Transcript 02/24/2009 Mary Flaherty

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Mary Flaherty
Gloucester, MA
College professor
Has two daughters, age 16 and 9, three dogs, and is engaged to be married
Often answers the phone calling her place "Casa de Chaos"

Topic Tree
Patently False
Don't Eat Me
Literary Beginnings
Chieftains
Look What I Found
Geometric Figures
Foreign Fashion
Russian Leaders
Battle Sites
Suds
Be Warned
You Rule!
The Right Stuff
School Supplies
Let's Play!


$100 (Let's Play!):
What type of plaything is often built using a steel frame, oversized springs and a jumping mat?
A. Swing B. Slide
C. Trampoline D. Grandpa's Knee-3000

Spoiler

C. Trampoline (:07)

$200 (School Supplies):
Which of these school supplies is sometimes referred to as a "straightedge"?
A. Globe B. Ruler
C. Stapler D. Pencil sharpener

Spoiler

B. Ruler [:08]

$300 (The Right Stuff):
Often attributed to department store magnate Marshall Field, a common saying claims that what person "is always right"?
A. The retailer B. The wholesaler
C. The manufacturer D. The customer

Spoiler

D. The customer [:08]

$500 (You Rule!):
What part of the world is home to a country whose ruling family is known as the House of Saud?
A. Arctic Circle B. Middle East
C. Western Europe D. Sub-Saharan Africa

Spoiler

B. Middle East (:07)

$1000 (Be Warned):
Which of these ailments can be avoided by heeding the common household warning, "When in doubt, throw it out"?
A. Sore throat B. Food poisoning
C. Earache D. Sunburn

Spoiler

B. Food poisoning (:07)

Commercial Break

The show a picture of Mary's two daughters
Mary would like a new house; her future husband is in a wheelchair and they would need an accessible place.

Meredith introduced the expert, Ashleigh Banfield, Emmy-winner, international correspondent and cohost of TruTv’s “Banfield & Ford: Courtside.”


$2000 (Suds):
What beer company has a 9000-year lease on its historic Dublin, Ireland brewery?
A. Heineken B Foster's
C. Grolsch D. Guinness

Spoiler

D. Guinness (:23)

$4000 (Battle Sites):
Located near a famous WWII battle site, the Midway Islands are situated in the central part of what body of water?
A. Atlantic Ocean B. Bering Sea
C. Pacific Ocean D. Indian Ocean

Spoiler

C. Pacific Ocean (:07)

$8000 (Russian Leaders):
Vladimir Putin, who stepped down as Russian president in 2008, shares his first name with what other famous Soviet leader?
A. Lenin B. Stalin
C. Khrushchev D. Yeltsin

Spoiler

A. Lenin (:23)

$16K (Foreign Fashion):
In the U.S., a jumper is an apron-like dress; in England, it's a type of what?
A. Sweater B. Bag
C. Hat D. Scarf

Spoiler

A. Sweater (:24)

Commercial break


$25K (Geometric Figures):
The fortune-telling die inside a standard Magic 8 Ball is an icosahedron, meaning it has how many triangular faces?
A. 14 B. 16
C. 18 D. 20

PaF
Choices
Chrstopher, Silver Spring MD
Graham, Cambridge MA
Susan, Silver Spring MD

PAF brother Christopher (:23)

PAF

Mary just asks him how many sides an icosahedron has and spells it out. Chris says he thinks it is 20. Time runs out as Mary asks how sure.

ATA (:07)

ATA

A-14% B-33% C-30% D-23%

Spoiler

Mere reminds Mary she has two lifelines as time runs down. Mary decides to walk as time runs out.
Mary left her DD unused, which was not unusual.
Mary also left her Ask-the-Expert unused, which was quite unusual.
D. 20 (:00)

Total prize money: $16,000

Commercial break

[NellyLunatic1980]

Patently False
Don't Eat Me
Literary Beginnings
Chieftains
Look What I Found
Geometric Figures
Foreign Fashion
Russian Leaders
Battle Sites
Suds
Be Warned
You Rule!
The Right Stuff
School Supplies
Let's Play!

On their faces, many of these categories scare me.

$300 (The Right Stuff):
Often attributed to department store magnate Marshall Field, a common saying claims that what person "is always right"?
A. The retailer B. The wholesaler
C. The manufacturer D. The customer

Unless that customer is comedian Rush Limbaugh. Rush is (not) right.

I guess I had nothing to worry about. Nihil obstat® stack.

[earendel]

Mary Flaherty
Gloucester, MA
College professor
Has two daughters, age 16 and 9, three dogs, and is engaged to be married
Often answers the phone calling her place "Casa de Chaos"

I wonder what her subject is.

$16K (Foreign Fashion):
In the U.S., a jumper is an apron-like dress; in England, it's a type of what?
A. Sweater B. Bag
C. Hat D. Scarf

Spoiler

A. Sweater (:24)

Time to ATA.

$25K (Geometric Figures):
The fortune-telling die inside a standard Magic 8 Ball is an icosahedron, meaning it has how many triangular faces?
A. 14 B. 16
C. 18 D. 20

PaF
Choices
Chrstopher, Silver Spring MD
Graham, Cambridge MA
Susan, Silver Spring MD

PAF brother Christopher (:23)

PAF

Mary just asks him how many sides an icosahedron has and spells it out. Chris says he thinks it is 20. Time runs out as Mary asks how sure.

ATA (:07)

ATA

A-14% B-33% C-30% D-23%

Spoiler

Mere reminds Mary she has two lifelines as time runs down. Mary decides to walk as time runs out.
Mary left her DD unused, which was not unusual.
Mary also left her Ask-the-Expert unused, which was quite unusual.
D. 20 (:00)

Any D&D player should know this one.

[owenziligation]

No problems getting up to $16K.

25K: I think it might be C or D, but I'll ask the audience. Since they give me an indefinite percentage, I'll double dip on the two that I think.

I'd be going for $50K with PAF and ATE intact.

[MarleysGh0st]

$25K (Geometric Figures):
The fortune-telling die inside a standard Magic 8 Ball is an icosahedron, meaning it has how many triangular faces?
A. 14 B. 16
C. 18 D. 20

PaF
Choices
Chrstopher, Silver Spring MD
Graham, Cambridge MA
Susan, Silver Spring MD

PAF brother Christopher (:23)

PAF

Mary just asks him how many sides an icosahedron has and spells it out. Chris says he thinks it is 20. Time runs out as Mary asks how sure.

ATA (:07)

ATA

A-14% B-33% C-30% D-23%

Spoiler

Mere reminds Mary she has two lifelines as time runs down. Mary decides to walk as time runs out.
Mary left her DD unused, which was not unusual.
Mary also left her Ask-the-Expert unused, which was quite unusual.
D. 20 (:00)

Any D&D player should know this one.

Even though we generally just call it a twenty-sider.

I presume that Mere's reminder about the unused lifelines didn't register at all with Mary. That's a shame, because I'm sure Ashleigh would have been a great expert on geometric figures.

[MarleysGh0st]

Here's an article about Mary's appearance.

http://www.gloucestertimes.com/punews/l ... 25100.html

Flaherty, who vowed to take her family on a trip to Finland this year, said she didn't use her "Ask the Expert" lifeline because she didn't think the expert, Ashleigh Banfield, an international reporter and co-host of "Banfield & Ford: Courtside" on Tru-TV, would know the answer.

That may be true, but why not let her take a shot at it, if you're just going to walk away anyway? (And Ashleigh surprised me, knowing two of the four element symbols, yesterday.)

I wonder why the Flaherty family wants to visit Finland?

[MarleysGh0st]

Here's another paragraph about Mary's appearance. It turns out she was on Jeopardy! ten years ago.

http://www.boston.com/ae/celebrity/arti ... llionaire/

But the director of paralegal studies, who claims she has "a head full of useless information," bombed out on this question: "How many sides does an icosahedron have?" "I called my brother and he was trying to Google it, but he couldn't type fast enough," she said. "He feels terrible. He won't even watch the show."

Google PAFs need to practice! Maybe spelling icosahedron would have helped him.

But Flaherty has no regrets. She's taking one daughter on a trip to Finland, buying her other daughter a cat, and said she had a great time. "What's so terrible about that?"

Well, there seems to be a little disparity in those gifts, for one.