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Mark Chase
San Francisco, CA
911 emergency dispatcher

Meredith thanks Mark for what he does every day.

Topic Tree: (randomized)
College Radio
Famous Last Names
Gender Bender
Big Business [DOUBLE MONEY question]
Cell Phones Off
Mythical Sightings
Cracking the Code
Sticker Shock
Spinning Round
Popular Lyrics

Question #1 (Popular Lyrics)
Which of these words is not in the first stanza of our national anthem?
A - light
B - sight
C - fight
D - night

Mark speaks the first two lines and observes that

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light

is definitely there. He can't eliminate any of the others so he decides to ask the audience.

ATA results

A - 3%
B - 49%
C - 39%
D - 9%

Meredith asks if he can say it out loud. He gets through to

Spoiler

"perilous fight"

and stops. The audience applauds and Meredith says, "Aren't you glad you learned the national anthem as a kid?"

Spoiler

Answer: C (sight)
Value: $25,000
Bank: $25,000

After the answer is revealed David turns around to say something. Meredith asks who he was addressing and David says, "My brother Kathy..." then stops, looking embarrassed. "It's my sister Kathy and my brother Mike."

Question #2 (Spinning Round)
What snack shares its name with a popular car maneuver in which the driver causes his car to make sharp 360-degree turns?
A - muffin
B - donut
C - waffle
D - pancake

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Answer: B (donut)
Value: $500
Bank: $25,500

commercial break

Question #3 (Sticker Shock)
In 2011, a Tulsa man was shocked to find that his set of Chinese cups was worth $1.5 million, the highest appraisal ever for what TV show?
A - American Pickers
B - Cash in the Attic
C - Pawn Stars
D - Antiques Roadshow

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Answer: D (Antiques Roadshow)
Value: $3,000
Bank: $28,500

Question #4 (Cracking the Code)
Well-known to avid video gamers, the key sequence "up up down down left right left right B A Start" is a "cheat code" known as what?
A - Atari code
B - Bandai code
C - Capcom code
D - Konami code

David isn't a gamer so he's going to jump the question.

Spoiler

Answer: D (Konami code)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $28,500 (unchanged)

Question #5 (Mythical Sightings)
In 1493, Christopher Columbus mistook three manatees for what mythical creatures, saying they were "not as beautiful as they are painted"?
A - mermaids
B - vampires
C - dragons
D - elves

"Well, using my great powers of deduction

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mermaids swim and manatees are in the water.

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Answer: A (mermaids)
Value: $5,000
Bank: $33,500

Question #6 (Cell Phones Off)
The setting on many smartphones and laptops that turns off their automatic wireless connections is known as what?
A - helicopter mode
B - subway mode
C - airplane mode
D - automobile mode

David says that in a previous life he was a

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flight attendant

so that works out very well.

Spoiler

Answer: C (airplane mode)
Value: $100
Bank: $33,600

Question #7 (Big Business) [DOUBLE MONEY question]
Taking its name from the Sanskrit word "veda" meaning "knowledge", Aveda is a leading brand of what?
A - jewelry
B - athletic apparel
C - beauty products
D - sunglasses

Spoiler

Answer: C (beauty products)
Value: $10,000 (doubled to $20,000)
Bank: $53,600

commercial break

Question #8 (Gender Bender)
What symbolic male has become a trendy adjective used to describe menswear-inspired clothing for ladies?
A - boyfriend
B - dad
C - brother
D - nephew

David doesn't hesitate to answer the question.

Spoiler

Answer: A (boyfriend)
Value: $2,000
Bank: $55,600

Question #9 (Famous Last Names)
Translating from Greek to mean "the father-loving goddess" what were cleopatra's last names?
A - Theo Philopater
B - Eleni Ptolemy
C - Alexis Caesar
D - Melanie Koteas

It doesn't make sense to David that it would be

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Alexis Caesar and Melanie seems like a very modern name to him.

He can narrow it down to two and he doesn't want to take the chance so he jumps the question.

Spoiler

Answer: A (Theo Philopater)
Value: $15,000
Bank: $55,600 (unchanged)

Question #10 (College Radio)
The classical college radio station KBYU is located in what U.S. state?
A - New Hampshire
B - Mississippi
C - Utah
D - Indiana

"Let's assume that

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BYU is for Brigham Young University, which would be in Utah.

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Answer: C (Utah)
Value: $1,000
Bank: $56,600

commercial break

Mark studied Latin American Studies in college and he would like to take a motorcycle trip through South America.

CLASSIC MILLIONAIRE

$100K - Eleven years before Led Zeppelin released their classic song "Stairway to Heaven," what crooner had a Billboard hit with the same name?
A - Paul Anka
B - Neil Sedaka
C - Pat Boone
D - Bobby Darin

This is a little before Mark's time. He could narrow it down a little but not enough to take the risk so he walks away.

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B (Neil Sedaka)

Mark walks away with his bank of $56,600.

Question #1 (Popular Lyrics)
Which of these words is not in the first stanza of our national anthem?
A - light
B - sight
C - fight
D - night

Mark speaks the first two lines and observes that

Spoiler

light

is definitely there. He can't eliminate any of the others so he decides to ask the audience.

ATA results

A - 3%
B - 49%
C - 39%
D - 9%

Meredith asks if he can say it out loud. He gets through to

Spoiler

"perilous fight"

and stops. The audience applauds and Meredith says, "Aren't you glad you learned the national anthem as a kid?"

Spoiler

Answer: C (sight)
Value: $25,000
Bank: $25,000

I learned all four stanzas in the fifth grade but can remember only the first and maybe the fourth now. Oh, say, can you see by the dawn's early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight o'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Whew! Sight!

Let's try the fourth --
Oh, thus be it ever when free men shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war's desolation.
. . .
And conquer we must when our cause it is just
And this be our motto, "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Question #2 (Spinning Round)
What snack shares its name with a popular car maneuver in which the driver causes his car to make sharp 360-degree turns?
A - muffin
B - donut
C - waffle
D - pancake

Spoiler

Answer: B (donut)
Value: $500
Bank: $25,500

Spinning donies is easy in mall parking lots at 2 a.m. during a big snowstorm. (Speaking from experience.) Just don't hit a light pole. (Not speaking from experience, but it made the front page when a cop did it.)

Question #4 (Cracking the Code)
Well-known to avid video gamers, the key sequence "up up down down left right left right B A Start" is a "cheat code" known as what?
A - Atari code
B - Bandai code
C - Capcom code
D - Konami code

David isn't a gamer so he's going to jump the question.

Spoiler

Answer: D (Konami code)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $28,500 (unchanged)

Would the audience know this? I guess I'd try them. I never heard of it, that I know of. If they don't, JTQ.

Question #9 (Famous Last Names)
Translating from Greek to mean "the father-loving goddess" what were cleopatra's last names?
A - Theo Philopater
B - Eleni Ptolemy
C - Alexis Caesar
D - Melanie Koteas

It doesn't make sense to David that it would be

Spoiler

Alexis Caesar and Melanie seems like a very modern name to him.

He can narrow it down to two and he doesn't want to take the chance so he jumps the question.

Spoiler

Answer: A (Theo Philopater)
Value: $15,000
Bank: $55,600 (unchanged)

This one is a bit unnerving. I thought she was a Ptolemy, but hopefully I would have read the question carefully. Theo Philopater is the only one that would translate to "father-loving goddess."

$100K - Eleven years before Led Zeppelin released their classic song "Stairway to Heaven," what crooner had a Billboard hit with the same name?
A - Paul Anka
B - Neil Sedaka
C - Pat Boone
D - Bobby Darin

This is a little before Mark's time. He could narrow it down a little but not enough to take the risk so he walks away.

Spoiler

B (Neil Sedaka)

Second JTQ.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #1 (Popular Lyrics)
Which of these words is not in the first stanza of our national anthem?
A - light
B - sight
C - fight
D - night

Mark speaks the first two lines and observes that

Spoiler

light

is definitely there. He can't eliminate any of the others so he decides to ask the audience.

ATA results

A - 3%
B - 49%
C - 39%
D - 9%

Meredith asks if he can say it out loud. He gets through to

Spoiler

"perilous fight"

and stops. The audience applauds and Meredith says, "Aren't you glad you learned the national anthem as a kid?"

Spoiler

Answer: C (sight)
Value: $25,000
Bank: $25,000

So he did have that knowledge in his memory and he could have saved the ATA if he'd taken his time. (I'd have continued through the stanza until I'd covered all three words, though.)

SportsFan68 wrote:

Question #4 (Cracking the Code)
Well-known to avid video gamers, the key sequence "up up down down left right left right B A Start" is a "cheat code" known as what?
A - Atari code
B - Bandai code
C - Capcom code
D - Konami code

David isn't a gamer so he's going to jump the question.

Spoiler

Answer: D (Konami code)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $28,500 (unchanged)

Would the audience know this? I guess I'd try them. I never heard of it, that I know of. If they don't, JTQ.

Well, I didn't know it. I like turn-based computer games, but not so much the video games that require high speed coordination of all those controller buttons. I think the ATA result would depend on the audience trending younger than it typically is.

SportsFan68 wrote: Spinning donies is easy in mall parking lots at 2 a.m. during a big snowstorm. (Speaking from experience.) Just don't hit a light pole. (Not speaking from experience, but it made the front page when a cop did it.)

I did donuts as a teenager but I didn't particularly enjoy it so I haven't done it since. My fave donut story (I don't know if I told it here before or not): More years ago than I care to admit, I was living just outside Memphis, TN and they had their biggest snowstorm in decades. We were very chummy with several of the neighbors in our apartment building and my ex (from Maine) and a friend (from PA) decided to take another friend out to "do donuts". Of course, being from SoCal he had no clue what they were talking about. They assured him it was fun and he would enjoy the surprise. They all went out to the Wal-Mart parking lot and proceeded. The poor guy turned white as a sheet and started screaming "You guys are crazy, CRAZY!!!!", all the while my ex and friend laughing hysterically as he begged to be let out. Afterwards he was able to laugh about it so it was all good.

vettech wrote:

SportsFan68 wrote: Spinning donies is easy in mall parking lots at 2 a.m. during a big snowstorm. (Speaking from experience.) Just don't hit a light pole. (Not speaking from experience, but it made the front page when a cop did it.)

I did donuts as a teenager but I didn't particularly enjoy it so I haven't done it since. My fave donut story (I don't know if I told it here before or not): More years ago than I care to admit, I was living just outside Memphis, TN and they had their biggest snowstorm in decades. We were very chummy with several of the neighbors in our apartment building and my ex (from Maine) and a friend (from PA) decided to take another friend out to "do donuts". Of course, being from SoCal he had no clue what they were talking about. They assured him it was fun and he would enjoy the surprise. They all went out to the Wal-Mart parking lot and proceeded. The poor guy turned white as a sheet and started screaming "You guys are crazy, CRAZY!!!!", all the while my ex and friend laughing hysterically as he begged to be let out. Afterwards he was able to laugh about it so it was all good.

Yep, lots of folkses from SoCal last one winter in Colorado. They move back in April.

One of the best things that can happen to you the first winter you learn to drive around here is to hit the brakes same as you have been when you started driving in July. And nothing happens.

This assumes you don't kill or maim anybody, including yourself, or put your car into the ditch requiring a tow truck. Many parents do take their younguns out to the mall parking lot, not at 2 a.m., but late enough for the lot to be mostly deserted, and teach them to drive in snow as if there's an egg on the brake pedal and accelerator and to steer in the direction of the skid until you come out of it -- pretty scary for most kids until they learn the technique. A couple of our dinner guests Thursday were talking about their experiences with steering a loaded semi backwards down a steep snow-packed highway. Ack!

vettech wrote:We were very chummy with several of the neighbors in our apartment building and my ex (from Maine) and a friend (from PA) decided to take another friend out to "do donuts". Of course, being from SoCal he had no clue what they were talking about.

Excuse me, but your SoCal friend was just clueless. We know what it means to "do donuts," we just don't need snow to do it.

Estonut wrote:

vettech wrote:We were very chummy with several of the neighbors in our apartment building and my ex (from Maine) and a friend (from PA) decided to take another friend out to "do donuts". Of course, being from SoCal he had no clue what they were talking about.

Excuse me, but your SoCal friend was just clueless. We know what it means to "do donuts," we just don't need snow to do it.

Maybe San Francisco has too steep streets?

Bob Juch wrote:

Estonut wrote:

vettech wrote:We were very chummy with several of the neighbors in our apartment building and my ex (from Maine) and a friend (from PA) decided to take another friend out to "do donuts". Of course, being from SoCal he had no clue what they were talking about.

Excuse me, but your SoCal friend was just clueless. We know what it means to "do donuts," we just don't need snow to do it.

Maybe San Francisco has too steep streets?

What does that have to do with doing donuts in SoCal?

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Mark Chase
San Francisco, CA
911 emergency dispatcher

Meredith thanks Mark for what he does every day.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #1 (Popular Lyrics)
Which of these words is not in the first stanza of our national anthem?
A - light
B - sight
C - fight
D - night

Mark speaks the first two lines and observes that

Spoiler

light

is definitely there. He can't eliminate any of the others so he decides to ask the audience.

ATA results

A - 3%
B - 49%
C - 39%
D - 9%

Meredith asks if he can say it out loud. He gets through to

Spoiler

"perilous fight"

and stops. The audience applauds and Meredith says, "Aren't you glad you learned the national anthem as a kid?"

Spoiler

Answer: C (sight)
Value: $25,000
Bank: $25,000

He should have taken the time to go through the whole stanza himself rather than use the lifeline.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #2 (Spinning Round)
What snack shares its name with a popular car maneuver in which the driver causes his car to make sharp 360-degree turns?
A - muffin
B - donut
C - waffle
D - pancake

Spoiler

Answer: B (donut)
Value: $500
Bank: $25,500

On last night's TAR the competitors had to do "victory donuts" after a run in a high-performance Ford Mustang.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #4 (Cracking the Code)
Well-known to avid video gamers, the key sequence "up up down down left right left right B A Start" is a "cheat code" known as what?
A - Atari code
B - Bandai code
C - Capcom code
D - Konami code

David isn't a gamer so he's going to jump the question.

Spoiler

Answer: D (Konami code)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $28,500 (unchanged)

I'm not an avid gamer either, so I JTQ.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #7 (Big Business) [DOUBLE MONEY question]
Taking its name from the Sanskrit word "veda" meaning "knowledge", Aveda is a leading brand of what?
A - jewelry
B - athletic apparel
C - beauty products
D - sunglasses

Spoiler

Answer: C (beauty products)
Value: $10,000 (doubled to $20,000)
Bank: $53,600

There's a local company named Aveda that specializes in hearing aids.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #8 (Gender Bender)
What symbolic male has become a trendy adjective used to describe menswear-inspired clothing for ladies?
A - boyfriend
B - dad
C - brother
D - nephew

David doesn't hesitate to answer the question.

Spoiler

Answer: A (boyfriend)
Value: $2,000
Bank: $55,600

Absolutely no idea, but it seems like something the audience would know so I'll use ATA.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #9 (Famous Last Names)
Translating from Greek to mean "the father-loving goddess" what were cleopatra's last names?
A - Theo Philopater
B - Eleni Ptolemy
C - Alexis Caesar
D - Melanie Koteas

It doesn't make sense to David that it would be

Spoiler

Alexis Caesar and Melanie seems like a very modern name to him.

He can narrow it down to two and he doesn't want to take the chance so he jumps the question.

Spoiler

Answer: A (Theo Philopater)
Value: $15,000
Bank: $55,600 (unchanged)

Easy-peasy. Technically she was Cleopatra VII Theo Philopater.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$100K - Eleven years before Led Zeppelin released their classic song "Stairway to Heaven," what crooner had a Billboard hit with the same name?
A - Paul Anka
B - Neil Sedaka
C - Pat Boone
D - Bobby Darin

This is a little before Mark's time. He could narrow it down a little but not enough to take the risk so he walks away.

Spoiler

B (Neil Sedaka)

Mark walks away with his bank of $56,600.

I don't think of any of those singers as "crooners", except maybe Pat Boone. I still have a JTQ remaining so I'll use it here.

Estonut wrote:

vettech wrote:We were very chummy with several of the neighbors in our apartment building and my ex (from Maine) and a friend (from PA) decided to take another friend out to "do donuts". Of course, being from SoCal he had no clue what they were talking about.

Excuse me, but your SoCal friend was just clueless. We know what it means to "do donuts," we just don't need snow to do it.

I do my donuts at B&B in Fullerton.

earendel wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #9 (Famous Last Names)
Translating from Greek to mean "the father-loving goddess" what were cleopatra's last names?
A - Theo Philopater
B - Eleni Ptolemy
C - Alexis Caesar
D - Melanie Koteas

It doesn't make sense to David that it would be

Spoiler

Alexis Caesar and Melanie seems like a very modern name to him.

He can narrow it down to two and he doesn't want to take the chance so he jumps the question.

Spoiler

Answer: A (Theo Philopater)
Value: $15,000
Bank: $55,600 (unchanged)

Easy-peasy. Technically she was Cleopatra VII Theo Philopater.

Technically, she was Cleopatra VII Thea Philopater.

Estonut wrote:

earendel wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #9 (Famous Last Names)
Translating from Greek to mean "the father-loving goddess" what were cleopatra's last names?
A - Theo Philopater
B - Eleni Ptolemy
C - Alexis Caesar
D - Melanie Koteas

It doesn't make sense to David that it would be

Spoiler

Alexis Caesar and Melanie seems like a very modern name to him.

He can narrow it down to two and he doesn't want to take the chance so he jumps the question.

Spoiler

Answer: A (Theo Philopater)
Value: $15,000
Bank: $55,600 (unchanged)

Easy-peasy. Technically she was Cleopatra VII Theo Philopater.

Technically, she was Cleopatra VII Thea Philopater.

I'll give him that Thea might be a skosh obscure, but aren't philo and pater pretty common roots? Like 'the anglophile was disappointed that the ginger didn't take a paternity test'?

I can see somebody just looking at the question, immediately thinks "ACK! Ancient Macedonian shit!!!1" and freaking, but dude seemed to have it together enough to reason out two for elimination. (Just going by the transcript, as I didn't see the show.)

Cripes, reading the question more closely, they even spotted him the Greek part of it, thereby eliminating possible Egyptian confusion...

SportsFan68 wrote:I learned all four stanzas in the fifth grade but can remember only the first and maybe the fourth now. Oh, say, can you see by the dawn's early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight o'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Whew! Sight!

Let's try the fourth --
Oh, thus be it ever when free men shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war's desolation.
. . .
And conquer we must when our cause it is just
And this be our motto, "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Took me a little while, but I was finally able to recall the missing lines:

Blessed with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land
Praise the Pow'r that hath made and preserved us as a nation.

(I think the next line begins with "Then," not "And.") --Bob

Estonut wrote:

vettech wrote:We were very chummy with several of the neighbors in our apartment building and my ex (from Maine) and a friend (from PA) decided to take another friend out to "do donuts". Of course, being from SoCal he had no clue what they were talking about.

Excuse me, but your SoCal friend was just clueless. We know what it means to "do donuts," we just don't need snow to do it.

vettech wrote:

Estonut wrote:

vettech wrote:We were very chummy with several of the neighbors in our apartment building and my ex (from Maine) and a friend (from PA) decided to take another friend out to "do donuts". Of course, being from SoCal he had no clue what they were talking about.

Excuse me, but your SoCal friend was just clueless. We know what it means to "do donuts," we just don't need snow to do it.

From last night's TAR, it's clear the Belgians don't, either.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #4 (Cracking the Code)
Well-known to avid video gamers, the key sequence "up up down down left right left right B A Start" is a "cheat code" known as what?
A - Atari code
B - Bandai code
C - Capcom code
D - Konami code

David isn't a gamer so he's going to jump the question.

Spoiler

Answer: D (Konami code)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $28,500 (unchanged)

Last Friady, somebody posted a clip of this question on YouTube. Gamers are going nuts commenting about the question.



A gaming site has noticed, comparing that video to new ones of three Konami employees competing at the London Olympics, with one winning a Gold Medal.

http://www.gamesasylum.com/2012/08/05/k ... -news-bad/

Currently the video for the WWTBAM question blunder has more views than Kohei Uchimura’s superlative gymnastic skills. Clearly more people like watching videos of people failing in life, rather than succeeding.