's here & she's going
to go for it.


The horn! Karyn will return tomorrow.












Answers:

$100 A - Doctor
$200 D - Shush!
$300 A - Chrysanthemum
$500 B - Crunches
$1000 D - Pisces
$2000 A - Tuba
$4000 C - The Presidential election
$8000 B - Wine
$16000 C - East Indies
$25000 D - Sigmund Freud

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Karyn Beach
Screenwriter
Charlotte, NC

So we have a What Else® without the Where Else®

$100
During an appointment, what professional often asks a person to remove his
clothes and don a loose-fitting gown?

A: Doctor
B: Used car dealer
C: Accountant
D: Naughty real estate agent

E: U.S. Senator

$8K: It's either coffee or wine, but I need the audience's help here.

$16000

ATA:
A: 11%
B 35%
C: 38%
D: 16%

50/50 leaves:
B: Micronesia
C: East Indies

<grumble>®

$25K: I'm gone once again. First thing that popped into my mind was Proust ("Remembrance of Things Past").

<sigh>

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Transcript January 30, 2008

Karyn Beach
Screenwriter
Charlotte, NC

$16000
Indonesia is part of a group of nations known as what?

A: Maldives
B: Micronesia
C: East Indies
D: French Polynesia

Geography is not Karyn's strong suit.

ATA:

A: 11%
B 35%
C: 38%
D: 16%


50/50 leaves:

B: Micronesia
C: East Indies


Karyn calls her co-worker Steve Parker. She was afraid he was
gonna be a little "talkie", but he only gives her the answer and
nothing else.

Well, at least she knew in advance that she was a member of the geo nitwit club and had the good sense to get a PAF that did know some geography. She gets points for that. Even if it did cost EVERY SINGLE LIFELINE.

Can't really expect the audience to be any less geo nitwitish but the 50/50 certainly wasn't very helpful either. I suppose if one was going to be confused those are the two choices geo nitwitish people would be confused about.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Transcript January 30, 2008

Karyn Beach
Screenwriter
Charlotte, NC

The very first thing she wrote was picked up and made into a movie starring Danny Glover. She wrote a 19 minute short film called PNOK (Primary Next of Kin). After her best friend's husband went to Iraq and she saw what she went through she wrote a short movie about it.

She's not a Where Else®, but she is a What Else®.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$1000
Which sign of the zodiac is traditionally represented by a pair of fish?

A: Gemini
B: Scorpio
C: Libra
D: Pisces

This is elwing's sign.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$16000
Indonesia is part of a group of nations known as what?

A: Maldives
B: Micronesia
C: East Indies
D: French Polynesia

Geography is not Karyn's strong suit.

ATA:

A: 11%
B 35%
C: 38%
D: 16%


50/50 leaves:

B: Micronesia
C: East Indies


Karyn calls her co-worker Steve Parker. She was afraid he was
gonna be a little "talkie", but he only gives her the answer and
nothing else.

I'm sure tanstaafl will make a comment about geo nitwits. However in Karyn's defense my wife, who took geography in college, opted for the wrong answer. I was sure it was "East Indes" because of the Dutch East India Company.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$25,000
"He merely told the unhappy Present to recite the Past" is a line
from a W. H. Auden poem titled "In Memory of" whom?

A: Charles Darwin
B. Marcel Proust
C: Karl Marx
D: Sigmund Freud


Karyn says it's between Darwin who looks at the past, but the unhappy
past makes her think its Freud & it's a game, she's here & she's going
to go for it.

Unfortunately I'd have been gone on this one without using a lifeline. I was sure it was Proust, based on "Remembrance of Things Past". Sometimes knowing too much can be a problem; evidently Karyn never even considered Proust as a possibility. Had I used 50/50, it probably would have left B and D and I'd still have missed it.

i was always under the impression that the 50/50 was designed to leave the 2 most likely answers..

7yrscollegedownthedrain wrote:i was always under the impression that the 50/50 was designed to leave the 2 most likely answers..

That is how they did it on the primetime show. On the syndicated version, the computer is supposed to select randomly. Meredith repeats this time and time again, but nobody believes her, perhaps because she's only giving hearsay evidence.

$500: I'd assume they want the exercise I know nothing about, crunches, but this it too early a level to leave. And I'd like to save 50/50 for a harder Q. ATA

25K: Like the contestant, I thought from the phrasing we could be talking Freud, but I do not know this poem. I'd PAF here. If I'd been in the contestant's shoes, lifelineless, I'd be going home with my 16K. She certainly has the guts to get the glory, as I don't think she was any surer than I would have been.