Transcript 10/21/2008 Lori Fagan (carryover contestant)

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Teacher Week

Lori Fagan
Greenlawn (Huntington, Long Island) NY
3rd & 4th Grade Teacher
admits to nervous laugh when excited
kids call her the queen, can't be the queen w/o a tiara!
The principal, Irene, is in the audience and will wear the tiara when Lori reaches 25K.


Topics:
Man’s Best Friend
I Have a Theory
Joke Origins
Africa
Think About It
Heroes
High School Movies
Internet Giants
Crunch the Numbers
Cathedrals
(Spuds)
(The Tabloids)
(Organizations)
(Party Games)
(Down with Homework!)

Expert available via Skype video call
introduce Nancy Christy holding dog (herjosie)

Spoiler

all lifelines available

$2000- Which of these cathedrals is listed in the "Italy" section of the popular travel book "1000 places to See Before You Die"?
A. Il Duomo B. Notre Dame
C. Westminster Abbey D. St. Patrick's

Spoiler

A. Il Duomo (9)

$4000- Which of the following is equal to one century?
A. Threescore years B. Fourscore years
C. Fivescore years D. Sixscore years

Spoiler

C. Fivescore years (16)

$8000- Which of these Internet giants has a CEO who is twenty-four years old?
A. YouTube B. Facebook
C. Google D. MySpace

Lifelines used ATA then Expert

Spoiler

ATA at :20
A-19% B-38% C-14% D-29%

Expert called at :10

Nancy Christy thinks it is B, saying she remembered the founder was in college at the time and thinks it is the newest of the bunch.

Lori said she was leaning the same way and goes Facebook at :07.

Answer B. Facebook (:07)

Commercial break

Lori is awarded a $1000 gift card from sponsor CVS pharmacy

$16K- At the end of "The Breakfast Club," Molly Ringwald gives Judd Nelson her what?
A. Diamond earring B. Underwear
C. Car keys D. Sunglasses

Spoiler

A. Diamond earring (:22)
Lori says it is her favorite movie

$25K- Though he was a hero, which of these figures from Greek mythology was not technically a god?
A. Apollo B. Odysseus
C. Pan D. Atlas

Lifeline used: PAF

Choices were
- friend Kyle, a computer and music teacher from East Northport, NY
- son Robbie from Greenlawn, NY
- Pastor Paul from Huntington Station, NY

Pastor Paul called at :23

Spoiler

Paul says Odysseus and is 90% sure. Thinks Pan is a sprite which would be classified as a god.

Answer B. Odysseus (:16)

Irene puts on the tiara and shouts.

Commercial break

Lori said $25K is her yearly salary

$50K- Which of these celebrity-inspired nicknames would be most appropriate for the artist who sculpted "The Thinker"?
A. K-Fed B. T-Mac
C. J-Lo D. A-Rod

Double Dip called at :32

Spoiler

D. A-Rod (first answer was correct)

(Auguste Rodin)

$100K- As of 2008, what is Africa's most populous country?
A. Ethiopia B. Nigeria
C. Sudan D. South Africa

Lori walks with $50K

Spoiler

B. Nigeria (clock ran to :08 seconds)
Lori said she would have guessed South Africa

Commercial break

[NellyLunatic1980]

Expert available via Skype video call
introduce Nancy Christy holding dog (herjosie)

Spoiler

Yay! herjosie's official TV debut.

$8K: I think that both Facebook and MySpace began while their respective founders were in college. I'll ask the audience.

A-19% B-38% C-14% D-29%

Gee, thanks a lot, audience. But I'll go along with Facebook anyway, since Tom Anderson doesn't look that young.

$16K: No clue on this one. Not sure if Nancy has ever seen this movie, so I'm gonna PAF.

$25K: Although mythology is a weak area for me, I knew this one immediately.

$50K: Auguste Rodin. A-Rod. Final. Next!

$100K: I got this one immediately. IIRC, Nigeria is the only African country with a population of over 100 million... and it's also one of the fastest growing countries in the world.

So I'd be going for $250K with DD and ATE.

[MarleysGh0st]

$8000- Which of these Internet giants has a CEO who is twenty-four years old?
A. YouTube B. Facebook
C. Google D. MySpace

I thought this was a terribly undervalued question. The only founder of any of these companies I could name off-hand is Sergey Brin of Google (and he now calls himself the "President of Technology"--I believe Google went with a more experienced businessperson to be CEO). Maybe Facebook users are familiar with its CEO, but I doubt many others have heard of him or her.

[MarleysGh0st]

Maybe Facebook users are familiar with its CEO, but I doubt many others have heard of him or her.

Him. Mark Zuckerberg.

[earendel]

Lori Fagan
Greenlawn (Huntington, Long Island) NY
3rd & 4th Grade Teacher
admits to nervous laugh when excited
kids call her the queen, can't be the queen w/o a tiara!
The principal, Irene, is in the audience and will wear the tiara when Lori reaches 25K.

OK, she's a WE® but she's also a teacher so we'll root for her anyway.

Topics:
Man’s Best Friend

A $1M question about dogs? I'd love to see what the question is.

$8000- Which of these Internet giants has a CEO who is twenty-four years old?
A. YouTube B. Facebook
C. Google D. MySpace

Lifelines used ATA then Expert

Spoiler

ATA at :20
A-19% B-38% C-14% D-29%

Expert called at :10

Nancy Christy thinks it is B, saying she remembered the founder was in college at the time and thinks it is the newest of the bunch.

Lori said she was leaning the same way and goes Facebook at :07.

Answer B. Facebook (:07)

Good for Nancy! I used the same reasoning. I wouldn't have needed the lifelines, though.

$16K- At the end of "The Breakfast Club," Molly Ringwald gives Judd Nelson her what?
A. Diamond earring B. Underwear
C. Car keys D. Sunglasses

Spoiler

A. Diamond earring (:22)
Lori says it is her favorite movie

OK, I've seen the movie once but didn't remember this. Time to ATA.

$25K- Though he was a hero, which of these figures from Greek mythology was not technically a god?
A. Apollo B. Odysseus
C. Pan D. Atlas

Lifeline used: PAF

Choices were
- friend Kyle, a computer and music teacher from East Northport, NY
- son Robbie from Greenlawn, NY
- Pastor Paul from Huntington Station, NY

Pastor Paul called at :23

Spoiler

Paul says Odysseus and is 90% sure. Thinks Pan is a sprite which would be classified as a god.

Answer B. Odysseus (:16)

OK, this is a bad question. Atlas was not a god - he was a Titan, and brother of Prometheus and Epimetheus (who married Pandora). Titans weren't gods (in the sense of the Greek pantheon, the Olympians).

$100K- As of 2008, what is Africa's most populous country?
A. Ethiopia B. Nigeria
C. Sudan D. South Africa

Lori walks with $50K

Spoiler

B. Nigeria (clock ran to :08 seconds)
Lori said she would have guessed South Africa

My first thought turned out to be correct, but in Lori's place I'd have gone to the PAF lifeline for a sanity check.

[gsabc]

ATA at $16K. Never seen the movie.

Nice gift from CVS. They have the most reasonable prices around here among the major "drugstore" chains.

No other problemos to $100K, where the timer might cause me to panic. Would probably ATE, knowing who my Expert is, though from the comfort of my home chair, I got the right answer.

Another big payday for a teacher. Good.

[Bob Juch]

$8000- Which of these Internet giants has a CEO who is twenty-four years old?
A. YouTube B. Facebook
C. Google D. MySpace

I thought this was a terribly undervalued question. The only founder of any of these companies I could name off-hand is Sergey Brin of Google (and he now calls himself the "President of Technology"--I believe Google went with a more experienced businessperson to be CEO). Maybe Facebook users are familiar with its CEO, but I doubt many others have heard of him or her.

He's been in the news quite a bit.

[slam]

It was great that Nancy used some good reasoning to help the contestant, but I agree that this was a tough question for this level. Zuckerberg has certainly been in the news and for awhile Facebook was even limited to college students. I thought similarly to Nancy but had some other relevant thoughts too. Brin and Page of Google are very famous and are solidly in their 30s. I was able to eliminate them immediately. I had thought MySpace had been around for a bit longer, so the CEO was unlikely to still be just 24. Wasn't really sure about YouTube, but would have pulled the trigger on Facebook.

The questions from there on seemed to just be meat and potatoes types. If I were in the chair and was faced that $100K question, the smile on my face would have stretched from one end of the studio to the other. The 10 most populous countries in the world is one of those lists that I just absorbed at some point. Although it keeps changing slightly, I would have been very confident that Nigeria was the only African country on that list. Most of them are in Asia with the exceptions of USA (#3), Brazil (#5) and Nigeria (#8).

[elwoodblues]

Topics:
Man’s Best Friend

So the $1M question was about beer?

[silvercamaro]

LOL!

[peacock2121]

What Uday said.