Transcript: 9/10/2008 Eric Cunningham
Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 4:47 pm
Eric Cunningham
Brooklyn, NY
Works for VH1 (on "Best Week Ever")
Has won $4,000, and has threel of his lifelines left (PAF, DD and ATE). Bill Nye is still the Expert. His category tree:
Great Thinkers
The Internet
Word Origins
Politics
Cable TV
Who Am I?
Anniversaries
Famous Quotes
(Internal Medicine)
(Finance)
(Star Wars)
(Universities)
(Games)
(Inventions)
(In the Kitchen) (Ed. Note: I'm using the parentheses to denote that that question has already been asked. YMMV.)
$8,000 (Famous Quotes): Dan Rather once famously defined an intellectual as "someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of" whom?
A: Superman B. The Lone Ranger
C: Captain Kirk D: Perry Mason
$16,000 (Anniversaries): In what year did America celebrate the sesquicentennial anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence?
A: 1826 B: 1851
C: 1926 D: 1951
Eric calls for his PAF with 17 seconds left. His three choices are Eric's brother, Andrew, a Peace Corps volunteer from Roanoke, VA; Eric's roommate Jared, a creative manager from Brooklyn, NY; and Norman, a talent producer who works with Eric at VH1, from NY, NY. Eric chooses his brother Andrew. Meredith and Andrew spend a long time discussing his photo (Andrew has a knife in his mouth like a pirate, although he's not dressed as one). Eric gives the question without the choices, and Andrew tells him "sesquicentennial" means 150 years. When Eric asks for him to do the math, Andrew responds, "You do the math!" then hems and haws without giving the year before time runs out. Eric then gives the right answer when the clock starts.
COMMERCIAL BREAK
$25,000 (Who Am I?): Who is Kimbo Slice?
A: Professional fighter B: Heavy metal drummer
C: U.S. Army general D: Celebrity chef
Meredith mentions that the clock now goes to 45 seconds per question, and if Eric gets to the $1MM question, all of the banked time gets added in (currently 2:18).
$50,000 (Cable TV): In 2008, 78-year-old Sue Johanson ended her six-year run as the host of a sex-ed TV show called what?
A: Sex, Etc. B: Sex Therapy
C: Talk Sex D: The Sexpert
Eric chooses to use his DD lifeline with 35 seconds to go. His first choice is B: Sex Therapy, which is incorrect. He then chooses the correct answer.
COMMERCIAL BREAK
Meredith introduces the on-decker, Ellenne Webber from Minneapolis.
$100,000 (Politics): In 2008, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama squared off in Democratic presidential debates in all but which of these cities?
A: Austin, TX B: Minneapolis, MN
C: Cleveland, OH D: Philadelphia, PA
Eric chooses to use his last lifeline, ATE, with 36 seconds left. Bill says he remembers that they debated in all but Minneapolis, with a comfort level of "better than half, but more than 90, then swigs a dry-ice fogged beaker of water. (To this transcriber/geek, this is actually pretty cute.) Eric says he trusted Bill Nye the Science Guy when he was younger, so he's going to trust him now.
COMMERCIAL BREAK
$250,000 (Word Origins): Who coined the word "pandemonium" as a name for the capital of Hell?
A: St. Augustine B: Dante Aligheri
C: John Milton D: William Blake
Eric admits to not having read most of these. With 1 second left (actually, no time, since he didn't say final), Eric says he'll walk away.
THE HORN SOUNDS.
Answers and Time Remaining (sec):
$8,000: B. The Lone Ranger (23)
$16,000: C. 1926 (12)
$25,000: A. Professional fighter (21)
$50,000: C. Talk Sex (32)
$100,000: B: Minneapolis, MN (28)
$250,000: B. John Milton
Brooklyn, NY
Works for VH1 (on "Best Week Ever")
Has won $4,000, and has threel of his lifelines left (PAF, DD and ATE). Bill Nye is still the Expert. His category tree:
Great Thinkers
The Internet
Word Origins
Politics
Cable TV
Who Am I?
Anniversaries
Famous Quotes
(Internal Medicine)
(Finance)
(Star Wars)
(Universities)
(Games)
(Inventions)
(In the Kitchen) (Ed. Note: I'm using the parentheses to denote that that question has already been asked. YMMV.)
$8,000 (Famous Quotes): Dan Rather once famously defined an intellectual as "someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of" whom?
A: Superman B. The Lone Ranger
C: Captain Kirk D: Perry Mason
$16,000 (Anniversaries): In what year did America celebrate the sesquicentennial anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence?
A: 1826 B: 1851
C: 1926 D: 1951
Eric calls for his PAF with 17 seconds left. His three choices are Eric's brother, Andrew, a Peace Corps volunteer from Roanoke, VA; Eric's roommate Jared, a creative manager from Brooklyn, NY; and Norman, a talent producer who works with Eric at VH1, from NY, NY. Eric chooses his brother Andrew. Meredith and Andrew spend a long time discussing his photo (Andrew has a knife in his mouth like a pirate, although he's not dressed as one). Eric gives the question without the choices, and Andrew tells him "sesquicentennial" means 150 years. When Eric asks for him to do the math, Andrew responds, "You do the math!" then hems and haws without giving the year before time runs out. Eric then gives the right answer when the clock starts.
COMMERCIAL BREAK
$25,000 (Who Am I?): Who is Kimbo Slice?
A: Professional fighter B: Heavy metal drummer
C: U.S. Army general D: Celebrity chef
Meredith mentions that the clock now goes to 45 seconds per question, and if Eric gets to the $1MM question, all of the banked time gets added in (currently 2:18).
$50,000 (Cable TV): In 2008, 78-year-old Sue Johanson ended her six-year run as the host of a sex-ed TV show called what?
A: Sex, Etc. B: Sex Therapy
C: Talk Sex D: The Sexpert
Eric chooses to use his DD lifeline with 35 seconds to go. His first choice is B: Sex Therapy, which is incorrect. He then chooses the correct answer.
COMMERCIAL BREAK
Meredith introduces the on-decker, Ellenne Webber from Minneapolis.
$100,000 (Politics): In 2008, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama squared off in Democratic presidential debates in all but which of these cities?
A: Austin, TX B: Minneapolis, MN
C: Cleveland, OH D: Philadelphia, PA
Eric chooses to use his last lifeline, ATE, with 36 seconds left. Bill says he remembers that they debated in all but Minneapolis, with a comfort level of "better than half, but more than 90, then swigs a dry-ice fogged beaker of water. (To this transcriber/geek, this is actually pretty cute.) Eric says he trusted Bill Nye the Science Guy when he was younger, so he's going to trust him now.
COMMERCIAL BREAK
$250,000 (Word Origins): Who coined the word "pandemonium" as a name for the capital of Hell?
A: St. Augustine B: Dante Aligheri
C: John Milton D: William Blake
Eric admits to not having read most of these. With 1 second left (actually, no time, since he didn't say final), Eric says he'll walk away.
THE HORN SOUNDS.
Answers and Time Remaining (sec):
$8,000: B. The Lone Ranger (23)
$16,000: C. 1926 (12)
$25,000: A. Professional fighter (21)
$50,000: C. Talk Sex (32)
$100,000: B: Minneapolis, MN (28)
$250,000: B. John Milton