Transcript 02/06/13 - Olga Kreimer

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Olga Kreimer
New York, NY
math and Spanish tutor
played the Russian "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" quiz book as a child
wants to get a steam vac and join a cheese-of-the-month club with the money

Topic Tree (pre-randomized)
10. Mirror Images
9. No Quacks
8. Early Work
7. Do the Math
6. Movie Locations
5. Ancient Origins
4. Making a Case
3. Brand Names
2. Site Specific
1. The Big Day

Topic Tree (randomized)
7. Do the Math
9. No Quacks
1. The Big Day
5. Ancient Origins
10. Mirror Images
6. Movie Locations
3. Brand Names
8. Early Work
4. Making a Case
2. Site Specific

Question 1 - Level 2. Site Specific
A natural fit, what online company owns the website Shopping.com?

A: YouTube
B: Facebook
C: eBay
D: Twitter

Spoiler

C: eBay
$5,000
Bank - $5,000

Question 2 - Level 4. Making a Case
Referred to as "humpbacking," putting an uppercase letter in the middle of a word also goes by what fitting, animal-friendly name?

A: CamelCase
B: GiraffeCase
C: GorillaCase
D: RhinoCase

Meredith

Spoiler

repeats "humpbacking,"

and Olga locks in her final answer.

Spoiler

A: CamelCase
$7,000
Bank - $12,000

Question 3 - Level 8. Early Work
Leaving to become a full-time illustrator, what children's author previously worked as a window dresser at F.A.O. Schwarz?

A: Shel Silverstein
B: Dr. Seuss
C: Maurice Sendak
D: Roald Dahl

Spoiler

She rules out Dahl as British, and she thinks Seuss and Silverstein might not have been illustrators. She connects F.A.O.
Schwarz with the bright colors of Sendak.

Spoiler

C: Maurice Sendak
$100
Bank - $12,100

Question 4 - Level 3. Brand Names
In 2011, what brand urged consumers to cut out the first syllable of its name on its boxes and send it as an uplifting postcard to military families?

A: Ronzoni
B: Marlboro
C: Cheerios
D: Kleenex

She laughs at the idea of a bunch of card with

Spoiler

Kleen

on them.

Spoiler

C: Cheerios
$500
Bank - $12,600

Question 5 - Level 6. Movie Locations
A movie tour of what city includes a "Vertigo"-inspired jaunt to Fort Point and a stop at Burritt Alley for fans of "The Maltese Falcon"?

A: San Diego
B: Chicago
C: San Francisco
D: Philadelphia

ATA

Spoiler

A: 9%
B: 11%
C: 65%
D: 15%

She goes with the audience.

Spoiler

C: San Francisco
$1,000
Bank - $13,600

Commercial break.

Question 6 - Level 10. Mirror Images
What hidden phrase can be seen on the Grateful Dead's "From the Mars Hotel" front album cover if it's held upside down in a mirror?

A: "Bad Behavior"
B: "Sweet Little Lies"
C: "Ugly Rumors"
D: "Beautiful Truths"

She would guess

Spoiler

B

, but she JsTQ.

Spoiler

C: "Ugly Rumors"
$25,000 (!!!)
Bank - $13,600

(British Prime Minister Tony Blair was in a band called "Ugly Rumors" named for the album.)

Question 7 - Level 5. Ancient Origins
Writing that "corpulence is not only a disease itself, but the harbinger of others," Hippocrates expressed an early concern about what health issue?

A: Depression
B: Excessive drinking
C: Obesity
D: Smoking

Spoiler

C: Obesity
$15,000
Bank - $28,600

Question 8 - Level 1. The Big Day
On April 28, 2012, the National Museum of Dentistry in Baltimore, MD celebrated an event it called what?

A: Santa Claus Day
B: Tooth Fairy Day
C: Leprechaun Day
D: Unicorn Day

Spoiler

B: Tooth Fairy Day
$3,000
Bank - $31,600

Question 9 - Level 9. No Quacks
The political phrase "lame duck" was originally a British phrase used to describe someone who couldn't do what?

A: Grow a beard
B: Have children
C: Pay his debts
D: Read or write

She knows the modern definition, but can't decide between

Spoiler

C or D

. JTQ.

Spoiler

C: Pay his debts (Meredith confirms that would have been her guess.)
$2,000
Bank - $31,600

Commercial break.

She just saw the category for the next question, and as a math tutor, she's pretty happy with it.

Brother Arvid is in the audience.

Question 10 - Level 7. Do the Math
If Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address in 2012, the Declaration of Independence wouldn't be "four score and seven years ago," but rather how many "score" and "years" back?

A: Ninescore and fourteen years
B: Tenscore and eleven years
C: Elevenscore and sixteen years
D: Twelvescore and four years

She starts talking before Meredith can even read the choices.

Spoiler

She figures the Gettysburg address was in 1865. She knows a score is 20. Then she figures 4 score and 7 from 1776 and gets the right year of 1863. Then she reckons the bicentenial was 200 years, and 2012 is 1 score, plus 4 short of another score, for 236 years total. 12 Score is 240, which is too many. Elevenscore is 220, so it's elevenscore and 16 years.

Really nice to see a player not afraid of the math.

Spoiler

C: Elevenscore & 16 yrs.
$10,000
Bank - $41,600

Commercial break.

QotD

What slang word is thought to have been coined in 1958 as the name of a Superman villain?

A: Brainiac
B: Wiseacre
C: Poindexter
D: Egghead

Spoiler

A: Brainiac

Goat cheese is her favorite. She wouldn't buy the cheese with the million, she'd buy a goat and make her own.

CLASSIC MILLIONAIRE

$100,000
All but which of the following "name" novels feature the book's title within the first sentence?

A: Anna Karenina
B: Emma
C: Herzog
D: Mrs. Dalloway

Spoiler

She doesn't know the first lines of Emma or Herzog. She does know "Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.", which has the name in it. And she knows that Anna Karenina famously begins "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

Spoiler

A: Anna Karenina

She's right!

End of show noise.

She brings $100,000 but no lifelines to tomorrow's show.

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[MarleysGh0st]

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Wow, that's dedication! (Says I, as I have five Thursday episodes sitting on my DVR while I can't find the motivation to transcribe them.)

[themanwho]

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Wow, that's dedication! (Says I, as I have five Thursday episodes sitting on my DVR while I can't find the motivation to transcribe them.)

Unless they've been corrupted, I still have all the missing Meredith transcripts' shows on my DVR. I also have most of the Cedrics through Christmas, 1st and 2nd episodes (except for the first week) for the 2013 season. Guilt is a funny thing.

-M

[SportsFan68]

Question 3 - Level 8. Early Work
Leaving to become a full-time illustrator, what children's author previously worked as a window dresser at F.A.O. Schwarz?

A: Shel Silverstein
B: Dr. Seuss
C: Maurice Sendak
D: Roald Dahl

Spoiler

She rules out Dahl as British, and she thinks Seuss and Silverstein might not have been illustrators. She connects F.A.O.
Schwarz with the bright colors of Sendak.

Spoiler

C: Maurice Sendak
$100
Bank - $12,100

JTQ 1

Question 6 - Level 10. Mirror Images
What hidden phrase can be seen on the Grateful Dead's "From the Mars Hotel" front album cover if it's held upside down in a mirror?

A: "Bad Behavior"
B: "Sweet Little Lies"
C: "Ugly Rumors"
D: "Beautiful Truths"

She would guess

Spoiler

B

, but she JsTQ.

Spoiler

C: "Ugly Rumors"
$25,000 (!!!)
Bank - $13,600

(British Prime Minister Tony Blair was in a band called "Ugly Rumors" named for the album.)

JTQ 2

Question 10 - Level 7. Do the Math
If Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address in 2012, the Declaration of Independence wouldn't be "four score and seven years ago," but rather how many "score" and "years" back?

A: Ninescore and fourteen years
B: Tenscore and eleven years
C: Elevenscore and sixteen years
D: Twelvescore and four years

She starts talking before Meredith can even read the choices.

Spoiler

She figures the Gettysburg address was in 1865. She knows a score is 20. Then she figures 4 score and 7 from 1776 and gets the right year of 1863. Then she reckons the bicentenial was 200 years, and 2012 is 1 score, plus 4 short of another score, for 236 years total. 12 Score is 240, which is too many. Elevenscore is 220, so it's elevenscore and 16 years.

Really nice to see a player not afraid of the math.

Spoiler

C: Elevenscore & 16 yrs.
$10,000
Bank - $41,600

Oh, good grief. OK, 24 + 100 + 100 + 12 = 236. Divided by 20 is about 11.something. 11 score and 16 years is close enough.
Commercial break.

[MarleysGh0st]

Question 10 - Level 7. Do the Math
If Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address in 2012, the Declaration of Independence wouldn't be "four score and seven years ago," but rather how many "score" and "years" back?

A: Ninescore and fourteen years
B: Tenscore and eleven years
C: Elevenscore and sixteen years
D: Twelvescore and four years

She starts talking before Meredith can even read the choices.

Spoiler

She figures the Gettysburg address was in 1865. She knows a score is 20. Then she figures 4 score and 7 from 1776 and gets the right year of 1863. Then she reckons the bicentenial was 200 years, and 2012 is 1 score, plus 4 short of another score, for 236 years total. 12 Score is 240, which is too many. Elevenscore is 220, so it's elevenscore and 16 years.

Really nice to see a player not afraid of the math.

Spoiler

C: Elevenscore & 16 yrs.
$10,000
Bank - $41,600

Oh, good grief. OK, 24 + 100 + 100 + 12 = 236. Divided by 20 is about 11.something. 11 score and 16 years is close enough.

Why "good grief"? A straightforward math question (including a straightforward definition of a "score") is infinitely better than any of the ridiculous WWOQs they've been asking in recent seasons.

[SportsFan68]

Question 10 - Level 7. Do the Math
If Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address in 2012, the Declaration of Independence wouldn't be "four score and seven years ago," but rather how many "score" and "years" back?

A: Ninescore and fourteen years
B: Tenscore and eleven years
C: Elevenscore and sixteen years
D: Twelvescore and four years

She starts talking before Meredith can even read the choices.

Spoiler

She figures the Gettysburg address was in 1865. She knows a score is 20. Then she figures 4 score and 7 from 1776 and gets the right year of 1863. Then she reckons the bicentenial was 200 years, and 2012 is 1 score, plus 4 short of another score, for 236 years total. 12 Score is 240, which is too many. Elevenscore is 220, so it's elevenscore and 16 years.

Really nice to see a player not afraid of the math.

Spoiler

C: Elevenscore & 16 yrs.
$10,000
Bank - $41,600

Oh, good grief. OK, 24 + 100 + 100 + 12 = 236. Divided by 20 is about 11.something. 11 score and 16 years is close enough.

Why "good grief"? A straightforward math question (including a straightforward definition of a "score") is infinitely better than any of the ridiculous WWOQs they've been asking in recent seasons.

"Good grief" because I hate the idea of sitting in the Hot Seat and doing math on my fingers and maybe making a mistake and the audience sitting there snickering because they saw my mistake and later on having y'all make fun of my math skills like Esto does about my geography knowledge. Y'all get the summary version above, but I was really sitting here with the addition on the fingers and the division and everything else.

[earendel]

Olga Kreimer
New York, NY
math and Spanish tutor
played the Russian "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" quiz book as a child
wants to get a steam vac and join a cheese-of-the-month club with the money

Question 3 - Level 8. Early Work
Leaving to become a full-time illustrator, what children's author previously worked as a window dresser at F.A.O. Schwarz?

A: Shel Silverstein
B: Dr. Seuss
C: Maurice Sendak
D: Roald Dahl

Spoiler

She rules out Dahl as British, and she thinks Seuss and Silverstein might not have been illustrators. She connects F.A.O. Schwarz with the bright colors of Sendak.

Spoiler

C: Maurice Sendak
$100
Bank - $12,100

JTQ #1.

Question 6 - Level 10. Mirror Images
What hidden phrase can be seen on the Grateful Dead's "From the Mars Hotel" front album cover if it's held upside down in a mirror?

A: "Bad Behavior"
B: "Sweet Little Lies"
C: "Ugly Rumors"
D: "Beautiful Truths"

She would guess

Spoiler

B

, but she JsTQ.

Spoiler

C: "Ugly Rumors"
$25,000 (!!!)
Bank - $13,600

(British Prime Minister Tony Blair was in a band called "Ugly Rumors" named for the album.)

JTQ #2

$100,000
All but which of the following "name" novels feature the book's title within the first sentence?

A: Anna Karenina
B: Emma
C: Herzog
D: Mrs. Dalloway

Spoiler

She doesn't know the first lines of Emma or Herzog. She does know "Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.", which has the name in it. And she knows that Anna Karenina famously begins "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

Spoiler

A: Anna Karenina

I don't like "all but" questions - in this case, however, knowing the first line of "Anna Karenina" eliminates all the others.

[Estonut]

Oh, good grief. OK, 24 + 100 + 100 + 12 = 236. Divided by 20 is about 11.something. 11 score and 16 years is close enough.

Why "good grief"? A straightforward math question (including a straightforward definition of a "score") is infinitely better than any of the ridiculous WWOQs they've been asking in recent seasons.

"Good grief" because I hate the idea of sitting in the Hot Seat and doing math on my fingers and maybe making a mistake and the audience sitting there snickering because they saw my mistake and later on having y'all make fun of my math skills like Esto does about my geography knowledge. Y'all get the summary version above, but I was really sitting here with the addition on the fingers and the division and everything else.

1. I think you meant to say "how Esto did once...," as I don't recall ever doing that in response to you before.
2. Regarding that comment, I meant to go back and explain my comment. Maybe I didn't get there. I'm gonna go look.

[SportsFan68]

Why "good grief"? A straightforward math question (including a straightforward definition of a "score") is infinitely better than any of the ridiculous WWOQs they've been asking in recent seasons.

"Good grief" because I hate the idea of sitting in the Hot Seat and doing math on my fingers and maybe making a mistake and the audience sitting there snickering because they saw my mistake and later on having y'all make fun of my math skills like Esto does about my geography knowledge. Y'all get the summary version above, but I was really sitting here with the addition on the fingers and the division and everything else.

1. I think you meant to say "how Esto did once...," as I don't recall ever doing that in response to you before.
2. Regarding that comment, I meant to go back and explain my comment. Maybe I didn't get there. I'm gonna go look.

1. I don't recall it either; that's why I was so prepared to overreact in such whiny, nonproductive hyperbole. Actually, I sorta thought you would ignore it. Actually, I thought everybody would ignore it. Actually, I thought everybody had ignored it. Sigh . . . I'm really terrible at these predictions. And doing math in my head.
2. I'll go look and see if there's anything further.