Transcript 10/14/2011 - Rhonda Redmond-Watson

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Rhonda Redmond-Watson
Berkeley, IL
homemaker

Rhonda has wanted to be on the show from the beginning. She would call in but could never get through. She took the test and here she is. Her mom Jackie and friend Vanessa. Rhonda has a baby girl Savannah Reece, back home. She's 2-1/2.

Topic Tree: (unrandomized)
10 - On the Moon
9 - Same Name
8 - Rocker Revelation
7 - Password Says
6 - Traveling Abroad
5 - Roll With It
4 - Tools of the Trade
3 - Worrying Worldwide
2 - Hit Me, Doctor
1 - Eating Right


Topic Tree: (randomized)
9 - Same Name
3 - Worrying Worldwide
5 - Roll With It
4 - Tools of the Trade
2 - Hit Me, Doctor
8 - Rocker Revelation
7 - Password Says
6 - Traveling Abroad
1 - Eating Right
10 - On the Moon

Question #1 (On the Moon - Level 10)
Seconds after taking "one giant leap for mankind," Neil Armstrong described the surface of the Moon as what?
A - firm and holey
B - uneven and rocky
C - fine and powdery
D - slick and slippery

Rhonda says she thinks it's

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uneven and rocky

but then says that nothing is jumping out at her so she's going to jump the question.

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Answer: C (fine and powdery)
Value: $3,000
Bank: $0

Question #2 (Eating Right - Level 1)
Michelle Obama's "Let's Move" initiative helps low-income areas with limited access to supermarkets, which are called "food" what?
A - plains
B - deserts
C - mountains
D - icebergs

"Well, I would say since it's not something that is abundant," the answer must be

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deserts

. That's her final answer

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Answer: B (deserts)
Value: $100
Bank: $100

Question #3 (Traveling Abroad - Level 6)
What foreign tourist destination is often reached by visitors traveling on PeruRail?
A - Trafalgar Square
B - Mount Kilimanjaro
C - Machu Picchu
D - Stonehenge

Spoiler

Answer: C (Machu Picchu)
Value: $25,000
Bank: $25,100

Rhonda is "a little excited" by that.

Question #10 (Password Says - Level 7)
A popular four-digit passcode on the iPhone is 5683, which turns out to be the keyboard representation of what word?
A - CUTE
B - LOVE
C - BUSY
D - HOPE

Rhonda knows it ends with

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E, and 5 and 6 would probably be on the same key so it wouldn't be CUTE or probably HOPE

. She hesitates before giving her final answer.

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Answer: B (LOVE)
Value: $2,000
Bank: $27,100

Question #4 (Rocker Revelation - Level 8)
On same-sex romance, who wrote in his 2011 autobiography, "I tried it one time when I was younger, but i Just didn't dig it"?
A - David Lee Roth
B - Alice Cooper
C - Steven Tyler
D - Sting

"For some reason

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Steven Tyler

is sticking out for me." She isn't sure, however. She looks around at the audience to see if they are readers who might have read this book.

ATA results

A - 10%
B - 12%
C - 69%
D - 9%

She'll go with the audience.

Spoiler

Answer: C (Steven Tyler)
Value: $15,000
Bank: $42,100

commercial break

Rhonda is having the time of her life. Everyone on the show has been wonderful and Meredith is cute. She misses her little girl. Savannah Reece is her miracle baby. She was told that they would be unable to conceive and after two years it seemed the doctors were right, but then she was going to have some surgery and in preparation had some blood work done. She got a call telling her that she was five weeks pregnant.

Question #5 (Hit Me, Doctor - Level 2)
To test your Achilles reflex, a doctor will gently strike a tendon in what part of your body?
A - neck
B - ankle
C - wrist
D - knee

"That's when they hit you and your foot kicks out," Rhonda says. She says

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"knee, final answer

.

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Answer: B (ankle)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

[MarleysGh0st]

Question #5 (Hit Me, Doctor - Level 2)
To test your Achilles reflex, a doctor will gently strike a tendon in what part of your body?
A - neck
B - ankle
C - wrist
D - knee

"That's when they hit you and your foot kicks out," Rhonda says. She says

Spoiler

"knee, final answer

.

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Answer: B (ankle)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

Ouch, again!

I know that the question writers thought "Achilles" was supposed to be an instaget for a Level 2 question, but how often do people have this reflex tested, compared to the classic knee reflex?

[SportsFan68]

Question #2 (Eating Right - Level 1)
Michelle Obama's "Let's Move" initiative helps low-income areas with limited access to supermarkets, which are called "food" what?
A - plains
B - deserts
C - mountains
D - icebergs

"Well, I would say since it's not something that is abundant," the answer must be

Spoiler

deserts

. That's her final answer

Spoiler

Answer: B (deserts)
Value: $100
Bank: $100

"Food deserts" have been in the news a lot lately, at least in Colorado and New Mexico, probably Arizona too. I don't know when this was taped. Glad she figured it out.

Question #3 (Traveling Abroad - Level 6)
What foreign tourist destination is often reached by visitors traveling on PeruRail?
A - Trafalgar Square
B - Mount Kilimanjaro
C - Machu Picchu
D - Stonehenge

Spoiler

Answer: C (Machu Picchu)
Value: $25,000
Bank: $25,100

Rhonda is "a little excited" by that.

I got a geography question right!

Question #10 (Password Says - Level 7)
A popular four-digit passcode on the iPhone is 5683, which turns out to be the keyboard representation of what word?
A - CUTE
B - LOVE
C - BUSY
D - HOPE

Rhonda knows it ends with

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E, and 5 and 6 would probably be on the same key so it wouldn't be CUTE or probably HOPE

. She hesitates before giving her final answer.

Spoiler

Answer: B (LOVE)
Value: $2,000
Bank: $27,100

I woulda made the audience listen to all this: "OK, 1 doesn't have any letters, 2 is abc, 3 is def, 4 is ghi, 5 is jkl, 6 ... well, I guess I don't need 6." Then, with a little moment beseeching the universe that an iPhone has the same keypad configuration as a regular phone, I would say, "Love, final answer."

Question #4 (Rocker Revelation - Level
On same-sex romance, who wrote in his 2011 autobiography, "I tried it one time when I was younger, but i Just didn't dig it"?
A - David Lee Roth
B - Alice Cooper
C - Steven Tyler
D - Sting

"For some reason

Spoiler

Steven Tyler

is sticking out for me." She isn't sure, however. She looks around at the audience to see if they are readers who might have read this book.

ATA results

A - 10%
B - 12%
C - 69%
D - 9%

She'll go with the audience.

Spoiler

Answer: C (Steven Tyler)
Value: $15,000
Bank: $42,100

commercial break

JTQ, without even thinking about it.

Question #5 (Hit Me, Doctor - Level 2)
To test your Achilles reflex, a doctor will gently strike a tendon in what part of your body?
A - neck
B - ankle
C - wrist
D - knee

"That's when they hit you and your foot kicks out," Rhonda says. She says

Spoiler

"knee, final answer

.

Spoiler

Answer: B (ankle)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

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This is a horrible question! Someone like me with plantar fasciitis has had this done a few times. But if I hadn't, I might have used the same reasoning she did.

[CarShark]

My problem with the Achilles question is, if you want it to be an "easy" question, why put knee in there as a fake? You know when people think of doctor's testing reflexes, they think of the knee, so unless it's the answer, there's no reason to put it in the question, other than to be a trap.

[secondchance]

My problem with the Achilles question is, if you want it to be an "easy" question, why put knee in there as a fake? You know when people think of doctor's testing reflexes, they think of the knee, so unless it's the answer, there's no reason to put it in the question, other than to be a trap.

I agree - it was a horrible, unfair trap. I can't remember ever having my ankle tapped in an exam. Loved her- this sucked.

[peacock2121]

hmmmmm

I guess Achilles Tendonitis is not as common as I thought.

[earendel]

Rhonda Redmond-Watson
Berkeley, IL
homemaker

Rhonda has wanted to be on the show from the beginning. She would call in but could never get through. She took the test and here she is. Her mom Jackie and friend Vanessa. Rhonda has a baby girl Savannah Reece, back home. She's 2-1/2.

She called in "but could never get through"? I presume she meant she couldn't get through the questions, not that she couldn't get connected.

Question #3 (Password Says - Level 7)
A popular four-digit passcode on the iPhone is 5683, which turns out to be the keyboard representation of what word?
A - CUTE
B - LOVE
C - BUSY
D - HOPE

Rhonda knows it ends with

Spoiler

E, and 5 and 6 would probably be on the same key so it wouldn't be CUTE or probably HOPE

. She hesitates before giving her final answer.

Spoiler

Answer: B (LOVE)
Value: $2,000
Bank: $27,100

Hmmm...the 5 key is JKL, the 6 key is MNO, the 8 key is TUV and the 3 key is DEF. Since only one of the four starts with J, K or L, the answer seems obvious. I think Rhonda was confused in saying that "5" and "6" would be on the same key.

Question #4 (Rocker Revelation - Level
On same-sex romance, who wrote in his 2011 autobiography, "I tried it one time when I was younger, but i Just didn't dig it"?
A - David Lee Roth
B - Alice Cooper
C - Steven Tyler
D - Sting

"For some reason

Spoiler

Steven Tyler

is sticking out for me." She isn't sure, however. She looks around at the audience to see if they are readers who might have read this book.

ATA results

A - 10%
B - 12%
C - 69%
D - 9%

She'll go with the audience.

Spoiler

Answer: C (Steven Tyler)
Value: $15,000
Bank: $42,100

I think I'd JTQ here.

Question #5 (Hit Me, Doctor - Level 2)
To test your Achilles reflex, a doctor will gently strike a tendon in what part of your body?
A - neck
B - ankle
C - wrist
D - knee

"That's when they hit you and your foot kicks out," Rhonda says. She says

Spoiler

"knee, final answer

.

Spoiler

Answer: B (ankle)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

Unfortunately Rhonda didn't associate "Achilles" with "heel" and come up with the right answer.

[MarleysGh0st]

Rhonda Redmond-Watson
Berkeley, IL
homemaker

Rhonda has wanted to be on the show from the beginning. She would call in but could never get through. She took the test and here she is. Her mom Jackie and friend Vanessa. Rhonda has a baby girl Savannah Reece, back home. She's 2-1/2.

She called in "but could never get through"? I presume she meant she couldn't get through the questions, not that she couldn't get connected.

Naturally, people like us would have wanted Rhonda to go into detail about exactly what she meant here. I think some folks do have memories of the first month or two of the Phone Game, when the lines really were busy at times and/or reached the call limit before the end of the call-in window. That seems to have colored their permanent memories of the era.