Transcript 02/12/10 Janet Bolinsky

[BBTranscriptTeam]

Janet Bolinsky
Grapevine, TX
Flight attendant

Today's ATE is advertising legend and television host, Donny Deutsch.

Topic Tree:

Wars
Chicago
The Last Supper
U.S. Presidents
Areas of Study
Recent Movies
The Middle East
The Olympics
Under the Sea
Words & Phrases
Fresh Food
Hot Ideas
Brand Names
Medicine
Cartoon Characters

$500 Which of these cartoon characters shares his first name with the title character of a Mark Twain novel?
A. Huckleberry Hound
B. Yogi Bear
C. Bullwinkle J. Moose
D. Krusty the Riverboat Kaptain

Spoiler

A. Huckleberry Hound (7)

$1K A surgical mask typically covers what part of the face?
A. Forehead
B. Ears
C. Mouth
D. Eyes

Spoiler

C. Mouth (10)

$2K Which of these household brands is considered one of the largest competitors of the brand Huggies?
A. Pampers
B. Colgate
C. Suave
D. Hanes

Spoiler

A. Pampers (10)

$3K Which of these scientists developed a scale for measuring temperatures that still bears his name?
A. Daniel Fahrenheit
B. Blaise Pascal
C. Tycho Brahe
D. Alexander Graham Bell

Spoiler

A. Daniel Fahrenheit (6)

$5K A sealing agent, paraffin wax is commonly used to coat and protect certain types of what food?
A. Nuts
B. Cheeses
C. Eggs
D. Breads

Spoiler

B. Cheeses (7)

commercial break

$7.5K What suffix is tacked on to the end of “fashion” to create a word meaning “a devoted follower of fashion”?
A. –old
B. –ette
C. –ista
D. –trix

Spoiler

C. –ista (24)

$10K Which of these marine mammals sports a single straight tusk that is sometimes as long as nine feet?
A. Orca
B. Bottlenose dolphin
C. Manatee
D. Narwhal

Janet is pretty sure she knows this, but want to ask the audience to be sure.

ATA (19)

6% A. Orca
15% B. Bottlenose dolphin
27% C. Manatee
52% D. Narwhal

Spoiler

D. Narwhal (16)

$12.5K Which of these states has never hosted a Summer Olympics?
A. Georgia
B. Texas
C. Missouri
D. California

ATE (17)

Donny: Well we know Georgia has, because we had the Atlanta games. We know California has, because they had the LA games.

Janet: Oh geez. I know St. Louis, I believe they hosted an Olympics, but I don’t recall if it was the summer or winter.
Uh, I live in Texas and I can’t recall…

Donny: I can’t think of anything in Texas, so I would probably go with Texas also.
I’m not recalling any Missouri one. But. Um, maybe in the old days an early winter Olympics. In the thirties or something.
Texas, you know, so many cities are newer there, so we would know about it. So I’m gonna say Texas.

DD (13)

Dolores first choice is correct.

Spoiler

B. Texas (13)

commercial break

Millionaire's You're In The Hot Seat Home Game

Today's winning answer is "Mouth."

$15K Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is frequently referred to as the “Supreme Leader” of what Middle East nation?
A. Iran
B. Jordan
C. Syria
D. Lebanon

Spoiler

A. Iran (10)

$25K The 2008 movie “Wall-E” prominently features footage and music from what classic Hollywood musical?
A. Oklahoma!
B. Hello, Dolly!
C. Singin’ in the Rain
D. Guys and Dolls

Janet hasn’t seen this movie, so she decides to leave with $15K.

Spoiler

B. Hello, Dolly! (4)

horn

Answers:
$500 A. Huckleberry Hound
$1K C. Mouth
$2K A. Pampers
$3K A. Daniel Fahrenheit
$5K B. Cheeses
$7.5K C. –ista
$10K D. Narwhal
$12.5K B. Texas
$15K A. Iran
$25K B. Hello, Dolly!

[Estonut]

BB Transcript Team: The spoiler tags for the $1000 question got mismatched, and that question currently appears in the spoilered answer for the $500 question.

$10K Which of these marine mammals sports a single straight tusk that is sometimes as long as nine feet?
A. Orca
B. Bottlenose dolphin
C. Manatee
D. Narwhal

Janet is pretty sure she knows this, but want to ask the audience to be sure.

ATA (19)

6% A. Orca
15% B. Bottlenose dolphin
27% C. Manatee
52% D. Narwhal

Spoiler

D. Narwhal (16)

I can understand that 27% mightn't know much about manatees, but 21% think that either an orca or a dolphin has a single 9-foot tusk? Sheesh...

[NellyLunatic1980]

Nihil obstat®

[MarleysGh0st]

BB Transcript Team: The spoiler tags for the $1000 question got mismatched, and that question currently appears in the spoilered answer for the $500 question.

You don't have to shout.

$10K Which of these marine mammals sports a single straight tusk that is sometimes as long as nine feet?
A. Orca
B. Bottlenose dolphin
C. Manatee
D. Narwhal

Janet is pretty sure she knows this, but want to ask the audience to be sure.

ATA (19)

6% A. Orca
15% B. Bottlenose dolphin
27% C. Manatee
52% D. Narwhal

Spoiler

D. Narwhal (16)

I can understand that 27% mightn't know much about manatees, but 21% think that either an orca or a dolphin has a single 9-foot tusk? Sheesh...

All three of those distractors sounded pretty lame to me.

The gentle manatee might get a little more respect, with a tusk like that, though...

[MarleysGh0st]

$12.5K Which of these states has never hosted a Summer Olympics?
A. Georgia
B. Texas
C. Missouri
D. California

ATE (17)

Donny: Well we know Georgia has, because we had the Atlanta games. We know California has, because they had the LA games.

Janet: Oh geez. I know St. Louis, I believe they hosted an Olympics, but I don’t recall if it was the summer or winter.
Uh, I live in Texas and I can’t recall…

Donny: I can’t think of anything in Texas, so I would probably go with Texas also.
I’m not recalling any Missouri one. But. Um, maybe in the old days an early winter Olympics. In the thirties or something.
Texas, you know, so many cities are newer there, so we would know about it. So I’m gonna say Texas.

DD (13)

Dolores first choice is correct.

Spoiler

B. Texas (13)

I wish Dolores hadn't shared her opinion until Donny had completed his recommendation. She let him off easy with the option of going along with her choice.



Has Houston gotten enough snow this year for a Winter Olympics?

[Bob Juch]

$12.5K Which of these states has never hosted a Summer Olympics?
A. Georgia
B. Texas
C. Missouri
D. California

ATE (17)

Donny: Well we know Georgia has, because we had the Atlanta games. We know California has, because they had the LA games.

Janet: Oh geez. I know St. Louis, I believe they hosted an Olympics, but I don’t recall if it was the summer or winter.
Uh, I live in Texas and I can’t recall…

Donny: I can’t think of anything in Texas, so I would probably go with Texas also.
I’m not recalling any Missouri one. But. Um, maybe in the old days an early winter Olympics. In the thirties or something.
Texas, you know, so many cities are newer there, so we would know about it. So I’m gonna say Texas.

DD (13)

Dolores first choice is correct.

Spoiler

B. Texas (13)

I wish Dolores hadn't shared her opinion until Donny had completed his recommendation. She let him off easy with the option of going along with her choice.



Has Houston gotten enough snow this year for a Winter Olympics?

Are they skiing in the Ozarks?

[megaaddict]

After the second commercial break, Meredith said something poignant about the PAFless game. Of Janet and her play to the $12.5K level, Meredith said:

Doin' a great job. Ran out of lifelines in the process, but that's okay. That's how you get to these levels.

Whether it was her intention or not, Meredith has summed up precisely what her show has become: contestants who burn up all their lifelines for a shot at $15,000 and if they are lucky $25K. And if the gods are smiling on them, $50K. And maybe once or twice a season someone will be going for six figures. The old millionaire game is history.

As of this post, it has been 10 shows (two full weeks) with no upper tier questions; twenty contestants in a row who left with less than $25K. A game show aspirant's best chances for a million dollars may now be on Wheel of Fortune.

[Kazoo65]

When do auditions start??? I knew all these-without lifelines.

[MarleysGh0st]

When do auditions start??? I knew all these-without lifelines.

Probably in late spring or early summer.

Does this mean you'll travel to an audition, this year? In Chicago, say?

[doitneatly]

$10K Which of these marine mammals sports a single straight tusk that is sometimes as long as nine feet?
A. Orca
B. Bottlenose dolphin
C. Manatee
D. Narwhal

Janet is pretty sure she knows this, but want to ask the audience to be sure.

ATA (19)

6% A. Orca
15% B. Bottlenose dolphin
27% C. Manatee
52% D. Narwhal

Spoiler

D. Narwhal (16)

And barely apropos of anything, there are some who link the narwhal - with it's single, tightly spiralled tusk - to the myth of the unicorn, typically depicted with a single, tightly spiralled horn. Obviously no one's going to mistake a whale for a horse, but one could imagine the myth starting with a horn and a tall tale...

There are certainly land animals with a single horn (a la the rhinoceros) or spiral horns (a la the kudu) but as far as I know there isn't one with naturally occurring horns that looks nearly as "unicorn-y" as the narwhal.

If it hasn't already, I keep waiting for that tidbit of trivia to appear on a gameshow. Hopefully one I'm on.

[Estonut]

BB Transcript Team: The spoiler tags for the $1000 question got mismatched, and that question currently appears in the spoilered answer for the $500 question.

You don't have to shout.

YOU CALL THAT SHOUTING??? THIS IS SHOUTING...

I was merely jumping up and down, trying to get the attention of one of the transcriptionistas...

[MarleysGh0st]

I was merely jumping up and down, trying to get the attention of one of the transcriptionistas...

We're usually quite attentive when others point out our transcription errors.

Except, perhaps, when they turn all red in the face and shout.

[frogman042]

I was merely jumping up and down, trying to get the attention of one of the transcriptionistas...

We're usually quite attentive when others point out our transcription errors.

Except, perhaps, when they turn all red in the face and shout.

How do you get a tough transcription error out? Shout it out!

[vettech]

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Janet is pretty sure she knows this, but want to ask the audience to be sure.

ARRRGGGHHH!!!!!!!!

When are they going to change the name of ATA to WAL (Waste a Lifeline)?

[tanstaafl2]

Compared to many lately this seemed like a pretty straight forward stack had they had any interest in having a person reasonably knowledgeable about trivia.

I always thought the narwhal tusk was misrepresented by the mystics, priests and con men (some might say those three things are one and the same...) of the middle ages as the horn of the unicorn rather than the narwhal itself somehow leading to the creation of the unicorn legend. If anything the unicorn legend may have came from goats which are sometimes born with a single spiral appearing horn which was the two regular horns having grown together or the immature horns being bound together to appear as one. I guess goats aren't noble enough so it was later associated with a horse-like creature.

[MarleysGh0st]

If anything the unicorn legend may have came from goats which are sometimes born with a single spiral appearing horn which was the two regular horns having grown together or the immature horns being bound together to appear as one. I guess goats aren't noble enough so it was later associated with a horse-like creature.

I don't know about that. Did you ever see ES's unicorn avatar?

[Estonut]

If anything the unicorn legend may have came from goats which are sometimes born with a single spiral appearing horn which was the two regular horns having grown together or the immature horns being bound together to appear as one. I guess goats aren't noble enough so it was later associated with a horse-like creature.

I don't know about that. Did you ever see ES's unicorn avatar?

I'm pretty sure that's a cow...

[Jeemie]

Crap.

I SAW Wall-E and couldn't remember what they showed.

Other than that, no troubles.

[earendel]

Janet Bolinsky
Grapevine, TX
Flight attendant

Today's ATE is advertising legend and television host, Donny Deutsch.

Still never heard of him.

$10K Which of these marine mammals sports a single straight tusk that is sometimes as long as nine feet?
A. Orca
B. Bottlenose dolphin
C. Manatee
D. Narwhal

Janet is pretty sure she knows this, but want to ask the audience to be sure.

ATA (19)

6% A. Orca
15% B. Bottlenose dolphin
27% C. Manatee
52% D. Narwhal

Spoiler

D. Narwhal (16)

Others have already commented on this - I also thought that the narwhal tooth was the genesis of the unicorn legend.

$12.5K Which of these states has never hosted a Summer Olympics?
A. Georgia
B. Texas
C. Missouri
D. California

ATE (17)

Donny: Well we know Georgia has, because we had the Atlanta games. We know California has, because they had the LA games.

Janet: Oh geez. I know St. Louis, I believe they hosted an Olympics, but I don’t recall if it was the summer or winter.
Uh, I live in Texas and I can’t recall…

Donny: I can’t think of anything in Texas, so I would probably go with Texas also.
I’m not recalling any Missouri one. But. Um, maybe in the old days an early winter Olympics. In the thirties or something.
Texas, you know, so many cities are newer there, so we would know about it. So I’m gonna say Texas.

DD (13)

Dolores first choice is correct.

Spoiler

B. Texas (13)

Missouri was 1904 (St. Louis)
Georgia was 1996 (Atlanta)
California was 1932 and 1984 (Los Angeles)

$15K Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is frequently referred to as the “Supreme Leader” of what Middle East nation?
A. Iran
B. Jordan
C. Syria
D. Lebanon

Spoiler

A. Iran (10)

Glad she associated "ayatollah" with "Khomeini" (the deceased former leader).

$25K The 2008 movie “Wall-E” prominently features footage and music from what classic Hollywood musical?
A. Oklahoma!
B. Hello, Dolly!
C. Singin’ in the Rain
D. Guys and Dolls

Janet hasn’t seen this movie, so she decides to leave with $15K.

Spoiler

B. Hello, Dolly! (4)

OK, I don't know this. I haven't seen the movie (I'm way behind on my Disney/Pixar flicks), so ATA.

[Estonut]

Today's ATE is advertising legend and television host, Donny Deutsch.

Still never heard of him.

Considering you hadn't heard of him (twice) when you first heard of him on Monday, your retention must not be too good...

[earendel]

Today's ATE is advertising legend and television host, Donny Deutsch.

Still never heard of him.

Considering you hadn't heard of him (twice) when you first heard of him on Monday, your retention must not be too good...

Just making the point that no matter how many times he's introduced as an "advertising legend and television host" he's still a third- or fourth-rate celebrity.

[Bob Juch]

Still never heard of him.

Considering you hadn't heard of him (twice) when you first heard of him on Monday, your retention must not be too good...

Just making the point that no matter how many times he's introduced as an "advertising legend and television host" he's still a third- or fourth-rate celebrity.

I wouldn't have cared if he was on the D List if he had been more help.