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Robin Dove-Franklin
Ardmore, PA

Robin didn't want her kids to know she'd be on the show, because they're so selfish and would want things for themselves. She did tell them before she left, and they started acting up right away.

Robin's husband, Dominic, is in the audience.


Topic Tree (Unrandomized)
10: Peppery Pets
9: Soda Pop
8: Va-Va-Voom
7: Start Me Up
6: Adult Stories
5: I Love the '70s
4: Mental Note
3: Salty Superstition
2: White Background
1: Sharing Rooms

Topic Tree (Randomized)
8: Va-Va-Voom
3: Salty Superstition
9: Soda Pop
10: Peppery Pets
6: Adult Stories
4: Mental Note (DOUBLE MONEY)
1: Sharing Rooms
7: Start Me Up
2: White Background
5: I Love the '70s


Question #1 - Level 5: I Love the '70s
Invented in 1968, the "Fuzzbuster" was one of the earliest models of what?

A: Electric razor B: Answering machine
C: Weed trimmer D: Radar detector

Robin begins saying that she's going to go with

Spoiler

A

, before saying she's not sure. She jumps the question.

Answer/Value/Bank

D: Radar detector
Question Value: $2,000
Bank: $0

Question #2 - Level 2: White Background
Before co-hosting her own game show, Vanna White was told to "Come on down!" to be a contestant on what game show in 1980?

A: Family Feud B: Let's Make a Deal
C: The Price is Right D: The Newlywed Game

Answer/Value/Bank

C: The Price is Right
Question Value: $100
Bank: $100

Question #3 - Level 7: Start Me Up
Programmer Jim Reekes claims he created the famous C-major chord heard when what brand of computer starts up?

A: Dell B: Hewlett-Packard
C: Macintosh D: IBM

Robin jumps the question.

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Macintosh
Question Value: $15,000
Bank: $100

Question #4 - Level 1: Sharing Rooms
In home design, a bathroom that's connected to two different bedrooms is commonly given what nickname?

A: Mutt-and-Jeff B: Jack-and-Jill
C: Mom-and-Pop D: Calvin-and-Hobbes

Robin asks the audience.

ATA

A: 5% B: 90% C: 5% D: 0%

Answer/Value/Bank

B: Jack-and-Jill
Question Value: $7,000
Bank: $7,100

Question #5 - Level 4: Mental Note (DOUBLE MONEY)
Showing a woman hugging herself, the cover story of the August 2011 issue of Psychology Today is "How to Spot a" what?

A: Existentialist B: Pessimist
C: Narcissist D: Nihilist

Robin doesn't think it's

Spoiler

B or C

. She's torn between

Spoiler

A and D

. She's going to go with

Spoiler

A

--she suddenly changes her mind and goes with

Spoiler

C

.

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Narcissist
Question Value: $1,000 doubled to $2,000
Bank: $9,100

Question #6 - Level 6: Adult Stories
With an expletive in the title, Adam Mansbach's new "children's book for adults" focuses on trying to get a child to do what?

A: Sleep B: Eat
C: Wake up D: Be quiet

Robin begins to say an answer, then she pauses and says she'll walk away.

Meredith: Is that a final?

Robin: Not yet! Not yet. [Mumbling over the choices some more.] I'm going to say--

Meredith: I've got some expletives for you.

Meredith: I'm teasing you! I'm teasing you!

Robin: Okay. I'm gonna say--I'm gonna go with--ummm. I'm just gonna walk. Final answer.

Robin walks with $4,550.

Answer

A: Sleep

-- Commercial Break --

She passed the test?

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #4 - Level 1: Sharing Rooms
In home design, a bathroom that's connected to two different bedrooms is commonly given what nickname?

A: Mutt-and-Jeff B: Jack-and-Jill
C: Mom-and-Pop D: Calvin-and-Hobbes

Robin asks the audience.

ATA

A: 5% B: 90% C: 5% D: 0%

Answer/Value/Bank

B: Jack-and-Jill
Question Value: $7,000
Bank: $7,100

I don't recall hearing this name before, but the most famous example of this kind of bathroom that I could remember was the one the kids shared on The Brady Bunch. As they said on the movie, I never did see a toilet in there!

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #5 - Level 4: Mental Note (DOUBLE MONEY)
Showing a woman hugging herself, the cover story of the August 2011 issue of Psychology Today is "How to Spot a" what?

A: Existentialist B: Pessimist
C: Narcissist D: Nihilist

Robin doesn't think it's

Spoiler

B or C

. She's torn between

Spoiler

A and D

. She's going to go with

Spoiler

A

--she suddenly changes her mind and goes with

Spoiler

C

.

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Narcissist
Question Value: $1,000 doubled to $2,000
Bank: $9,100

If Robin suddenly remembered the definition of narcissist, I wish she had said something about that. As it was, it seemed like she might have heard something shouted out from the audience.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #6 - Level 6: Adult Stories
With an expletive in the title, Adam Mansbach's new "children's book for adults" focuses on trying to get a child to do what?

A: Sleep B: Eat
C: Wake up D: Be quiet

Robin begins to say an answer, then she pauses and says she'll walk away.

Meredith: Is that a final?

Robin: Not yet! Not yet. [Mumbling over the choices some more.] I'm going to say--

Meredith: I've got some expletives for you.

Meredith: I'm teasing you! I'm teasing you!

Robin: Okay. I'm gonna say--I'm gonna go with--ummm. I'm just gonna walk. Final answer.

Robin walks with $4,550.

Answer

A: Sleep

I think I ran across an ad for this book and linked to it here in some thread, this summer. But I don't think the book has gotten nearly enough publicity to make this only a level 6 question.

Spoiler

MarleysGh0st wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #4 - Level 1: Sharing Rooms
In home design, a bathroom that's connected to two different bedrooms is commonly given what nickname?

A: Mutt-and-Jeff B: Jack-and-Jill
C: Mom-and-Pop D: Calvin-and-Hobbes

Robin asks the audience.

ATA

A: 5% B: 90% C: 5% D: 0%

Answer/Value/Bank

B: Jack-and-Jill
Question Value: $7,000
Bank: $7,100

I don't recall hearing this name before, but the most famous example of this kind of bathroom that I could remember was the one the kids shared on The Brady Bunch. As they said on the movie, I never did see a toilet in there!

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #5 - Level 4: Mental Note (DOUBLE MONEY)
Showing a woman hugging herself, the cover story of the August 2011 issue of Psychology Today is "How to Spot a" what?

A: Existentialist B: Pessimist
C: Narcissist D: Nihilist

Robin doesn't think it's

Spoiler

B or C

. She's torn between

Spoiler

A and D

. She's going to go with

Spoiler

A

--she suddenly changes her mind and goes with

Spoiler

C

.

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Narcissist
Question Value: $1,000 doubled to $2,000
Bank: $9,100

If Robin suddenly remembered the definition of narcissist, I wish she had said something about that. As it was, it seemed like she might have heard something shouted out from the audience.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #6 - Level 6: Adult Stories
With an expletive in the title, Adam Mansbach's new "children's book for adults" focuses on trying to get a child to do what?

A: Sleep B: Eat
C: Wake up D: Be quiet

Robin begins to say an answer, then she pauses and says she'll walk away.

Meredith: Is that a final?

Robin: Not yet! Not yet. [Mumbling over the choices some more.] I'm going to say--

Meredith: I've got some expletives for you.

Meredith: I'm teasing you! I'm teasing you!

Robin: Okay. I'm gonna say--I'm gonna go with--ummm. I'm just gonna walk. Final answer.

Robin walks with $4,550.

Answer

A: Sleep

I think I ran across an ad for this book and linked to it here in some thread, this summer. But I don't think the book has gotten nearly enough publicity to make this only a level 6 question.

Spoiler

I thought there was discussion on bored about this book...or maybe it was on FaceBook.

ulysses5019 wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #4 - Level 1: Sharing Rooms
In home design, a bathroom that's connected to two different bedrooms is commonly given what nickname?

A: Mutt-and-Jeff B: Jack-and-Jill
C: Mom-and-Pop D: Calvin-and-Hobbes

Robin asks the audience.

ATA

A: 5% B: 90% C: 5% D: 0%

Answer/Value/Bank

B: Jack-and-Jill
Question Value: $7,000
Bank: $7,100

I don't recall hearing this name before, but the most famous example of this kind of bathroom that I could remember was the one the kids shared on The Brady Bunch. As they said on the movie, I never did see a toilet in there!

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #5 - Level 4: Mental Note (DOUBLE MONEY)
Showing a woman hugging herself, the cover story of the August 2011 issue of Psychology Today is "How to Spot a" what?

A: Existentialist B: Pessimist
C: Narcissist D: Nihilist

Robin doesn't think it's

Spoiler

B or C

. She's torn between

Spoiler

A and D

. She's going to go with

Spoiler

A

--she suddenly changes her mind and goes with

Spoiler

C

.

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Narcissist
Question Value: $1,000 doubled to $2,000
Bank: $9,100

If Robin suddenly remembered the definition of narcissist, I wish she had said something about that. As it was, it seemed like she might have heard something shouted out from the audience.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #6 - Level 6: Adult Stories
With an expletive in the title, Adam Mansbach's new "children's book for adults" focuses on trying to get a child to do what?

A: Sleep B: Eat
C: Wake up D: Be quiet

Robin begins to say an answer, then she pauses and says she'll walk away.

Meredith: Is that a final?

Robin: Not yet! Not yet. [Mumbling over the choices some more.] I'm going to say--

Meredith: I've got some expletives for you.

Meredith: I'm teasing you! I'm teasing you!

Robin: Okay. I'm gonna say--I'm gonna go with--ummm. I'm just gonna walk. Final answer.

Robin walks with $4,550.

Answer

A: Sleep

I think I ran across an ad for this book and linked to it here in some thread, this summer. But I don't think the book has gotten nearly enough publicity to make this only a level 6 question.

Spoiler

I thought there was discussion on bored about this book...or maybe it was on FaceBook.

MatiasMom E-mailed the text to all her friends and family.

Just if you're interested to know, Q5 and Q6 were edited down somewhat from the in-studio experience. Hard luck for Robin not to get a different stack!

vtown7 wrote:Just if you're interested to know, Q5 and Q6 were edited down somewhat from the in-studio experience. Hard luck for Robin not to get a different stack!

So either there was improper intervention from someone in the audience or TPTB edited the tape to make it appear that way.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Double Your Money Week

Robin Dove-Franklin
Ardmore, PA

Robin didn't want her kids to know she'd be on the show, because they're so selfish and would want things for themselves. She did tell them before she left, and they started acting up right away.

Robin's husband, Dominic, is in the audience.

I'd like to hear from Chad about her - she seemed a little flustered from the very start and I'm not sure she ever got her "game legs" so to speak.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #1 - Level 5: I Love the '70s
Invented in 1968, the "Fuzzbuster" was one of the earliest models of what?

A: Electric razor B: Answering machine
C: Weed trimmer D: Radar detector

Robin begins saying that she's going to go with

Spoiler

A

, before saying she's not sure. She jumps the question.

Answer/Value/Bank

D: Radar detector
Question Value: $2,000
Bank: $0

She even commented that it couldn't be the radar detector. Perhaps the term "fuzz" meaning police has gone out of style.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #3 - Level 7: Start Me Up
Programmer Jim Reekes claims he created the famous C-major chord heard when what brand of computer starts up?

A: Dell B: Hewlett-Packard
C: Macintosh D: IBM

Robin jumps the question.

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Macintosh
Question Value: $15,000
Bank: $100

Since Dell, HP and IBM all are Wintel systems and thus start up with the same tone (depending upon the OS, of course), the only one it could be is C.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #4 - Level 1: Sharing Rooms
In home design, a bathroom that's connected to two different bedrooms is commonly given what nickname?

A: Mutt-and-Jeff B: Jack-and-Jill
C: Mom-and-Pop D: Calvin-and-Hobbes

Robin asks the audience.

ATA

A: 5% B: 90% C: 5% D: 0%

Answer/Value/Bank

B: Jack-and-Jill
Question Value: $7,000
Bank: $7,100

I guess I've never lived in a home that had one of these because I've never heard the term. I'd JTQ because I couldn't be sure the audience would know it, either. Turns out they did.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #5 - Level 4: Mental Note (DOUBLE MONEY)
Showing a woman hugging herself, the cover story of the August 2011 issue of Psychology Today is "How to Spot a" what?

A: Existentialist B: Pessimist
C: Narcissist D: Nihilist

Robin doesn't think it's

Spoiler

B or C

. She's torn between

Spoiler

A and D

. She's going to go with

Spoiler

A

--she suddenly changes her mind and goes with

Spoiler

C

.

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Narcissist
Question Value: $1,000 doubled to $2,000
Bank: $9,100

I would love to know what she was thinking on this question. Once again she pretty much ruled out the right answer but then ended up going for it.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #6 - Level 6: Adult Stories
With an expletive in the title, Adam Mansbach's new "children's book for adults" focuses on trying to get a child to do what?

A: Sleep B: Eat
C: Wake up D: Be quiet

Robin begins to say an answer, then she pauses and says she'll walk away.

Meredith: Is that a final?

Robin: Not yet! Not yet. [Mumbling over the choices some more.] I'm going to say--

Meredith: I've got some expletives for you.

Meredith: I'm teasing you! I'm teasing you!

Robin: Okay. I'm gonna say--I'm gonna go with--ummm. I'm just gonna walk. Final answer.

Robin walks with $4,550.

Answer

A: Sleep

I believe this was discussed here on the Bored when it was published. Isn't there an audio version read by Morgan Freeman? Or am I only imagining that?

earendel wrote:I believe this was discussed here on the Bored when it was published. Isn't there an audio version read by Morgan Freeman? Or am I only imagining that?

Samuel L. Jackson. Also, Werner Herzog.

-M

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: Question #3 - Level 7: Start Me Up
Programmer Jim Reekes claims he created the famous C-major chord heard when what brand of computer starts up?

A: Dell B: Hewlett-Packard
C: Macintosh D: IBM

Robin jumps the question.

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Macintosh
Question Value: $15,000
Bank: $100

This question would have confused me, because the chord for my Mac is F major, not C major. I wonder if it used to be C major. Not that it would have made a difference in her case.

JBillyGirl wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: Question #3 - Level 7: Start Me Up
Programmer Jim Reekes claims he created the famous C-major chord heard when what brand of computer starts up?

A: Dell B: Hewlett-Packard
C: Macintosh D: IBM

Robin jumps the question.

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Macintosh
Question Value: $15,000
Bank: $100

This question would have confused me, because the chord for my Mac is F major, not C major. I wonder if it used to be C major. Not that it would have made a difference in her case.

Ah, a musician who can argue about the chords! (I can't.)

Wikipedia says you may be right:

The Macintosh startup chime is the single note or chord (depending on model type) played when an Apple Macintosh computer is turned on. The sound indicates that diagnostic tests run immediately at startup have found no hardware or fundamental software problems[1].

Mark Lentczner created the code for the arpeggiated chord used on the Macintosh II. Variations of this sound were used until Jim Reekes created the startup chime used on most Macintoshes since the Quadra 840AV.[2] Reekes said, "The startup sound was done in my home studio on a Korg Wavestation. It's a C major chord, played with both hands stretched out as wide as possible (with 3rd at the top, if I recall)." The Macintosh LC, LC II, and Macintosh Classic II use an F major chord instead of C major. The first generation of Power Macintosh computers do not use the Reekes chime, instead using a chord strummed on a Yamaha 12-string acoustic guitar by jazz guitarist Stanley Jordan. Also, the Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh features a variant of the chime not used on any other Macintosh model.

MarleysGh0st wrote:

vtown7 wrote:Just if you're interested to know, Q5 and Q6 were edited down somewhat from the in-studio experience. Hard luck for Robin not to get a different stack!

So either there was improper intervention from someone in the audience or TPTB edited the tape to may it appear that way.

I figured she used the 4th lifeline.

ulysses5019 wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:
I think I ran across an ad for this book and linked to it here in some thread, this summer. But I don't think the book has gotten nearly enough publicity to make this only a level 6 question.

Spoiler

I thought there was discussion on bored about this book...or maybe it was on FaceBook.

Y'all need to read my f***ing posts.

http://wwtbambored.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=34694

Appa23 wrote:Y'all need to read my f***ing posts.

http://wwtbambored.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=34694

Why? Aside from the "video that is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Audible, Inc." there's nothing to read.

I still think I posted a link to the book sometime this summer, but the search function isn't helping me find it.

earendel wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #4 - Level 1: Sharing Rooms
In home design, a bathroom that's connected to two different bedrooms is commonly given what nickname?

A: Mutt-and-Jeff B: Jack-and-Jill
C: Mom-and-Pop D: Calvin-and-Hobbes

Robin asks the audience.

ATA

A: 5% B: 90% C: 5% D: 0%

Answer/Value/Bank

B: Jack-and-Jill
Question Value: $7,000
Bank: $7,100

I guess I've never lived in a home that had one of these because I've never heard the term. I'd JTQ because I couldn't be sure the audience would know it, either. Turns out they did.

So, based on your logic, you think 90% of the audience has lived in homes that had such a bathroom?

Estonut wrote:

earendel wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #4 - Level 1: Sharing Rooms
In home design, a bathroom that's connected to two different bedrooms is commonly given what nickname?

A: Mutt-and-Jeff B: Jack-and-Jill
C: Mom-and-Pop D: Calvin-and-Hobbes

Robin asks the audience.

ATA

A: 5% B: 90% C: 5% D: 0%

Answer/Value/Bank

B: Jack-and-Jill
Question Value: $7,000
Bank: $7,100

I guess I've never lived in a home that had one of these because I've never heard the term. I'd JTQ because I couldn't be sure the audience would know it, either. Turns out they did.

So, based on your logic, you think 90% of the audience has lived in homes that had such a bathroom?

No, 90% of the audience had heard the term. I have no idea how many actually live in one.

Nice to see you still have your pointy stick and aren't afraid to use it.

earendel wrote:

Estonut wrote:

earendel wrote:I guess I've never lived in a home that had one of these because I've never heard the term. I'd JTQ because I couldn't be sure the audience would know it, either. Turns out they did.

So, based on your logic, you think 90% of the audience has lived in homes that had such a bathroom?

No, 90% of the audience had heard the term. I have no idea how many actually live in one.

Nice to see you still have your pointy stick and aren't afraid to use it.

You said "I guess I've never lived in a home that had one of these because I've never heard the term." The implication there is that, other than to have lived in such a house, there would have been no way for you to have heard of this term. I was wondering if you thought there was no other way that 90% of the audience would have heard of it, either.