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Tony Hightower
Astoria, NY
Tony has one $100,000. He returned with one lifeline left: Ask the Audience.

$250,000 :
In Wikipedia's current logo, depicting a spherical jigsaw puzzle, which Greek letter
is seen on the piece immediately to the left of the one bearing a "W"?
A: Alpha B: Delta
C: Omega D: Zeta

Spoiler

Tony had a guess before the choices came up, and it's there.
ATA:
A: 28% - B: 12% - C: 50% - D: 10%
The audience gave the answer Tony was thinking.
C: Omega

First commercial.

Chris says that he's new at this, and HE'S about to faint.
Tony says that before this point, TCONA has been the most pressure-packed trivia contest in which he has participated.

$500,000 :
The longest word penned by Shakespeare,
"honorificabilitudinitatibus" is spoken by a clown in what play?
A: The Tempest B: Measure for Measure
C: The Taming of the Shrew D: Love's Labour's Lost

Chris earns praise from Tony for nailing the pronunciation of the word.

Spoiler

Tony's wife is an English scholar, but Shakespeare is not a strong point for Tony.
Tony rules out The Tempest, and has a guess, narrowing it down to B or D, but can't remember which one has a clown.
Tony has always had a weird relationship with clowns, and this doesn't help.
Tony chooses to walk with $250,000.

D: Love's Labour's Lost

Second commercial.

I don't usually comment on the questions but these two would have been dream questions for me:

I have a visual memory so knew the answer $250K immediately.

As soon as I saw the $500K one I said, "Oh, that's easy; there's only one with a clown."

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$500,000 :
The longest word penned by Shakespeare,
"honorificabilitudinitatibus" is spoken by a clown in what play?
A: The Tempest B: Measure for Measure
C: The Taming of the Shrew D: Love's Labour's Lost

Chris earns praise from Tony for nailing the pronunciation of the word.

Spoiler

Tony's wife is an English scholar, but Shakespeare is not a strong point for Tony.
Tony rules out The Tempest, and has a guess, narrowing it down to B or D, but can't remember which one has a clown.
Tony has always had a weird relationship with clowns, and this doesn't help.
Tony chooses to walk with $250,000.

D: Love's Labour's Lost

Bob Juch wrote:As soon as I saw the $500K one I said, "Oh, that's easy; there's only one with a clown."

They don't make $500K questions that easy. What about:

• Trinculo in The Tempest?
• Pompey in Measure for Measure?
• Grumio in The Taming of the Shrew?

Bob Juch wrote:I don't usually comment on the questions but these two would have been dream questions for me:

I have a visual memory so knew the answer $250K immediately.

As soon as I saw the $500K one I said, "Oh, that's easy; there's only one with a clown."

I think all of the plays listed have clowns in them.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Tony Hightower
Astoria, NY
Tony has one $100,000. He returned with one lifeline left: Ask the Audience.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$250,000 :
In Wikipedia's current logo, depicting a spherical jigsaw puzzle, which Greek letter
is seen on the piece immediately to the left of the one bearing a "W"?
A: Alpha B: Delta
C: Omega D: Zeta

Spoiler

Tony had a guess before the choices came up, and it's there.
ATA:
A: 28% - B: 12% - C: 50% - D: 10%
The audience gave the answer Tony was thinking.
C: Omega

I do a lot of reading on Wikipedia and knew this one right away.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$500,000 :
The longest word penned by Shakespeare,
"honorificabilitudinitatibus" is spoken by a clown in what play?
A: The Tempest B: Measure for Measure
C: The Taming of the Shrew D: Love's Labour's Lost

Chris earns praise from Tony for nailing the pronunciation of the word.

Spoiler

Tony's wife is an English scholar, but Shakespeare is not a strong point for Tony.
Tony rules out The Tempest, and has a guess, narrowing it down to B or D, but can't remember which one has a clown.
Tony has always had a weird relationship with clowns, and this doesn't help.
Tony chooses to walk with $250,000.

D: Love's Labour's Lost

Last year I won a door prize at a trivia contest - it was a book about Shakespearean trivia. I read through it and this was one of the items included.

So I have two lifelines as I approach the $1M question.