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Play It Forward Week

Melanie Moon and Rich Gould
KPLR-11, St. Louis
Playing for Variety, the Children’s Charity
Guaranteed $5,000 for their charity.

Topic Tree (randomized):
Where in the World
America the Beautiful
Maze Emergency
Celebrity Children
Paint Who You Know
Italian Astronomy
Vets
Kitchen Character
You Bug Me
Twitter Day

Question 1 - Twitter Day

In 2011, Diddy tweeted to his fans "What is YOUR dream??????" on what U.S. holiday?

A: Independence Day B: Columbus Day
C: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day D: St. Patrick's Day

Spoiler

Rich remembers "I have a dream."

Answer and value

C: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Value: $15,000
Bank: $15,000

Question 2 - You Bug Me

The wingless females of what kind of bugs are known as glowworms?

A: Grasshoppers B: Fireflies
C: Ladybugs D: Gypsy moths

Spoiler

Greg knows the first 3 have wings. Gypsy moths he's not sure about. Melanie wonders if grasshoppers really have wings. Meredith rereads the "glowworms" part.

They jump the question like a (wingless?) grasshopper.

Answer and value

B: Fireflies
Value: $25,000
Bank: $15,000

Question 3 - Kitchen Character

In addition to being a negative sounding name, which of the following could you store food in?

A: Doubting Thomas B: Sloppy Joe
C: Lazy Susan D: Nervous Nellie

Spoiler

Rich has eaten sloppy Joes ("as you can tell") and he's fallen asleep in a lazy Susan. He thinks it's Doubting Thomas, what do you think, Melanie?

"There's a lazy Susan you put in your cabinets [she twirls her finger on the table in demonstration] to put boxes on. I think a doubting Thomas is just someone who doubts."

Answer and value

C: Lazy Susan
Value: $7,000
Bank: $22,000

Question 4 - Vets

Meaning "to check for weaknesses or flaws," the verb "to vet" origniated from what longer word?

A: Vetch B: Veterinarian
C: Veteran D: Veto

Spoiler

The eliminate Veterinarian. Vetch sounds good to them. A, FInal answer.

Answer and value

B: Veterinarian

Rich and Melanie's charity gets $5,000

I wasn't real impressed with these 2, but I'd have gone out exactly the same way. Judge not, lest ye be judged.

I still have the missing Wednesdays on my DVR.

-M

themanwho wrote:I wasn't real impressed with these 2, but I'd have gone out exactly the same way. Judge not, lest ye be judged.

I still have the missing Wednesdays on my DVR.

-M

If you can do the 11/9 and last two contestants from 11/23, please do so. I'm not sure anyone else has the 11/9.

Here we go, even more commentary from the audience.

Interesting aesthetic note, there was almost going to be a 6th episode of this week if these people had not lost, which was going to be a 4th episode on the day. They actually raffled off the iPod and iPad as incentives to keep us around.

GOOD LORD THAT QUESTION WAS A NIGHTMARE TO SIT THROUGH. I have no idea if this showed or not, but they seriously almost went with ladybug for awhile....because they thought ladybugs were associated with being female. ....my jaw literally dropped, and the audience in my section was absolutely restless, as was I, but more quietly than them. I just...couldn't believe it.

That's all I have to say really, because this run WAS really short. I failed at the same point that they did, though I would have jumped I think.

Way to do The Lou proud!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

lb13

littlebeast13 wrote:Way to do The Lou proud!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

lb13

Wow. I should have checked my Doubting Thomas for the missing nutmeg yesterday...

I'm guessing they were hired for their looks. The local newspaper columnists here call the TV people News Actors/Actresses...

minimetoo26 wrote:

littlebeast13 wrote:Way to do The Lou proud!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

lb13

Wow. I should have checked my Doubting Thomas for the missing nutmeg yesterday...

I'm guessing they were hired for their looks. The local newspaper columnists here call the TV people News Actors/Actresses...

I don't know about Moon.... Fanny seems to remember her from a famous stalking case in another city, so she's just a transplant and probably fits the TV News Actress role well. But Gould..... he's been the sports guy at Channel 11 for as long as I can remember, which is unfortunately a looong time. I think he's just dumb as a box of rocks....

lb13

littlebeast13 wrote:Way to do The Lou proud!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

lb13

That's what you get when celeb contestants don't have to take the written test!

Here's a report on Rich and Melanie's appearance.

http://www.kplr11.com/news/ktvi-moon-go ... 1196.story

Gould and Moon won $5,000 for "Variety The Children's Charity" here in St. Louis, an organization that helps families with special needs children pay for everything from braces, wheelchairs and other items that insurance can't cover.

There a video accompanying the story, which I haven't bothered watching, but the text article doesn't bother mentioning that the $5,000 was the minimum guaranteed for these celebs. Not exactly a performance to make them "game show stars".

I have met Rich a few times at work. He's really a nice guy. I wish they won more money for the Variety Club.

Ray

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Play It Forward Week

Melanie Moon and Rich Gould
KPLR-11, St. Louis
Playing for Variety, the Children’s Charity
Guaranteed $5,000 for their charity.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 2 - You Bug Me

The wingless females of what kind of bugs are known as glowworms?

A: Grasshoppers B: Fireflies
C: Ladybugs D: Gypsy moths

Spoiler

Greg knows the first 3 have wings. Gypsy moths he's not sure about. Melanie wonders if grasshoppers really have wings. Meredith rereads the "glowworms" part.

They jump the question like a (wingless?) grasshopper.

Answer and value

B: Fireflies
Value: $25,000
Bank: $15,000

I can't believe they couldn't figure this one out.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 4 - Vets

Meaning "to check for weaknesses or flaws," the verb "to vet" origniated from what longer word?

A: Vetch B: Veterinarian
C: Veteran D: Veto

Spoiler

The eliminate Veterinarian. Vetch sounds good to them. A, FInal answer.

Answer and value

B: Veterinarian

Rich and Melanie's charity gets $5,000

I wouldn't have thought it was "veterinarian" and I don't think the audience will know this, so I'll JTQ.

earendel wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 4 - Vets

Meaning "to check for weaknesses or flaws," the verb "to vet" origniated from what longer word?

A: Vetch B: Veterinarian
C: Veteran D: Veto

Spoiler

The eliminate Veterinarian. Vetch sounds good to them. A, FInal answer.

Answer and value

B: Veterinarian

Rich and Melanie's charity gets $5,000

I wouldn't have thought it was "veterinarian" and I don't think the audience will know this, so I'll JTQ.

I certainly didn't know this.