Transcript 05/07/09 - Seth Green

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Famous Names Week

Seth Green
New Haven, CT

Seth loves having his name, but when people find out he's not the famous Seth Green, he's a walking disappointment at times.

Question Topics:
* Hello, Dolly!
* Breaking Barriers
* Veto Power
* Vintage Books
* Body Piercings
* How Unusual
* Political Families
* Three of a Kind
* For the Birds
* Web Surfing
* AKA
* Weight Watchers
* Warning!
* Mind Over Manners
* What a Zoo

$100 * What a Zoo
As the letters "Z-O-O" indicate, an epizootic is a disease that spreads quickly among whom?

A: Students B: Animals
C: Small children D: Senators

Answer

B: Animals ( 8 )

$200 * Mind Over Manners
In her "Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior," which of these phrases does Miss Manners not include on her list of polite "Magic Words"?

A: Please B: Pardon me
C: Shut up D: You're welcome

Answer

C: Shut up ( 7 )

$300 * Warning!
Citing potentially dangerous levels of caffeine, researchers at Johns Hopkins University recently called for warning labels on what?

A: Barbecue sauce B: Salad dressing
C: Yogurt D: Energy drinks

Answer

D: Energy drinks ( 6 )

$500 * Weight Watchers
Which of these objects weighs roughly 45.52 carats?

A: Rosetta stone B: Michelangelo's David
C: Plymouth Rock D: Hope diamond

Answer

D: Hope diamond ( 5 )

$1,000 * AKA
Vice President Dick Cheney's passion for fly-fishing earned him what fitting Secret Service code name?

A: Angler B: Trapper
C: Tracker D: Fencer

Answer

A: Angler ( 8 )

-- Commercial Break --

Seth has his own fan; his wife Caitlyn is in the audience, wearing an "I [heart] Seth Green" t-shirt.
They met while students at Princeton. Seth ran for vice president of his freshman class at Princeton, but he lost, partly because he let people know he wasn't the actor.

$2,000 * Web Surfing
Though it sounds like it's dedicated to a field of science, Chemistry.com is actually a Web site for people who want to do what?

A: Read sports scores B: Buy used books
C: Find people to date D: Rent movies

Answer

C: Find people to date ( 21 )

$4,000 * For the Birds
By definition, which of the following is true of a person who is pigeon-toed?

A: Their feet turn outward B: Their feet turn inward
C: Their toes curl upward D: Their knees bow outward

With 12 seconds left, Seth decides to Ask The Audience.

ATA: A: 12% B: 85% C: 2% D: 1%

Answer

B: Their feet turn inward ( 9 )

$8,000 * Three of a Kind
The date with the rare abbreviation "08/08/08" fell on what day of the week?

A: Monday B: Wednesday
C: Friday D: Saturday

With 21 seconds left, Seth decides to Phone A Friend.

Seth's PAF team are his friend, Megan, New York, NY; his buddy, Alan, Washington, DC; and his pal, Ania, New Haven, CT. Seth calls Alan. He paraphrases the question, asking for the day of the week of August 8, 2008.

Alan: Ummm, let me see. Friday. Friday.

Seth: Your 100%?

Alan: I'm 100% because my dad's birthday is August 1.

Seth: Okay, I will say Friday--

Meredith: Wa-wa-wa-wait! I'm going to start the clock, then.

Answer

C: Friday ( 19)

-- Commercial Break --

$16,000 * Political Families
Which of the following is the actual name of a prominent political figure's son?

A: Al Gore III B: Ted Kennedy III
C: Mike Huckabee III D: Bob Dole III

With 9 seconds left, Seth decides to use his lifeline and "Double Down".

Seth's first answer is

Spoiler

A: Al Gore

.

Answer

A: Al Gore III ( 9 )

-- The Horn --

Seth will return on tomorrow's show.

[gsabc]

$8,000 * Three of a Kind
The date with the rare abbreviation "08/08/08" fell on what day of the week?

A: Monday B: Wednesday
C: Friday D: Saturday

I realize this was taped not too long after the date, but seriously, how are you supposed to figure it out quickly? Unless like me and the PAF, you have a special day near it to which you can refer.

[bazodee]

08/08/08 was the day of the Opening Ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics. Media made a big deal of how lucky the number 8 is in the Chinese culture.

Still, it takes a little leap to know that Opening Ceremonies are always on Fridays ....

[clem21]

08/08/08 was the day of the Opening Ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics. Media made a big deal of how lucky the number 8 is in the Chinese culture.

Still, it takes a little leap to know that Opening Ceremonies are always on Fridays ....

This one was easy for me b/c I always have to tape the opening ceremonies because they are always shown after sundown on Friday nights which is after the Sabbath starts....

[NellyLunatic1980]

$1,000 * AKA
Vice President Dick Cheney's passion for fly-fishing earned him what fitting Secret Service code name?

A: Angler B: Trapper
C: Tracker D: Fencer

Dick Cheney has a passion for a different activity... and it doesn't involve a fishing pole.

Nihil obstat® so far.

[MarleysGh0st]

08/08/08 was the day of the Opening Ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics. Media made a big deal of how lucky the number 8 is in the Chinese culture.

Still, it takes a little leap to know that Opening Ceremonies are always on Fridays ....

Yeesh. A contestant is supposed to remember the Chinese obsession with the lucky number '8' that led them to selecting that date for the opening ceremony, then remember that the opening ceremony was on a Friday, all in 30 seconds, without any hint in the clue about the Olympics, for $8,000?

WWOQ under the circumstances. Doubly so for the home viewers, now that all these months have passed.

[MarleysGh0st]

$8,000 * Three of a Kind
The date with the rare abbreviation "08/08/08" fell on what day of the week?

A: Monday B: Wednesday
C: Friday D: Saturday

With 21 seconds left, Seth decides to Phone A Friend.

Seth's PAF team are his friend, Megan, New York, NY; his buddy, Alan, Washington, DC; and his pal, Ania, New Haven, CT. Seth calls Alan. He paraphrases the question, asking for the day of the week of August 8, 2008.

Alan: Ummm, let me see. Friday. Friday.

Seth: Your 100%?

Alan: I'm 100% because my dad's birthday is August 1.

Seth: Okay, I will say Friday--

Meredith: Wa-wa-wa-wait! I'm going to start the clock, then.

There was a clock running at the time, Meredith, and Seth still had some time on it. It seems petty to throw away the time on that one and make him burn a couple seconds off the regular clock. Not that any contestants have reached the $1 million question, where banked time would make a difference, since The Damned Clock was added.

[frogman042]

$8,000 * Three of a Kind
The date with the rare abbreviation "08/08/08" fell on what day of the week?

A: Monday B: Wednesday
C: Friday D: Saturday

With 21 seconds left, Seth decides to Phone A Friend.

Seth's PAF team are his friend, Megan, New York, NY; his buddy, Alan, Washington, DC; and his pal, Ania, New Haven, CT. Seth calls Alan. He paraphrases the question, asking for the day of the week of August 8, 2008.

Alan: Ummm, let me see. Friday. Friday.

Seth: Your 100%?

Alan: I'm 100% because my dad's birthday is August 1.

Seth: Okay, I will say Friday--

Meredith: Wa-wa-wa-wait! I'm going to start the clock, then.

There was a clock running at the time, Meredith, and Seth still had some time on it. It seems petty to throw away the time on that one and make him burn a couple seconds off the regular clock. Not that any contestants have reached the $1 million question, where banked time would make a difference, since The Damned Clock was added.

Any remaining time on the PAF clock is unimportant. In addition, no answer can be given unless the game clock is running. The only exception is for the first of the 2 responses on the DD - so Meredith couldn't take Seth's answer while he was still using the PAF lifeline. She needed to restart TDC before his answer could be accepted.

[MarleysGh0st]

Any remaining time on the PAF clock is unimportant. In addition, no answer can be given unless the game clock is running. The only exception is for the first of the 2 responses on the DD - so Meredith couldn't take Seth's answer while he was still using the PAF lifeline. She needed to restart TDC before his answer could be accepted.

So make answering while the PAF clock is running a second exception. If TPTB are so enamoured with TDC, that makes more sense than giving contestants a few seconds of free time to state the first answer of their DD.




Or, better yet, get rid of TDC!

[tanstaafl2]

$8,000 * Three of a Kind
The date with the rare abbreviation "08/08/08" fell on what day of the week?

A: Monday B: Wednesday
C: Friday D: Saturday

With 21 seconds left, Seth decides to Phone A Friend.

Seth's PAF team are his friend, Megan, New York, NY; his buddy, Alan, Washington, DC; and his pal, Ania, New Haven, CT. Seth calls Alan. He paraphrases the question, asking for the day of the week of August 8, 2008.

Alan: Ummm, let me see. Friday. Friday.

Seth: Your 100%?

Alan: I'm 100% because my dad's birthday is August 1.

Seth: Okay, I will say Friday--

Meredith: Wa-wa-wa-wait! I'm going to start the clock, then.

Answer

C: Friday ( 19)

What the Chinese?

I did not immediately associate this Q it with the Olympics although in retrospect that might have helped and perhaps at the time of taping I might have. Fortunately having the doomsday clock rules in my head it was easy to figure out once I remembered what day in 2008 was "doomsday". At the time of taping that would have been no problem since it was still 2008. I never can remember the formula for determining doomsday for any year and even if I had I am not sure I could have done it all with TDC looming.

I would say it is undervalued but this is CindyBAM so it is pretty typical at the 8-25K range.

[Estonut]

08/08/08 was the day of the Opening Ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics. Media made a big deal of how lucky the number 8 is in the Chinese culture.

Still, it takes a little leap to know that Opening Ceremonies are always on Fridays ....

Yeesh. A contestant is supposed to remember the Chinese obsession with the lucky number '8' that led them to selecting that date for the opening ceremony, then remember that the opening ceremony was on a Friday, all in 30 seconds, without any hint in the clue about the Olympics, for $8,000?

WWOQ under the circumstances. Doubly so for the home viewers, now that all these months have passed.

I read about the Chinese obsession with 8 shortly before the Olympics, but that didn't figure into this, for me, at all. Being a regular viewer of NBC, however, I knew the answer immediately because they promoted the start of the Olympics being on 08/08/08 several times an hour for the previous 4-6 months. The ad either opened or closed (or both) with a graphic showing just the date, like many blockbuster movies do. I am also pretty sure that the Olympics typically open on Fridays and close on Sundays, 16 days later.

[peacock2121]

08/08/08 was the day of the Opening Ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics. Media made a big deal of how lucky the number 8 is in the Chinese culture.

Still, it takes a little leap to know that Opening Ceremonies are always on Fridays ....

Yeesh. A contestant is supposed to remember the Chinese obsession with the lucky number '8' that led them to selecting that date for the opening ceremony, then remember that the opening ceremony was on a Friday, all in 30 seconds, without any hint in the clue about the Olympics, for $8,000?

WWOQ under the circumstances. Doubly so for the home viewers, now that all these months have passed.

There was such a big deal made about the Olympics starting on 08/08/08. They do always start on Friday and close on Sunday. I thought that was pretty common knowledge.

[ghostjmf]

$8,000 * Three of a Kind
The date with the rare abbreviation "08/08/08" fell on what day of the week?

A: Monday B: Wednesday
C: Friday D: Saturday

With 21 seconds left, Seth decides to Phone A Friend.

Seth's PAF team are his friend, Megan, New York, NY; his buddy, Alan, Washington, DC; and his pal, Ania, New Haven, CT. Seth calls Alan. He paraphrases the question, asking for the day of the week of August 8, 2008.

Alan: Ummm, let me see. Friday. Friday.

Seth: Your 100%?

Alan: I'm 100% because my dad's birthday is August 1.

Seth: Okay, I will say Friday--

Meredith: Wa-wa-wa-wait! I'm going to start the clock, then.


[Obscure] Spoiler: Answer
C: Friday ( 19)

OK. I knew I was missing something. How was this supposed to be calculated as an "easier" (8K) Q unless you are a savant who knows all the dates back to the year squat.

I guess if you are fortunate enough to know what day July the 4th fell on last year, you could do the calculation, but even if I had remembered that (all I could remember is that it wasn't in the middle of the week last year) I couldn't in the time available.

OK, so I peeked into this thread & saw the mention of "Olympics". Great. Meredith didn't even mention that, not on my set anyway.

[Estonut]

OK, so I peeked into this thread & saw the mention of "Olympics". Great. Meredith didn't even mention that, not on my set anyway.

That's what you get for fast-forwarding through commercials on "Lawn Order!"

[earendel]

Famous Names Week

Seth Green
New Haven, CT

Seth has his own fan; his wife Caitlyn is in the audience, wearing an "I [heart] Seth Green" t-shirt. They met while students at Princeton. Seth ran for vice president of his freshman class at Princeton, but he lost, partly because he let people know he wasn't the actor.

You don't suppose they already knew that?

$8,000 * Three of a Kind
The date with the rare abbreviation "08/08/08" fell on what day of the week?

A: Monday B: Wednesday
C: Friday D: Saturday

With 21 seconds left, Seth decides to Phone A Friend.

Seth's PAF team are his friend, Megan, New York, NY; his buddy, Alan, Washington, DC; and his pal, Ania, New Haven, CT. Seth calls Alan. He paraphrases the question, asking for the day of the week of August 8, 2008.

Alan: Ummm, let me see. Friday. Friday.

Seth: Your 100%?

Alan: I'm 100% because my dad's birthday is August 1.

Seth: Okay, I will say Friday--

Meredith: Wa-wa-wa-wait! I'm going to start the clock, then.

Answer

C: Friday ( 19)

This seems like a WWOQ - how would anyone know that off the top of his or her head? And given the time constraint in the HS it would be tough to figure out. I'd PAF also.