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Celebrity Week

Jackée

Borrowed Paula Deen's Purple scarf.

Topic Tree (pre-randomized):
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Topic Tree: (Randomized)
Ouch
Alcohol Honors
Weign-In
Reprised Roles
Banned Books
Elbow Grease
Snug as a Bug
Throwdown
Top Science
War of the Worlds

Question 1 - War of the Worlds

An American phrase was born during WWII when Marines borrowed a Chinese saying, naming their regiment which of the following?

A: Oy Vey Battalion
B: Hasta La Vista Battalion
C: Gung Ho Battalion
D: Deja Vu Battalion

Answer and value

C: Gung Ho Battalion
Value: $100
Bank: $100

Question 2 - Top Science

FEMA measures the severity of hurricanes by seeing whether local restaurants are up an running, a method cheekily known as what?

A: Waffle House Index
B: Olive Garden Rule
C: Chipotle Scale
D: Red Lobster Test

JTQ

Answer and value

A: Waffle House Index (She thought so, but wouldn't guess; they're open 24-hr, and in areas often hit by hurricanes)
Value: $500
Bank: $100

Question 3 - Throwdown

In the classic children's game, if your opponent's three moves were scissors, rock, paper, which of these sequences would make you win each turn?

A: Paper, paper, rock
B: Rock, paper, scissors
C: Rock, rock, rock
D: Paper, scissors, rock

She's never played. ATA.

Spoiler

A: 5%
B: 69%
C: 13%
D: 13%

She goes with audience. She gives the "logical" explanation why that's right.

Answer and value

B: Rock, paper, scissors
Value: $10,000
Bank: $10,100

Commercial break.

I fast-forwarded through this part, but it looked like they were dancing or something.

Question 4 - Snug as a Bug

A particularly snug type of sleeping bag shares its name with what Halloween monster?

A: Werewolf
B: Mummy
C: Ghost
D: Zombie

Meredith re-reads "particularly snug" and then encourages a hesitant Jackee to "talk it out".

Answer and value

B: Mummy
Value: $5,000
Bank: $15,100

Question 5 - Elbow Grease

According to a well-known saying, you shouldn't stick anything smaller than you elbow in your" what?

A: Mouth
B: Nose
C: Eye
D: Ear

Jackee is baffled. JTQ.

Answer and value

D: Ear
Value: $2,000
Bank: $15,100

Jackee does the PSA. Commercial break.

Question 6 - Banned Books

Later reversing their decision in early 2012, Florida's Brevard County Libraries banned what bestseller, saying, "We don't collect porn"?

A: Fifty Shades of Grey
B: The Secret Life of Bees
C: The Bourne Identity
D: Bossypants

She knows

Spoiler

A

is porn, so obviously she goes with

Spoiler

D

, final answer, and leaves with $10,000 for the charity and what the hell did I just watch???!!!

Answer and value

A: Fifty Shades of Grey
Value: $not revealed

Commercial break.

Millionaire QOTD (from 2-23-11)

Conspiracy theorists cried “Time Traveler!” when footage of a Charlie Chaplin film seemed to show a woman doing what?
a. Using a microwave b. Talking on a cell phone
c. Watching television d. Typing on a laptop

Spoiler

B

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:
She knows

Spoiler

A

is porn, so obviously she goes with

Spoiler

D

, final answer, and leaves with $10,000 for the charity and what the hell did I just watch???!!!

Bless you, transcriptionist, I'm dying at this.

According to a well-known saying, you shouldn't stick anything smaller than your elbow in your" what?

Actually it's "anything other" or it's not funny.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Celebrity Week

Jackée

Borrowed Paula Deen's Purple scarf.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 3 - Throwdown

In the classic children's game, if your opponents three moves were scissors, rock, paper, which of these sequences would make you win each turn?

A: Paper, paper, rock
B: Rock, paper, scissors
C: Rock, rock, rock
D: Paper, scissors, rock

She's never played. ATA.

Spoiler

A: 5%
B: 69%
C: 13%
D: 13%

She goes with audience. She gives the "logical" explanation why that's right.

Answer and value

B: Rock, paper, scissors
Value: $10,000
Bank: $10,100

What about "lizard" and "Spock"?

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 6 - Banned Books

Later reversing their decision in early 2012, Florida's Brevard County Libraries banned what bestseller, saying, "We don't collect porn"?

A: Fifty Shades of Grey
B: The Secret Life of Bees
C: The Bourne Identity
D: Bossypants

She knows

Spoiler

A

is porn, so obviously she goes with

Spoiler

D

, final answer, and leaves with $10,000 for the charity and what the hell did I just watch???!!!

Answer and value

A: Fifty Shades of Grey
Value: not revealed

<*sigh*> She knows that A is porn, and the question says that the library doesn't collect porn, so how in the world could she not make the connection? If BAM wants to raise real money for Alzheimer's, why not get some intelligent celebrities?

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Celebrity Week

Jackée

So if she's a "celebrity" that means I should know what she does, right?

MarleysGh0st wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Celebrity Week

Jackée

So if she's a "celebrity" that means I should know what she does, right?

She's an erstwhile TV star. She got her start as Jackée Harry on the sitcom "227" (starring Marla Gibbs in her post-"Jeffersons" days) and was also on "Sister, Sister" opposite Tim Reid (of "WKRP in Cincinnati" fame). That show aired on one of the cable channels (now known as the ABC Family Channel but I think it may have been FOX Family Channel then).

I wouldn't say "erstwhile" (mostly because I don't know what it means. It sounds negative though) since she did win an Emmy. 227 was a strangely memorable show. I was surprised to discover that the "227 is the place to be, with Marla Gibbs and her family" promo isn't online anywhere.

-M

Erstwhile just means "former". I suppose that's accurate. I'll allow it.