Transcript 3/14/2014 - Mike Hoffman

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Mike Hoffman
Emmaus, PA

Mike was a Marine who served in Iraq.

Topic Tree (randomized):
It Says 'Declined'
Power of Education
Army Athlete
Live Ammo
Fashion Faux Pas
Spanish Sing Along
TV Spinoffs
At Your Service
John and Yoko
Tasty Tech [DOUBLE MONEY]

Question #1 (Tasty Tech): [DOUBLE MONEY]
Referring to small files used by websites, a 2013 headline on Business Insider claimed that Google was losing the "War Over" what?
A - Cookies
B - Brownies
C - Cake
D - Donuts

Mike knows computers.

Spoiler

Answer: A (Cookies)
Value: $10,000 (doubled to $20,000)
Bank: $20,000

Question #2 (John and Yoko):
John Lennon and Yoko Ono famously staged a "bed-in" to promote peace during their 1969 honeymoon in what city?
A - Rome
B - Vienna
C - Amsterdam
D - Paris

Mike says he should know this because he's a huge Beatles fan and he can picture the photographs in his mind. He'll kick himself later but he's going to jump the question.

Spoiler

Answer: C (Amsterdam)
Value: $7,000 (jumped)
Bank: $20,000

Question #3 (At Your Service):
Though the only thing they serve is tickets, parking enforcement officers are often referred to by what servile term?
A - ticket cleaners
B - tariff butlers
C - meter maids
D - citation housekeepers

Mike says it's funny that he referenced the Beatles earlier and there's a song about this -

Spoiler

"Lovely Rita, meter maid"

.

Spoiler

Answer: C (meter maids)
Value: $1,000
Bank: $21,000

Question #4 (TV Spinoffs):
What reality show's online "university" gives viewers the chance to be instructed and certified by its past contestants?
A - Cake Boss University
B - Project Runway University
C - Top Model University
D - Top Chef University

This isn't a reality show that they show on "The Soup" - that's his reality portal. He asks the audience.

Ask the Audience results

A - 14%
B - 12%
C - 19%
D - 55%

Mike goes with the audience.

Spoiler

Answer: D (Top Chef University)
Value: $2,000
Bank: $23,000

commercial break

Mike was among the Marines that were first into Iraq when the invasion occurred. His wife Karen is in the relationship and Cedric asks how she thinks he's doing. She thinks he's doing well.

Question #5 (Spanish Sing Along):
"Juan Paco Pedro de la Mar" is the first line in the Spanish version of what rhythmically sung children's song?
A - Old MacDonald Had a Farm
B - The Farmer in the Dell
C - John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt
D - Mary Had a Little Lamb

Mike isn't very big on his Spanish but he's confident he knows the answer.

Spoiler

Answer: C (John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt)
Value: $500
Bank: $23,500

Cedric says that Mike gave a perfect translation.

Question #6 (Fashion Faux Pas):
A warning to those planning out their casual Friday outfit, fashion mogul Karl Lagerfeld famously quipped that what "are a sign of defeat"?
A - jeans
B - flats
C - sweatpants
D - hats

Something is in the back of Mike's head - and he thinks it's right.

Spoiler

Answer: C (sweatpants)
Value: $15,000
Bank: $38,000

Question #7 (Live Ammo):
To ensure the gunfights looked real, legend has it Howard Hughes insisted that real guns and ammunition were used in what 1932 film?
A - Angels With Dirty Faces
B - Little Caesar
C - The Public Enemy
D - Scarface

Mike's dad would know this because he knows old movies. Mike is going to jump this question.

Spoiler

Answer: D (Scarface)
Value: $3,000 (jumped)
Bank: $38,000

commercial break

Question #8 (Army Athlete):
Which one of these U.S. generals competed in the Olympics as a young man, finishing 5th in the Modern Pentathlon?
A - Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf
B - Gen. Jojn J. Pershing
C - Gen. Colin Powell
D - Gen. George S. Patton

Mike knows that it's one of the four. He's pretty familiar with three of them and he doesn't think that the Olympics applied to any of them. He says that

Spoiler

George Patton would be too "bold" to do the modern pentathlon because he would have been born before World War I)

. He's read about

Spoiler

Powell and Schwarzkopf and doesn't recall any mention of being Olympic athletes

and he isn't sure if he wants to go with

Spoiler

the remaining answer

. He knows his wife is behind him but he can't look back and see what she's thinking. Cedric says she's "down to two nails." Mike decides to "take his ball and go home."

Spoiler

Answer: D (Gen. George S. Patton)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $19,000 (half the bank)

MILLIONAIRE "QUESTION OF THE DAY": (before Mike's Question #8)
In 2010, pro football player Troy Polamalu took out a $1 million insurance policy on what signature feature?
A - legs
B - hands
C - biceps
D - hair

Question of the Day answer

D (hair)

[MarleysGh0st]

Question #8 (Army Athlete):
Which one of these U.S. generals competed in the Olympics as a young man, finishing 5th in the Modern Pentathlon?
A - Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf
B - Gen. Jojn J. Pershing
C - Gen. Colin Powell
D - Gen. George S. Patton

Mike knows that it's one of the four. He's pretty familiar with three of them and he doesn't think that the Olympics applied to any of them. He says that

Spoiler

George Patton would be too "bold" to do the modern pentathlon because he would have been born before World War I)

. He's read about

Spoiler

Powell and Schwarzkopf and doesn't recall any mention of being Olympic athletes

and he isn't sure if he wants to go with

Spoiler

the remaining answer

. He knows his wife is behind him but he can't look back and see what she's thinking. Cedric says she's "down to two nails." Mike decides to "take his ball and go home."

Spoiler

Answer: D (Gen. George S. Patton)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $19,000 (half the bank)

I suppose the Marines don't emphasize the history of Army generals in their training. Mike would never live this down if these had been Marine generals.

[SportsFan68]

Question #2 (John and Yoko):
John Lennon and Yoko Ono famously staged a "bed-in" to promote peace during their 1969 honeymoon in what city?
A - Rome
B - Vienna
C - Amsterdam
D - Paris

Mike says he should know this because he's a huge Beatles fan and he can picture the photographs in his mind. He'll kick himself later but he's going to jump the question.

Spoiler

Answer: A (Amsterdam)
Value: $7,000 (jumped)
Bank: $20,000

JTQ 1

Question #4 (TV Spinoffs):
What reality show's online "university" gives viewers the chance to be instructed and certified by its past contestants?
A - Cake Boss University
B - Project Runway University
C - Top Model University
D - Top Chef University

This isn't a reality show that they show on "The Soup" - that's his reality portal. He asks the audience.

Ask the Audience results

A - 14%
B - 12%
C - 19%
D - 55%

Mike goes with the audience.

Spoiler

Answer: D (Top Chef University)
Value: $2,000
Bank: $23,000

ATA

Question #7 (Live Ammo):
To ensure the gunfights looked real, legend has it Howard Hughes insisted that real guns and ammunition were used in what 1932 film?
A - Angels With Dirty Faces
B - Little Caesar
C - The Public Enemy
D - Scarface

Mike's dad would know this because he knows old movies. Mike is going to jump this question.

Spoiler

Answer: D (Scarface)
Value: $3,000 (jumped)
Bank: $38,000

JTQ 2

Question #8 (Army Athlete):
Which one of these U.S. generals competed in the Olympics as a young man, finishing 5th in the Modern Pentathlon?
A - Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf
B - Gen. Jojn J. Pershing
C - Gen. Colin Powell
D - Gen. George S. Patton

Mike knows that it's one of the four. He's pretty familiar with three of them and he doesn't think that the Olympics applied to any of them. He says that

Spoiler

George Patton would be too "bold" to do the modern pentathlon because he would have been born before World War I)

. He's read about

Spoiler

Powell and Schwarzkopf and doesn't recall any mention of being Olympic athletes

and he isn't sure if he wants to go with

Spoiler

the remaining answer

. He knows his wife is behind him but he can't look back and see what she's thinking. Cedric says she's "down to two nails." Mike decides to "take his ball and go home."

Spoiler

Answer: D (Gen. George S. Patton)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $19,000 (half the bank)

Never heard of it. Sayonara.

[earendel]

Mike Hoffman
Emmaus, PA

Mike was a Marine who served in Iraq.

Question #7 (Live Ammo):
To ensure the gunfights looked real, legend has it Howard Hughes insisted that real guns and ammunition were used in what 1932 film?
A - Angels With Dirty Faces
B - Little Caesar
C - The Public Enemy
D - Scarface

Mike's dad would know this because he knows old movies. Mike is going to jump this question.

Spoiler

Answer: D (Scarface)
Value: $3,000 (jumped)
Bank: $38,000

I'd JTQ also.

Question #8 (Army Athlete):
Which one of these U.S. generals competed in the Olympics as a young man, finishing 5th in the Modern Pentathlon?
A - Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf
B - Gen. Jojn J. Pershing
C - Gen. Colin Powell
D - Gen. George S. Patton

Mike knows that it's one of the four. He's pretty familiar with three of them and he doesn't think that the Olympics applied to any of them. He says that

Spoiler

George Patton would be too "bold" to do the modern pentathlon because he would have been born before World War I)

. He's read about

Spoiler

Powell and Schwarzkopf and doesn't recall any mention of being Olympic athletes

and he isn't sure if he wants to go with

Spoiler

the remaining answer

. He knows his wife is behind him but he can't look back and see what she's thinking. Cedric says she's "down to two nails." Mike decides to "take his ball and go home."

Spoiler

Answer: D (Gen. George S. Patton)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $19,000 (half the bank)

I don't understand Mike's reasoning - Patton was "too 'bold'" because he was born before World War I?

[jarnon]

I don't understand Mike's reasoning - Patton was "too 'bold'" because he was born before World War I?

Maybe he was trying to say "too old." However, (I looked this up) the modern pentathlon has been an Olympic event since 1912. It's modern only in comparison to the ancient pentathlon.

[MarleysGh0st]

I don't understand Mike's reasoning - Patton was "too 'bold'" because he was born before World War I?

Maybe he was trying to say "too old." However, (I looked this up) the modern pentathlon has been an Olympic event since 1912. It's modern only in comparison to the ancient pentathlon.

That was how I heard it and understood his reasoning. It was a problem with the interpretation of "modern". It made his considering the decision to go with the choice he was unfamiliar with all the more ironic, since Pershing was born before any of the others.

[andyrinny]

Question #2 (John and Yoko):
John Lennon and Yoko Ono famously staged a "bed-in" to promote peace during their 1969 honeymoon in what city?
A - Rome
B - Vienna
C - Amsterdam
D - Paris

Spoiler:

Spoiler

"Drove from Paris to the Amsterdam Hilton, Talking in our beds for a week" - which makes it C (not A), Amsterdam

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Question #2 (John and Yoko):
John Lennon and Yoko Ono famously staged a "bed-in" to promote peace during their 1969 honeymoon in what city?
A - Rome
B - Vienna
C - Amsterdam
D - Paris

Spoiler:

Spoiler

"Drove from Paris to the Amsterdam Hilton, Talking in our beds for a week" - which makes it C (not A), Amsterdam

Fixed. Thanks.