Laurel, DE
Patrick comes in from the bench, walks around the outside of the floor (where the Ring of Fire used to be) to where the former contestant entrance was and then walks to the Hot Seat. Meredith says he's a jokester and Patrick replies that he didn't know where he was going.
$100 - In a common holiday tradition, children visit shopping malls to have their photos taken with what iconic figure?
A - Uncle Sam
B - Santa Claus
C - Father Time
D - Ryan Seacrest
Spoiler
B - Santa Claus (8)
A - exclamation point
B - semicolon
C - period
D - comma
Spoiler
D - comma (10)
A - infants
B - teens
C - middle-aged
D - senior citizens
Spoiler
B - teens (8)
A - Franklin D. Roosevelt
B - Woodrow Wilson
C - Dwight Eisenhower
D - Harry Truman
Spoiler
A - FDR (8)
A - Trivial Pursuit
B - Chutes and Ladders
C - Monopoly
D - Candy Land
Spoiler
C - Monopoly (6)
Patrick is a summer (??) police officer and a bit of a comedian who cracks up his friends with an imitation of Chris Farley as motivational speaker Matt Foley. Patrick does a bit of it for Meredith.
The category tree is finally revealed:
- Famous Pets
- Medals
- Human Development
- Supreme Court
- The Middle East
- Words
- Writers
- Band Names
- Historical Events
- Sleep
- Games
- Famous Quotes
- Horror Movies
- Grammar
- Holiday Traditions
$2K - Governing wakefulness and sleep, the "circadian rhythm" is a cycle of biological process that lasts approximately how long?
A - one hour
B - one day
C - one month
D - one year
Spoiler
B - one day (15)
A - Hindenburg explosion
B - Cuban missile crisis
C - great Chicago fire
D - Irish potato famine
Spoiler
Ryan says that he remembers that for long time they thought that a cow...then realizing the clock is ticking he makes C his final answer.
Spoiler
C - great Chicago fire (10)
A - river
B - mountain
C - tree
D - desert
Spoiler
Ryan knows that the Styx is the river that the boatman ferries people across to the land of the underworld so he makes A his final answer.
Spoiler
A - river (17)
THE HORN!!!!!
Patrick will return on Monday with all his lifelines still available.
ANSWERS:
$100 - B (Santa Claus)
$200 - D (comma)
$300 - B (teens)
$500 - A (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
$1K - C (Monopoly)
$2K - B (one day)
$4K - C (great Chicago fire)
$8K - A (river)