Transcript 4/30/2020 - Ike Barinholtz

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Ike Barinholtz

Ike is a big fan of the show, and anything that Regis has ever touched. He remembers John Carpenter's million-dollar call to his dad. Ike is playing for Uplift Family Services. They provide assistance to low-income families dealing with mental health issues. Ike's +1 is Dave Weigel from the Washington Post. Both of them are part of a trivia league - they get 6 questions via email every day.

$100: A person who lacks confidence on the dance floor will often offer the excuse "I have two" what?
A - long arms
B - left feet
C - big hands
D - extra nipples

Spoiler

Answer: B (left feet)

$200: In "The Wizard of Oz," Dorothy is transported from Kansas to the Land of Oz by a what?
A - runaway train
B - wild horse
C - tornado
D - tsunami

Spoiler

Answer: C (tornado)

$300: Every year, a small town in Texas holds the World Champion Seed Spitting Contest during a festival for what?
A - garlic
B - watermelon
C - maple syrup
D - lettuce

Spoiler

Answer: B (watermelon)

$500: In the human body, the left lung is typically smaller than the right in order to make room for what organ?
A - bladder
B - heart
C - spleen
D - pancreas

Spoiler

Answer: B (heart)

$1000: In 1928, Amelia Earhart published a memoir offering her account of accomplishing what feat?
A - sledding to the North Pole
B - flying across the Atlantic
C - rafting down the Amazon
D - trekking through the Sahara

Spoiler

Answer: B (flying across the Atlantic)

commercial break

Ike is a comedian and does voice acting for "Bless the Harts".

$2,000: What is the only five-syllable word in the Pledge of Allegiance?
A - indiscriminate
B - immeasurable
C - indivisible
D - irrefutable

Spoiler

Answer: C (indivisible)

$4,000: Braavos and King's Landing are the two most expensive properties in a Monopoly version based on what TV show?
A - Breaking Bad
B - The Sopranos
C - Game of Thrones
D - Downton Abbey

Ike says he's a nerd and a fan of the show.

Spoiler

Answer: C (Game of Thrones)

$8,000: In addition to singing, rapping and twerking, Lizzo is also classically trained on what instrument?
A - banjo
B - trombone
C - accordion
D - flute

Ike feels good about this answer.

Spoiler

Answer: D (flute)

$16,000: Commonly served in sushi restaurants, uni is what type of seafood?
A - eel
B - sea urchin
C - tuna
D - octopus

Ike wants Dave to confim that the answer is "B".

Spoiler

Answer: B (sea urchin)

$32,000: Of the eight schools in the Ivy League, what are the only two that are located in the same state?
A - Dartmouth & Harvard
B - Brown & Yale
C - Princeton & UPenn
D - Columbia & Cornell

Ike guesses it's "D". Dave didn't get into either one, but he agrees that the answer is "D".

Spoiler

Answer: D (Columbia & Cornell)

commercial break

Ike decides to trade his "Ask the Host" lifeline for using Dave one more time.

$64,000: On the TV series "Fleabag," Andrew Scott's character is best known by what nickname?
A - naughty bartender
B - gorgeous barista
C - hot priest
D - sexy shoe salesman

Ike knows this because his wife's nickname for him is "hot rabbi".

Spoiler

Answer: C (hot priest)

$125,000: How is the "S.O.S." distress call expressed in Morse code?
A - 3 dashes, 3 dots, 3 dashes
B - 3 dots, 3 dashes, 3 dots
C - dash, 2 dots, dash
D - dot, 2 dashes, dot

This wouln't be a good question for his phone-a-friend because it's too long to explain. Jimmy says Ike really knows the game; Ike says he's a big fan, and then names Regis, Meredith, Chris Harrison, and Jimmy. Ike decides to use his "Ask Dave" lifeline. Dave says that's it's something short that can be blinked by someone in a hostage situation. He thinks it's either "C" or "D". Ike's PAF is his dad - he's older, but not Samuel Morse old. He decides to call him.

Spoiler

"Phone a Friend results": Ike reads the four choices including the letter choices. Ike's dad manages to say "dash dash dash, dot dot dot, dash dash dash" just before the time runs out.

Since Dad said "A" and Dave said "C", Ike opts for the 50:50.

Spoiler

"50:50 results": B & C

Ike has to decide if his dad mixed up the dashes and dots or if Dave is correct. Ike goes with his father's "answer".

Spoiler

Answer: B (3 dots, 3 dashes, 3 dots)

commercial break

$250,000: Which of these cardinjal directions appears in the title of a Best Picture Oscar winner?
A - north
B - south
C - east
D - west

Ike mentions "All Quiet on the Western Front". He wants to say "East of Eden" but doesn't think it won an Oscar. He also mentions "North by Northwest". He doesn't think James Dean was in a movie that won the Oscar. Ike mentions some other movies that have directions in their names. He hates to do it but he's going to walk away.

Spoiler

Answer: D (west)

Spoiler

Jimmy tells Ike the movie was "West Side Story".

[Appa23]

Probably more because the contestant is playing for a charity, but this is one of the times that I would cry foul on the show, and potentially demand that Barinholz get another chance, with his 50-50 restored.

Barinholz's Dad did not say "A". He said a choice that was not available -- dot-dot-dot, dash-dash-dash, dot-dot-dot, dash-dash-dash.

If the show had correctly relayed what the dad said, or at least not allowed Kimmel to mis-state that the dad said dash-dash-dash, dot-dot-dot, dash-dash-dash, Barinholz may have been able to discern that his dad remembered that SOS in morse code starts with 3 dots.

Having the 50-50 for the last question might have made it interesting to see if Barinholz would remember West Side Story if West was left along with any other choice but East.

Also, SOS question really is not that long of a question for a PAF. "What is morse code for SOS?", and then read answers by saying "three dots" rather than dot-dot-dot. Better, if you just used "Phone Google" like contestants in the old days, you do not even have to read the answers.

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Ike Barinholtz

Ike is a big fan of the show, and anything that Regis has ever touched. He remembers John Carpenter's million-dollar call to his dad. Ike is playing for Uplift Family Services. They provide assistance to low-income families dealing with mental health issues. Ike's +1 is Dave Weigel from the Washington Post. Both of them are part of a triva league - they get 6 questions via email every day.

I have to say that although Ike was introduced as a comedian he took the game more seriously than the other celebrities thus far.

$64,000: On the TV series "Fleabag," Andrew Scott's character is best known by what nickname?
A - naughty bartender
B - gorgeous barista
C - hot priest
D - sexy shoe salesman

Ike knows this because his wife's nickname for him is "hot rabbi".

Spoiler

Answer: C (hot priest)

Never heard of the show, so I'd ask the host.

$125,000: How is the "S.O.S." distress call expressed in Morse code?
A - 3 dashes, 3 dots, 3 dashes
B - 3 dots, 3 dashes, 3 dots
C - dash, 2 dots, dash
D - dot, 2 dashes, dot

This wouldn't be a good question for his phone-a-friend because it's too long to explain. Jimmy says Ike really knows the game; Ike says he's a big fan, and then names Regis, Meredith, Chris Harrison, and Jimmy. Ike decides to use his "Ask Dave" lifeline. Dave says that's it's something short that can be blinked by someone in a hostage situation. He thinks it's either "C" or "D". Ike's PAF is his dad - he's older, but not Samuel Morse old. He decides to call him.

Spoiler

"Phone a Friend results": Ike reads the four choices including the letter choices. Ike's dad manages to say "dash dash dash, dot dot dot, dash dash dash" just before the time runs out.

Since Dad said "A" and Dave said "C", Ike opts for the 50:50.

Spoiler

"50:50 results": B & C

Ike has to decide if his dad mixed up the dashes and dots or if Dave is correct. Ike goes with his father's "answer".

Spoiler

Answer: B (3 dots, 3 dashes, 3 dots)

I was pretty sure that Ike's dad would get this, but seemed to be confused by the choices.

$250,000: Which of these cardinal directions appears in the title of a Best Picture Oscar winner?
A - north
B - south
C - east
D - west

Ike mentions "All Quiet on the Western Front". He wants to say "East of Eden" but doesn't think it won an Oscar. He also mentions "North by Northwest". He doesn't think James Dean was in a movie that won the Oscar. Ike mentions some other movies that have directions in their names. He hates to do it but he's going to walk away.

Spoiler

Answer: D (west)

Spoiler

Jimmy tells Ike the movie was "West Side Story".

No clue, but since I still have PAF and 50:50 I'd use them, with 50:50 first.