Transcript 11/08/07 - Harry Pappas
Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 8:11 pm
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Harry Pappas
West Boylston, MA
Meredith: How are you doing, Harry?
Harry: I am well.
Meredith: Good! A New Englander, huh, from Massachusetts.
Harry: Go Red Sox!
Meredith: Go Red Sox, okay!
Audience: [Mixed applause and boos.]
Meredith: Be nice! Harry is our guest, okay?
$2,000
In Archie comics, Forsythe Pendleton Jones III is known to his friends by what more folksy nickname?
A: Jughead B: Moose
C: Bingo D: Pop
$4,000
In 1971, the New York Times published excerpts of top-secret Vietnam War documents, commonly known as the what?
A: White House Papers B: Senate Papers
C: Supreme Court Papers D: Pentagon Papers
ATA: A: 7% B: 1% C: 1% D: 91%
Harry: Right on! I was almost on top of that and I said, "Nope, I'm gonna to blow it."
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Doug Ackerman - Apple Valley, MN
Shayna Beck - Salisbury, NH
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Gordon Matts - Lebanon, IN
-- Commercial Break --
Harry came here, in part, to dispel a myth.
Harry: The myth, as I've told my kids, just because there's snow on the roof, that doesn't mean the fire is out.
Harry has been married to his wife for 53 years.
Harry: She's a gem!
Harry's son, Aris (sp?), is in the audience.
$8,000
Named the 2006 Word of the Year by the American Dialect Society, "to pluto" something means to do what?
A: Embrace it B: Add it to something else
C: Devalue it D: Look inside it
50/50 leaves C & D.
Harry: All right, I'm going to look to what happened to poor Pluto, so I'm going to go with devalue it, final answer.
$16,000
Often referenced in rap songs, what alcoholic beverage was originally created in 1876 for Czar Alexander II?
A: Hennessy B: Bacardi
C: Courvoisier D: Cristal
Harry calls Mary, a friend of theirs. He repeats the choices twice.
Mary: Okay, I know it's not Bacardi. I'm between Hennessey--
Harry: I'm leaning very strongly towards Courvoisier but I can't have enough certitude to do it, Meredith, so I guess on these questions, catch up to you. So I think I'm going to have to say, thanks a lot!
Harry walks with $8,000.
Millionaire's Grand Giveaway $1,000 Winners
Louise Davis - Oakley, MI
Carrie Delp - Harleysville, PA
Veronica Derosier - Cape Coral, FL
Edward Markowitz - Pueblo, CO
Tara Simonic - Phoenixville, PA
-- Commercial Break --
Answers:
$2,000: A: Jughead
$4,000: D: Pentagon Papers
$8,000: C: Devalue it
$16,000: D: Cristal
Harry Pappas
West Boylston, MA
Meredith: How are you doing, Harry?
Harry: I am well.
Meredith: Good! A New Englander, huh, from Massachusetts.
Harry: Go Red Sox!
Meredith: Go Red Sox, okay!
Audience: [Mixed applause and boos.]
Meredith: Be nice! Harry is our guest, okay?
$2,000
In Archie comics, Forsythe Pendleton Jones III is known to his friends by what more folksy nickname?
A: Jughead B: Moose
C: Bingo D: Pop
$4,000
In 1971, the New York Times published excerpts of top-secret Vietnam War documents, commonly known as the what?
A: White House Papers B: Senate Papers
C: Supreme Court Papers D: Pentagon Papers
ATA: A: 7% B: 1% C: 1% D: 91%
Harry: Right on! I was almost on top of that and I said, "Nope, I'm gonna to blow it."
Millionaire's Grand Giveaway $1,000 Winners
Doug Ackerman - Apple Valley, MN
Shayna Beck - Salisbury, NH
Sonya Beckley -Benld, IL
Cassy Jordan - Pueblo, CO
Gordon Matts - Lebanon, IN
-- Commercial Break --
Harry came here, in part, to dispel a myth.
Harry: The myth, as I've told my kids, just because there's snow on the roof, that doesn't mean the fire is out.
Harry has been married to his wife for 53 years.
Harry: She's a gem!
Harry's son, Aris (sp?), is in the audience.
$8,000
Named the 2006 Word of the Year by the American Dialect Society, "to pluto" something means to do what?
A: Embrace it B: Add it to something else
C: Devalue it D: Look inside it
50/50 leaves C & D.
Harry: All right, I'm going to look to what happened to poor Pluto, so I'm going to go with devalue it, final answer.
$16,000
Often referenced in rap songs, what alcoholic beverage was originally created in 1876 for Czar Alexander II?
A: Hennessy B: Bacardi
C: Courvoisier D: Cristal
Harry calls Mary, a friend of theirs. He repeats the choices twice.
Mary: Okay, I know it's not Bacardi. I'm between Hennessey--
Harry: I'm leaning very strongly towards Courvoisier but I can't have enough certitude to do it, Meredith, so I guess on these questions, catch up to you. So I think I'm going to have to say, thanks a lot!
Harry walks with $8,000.
Millionaire's Grand Giveaway $1,000 Winners
Louise Davis - Oakley, MI
Carrie Delp - Harleysville, PA
Veronica Derosier - Cape Coral, FL
Edward Markowitz - Pueblo, CO
Tara Simonic - Phoenixville, PA
-- Commercial Break --
Answers:
$2,000: A: Jughead
$4,000: D: Pentagon Papers
$8,000: C: Devalue it
$16,000: D: Cristal