Transcript 04/21/2009 Lillian Perez

[BBTranscriptTeam]

Lillian Perez
Fort Lee, NJ
Part-time systems assistant
Married with one son


Topic tree:
Thomas Edison
Raccoons
The Boy Who Lived
Meet and Greet
Edward Hopper
Where in the World?
Remote Controls
Second-Hand Clothes
Washington Times
What Is It?
Dog Days
Will Smith
Pizza Tracker
Gut Feeling
Party Games


$100 Party Games:
Which of these popular children's games typically features a vegetable?
A. Hot Potato B. Simon Says
C. Hide and Seek D. Ring Around the Rhubarb

Spoiler

A. Hot Potato [:08]

$200 Gut Feeling:
A person is said to have "butterflies in his stomach" if he is feeling what?
A. Sleepy B. Bored
C. Depressed D. Nervous

Spoiler

D. Nervous (:10)

$300 Pizza Tracker:
Which of these fast-food chains features an online "Pizza Tracker" that allows customers to keep tabs on their order?
A. Krispy Kreme B. Domino's
C. Subway D. White Castle

Spoiler

Lillian says D, Dominos, final answer.
The clock keeps ticking
Lillian looks up at Meredith starting to look panicky
Mere indicates B is Dominos and she corrects it to B Dominos final answer

B. Domino's (:01)

$500 Will Smith:
What Will Smith hit features the apt lyric "Lets go to my yacht in the West Keys / Ride my jet skis / Loungin in the palm trees"?
A. Men In Black B. Miami
C. Wild Wild West D. Parents Just Don't Understand

Spoiler

B. Miami [:08]

$1000 Dog Days :
Five St. Bernards, one mechanical dog head, and an actor in a dog costume were all reportedly used in the making of what movie?
A. Cujo B. King Kong
C. Black Beauty D. Babe

Spoiler

A. Cujo (:09)

$2000 What Is It? :
By definition, a snickerdoodle is a what?
A. Bird B. Hat
C. Dance D. Cookie

ATA :22

ATA

A-11% B-4% C-3% D- 82%

Spoiler

D. Cookie (:19)

Commercial break
Lillian is a part time systems assistant for a company that makes a lot of different products
Shane, her 13-year-old son, was super-excited when mom passed the test, then gave her a disbelieving "Yeah" eyeroll when she told him she made the show

$4000 Washington Times :
If every U.S. senator spoke for exactly three minutes on the Senate floor, how many total minutes of speaking would take place?

A. 100 B. 200
C. 300 D. 400

Ask the Expert at :16

ATE

Bill: Is this one of those trick questions? 300. 50 states, two each state, 100x3 that would be right about 300.

Spoiler

C. 300 (:13)

The horn
Lillian will return tomorrow

[bazodee]

I don't think that Bill Nye meant to say anything hurtful, but he really called the contestant out for needing this lifeline.

Then again, what was she thinking?

[ulysses5019]

I don't think that Bill Nye meant to say anything hurtful, but he really called the contestant out for needing this lifeline.

Then again, what was she thinking?

Maybe he's been reading this bored.

[gsabc]

Gotta be hotseatitis. No other excuse is allowable for using a lifeline on an extremely simple math/political question.

[Millionaire Fan]

I don't think that Bill Nye meant to say anything hurtful, but he really called the contestant out for needing this lifeline.

Then again, what was she thinking?

The same thing happened to my father when he was in the hotseat. My father had AJ Jacobs as the expert and AJ said "You've got to be kidding me" luckily they edited that out of the show when it aired.

[earendel]

Lillian Perez
Fort Lee, NJ
Part-time systems assistant
Married with one son

I know of a Ft. Lee in Virginia and a Ft. Dix in NJ. I didn't know there was a Ft. Lee in NJ.

$100 Party Games:
Which of these popular children's games typically features a vegetable?
A. Hot Potato B. Simon Says
C. Hide and Seek D. Ring Around the Rhubarb

Spoiler

A. Hot Potato [:08]

"Features" a vegetable? It's name may contain a vegetable but I don't think kids really play the game with a hot potato.

$300 Pizza Tracker:
Which of these fast-food chains features an online "Pizza Tracker" that allows customers to keep tabs on their order?
A. Krispy Kreme B. Domino's
C. Subway D. White Castle

Spoiler

Lillian says D, Dominos, final answer.
The clock keeps ticking
Lillian looks up at Meredith starting to look panicky
Mere indicates B is Dominos and she corrects it to B Dominos final answer

B. Domino's (:01)

That was a close one. I had to go back and listen to the tape twice before I realized what Lillian had done.

$2000 What Is It? :
By definition, a snickerdoodle is a what?
A. Bird B. Hat
C. Dance D. Cookie

ATA :22

ATA

A-11% B-4% C-3% D- 82%

Spoiler

D. Cookie (:19)

Are snickerdoodles not that well known in the Northeast?

$4000 Washington Times :
If every U.S. senator spoke for exactly three minutes on the Senate floor, how many total minutes of speaking would take place?

A. 100 B. 200
C. 300 D. 400

Ask the Expert at :16

ATE

Bill: Is this one of those trick questions? 300. 50 states, two each state, 100x3 that would be right about 300.

Spoiler

C. 300 (:13)

This is a basic math question; even if you don't know how many senators there are, the only answer that's evenly divisible by 3 is 300.


The horn
Lillian will return tomorrow[/quote]

[NellyLunatic1980]

Lillian Perez
Fort Lee, NJ

WE®

And nihil obstat® so far.

[KillerTomato]

Ear, you must not have been a fan of SNL back in the early days. I can't hear "Fort Lee" without thinking of Roseanna Rosannadanna, whose questions were always from "Mr. Richard Feder of Fort Lee, New Jersey".

[earendel]

Ear, you must not have been a fan of SNL back in the early days. I can't hear "Fort Lee" without thinking of Roseanna Rosannadanna, whose questions were always from "Mr. Richard Feder of Fort Lee, New Jersey".

Being the church-going sort, staying up late to watch SNL was not something I could manage and be coherent the next day. Not to mention that I might well have thought it was a made-up town for the purposes of the skit.

[lv42day]

I jog to Fort Lee often to cross the George Washington Bridge. It makes for an interesting jog. (yeah, I know, I am a WE, and proud of it)

[gsabc]

$2000 What Is It? :
By definition, a snickerdoodle is a what?
A. Bird B. Hat
C. Dance D. Cookie

ATA :22

ATA

A-11% B-4% C-3% D- 82%

Spoiler

D. Cookie (:19)

Are snickerdoodles not that well known in the Northeast?

Quite well known in our household, thank you very much. In the top three of favorite cookies, and certainly the easiest to make of all the faves.

Not enough people bake. At least 18% of that audience don't.

[christie1111]

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:
Lillian Perez
Fort Lee, NJ
Part-time systems assistant
Married with one son

I know of a Ft. Lee in Virginia and a Ft. Dix in NJ. I didn't know there was a Ft. Lee in NJ.

I was there yesterday.

[peacock2121]

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:
Lillian Perez
Fort Lee, NJ
Part-time systems assistant
Married with one son

I know of a Ft. Lee in Virginia and a Ft. Dix in NJ. I didn't know there was a Ft. Lee in NJ.

I was there yesterday.

A few years back, I went with Pealette to look for an apartment in Fort Lee, New Jersey. The population was overwhelmingly of Asian descent. In walking the streets, I got a glimpse of what it is like to be a minority.

[lv42day]

According the Wikipedia, Asian people make up 31.43% of the borough. Whites make up the majority with 62.75%. Fort Lee is also one of the nations top ten municipalities by percentage of Korean population.

[plasticene]

$4000 Washington Times :
If every U.S. senator spoke for exactly three minutes on the Senate floor, how many total minutes of speaking would take place?

A. 100 B. 200
C. 300 D. 400

Well, if they happen to all start talking at the same moment, the answer is three minutes, so anything between 3 and 300 is a plausibly correct answer.

It's clear enough that they're actually talking about senator-minutes, not elapsed minutes, but the inherent ambiguity in this question together with its inflated $4000 valuation would induce a momentary panic that I was somehow misreading it. I think I'd calm down fast enough to give the desired answer within 30 seconds, but if the clock got too close to 0, I could imagine blowing a lifeline on this.

[SportsFan68]

The Boy Who Lived

Harry Potter!

Bet I get this one!

[SportsFan68]

Ear, you must not have been a fan of SNL back in the early days. I can't hear "Fort Lee" without thinking of Roseanna Rosannadanna, whose questions were always from "Mr. Richard Feder of Fort Lee, New Jersey".

Being the church-going sort, staying up late to watch SNL was not something I could manage and be coherent the next day. Not to mention that I might well have thought it was a made-up town for the purposes of the skit.

I thought that Oxnard was a made-up name for years. It took a Santa Barbara native to set me straight.

[MarleysGh0st]

The Boy Who Lived

Harry Potter!

Bet I get this one!

One more Harry Potter question we didn't get to see.

[SportsFan68]

The Boy Who Lived

Harry Potter!

Bet I get this one!

One more Harry Potter question we didn't get to see.

Can it come back? Or is it gone forever?

[rgcviper]

On $4K, EarEndel said:

"This is a basic math question; even if you don't know how many senators there are, the only answer that's evenly divisible by 3 is 300."

My thoughts exactly.

Also, a question for $500K about raccoons?? That would be interesting ...

(I'm a day behind on reading the transcripts and haven't read today's yet.)

[ulysses5019]

The Boy Who Lived

Harry Potter!

Bet I get this one!

One more Harry Potter question we didn't get to see.

But you can read the new book.

[littlebeast13]

Harry Potter!

Bet I get this one!

One more Harry Potter question we didn't get to see.

But you can read the new book.

This is the Found It Saucy was going after....

lb13

[a1mamacat]

Harry Potter!

Bet I get this one!

One more Harry Potter question we didn't get to see.

But you can read the new book.

This HAS to be a FOUND IT!

[littlebeast13]

One more Harry Potter question we didn't get to see.

But you can read the new book.

This HAS to be a FOUND IT!

lb13

[ghostjmf]

Thanks transcription team. This is one that got preempted by breaking news on the Craig's List Killer. A Local Boy. (No, they didn't kill Craig's List. They killed one woman who advertised as a masseuse on Craig's List, & robbed 2 others. Allegedly. Of course. The police have not only got their computer files, they've got "mementos" the (alleged) Killer kept in their [very real, as in "people have seen them living there"] apartment. Where is this trial going to be held where they get an unprejudiced jury, after the case made Nightline for a couple nights running?

Prolly from this list, where "nobody knows what I'm talking about" unless I explain in depth, as per above.)