Transcript 11/18/2008 Young-Studer Family

[BBTranscriptTeam]

Family Week

The Young-Studer Family
Lawrenceville, GA

Lynne
Elizabeth – Lynne’s daughter, University of Georgia student
Helen – Lynne’s mom

Meredith doesn’t say, but Elizabeth is in the center seat and appears to be the designated answerer.

Lynne would like to help her daughter with law school, and help her other daughter Caroline who is autistic.
Elizabeth would like a car
Helen is a grandmother of 11 and a great-grandma of 8 others. Would like to help some of her grandkids' student loans and to donate to help those with autism such as two of her grandkids.

PAF and Double Dip remain

Topic Tree:

Bring a Sweater!
The Oval Office
J.K. Shakespeare
The Slulls
At the Arcade
Shoe Salesmen
(TV Icons)
(Medicine Cabinet)
(Sports Lingo)
(Silly Questions)
(One Giant Step)
(Bake a Cake)
(At the Mall)
(To Phrase a Coin)
(Shipshape)


$25K- In the 1930s, what now-famous playwright worked at a Missouri shoe company with a man named Stanley Kowalski?
A. Arthur Miller B. Clifford Odets
C. Eugene O'Neill D. Tennessee Williams


PAF used at :13

Spoiler

They were leaning towards Arthur Miller.

PAF choices:
James - Marietta, GA, Lynne's brother
Matthew - Liburn, GA, Helen's grandson
Steven, Chicago, IL (relationship not mentioned)

Steven says "go with Tennessee Williams"
Elizabeth: How sure Steve?
Steven: I'm..sure. Very sure.
Elizabeth: Very sure?
Steven: Yep
Elizabeth: Alright. Thanks.
Steven: Alright. Good luck!
Lynne: Love you Steve.

Double-Dip called with :10 left

First answer, D, Tennessee Williams, correct!

$50K- In 1999, a Florida man completed all 256 boards to become the first person ever to play a perfect game of what?
A. Donkey Kong B. Frogger
C. Pac-Man D. Tetris

Spoiler

With nothing to lose, they guessed D-Tetris
Answer C. Pac-Man (:29)

They left with $25,000.


Commercial Break

[NellyLunatic1980]

$25K- In the 1930s, what now-famous playwright worked at a Missouri shoe company with a man named Stanley Kowalski?
A. Arthur Miller B. Clifford Odets
C. Eugene O'Neill D. Tennessee Williams

PAF used at :13

Spoiler

They were leaning towards Arthur Miller.

PAF choices:
James - Marietta, GA, Lynne's brother
Matthew - Liburn, GA, Helen's grandson
Steven, Chicago, IL (relationship not mentioned)

Steven says "go with Tennessee Williams"
Elizabeth: How sure Steve?
Steven: I'm..sure. Very sure.
Elizabeth: Very sure?
Steven: Yep
Elizabeth: Alright. Thanks.
Steven: Alright. Good luck!
Lynne: Love you Steve.

Double-Dip called with :10 left

First answer, D, Tennessee Williams, correct!

Stanley Kowalski... "A Streetcar Named Desire"... why the hell did this question require the use of two lifelines? Strike that. Why the hell did they waste the DD after their PAF was "very sure" on Williams? I think MBFFB®'s head exploded again.

Nihil obstat®

[earendel]

Family Week

The Young-Studer Family
Lawrenceville, GA

$25K- In the 1930s, what now-famous playwright worked at a Missouri shoe company with a man named Stanley Kowalski?
A. Arthur Miller B. Clifford Odets
C. Eugene O'Neill D. Tennessee Williams


PAF used at :13

Spoiler

They were leaning towards Arthur Miller.

PAF choices:
James - Marietta, GA, Lynne's brother
Matthew - Liburn, GA, Helen's grandson
Steven, Chicago, IL (relationship not mentioned)

Steven says "go with Tennessee Williams"
Elizabeth: How sure Steve?
Steven: I'm..sure. Very sure.
Elizabeth: Very sure?
Steven: Yep
Elizabeth: Alright. Thanks.
Steven: Alright. Good luck!
Lynne: Love you Steve.

Double-Dip called with :10 left

First answer, D, Tennessee Williams, correct!

I guess they saw the category and connected it with Miller ("Death of a Salesman"). Did none of them think of "Stanley Kowalski" and "A Streetcar Named Desire"?

$50K- In 1999, a Florida man completed all 256 boards to become the first person ever to play a perfect game of what?
A. Donkey Kong B. Frogger
C. Pac-Man D. Tetris

Spoiler

With nothing to lose, they guessed D-Tetris
Answer C. Pac-Man (:29)

Definitely not Tetris; there's no end to that game. I guessed "Pac-Man" from the comfort of my recliner but in the HS I'd have gone with the Double Dip, with "Frogger" being my second choice.

[summus123]

$50K- In 1999, a Florida man completed all 256 boards to become the first person ever to play a perfect game of what?
A. Donkey Kong B. Frogger
C. Pac-Man D. Tetris

I rented the King of Kong last Spring. Billy Mitchell was the person to achieve the Pac-Man perfect game. Also, after the 256 board, you can still technically play, but the graphics are messed up.

[MarleysGh0st]

Here's an article about their appearance:

http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/main.a ... TM=415.244

"We were thrilled," Lynne Studer said about the trio's winnings. "Of course, you always want to win more, but our trip was priceless. You couldn't have put an amount on that. We just had a great time."

With $8,333 each (before taxes) they might have to scale back their shopping list.

[NellyLunatic1980]

$50K- In 1999, a Florida man completed all 256 boards to become the first person ever to play a perfect game of what?
A. Donkey Kong B. Frogger
C. Pac-Man D. Tetris

I rented the King of Kong last Spring. Billy Mitchell was the person to achieve the Pac-Man perfect game. Also, after the 256 board, you can still technically play, but the graphics are messed up.

This question, I found, is slightly flawed in that board #256 is the one with the messed-up graphics. It is impossible to complete board #256. Billy Mitchell completed 255 boards to achieve his perfect score.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac-Man#Split-screen_level

Pac-Man technically has no ending—as long as the player keeps at least one life, they should be able to continue playing indefinitely. However, because of a bug in the routine that draws the fruit, the right side of the 256th board becomes a garbled mess of text and symbols, rendering the level impossible to pass by legitimate means. Normally, no more than seven fruits are displayed at any one time, but when the internal level counter (stored in a single byte) reaches 255, the subroutine erroneously causes this value to "roll over" to zero before drawing the fruit. This causes the routine to attempt to draw 256 fruits, which corrupts the bottom of the screen and the whole right half of the maze with seemingly random symbols.

Through tinkering, the details of the corruption can be revealed. Some ROMs of the game are equipped with a "rack test" feature that can be accessed through the game's DIP switches. This feature automatically clears a level of all dots as soon as it begins, making it easier to reach the 256th board very quickly, as well as allowing players to see what would happen if the 256th board is cleared (the game loops back to the first level, causing fruits and intermissions to display as before, but with the ghosts retaining their higher speed and invulnerability to power pellets from the later stages). When the rack test is performed in an emulator, a person can more easily analyze the corruption in this level.

Pac-Man and the ghosts can move freely throughout the right half of the screen, barring some fractured pieces of the maze. Despite claims that someone with enough knowledge of the maze pattern could play through the level, it is technically impossible to complete since the graphical corruption eliminates most of the dots on the right half of the maze. A few edible dots are scattered in the corrupted area, and these dots reset when the player loses a life (unlike in the uncorrupted areas), but these are insufficient to complete the level. As a result, the level has been given a number of names, including "the Final Level", "the Blind-Side", and the ending. It is known more generally as a kill screen.

A perfect Pac-Man game occurs when the player achieves the maximum possible score on the first 255 levels (by eating every possible dot, energizer, fruit and monster) without losing a single life, then scoring as many points as possible in the last level. As verified by the Twin Galaxies Intergalactic Scoreboard on July 3, 1999, the first person to achieve the maximum possible score (3,333,360 points) was Billy Mitchell of Hollywood, Florida, who performed the feat in about six hours.

In December 1982, an 8-year-old boy named Jeffrey R. Yee supposedly received a letter from U.S. President Ronald Reagan congratulating him on a worldwide record of 6,131,940 points, a score only possible if the player has passed the Split-Screen Level. Whether or not this event happened as described has remained in heated debate among video-game circles since its supposed occurrence. In September 1983, Walter Day, chief scorekeeper at Twin Galaxies, took the US National Video Game Team on a tour of the East Coast to visit video game players who claimed they could get through the Split-Screen. No video game player could demonstrate this ability. In 1999, Billy Mitchell offered $100,000 to anyone who could provably pass through the Split-Screen Level before January 1, 2000; the prize went unclaimed.

[MarleysGh0st]

Elizabeth Studer's appearance got mentioned in this article in her college newspaper. The article mentions that her mother and grandmother were also contestants, but doesn't even bother to mention their names!

http://media.www.redandblack.com/media/ ... 3787.shtml

Q: What was it like being in the "hot seat" with your mom and grandma?

A: It was really nerve racking, and kind of surreal. I remember watching it [the show] in fifth grade with mom and it was weird being on it seven years later.

<groan>

Q: On television, the show was showed over two days. Did you film over two days as well?

A: We filmed it one day. If you noticed, we were wearing the same clothes.

I didn't notice that. Didn't the family teams have to run backstage for a costume change, as usual?