Transcript 12/22/2017 - Clayton Finney
Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2018 10:25 am
WHIZ KIDS WEEK (again)
Clayton Finney
Pompano Beach, FL
Clayton is a future engineer and scored in the 97th percentile on his PSAT. For Whiz Kids Week Clayton gets a 4th lifeline, Cut the Question, usable up to the $50,000 question.
$500: A veteran of more than a dozen Pixar feature films, John Ratzenberger voiced what animated piggy bank in all three "Toy Story" movies?
A - Hamm
B - Chickenn
C - Beeff
D - Goatt
$1000: Predating Lara Croft by 3,000 years, National Geographic noted that what crime is "as old as the PHaraohs" and has recently worsened in Egypt and Syria?
A - tomb raiding
B - telemarketing fraud
C - car theft
D - computer hacking
$2000: Horses have a system of ligaments, tendons and muscles known as a "stay apparatus," which allows them to do what?
A - sleep while standing
B - eat while running
C - whinny while rolling
D - kick while jumping
clayton asks the audience.
$3000: Ironically not true about the word itself, what adjective describes a word that is spelled the way it sounds?
A - funetic
B - phonetic
C - fahnetic
D - phanetique
commercial break
$5000: What novel has been called a more realistic version of "The Coral Island," a book where boys get stranded on an island, but everything works out in the end?
A - Last of the Mohicans
B - Lord of the Flies
C - Call of the Wild
D - Oliver Twist
He read this in English class this year.
$7000: If Sam buys a $400 iPhone from the Apple Store at 25% off, and then sells it to Suzy for 30% off what he paid, how much will Suzy pay for the phone?
A - $100
B - $210
C - #220
D - $270
Sam runs through the math and comes up with the answer.
Sam compted on a math team and was the youngest member of the team.
$10,000: Similar to the 3-headed Cerberus of Greek mythology, the legendary Norse figure Garm, guardian of the gates of the underworld, is what type of creature?
A - lion
B - bear
C - horse
D - dog
commercial break
MILLIONAIRE "QUESTION OF THE DAY"When Jimmy Kimmel ws a radio disc jockey in California, what future star worked for him as a teenaged intern?:
A - Zach Galifianakis
B - Carson Daly
C - Dave Chappelle
D - Ryan Seacrest
commercial break
$20,000: Captain Christopher Jones was at the helm of which of these historic crafts?
A - Hindenburg
B - Mayflower
C - Titanic
D - Enola Gay
Clayton eliminates. Clayton decides to cut the question.
$20,000: Of the various types of blood vessels, which take oxygen-poor blood back to the heart?
A - arteries
B - veins
C - capillaries
D - cilia
Clayton has never heard of
Clayton Finney
Pompano Beach, FL
Clayton is a future engineer and scored in the 97th percentile on his PSAT. For Whiz Kids Week Clayton gets a 4th lifeline, Cut the Question, usable up to the $50,000 question.
$500: A veteran of more than a dozen Pixar feature films, John Ratzenberger voiced what animated piggy bank in all three "Toy Story" movies?
A - Hamm
B - Chickenn
C - Beeff
D - Goatt
Spoiler
Answer: A (Hamm)
$1000: Predating Lara Croft by 3,000 years, National Geographic noted that what crime is "as old as the PHaraohs" and has recently worsened in Egypt and Syria?
A - tomb raiding
B - telemarketing fraud
C - car theft
D - computer hacking
Spoiler
Answer: A (tomb raiding)
$2000: Horses have a system of ligaments, tendons and muscles known as a "stay apparatus," which allows them to do what?
A - sleep while standing
B - eat while running
C - whinny while rolling
D - kick while jumping
clayton asks the audience.
Spoiler
Ask the Audience results:
A - 95%
B - 0%
C - 0%
D - 5%
A - 95%
B - 0%
C - 0%
D - 5%
Spoiler
Answer: A (sleep while standing)
$3000: Ironically not true about the word itself, what adjective describes a word that is spelled the way it sounds?
A - funetic
B - phonetic
C - fahnetic
D - phanetique
Spoiler
Answer: B (phonetic)
commercial break
$5000: What novel has been called a more realistic version of "The Coral Island," a book where boys get stranded on an island, but everything works out in the end?
A - Last of the Mohicans
B - Lord of the Flies
C - Call of the Wild
D - Oliver Twist
He read this in English class this year.
Spoiler
Answer: B (Lord of the Flies)
$7000: If Sam buys a $400 iPhone from the Apple Store at 25% off, and then sells it to Suzy for 30% off what he paid, how much will Suzy pay for the phone?
A - $100
B - $210
C - #220
D - $270
Sam runs through the math and comes up with the answer.
Spoiler
Answer: B ($210)
Sam compted on a math team and was the youngest member of the team.
$10,000: Similar to the 3-headed Cerberus of Greek mythology, the legendary Norse figure Garm, guardian of the gates of the underworld, is what type of creature?
A - lion
B - bear
C - horse
D - dog
Spoiler
Answer: D (dog)
commercial break
MILLIONAIRE "QUESTION OF THE DAY"When Jimmy Kimmel ws a radio disc jockey in California, what future star worked for him as a teenaged intern?:
A - Zach Galifianakis
B - Carson Daly
C - Dave Chappelle
D - Ryan Seacrest
Spoiler
Answer: B (Carson Daly)
commercial break
$20,000: Captain Christopher Jones was at the helm of which of these historic crafts?
A - Hindenburg
B - Mayflower
C - Titanic
D - Enola Gay
Clayton eliminates
Spoiler
Enola Gay because it's a plane, and the Hindenberg comes from Germany and that's not a German mame
Spoiler
Answer: B (Mayflower)
$20,000: Of the various types of blood vessels, which take oxygen-poor blood back to the heart?
A - arteries
B - veins
C - capillaries
D - cilia
Clayton has never heard of
Spoiler
cilia, so he eliminates it[/spoiler. He calls down his +1, his sister Chase. She knows a lot but anatomy and biology aren't her strong suits. She's thinking . She is trying to remember what she learned in 2nd grade about the heart.Clayton considers using the 50:50 but Chase says if it ends up A & B that won't help. Chase knows that . Clayton trusts his sister.
Spoiler
veins send blood out to the rest of the body, so she's leaning toward arteries
Spoiler
capillaries are very small and doesn't know what cilia are
Spoiler
Answer: B (veins)
Clayton leaves with $5,000.
Clayton leaves with $5,000.