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Cathy Cornish
Dobbs Ferry, NY

Being on the show is Number 1 on her bucket list. Going to Tahiti, Bora Bora, and Paris is Number 2.

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10. Foreign Facts
9. Food War
8. World Dance (DOUBLE MONEY)
7. Old Friends
6. Color Commentary
5. Mineral Water
4. Drunken Argument
3. Women Only
2. Shopping Online
1. Dead Ringers

Question 1 - Dead Ringers

In a conversation with Robin Roberts, who reminisced that she once lost her own look-a-like contest against a lineup of high-heeled drag queens?

[Yes, that's how they punctuated "look-a-like".]

A: Paula Abdul
B: Debbie Gibson
C: Gloria Estefan
D: Dolly Parton

Spoiler

She thinks it's Dolly Parton, because a lot of drag queens want to look like her. Than she thnks it might be A, so...

...she jumps the Q.

Answer and value

D: Dolly Parton
Value: $1,000
Bank: $0

Question 2 - Shopping Online

In a nod to The Bible, those in need of underwear can purchase intimate apparel from an online store called what?

A: bayleaves.com
B: mapleleaves.com
C: oakleaves.com
D: figleaves.com

Answer and value

D: figleaves.com
Value: $500
Bank: $500

Question 3 - Women Only

Founded in 2003, SwellWomen is a camp for women who primarily went to enjoy which of these activities?

A: Skiing
B: Surfing
C: Bowling
D: Skateboarding

Spoiler

She connects "swell" to surfing.

Answer and value

B: Surfing
Value: $2,000
Bank: $2,500

Question 4 - Drunken Argument

The Guinness Book of Records was created after a Guinness Brewery employee got in a heated argument about Europe's fastest what?

A: Bird
B: Beetle
C: Turtle
D: Horse

She doesn't know, but she says it's

Spoiler

probably horse

. Then she decides to ATA.

Spoiler

A: 16%
B: 6%
C: 5%
D: 63%

Meredith thinks she might have influenced the audience. Cathy doesn't think they look easily influenced. She goes with the audience, and leaves with $1,000.

Answer and value

A: Bird (The fastest bird was the Golden Plover.)
Value: $not revealed

Commercial break.

A prime example of when NOT to ask the audience: an obscure non-pop-culture question after already suggesting a very reasonable answer as your best guess. The ATA is worth very little except in isolated scenarios.

Bump with completed transcript. I guess Cathy was never a nerdy little trivia-kid, burying her nose in piles upon piles of Guinness Books.

Question 1 - Dead Ringers

In a conversation with Robin Roberts, who reminisced that she once lost her own look-a-like contest against a lineup of high-heeled drag queens?

[Yes, that's how they punctuated "look-a-like".]

A: Paula Abdul
B: Debbie Gibson
C: Gloria Estefan
D: Dolly Parton

Spoiler

She thinks it's Dolly Parton, because a lot of drag queens want to look like her. Than she thnks it might be A, so...

...she jumps the Q.

Answer and value

D: Dolly Parton
Value: $1,000
Bank: $0

JTQ

Question 3 - Women Only

Question 4 - Drunken Argument

The Guinness Book of Records was created after a Guinness Brewery employee got in a heated argument about Europe's fastest what?

A: Bird
B: Beetle
C: Turtle
D: Horse

She doesn't know, but she says it's

Spoiler

probably horse

. Then she decides to ATA.

Spoiler

A: 16%
B: 6%
C: 5%
D: 63%

Meredith thinks she might have influenced the audience. Cathy doesn't think they look easily influenced. She goes with the audience, and leaves with $1,000.

Answer and value

A: Bird (The fastest bird was the Golden Plover.)
Value: $not revealed

JTQ 2

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 4 - Drunken Argument

The Guinness Book of Records was created after a Guinness Brewery employee got in a heated argument about Europe's fastest what?

A: Bird
B: Beetle
C: Turtle
D: Horse

She doesn't know, but she says it's

Spoiler

probably horse

. Then she decides to ATA.

Spoiler

A: 16%
B: 6%
C: 5%
D: 63%

Meredith thinks she might have influenced the audience. Cathy doesn't think they look easily influenced. She goes with the audience, and leaves with $1,000.

Answer and value

A: Bird (The fastest bird was the Golden Plover.)
Value: $not revealed

It isn't the European Swallow?

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Cathy Cornish
Dobbs Ferry, NY

Being on the show is Number 1 on her bucket list. Going to Tahiti, Bora Bora, and Paris is Number 2.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 4 - Drunken Argument

The Guinness Book of Records was created after a Guinness Brewery employee got in a heated argument about Europe's fastest what?

A: Bird
B: Beetle
C: Turtle
D: Horse

She doesn't know, but she says it's

Spoiler

probably horse

. Then she decides to ATA.

Spoiler

A: 16%
B: 6%
C: 5%
D: 63%

Meredith thinks she might have influenced the audience. Cathy doesn't think they look easily influenced. She goes with the audience, and leaves with $1,000.

Answer and value

A: Bird (The fastest bird was the Golden Plover.)
Value: not revealed

No idea, and I don't think the audience will know it either, so I'll JTQ.

jarnon wrote:It isn't the European Swallow?

Laden or unladen?

earendel wrote:

jarnon wrote:It isn't the European Swallow?

Laden or unladen?

Ha! I feel like I would've said something like this...


I know "horse" kind of makes the most sense right away, but here's the thing.....there's a Monty Python sketch about an argument about the speed of a obscure bird/s and I found that most Monty Python sketches were not in fact absurdist as I had assumed growing up whilst giggling at them...they usually have an igniting event, a real thing that happened that they're slyly referring to, even if the other parts of the joke work on their own. (Like watching the SNL DiaB video without having ever seen Color Me Badd.....still funny.) Also, wouldn't things like "who's the fastest horse" be readily available in newspapers of the day? Guinness has always been for trivia nerds, and nothing says nerds like bird facts. Horseracing's for cool kids.

I think the suggestion of beer because of the word Guinness is a little bit misleading too....beer suggestions horseracing, suggests Clydesdales, etc. Tricky tricky.
I think it's bird.

I hope I would have enough blood left in my head to think of this while UP there. Probably would be more like this;

"HOrsies Please MEREDITH! THANK YOU FINAL ANSWER! THHPPPPPTTT!"