Transcript 12/02/2008 Ruth Mannion

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Ruth Mannion
Citrus Heights, CA
mother of two little girls

Says she is here with her two sisters for some "mommy detox time" but still misses her girls.

Topic tree:
Coining a Phrase
It's Not the Heat
Gimme Your Digits
The Sahara Desert
Pocket Change
Top Secret
Distinctive Labels
Recent TV
Barack Obama
Preggers
Child's Play
So Close, Yet So Far
New and Improved
Text Me
Patriotic Songs

$100- (Patriotic Songs):
Country star Lee Greenwood's most famous song is the patriotic ditty "God Bless the" what?
A. Netherlands B. USA
C. Philippines D. Olive Garden

Spoiler

B. USA [8]

$200- (Text Me):
The text-message form of a common idiom, "OTOH" stand for "on the other" what?
A. Horse B. Honey
C. Hand D. Home

Spoiler

C. Hand (10)

$300- (New and Improved):
"Improvement in Hoisting Apparatus" was an 1861 patent that dramatically improved the safety of what modern invention?
A. Radio B. Elevator
C. Telephone D. Camera

Spoiler

B. Elevator (10)

$500- (So Close, Yet So Far):
Though they're fairly close together, Tonga and Samoa are 24 hours apart because they lie on opposite sides of the what?
A. International Date Line B. Equator
C. Prime Meridian D. Tropic of Cancer

Spoiler

A. International Date Line (7)

$1000- (Child's Play):
Aggies, immies, shooters, and taws are all objects used in what children's game?
A. Hopscotch B. Four square
C. Kickball D. Marbles

Spoiler

D. Marbles (10)

Commercial break

They show her two sisters in the audience, then, a la Deal or No Deal, put a surprise call to her husband Bracken and two girls Chloe and Addie. They displayed their names and pictures on the Phone-A-Friend display. They showed a picture of them in a scary Halloween outfit.

$2000- (Preggers):
A normal, full-term human pregnancy lasts about nine months, or how many days?
A. 180 B. 280
C. 380 D. 480

Spoiler

B. 280 (20)

$4000- (Barack Obama):
Barack Obama is a two-time winner of which of these awards?
A. Oscar B. Tony
C. Grammy D. Emmy

ATA (21)

ATA

A-9% B-26% C-31% D-34%
Mere says "once again, not great numbers"

Spoiler

C. Grammy (6) note she went against the audience plurality, after she said final, one audience clap was heard.

Commercial break

$8000- (Recent TV):
An episode aptly titled "The Passion of the Christine" kicked off the second season of a sitcom starring whom?
A. Tina Fey B. Mary-Louise Parker
C. Julia Louis-Dreyfus D. America Ferrera

Spoiler

C. Julia Louis-Dreyfus (21)

$16K (Distinctive Labels):
In a nod to its home state of Pennsylvania, the "Keystone State," what brand uses "keystone-shaped" labels on its products?
A. General Mills B. Heinz
C. Campbell's D. Nabisco

Spoiler

B. Heinz (24)

$25K (Top Secret):
Not officially acknowledged until the 1990s, MI6 is the secret intelligence agency of what nation?
A. Canada B. France
C. Israel D. United Kingdom

Expert called at :24

ATE

Jeff Gross says it is her lucky day. He lived in England for seven years and knows MI6 is the secret agency of the United Kingdom. 100% sure.
"Go win some more money"

Spoiler

D. United Kingdom (:22)

$50K (Pocket Change):
Well-known to coin collectors, the Toven Specimen is an extremely rare example of what type of coin?
A. Penny B. Quarter
C. Dime D. Nickel


PAF called at :39

Choices:
brother Daniel from Leneva, KS
husband Bracken from Citrus Heights, CA
best friend's husband Joseph from Pleasant Grove, UT

PAF

Daniel gets the call.
He thinks... was penny an option? (Yes). I think it's an aluminum penny but I'm not positive
Ruth asks How sure are you?
Daniel: (pause) Yeah! Yeah!(buzz buzz)

answer

A. Penny (35)

Commercial break

$100K (The Sahara Desert):
In terms of square mileage, the Sahara Desert is closest in size to which of the following?
A. Mediterranean Sea B. United States
C. Mongolia D. Gulf of Mexico

DD (:30)

Spoiler

First answer, D, is incorrect
Second answer at :21, C, Mongolia, is also incorrect

Answer was B. United States

Ruth left with $25,000

Horn sounded, no carryover.

[NellyLunatic1980]

Coining a Phrase
It's Not the Heat
Gimme Your Digits
The Sahara Desert
Pocket Change
Top Secret
Distinctive Labels
Recent TV
Barack Obama
Preggers
Child's Play
So Close, Yet So Far
New and Improved
Text Me
Patriotic Songs

I'm a little iffy on anything after Recent TV.

$4000- (Barack Obama):
Barack Obama is a two-time winner of which of these awards?
A. Oscar B. Tony
C. Grammy D. Emmy

ATA (21)

ATA

A-9% B-26% C-31% D-34%
Mere says "once again, not great numbers"

Spoiler

C. Grammy (6) note she went against the audience plurality, after she said final, one audience clap was heard.

There was a potential for a second consecutive audience dursting here, but thankfully, Ruth was suspicious of Emmy being even remotely possible.

$25K: It's either Israel or the UK. I'm definitely asking Jeff. He lived in England. He won £64,000 on UK BAM. He would know if it is or isn't England.

$50K: No clue. PAF.

$100K: I would've Double Dipped on Gulf of Mexico and Mediterranean Sea. I could never imagine the Sahara being the size of the U.S.

[earendel]

Ruth Mannion
Citrus Heights, CA
mother of two little girls

Says she is here with her two sisters for some "mommy detox time" but still misses her girls.

I've never heard that term before. Interesting.

They show her two sisters in the audience, then, a la Deal or No Deal, put a surprise call to her husband Bracken and two girls Chloe and Addie. They displayed their names and pictures on the Phone-A-Friend display. They showed a picture of them in a scary Halloween outfit.

Once again demonstrating that this is no longer a game show, but a talk show that happens to give away money.

$4000- (Barack Obama):
Barack Obama is a two-time winner of which of these awards?
A. Oscar B. Tony
C. Grammy D. Emmy

ATA (21)

ATA

A-9% B-26% C-31% D-34%
Mere says "once again, not great numbers"

Spoiler

C. Grammy (6) note she went against the audience plurality, after she said final, one audience clap was heard.

Good thing she chose not to go with the audience's answer. How often is the audience wrong twice in one show? I'm also surprised that a NYC audience would miss this. Oscars are for movies, Tonys are for theater, Emmys are for TV. It's doubtful that Obama has made it big in any of these areas (although in some states he was practically ubiquitous on TV), leaving only Grammys as the logical choice. Hillary Clinton won a Grammy, too, IIRC, for reading her book.

$25K (Top Secret):
Not officially acknowledged until the 1990s, MI6 is the secret intelligence agency of what nation?
A. Canada B. France
C. Israel D. United Kingdom

Expert called at :24

ATE

Jeff Gross says it is her lucky day. He lived in England for seven years and knows MI6 is the secret agency of the United Kingdom. 100% sure.
"Go win some more money"

Spoiler

D. United Kingdom (:22)

WTG Jeff!

$50K (Pocket Change):
Well-known to coin collectors, the Toven Specimen is an extremely rare example of what type of coin?
A. Penny B. Quarter
C. Dime D. Nickel


PAF called at :39

Choices:
brother Daniel from Leneva, KS
husband Bracken from Citrus Heights, CA
best friend's husband Joseph from Pleasant Grove, UT

PAF

Daniel gets the call.
He thinks... was penny an option? (Yes). I think it's an aluminum penny but I'm not positive
Ruth asks How sure are you?
Daniel: (pause) Yeah! Yeah!(buzz buzz)

answer

A. Penny (35)

Never heard of it, but Google PAF should be able to come up with it quickly.

$100K (The Sahara Desert):
In terms of square mileage, the Sahara Desert is closest in size to which of the following?
A. Mediterranean Sea B. United States
C. Mongolia D. Gulf of Mexico

DD (:30)

Spoiler

First answer, D, is incorrect
Second answer at :21, C, Mongolia, is also incorrect

Answer was B. United States

She was willing to gamble, which I respect, but didn't think through the answers. The Sahara is as wide as the Mediterranean, which is larger than either Mongolia or the Gulf of Mexico. So her DD answers should have been A and B and she'd still be in the HS.

[MarleysGh0st]

They show her two sisters in the audience, then, a la Deal or No Deal, put a surprise call to her husband Bracken and two girls Chloe and Addie. They displayed their names and pictures on the Phone-A-Friend display. They showed a picture of them in a scary Halloween outfit.

Once again demonstrating that this is no longer a game show, but a talk show that happens to give away money.

<sigh>

[rgcviper]

"Once again demonstrating that this is no longer a game show, but a talk show that happens to give away money."

My thoughts exactly. Five and a half years have passed since the last millionaire (Nancy Christy), and almost no one wins more than $50K now. What happened to the days when people won big on a regular basis?