Transcript 3/18/2011 - Sandy Marino-Capello

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Sheri Shepherd - guest host

Sheri says this is her last day substituting for Meredith and her last chance for a millionaire. All her hopes are caught up in the next contestant.

Sandy Marino-Capello
Phillipsburg, NJ

Sandy has five adopted children of different ethnicities. "We have the United Nations at our house," she says. Her husband Sam is in the relationship seat.

Topic Tree: (unrandomized)
10 - Out in Space
9 - Collar Color
8 - Nice Hand
7 - The Running Woman
6 - Great Reads
5 - Windy Weather
4 - Music Groups
3 - Books and Movies
2 - Classic Kids TV
1 - Soda Pop

Topic Tree: (randomized)
8 - Nice Hand
5 - Windy Weather
2 - Classic Kids TV
9 - Collar Color
4 - Music Groups
7 - The Running Woman
6 - Great Reads
1 - Soda Pop
10 - Out in Space
3 - Books and Movies

Question #1 (Books and Movies - Level 3)
Which of these '90s movies shares a main character with the best-selling novel "Hannibal Rising"?
A - American Beauty
B - Forrest Gump
C - The Silence of the Lambs
D - The Shawshank Redemption

Sandy is praying that it's

Spoiler

C, Silence of the Lambs

.

Spoiler

Answer: C (Silence of the Lambs)
Value: $500
Bank: $500

Question #2 (Out in Space - Level 10)
On the 1965 Gemini4 mission, who became the first U.S. astronout to experience "extravehicular activity," or a spacewalk?
A - Ed White
B - Roger Chaffee
C - James McDivitt
D - Gus Grissom

Sandy immediately asks for her first lifeline and jumps this question.

Spoiler

Answer: A (Ed White)
Value: $1,000
Bank: $500 (no change)

"That's what I was going to say," Sandy laments.

Question #3 (Soda Pop - Level 1)
In 1985, the word "Classic" was added to what soft drink's label, where it remained for many years?
A - Mountain Dew
B - Sprite
C - Dr. Pepper
D - Coca-Cola

Spoiler

Answer: D (Coca-Cola)
Value: $100
Bank: $600

Question #4 (Great Reads - Level 6)
"The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon" is what novel's first line?
A - THe Sound and the Fury
B - The Call of the Wild
C - Animal Farm
D - Lord of the Flies

Sandy used to teach

Spoiler

Lord of the Flies

. Despite that, she's going to ask the audience.

ATA results

A - 10%
B - 24%
C - 1%
D - 65%

Sherri says, "Do you remember what you were teaching?"
"Don't tell anyone," Sandy replies laughingly.
"It's too late, you just told everyone in America."

Spoiler

Answer: D (Lord of the Flies)
Value: $10,000
Bank: $10,600

Sherri pulls a fakeout, then asks, "Don't you remember what you taught?"
Sandy replies, "I'm lucky to remember my own name right now."

commercial break

Sandy would like to take her children to Disneyland.

Question #5 (The Running Woman - Level 7)
Which of these women ran against Arnold Schwarznegger for the governor of California in the 2003 recall election?
A - Suze Orman
B - Arianna Huffington
C - Melinda Gates
D - Greta Van Susteren

Sandy moans that she hates to use up all her lifelines already. Sherri asks her if anything is "hitting" Sandy "in her gut". She says

Spoiler

D

is. She thinks she'd better jump.

Spoiler

Answer: B (Arianna Huffington)
Value: $3,000
Bank: $10,600 (no change)

Question #6 (Music Groups - Level 4)
Which of the following is currently true about the Beastie Boys and the Dixie Chicks?
A - both are duos
B - one's a duo and one's a trio
C - both are trios
D - one's a duo and the other's a quartet

Sandy knows that

Spoiler

the Dixie Chicks are a trio

. The Beastie Boys are not her kind of music and she really has no idea about them. She says it has to be

Spoiler

B or C and she makes C her final answer

. Sherri asks if that's her final answer and Sandy says, "I don't know," but finally says yes.

Spoiler

Answer: C (both are trios)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $17,600

Question #7 (Collar Color - Level 9)
A workman's shirt made from which of these fabrics is often cited as the origin of the term "blue-collar"?
A - chambray
B - muslin
C - gingham
D - tweed

"It's definitely not

Spoiler

C or D. C is blue-and-white checked, which is Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz and D is tweed which is professors' jackets.

Spoiler

Answer: A (chambray)
Value: $15,000
Bank: $32,600

commercial break

During the break Sandy told Sherri that this is the most money they've ever had because her husband lost his job in January and she's been working part-time. While she was preparing for the show her kids asked her "Are we going to be rich now? Can we go to Disney World?"

If she wins the million - "more kids". Sherri asks Sam how he thinks his wife is doing. "Excellent. Keep going," he replies.

Question #8 (Classic Kids TV - Level 2)
What children's show often began with the host taking off his jacket and putting on a sweater?

As Sherri reads the question Sandy is dancing with excitement.

A - Bozo the Clown
B - Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood
C - Pee-wee's Playhouse
D - Captain Kangaroo

Sandy says her kids love

Spoiler

Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood

.

Spoiler

Answer: B (Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood)
Value: $5,000
Bank: $37,600

Question #9 (Windy Weather - Level 5)
Well-known to sailors in the tropics, winds that blow steadily from east to west and toward the equator are called what?
A - pilot winds
B - lead winds
C - diver winds
D - trade winds

"This is what separates the girls from the women," Sandy observes. "My gut is telling her an answer but do I really want to risk it?" Sherri asks her what her gut is telling her. "My gut is telling me

Spoiler

D

. My husband told me that if I was pretty sure - or did he say 100% sure? I think I came to play."

Spoiler

Answer: D (trade winds)
Value: $25,000
Bank: $62,600

commercial break

The "Blast from the past" question was worth $100,000 in 2002:
The alligator is naturally found in the United States and what other country?
A - India
B - Brazil
C - China
D - Egypt

Spoiler

C (China)

Sherri says that everyone in the audience and the control room is emotional about her five children. She asks Sandy for their names and ages. Sandy says the oldest is Kirby, who is 16, followed by Percy (9), Helena (7 "going on 17"), Maya (6) and "baby Violet, who turns 4 today." She feels a little guilty about coming to the show today.

Question #10 (Nice Hand - Level 8)
In the poker game Texas Hold'em, someone who is holding a "pair of bullets" has what starting hand?
A - two jacks
B - two aces
C - two kings
D - two queens

Sherry says she saw Sandy smile when the question came up. "Not in a good way," Sandy says. Her 16-year old learned to play poker from his grandparents and he would probably know this. Common sense tells her that it's

Spoiler

two aces because bullets are like this (Sandy raises her two index fingers)

. If Sandy walks away she'll win $32,300, which is more money than she's made in 25 years. It's definitely not

Spoiler

two queens

because

Spoiler

queens

would not have guns. "You should see some of the

Spoiler

queens

I know, girl," Sherri jokes.

Spoiler

Answer: B (two aces)
Value: $2,000
Bank: $64,600

CLASSIC MILLIONAIRE

$100K - Suriphobia, which has nothing to do with the daughter of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, is the fear of what?
A - mice
B - thunder
C - dust
D - garlic

Sandy doesn't recognize the Latin root "suri" and she knows they (Tom and Katie) didn't name their daughter for any of those. She knows the names of a lot of phobias but she doesn't know this one. She's proud to go home with all that money so she decides she's going to walk away. She feels like the luckiest woman in the whole world. She gets to go home to that wonderful man (pointing to Sam) and my kids.

She makes that her final answer.

Spoiler

A (mice)

Final winnings: $64,600

THE END OF GAME "NOISE"

[melleon]

Sandy was one of my suitemates in college (Drew U.) back in '79-80! Looks like from the transcript that she did well! Would love to see her in action if anyone can Youtube it?

[CarShark]

Sandy has five adopted children of different ethnicities. "We have the United Nations at our house," she says. Her husband Sam is in the relationship seat.

During the break Sandy told Sherri that this is the most money they've ever had because her husband lost his job in January and she's been working part-time. While she was preparing for the show her kids asked her "Are we going to be rich now? Can we go to Disney World?"

Man, she didn't stand a chance of NOT being picked.

It's definitely not

Spoiler

two queens

because

Spoiler

queens

would not have guns. "You should see some of the

Spoiler

queens

I know, girl," Sherri jokes.

I have to admit that I laughed at that.

$100K - Suriphobia, which has nothing to do with the daughter of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes...

...then why mention her?

[ontellen]

She and her kids were on the View earlier this week and the show send them on a trip to Disney World.

[silvercamaro]

There was one thing about watching this show that bothered me. (I didn't see any other shows from this week, so perhaps it was standard operating procedure for this guest host that bothered me.) Too much time spent hugging! If Sandy confidently knew an answer, that required a hug. If she timidly expressed a hope that she thought she might know -- and was right -- that needed a hug. If she prayed to be right, and her prayer was answered, everybody had to hug. When she positively, absolutely did not know the answer and had the good sense to walk away, Sherri and Sandy immediately moved in for the BIG hug.

Of 11 questions, with two jumped, somewhere between seven and nine apparently needed hearfelt, backpatting, body contact, overly dramatic, full hugs. Enough.

Hugging, on its own, does not make for emotional tv. When everything is worth a hug, nothing is worth a hug. For me, it was a bunch of time wasted. For me, it also provided a great deal of annoyance. At that, I was less crabby by Friday than I had been earlier in the week.

(And if those kids hit their ball into my yard one more time, I'm not going to give it back to them.)

[earendel]

Sheri Shepherd - guest host

Sheri says this is her last day substituting for Meredith and her last chance for a millionaire. All her hopes are caught up in the next contestant.

I have to confess that as a guest host Sherri grew on me over the week. Her over-the-top excitement was a bit much but she seemed to care about how the contestants did.

Sandy Marino-Capello
Phillipsburg, NJ

Sandy has five adopted children of different ethnicities. "We have the United Nations at our house," she says. Her husband Sam is in the relationship seat.

Question #2 (Out in Space - Level 10)
On the 1965 Gemini4 mission, who became the first U.S. astronout to experience "extravehicular activity," or a spacewalk?
A - Ed White
B - Roger Chaffee
C - James McDivitt
D - Gus Grissom

Sandy immediately asks for her first lifeline and jumps this question.

Spoiler

Answer: A (Ed White)
Value: $1,000
Bank: $500 (no change)

"That's what I was going to say," Sandy laments.

elwing and I once belonged to an "Up With People" local spinoff called "Sing-Out OKC". One of the songs we sang (and on which I had the solo) was a song about this event.

Question #4 (Great Reads - Level 6)
"The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon" is what novel's first line?
A - THe Sound and the Fury
B - The Call of the Wild
C - Animal Farm
D - Lord of the Flies

Sandy used to teach

Spoiler

Lord of the Flies

. Despite that, she's going to ask the audience.

ATA results

A - 10%
B - 24%
C - 1%
D - 65%

Sherri says, "Do you remember what you were teaching?"
"Don't tell anyone," Sandy replies laughingly.
"It's too late, you just told everyone in America."

Spoiler

Answer: D (Lord of the Flies)
Value: $10,000
Bank: $10,600

Sherri pulls a fakeout, then asks, "Don't you remember what you taught?"
Sandy replies, "I'm lucky to remember my own name right now."

The Hot Podium can cause people to doubt what they know, as I can attest.

Sandy would like to take her children to Disneyland.

She clearly said "Disneyland" here, but later talked about taking a plane to Disney World.

$100K - Suriphobia, which has nothing to do with the daughter of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, is the fear of what?
A - mice
B - thunder
C - dust
D - garlic

Sandy doesn't recognize the Latin root "suri" and she knows they (Tom and Katie) didn't name their daughter for any of those. She knows the names of a lot of phobias but she doesn't know this one. She's proud to go home with all that money so she decides she's going to walk away. She feels like the luckiest woman in the whole world. She gets to go home to that wonderful man (pointing to Sam) and my kids.

She makes that her final answer.

Spoiler

A (mice)

Final winnings: $64,600

Wow! I'd have been looking at the $250K question with all my lifelines - not often I can say that.

I'm rather surprised that they didn't have a 1Q contestant - there was time, but I guess they wanted to milk the schmaltz of the big money and all.

[earendel]

There was one thing about watching this show that bothered me. (I didn't see any other shows from this week, so perhaps it was standard operating procedure for this guest host that bothered me.) Too much time spent hugging! If Sandy confidently knew an answer, that required a hug. If she timidly expressed a hope that she thought she might know -- and was right -- that needed a hug. If she prayed to be right, and her prayer was answered, everybody had to hug. When she positively, absolutely did not know the answer and had the good sense to walk away, Sherri and Sandy immediately moved in for the BIG hug.

Of 11 questions, with two jumped, somewhere between seven and nine apparently needed hearfelt, backpatting, body contact, overly dramatic, full hugs. Enough.

Hugging, on its own, does not make for emotional tv. When everything is worth a hug, nothing is worth a hug. For me, it was a bunch of time wasted. For me, it also provided a great deal of annoyance. At that, I was less crabby by Friday than I had been earlier in the week.

(And if those kids hit their ball into my yard one more time, I'm not going to give it back to them.)

Yes, there was a lot of hugging going on all week.

[MarleysGh0st]

She and her kids were on the View earlier this week and the show send them on a trip to Disney World.

Since she was planning to take them to Disney World with the million dollars she'd win, it was something of a spoiler to give her the trip four days before this episode aired. They should have given this to her on The View today--but then it would have been too late to be a promo for Sheri's guest week.

[MarleysGh0st]

$100K - Suriphobia, which has nothing to do with the daughter of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, is the fear of what?
A - mice
B - thunder
C - dust
D - garlic

Sandy doesn't recognize the Latin root "suri"

The root isn't Latin, it's French.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_of_mice

Fear of mice and rats is one of the most common specific phobias. It is sometimes referred to as musophobia (from Latin mus for "mouse") or murophobia (a coinage from the taxonomic adjective "murine" for the Muridae family that encompasses mice and rats), or as suriphobia, from the French souris, meaning mouse. Dr. Genna Crosser is believed to be the first to have witnessed a patient with this disorder. She later also suffered from the phobia she studied.

[earendel]

Sandy doesn't recognize the Latin root "suri"

The root isn't Latin, it's French.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_of_mice

Fear of mice and rats is one of the most common specific phobias. It is sometimes referred to as musophobia (from Latin mus for "mouse") or murophobia (a coinage from the taxonomic adjective "murine" for the Muridae family that encompasses mice and rats), or as suriphobia, from the French souris, meaning mouse. Dr. Genna Crosser is believed to be the first to have witnessed a patient with this disorder. She later also suffered from the phobia she studied.

I believe it was the contestant who said "Latin root", not the transcriber.

[MarleysGh0st]

I believe it was the contestant who said "Latin root", not the transcriber.

Yes, those were Sandy's words; no criticism of the transcriber intended.

But, anyway, here we have a phobia with multiple names. With most of the Google hits going to basic lists of phobias, I don't know if there's a reference that would tell us which of these terms were coined first, by whom, and why one of the coiners chose a French root instead of the more traditional Latin or Greek.

[vettech]

$100K - Suriphobia, which has nothing to do with the daughter of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, is the fear of what?
A - mice
B - thunder
C - dust
D - garlic

Sandy doesn't recognize the Latin root "suri"

The root isn't Latin, it's French.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_of_mice

Fear of mice and rats is one of the most common specific phobias. It is sometimes referred to as musophobia (from Latin mus for "mouse") or murophobia (a coinage from the taxonomic adjective "murine" for the Muridae family that encompasses mice and rats), or as suriphobia, from the French souris, meaning mouse. Dr. Genna Crosser is believed to be the first to have witnessed a patient with this disorder. She later also suffered from the phobia she studied.

I knew the term musophobia so for that reason I immediately dismissed mice as an answer.

[SportsFan68]

There was one thing about watching this show that bothered me. (I didn't see any other shows from this week, so perhaps it was standard operating procedure for this guest host that bothered me.) Too much time spent hugging! If Sandy confidently knew an answer, that required a hug. If she timidly expressed a hope that she thought she might know -- and was right -- that needed a hug. If she prayed to be right, and her prayer was answered, everybody had to hug. When she positively, absolutely did not know the answer and had the good sense to walk away, Sherri and Sandy immediately moved in for the BIG hug.

Of 11 questions, with two jumped, somewhere between seven and nine apparently needed hearfelt, backpatting, body contact, overly dramatic, full hugs. Enough.

Hugging, on its own, does not make for emotional tv. When everything is worth a hug, nothing is worth a hug. For me, it was a bunch of time wasted. For me, it also provided a great deal of annoyance. At that, I was less crabby by Friday than I had been earlier in the week.

(And if those kids hit their ball into my yard one more time, I'm not going to give it back to them.)

Just tell them that some mangy rodent hauled it up into a tree!

Wait, maybe not. Then they'll want to climb the tree to get it. Nevermind.

[Estonut]

... and why one of the coiners chose a French root instead of the more traditional Latin or Greek.

They wanted to make the Cruise pop-culture reference where there was no relation...

[billm016]

I did not know Question 1. Ask The Audience.

Question 2 I didn't know either. Jump!

3 & 4 I knew cold.

5 I was kind of sure on this one-- granted, I know that pressure being on at the Hot Podium, no clue what I would've done

6-- I was in the same boat as Sandy here. I knew how many people are in the Dixie Chicks, but didn't know about the Beastie Boys-- But I took the same chance Sandy did.

7 I would've had to jump.

8 9 and 10 were no brainers. I thought that the Queens & Guns bit was pretty funny.

And no idea about the 100K. Sandy did a nice job.

I know that Sherri was over the top, but it was nice to see her take an interest in the contestants. She was certainly better than the slower-than-molasses Steve Harvey, and I thought that John Henson seemed so not interested in the show, he came across a bit fake.