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Rishi Bhandari
Brooklyn, NY
("rhymes with fishy," as Meredith notes.)
Wearing his lucky wedding shoes (wife Heather is in the audience.)


Topic Tree (pre-randomized):
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Topic Tree: (Randomized)
Oy, Pooch
Actual Meanings
Music Education
Ad Man
Honorable Authors
Out There
Cut the Mustard
Tom's Threesome
Prize Place
Cosby Quotes


Question 1 - Cosby Quotes

Bill Cosby once joked "Always end the name of your child with a" what "so that when you yell, the name will carry"?

A: Consonant
B: Silent "a"
C: Vowel
D: Hard "g"

He tries working out the answer, but ends up JTQ.

Answer and value

C: Vowel
Value: $3,000
Bank: $0

Question 2 - Prize Place

A Nobel Peace Prize is on permanent display at the presidential library located in what U.S. city?

A: Atlanta, GA
B: Austin, TX
C: Boston, MA
D: Little Rock, AR

Spoiler

He knows Jimmy Carter won a Nobel Peace Prize

Answer and value

A: Atlanta, GA
Value: $7,000
Bank: $7,000

Commercial break.

Question 3 - Tom's Threesome

When he and Katie Holmes split, tabloids noted that the three wives of Tom Cruise were all what age when they called it quits with him?

A: 27
B: 30
C: 33
D: 36

He thinks he knows this from devouring US Weekly in the weeks before the show.

Answer and value

C: 33
Value: $15,000
Bank: $22,000

Question 4 - Cut the Mustard

What spice is added to American style mustard to give it a bright yellow color?

A: Caraway
B: Tumeric
C: Anise
D: Fennel

Spoiler

He knows Anise is in Twizzlers, Fennel is in sausage, Caraway is in rye bread, and Tumeric in Indian Food. He doesn't know what they look like.

He asks the audience.

Spoiler

A: 4%
B: 90%
C: 3%
D: 3%

He's pretty pleased with that result. He goes for it.

Answer and value

B: Tumeric
Value: $25,000
Bank: $47,000

Heather gets a hug!

Commercial break.

Question 5 - Out There

Rural parts of the country that are far away from cities and towns are commonly called what?

A: The rocks
B: The sticks
C: The leaves
D: The weeds

Answer and value

B: The sticks
Value: $500
Bank: $47,500

Question 6 - Honorable Authors

Because he descended from nobility, the author of "War & Peace" was also known as which of the following?

A: Count Chekhov
B: Count Dostoyevsky
C: Count Nabokov
D: Count Tolstoy

Answer and value

D: Count Tolstoy
Value: $10,000
Bank: $57,500

He's never read it. He'll read US Magazine, but not that.

Question 7 - Ad Man

With the tagline "Some stars show you the way," a 2012 Louis Vuitton ad depicts what former sports legend with his boxing glove-clad grandson?

A: Wayne Gretzky
B: Williw Mays
C: Muhammad Ali
D: Arnold Palmer

Answer and value

C: Muhammad Ali
Value: $5,000
Bank: $62,500

Commercial break.

QOTD (from 1-12-2011)

Found at rural English fairs, "gurning" is an odd tradition in which people compete at doing what?
A. Lulling animals to sleep B. Carving walnuts
C. Climbing into barrels D. Making funny faces

Spoiler

D

Question 8 - Music Education

Sent there in 1913 for firing his stepfather's pistol, what jazz great learned to read and write music at a New Orleans school for wayward children?

A: Dizzy Gillespie
B: Louis Armstrong
C: Duke Ellington
D: Count Basie

He can't eliminate it down to one, so JTQ

Answer and value

B: Louis Armstrong
Value: $100
Bank: $62,500

Question 9 - Actual Meanings

Which of the following common expressions is derived from an important tenet in Islamic and Cabalist doctrine?

A: One in a million
B: Third time's a charm
C: Six Degrees of Separation
D: Seventh Heaven

Spoiler

He thinks 6 degrees of separation comes from an experiment when they mailed letters. Seventh heaven jumps out when you're looking at religious things. 1 in a million sticks out, because Arabs had the concept of zero.

He's gonna test out his lucky shoes on

Spoiler

D

, final.

Answer and value

D: Seventh Heaven
Value: $1,000
Bank: $63,500

They're lucky!

End of show horn. Rishi returns tomorrow with a $63,500 bank and no lifelines, one question away from "Classic Millionaire."

Two weeks in a row I've transcribed a question about Muhammad Ali being a boxer.

Question 1 - Cosby Quotes

Bill Cosby once joked "Always end the name of your child with a" what "so that when you yell, the name will carry"?

A: Consonant
B: Silent "a"
C: Vowel
D: Hard "g"

He tries working out the answer, but ends up JTQ.

Answer and value

C: Vowel
Value: $3,000
Bank: $0

Didn't seem that hard to me -- Rishkiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!

Question 3 - Tom's Threesome

When he and Katie Holmes split, tabloids noted that the three wives of Tom Cruise were all what age when they called it quits with him?

A: 27
B: 30
C: 33
D: 36

He thinks he knows this from devouring US Weekly in the weeks before the show.

Answer and value

C: 33
Value: $15,000
Bank: $22,000

ATA

Question 5 - Out There

Rural parts of the country that are far away from cities and towns are commonly called what?

A: The rocks
B: The sticks
C: The leaves
D: The weeds

Answer and value

B: The sticks
Value: $500
Bank: $47,500

After not getting Rishiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!, I didn't think he'd get this one, but he did! Good job!

Question 8 - Music Education

Sent there in 1913 for firing his stepfather's pistol, what jazz great learned to read and write music at a New Orleans school for wayward children?

A: Dizzy Gillespie
B: Louis Armstrong
C: Duke Ellington
D: Count Basie

He can't eliminate it down to one, so JTQ

Answer and value

B: Louis Armstrong
Value: $100
Bank: $62,500

Duke Ellington is the only one I can eliminate. JTQ

His carryover episode today is the first episode that taped on my first taping day. Never saw him as he was sequestered from everyone else, but his voice wafted down the hall as he psyched himself up.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Rishi Bhandari
Brooklyn, NY
("rhymes with fishy," as Meredith notes.)
Wearing his lucky wedding shoes (wife Heather is in the audience.)

Meredith asked him if he wore them on his wedding night. Rishi replied, "parts of it".

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 1 - Cosby Quotes

Bill Cosby once joked "Always end the name of your child with a" what "so that when you yell, the name will carry"?

A: Consonant
B: Silent "a"
C: Vowel
D: Hard "g"

He tries working out the answer, but ends up JTQ.

Answer and value

C: Vowel
Value: $3,000
Bank: $0

I thought sure he'd go for it after eliminating the others.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 8 - Music Education

Sent there in 1913 for firing his stepfather's pistol, what jazz great learned to read and write music at a New Orleans school for wayward children?

A: Dizzy Gillespie
B: Louis Armstrong
C: Duke Ellington
D: Count Basie

He can't eliminate it down to one, so JTQ

Answer and value

B: Louis Armstrong
Value: $100
Bank: $62,500

As far as I know, Armstrong is the only one of the 4 from New Orleans. Plus the airport is named for him.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 9 - Actual Meanings

Which of the following common expressions is derived from an important tenet in Islamic and Cabalist doctrine?

A: One in a million
B: Third time's a charm
C: Six Degrees of Separation
D: Seventh Heaven

Spoiler

He thinks 6 degrees of separation comes from an experiment when they mailed letters. Seventh heaven jumps out when you're looking at religious things. 1 in a million sticks out, because Arabs had the concept of zero.

He's gonna test out his lucky shoes on

Spoiler

D

, final.

Answer and value

D: Seventh Heaven
Value: $1,000
Bank: $63,500

Being religious texts, one would figure that "seventh heaven" would be the right answer.

hanzz wrote:His carryover episode today is the first episode that taped on my first taping day. Never saw him as he was sequestered from everyone else, but his voice wafted down the hall as he psyched himself up.

And how did he do that?

earendel wrote:

hanzz wrote:His carryover episode today is the first episode that taped on my first taping day. Never saw him as he was sequestered from everyone else, but his voice wafted down the hall as he psyched himself up.

And how did he do that?

Selections from a few songs. And some rap the day before, apparently!

ETA: I should also note that his carryover episode filmed on a Monday. So if you knew the last question standing between you and Round 2 was in a category called "Oy, Pooch", and you also by now got a feel for the kinds of questions being asked, what would you study over the weekend?

It's worth noting that immediately after the shuffled categories appeared, he softly repeated to himself what sounded like the first word of the top three categories. Unfortunate that he didn't get the opportunity to see the unshuffled stack. --Bob