Transcript 09/25/2013 Josina Reaves

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Josina Reaves
Brooklyn, NY
English teacher

Her dad, Stan, is in the audience

Cedric introduced her today as a newlywed who said the road to finding her Prince Charming was not an easy one.
She described herself as a bad flirt and a clumsy person who once lost her balance and pulled a bookcase down.
Then when flirting with a guy in a cafe, she accidentally sat on a brownie and showed her backside covered in chocolate.
Cedric said he likes chocolate.


Topic Tree: (Randomized shown only)
Dead Giveaway
Early Jobs
$7000
$5000
$3000
$100
$25000
$1000
$500
$15000


Question 9- Early Jobs
As a 20-year-old, which of these leading men was a cast member of "Saturday Night Live" for a single season?
A. Johnny Depp B. Will Smith
C. Robert Downey, Jr. D. Leonardo DiCaprio

Spoiler

Josina said this is a tough one but thinks she remembers those days

Answer and value

C. Robert Downey, Jr.
Value: $2000
Bank: $58600

Question 10 - Dead Giveaway
Fittingly, a man by the last name of Ka-shing is known to be Asia's what?
A. Smartest B. Shortest
C. Oldest D. Richest

Answer and value

D. Richest
Value: known to be $10K
Bank: $68600

Question 11 - $100K
If a fateful coin toss between two brothers-in-law had gone the other way, a popular company would be named what?
A. Robbins-Baskin B. Fitch & Abercrombie
C. Gabbana & Dolce D. Williams-Sherwin

Spoiler

Josina said this is a tough one, but she knows Baskin and Robbins are brothers-in-law
She said she does not know about Fitch and Abercrombie and they could have been brothers in law; the same for Williams and Sherwin.
Does not think Gabbana & Dolce were related.
Goes with the one she knows are brothers-in-law

Answer

A. Robbins-Baskin
$100K

Commercial break


Question 12 - $250K
In 1961, delays on the Freedom 7 launch combined with lots of orange juice made what astronaut the first to wet his spacesuit?
A. Alan Shepherd B. Neil Armstrong
C. John Glenn D. Buzz Aldrin

JTQ 1

Josina said she does not know; "Why would you tell anybody that? It's terrible"
Cedric: "It's a space suit, it started to float out and get out"
Josina said again she does not know and JTQ

Answer

A. Alan Shepherd
Bank still $100K

Question 13 - $500K
Airing on April 6, 1987, the first episode of the long-running A&E series "Biography" featured what famous entertainer?
A. Greta Garbo B. Shirley Temple
C. Josephine Baker D. Lucille Ball

JTQ 2

Josina said she believes she did not even have cable in 1987.

Answer

C. Josephine Baker
Bank still $100K

Commercial break

Cedric announces Josina is about to go for $1M and asked how she feels
"I feel like a million bucks"
What would she do with a million?
"there is a hammock with my name on it ... in the Mediterranean...being fanned by some very lovely people"
Cedric asks if he is there? No, don't want to start anything now. Are there any brownies there? (laugh)


Question 14 - $1M
In addition to his career as an astrologer & "prophet", Nostradamus published a 1555 treatise that included a section on what?
A. Training parrots to talk B. Cheating at card games
C. Digging graves D. Making jams & jellies

Spoiler

Josina "Whaaat?" Wow.
Doesn't think Nostradamus had many parrots in his life, he wasn't a tropical prophet.
Cheating at card games? Maybe this is something an astrologer would want to be good at.
Digging graves was very important in the 16th century, people were dropping like flies on a regular basis
Cedric: Think he predicted you would win a million dollars? Nostradamus? Josina said "yes I do" (drawing a laugh)
Making jellies and jams? That's not a thing for him, everybody loves jellies and jams, you wouldn't put that in your book
Josina thinking that at the end of the Black Plague, Nostradamus would be doing something for the people as a man of the people, and he was interested in the dead, and you would not want the dead getting out of the holes in the ground, you would want to keep them down there.
Josina is saying C, digging graves. Cedric started final? Not now (drawing a laugh from the audience)
Cedric said Josina has worked it out and would risk $75K for the shot at the million
Josina said she walked in here with a Metrocard, so C, digging graves, final answer

Answer

Cedric: I love your guts, Josina, you are an amazing player, the correct answer was...
D. Making jams & jellies
Josina leaves with $25K

Commercial break

Question of the day
Filed in 1992, what pop star is a credited "inventor" on a patent called "Method & Means or Creating Anti-Gravity Illusion"?
A. Michael Jackson B. Prince
C. Mick Jagger D. George Harrison

Answer to QoD

A. Michael Jackson

When Cedric returned, he said Josina's run, coming that close to the million, was so exciting for him and the exact reason he took this job to have an opportunity to see someone win life-changing amounts of money.

[SportsFan68]

Question 11 - $100K
If a fateful coin toss between two brothers-in-law had gone the other way, a popular company would be named what?
A. Robbins-Baskin B. Fitch & Abercrombie
C. Gabbana & Dolce D. Williams-Sherwin

Spoiler

Josina said this is a tough one, but she knows Baskin and Robbins are brothers-in-law
She said she does not know about Fitch and Abercrombie and they could have been brothers in law; the same for Williams and Sherwin.
Does not think Gabbana & Dolce were related.
Goes with the one she knows are brothers-in-law

Answer

A. Robbins-Baskin
$100K

Yay, Rosina! I did not know this.

I just know that Basking-Robbings Baseball Nut ice cream will be going away soon until next summer.

Question 12 - $250K
In 1961, delays on the Freedom 7 launch combined with lots of orange juice made what astronaut the first to wet his spacesuit?
A. Alan Shepherd B. Neil Armstrong
C. John Glenn D. Buzz Aldrin

JTQ 1

Josina said she does not know; "Why would you tell anybody that? It's terrible"
Cedric: "It's a space suit, it started to float out and get out"
Josina said again she does not know and JTQ

Answer

A. Alan Shepherd
Bank still $100K

This was in the movie! The Right Stuff, I think. Played by Scott Glenn.

He had to tell them -- in the movie, it showed sensors going off all over the monitors. "What the hell is that!!???"

Question 13 - $500K
Airing on April 6, 1987, the first episode of the long-running A&E series "Biography" featured what famous entertainer?
A. Greta Garbo B. Shirley Temple
C. Josephine Baker D. Lucille Ball

JTQ 2

Josina said she believes she did not even have cable in 1987.

Answer

C. Josephine Baker
Bank still $100K

Another JTQ, if I still have it. If not, sayonara.

Question 14 - $1M
In addition to his career as an astrologer & "prophet", Nostradamus published a 1555 treatise that included a section on what?
A. Training parrots to talk B. Cheating at card games
C. Digging graves D. Making jams & jellies

Spoiler

Josina "Whaaat?" Wow.
Doesn't think Nostradamus had many parrots in his life, he wasn't a tropical prophet.
Cheating at card games? Maybe this is something an astrologer would want to be good at.
Digging graves was very important in the 16th century, people were dropping like flies on a regular basis
Cedric: Think he predicted you would win a million dollars? Nostradamus? Josina said "yes I do" (drawing a laugh)
Making jellies and jams? That's not a thing for him, everybody loves jellies and jams, you wouldn't put that in your book
Josina thinking that at the end of the Black Plague, Nostradamus would be doing something for the people as a man of the people, and he was interested in the dead, and you would not want the dead getting out of the holes in the ground, you would want to keep them down there.
Josina is saying C, digging graves. Cedric started final? Not now (drawing a laugh from the audience)
Cedric said Josina has worked it out and would risk $75K for the shot at the million
Josina said she walked in here with a Metrocard, so C, digging graves, final answer

Answer

Cedric: I love your guts, Josina, you are an amazing player, the correct answer was...
D. Making jams & jellies
Josina leaves with $25K

Great distractor, darn it. Well done, Josina!

[thejeopardyfan]

JTQ question 11, ATA question 12, walk away on question 13.

[earendel]

Josina Reaves
Brooklyn, NY
English teacher

Her dad, Stan, is in the audience

Cedric introduced her today as a newlywed who said the road to finding her Prince Charming was not an easy one.
She described herself as a bad flirt and a clumsy person who once lost her balance and pulled a bookcase down.
Then when flirting with a guy in a cafe, she accidentally sat on a brownie and showed her backside covered in chocolate.
Cedric said he likes chocolate.

Question 9- Early Jobs
As a 20-year-old, which of these leading men was a cast member of "Saturday Night Live" for a single season?
A. Johnny Depp B. Will Smith
C. Robert Downey, Jr. D. Leonardo DiCaprio

Spoiler

Josina said this is a tough one but thinks she remembers those days

Answer and value

C. Robert Downey, Jr.
Value: $2000
Bank: $58600

I still have my ATA so I'll use it here.

Question 11 - $100K
If a fateful coin toss between two brothers-in-law had gone the other way, a popular company would be named what?
A. Robbins-Baskin B. Fitch & Abercrombie
C. Gabbana & Dolce D. Williams-Sherwin

Spoiler

Josina said this is a tough one, but she knows Baskin and Robbins are brothers-in-law
She said she does not know about Fitch and Abercrombie and they could have been brothers in law; the same for Williams and Sherwin.
Does not think Gabbana & Dolce were related.
Goes with the one she knows are brothers-in-law

Answer

A. Robbins-Baskin
$100K

There goes my last JTQ.

Question 12 - $250K
In 1961, delays on the Freedom 7 launch combined with lots of orange juice made what astronaut the first to wet his spacesuit?
A. Alan Shepherd B. Neil Armstrong
C. John Glenn D. Buzz Aldrin

JTQ 1

Josina said she does not know; "Why would you tell anybody that? It's terrible"
Cedric: "It's a space suit, it started to float out and get out"
Josina said again she does not know and JTQ

Answer

A. Alan Shepherd
Bank still $100K

No problem here - but was it orange juice or Tang?

Question 13 - $500K
Airing on April 6, 1987, the first episode of the long-running A&E series "Biography" featured what famous entertainer?
A. Greta Garbo B. Shirley Temple
C. Josephine Baker D. Lucille Ball

JTQ 2

Josina said she believes she did not even have cable in 1987.

Answer

C. Josephine Baker
Bank still $100K

And I'm outta there.

Question 14 - $1M
In addition to his career as an astrologer & "prophet", Nostradamus published a 1555 treatise that included a section on what?
A. Training parrots to talk B. Cheating at card games
C. Digging graves D. Making jams & jellies

Spoiler

Josina "Whaaat?" Wow.
Doesn't think Nostradamus had many parrots in his life, he wasn't a tropical prophet.
Cheating at card games? Maybe this is something an astrologer would want to be good at.
Digging graves was very important in the 16th century, people were dropping like flies on a regular basis
Cedric: Think he predicted you would win a million dollars? Nostradamus? Josina said "yes I do" (drawing a laugh)
Making jellies and jams? That's not a thing for him, everybody loves jellies and jams, you wouldn't put that in your book
Josina thinking that at the end of the Black Plague, Nostradamus would be doing something for the people as a man of the people, and he was interested in the dead, and you would not want the dead getting out of the holes in the ground, you would want to keep them down there.
Josina is saying C, digging graves. Cedric started final? Not now (drawing a laugh from the audience)
Cedric said Josina has worked it out and would risk $75K for the shot at the million
Josina said she walked in here with a Metrocard, so C, digging graves, final answer

Answer

Cedric: I love your guts, Josina, you are an amazing player, the correct answer was...
D. Making jams & jellies
Josina leaves with $25K

Wow. Just wow. She played a good game and showed a lot of guts going for it. As for me, from the comfort of my recliner I guessed the right answer just because it was the most incongruous of the four.

[ghostjmf]

Q 9: Suddenly they get hard, for me that is; I was leaning toward Downey because I hadn't read it in the bios of the others, which I've read more of, but I'd ATA here.

Q10: Its a guess, but of the obvious "right answer".

Q11: Hard, for me, again; I jump this one. No lifelines left.

Q12: Here's where I leave. I should have known the craft was called "Freedom 7", which would tell me who was on it, but did not.

Q13: Didn't know this for sure either. My brain was nagging me with what turned out to be the right answer, so I knew it on some level, but would not have gone with a guess.

Q14: No clue. And my "1st guess", C, was not the right answer.

But like I said in the other thread, it's an easy google. Do they take away the audience's phones? Can they google for the ATA? Surreptiously, of course.

Its good to see all those top-level Qs, but I wish she'd had the sense, at the last, to keep her money. But it was clearly her decision, she knew she had a 1-in-4 chance.

[Maddy]

But like I said in the other thread, it's an easy google. Do they take away the audience's phones? Can they google for the ATA? Surreptiously, of course.

The audience can't have their phones out during the show but they don't take them away (as the pics on facebook show lots of people post during "commercial" breaks). The producers have a pretty close eye on the audience in general for TV-sake. I'm sure they would not tolerate phone usage.

[CarShark]

I'm surprised that there hasn't been more traffic about this. It's the first million dollar question in regular play in six years.

I knew the $100K and $250K questions immediately. I had no idea about the $500K.

The MDQ was quite a disappointment to me. Normally, it's a little known fact about something very familiar (The Brady Bunch, Kruschev's shoe, landlocked countries), but this was just an obscurity.

[TheConfessor]

They refer to the last four questions as "Classic Millionaire," but it's really not. There was a lot more drama and risk when Ken Basin missed his MDQ. Ken's miss cost him $475K, compared to the $75K Josina lost on her miss.

[MarleysGh0st]

They refer to the last four questions as "Classic Millionaire," but it's really not. There was a lot more drama and risk when Ken Basin missed his MDQ. Ken's miss cost him $475K, compared to the $75K Josina lost on her miss.

Well, the format is classic, if not the question material.

I'm glad Josina had the guts to go for it. With an expected value of $268,750, even with a one in four random guess, versus $100,000 for walking away, this was a situation only made possible by the JTQ lifelines.