WWTBAM Bored

Jeanine McKinney
Cheraw, SC

$21,500 in her bank. $15,000 and $25,000 remain, but she has no lifelines left.

Question 9 - Saucy Animal

When pronounced differently, which of these animals is also the word for a rich, chocolatey sauce from Mexico?

A: Camel
B: Mole
C: Parrot
D: Ape

She speaks a little Spanish (something about Brownsville, Texas).

Answer and value

B: Mole
Value: $25,000
Bank: $46,500

Question 10 - For Short

Which of these magazines is commonly referred to by just the first five letters in its name?

A: Seventeen
B: Redbook
C: Cosmopolitain
D: Glamour

Spoiler

Answer and value

C: Cosmopolitain
Value: $15,000
Bank: $61,500

Irene from the audience has volunteered to give Jeanine a hug, since she doesn't know anyone here in NY.

CLASSIC MILLIONAIRE

Question 11 - $100K

What county's Chapel of the Tablet claims to hold the original Ten Commandments received by Moses?

A: Turkey
B: Ethiopia
C: Oman
D: Afghanistan

Spoiler

She's thinking Turkey, but she's not sure.

She's going to walk with her $61,500.

Answer

B: Ethiopia

Commercial Break.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 11 - $100K

What county's Chapel of the Tablet claims to hold the original Ten Commandments received by Moses?

A: Turkey
B: Ethiopia
C: Oman
D: Afghanistan

Spoiler

She's thinking Turkey, but she's not sure.

She's going to walk with her $61,500.

Answer

B: Ethiopia

I thought the Ark (and the dust remaining from the tablets) was moved to Area 51 after Indiana Jones found it?

Jeanine was a great contestant! Too bad she got hit with this WWOQ.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: CLASSIC MILLIONAIRE

Question 11 - $100K

What county's Chapel of the Tablet claims to hold the original Ten Commandments received by Moses?

A: Turkey
B: Ethiopia
C: Oman
D: Afghanistan

Spoiler

She's thinking Turkey, but she's not sure.

She's going to walk with her $61,500.

Answer

B: Ethiopia

Commercial Break.

I remember seeing a documentary on this a few years ago. I knew it was an African country - if there had been more than one in the choices, I would've been SOL.

Jeanine's appearance got one line near the end of this column:

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/0 ... ed-in.html

MarleysGh0st wrote:Jeanine's appearance got one line near the end of this column:

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/0 ... ed-in.html

Poor Jeanine. I got a front page story with a picture in my somewhat smaller city's paper on the day before I'd won anything, with a smaller story to follow.

Clarification: My city is smaller than Charlotte, that is. It's probably many times larger than Cheraw.

Question 9 - Saucy Animal

When pronounced differently, which of these animals is also the word for a rich, chocolatey sauce from Mexico?

A: Camel
B: Mole
C: Parrot
D: Ape

She speaks a little Spanish (something about Brownsville, Texas).

Answer and value

B: Mole
Value: $25,000
Bank: $46,500

I've had this and enjoyed it but wouldn't eat it regularly.

Question 11 - $100K

What county's Chapel of the Tablet claims to hold the original Ten Commandments received by Moses?

A: Turkey
B: Ethiopia
C: Oman
D: Afghanistan

Spoiler

She's thinking Turkey, but she's not sure.

She's going to walk with her $61,500.

Answer

B: Ethiopia

Sayonara

MarleysGh0st wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 11 - $100K

What county's Chapel of the Tablet claims to hold the original Ten Commandments received by Moses?

A: Turkey
B: Ethiopia
C: Oman
D: Afghanistan

Spoiler

She's thinking Turkey, but she's not sure.

She's going to walk with her $61,500.

Answer

B: Ethiopia

I thought the Ark (and the dust remaining from the tablets) was moved to Area 51 after Indiana Jones found it?

Jeanine was a great contestant! Too bad she got hit with this WWOQ.

I thought WWOQs were early, unknowable questions that prevent contestants from reaching the top tier. This was a top tier question and I thought it was appropriately challenging but knowable, or at least possible to make a logical guess.

TheConfessor wrote:I thought WWOQs were early, unknowable questions that prevent contestants from reaching the top tier. This was a top tier question and I thought it was appropriately challenging but knowable, or at least possible to make a logical guess.

Well, any question that's too obscure for its level can be a WWOQ. I guess it's a matter of opinion whether this one is, but so far I note only one BB who knew that it was "an African country" from seeing some documentary, years ago.

MarleysGh0st wrote:

TheConfessor wrote:I thought WWOQs were early, unknowable questions that prevent contestants from reaching the top tier. This was a top tier question and I thought it was appropriately challenging but knowable, or at least possible to make a logical guess.

Well, any question that's too obscure for its level can be a WWOQ. I guess it's a matter of opinion whether this one is, but so far I note only one BB who knew that it was "an African country" from seeing some documentary, years ago.

Not all BBs feel compelled to announce when they know something. I didn't know the answer for sure, but I thought Ethiopia was a strong guess, considering its strong Judeo-Christian history. But I was mostly questioning the definition of a WWOQ. I don't think that term existed until around the third season of Syndicated WWTBAM, when it seemed to many that they started throwing in some WGAS, impossible to know questions to weed players before they got to the big money.

Ah, you want to be like Bob of many numbers and discuss the etymology of "WWOQ". It's my recollection that the acronym was first used for certain Phone Game questions in the primetime era of WWTBAM. Perhaps there are still some examples preserved in the archives of the GC.

I (and others) used the term again to refer to some questions seen on the show, but I can't be sure when it was first used in that context (the old Bored having been wiped from Go.com's memory banks).

And the first "W" stands for Wicked!

Back for part 2-out of lifelines.

9. easy. I seem to remember them asking about what mole sauce is made of a few years back.

10. easy.

Classic Millionaire

$100K-I thought it was Turkey-since that's where they claim Noah's Ark is. Up there, I would probably walk with my bank.

MarleysGh0st wrote:Ah, you want to be like Bob of many numbers and discuss the etymology of "WWOQ". It's my recollection that the acronym was first used for certain Phone Game questions in the primetime era of WWTBAM. Perhaps there are still some examples preserved in the archives of the GC.

I (and others) used the term again to refer to some questions seen on the show, but I can't be sure when it was first used in that context (the old Bored having been wiped from Go.com's memory banks).

And the first "W" stands for Wicked!

What does the second "W" stand for?

TheConfessor wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:

TheConfessor wrote:I thought WWOQs were early, unknowable questions that prevent contestants from reaching the top tier. This was a top tier question and I thought it was appropriately challenging but knowable, or at least possible to make a logical guess.

Well, any question that's too obscure for its level can be a WWOQ. I guess it's a matter of opinion whether this one is, but so far I note only one BB who knew that it was "an African country" from seeing some documentary, years ago.

Not all BBs feel compelled to announce when they know something. I didn't know the answer for sure, but I thought Ethiopia was a strong guess, considering its strong Judeo-Christian history. But I was mostly questioning the definition of a WWOQ. I don't think that term existed until around the third season of Syndicated WWTBAM, when it seemed to many that they started throwing in some WGAS, impossible to know questions to weed players before they got to the big money.

I knew this question cold -- but ony because it was a Sploofus "Where Is It" a few months ago, and I read up on it.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Jeanine McKinney
Cheraw, SC

$21,500 in her bank. $15,000 and $25,000 remain, but she has no lifelines left.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 11 - $100K

What county's Chapel of the Tablet claims to hold the original Ten Commandments received by Moses?

A: Turkey
B: Ethiopia
C: Oman
D: Afghanistan

Spoiler

She's thinking Turkey, but she's not sure.

She's going to walk with her $61,500.

Answer

B: Ethiopia

Ethiopia also claims to have the Ark of the Covenant.

So I'd be looking at the $250K question with a JTQ and the ATA still available.

Here's a longer story about Jeanine's appearance.

http://www.thecherawchronicle.com/view/ ... ce=popular

Jeanine McKinney, a Cheraw resident who won $61,500 on “Who Wants to be a Millionaire,” said she probably would have never even auditioned for the show if her husband hadn’t gotten “sick and tired” of listening to her scream most of the answers at the television set during the show’s broadcast.

Luckily, the neighbors don't complain when I yell at the TV.

The selection process begins on-line, but it is far from simple, said McKinney. If you are chosen from the questions on line to appear for an interview and audition, it’s up you to get to New York, rent a hotel room and check in with ABC Studios, she said.

That give a wrong impression of the audition process: the "on-line" questions are of the "name, address, and what day do you want to come" variety, only. The APs don't start selecting until they see you in person.

The show was actually filmed last fall on Halloween and lots of people in the audience were dressed in costume. That just added to the atmosphere and excitement, she said.

They must have been careful not to put any of the costumed audience on screen, so as not to spoil the appearance of being "live'.

McKinney was on a cruise near Nassau when the show aired last Wednesday. She was able to watch from the ship the beginning of her debut on national television, but the satellite failed to receive signal before her segment was over.

D'oh! She picked a good spot for a viewing party, but not for viewing.

BTW, the article doesn't mention if she's still getting the tractor parade.

MarleysGh0st wrote:

The show was actually filmed last fall on Halloween and lots of people in the audience were dressed in costume. That just added to the atmosphere and excitement, she said.

They must have been careful not to put any of the costumed audience on screen, so as not to spoil the appearance of being "live'.

Do TPTB stay up nights thinking of ways to taunt me? Ok lets send a happy happy card to northeast South Carolina and just for fun lets let her tape on Halloween

earendel wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: What county's Chapel of the Tablet claims to hold the original Ten Commandments received by Moses?

A: Turkey
B: Ethiopia
C: Oman
D: Afghanistan

Spoiler

She's thinking Turkey, but she's not sure.

She's going to walk with her $61,500.

Answer

B: Ethiopia

Ethiopia also claims to have the Ark of the Covenant.

Now that you mention it, I believe that is what the documentary I was watching was about, not the Ten Commandments.

So I got it right for the wrong reason.

vettech wrote:

earendel wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: What county's Chapel of the Tablet claims to hold the original Ten Commandments received by Moses?

A: Turkey
B: Ethiopia
C: Oman
D: Afghanistan

Spoiler

She's thinking Turkey, but she's not sure.

She's going to walk with her $61,500.

Answer

B: Ethiopia

Ethiopia also claims to have the Ark of the Covenant.

Now that you mention it, I believe that is what the documentary I was watching was about, not the Ten Commandments.

So I got it right for the wrong reason.

The tablets of the commandments = the Covenant

themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:

vettech wrote:

earendel wrote: Ethiopia also claims to have the Ark of the Covenant.

Now that you mention it, I believe that is what the documentary I was watching was about, not the Ten Commandments.

So I got it right for the wrong reason.

The tablets of the commandments = the Covenant

Oh, right, duh! I was thinking of the container and its contents as two separate entities, but of course they would be kept together.

nevermind...my first thought was on track...that's what I get for overthinking.