Transcript 11/17/2009 Renee Vanlandingham

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They do another full introduction of the remaining Tournament of Ten players including today's player Matt Schultz (ranked #4). They showed Sam Murray's successful answer again.

Total number of times Matt is shown in teasers before his segment: 6
His question is not shown at the beginning of the show.

Renee Vanlandingham
Pendleton, IN
High School English Teacher

No additional banter with this contestant. They show Matt and Sam playing tug-of-war with the prop $1M check. Mere says Renee is doing a great job and still has all her lifelines
Mere introduces ATE: Time magazine columnist Joel Stein

Topic Tree

Things They Carried
Down Under
Painters
What Is it?
Powerful Women
Bill Gates
Big Media
French
CELEBRITY Q
(Lyrics)
(Bowl Games)
(Word Origins)
(Health Products)
(Higher Education)
(Business)


Celebrity: Robin Roberts from ABC's Good Morning America.
$10K (CELEBRITY Q):
After much hype about his first 100 days on the job, Barack Obama marked his 100th day as U.S. president on the 29th of what month?
A. March B. April
C. May D. June

DD (:12)

DD and answer

Renee decides to Double Dip

First answer May=incorrect
Second answer was correct

B. April given at :08

$12.5K (French):
"Pamplemousse" is the French word for what fruit?
A. Strawberry B. Lemon
C. Grapefruit D. Pineapple

ATA at :23

ATA

A-14% B-8% C-33% D-45%

ATE at :15

ATE

Joel says he took French for many years, knows it is not Pineapple, and thinking A or C, thinking it is Grapefruit but "I don't want to defend that with your money"
Renee tells Joel that 33% of the audience thought it was grapefruit but 45% thought it was Pineapple, and she thought Pam was apple.
Joel "Well, they're wrong." (audience laughs)

answer

C. Grapefruit (:12)
audience begins clapping after she says final

leave with teaser of Matt Schultz
Commercial break
Return with teaser of Matt Schultz

Renee says her high school boyfriend said she was not good at trivia, and that motivated her to study as much trivia as she could.

$15K (Big Media):
The parent company that owns the online social network MySpace also owns what major TV network?
A. CBS B. NBC
C. ABC D. FOX

PAF at :15
Deb, Carmel, IN
David, Pendleton, IN

She chose her friend and co-worker Deb

PAF

Deb asked to repeat it and time ran out while Deb sounded like she was still trying to comprehend the question

Spoiler

Renee decided to guess D. FOX

D. FOX (:05)

$25K (Bill Gates):
Purchased by Bill Gates in 1994 for $30.8 million, the Codex Leicester is a manuscript once kept by what prominent thinker?
A. Leonardo da Vinci B. Isaac Newton
C. Blaise Pascal D. Friedrich Nietzsche

Spoiler

Renee said she might kill herself for this as it is a lot of money but she will take a total guess and go with B. Isaac Newton final answer

Mere says don't kill yourself for this, but it is not Newton.

A. Leonardo da Vinci (:05)

Missed on $25K- Fell to $5000.

They show the next contestant Kim Burress instead of ToT Matt Schultz.

Commercial break

[Snaxx]

$25K (Bill Gates):
Purchased by Bill Gates in 1994 for $30.8 million, the Codex Leicester is a manuscript once kept by what prominent thinker?
A. Leonardo da Vinci B. Isaac Newton
C. Blaise Pascal D. Friedrich Nietzsche

Spoiler

Renee said she might kill herself for this as it is a lot of money but she will take a total guess and go with B. Isaac Newton final answer

Mere says don't kill yourself for this, but it is not Newton.

A. Leonardo da Vinci (:05)

Missed on $25K- Fell to $5000.

If I had to guess I would also have went with the English guy because Leicester is there. Tough question unless it is supposed to be rather well-known in trivia circles.

[clem21]

$12.5K (French):
"Pamplemousse" is the French word for what fruit?
A. Strawberry B. Lemon
C. Grapefruit D. Pineapple

ATA at :23

ATA

A-14% B-8% C-33% D-45%

ATE at :15

ATE

Joel says he took French for many years, knows it is not Pineapple, and thinking A or C, thinking it is Grapefruit but "I don't want to defend that with your money"
Renee tells Joel that 33% of the audience thought it was grapefruit but 45% thought it was Pineapple, and she thought Pam was apple.
Joel "Well, they're wrong." (audience laughs)

answer

C. Grapefruit (:12)
audience begins clapping after she says final

And yet another difficult question that the contestant would've known if she'd just watched Scrubs.

Nobody ever listens to me but most of the world's trivia knowledge is contained in Scrubs.

[NellyLunatic1980]

Mere introduces ATE: Time magazine columnist Joel Stein

Boo! Bring back KenJen!

$12.5K (French):
"Pamplemousse" is the French word for what fruit?
A. Strawberry B. Lemon
C. Grapefruit D. Pineapple

Never heard of this word. I don't trust either the audience or Joel with this question, so I'll PAF.

$25K (Bill Gates):
Purchased by Bill Gates in 1994 for $30.8 million, the Codex Leicester is a manuscript once kept by what prominent thinker?
A. Leonardo da Vinci B. Isaac Newton
C. Blaise Pascal D. Friedrich Nietzsche

Spoiler

Renee said she might kill herself for this as it is a lot of money but she will take a total guess and go with B. Isaac Newton final answer

Mere says don't kill yourself for this, but it is not Newton.

A. Leonardo da Vinci (:05)

I would think that after the popularity of "The Da Vinci Code" that the word Codex would automatically trigger da Vinci's name. Besides, I don't know anybody else who had a Codex besides da Vinci.

[Jeemie]

Talk about your coincidences.

CNBC just had a special on Bill Gates tonight, where this was mentioned. I just finished watching it before reading this transcript!

Wouldn't have helped me if I had been taping this- just thought it was funny!

[clem21]

Talk about your coincidences.

CNBC just had a special on Bill Gates tonight, where this was mentioned. I just finished watching it before reading this transcript!

Wouldn't have helped me if I had been taping this- just thought it was funny!

J'ai une Tour Eiffel dans mon pantalon.

That is all.

[Estonut]

Talk about your coincidences.

CNBC just had a special on Bill Gates tonight, where this was mentioned. I just finished watching it before reading this transcript!

Wouldn't have helped me if I had been taping this- just thought it was funny!

J'ai une Tour Eiffel dans mon pantalon.

That is all.

You must like Bill Gates a lot...

[MindsofthePeople]

Celebrity: Robin Roberts from ABC's Good Morning America.
$10K (CELEBRITY Q):
After much hype about his first 100 days on the job, Barack Obama marked his 100th day as U.S. president on the 29th of what month?
A. March B. April
C. May D. June

Okay, I didn't get this right, but, only because of the little time gave me to work with on Double Dip. Easy enough. I love working with numbers. I went to the inauguration, so the date sticks out.

$12.5K (French):
"Pamplemousse" is the French word for what fruit?
A. Strawberry B. Lemon
C. Grapefruit D. Pineapple

Je parle francais (pardon the accents). Aussi, je habite a Montreal. Tres facile. Ensuite... in the meantime before the PAP exchange, I made fun of it and turned the others into French (Fraises, Limon, and Annannas [sic], respectfully)

$15K (Big Media):
The parent company that owns the online social network MySpace also owns what major TV network?
A. CBS B. NBC
C. ABC D. FOX

Dang. Pop culture. An ATA specialty. I assume they're going FOX here, though.

$25K (Bill Gates)
Purchased by Bill Gates in 1994 for $30.8 million, the Codex Leicester is a manuscript once kept by what prominent thinker?
A. Leonardo da Vinci B. Isaac Newton
C. Blaise Pascal D. Friedrich Nietzsche

I thought it's di Vinci before the choice show up, and it shows up. I'm gambling on that thought, because no-one else seems to make sense. When the thought shows up in the answers, before the answers show up... I'm going for it.

So, I'd be at 50K with ATE (who seems good for all but the Aussie question), google PAP, and DD (which I'd make a point to use).

[MarleysGh0st]

$12.5K (French):
"Pamplemousse" is the French word for what fruit?
A. Strawberry B. Lemon
C. Grapefruit D. Pineapple

ATA at :23

ATA

A-14% B-8% C-33% D-45%

ATE at :15

ATE

Joel says he took French for many years, knows it is not Pineapple, and thinking A or C, thinking it is Grapefruit but "I don't want to defend that with your money"
Renee tells Joel that 33% of the audience thought it was grapefruit but 45% thought it was Pineapple, and she thought Pam was apple.
Joel "Well, they're wrong." (audience laughs)

answer

C. Grapefruit (:12)
audience begins clapping after she says final

A very nice save by Joel Stein! I loved his "Well, they're wrong" response.

[earendel]

They do another full introduction of the remaining Tournament of Ten players including today's player Matt Schultz (ranked #4). They showed Sam Murray's successful answer again.

Total number of times Matt is shown in teasers before his segment: 6
His question is not shown at the beginning of the show.

Renee Vanlandingham
Pendleton, IN
High School English Teacher

No additional banter with this contestant. They show Matt and Sam playing tug-of-war with the prop $1M check. Mere says Renee is doing a great job and still has all her lifelines
Mere introduces ATE: Time magazine columnist Joel Stein

Well, he's no KJ but he might do.

$15K (Big Media):
The parent company that owns the online social network MySpace also owns what major TV network?
A. CBS B. NBC
C. ABC D. FOX

PAF at :15
Deb, Carmel, IN
David, Pendleton, IN

She chose her friend and co-worker Deb

PAF

Deb asked to repeat it and time ran out while Deb sounded like she was still trying to comprehend the question

From the way that Renee phrased the question I thought Deb might be a Google PAF. Unfortunately there was missed communication between the two and the PAF call didn't go well.

Spoiler

Renee decided to guess D. FOX

D. FOX (:05)

There was a lot of ink spilled over Rupert Murdoch acquiring MySpace.

$25K (Bill Gates):
Purchased by Bill Gates in 1994 for $30.8 million, the Codex Leicester is a manuscript once kept by what prominent thinker?
A. Leonardo da Vinci B. Isaac Newton
C. Blaise Pascal D. Friedrich Nietzsche

Spoiler

Renee said she might kill herself for this as it is a lot of money but she will take a total guess and go with B. Isaac Newton final answer

Mere says don't kill yourself for this, but it is not Newton.

A. Leonardo da Vinci (:05)

A shame. I suspect she went with Newton because of the name of the book.

A total nihil obstat® for me.