Transcript 10/14/2009 - Dawn Ellwood

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Dawn Ellwood
Brooklyn, NY
Dawn's profession was never mentioned

Dawn has her buddy Kim and her 12-year old daughter Tara cheering in the audience. Dawn is playing this game to help save for her daughter's college education. Dawn has been trying to get on the show for a long time, and has been talking about it for some time, one of her daughter's first words was "millionaire."

Question Topics:
Inventors
Facts & Figures
Famous Lines
Across the Pond
Jazz
TV Stars
Government
Toys & Games
Helpful Hints
Clothing Stores
U.S. Locales
Mythology
Religions
Headlines
Words & Phrases

$500 - Words & Phrases
The word "hazmat" stands for hazardous what?
A: Mattress B: Mathematics
C: Material D: Matthew McConaughey

Spoiler

C: Material (9)

$1000 - Headlines
The 2009 headline "Stay out of those beds!" referred to recent health warnings labeling what as carcinogenic to humans?
A: Bunk beds B: Flower beds
C: Water beds D: Tanning beds

Spoiler

D: Tanning beds (9)

$2000 - Religions
Founded in the early 1900s in Jamaica, the Rastafari religion was popularized by what iconic musician?
A: Bob Marley B: Mick Jagger
C: Sammy Davis, Jr. D: John Lennon

Spoiler

A: Bob Marley (10)

$3000 - Mythology
Which of these household cleansers shares its name with a figure from Greek mythology?
A: Comet B: Clorox
C: Ajax D: Windex

With 10 seconds left, Dawn decides to Ask the Audience.

ATA results

ATA: A: 44% B: 1% C: 52% D: 3%

Dawn decides to answer

Spoiler

C: Ajax

.

Spoiler

C: Ajax (6)

$5,000 - U.S. Locales
Which of these U.S. capes would be the best location to see a space shuttle launch?
A: Cape Cod B: Cape Canaveral
C: Cape Hatteras D: Cape May

Spoiler

B: Cape Canaveral (8)

Dawn has earned the Ask The Expert lifeline. Today's expert is Cokie Roberts.

$7,500 - Clothing Stores
To emphasize its outdoorsy image, what clothing retailer lent its name to a special edition of Ford vehicles in the 1980s?
A: Abercrombie & Fitch B: Eddie Bauer
C: Gap D: United Colors of Benetton

Spoiler

B: Eddie Bauer (24)

$10,000 - Helpful Hints
"PEG's LAW" is a helpful mnemonic for remembering the names of the seven what?
A: Deadly sins B: Continents
C: Colors of the rainbow D: Dwarfs

With 18 seconds remaining, Dawn decides to Ask the Expert.

ATE discussion

Cokie says fairly quickly that she thinks it's the dwarves, but Dawn points out that "Dopey" would seem to invalidate this answer. Dawn knows it's not the rainbow, and she and Cokie agree that it can't be the continents either.

Dawn decides to answer

Spoiler

A

.

Spoiler

A: Deadly sins (15)

-- Commercial Break --

Tomorrow Teaser

$10,000
Two current U.S. Supreme Court justices share which of these first names?
A: Clarence B: Stephen
C: John D: Samuel

$12,500 - Toys & Games
Which of these objects is not part of the Rube Goldberg-esque contraption at the center of the classic board game "Mouse Trap"?
A: Metal marble B: Bathtub
C: Bucket D: Bicycle

With 22 seconds remaining, Dawn decides to Double Dip.

DD action

Her first answer is D.

.

Spoiler

D: Bicycle ( )

$15,000 - Government
On proposed bills, what is the minimum number of votes needed in the U.S. Senate to gain a "supermajority," and end a filibuster?
A: 55 B: 60
C: 75 D: 80

With 24 seconds remaining, Dawn decides to Phone a Friend, her Brother-in-law Ed.

PAF discussion

Dawn reads the question and choices, verbatim, in 11 seconds. She suggests that she thinks it's "60", and her brother-in-law agrees with her as the clock runs down.

Dawn answers

Spoiler

B:60

.

Spoiler

B: 60 (23)

HORN

Dawn will return tomorrow to go for $25,000.

The ToT leaderboard is unchanged from the previous day:
1. Jehan Shamsid-Deen $250K – 2:09
2. Keilani Goggins $100K - 1:53
3. Jeff Birt $100K - 1:53
4. Matt Schultz $100K - 2:28
5. Tim Janus $100K - 2:44
6. Ralph Cambeis $50K - 1:13
7. Robin Schwartz $50K - 1:40
8. Alex Ortiz $50K - 2:19
9. Fred Roberts $50K - 2:27
10. Benny Shum $50K - 2:29

edited to clean up a minor formatting error

[NellyLunatic1980]

Dawn Ellwood
Brooklyn, NY

WE®

Nihil obstat® so far.

[MarleysGh0st]

$15,000 - Government
On proposed bills, what is the minimum number of votes needed in the U.S. Senate to gain a "supermajority," and end a filibuster?
A: 55 B: 60
C: 75 D: 80

With 24 seconds remaining, Dawn decides to Phone a Friend, her Brother-in-law Ed.

PAF discussion

Dawn reads the question and choices, verbatim, in 11 seconds. She suggests that she thinks it's "60", and her brother-in-law agrees with her as the clock runs down.

Dawn answers

Spoiler

B:60

.

Spoiler

B: 60 (23)

Ed from Hoboken...well, how about that?

For the first time in the history of the show, I recognized a PAF who's a buddy of mine, and not a Bored Buddy!

You cut that googling a little close to the wire, Ed, but you got the job done!

[earendel]

Dawn Ellwood
Brooklyn, NY
Dawn's profession was never mentioned

Perhaps not, but she's at least a WE®.

Dawn has her buddy Kim and her 12-year old daughter Tara cheering in the audience. Dawn is playing this game to help save for her daughter's college education. Dawn has been trying to get on the show for a long time, and has been talking about it for some time, one of her daughter's first words was "millionaire."

Hmmm...if the daughter is 12, then Dawn must have been talking about the show since PTBAM days. That's a hopeful sign.

$3000 - Mythology
Which of these household cleansers shares its name with a figure from Greek mythology?
A: Comet B: Clorox
C: Ajax D: Windex

With 10 seconds left, Dawn decides to Ask the Audience.

ATA results

ATA: A: 44% B: 1% C: 52% D: 3%

Dawn decides to answer

Spoiler

C: Ajax

.

Spoiler

C: Ajax (6)

Uh, oh, this is one time the "second strong answer" choice would have been a bad thing.

$10,000 - Helpful Hints
"PEG's LAW" is a helpful mnemonic for remembering the names of the seven what?
A: Deadly sins B: Continents
C: Colors of the rainbow D: Dwarfs

With 18 seconds remaining, Dawn decides to Ask the Expert.

ATE discussion

Cokie says fairly quickly that she thinks it's the dwarves, but Dawn points out that "Dopey" would seem to invalidate this answer. Dawn knows it's not the rainbow, and she and Cokie agree that it can't be the continents either.

Dawn decides to answer

Spoiler

A

.

Spoiler

A: Deadly sins (15)

This was a good use of the lifeline - Dawn reasoned through it with some input from the expert, indicating that absent TDC® she could have come up with the answer by herself.

$12,500 - Toys & Games
Which of these objects is not part of the Rube Goldberg-esque contraption at the center of the classic board game "Mouse Trap"?
A: Metal marble B: Bathtub
C: Bucket D: Bicycle

With 22 seconds remaining, Dawn decides to Double Dip.

DD action

Her first answer is D.

.

Spoiler

D: Bicycle ( )

I loved this game. I'm sure someone will post a picture of the gameboard.

$15,000 - Government
On proposed bills, what is the minimum number of votes needed in the U.S. Senate to gain a "supermajority," and end a filibuster?
A: 55 B: 60
C: 75 D: 80

With 24 seconds remaining, Dawn decides to Phone a Friend, her Brother-in-law Ed.

PAF discussion

Dawn reads the question and choices, verbatim, in 11 seconds. She suggests that she thinks it's "60", and her brother-in-law agrees with her as the clock runs down.

Dawn answers

Spoiler

B:60

.

Spoiler

B: 60 (23)

As Meredith pointed out this has been in the news a lot, which means that Dawn doesn't pay close attention to politics.

[MarleysGh0st]

$12,500 - Toys & Games
Which of these objects is not part of the Rube Goldberg-esque contraption at the center of the classic board game "Mouse Trap"?
A: Metal marble B: Bathtub
C: Bucket D: Bicycle

With 22 seconds remaining, Dawn decides to Double Dip.

DD action

Her first answer is D.

.

Spoiler

D: Bicycle ( )

I loved this game. I'm sure someone will post a picture of the gameboard.

Don't you have minions for that?

[earendel]

$12,500 - Toys & Games
Which of these objects is not part of the Rube Goldberg-esque contraption at the center of the classic board game "Mouse Trap"?
A: Metal marble B: Bathtub
C: Bucket D: Bicycle

With 22 seconds remaining, Dawn decides to Double Dip.

DD action

Her first answer is D.

.

Spoiler

D: Bicycle ( )

I loved this game. I'm sure someone will post a picture of the gameboard.

Don't you have minions for that?

Minions? I? Not hardly. Thanks.

[frogman042]

Here in Austin, they have something called the Maker Faire (I believe it orginiated in San Jose, but branched out to Austin) and they had a lifesize Mousetrap setup that was way-cool: http://lifesizemousetrap.wordpress.com/

[NellyLunatic1980]

Here in Austin, they have something called the Maker Faire (I believe it orginiated in San Jose, but branched out to Austin) and they had a lifesize Mousetrap setup that was way-cool: http://lifesizemousetrap.wordpress.com/

So you mean somebody actually

Spoiler

built a better Mousetrap

?

[drew scheeler]

It's the Inspector!. oh wait, wrong Mousetrap...