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Josh Gatewood
Nashville, TN

Josh says he hails from a long line of cowboys and claims that his great uncle captured Geronimo. Although he's from Nashville he likes to consider himself a vagabond. Meredith calls him "the All-American Josh". Josh has lived in seven states and hasn't quite figured out which one is home. His family came to America in the 1600s and then later became cowboys and never set up roots anywhere. He wants to open a Southern fried chicken restaurant, all organic, called Yankee Doodle Dandy, in New York City. His parents, June and Jim, are in the relationship seats. Meredith tells him about the changes in the lifelines, including the "crystal ball".

Topic Tree: (unrandomized)
10 - TV Hostesses
9 - Literary Slang
8 - Buy-Bye Chainmale
7 - Breakfast Dishes
6 - Bare Skin Banishment
5 - Rock Doc
4 - Duds and Suds
3 - Finnish Game
2 - Predictive Text
1 - Vehicular Vernacular

Topic Tree: (randomized)
10 - TV Hostesses
7 - Breakfast Dishes
2 - Predictive Text
8 - Buy-Bye Chainmail
9 - Literary Slang
6 - Bare Skin Banishment
1 - Vehicular Vernacular
5 - Rock Doc
3 - Finnish Game
4 - Duds and Suds

Question #1 (Duds and Suds - Level 4)
Beer-drinking fashion novices might perk up their ears at the mention of what clothes designer, whose surname is a homophone of a popular beer?
A - Ralph Lauren
B - Marc Jacobs
C - Michael Kors
D - Calvin Klein

Josh is thinking

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Coors Light

.

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Answer: C (Michael Kors)
Value: $100
Bank: $100

Question #2 (Finnish Game - Level 3)
Finland's version of what board game includes characters whose names translate to English as Miss Red-Gold and Pastor Green Algae?
A - Cranium
B - Pictionary
C - Clue
D - Uno

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Answer: C (Clue)
Value: $3,000
Bank: $3,100

Question #3 (Rock Doc - Level 5)
The 2012 documentary "Mission to Lars" follows a family as they go on a journey to meet the drummer of what rock band?
A - Poison
B - Metallica
C - U2
D - Foo Fighters

Being All-American Josh loves his share of rock and roll.

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Answer: B (Metallica)
Value: $2,000
Bank: $5,100

Question #4 (Vehicular Vernacular - Level 1)
"Funeral coach" is a term commonly used to refer to what type of vehicle?
A - limousine
B - gondola
C - hearse
D - tractor

"Very timely with the Halloween episode," Josh comments.

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Answer: C (hearse)
Value: $5,000
Bank: $10,100

Question #5 (Bare Skin Banishment - Level 6)
Unaware it had a dress code, summer tourists often purchase paper pants from street vendors before entering what Italian attraction?
A - St. Peter's Basilica
B - Leaning Tower of Pisa
C - Roman Forum
D - Uffizi Gallery

Josh went to Italy when he backpacked through Europe in 2008. He doesn't think it's

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the Leaning Tower of Pisa because it's "chilling out there in the open".

He says he would think people would know that

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St. Peter's

had a dress code.

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Answer: A (St. Peter's Basilica)
Value: $500
Bank: $10,600

Question #6 (Literary Slang - Level 9)
Referring to a fish with a flat head rather than the hairstyle, what author used the insult "mullet-headed" in his 1884 classic?
A - Mark Twain
B - Oscar Wilde
C - Charles Dickens
D - Jules Verne

Josh thinks he's going to have to "pick the audience's brain".

PTAB results

A - 50%
B - 9%
C - 16%
D - 25%

Josh didn't want to say anything before so he wouldn't thrown the audience off. He was focusing on 1884 and thinking

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Charles Dickens

. He trusts the audience, then says

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50%

is not that big. Meredith reminds him about the crystal ball lifeline. Josh decides to use it.

crystal ball reveal

$25,000

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Josh doesn't think he can afford to skip it.

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Answer: A (Mark Twain)
Value: $25,000
Bank: $35,600

commercial break

During the break Josh told Meredith he wants to be the next Colonel Sanders. He'll start in New York City and then spread all over the globe. The chicken will be all natural, all organic.

Question #7 (Buy-bye Chainmail - Level 8)
Many times stronger than Kevlar, what material are engineers hoping to synthesize in order to make bulletproof body armor?
A - deer antlers
B - spider silk
C - porcupine quills
D - alligator skin

This seems like another good Halloween question. He's always heard about how strong

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spider silk

is so that's going to be his final answer.

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Answer: B (spider silk)
Value: $1,000
Bank: $36,600

Question #8 (Predictive Text - Level 2)
Writing in "Fahrenheit 451" of "little seashells" that are "thimble radios," some posit that Ray Bradbury predicted what modern invention?
A - touchscreen
B - earbud headphones
C - virtual reality
D - video game consoles

Josh zeroes in on "thimble radios" then begins eliminating the answers one by one.

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Answer: B (earbud headphones)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $43,600

Question #9 (Breakfast Dishes - Level 7)
The popular breakfast dish Potatoes O'Brien is traditionally made from potatoes, onions and what other ingredient?
A - carrots
B - squash
C - bell peppers
D - broccoli

Josh has never heard of this dish.

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"O'Brien maybe sounds like it's Irish, and could be that it's something green, which would be either broccoli or bell peppers."

Josh bats away the question.

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Answer: C (bell peppers) - Josh says he should have known this because he likes bell peppers in everything.
Value: $10,000
Bank: $43,600 (unchanged)

Question #10 (TV Hostesses - Level 10)
The scary but sexy character Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, started out introducing horror films on a Los Angeles TV show called what?
A - Frightful Flicks
B - Movie Macabre
C - Real Scary
D - Creature Features

Josh says it sounds "kinda familiar" like he watched it when he was 10 years old at a sleepover.

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Creature Features sounds familiar but then "Mistress of the Dark" might go with Movie Macabre.

He's going to have to bat this question away also.

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Answer: B (Movie Macabre)
Value: $15,000
Bank: $43,600 (unchanged)

commercial break

CLASSIC MILLIONAIRE

$100K - What did sound effects legend Ben Burtt record to use for the rolling boulder scene in "Raiders of the Lost Ark"?
A - his dogs running down stairs
B - his kids playing in garbage cans
C - his car driving on gravel
D - his shoes in the clothes dryer

Josh "of course" has seen the movie. He feels like it could be any one of them. He then eliminates

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dogs running down stairs.

"This is a tough one." Meredith says, "We know you're a cowboy, but are you a gunslinger?" He's trying to remember how it sounded, reciting the scene. He says

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shoes in the clothes dryer

is calling to him. Then he asks Meredith if he can flip the lucky penny his mother gave him. Meredith doesn't see why not. He fumbles through his pockets but can't find the penny. "You mean I did this without the lucky penny?" He then takes out a "dip can" (a can of snuff) and says, "this might be a little redneck." He says if the can comes up one way he'll go for it, if it comes up the other way he'll walk. [NOTE: He does this where Meredith can see it but the camera angle isn't good enough for the home audience.] Evidently it came up on the "go for it" side.

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C (his car driving on gravel)

Josh leaves with $25,000.

Millionaire question of the day:
What sport is believed to have first been played by British army officers using corks and cigar-box lids?
A - badminton
B - volleyball
C - table tennis
D - handball
Answer:

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C (table tennis)

commercial break

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Josh says he hails from a long line of cowboys and claims that his great uncle captured Geronimo.

Geronimo surrendered in 1886. Even if Josh had an ancestor who was present at the time, I think he left off a few "greats".

Question #3 (Rock Doc - Level 5)
The 2012 documentary "Mission to Lars" follows a family as they go on a journey to meet the drummer of what rock band?
A - Poison
B - Metallica
C - U2
D - Foo Fighters

Being All-American Josh loves his share of rock and roll.

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Answer: B (Metallica)
Value: $2,000
Bank: $5,100

ATA

Question #10 (TV Hostesses - Level 10)
The scary but sexy character Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, started out introducing horror films on a Los Angeles TV show called what?
A - Frightful Flicks
B - Movie Macabre
C - Real Scary
D - Creature Features

Josh says it sounds "kinda familiar" like he watched it when he was 10 years old at a sleepover.

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Creature Features sounds familiar but then "Mistress of the Dark" might go with Movie Macabre.

He's going to have to bat this question away also.

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Answer: B (Movie Macabre)
Value: $15,000
Bank: $43,600 (unchanged)

JTQ

CLASSIC MILLIONAIRE

$100K - What did sound effects legend Ben Burtt record to use for the rolling boulder scene in "Raiders of the Lost Ark"?
A - his dogs running down stairs
B - his kids playing in garbage cans
C - his car driving on gravel
D - his shoes in the clothes dryer

Josh "of course" has seen the movie. He feels like it could be any one of them. He then eliminates

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dogs running down stairs.

"This is a tough one." Meredith says, "We know you're a cowboy, but are you a gunslinger?" He's trying to remember how it sounded, reciting the scene. He says

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shoes in the clothes dryer

is calling to him. Then he asks Meredith if he can flip the lucky penny his mother gave him. Meredith doesn't see why not. He fumbles through his pockets but can't find the penny. "You mean I did this without the lucky penny?" He then takes out a "dip can" (a can of snuff) and says, "this might be a little redneck." He says if the can comes up one way he'll go for it, if it comes up the other way he'll walk. [NOTE: He does this where Meredith can see it but the camera angle isn't good enough for the home audience.] Evidently it came up on the "go for it" side.

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C (his car driving on gravel)

Josh leaves with $25,000.

JTQ

This guy's appearance strongly reminds me of Keanu Reeves. --Bob

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: Josh Gatewood
Nashville, TN

Josh says he hails from a long line of cowboys and claims that his great uncle captured Geronimo. Although he's from Nashville he likes to consider himself a vagabond. Meredith calls him "the All-American Josh". Josh has lived in seven states and hasn't quite figured out which one is home. His family came to America in the 1600s and then later became cowboys and never set up roots anywhere. He wants to open a Southern fried chicken restaurant, all organic, called Yankee Doodle Dandy, in New York City. His parents, June and Jim, are in the relationship seats. Meredith tells him about the changes in the lifelines, including the "crystal ball".

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #9 (Breakfast Dishes - Level 7)
The popular breakfast dish Potatoes O'Brien is traditionally made from potatoes, onions and what other ingredient?
A - carrots
B - squash
C - bell peppers
D - broccoli

Josh has never heard of this dish.

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"O'Brien maybe sounds like it's Irish, and could be that it's something green, which would be either broccoli or bell peppers."

Josh bats away the question.

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Answer: C (bell peppers) - Josh says he should have known this because he likes bell peppers in everything.
Value: $10,000
Bank: $43,600 (unchanged)

To me "bell peppers" is the only one that makes sense, given their presence in other breakfast dishes such as the Western omelet.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #10 (TV Hostesses - Level 10)
The scary but sexy character Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, started out introducing horror films on a Los Angeles TV show called what?
A - Frightful Flicks
B - Movie Macabre
C - Real Scary
D - Creature Features

Josh says it sounds "kinda familiar" like he watched it when he was 10 years old at a sleepover.

Spoiler

Creature Features sounds familiar but then "Mistress of the Dark" might go with Movie Macabre.

He's going to have to bat this question away also.

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Answer: B (Movie Macabre)
Value: $15,000
Bank: $43,600 (unchanged)

I was hoping they'd ask for her real name - Cassandra Peterson. I'm not sure why I know that, or that I knew the correct answer to this question.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$100K - What did sound effects legend Ben Burtt record to use for the rolling boulder scene in "Raiders of the Lost Ark"?
A - his dogs running down stairs
B - his kids playing in garbage cans
C - his car driving on gravel
D - his shoes in the clothes dryer

Josh "of course" has seen the movie. He feels like it could be any one of them. He then eliminates

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dogs running down stairs.

"This is a tough one." Meredith says, "We know you're a cowboy, but are you a gunslinger?" He's trying to remember how it sounded, reciting the scene. He says

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shoes in the clothes dryer

is calling to him. Then he asks Meredith if he can flip the lucky penny his mother gave him. Meredith doesn't see why not. He fumbles through his pockets but can't find the penny. "You mean I did this without the lucky penny?" He then takes out a "dip can" (a can of snuff) and says, "this might be a little redneck." He says if the can comes up one way he'll go for it, if it comes up the other way he'll walk. [NOTE: He does this where Meredith can see it but the camera angle isn't good enough for the home audience.] Evidently it came up on the "go for it" side.

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C (his car driving on gravel)

Josh leaves with $25,000.

Flipping a snuff can? Really?
I'd use a JTQ here. Although I can picture the scene I can't put any particular sound with it. "Tires on gravel" and "shoes in dryer" both sound plausible and I can't rule one out.

earendel wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$100K - What did sound effects legend Ben Burtt record to use for the rolling boulder scene in "Raiders of the Lost Ark"?
A - his dogs running down stairs
B - his kids playing in garbage cans
C - his car driving on gravel
D - his shoes in the clothes dryer

Josh "of course" has seen the movie. He feels like it could be any one of them. He then eliminates

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dogs running down stairs.

"This is a tough one." Meredith says, "We know you're a cowboy, but are you a gunslinger?" He's trying to remember how it sounded, reciting the scene. He says

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shoes in the clothes dryer

is calling to him. Then he asks Meredith if he can flip the lucky penny his mother gave him. Meredith doesn't see why not. He fumbles through his pockets but can't find the penny. "You mean I did this without the lucky penny?" He then takes out a "dip can" (a can of snuff) and says, "this might be a little redneck." He says if the can comes up one way he'll go for it, if it comes up the other way he'll walk. [NOTE: He does this where Meredith can see it but the camera angle isn't good enough for the home audience.] Evidently it came up on the "go for it" side.

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C (his car driving on gravel)

Josh leaves with $25,000.

Flipping a snuff can? Really?

Based on Josh's outcome, we've got a new rule of thumb:

When in doubt, don't dip can out!

Here's an article about Josh's appearance.

http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/flin ... ot_at.html

I found a video of this episode on YouTube: