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Mike Herbst
St. Petersberg, FL
radiologist

He's having some trouble with his voice. His tie has PET scans on it.

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Explorer Remedy
Novel Game
Foreign Fashion
Stage Names
Revealing Record
Picture Perfect
Warning Call
Crazy Casting
Food Processor
Face Mask

Question 1 - Face Mask

Originating from Mexico, lucha libre is a version of what sport in which the participants wear flamboyant masks?

A: Soccer
B: Wrestling
C: Rodeo
D: Horse racing

Answer and value

B: Wrestling
Value: $2,000
Bank: $2,000

Question 2 - Food Processor

Often seen at concession stands, Shavatron machines make which of these treats?

A: Popcorn
B: Cotton candy
C: Snow cones
D: Corn dogs

Answer and value

C: Snow cones
Value: $1,000
Bank: $3,000

Question 3 - Crazy Casting

Which of these character descriptions was not among those listed in Mad magazine's 2011 spoof of TV's "Modern Family"?

A: Latin bombshell wife
B: Two gay dudes
C: Foul-mouthed grandma
D: Adopted Asian baby

He doesn't know it, so he's going to jump the question. [The audience sighs audibly at this choice, almost as if they realize that asking them about one of the most popular shows on TV might be a good idea.]

Answer and value

C: Foul-mouthed grandma
Value: $25,000 !!! !!!
Bank: $3,000

Question 4 - Warning Call

Which of the following is a frog whose mating call signals the end of winter?

A: Spring peeper
B: Creeping vole
C: Snow bunting
D: Dusky titi

Answer and value

A: Spring peeper (Meredith adds that a dusky titi is a monkey.)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $10,000

Commercial break

Question 5 - Picture Perfect

Which photographer has taken photos of both Miley Cyrus and Barack Obama for Vanity Fair?

A: Ansel Adams
B: Annie Leibovitz
C: Sally Mann
D: Diane Arbus

Spoiler

"Ansel Adams didn't do portraits." He doesn't know Mann or Arbus. He knows "Leibowitz" (sic) takes photos for Vanity Fair.

Answer and value

B: Annie Leibovitz
Value: $500
Bank: $10,500

Question 6 - Revealing Record

In 2011, a world record was set for the largest bikini parade when 357 women stripped and marched along the Gold Coast in what country?

A: Australia
B: New Zealand
C: Italy
D: Jamaica

Any of these could have a "Gold Coast," so he jumps the question.

Meredith: Last time you jumped, you jumped over $25,000. Let's hope it's a small amount this time...

Answer and value

A: Australia
Value: $15,000 !!! !!!
Bank: $10,500

Question 7 - Stage Names

What actor recorded a song in the 1980s titled "I Want to be Like Marlon Brando"?

A: Jim Carrey
B: Johnny Depp
C: Keanu Reeves
D: Russell Crowe

Spoiler

He can't imagine Carrey or Keanu singing. Johnny Depp is "A rock-star of an actor" but wouldn't record an album. Russell Crowe, might record an album, he doesn't know

After all that deliberation, he remembers his other lifeline. He asks the audience on this one.

Spoiler

A: 14%
B: 28%
C: 10%
D: 48%

Meredith indicates they might have been influenced by his thoughts.

Since they agree with his first guess, he's going to make

Spoiler

D

his final answer.

Answer and value

D: Russell Crowe (released under the name "Rus Le Roq."
Value: $3,000
Bank: $13,500

Question 8 - Foreign Fashion

When translated, what clothing article's name means "thing to wear"?

A: Lederhosed
B: Burka
C: Kimono
D: Dashiki

"This is one of those things you either know or you don't know, and I don't know it, so I'm going to have to walk."

Answer and value

C: Kimono
Value: $not revealed
Bank: (half of $13,500)

Mike leaves with $6,750

End of show noise.

I confess to abusing the awesome power of the transcriber log-in for some in-transcript editorializing. I believe it in this case to be quite justified.

-Myron

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Mike Herbst
St. Petersberg, FL
radiologist

He's having some trouble with his voice. His tie has PET scans on it.

He must have had a lot of pets to have so many scans.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 3 - Crazy Casting
Which of these character descriptions was not among those listed in Mad magazine's 2011 spoof of TV's "Modern Family"?
A: Latin bombshell wife
B: Two gay dudes
C: Foul-mouthed grandma
D: Adopted Asian baby

He doesn't know it, so he's going to jump the question. [The audience sighs audibly at this choice, almost as if they realize that asking them about one of the most popular shows on TV might be a good idea.]

Answer and value

C: Foul-mouthed grandma
Value: $25,000 !!! !!!
Bank: $3,000

I have never seen an episode of this show but I've forced myself to become familiar with it because it seems to come up in trivia games (even the Tuesday J! test had a question about it.)

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 7 - Stage Names
What actor recorded a song in the 1980s titled "I Want to be Like Marlon Brando"?
A: Jim Carrey
B: Johnny Depp
C: Keanu Reeves
D: Russell Crowe

Spoiler

He can't imagine Carrey or Keanu singing. Johnny Depp is "A rock-star of an actor" but wouldn't record an album. Russell Crowe, might record an album, he doesn't know

After all that deliberation, he remembers his other lifeline. He asks the audience on this one.

Spoiler

A: 14%
B: 28%
C: 10%
D: 48%

Answer and value

D: Russell Crowe (released under the name "Rus Le Roq."
Value: $3,000
Bank: $13,500

I wouldn't have been sure, so I'd have used ATA also. I wonder if the percentages would have been significantly different if Mike hadn't said anything.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Mike leaves with $6,750

He caught some bad breaks (jumping over the two biggest dollar values).

earendel wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 3 - Crazy Casting
Which of these character descriptions was not among those listed in Mad magazine's 2011 spoof of TV's "Modern Family"?
A: Latin bombshell wife
B: Two gay dudes
C: Foul-mouthed grandma
D: Adopted Asian baby

He doesn't know it, so he's going to jump the question. [The audience sighs audibly at this choice, almost as if they realize that asking them about one of the most popular shows on TV might be a good idea.]

Answer and value

C: Foul-mouthed grandma
Value: $25,000 !!! !!!
Bank: $3,000

I have never seen an episode of this show but I've forced myself to become familiar with it because it seems to come up in trivia games (even the Tuesday J! test had a question about it.)

That's because it's highly rated by both the public and the critics. I've never seen it either.

I had the same situation with "Desperate Housewives" and of course my Hot Seat question was on something I hadn't studied.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 6 - Revealing Record

In 2011, a world record was set for the largest bikini parade when 357 women stripped and marched along the Gold Coast in what country?

A: Australia
B: New Zealand
C: Italy
D: Jamaica

Any of these could have a "Gold Coast," so he jumps the question.

Meredith: Last time you jumped, you jumped over $25,000. Let's hope it's a small amount this time...

Answer and value

A: Australia
Value: $15,000 !!! !!!
Bank: $10,500

They were able to set a world record with only 357 people? Isn't that like an ordinary day at any moderately popular beach?