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Lee Yanco
New York, NY

Meredith threatens to yank out his chest hairs if he hits her again.

Has a bank of $50,500, and all 3 lifelines.

Topic Tree: (Randomized)

Military Lingo
In Good Health
Movie Magic
Fancy Words
By Special Request (DOUBLE MONEY)
Humble Beginnings
$15,000 - Prime Time Lineup
$500 - Panthers
$10,000 - Weight and See
$25,000 - Germ Fright

Question 5 - Humble Beginnings

In 1992, what future Oscar-winning actress sang about the joys of recycling as a member of the "World Patrol Kids"?

A: Natalie Portman
B: Octavia Spencer
C: Kate Winslet
D: Reese Witherspoon

JTQ

Answer and value

A: Natalie Portman
Value: $5,000
Bank: $50,500

Question 6 - By Special Request (DOUBLE MONEY)

According to legend, a starlet named Marjorie King, who was allergic to every alcohol but tequila, was the inspiration for what cocktail?

A: Martini
B: Margarita
C: Mai-Tai
D: Manhattan

He knows his alcohols.

Answer and value

B: Margarita
Value: $100, doubled to $200
Bank: $

Question 7 - Fancy Words

A dactylogram is better known as what?

A: Engraving
B: Calendar
C: Fingerprint
D: LP record

Spoiler

He knows a dactyl is a finger, since a pterodactyl is a "finger bird". (Something like that). "Gram" is some sort of writing.

Answer and value

C: Fingerprint
Value: $1,000
Bank: $51,700

Question 8 - Movie Magic

Used in movies as a stand-in for the "American West", the Tabernas Desert is located in what country?

A: Greece
B: Spain
C: Romania
D: Italy

Spoiler

He makes the connection to "Spaghetti Westerns".

He guesses

Spoiler

D

, and leaves with $1,000.

Answer and value

B: Spain
Value: $not revealed

Commercial break.

What a brutal WWOQ. I don't know whether I would have pulled the trigger on

Spoiler

Italy

or jumped the question, but I wouldn't have pulled it on any of the other answers.

Spoiler

Italy

shouldn't have been an option.

Bump with completed transcript. Agreed, that was nasty.

-M

hss501 wrote:What a brutal WWOQ. I don't know whether I would have pulled the trigger on

Spoiler

Italy

or jumped the question, but I wouldn't have pulled it on any of the other answers.

Spoiler

Italy

shouldn't have been an option.

I didn't see the episode, but I did pause a moment when I read the spoiler in the transcript about "Spaghetti Westerns", but then basic geographical knowledge kicked in. Have you ever heard of there being any deserts in Italy?

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Lee Yanco
New York, NY

Meredith threatens to yank out his chest hairs if he hits her again.

Has a bank of $50,500, and all 3 lifelines.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 5 - Humble Beginnings

In 1992, what future Oscar-winning actress sang about the joys of recycling as a member of the "World Patrol Kids"?

A: Natalie Portman
B: Octavia Spencer
C: Kate Winslet
D: Reese Witherspoon

JTQ

Answer and value

A: Natalie Portman
Value: $5,000
Bank: $50,500

I'll JTQ also.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 8 - Movie Magic

Used in movies as a stand-in for the "American West", the Tabernas Desert is located in what country?

A: Greece
B: Spain
C: Romania
D: Italy

Spoiler

He makes the connection to "Spaghetti Westerns".

He guesses

Spoiler

D

, and leaves with $1,000.

Answer and value

B: Spain
Value: not revealed

I, OTOH, thought that "Tabernas" sounded Spanish. Would I have gone for it at the blackjack table? I can't say.

MarleysGh0st wrote:

hss501 wrote:What a brutal WWOQ. I don't know whether I would have pulled the trigger on

Spoiler

Italy

or jumped the question, but I wouldn't have pulled it on any of the other answers.

Spoiler

Italy

shouldn't have been an option.

I didn't see the episode, but I did pause a moment when I read the spoiler in the transcript about "Spaghetti Westerns", but then basic geographical knowledge kicked in. Have you ever heard of there being any deserts in Italy?

No, but I hadn't heard of any in Spain, either. You can always get a WWOQ by happening to know the underlying facts, but to someone with no or limited knowledge of European deserts, the question screams "Spaghetti Westerns."

All LLs available...

Question 5 - Humble Beginnings

In 1992, what future Oscar-winning actress sang about the joys of recycling as a member of the "World Patrol Kids"?

A: Natalie Portman
B: Octavia Spencer
C: Kate Winslet
D: Reese Witherspoon

JTQ

Answer and value

A: Natalie Portman
Value: $5,000
Bank: $50,500

If the audience were filled with BBs, I'd ATA. JTQ

Question 8 - Movie Magic

Used in movies as a stand-in for the "American West," the Tabernas Desert is located in what country?

A: Greece
B: Spain
C: Romania
D: Italy

Spoiler

He makes the connection to "Spaghetti Westerns".

He guesses

Spoiler

D

, and leaves with $1,000.

Answer and value

B: Spain
Value: $not revealed

I think Spain is the only country of those four with a desert. Am I sure enough to pull the trigger? No. JTQ.

hss501 wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:

hss501 wrote:What a brutal WWOQ. I don't know whether I would have pulled the trigger on

Spoiler

Italy

or jumped the question, but I wouldn't have pulled it on any of the other answers.

Spoiler

Italy

shouldn't have been an option.

I didn't see the episode, but I did pause a moment when I read the spoiler in the transcript about "Spaghetti Westerns", but then basic geographical knowledge kicked in. Have you ever heard of there being any deserts in Italy?

No, but I hadn't heard of any in Spain, either. You can always get a WWOQ by happening to know the underlying facts, but to someone with no or limited knowledge of European deserts, the question screams "Spaghetti Westerns."

I totally agree, that was my gut instinct as well when I saw the q. And it's a known fact that western were indeed filmed in Italy, no? This is one of those where you really have to weight what you know versus common sense.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: Question 5 - Humble Beginnings

In 1992, what future Oscar-winning actress sang about the joys of recycling as a member of the "World Patrol Kids"?

A: Natalie Portman
B: Octavia Spencer
C: Kate Winslet
D: Reese Witherspoon

JTQ

Answer and value

A: Natalie Portman
Value: $5,000
Bank: $50,500

It is too bad that the contestant didn't recognize that the questions really was asking, "Which one of these actresses is young enough to be called a kid in 1992?" Then, the answer is easily Portman because the other three are in their late 30s or early 40s, so they would have been in their late teens, at a minimum, 20 years ago.

SportsFan68 wrote:All LLs available...

Question 5 - Humble Beginnings

In 1992, what future Oscar-winning actress sang about the joys of recycling as a member of the "World Patrol Kids"?

A: Natalie Portman
B: Octavia Spencer
C: Kate Winslet
D: Reese Witherspoon

JTQ

Answer and value

A: Natalie Portman
Value: $5,000
Bank: $50,500

If the audience were filled with BBs, I'd ATA. JTQ

Question 8 - Movie Magic

Used in movies as a stand-in for the "American West," the Tabernas Desert is located in what country?

A: Greece
B: Spain
C: Romania
D: Italy

Spoiler

He makes the connection to "Spaghetti Westerns".

He guesses

Spoiler

D

, and leaves with $1,000.

Answer and value

B: Spain
Value: $not revealed

I think Spain is the only country of those four with a desert. Am I sure enough to pull the trigger? No. JTQ.

If you accept the classification that a desert has to be extremely arid or arid, but not just semi-arid, then there is a desert in Italy (Sardinia) and Romania, while Spain has 2 deserts, IIRC from everybody's favorite source -- Wikipedia.

Now, the tricky part might have been the general inclination of people to associate desert with sand.