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Alison McManus-Miller
Tobyhanna, PA

Meredith says that the third time is the charm but for Alison it was the twelfth time. She watches the show each day with her parents. When she was in high school she wanted to be a cheerleader and it took her four times before she was chosen. Meredith asks her to demonstrate. The silver ribbon Alison wears is to honor her parents, both of whom are suffering from Alzheimer's - she's their caregiver. She wants to win enough to take them on a cruise - the boat is nice and flat and she can push them around. She waves and says she's going to win enough for the new bathroom - and the cruise.

Topic Tree: (unrandomized)
10 - Time Change
9 - Little Bars
8 - TV on TV
7 - Cute as a Button
6 - Band Origins
5 - Native Cooking
4 - Vatican Showbiz
3 - Big Animals
2 - Jackpots
1 - One Across

Topic Tree: (randomized)
9 - Little Bars
6 - Band Origins
10 - Time Change
4 - Vatican Showbiz
7 - Cute as a Button
5 - Native Cooking
8 - TV on TV
3 - Big Animals
1 - One Across
2 - Jackpots

Question #1 (Jackpots - Level 2)
In 2012, Russia revealed the existence of a giant asteroid crater in Siberia, beneath which lies "trillions of carats" of what?
A - gold
B - pearls
C - diamonds
D - platinum

"

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Pearls

aren't measured in carats," Alison begins. "They're just measured by size.

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Gold is measured in carats, but that's the purity; platinum also is measured in carats but it's purity.

She considers

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diamonds, noting that they're measured in carats but that's also size.

She decides to jump the question.

Spoiler

Answer: C (diamonds)
Value: $1,000
Bank: $0

Question #2 (One Across - Level 1)
"Estimated," "refund," "April" and "fifteenth" are four answers to a crossword puzzle available on what U.S. agency's website?
A - FBI
B - NASA
C - IRS
D - EPA

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Answer: C (IRS)
Value: $100
Bank: $100

Question #3 (Big Animals - Level 3)
The MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas claims it has the largest bronze statue in the U.S., a 45-foot-tall rendering of a what?
A - bear
B - lion
C - elephant
D - coyote

Alison says that MGM is the movie company Metro Goldwyn Mayer and adds that they

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always started their movies with a lion roaring.

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Answer: B (lion)
Value: $500
Bank: $600

Question #4 (TV on TV - Level 8)
In a bit of obvious homage, one of the characters in the HBO series "Girls" has a poster of what other TV show up in her apartment?
A - Six Feet Under
B - The Sopranos
C - Sex and the City
D - The Wire

Alison says that "Girls" has been compared to another HBO series then says that all four of the choices are HBO shows. She adds that the last time her sister came to New York she made Alison take photos of her in front of

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every "Sex and the City" poster she found.

Spoiler

Answer: C (Sex and the City)
Value: $15,000
Bank: $15,600

Question #5 (Native Cooking - Level 5)
In the 17th century, Spaniard Bernabé Cobo wrote of Peruvian Indians who "toast a certain kind of" what "until it bursts ... and they use it as a confection"?
A - tomato
B - mushroom
C - corn
D - potato

Alison says that there's only one that bursts when you toast it.

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Answer: C (corn)
Value: $25,000
Bank: $40,600

commercial break

When the show comes back from commercial Meredith and Alison are talking with Hailey, Alison's daughter, who "is having an emotional moment," Meredith says. Hailey says she has "crazy" emotions. Meredith says that it's harder to be in the relationship seat than any other place.

Question #6 (Cute as a Button - Level 7)
Buttons that read "I Heart Darcy" are sold at the gift shop in a Bath, England attraction called what?
A - The William Shakespeare Center
B - The Charles Dickens Center
C - The Jane Austen Center
D - The Oscar Wilde Center

Alison has been there. They sell water there that tastes terrible.

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Answer: C (The Jane Austen Center)
Value: $3,000
Bank: $43,600

Question #7 (Vatican Showbiz - Level 4)
Which of these terms is used to indicate a "meeting" with the pope?
A - papal audience
B - papal powwow
C - papal affair
D - papal huddle

Alison jokes that no one is allowed to have

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a papal affair.

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Answer: A (papal audience)
Value: $2,000
Bank: $45,600

Question #8 (Time Change - Level 10)
Considering the standard time difference, which of the following would be an accurate title change for the 2011 film "Midnight in Paris"?
A - 4 p.m. in New York
B - 6 p.m. in New York
C - 8 p.m. in New York
D - 10 p.m. in New York

Alison says she's trying to figure out the time difference. She knows it's

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five to six hours

to London and Paris is

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one hour before that.

She decides to jump the question. Meredith asks if she was leaning toward a certain answer and Alison says

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8 p.m. in New York.

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Answer: B (6 p.m. in New York)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $45,600 (unchanged)

Question #9 (Band Origins - Level 6)
According to legend, which of these rock bands got the inspiration for their name from an electrical label they saw on the back of a sewing machine?
A - U2
B - Matchbox 20
C - AC/DC
D - Steely Dan

Alison says the obvious answer is

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AC/DC

but the question mentions a sewing machine. She decides to ask the audience.

ATA results

A - 5%
B - 3%
C - 86%
D - 6%

Alison goes with the audience.

Spoiler

Answer: C (AC/DC)
Value: $10,000
Bank: $55,600

As they cut to commercial Alison shouts out, "we've got the bathroom!"

commercial break

Meredith asks what needs to be done to the bathroom. Alison says they want to replace the bathtub with a walk-in shower with seats.

Question #10 (Little Bars - Level 9)
Which of these Hershey chocolate bars is only available in miniature size, and not as a regular bar?
A - Krackel
B - Hershey's Milk
C - Special Dark
D - Mr. Goodbar

Alison hasn't been to Hershey, PA. She's not big on candy but her parents are. She has a friend who loves to buy bags of miniatures that have all of these in them. She eliminates

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the milk one and thinks they make a special dark.

She can't decide between the remaining choices so she walks away.

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Answer: A (Krackel)
Value: $5,000
Bank: $27,800

commercial break

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #1 (Jackpots - Level 2)
In 2012, Russia revealed the existence of a giant asteroid crater in Siberia, beneath which lies "trillions of carats" of what?
A - gold
B - pearls
C - diamonds
D - platinum

"

Spoiler

Pearls

aren't measured in carats," Alison begins. "They're just measured by size.

Spoiler

Gold is measured in carats, but that's the purity; platinum also is measured in carats but it's purity.

She considers

Spoiler

diamonds, noting that they're measured in carats but that's also size.

She decides to jump the question.

Spoiler

Answer: C (diamonds)
Value: $1,000
Bank: $0

Alison had the answer figured out, but succumbed to first question jitters (proterotetiphobia™). Too bad; if she had pulled the trigger, she could have saved a jump for Question #10, got her entire bank, and won enough for a bathroom conversion and a cruise too!

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #8 (Time Change - Level 10)
Considering the standard time difference, which of the following would be an accurate title change for the 2011 film "Midnight in Paris"?
A - 4 p.m. in New York
B - 6 p.m. in New York
C - 8 p.m. in New York
D - 10 p.m. in New York

Alison says she's trying to figure out the time difference. She knows it's

Spoiler

five to six hours

to London and Paris is

Spoiler

one hour before that.

She decides to jump the question. Meredith asks if she was leaning toward a certain answer and Alison says

Spoiler

8 p.m. in New York.

Spoiler

Answer: B (6 p.m. in New York)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $45,600 (unchanged)

If Alison was good at time conversions, she could have figured this question out too. But she knew her limitations and wisely jumped.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Alison McManus-Miller
Tobyhanna, PA

Meredith says that the third time is the charm but for Alison it was the twelfth time. She watches the show each day with her parents. When she was in high school she wanted to be a cheerleader and it took her four times before she was chosen. Meredith asks her to demonstrate. The silver ribbon Alison wears is to honor her parents, both of whom are suffering from Alzheimer's - she's their caregiver. She wants to win enough to take them on a cruise - the boat is nice and flat and she can push them around. She waves and says she's going to win enough for the new bathroom - and the cruise.

So, the story about persistence in auditioning morphed into persistence in trying out of cheerleading, which in no way answered the question of how she got chosen for the show after (only) her twelfth attempt.

According to that story that I posted last week, Alison was part of that experiment they set up for an episode of "What Would You Do?" That appearance apparently gave her extra points in the casting process, yet this went entirely unremarked during the bantering with Meredith.

I forget, have they already aired another contestant from that gimmick, making it stale conversational material?

http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.d ... /304110340

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #1 (Jackpots - Level 2)
In 2012, Russia revealed the existence of a giant asteroid crater in Siberia, beneath which lies "trillions of carats" of what?
A - gold
B - pearls
C - diamonds
D - platinum

"

Spoiler

Pearls

aren't measured in carats," Alison begins. "They're just measured by size.

Spoiler

Gold is measured in carats, but that's the purity; platinum also is measured in carats but it's purity.

She considers

Spoiler

diamonds, noting that they're measured in carats but that's also size.

She decides to jump the question.

Spoiler

Answer: C (diamonds)
Value: $1,000
Bank: $0

Here's a link to that story, which apparently made the news last September after being a classified secret for decades.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/h ... -1.1162011

They say these are industrial-grade "impact diamonds" which aren't of value in jewelry, but "trillions of carats" sounds like a hugely valuable resource.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #6 (Cute as a Button - Level 7)
Buttons that read "I Heart Darcy" are sold at the gift shop in a Bath, England attraction called what?
A - The William Shakespeare Center
B - The Charles Dickens Center
C - The Jane Austen Center
D - The Oscar Wilde Center

Alison has been there. They sell water there that tastes terrible.

Spoiler

Answer: C (The Jane Austen Center)
Value: $3,000
Bank: $43,600

Dang! There goes a chance to chat about the Bored's very own Mr. Darcy and my personal connection to Mr. Dickens!

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Alison McManus-Miller
Tobyhanna, PA

Meredith says that the third time is the charm but for Alison it was the twelfth time. She watches the show each day with her parents. When she was in high school she wanted to be a cheerleader and it took her four times before she was chosen. Meredith asks her to demonstrate. The silver ribbon Alison wears is to honor her parents, both of whom are suffering from Alzheimer's - she's their caregiver. She wants to win enough to take them on a cruise - the boat is nice and flat and she can push them around. She waves and says she's going to win enough for the new bathroom - and the cruise.

Twelfth time? So what was different that time than all the others?

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #1 (Jackpots - Level 2)
In 2012, Russia revealed the existence of a giant asteroid crater in Siberia, beneath which lies "trillions of carats" of what?
A - gold
B - pearls
C - diamonds
D - platinum

"

Spoiler

Pearls

aren't measured in carats," Alison begins. "They're just measured by size.

Spoiler

Gold is measured in carats, but that's the purity; platinum also is measured in carats but it's purity.

She considers

Spoiler

diamonds, noting that they're measured in carats but that's also size.

She decides to jump the question.

Spoiler

Answer: C (diamonds)
Value: $1,000
Bank: $0

A wasted lifeline. She'll regret not having this later.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #2 (One Across - Level 1)
"Estimated," "refund," "April" and "fifteenth" are four answers to a crossword puzzle available on what U.S. agency's website?
A - FBI
B - NASA
C - IRS
D - EPA

Spoiler

Answer: C (IRS)
Value: $100
Bank: $100

Yeah, I'm sure people going to the IRS site are looking for fun things to do.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #4 (TV on TV - Level 8)
In a bit of obvious homage, one of the characters in the HBO series "Girls" has a poster of what other TV show up in her apartment?
A - Six Feet Under
B - The Sopranos
C - Sex and the City
D - The Wire

Alison says that "Girls" has been compared to another HBO series then says that all four of the choices are HBO shows. She adds that the last time her sister came to New York she made Alison take photos of her in front of

Spoiler

every "Sex and the City" poster she found.

Spoiler

Answer: C (Sex and the City)
Value: $15,000
Bank: $15,600

Knowing nothing about this series I'd still have gone with SatC because, as the contestant said, both shows are about girls in NYC.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #8 (Time Change - Level 10)
Considering the standard time difference, which of the following would be an accurate title change for the 2011 film "Midnight in Paris"?
A - 4 p.m. in New York
B - 6 p.m. in New York
C - 8 p.m. in New York
D - 10 p.m. in New York

Alison says she's trying to figure out the time difference. She knows it's

Spoiler

five to six hours

to London and Paris is

Spoiler

one hour before that.

She decides to jump the question. Meredith asks if she was leaning toward a certain answer and Alison says

Spoiler

8 p.m. in New York.

Spoiler

Answer: B (6 p.m. in New York)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $45,600 (unchanged)

NYC is GMT +5 and Paris is one hour past that.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #9 (Band Origins - Level 6)
According to legend, which of these rock bands got the inspiration for their name from an electrical label they saw on the back of a sewing machine?
A - U2
B - Matchbox 20
C - AC/DC
D - Steely Dan

Alison says the obvious answer is

Spoiler

AC/DC

but the question mentions a sewing machine. She decides to ask the audience.

ATA results

A - 5%
B - 3%
C - 86%
D - 6%

Alison goes with the audience.

Spoiler

Answer: C (AC/DC)
Value: $10,000
Bank: $55,600

Another wasted lifeline. Did she think that the sewing machine was a treadle type without electricity? Or maybe she was looking for "Underwriters Laboratory" (UL).

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #10 (Little Bars - Level 9)
Which of these Hershey chocolate bars is only available in miniature size, and not as a regular bar?
A - Krackel
B - Hershey's Milk
C - Special Dark
D - Mr. Goodbar

Alison hasn't been to Hershey, PA. She's not big on candy but her parents are. She has a friend who loves to buy bags of miniatures that have all of these in them. She eliminates

Spoiler

the milk one and thinks they make a special dark.

She can't decide between the remaining choices so she walks away.

Spoiler

Answer: A (Krackel)
Value: $5,000
Bank: $27,800

So I'd be at round 2 with all my lifelines. As for this question, this wasn't always the case - there were "full size" Krackel bars when I was younger. I'm not sure when (or why) Hershey stopped making them.

Question #4 (TV on TV - Level
In a bit of obvious homage, one of the characters in the HBO series "Girls" has a poster of what other TV show up in her apartment?
A - Six Feet Under
B - The Sopranos
C - Sex and the City
D - The Wire

Alison says that "Girls" has been compared to another HBO series then says that all four of the choices are HBO shows. She adds that the last time her sister came to New York she made Alison take photos of her in front of

Spoiler

every "Sex and the City" poster she found.

Spoiler

Answer: C (Sex and the City)
Value: $15,000
Bank: $15,600

ATA

Question #8 (Time Change - Level 10)
Considering the standard time difference, which of the following would be an accurate title change for the 2011 film "Midnight in Paris"?
A - 4 p.m. in New York
B - 6 p.m. in New York
C - 8 p.m. in New York
D - 10 p.m. in New York

Alison says she's trying to figure out the time difference. She knows it's

Spoiler

five to six hours

to London and Paris is

Spoiler

one hour before that.

She decides to jump the question. Meredith asks if she was leaning toward a certain answer and Alison says

Spoiler

8 p.m. in New York.

Spoiler

Answer: B (6 p.m. in New York)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $45,600 (unchanged)

Before I read the answers, I was thinking five or several hours earlier. Whew! 6 p.m., final answer.

Question #10 (Little Bars - Level 9)
Which of these Hershey chocolate bars is only available in miniature size, and not as a regular bar?
A - Krackel
B - Hershey's Milk
C - Special Dark
D - Mr. Goodbar

Alison hasn't been to Hershey, PA. She's not big on candy but her parents are. She has a friend who loves to buy bags of miniatures that have all of these in them. She eliminates

Spoiler

the milk one and thinks they make a special dark.

She can't decide between the remaining choices so she walks away.

Spoiler

Answer: A (Krackel)
Value: $5,000
Bank: $27,800

ATA and hope.

SportsFan68 wrote:

Question #10 (Little Bars - Level 9)
Which of these Hershey chocolate bars is only available in miniature size, and not as a regular bar?
A - Krackel
B - Hershey's Milk
C - Special Dark
D - Mr. Goodbar

Alison hasn't been to Hershey, PA. She's not big on candy but her parents are. She has a friend who loves to buy bags of miniatures that have all of these in them. She eliminates

Spoiler

the milk one and thinks they make a special dark.

She can't decide between the remaining choices so she walks away.

Spoiler

Answer: A (Krackel)
Value: $5,000
Bank: $27,800

ATA and hope.

You don't get two ATAs, but if you did, their response would be split between Krackel and Mr. Goodbar, so JTQ.

jarnon wrote:

SportsFan68 wrote:

Question #10 (Little Bars - Level 9)
Which of these Hershey chocolate bars is only available in miniature size, and not as a regular bar?
A - Krackel
B - Hershey's Milk
C - Special Dark
D - Mr. Goodbar

Alison hasn't been to Hershey, PA. She's not big on candy but her parents are. She has a friend who loves to buy bags of miniatures that have all of these in them. She eliminates

Spoiler

the milk one and thinks they make a special dark.

She can't decide between the remaining choices so she walks away.

Spoiler

Answer: A (Krackel)
Value: $5,000
Bank: $27,800

ATA and hope.

You don't get two ATAs, but if you did, their response would be split between Krackel and Mr. Goodbar, so JTQ.

OUch! Thanks. I lost track.