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Mike Saliba
Detroit, MI
Tea salesman

Mike says that when one is as good as he is, one sells a lot of tea. Cedric asks if it's like "other leafy things" that people sell. Mike says it is, because they get hooked. "The first one's free," Mike jokes.

Topic Tree (unrandomized):
10 - Months of the Year
9 - Incognito and Yeasty
8 - Best of the Best
7 - In Translation
6 - Nepotism Caught on Film
5 - Table Manners
4 - Not For Sale
3 - Seashore Oddities
2 - Flick It Good
1 - Just My Size

Topic Tree (randomized):
4 - Not For Sale
8 - Best of the Best
5 - Table Manners
10 - Months of the Year
2 - Flick It Good
9 - Incognito and Yeasty
6 - Nepotism Caught on Film
7 - In Translation
3 - Seashore Oddities
1 - Just My Size

Question #1 (Just My Size - Level 1):
Visitors can try onclothes, strut a runway and bake virtual cupcakes in a pink 27,000 sq. foot Berlin recreation of the what?
A - Buzz Lightyear Command Center
B - Star Wars Millenium Falcon
C - G.I. Joe Headquarters
D - Barbie Dreamhouse

Mike immediately goes with an answer.

Spoiler

Answer: D (Barbie Dreamhouse)
Value: $5,000
Bank: $5,000

Cedric says that there are two locations, the second in south Florida.

Question #2 (Seashore Oddities - Level 3):
High concentrations of the mineral olivine are what make the sand at Hawaii's Papakolea Beach uniquely what?
A - red
B - green
C - purple
D - orange

Mike wasn't expecting any of those answers. He decides to jump the question.

Spoiler

Answer: B (green)
Value: $100
Bank: $5,000 (unchanged)

Question #3 (In Translation - Level 7):
Elaine Steinbeck liked to tell a story about asking a bookstore owner in Japan for anything by her husband, at which point he offered her what mistranslated title?
A - The Rye is Caught
B - Mr. Gatsby is Magnificent
C - The Angry Raisins
D - The Man Is Too Old for Lolita

Mike calls himself marginally literate, but he believes that Steinbeck wrote

Spoiler

"The Grapes of Wrath"

.

Spoiler

Answer: C (The Angry Raisins)
Value: $2,000
Bank: $7,000

Question #4 (Nepotism Caught on Film - Level 6):
One of Will Smith's real-life children was cast as his on-screen offspring in all but which of these movies?
A - The Pursuit of Happyness
B - I Am Legend
C - After Earth
D - Hancock

Mike said he didn't think Will Smith's character had any children in

Spoiler

Hancock

. He just finished watching

Spoiler

I Am Legend

and he rules out

Spoiler

The Pursuit of Happiness

. He said he heard about

Spoiler

After Earth, in a tone that indicated he shared the general view. Cedric replied, "No he di-unt"

.

Spoiler

Answer: D (Hancock)
Value: $25,000
Bank: $32,000

That would take Mike a couple months to earn selling tea.

Question #5 (Incognito and Yeasty - Level 9):
What famous stagecoach robber wore a flour sack over his head and left taunting poems behine?
A - Black Bart
B - Willie Sutton
C - Pretty Boy Floyd
D - Butch Cassidy

Mike wonders if

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Pretty Boy Floyd

is a robber or a boxer. He says if it was

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Butch Cassidy, it would have been in the movie and he doesn't think it was, although he hasn't seen it in a while

. He doesn't know who

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Willie Sutton

is, and he's still confused about

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Pretty Boy Floyd - then he says, "Wait, wasn't he like a mobster, wasn't he?"

. Mike decides to ask the audience.

Ask the Audience results

A - 18%
B - 34%
C - 14%
D - 34%

[NOTE: As the music plays, Cedric says the audience doesn't look too sure of itself and Mike jokes that he should have checked for cowboy hats.]
Mike ponders the results and decides to go with

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B

.

Spoiler

Answer: A (Black Bart)
Value: not revealed
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

Cedric says that Black Bart was also known for missing two front teeth. Maybe that's why he wore the flour sack.

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Question #2 (Seashore Oddities - Level 3):
High concentrations of the mineral olivine are what make the sand at Hawaii's Papakolea Beach uniquely what?
A - red
B - green
C - purple
D - orange

Mike wasn't expecting any of those answers. He decides to jump the question.

Spoiler

Answer: B (green)
Value: $100
Bank: $5,000 (unchanged)

When black wasn't there, I took a closer look at the question. "Olive" -- hm. Must be green.

Question #3 (In Translation - Level 7):
Elaine Steinbeck liked to tell a story about asking a bookstore owner in Japan for anything by her husband, at which point he offered her what mistranslated title?
A - The Rye is Caught
B - Mr. Gatsby is Magnificent
C - The Angry Raisins
D - The Man Is Too Old for Lolita

Mike calls himself marginally literate, but he believes that Steinbeck wrote

Spoiler

"The Grapes of Wrath"

.

Spoiler

Answer: C (The Angry Raisins)
Value: $2,000
Bank: $7,000

What a great story!

Question #4 (Nepotism Caught on Film - Level 6):
One of Will Smith's real-life children was cast as his on-screen offspring in all but which of these movies?
A - The Pursuit of Happyness
B - I Am Legend
C - After Earth
D - Hancock

Mike said he didn't think Will Smith's character had any children in

Spoiler

Hancock

. He just finished watching

Spoiler

I Am Legend

and he rules out

Spoiler

The Pursuit of Happiness

. He said he heard about

Spoiler

After Earth, in a tone that indicated he shared the general view. Cedric replied, "No he di-unt"

.

Spoiler

Answer: D (Hancock)
Value: $25,000
Bank: $32,000
That would take Mike a couple months to earn selling tea.

Guess I better brush up on movies. I knew nothing about After Earth or Hancock. ATA.

Question #5 (Incognito and Yeasty - Level 9):
What famous stagecoach robber wore a flour sack over his head and left taunting poems behind?
A - Black Bart
B - Willie Sutton
C - Pretty Boy Floyd
D - Butch Cassidy

Mike wonders if

Spoiler

Pretty Boy Floyd

is a robber or a boxer. He says if it was

Spoiler

Butch Cassidy, it would have been in the movie and he doesn't think it was, although he hasn't seen it in a while

. He doesn't know who

Spoiler

Willie Sutton

is, and he's still confused about

Spoiler

Pretty Boy Floyd - then he says, "Wait, wasn't he like a mobster, wasn't he?"

. Mike decides to ask the audience.

Ask the Audience results

A - 18%
B - 34%
C - 14%
D - 34%

[NOTE: As the music plays, Cedric says the audience doesn't look too sure of itself and Mike jokes that he should have checked for cowboy hats.]
Mike ponders the results and decides to go with

Spoiler

B

.

Spoiler

Answer: A (Black Bart)
Value: not revealed
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

Cedric says that Black Bart was also known for missing two front teeth. Maybe that's why he wore the flour sack.

Black Bart, because he's the only stagecoach robber there.

JTQ questions 4 and 5.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: Mike Saliba
Detroit, MI
Tea salesman

Mike says that when one is as good as he is, one sells a lot of tea. Cedric asks if it's like "other leafy things" that people sell. Mike says it is, because they get hooked. "The first one's free," Mike jokes.

Not the most exciting hook.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #2 (Seashore Oddities - Level 3):
High concentrations of the mineral olivine are what make the sand at Hawaii's Papakolea Beach uniquely what?
A - red
B - green
C - purple
D - orange

Mike wasn't expecting any of those answers. He decides to jump the question.

Spoiler

Answer: B (green)
Value: $100
Bank: $5,000 (unchanged)

He didn't make the connection between "olivine" and "olive green".

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #4 (Nepotism Caught on Film - Level 6):
One of Will Smith's real-life children was cast as his on-screen offspring in all but which of these movies?
A - The Pursuit of Happyness
B - I Am Legend
C - After Earth
D - Hancock

Mike said he didn't think Will Smith's character had any children in

Spoiler

Hancock

. He just finished watching

Spoiler

I Am Legend

and he rules out

Spoiler

The Pursuit of Happiness

. He said he heard about

Spoiler

After Earth, in a tone that indicated he shared the general view. Cedric replied, "No he di-unt"

.

Spoiler

Answer: D (Hancock)
Value: $25,000
Bank: $32,000

That would take Mike a couple months to earn selling tea.

I didn't think the protagonist in "I Am Legend" had any children. I didn't see the movie so I guess maybe the child was shown in flashbacks.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #5 (Incognito and Yeasty - Level 9):
What famous stagecoach robber wore a flour sack over his head and left taunting poems behine?
A - Black Bart
B - Willie Sutton
C - Pretty Boy Floyd
D - Butch Cassidy

Mike wonders if

Spoiler

Pretty Boy Floyd

is a robber or a boxer. He says if it was

Spoiler

Butch Cassidy, it would have been in the movie and he doesn't think it was, although he hasn't seen it in a while

. He doesn't know who

Spoiler

Willie Sutton

is, and he's still confused about

Spoiler

Pretty Boy Floyd - then he says, "Wait, wasn't he like a mobster, wasn't he?"

. Mike decides to ask the audience.

Ask the Audience results

A - 18%
B - 34%
C - 14%
D - 34%

[NOTE: As the music plays, Cedric says the audience doesn't look too sure of itself and Mike jokes that he should have checked for cowboy hats.]
Mike ponders the results and decides to go with

Spoiler

B

.

Spoiler

Answer: A (Black Bart)
Value: not revealed
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

Cedric says that Black Bart was also known for missing two front teeth. Maybe that's why he wore the flour sack.

I know Sutton's a bank robber and so is Floyd. Like Mike I figured a detail like this would have been in "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid." However at the Hot Podium I'd have used a JTQ.