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Kathryn Shrader
New York, NY

Has a degree in theater, so there is more pressure on her to get the "Broadway" question right
Says she waits tables to make ends meet while deciding on a career
$11,000 banked, one lifeline (JTQ) remaining

Topic Tree: (randomized)

Famous Sitters
Sports Quotes
Great Names
Poetic Payback
BROADWAY
Over Eating
It’s Elemental
$1,000
$10,000
(jumped)

Question 4 - It’s Elemental
Besides Uranus, which of these other planets has an element named after it?
A. Saturn B. Neptune
C. Mars D. Jupiter

(audience laughs at Mere's pronunciation of Uranus) Mere: Really, just a little decorum please.

JTQ

Kathryn said her father is a chemist but she flunked chemistry in high school, because she did not care enough to study much.
She tried "Saturnium or Neptunium" and none sounded right.
She said she does not know, does not want to jump it but feels she has to.

Answer and value

B. Neptune (Mere gave Kathryn credit for mentioning the element name)
Value: $5000 jumped
Bank: $11000

Question 5 - Over Eating
A common term in the competitive eating world, the condition of profusely sweating due to overconsumption is known as what?
A. Meat sweats B. Vegetable sweats
C. Bread sweats D. Dairy sweats

Answer and value

A. Meat sweats
Value: $2000
Bank: $13000

Question 6 - BROADWAY
In a smash Broadway hit that opened in 2001, Matthew Broderick performed the song "I Wanna Be a" what?
A. Spamalot B. Mamma Mia!
C. Man of La Mancha D. Producer

Answer and value

D. Producer
Value: $100
Bank: $13100

Kathryn chose row 5 for the Mary Poppins tickets. Mere told them to cancel any other plans for tonight.

Question 7 - Poetic Payback
In an act of poetic revenge, what Italian politician wrote an epic work in which his enemies were conveniently placed in hell?
A. Dante Alighieri B. Lorenzo de'Medici
C. Francis of Assisi D. Carlo Collodi

Spoiler

Kathryn is familiar with Dante's "Inferno" She said seven circles of Hell and immediately corrected it to nine.

Answer and value

A. Dante Alighieri
Value: $500
Bank: $13600

Question 8 - Great Names
Which of the following is the name of Kate Middleton's sister and not a product sold at IKEA?
A. Klippan B. Pippa
C. Vreta D. Kulla

Spoiler

Audience laughed and Kathryn said she knew the name of Kate Middleton's sister and added we all know find out more about (Pippa) than we want to know about her.

Answer and value

B. Pippa
Value: $7000 (Mere added that we are making Kathryn work for her money)
Bank: $20600

Commercial

Question 9- Sports Quotes
What sport was David Letterman talking about when he said that he missed "the pine tar, the resin, the grass, the dirt -- and that's just in the hot dogs"?
A. Baseball B. Football
C. Basketball D. Soccer

Spoiler

Kathryn associated hot dogs with baseball, said she is not much of a sports person, but went with it.

Answer and value

A. Baseball
Value: $3000 (slight Awww because it was not $25K)
Bank: $23600

Question 10 - Famous Sitters
What future music star was Paula Abdul's babysitter when she was seven years old?
A. Kenny Loggins B. Gene Simmons
C. Michael Bolton D. Prince

Spoiler

Kathryn says Gene Simmons is sticking out to her even though it is not his real name.
Mere gives Kathryn's options:
- Walk with $11,800
- get it right and gain her entire bank which would be $48,600 and see the $100,000 question
- guess it wrong and lose her bank

Kathryn decided to walk.

Mere said it was a good thing she walked as she was leaning the wrong way.

Answer and value

C. Michael Bolton
Value: known to be $25K
Bank: $11800-walk

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: Question 4 - It’s Elemental
Besides Uranus, which of these other planets has an element named after it?
A. Saturn B. Neptune
C. Mars D. Jupiter

(audience laughs at Mere's pronunciation of Uranus) Mere: Really, just a little decorum please.

JTQ

Kathryn said her father is a chemist but she flunked chemistry in high school, because she did not care enough to study much.
She tried "Saturnium or Neptunium" and none sounded right.
She said she does not know, does not want to jump it but feels she has to.

Answer and value

B. Neptune (Mere gave Kathryn credit for mentioning the element name)
Value: $5000 jumped
Bank: $11000

I'm starting to tire of this "Uranus" schtick; it was funny the first time but after going to the well so many times the joke is starting to...well... stink.

Found it!

(Speaking of old schticks...)

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 10 - Famous Sitters
What future music star was Paula Abdul's babysitter when she was seven years old?
A. Kenny Loggins B. Gene Simmons
C. Michael Bolton D. Prince

Spoiler

Kathryn says Gene Simmons is sticking out to her even though it is not his real name.
Mere gives Kathryn's options:
- Walk with $11,800
- get it right and gain her entire bank which would be $48,600 and see the $100,000 question
- guess it wrong and lose her bank

Kathryn decided to walk.

Mere said it was a good thing she walked as she was leaning the wrong way.

Answer and value

C. Michael Bolton
Value: known to be $25K
Bank: $11800-walk

Good grief! Who the hell cares?

MarleysGh0st wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 10 - Famous Sitters
What future music star was Paula Abdul's babysitter when she was seven years old?
A. Kenny Loggins B. Gene Simmons
C. Michael Bolton D. Prince

Spoiler

Kathryn says Gene Simmons is sticking out to her even though it is not his real name.
Mere gives Kathryn's options:
- Walk with $11,800
- get it right and gain her entire bank which would be $48,600 and see the $100,000 question
- guess it wrong and lose her bank

Kathryn decided to walk.

Mere said it was a good thing she walked as she was leaning the wrong way.

Answer and value

C. Michael Bolton
Value: known to be $25K
Bank: $11800-walk

Good grief! Who the hell cares?

Certainly not you, Marley, and certainly not me either. Unless . . . we want to get on a certain game show and if by some miracle we eventually do get on, we want to have lifelines left when we get to the second tier. If I understood Pea correctly, she said that whenever she came across something she was totally unfamiliar with, but which seemed appropriate for a game show question, she made a note of it and sometimes studied further on some things, until she made her appearance. Then she quit doing it.

I think that's probably a good idea for folkses like us.

SportsFan68 wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 10 - Famous Sitters
What future music star was Paula Abdul's babysitter when she was seven years old?
A. Kenny Loggins B. Gene Simmons
C. Michael Bolton D. Prince

Spoiler

Kathryn says Gene Simmons is sticking out to her even though it is not his real name.
Mere gives Kathryn's options:
- Walk with $11,800
- get it right and gain her entire bank which would be $48,600 and see the $100,000 question
- guess it wrong and lose her bank

Kathryn decided to walk.

Mere said it was a good thing she walked as she was leaning the wrong way.

Answer and value

C. Michael Bolton
Value: known to be $25K
Bank: $11800-walk

Good grief! Who the hell cares?

Certainly not you, Marley, and certainly not me either. Unless . . . we want to get on a certain game show and if by some miracle we eventually do get on, we want to have lifelines left when we get to the second tier. If I understood Pea correctly, she said that whenever she came across something she was totally unfamiliar with, but which seemed appropriate for a game show question, she made a note of it and sometimes studied further on some things, until she made her appearance. Then she quit doing it.

I think that's probably a good idea for folkses like us.

Well, among the tiny handful of things about which I disagree with Pea, the category of "who was whose babysitter" being "appropriate for a game show question" will have to be one of them. Even if Paula did reveal this bombshell of a news story on the Jimmy Kimmel Show, back in October.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainme ... abysitter/

Paula remembers Michael not being a very attentive babysitter and recalls him spending most of his time jamming with musicians who lived in the building.

Paula told Kimmel she remembers hurting herself on a couch by jamming a pencil into her leg to get his attention and force him to drive her to the hospital. She said he would sing her to sleep but he would never help her with her homework.

Uh huh. Have charges of child endangerment been filed, yet?

MarleysGh0st wrote:

SportsFan68 wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:
Good grief! Who the hell cares?

Certainly not you, Marley, and certainly not me either. Unless . . . we want to get on a certain game show and if by some miracle we eventually do get on, we want to have lifelines left when we get to the second tier. If I understood Pea correctly, she said that whenever she came across something she was totally unfamiliar with, but which seemed appropriate for a game show question, she made a note of it and sometimes studied further on some things, until she made her appearance. Then she quit doing it.

I think that's probably a good idea for folkses like us.

Well, among the tiny handful of things about which I disagree with Pea, the category of "who was whose babysitter" being "appropriate for a game show question" will have to be one of them. Even if Paula did reveal this bombshell of a news story on the Jimmy Kimmel Show, back in October.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainme ... abysitter/

Paula remembers Michael not being a very attentive babysitter and recalls him spending most of his time jamming with musicians who lived in the building.

Paula told Kimmel she remembers hurting herself on a couch by jamming a pencil into her leg to get his attention and force him to drive her to the hospital. She said he would sing her to sleep but he would never help her with her homework.

Uh huh. Have charges of child endangerment been filed, yet?

How did pea get dragged into this?

Estonut wrote:How did pea get dragged into this?

Sprots cited her advice, but you're right that she hasn't personally expressed an opinion in this thread.

Yet.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Kathryn Shrader
New York, NY

Has a degree in theater, so there is more pressure on her to get the "Broadway" question right
Says she waits tables to make ends meet while deciding on a career
$11,000 banked, one lifeline (JTQ) remaining

So she's really a WE/WE/WE® (both an actor and a waiter/bartender).

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 4 - It’s Elemental
Besides Uranus, which of these other planets has an element named after it?
A. Saturn B. Neptune
C. Mars D. Jupiter

(audience laughs at Mere's pronunciation of Uranus) Mere: Really, just a little decorum please.

JTQ

Kathryn said her father is a chemist but she flunked chemistry in high school, because she did not care enough to study much.
She tried "Saturnium or Neptunium" and none sounded right.
She said she does not know, does not want to jump it but feels she has to.

Answer and value

B. Neptune (Mere gave Kathryn credit for mentioning the element name)
Value: $5000 jumped
Bank: $11000

Yeah, she mentioned neptunium but it didn't do her any good.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 10 - Famous Sitters
What future music star was Paula Abdul's babysitter when she was seven years old?
A. Kenny Loggins B. Gene Simmons
C. Michael Bolton D. Prince

Spoiler

Kathryn says Gene Simmons is sticking out to her even though it is not his real name.
Mere gives Kathryn's options:
- Walk with $11,800
- get it right and gain her entire bank which would be $48,600 and see the $100,000 question
- guess it wrong and lose her bank

Kathryn decided to walk.

Mere said it was a good thing she walked as she was leaning the wrong way.

Answer and value

C. Michael Bolton
Value: known to be $25K
Bank: $11800-walk

No idea. If I had lifelines I'd be using them.