Transcript 01/26/2009 Melodie Courtney

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Melodie Courtney
Ozone Park, NY
Teacher and tutor, currently with the Big Apple Circus

It is her birthday today (I assume the taping day)

Today’s ATE is Kate Snow, the anchor of ABC's "Good Morning America" weekend edition.



Topic Tree
Internet Origins
The Nobel Prize
Presidential History
Artists
Island Nations
Places to See
Musicals
Musicians
Numbers Game
Political Candidates
Kosher Foods
Organizations
Peter Pan
Dental Care
In the Toolbox


$500 (In the Toolbox):
To use the tool correctly, a stud finder should be held against a what?
A. Vase B. Wall
C. TV D. George Clooney

Spoiler

B. Wall [:08]

$1000 (Dental Care):
Dentists often use the term "bleachorexia" to describe patients fixated on doing what to their teeth?
A. Whitening them B. Capping them
C. Removing them D. Straightening them

Spoiler

A. Whitening them (:09)

$2000 (Peter Pan):
In the 1953 Disney classic "Peter Pan," Peter's outfit is primarily what color?
A. Yellow B. Black
C. Green D. Orange

Spoiler

C. Green (:11)

$3000 (Organizations):
Based in Brooklyn, NY, the Malted Barley Appreciation Society is "dedicated to the creation and appreciation of good" what?
A. Coffee B. Wine
C. Tea D. Beer

Spoiler

D. Beer (:11)

$5000 (Kosher Foods):
Soy Vey is a supermarket brand that makes a kosher variety of what?
A. Tabasco sauce B. Pasta sauce
C. Teriyaki sauce D. Cocktail sauce

ATA at :06

ATA

A-10% B-12% C-73% D-5%

Spoiler

C. Teriyaki sauce (:04)

$7500 (Political Candidates):
Which of these Fox News hosts was a candidate for U.S. president in 2008?
A. Sean Hannity B. Greta Van Susteren
C. Mike Huckabee D. Bill O'Reilly

Spoiler

C. Mike Huckabee [:18]

$10K (Numbers Game):
Which of the following is equal in number to the number of items in a baker's dozen?
A. Original U.S. colonies B. Human senses
C. Continents on Earth D. Deadly sins

Spoiler

A. Original U.S. colonies (:22)

$12.5K (Musicians):
What jazz legend's familiar nickname is a shortened version of "satchel mouth," a reference to his large mouth?
A. Count Basie B. Charles Mingus
C. Duke Ellington D. Louis Armstrong

Spoiler

D. Louis Armstrong (:22)

$15K (Musicals):
In which of these classic musicals does Franklin Delano Roosevelt appear as a character?
A. South Pacific B. Annie
C. Guys and Dolls D. Damn Yankees

ATE at :17

Spoiler

Kate Snow said she is good at musicals and was in some. Then the question was revealed.
Kate says she was never in any of these musicals. She saw Annie and Damn Yankees some time ago, but can't eliminate them for sure.
Annie took place during Herbert Hoover so she thinks wrong generation; Damn Yankees was in the 40s,
would guess South Pacific, war theme, did not see Guys and Dolls...

Double Dip at:10

DD and answer

First answer South Pacific.

She then says Guys and Dolls?, Mere says final? and as time runs out :00 she says Damn Yankees final answer.

B. Annie (:00)

Melodie left with $5000.

[Kazoo65]

I guess she couldn't associate "soy" with teriyaki sauce. I was able to. I bet a New York audience would have known the musical question. I've only seen one of the four-"Annie" (a very long time ago) but remembered that FDR is a character in it. Once again, the Expert proved to be unhelpful to the contestant.

Nihil obstat* for me.

[MarleysGh0st]

$15K (Musicals):
In which of these classic musicals does Franklin Delano Roosevelt appear as a character?
A. South Pacific B. Annie
C. Guys and Dolls D. Damn Yankees

ATE at :17

Spoiler

Kate Snow said she is good at musicals and was in some. Then the question was revealed.
Kate says she was never in any of these musicals. She saw Annie and Damn Yankees some time ago, but can't eliminate them for sure.
Annie took place during Herbert Hoover so she thinks wrong generation; Damn Yankees was in the 40s,
would guess South Pacific, war theme, did not see Guys and Dolls...

Double Dip at:10

DD and answer

First answer South Pacific.

She then says Guys and Dolls?, Mere says final? and as time runs out :00 she says Damn Yankees final answer.

B. Annie (:00)

Melodie left with $5000.

As soon as she said she'd performed in musicals, I guessed that "But not in these!" was coming.

So, she never gave a definite answer, but she ruled out the right one definitely. What do we call that, a Negative Dursting?

Hoover and FDR would be different generations?

[Kazoo65]

Yeah, that Hoover-FDR different generation comment made me cringe. That's the kind of logic I see on 5th Grader.

[gsabc]

Watching Melodie from the stands as I was, I saw that musicals topic and truly wished I'd had that stack. I would have had to use the ATA at $7500, though. The mind focused more on "Fox News" than on the names of the people involved, and I could make the connection between Huckabee and the election.

They left out a lot from her banter. I think I've mentioned that she said she had not told her children she was taping the show. When she had auditioned, she got home, told the family she'd passed the test and gotten the interview, and her kids immediately started picking out stuff they wanted to buy with Mom's winnings. So that day, she got the kids out the door and off to school, and took off for the studio. I keep wondering if she told them about the taping before Christmas. Imagine the greed going on for the potential Christmas gifts!

[MarleysGh0st]

They left out a lot from her banter. I think I've mentioned that she said she had not told her children she was taping the show. When she had auditioned, she got home, told the family she'd passed the test and gotten the interview, and her kids immediately started picking out stuff they wanted to buy with Mom's winnings. So that day, she got the kids out the door and off to school, and took off for the studio. I keep wondering if she told them about the taping before Christmas. Imagine the greed going on for the potential Christmas gifts!

Holy cow! They left that story out!?

Of course, it's your fault, Gordon, because they had to squeeze that $25K question of yours into the episode!

[kayrharris]

I've seen the movie Annie so many times, I can't believe the "expert" and the contestant
both missed this! My kids loved that movie and we just about wore it out when they were
little. It's a major part of the movie. I haven't seen it as a play but surely the part is in that as well.
Maybe I'm just showing my age.

kay

[gsabc]

I've seen the movie Annie so many times, I can't believe the "expert" and the contestant
both missed this! My kids loved that movie and we just about wore it out when they were
little. It's a major part of the movie. I haven't seen it as a play but surely the part is in that as well.
Maybe I'm just showing my age.

kay

It also spawns my favorite line of the movie, where Daddy Warbucks invites FDR for dinner and he unexpectedly accepts. Warbucks's comment: "I wonder what Democrats eat ..."

[jarnon]

Melodie Courtney
Ozone Park, NY
Teacher and tutor, currently with the Big Apple Circus

Ozone Park is within the city limits of New York, so WE/WE®. At least she's a teacher.

Today’s ATE is Kate Snow, the anchor of ABC's "Good Morning America" weekend edition.

I watch GMA Weekend, and I thought Kate would be a helpful expert. I was wrong, as I was about Ali Wentworth.

$5000 (Kosher Foods):
Soy Vey is a supermarket brand that makes a kosher variety of what?
A. Tabasco sauce B. Pasta sauce
C. Teriyaki sauce D. Cocktail sauce

ATA at :06

ATA

A-10% B-12% C-73% D-5%

Spoiler

C. Teriyaki sauce (:04)

The NYC audience recognized "oy vey" as a Jewish expression, so they focused on the "soy" and correctly answered teriyaki sauce. I wonder what non-kosher brands of teriyaki sauce are made of.

[ulysses5019]

$500 (In the Toolbox):
To use the tool correctly, a stud finder should be held against a what?
A. Vase B. Wall
C. TV D. George Clooney

I thought the joke answer would be:

D. lb

[silverscreenselect]

Hoover and FDR would be different generations?

Interesting that on Jeopardy tonight, one of the categories was something like "inauguration Trivia" and the question was to identify the two presidents seen in the photo on the way to an inauguratioh in a car together (it was Hoover and FDR).

[MarleysGh0st]

Hoover and FDR would be different generations?

Interesting that on Jeopardy tonight, one of the categories was something like "inauguration Trivia" and the question was to identify the two presidents seen in the photo on the way to an inauguratioh in a car together (it was Hoover and FDR).

Yeah, I just noticed that when I played the episode from my DVR, this morning!

[MarleysGh0st]

Melodie Courtney
Ozone Park, NY
Teacher and tutor, currently with the Big Apple Circus

Ozone Park is within the city limits of New York, so WE/WE®. At least she's a teacher.

Are there no teachers Elsewhere?

[littlebeast13]

$500 (In the Toolbox):
To use the tool correctly, a stud finder should be held against a what?
A. Vase B. Wall
C. TV D. George Clooney

I thought the joke answer would be:

D. lb

Sprots would have chosen someone else....

lb13

[MarleysGh0st]

$500 (In the Toolbox):
To use the tool correctly, a stud finder should be held against a what?
A. Vase B. Wall
C. TV D. George Clooney

I thought the joke answer would be:

D. lb

Sprots would have chosen someone else....

lb13

Found it.

[NellyLunatic1980]

Melodie Courtney
Ozone Park, NY
Teacher and tutor, currently with the Big Apple Circus

WE/WE® and a teacher... very interesting.

Nihil obstat®