Transcript 12/10/09 - Javier Cepeda

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Javier Cepeda
New Haven, CT
Graduate student at Yale University

Javier has his own little cheering section in the audience.

Question Topics:
* The Color Wheel
* Fragrances
* Younger Years
* Olympic Athletes
* Japanese Imports
* Chicken Soup
* Musical Instruments
* Entertainers
* At the Bookstore
* Public Service Ads
* Extinct Animals
* OCD
* Small Business
* Fast Food
* In the News


$500 * In the News
During his 2009 summer vacation on Martha's Vineyard, President Obama was criticized for doing what without a helmet?

A: Swimming B: Cycling
C: Sunbathing D: Watching FOX News

Answer

B: Cycling ( 8 )

$1,000 * Fast Food
Waffle, shoestring, and crinkle cut are all different varieties of what fast food staple?

A: French fries B: Hamburgers
C: Chicken strips D: Hot dogs

Answer

A: French fries ( 9 )

$2,000 * Small Business
Which of these businesses uses needles called "liners," "magnums" and "shaders"?

A: Pizza parlor B: Tattoo parlor
C: Funeral parlor D: Ice cream parlor

Answer

B: Tattoo parlor ( 3 )

$3,000 * OCD
Affecting millions of Americans, "OCD" is the abbreviation for an illness officially known as "obsessive-compulsive" what?

A: Directive B: Debilitation
C: Disorder D: Dependency

Answer

C: Disorder ( 10 )

$5,000 * Extinct Animals
Derived from the Greek word for knife, "Smilodon" is the scientific name for what now-extinct animal?

A: Woolly mammoth B: Dodo bird
C: Giant ground sloth D: Saber-toothed tiger

With 6 seconds left, Javier decides to Ask The Audience.

ATA: A: 3% B: 4% C: 2% D: 91%

Answer

D: Saber-toothed tiger ( 4 )

-- Commercial Break --

Javier is studying epidemiology at Yale.

Meredith asks Javier how much he has in his bank account right now. Javier answers, "not much."

Besides studying epidemiology, Javier has taken some Latin dance classes, which is good exercise and also good with the ladies.

Javier: I've never heard any lady tell me she didn't like to dance with me.

Javier's cheering section, all women from Yale, cheer again. Among them is Olivia, who got Javier involved in dancing, in the first place.

$7,500 * Public Service Ads
In a famous public service ad from the '80s, a teenager shouts "I learned it by watching you!" at what person?

A: His football coach B: His teacher
C: His girlfriend D: His father

Answer

D: His father ( 11 )

$10,000 * At the Bookstore
In his 1989 bestseller "From Beirut to Jerusalem," Thomas Friedman recounts a journey he once took from Lebanon to where?

A: Syria B: Israel
C: Iraq D: Pakistan

Answer

B: Israel ( 19 )

$12,500 * Entertainers
What TV personality once had an unlikely hit with the novelty song "I've got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts"?

A: Merv Griffin B: Bob Barker
C: Regis Philbin D: Johnny Carson

With 22 seconds left, Javier decides to Ask The Expert, comedian Chuck Knight.

Chuck notes that Merv Griffin and Regis Philbin were both song and dance men. He goes with Regis Philbin.

Javier: How confident do you think are you?

Chuck: Confident? No, I'm not confident at all!


With 19 seconds left, Javier decides to Double Dip.

Javier's first answer is

Spoiler

C: Regis Philbin

.
Javier's second answer is

Spoiler

A: Merv Griffin

.

Answer

A: Merv Griffin ( 14 )

-- Commercial Break --

Sneak Peak at One of Tomorrow's Questions

$12,500
A few notes of the French national anthem, "La Marseillaise," plays at the beginning of what Beatles song?

A: All You Need Is Love B: Hello Goodbye
C: Let It Be D: Here Comes the Sun

$15,000 * Musical Instruments
Named for the letter they resemble, the two holes that often appear in the body of a violin are called what?

A: b-holes B: k-holes
C: f-holes D: y-holes

With 23 seconds left, Javier decides to Phone A Friend.

Javier's PAF team are Gaby, Memphis, TN; Gabe, New Haven, CT; and Garett, New York, NY.

Javier calls Garett.

Garett: Shoot! The b-hole--the thing that holds the violin to the strings?

Javier repeats the whole question and the answers. Seven seconds.

Garett: B--I really don't know, Javie.

Javier say it cost him 28 bucks to get down here, round trip, so he's going to walk away with a profit. He walks with $12,500.

Answer

C: f-holes ( 9 )

-- The Horn --

[NellyLunatic1980]

$15,000 * Musical Instruments
Named for the letter they resemble, the two holes that often appear in the body of a violin are called what?

A: b-holes B: k-holes
C: f-holes D: y-holes

Which begs the question, "Who are you calling an f-hole?!"

Not surprisingly, "a-holes" was missing from the choices.

Nihil obstat®

[Estonut]

$7,500 * Public Service Ads
In a famous public service ad from the '80s, a teenager shouts "I learned it by watching you!" at what person?

A: His football coach B: His teacher
C: His girlfriend D: His father

Answer

D: His father ( 11 )

$10,000 * At the Bookstore
In his 1989 bestseller "From Beirut to Jerusalem," Thomas Friedman recounts a journey he once took from Lebanon to where?

A: Syria B: Israel
C: Iraq D: Pakistan

Answer

B: Israel ( 19 )

So remembering a line and the character spouting it from a 1980's PSA is worth $7.5k, but knowing which country Jerusalem is in is worth $10k? Sheesh!!!11

[MarleysGh0st]

$7,500 * Public Service Ads
In a famous public service ad from the '80s, a teenager shouts "I learned it by watching you!" at what person?

A: His football coach B: His teacher
C: His girlfriend D: His father

Answer

D: His father ( 11 )

$10,000 * At the Bookstore
In his 1989 bestseller "From Beirut to Jerusalem," Thomas Friedman recounts a journey he once took from Lebanon to where?

A: Syria B: Israel
C: Iraq D: Pakistan

Answer

B: Israel ( 19 )

So remembering a line and the character spouting it from a 1980's PSA is worth $7.5k, but knowing which country Jerusalem is in is worth $10k? Sheesh!!!11

Yeah. OTOH, I thought Javier would be too young to remember a PSA from the '80s, so I was surprised when he got it.

[ghostjmf]

5K: Another dream Q. Under-rated; didn't need to give so much away in the Q, could have just said "what's a smilodon" for a much higher value. There's one across the street from me. Stuffed of course.

so far so good

[tanstaafl2]

$7,500 * Public Service Ads
In a famous public service ad from the '80s, a teenager shouts "I learned it by watching you!" at what person?

A: His football coach B: His teacher
C: His girlfriend D: His father

Answer

D: His father ( 11 )

$10,000 * At the Bookstore
In his 1989 bestseller "From Beirut to Jerusalem," Thomas Friedman recounts a journey he once took from Lebanon to where?

A: Syria B: Israel
C: Iraq D: Pakistan

Answer

B: Israel ( 19 )

So remembering a line and the character spouting it from a 1980's PSA is worth $7.5k, but knowing which country Jerusalem is in is worth $10k? Sheesh!!!11

Given the rampant geo-nitwitism that this show and others helps to illuminate I am rather surprised it wasn't higher!

And even more surprised that the cast member got it right...

[etaoin22]

Either "A Fistful of Dollars" or "For A Few Dollars More" movie theme song was the clubhouse theme song of the 1967 St. Louis Cardinals. Played on a tinny record player by the athlete who shared this contestant's last name.
A relative?

[Kazoo65]

OK up to $12.5 K. I'd Double Dip between Merv Griffin and Johnny Carson. I know it wasn't our friend Regis or Bob Barker-he mentions in his autobiography Priceless Memories that he can't sing.

And whose idea was it to have comedians as Experts? I'd never heard of Chuck Nice before this week. He may be nice, but he's not too brainy.

[NellyLunatic1980]

And whose idea was it to have comedians as Experts? I'd never heard of Chuck Nice before this week. He may be nice, but he's not too brainy.

But he's funny and he looks good on TV!

[MarleysGh0st]

$12,500 * Entertainers
What TV personality once had an unlikely hit with the novelty song "I've got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts"?

A: Merv Griffin B: Bob Barker
C: Regis Philbin D: Johnny Carson

With 22 seconds left, Javier decides to Ask The Expert, comedian Chuck Knight.

Chuck notes that Merv Griffin and Regis Philbin were both song and dance men. He goes with Regis Philbin.

Javier: How confident do you think are you?

Chuck: Confident? No, I'm not confident at all!


With 19 seconds left, Javier decides to Double Dip.

Javier's first answer is

Spoiler

C: Regis Philbin

.
Javier's second answer is

Spoiler

A: Merv Griffin

.

Answer

A: Merv Griffin ( 14 )

Amazing what you can find on YouTube!



If he wasn't introduced at the beginning, I'm not sure if I'd have recognized Merv.

[clem21]

$7,500 * Public Service Ads
In a famous public service ad from the '80s, a teenager shouts "I learned it by watching you!" at what person?

A: His football coach B: His teacher
C: His girlfriend D: His father

Answer

D: His father ( 11 )

$10,000 * At the Bookstore
In his 1989 bestseller "From Beirut to Jerusalem," Thomas Friedman recounts a journey he once took from Lebanon to where?

A: Syria B: Israel
C: Iraq D: Pakistan

Answer

B: Israel ( 19 )

So remembering a line and the character spouting it from a 1980's PSA is worth $7.5k, but knowing which country Jerusalem is in is worth $10k? Sheesh!!!11

Yeah. OTOH, I thought Javier would be too young to remember a PSA from the '80s, so I was surprised when he got it.

That's because you don't have to be around in the 80s. You just have to watch SCRUBS!!!!!!