Transcript 05/03/2011 Suzanne Grodner (carryover)

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Suzanne Grodner (carryover contestant)
New York, NY

Suzanne compared this experience to jumping out of an airplane and not being sure if the parachute would work. However at this point it is like after the parachute has opened and she is waiting to see where she will land.
Bank: $46,100
One JTQ remains

Topic Tree: (randomized)

5 Shore Thing
4 In the Dirt
$5000
$25,000
$3000
$100
(jumped)
$10,000
$2000
$100




Question 9- Level 4 In the Dirt
In 2010, a utility company digging in Southern California unearth a huge trove of 1.4-million-year-old what?
A. Fossils B. Mummies
C. Coins D. Pottery

JTQ

Suzanne comes from California, but northern California. She thinks it would be A, but is not sure. JTQ

Answer and value

A. Fossils
Value: ($7000)
Bank: $46100

Question 10 - Level 5 Shore Thing
What is the only New England state without any coastline on the Atlantic Ocean?
A. Rhode Island B. Vermont
C. Connecticut D. New Hampshire

Answer and value

B. Vermont
Value: $15,000
Bank: $61,100

Commercial break

Suzanne would like to restore her bathroom and buy a little house in Italy in the town her mother came from.

Question 11 - Level $100,000
What famous literary character's name is also the last name of the 1959 Nobel Prize winner for Literature?
A. Falstaff B. Odysseus
C. Quasimodo D. Gandalf

Spoiler

Suzanne figured Quasimodo and Odysseus would unlikely be last names at that time, and would guess Gandalf. However she made up her mind to walk.

Answer and result

C. Quasimodo
Bank: Suzanne walked with $61,100

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Suzanne Grodner (carryover contestant)
New York, NY

Suzanne compared this experience to jumping out of an airplane and not being sure if the parachute would work. However at this point it is like after the parachute has opened and she is waiting to see where she will land.
Bank: $46,100
One JTQ remains

I have to say that I really liked Suzanne - she played the game well and had a great attitude.

Question 9- Level 4 In the Dirt
In 2010, a utility company digging in Southern California unearth a huge trove of 1.4-million-year-old what?
A. Fossils B. Mummies
C. Coins D. Pottery

JTQ

Suzanne comes from California, but northern California. She thinks it would be A, but is not sure. JTQ

Answer and value

A. Fossils
Value: ($7000)
Bank: $46100

The only item on this list likely to be that old would be fossils.

Question 10 - Level 5 Shore Thing
What is the only New England state without any coastline on the Atlantic Ocean?
A. Rhode Island B. Vermont
C. Connecticut D. New Hampshire

Answer and value

B. Vermont
Value: $15,000
Bank: $61,100

Suzanne commented that she had been there.

Question 11 - Level $100,000
What famous literary character's name is also the last name of the 1959 Nobel Prize winner for Literature?
A. Falstaff B. Odysseus
C. Quasimodo D. Gandalf

Spoiler

Suzanne figured Quasimodo and Odysseus would unlikely be last names at that time, and would guess Gandalf. However she made up her mind to walk.

Answer and result

C. Quasimodo
Bank: Suzanne walked with $61,100

This is a pretty tough question and I don't blame Suzanne for walking away. I would have had a JTQ (and ATA) and would have used it here.