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Transcript 02/18/10 - Judy Nisson

#1 Post by BBTranscriptTeam » Thu Feb 18, 2010 8:06 pm

Judy Nisson
Saranac Lake, NY
Hot dog vendor


Judy has a hot dog cart across from the Olympic Center in Lake Placid. Because of the weather, she can only operate that six months of the year. She's like some money to find a storefront in which she could be open year round.

Question Topics:
* 1555
* The Supremes
* War Heroes
* Search Engines
* The Wild West
* Agatha Christie
* Explorers
* Kid Lit
* The Animal Kingdom
* Out of Print
* Talk Shows
* Congress
* Multimedia
* Government
* Pop Stars


$500 * Pop Stars
Fittingly, what did Britney Spears do as a child on "Star Search"?

A: Tell jokes B: Sing
C: Juggle D: Call her Ken doll "K-Fed"
Answer
B: Sing ( 6 )
$1,000 * Government
In informal gathering at which a government official hears from a group of constituents is known as what type of "meeting"?

A: Town Hall B: Police Station
C: Supreme Court D: State House
Answer
A: Town Hall ( 9 )
$2,000 * Multimedia
The magazine "The Knot" and the associated Web site theknot.com are both geared primarily towards people doing what?

A: Buying cars B: Looking for jobs
C: Studying for tests D: Planning weddings
Answer
D: Planning weddings ( 8 )
$3,000 * Congress
In 2009, a "cash-for-clunkers" bill was proposed in Congress to encourage Americans to switch to more efficient what?

A: Cars B: Refrigerators
C: Air conditioners D: Computers
Answer
A: Cars ( 9 )
$5,000 * Talk Shows
A natural fit considering the show's name, MSNBC's "Morning Joe" recently chose which of these brands as an official sponsor?

A: Pepsi B: Budweiser
C: Starbucks D: Gatorade
Answer
C: Starbucks ( 9 )
$7,500 * Out of Print
A recent victim in an ailing newspaper industry, the Rocky Mountain News was a longtime local rival to what other daily paper?

A: Miami Herald B: Denver Post
C: Boston Globe D: San Francisco Chronicle
Answer
B: Denver Post ( 22 )
-- Commercial Break --

You're In the Hot Seat Home Game
Today's Winning Answer

D: Planning weddings
Sneak Peak at One of the Next Episode's Questions
$50,000
Named for the cards held by "Wild Bill" Hickok when he was killed, what poker hand is commonly known as a "Dead Man's hand"?

A: Two aces and two eights B: Four tens and a Jack
C: Three threes D: A straight flush
Judy's husband, Jeff, is in the audience.

$10,000 * The Animal Kingdom
With a diet that includes gibbons and macaques, clouded leopards are native to what part of the world?

A: Western Europe B: Eastern United States
C: Southeast Asia D: Northern Canada

Judy is pretty sure that she knows, but with 19 seconds left, she decides to Ask The Audience.

ATA: A: 5% B: 2% C: 86% D: 7%

That's what Judy was thinking.
Answer
C: Southeast Asia ( 15)
$12,500 * Kid Lit
At the beginning of the kids' book "Where the Wild Things Are," Max gets sent to his room after doing which of these mischievious things?

A: Chasing the dog with a fork B: Dropping toys in the fish tank
C: Tracking dirt on the sofa D: Rolling marbles down the stairs

With 9 seconds left, Judy decides to Ask The Expert. Today's expert is Baratunde Thurston, a Web editor of “The Onion” and host of “Popular Science’s Future of” on Science Channel.

Baratunde: Okay! Where the Wild Things Are--childhood classic! What got him into trouble? Definitely not toys in the fish tank, not B. Not rolling marbles down the stairs, not D. Neither was it tracking dirt on the sofa. Nope, Max got in trouble for chasing the dog with a fork. A hot dog, if you will!

Baratunde is 100.00% sure of that answer.

Answer
A: Chasing the dog with a fork ( 7 )
-- The Horn --

Judy will return on tomorrow's show.

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Re: Transcript 02/18/10 - Judy Nisson

#2 Post by themanwho » Thu Feb 18, 2010 8:26 pm

I know we generally judge experts around here by whether they give the contestant a right or wrong answer, but based on the transcripts so far, I'd like to call Baratunde a good expert simply by the way he handles the questions. He reasons them out if he doesn't know them and gives the player a rationale for his choices. I like him.

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Re: Transcript 02/18/10 - Judy Nisson

#3 Post by Millionaire Fan » Fri Feb 19, 2010 2:07 am

themanwho wrote:I know we generally judge experts around here by whether they give the contestant a right or wrong answer, but based on the transcripts so far, I'd like to call Baratunde a good expert simply by the way he handles the questions. He reasons them out if he doesn't know them and gives the player a rationale for his choices. I like him.

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I agree he's definitely by far the best expert so far this season. Also I hope Judy becomes the third big winner of the week.

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#4 Post by Jeemie » Fri Feb 19, 2010 4:33 am

Judy is the one I complained about in my thread.

On the $10,000 question, come on!!!!

Did you really need to use the Waste a Lifeline to confirm "what you knew"?

The three wrong answers don't even make any sense, for crying out loud!!!! You were really worried that gibbons and macques live in the eastern US? Western Europe? Northern Canada?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Then you could have used ATA on "Where the Wild Things Are" and had the ATE for the higher level questions.

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#5 Post by earendel » Fri Feb 19, 2010 7:52 am

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Judy Nisson
Saranac Lake, NY
Hot dog vendor


Judy has a hot dog cart across from the Olympic Center in Lake Placid. Because of the weather, she can only operate that six months of the year. She's like some money to find a storefront in which she could be open year round.
Is there enough business for her to have a shop that's open all year?

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#6 Post by NellyLunatic1980 » Fri Feb 19, 2010 8:14 am

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$12,500 * Kid Lit
At the beginning of the kids' book "Where the Wild Things Are," Max gets sent to his room after doing which of these mischievious things?

A: Chasing the dog with a fork B: Dropping toys in the fish tank
C: Tracking dirt on the sofa D: Rolling marbles down the stairs
I haven't read this book in years, and I didn't see the movie. ATA.

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#7 Post by MarleysGh0st » Fri Feb 19, 2010 8:20 am

earendel wrote:
BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Judy Nisson
Saranac Lake, NY
Hot dog vendor


Judy has a hot dog cart across from the Olympic Center in Lake Placid. Because of the weather, she can only operate that six months of the year. She's like some money to find a storefront in which she could be open year round.
Is there enough business for her to have a shop that's open all year?
Skiers eat hot dogs, too.



Lake Placid: A Winter Olympics venue where it does, in fact, snow. :mrgreen:

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#8 Post by earendel » Fri Feb 19, 2010 8:21 am

MarleysGh0st wrote:
earendel wrote:
BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Judy Nisson
Saranac Lake, NY
Hot dog vendor


Judy has a hot dog cart across from the Olympic Center in Lake Placid. Because of the weather, she can only operate that six months of the year. She's like some money to find a storefront in which she could be open year round.
Is there enough business for her to have a shop that's open all year?
Skiers eat hot dogs, too.



Lake Placid: A Winter Olympics venue where it does, in fact, snow. :mrgreen:
Actually I figured her six months was October through March. Does Lake Placid have much summer tourist activity?
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#9 Post by MarleysGh0st » Fri Feb 19, 2010 8:35 am

earendel wrote:Actually I figured her six months was October through March. Does Lake Placid have much summer tourist activity?
Sure, for all that outdoor recreation where you don't want to freeze your butt off--camping, hiking, boating...

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#10 Post by megaaddict » Fri Feb 19, 2010 12:27 pm

Not that there's any chance whatsoever anyone will ever know, but the category for the $1M Q intrigues me.

As a category, it's hard to imagine 1555 refering to anything but a year. But a quick google doesn't really shows little that is obviously noteworthy for the year 1555 AD? The Diet and Peace of Augsburg occurred. Three popes served, but since that century that event has also happened in 1503, 1590, 1605 and of course 1978. Wikipedia has nothing for 1555 BC. In the Jewish calendar, 1555 AM is most likely in the 23rd century BCE but the exact year depends on who you ask. 1555 in the Islamic calendar corresponds to 2121 AD.

I guess for me the most interesting thing about 1555 is that it was the last year in which each digit corresponds exactly with one letter in the Roman numeral for that year, MDLV. But how that could be made into a million dollar question I have no idea.

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#11 Post by Bob Juch » Fri Feb 19, 2010 12:39 pm

megaaddict wrote:Not that there's any chance whatsoever anyone will ever know, but the category for the $1M Q intrigues me.

As a category, it's hard to imagine 1555 referring to anything but a year. But a quick google doesn't really shows little that is obviously noteworthy for the year 1555 AD? The Diet and Peace of Augsburg occurred. Three popes served, but since that century that event has also happened in 1503, 1590, 1605 and of course 1978. Wikipedia has nothing for 1555 BC. In the Jewish calendar, 1555 AM is most likely in the 23rd century BCE but the exact year depends on who you ask. 1555 in the Islamic calendar corresponds to 2121 AD.

I guess for me the most interesting thing about 1555 is that it was the last year in which each digit corresponds exactly with one letter in the Roman numeral for that year, MDLV. But how that could be made into a million dollar question I have no idea.
I'm pretty sure we'll never know as no contestant will ever see it. :(
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#12 Post by Jeemie » Fri Feb 19, 2010 12:50 pm

megaaddict wrote:Not that there's any chance whatsoever anyone will ever know, but the category for the $1M Q intrigues me.

As a category, it's hard to imagine 1555 refering to anything but a year. But a quick google doesn't really shows little that is obviously noteworthy for the year 1555 AD? The Diet and Peace of Augsburg occurred. Three popes served, but since that century that event has also happened in 1503, 1590, 1605 and of course 1978. Wikipedia has nothing for 1555 BC. In the Jewish calendar, 1555 AM is most likely in the 23rd century BCE but the exact year depends on who you ask. 1555 in the Islamic calendar corresponds to 2121 AD.

I guess for me the most interesting thing about 1555 is that it was the last year in which each digit corresponds exactly with one letter in the Roman numeral for that year, MDLV. But how that could be made into a million dollar question I have no idea.
The Peace of Augsburg was the only even mildly noteworthy thing I could think of for that year.
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#13 Post by Bob Juch » Fri Feb 19, 2010 1:00 pm

Jeemie wrote:
megaaddict wrote:Not that there's any chance whatsoever anyone will ever know, but the category for the $1M Q intrigues me.

As a category, it's hard to imagine 1555 refering to anything but a year. But a quick google doesn't really shows little that is obviously noteworthy for the year 1555 AD? The Diet and Peace of Augsburg occurred. Three popes served, but since that century that event has also happened in 1503, 1590, 1605 and of course 1978. Wikipedia has nothing for 1555 BC. In the Jewish calendar, 1555 AM is most likely in the 23rd century BCE but the exact year depends on who you ask. 1555 in the Islamic calendar corresponds to 2121 AD.

I guess for me the most interesting thing about 1555 is that it was the last year in which each digit corresponds exactly with one letter in the Roman numeral for that year, MDLV. But how that could be made into a million dollar question I have no idea.
The Peace of Augsburg was the only even mildly noteworthy thing I could think of for that year.
That's probably it. IIRC that was a pretty significant event, especially if you weren't the same religion as your ruler and had to move.
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#14 Post by vettech » Fri Feb 19, 2010 4:22 pm

Jeemie wrote:Judy is the one I complained about in my thread.

On the $10,000 question, come on!!!!

Did you really need to use the Waste a Lifeline to confirm "what you knew"?

The three wrong answers don't even make any sense, for crying out loud!!!! You were really worried that gibbons and macques live in the eastern US? Western Europe? Northern Canada?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Then you could have used ATA on "Where the Wild Things Are" and had the ATE for the higher level questions.

SHEESH!!!!!!
The second that question came up I was yelling at the TV, "I bet you wished you had your ATA back now, huh?!?!" I certainly would've needed it - kid lit is a huge gap in my knowledge base. Fortunately, I would've still had it.

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#15 Post by Estonut » Sat Feb 20, 2010 3:39 am

megaaddict wrote:Not that there's any chance whatsoever anyone will ever know, but the category for the $1M Q intrigues me.
Ahem. I have a pretty good idea what the question is about...

Recent discussions here have mentioned astrologers and Nostradamus as $1M Q categories. I think this is a third name for the same question.

He (Nostradamus) is best known for his book Les Propheties ("The Prophecies"), the first edition of which appeared in 1555.
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#16 Post by MarleysGh0st » Sat Feb 20, 2010 6:35 am

Estonut wrote:
megaaddict wrote:Not that there's any chance whatsoever anyone will ever know, but the category for the $1M Q intrigues me.
Ahem. I have a pretty good idea what the question is about...

Recent discussions here have mentioned astrologers and Nostradamus as $1M Q categories. I think this is a third name for the same question.

He (Nostradamus) is best known for his book Les Propheties ("The Prophecies"), the first edition of which appeared in 1555.
Hmmm. Very plausible, Estonut. How would the question be phrased, though? Recognizing his name, if given the title of the book, would be too easy for this level. Might they be asking for the title, with three very similar distractors?

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#17 Post by Estonut » Sat Feb 20, 2010 2:09 pm

MarleysGh0st wrote:Recognizing his name, if given the title of the book, would be too easy for this level.
Too simple for the $500 question, even, since one of the 3 categories was "Nostradamus." :wink:

Since two others were "Astrologers" and "1555," it seems more likely that the question would be more along the lines of "What is the name of the book first published by Nostradamus in 1555?"
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