Transcript 02/26/10 - Dawn Pascale

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"Real Housewives of Millionaire" Week

Dawn Pascale
Hoboken, NJ

Helping Dawn are Alex and Jill from "The Real Housewives of NYC".

Dawn is a little nervous. Meredith asks Alex where her husband is, because the two of them are usually attached at the hip. Alex's husband is in the audience.

Question Topics:
* World Records
* Fine Art
* The Solar System
* U.S. Presidents
* Guy Pierced
* Canada
* States of the Union
* Tough Crowd
* Housewife Pets
* Earth Science
* Luxury Brands
* LISA Q
* Talk Shows
* In Fashion
* The Godfather


$500 * The Godfather
"The Godfather" is ranked number one on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest movies in what genre?

A: Gangster B: Western
C: Sci-Fi D: Annoyingly over-quoted

Answer

A: Gangster ( 8 )

$1,000 * In Fashion
What footwear parts are also common to women's corsets?

A: Soles B: Heels
C: Laces D: Tongues

Answer

C: Laces ( 11 )

$2,000 * Talk Shows
What is the three-letter abbreviation commonly used to refer to ABC's long-running morning talk show?

A: SNL B: GMA
C: TMZ D: NOW

Answer

B: GMA ( 9 )

The following question is read by Lisa Wu Hartwell from "The Real Housewives of Atlanta."
$3,000 * LISA Q
Though he's now retired, when my husband Ed and I married in 2005, he played for what Atlanta pro sports franchise?

A: Hawks B: Thrashers
C: Braves D: Falcons

Answer

D: Falcons ( 11 )

$5,000 * Luxury Brands
Which of these luxury brands is represented by a logo featuring a distinctive five-pointed crown?

A: Rolex B: Hermès
C: Cartier D: Bulova

Answer

A: Rolex ( 9 )

$7,500 * Earth Science
"Pyrogeography" is the study of the distribution and behavior of what natural phenomenon?

A: Wildfires B: Earthquakes
C: Blizzards D: Floods

Answer

A: Wildfires ( 24 )

$10,000 * Housewife Pets
On "The Real Housewives of New Jersey," what is the name of Dina Manzo's hairless cat, who was named after Dina's grandmother?

A: Miss Frisky B: Grandma Wrinkle
C: Sugar Nana D: Mama Snuggles

Jill thinks it's Grandma Wrinkle, but she's not 100%. With 12 seconds left, Dawn decides to Ask The Audience.

ATA: A: 12% B: 65% C: 14% D: 9%

Answer

B: Grandma Wrinkle ( 9 )

-- Commercial Break --

You're In the Hot Seat Home Game
Today's Winning Answer
C: Jay-Z

Sneak Peak at One of the Next Episode's Questions

$10,000
What film spawned the memorable line "the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist"?

A: Memento B: Pulp Fiction
C: Trainspotting D: The Usual Suspects

$12,500 * Tough Crowd
In 2009, what starlet's debut as an artistic adviser for Ungaro was savaged by fashion critics after a show in Paris?

A: Lindsay Lohan B: Anne Hathaway
C: Jessica Biel D: Natalie Portman

Answer

A: Lindsay Lohan ( 23 )

$15,000 * States of the Union
Four fourteen years before it joined the Union in 1791, what U.S. state was an independent republic, with its own currency and constitution?

A: Ohio B: Maine
C: Florida D: Vermont

Alex thinks we hadn't expanded so far west or south, so it's either Maine or Vermont.

With 5 seconds left, Dawn decides to Double Dip.

Dawn's first answer is

Spoiler

D: Vermont

.

Answer

D: Vermont ( 5 )

$25,000 * Canada
What is the only Canadian province to border the Great Lakes?

A: Manitoba B: Ontario
C: Quebec D: Alberta

Alex and Jill think it's Ontario, but they're not 100%. With 11 seconds left, Dawn decides to Ask The Expert. Today's expert is the executive producer of the Real Housewives series, Andy Cohen. While Andy reads the question, Alex and Jill both tell him they think it's Ontario, one of them mentioning that's because there's a Lake Ontario.

Andy: I think it's Ontario, too. I have to say, you have got--Dawn, you have a really smart team you're playing with, today!

Dawn: You're saying Ontario, Andy?

Andy: Yeah.

Jill asks Meredith what Dawn will drop down to ($5,000) if she misses this question. They continue to discuss the question as time counts down, then Dawn decides to walk away with $15,000.

Answer

B: Ontario ( 2 )

-- The Horn --

Meredith: That is it for The Real Housewives of Millionaire!

[MarleysGh0st]

$25,000 * Canada
What is the only Canadian province to border the Great Lakes?

A: Manitoba B: Ontario
C: Quebec D: Alberta

Alex and Jill think it's Ontario, but they're not 100%. With 11 seconds left, Dawn decides to Ask The Expert. Today's expert is the executive producer of the Real Housewives series, Andy Cohen. While Andy reads the question, Alex and Jill both tell him they think it's Ontario, one of them mentioning that's because there's a Lake Ontario.

Andy: I think it's Ontario, too. I have to say, you have got--Dawn, you have a really smart team you're playing with, today!

Dawn: You're saying Ontario, Andy?

Andy: Yeah.

Jill asks Meredith what Dawn will drop down to ($5,000) if she misses this question. They continue to discuss the question as time counts down, then Dawn decides to walk away with $15,000.

Answer

B: Ontario ( 2 )

Wow! One of the "Real Housewives" wasn't a geo-nitwit! I couldn't tell who made the Lake Ontario observation, but it was a good one. If only she had a little confidence in selling that answer!

TDC really hurts the effectiveness of team game play. If someone can't sell an answer, immediately, there's no time for discussion. And with three people on each team, today, that problem was even worse!

Meredith: That is it for The Real Housewives of Millionaire!

That's the nicest thing you said all week, Mere!

[MarleysGh0st]

Dawn's appearance became another victim of the big "IT'S SNOWING" news emergency in NYC.

http://www.nj.com/hobokennow/index.ssf/ ... hobok.html

In an unusual situation, WABC-TV programming director Art Moore said there are no plans to re-air this episode and that it will likely air when the season is rerun at an undetermined later date.

“There’s just no place to put it,” Moore said.

Unusual situation? Tell that to Pea...

Although the people of Hoboken were deprived of a viewing, Pascale planned ahead. She noticed that Thursday’s episode had been pre-empted, and she traveled to her shore house at Toms River so she wouldn’t miss herself on Friday’s program. She watched it with family and friends today.

[crispcook]

$25,000 * Canada
What is the only Canadian province to border the Great Lakes?

A: Manitoba B: Ontario
C: Quebec D: Alberta

Alex and Jill think it's Ontario, but they're not 100%. With 11 seconds left, Dawn decides to Ask The Expert. Today's expert is the executive producer of the Real Housewives series, Andy Cohen. While Andy reads the question, Alex and Jill both tell him they think it's Ontario, one of them mentioning that's because there's a Lake Ontario.

Andy: I think it's Ontario, too. I have to say, you have got--Dawn, you have a really smart team you're playing with, today!

Dawn: You're saying Ontario, Andy?

Andy: Yeah.

Jill asks Meredith what Dawn will drop down to ($5,000) if she misses this question. They continue to discuss the question as time counts down, then Dawn decides to walk away with $15,000.

Answer

B: Ontario ( 2 )

Wow! One of the "Real Housewives" wasn't a geo-nitwit! I couldn't tell who made the Lake Ontario observation, but it was a good one. If only she had a little confidence in selling that answer!

TDC really hurts the effectiveness of team game play. If someone can't sell an answer, immediately, there's no time for discussion. And with three people on each team, today, that problem was even worse!

Meredith: That is it for The Real Housewives of Millionaire!

That's the nicest thing you said all week, Mere!

I agree!

[chad1m]

$10,000 * Housewife Pets
On "The Real Housewives of New Jersey," what is the name of Dina Manzo's hairless cat, who was named after Dina's grandmother?

A: Miss Frisky B: Grandma Wrinkle
C: Sugar Nana D: Mama Snuggles

Jill thinks it's Grandma Wrinkle, but she's not 100%. With 12 seconds left, Dawn decides to Ask The Audience.

I surely can't be the only one who thinks it makes more sense to use your Housewives-centric lifeline on the Housewives-centric question, right?

[NellyLunatic1980]

Dawn Pascale
Hoboken, NJ

WE®

$10,000 * Housewife Pets
On "The Real Housewives of New Jersey," what is the name of Dina Manzo's hairless cat, who was named after Dina's grandmother?

A: Miss Frisky B: Grandma Wrinkle
C: Sugar Nana D: Mama Snuggles

WGAS

$15,000 * States of the Union
Four fourteen years before it joined the Union in 1791, what U.S. state was an independent republic, with its own currency and constitution?

A: Ohio B: Maine
C: Florida D: Vermont

1791 was the key for me. Ohio and Florida didn't join the Union until the 1800s. And AFAIK, Maine was still a part of Massachusetts so there was no way it could have been an independent republic.

Meredith: That is it for The Real Housewives of Millionaire!

Thank God!

[MarleysGh0st]

I want to add to my previous comment about TDC interfering with effective team discussion. In this instance, they used the ATE as a Stop The Clock lifeline, so there was time for all four of those individuals to have a detailed analysis of all the hunches, in an attempt to arrive at a definitive conclusion. Now, maybe they tried that and it all got edited out; I think the editing was pretty heavy on this episode, to fit in all of Dawn's run.

So all we were left with, on the tape, was Andy telling Dawn how smart her team was.

[MarleysGh0st]

$10,000 * Housewife Pets
On "The Real Housewives of New Jersey," what is the name of Dina Manzo's hairless cat, who was named after Dina's grandmother?

A: Miss Frisky B: Grandma Wrinkle
C: Sugar Nana D: Mama Snuggles

Jill thinks it's Grandma Wrinkle, but she's not 100%. With 12 seconds left, Dawn decides to Ask The Audience.

I surely can't be the only one who thinks it makes more sense to use your Housewives-centric lifeline on the Housewives-centric question, right?

You're not.

Maybe the ATA would have made sense if TPTB had specifically promoted this taping as being for "Real Housewives" week, so that everyone in the audience would have been fans of that series. I don't think that was the case, despite the scenes they showed of the RHs arriving outside the studio to the cheers of (some) ecstatic fans.