Transcript 06/09/2009 Melissa Wegner

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Guest host Shaun Robinson, co-host of Access Hollywood.

Melissa Wegner
Buffalo, NY
Classical singer

Wants to open the musical arts for young people who do not have access to it. Has sung at Carnegie Hall.

No lifelines remain

Topic Tree:

Life and Death
Brave New Words
The Iron Horse
You Are So Grounded
(Great Thinkers)
(TV Crushes)
(No, No, No!)
(Man-Made)
(Sherbet vs. Sorbet)
(Kidz Bop)
(Hillary Clinton)
(Games We Play)
(Trilogies)
(Familiar Phrases)
(Exotic Beauty)




$100K (You Are So Grounded):
Ironically what Founding Father had a son who was declared an "enemy to the liberties of this country?"
A. George Washington B. Thomas Jefferson
C. John Adams D. Benjamin Franklin

Spoiler

Melissa said she was not sure enough and will leave with $50K and pay off her student loans.
Shaun gave her a chance to take a guess just for fun and she said it would be Jefferson.

Answer: D. Benjamin Franklin (:12)

Melissa walks with $50K.

[gsabc]

And thank you to the musical 1776 for my knowing this. Wish they'd saved this one for my turn.

I like the category title.

[MarleysGh0st]

And thank you to the musical 1776 for my knowing this. Wish they'd saved this one for my turn.

Hey, you didn't grow up in Franklin Township, NJ!

[clem21]

And thank you to the musical 1776 for my knowing this. Wish they'd saved this one for my turn.

I like the category title.

Ha! That's how I knew it too. Kind of one of the sickest movies made. With Mr. Feeney laying John Adams! I am not getting enough sleep these days! I had 5 cups of coffee today! My hands won't stop typing! This can't be good!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Estonut]

Kind of one of the sickest movies made. With Mr. Feeney laying John Adams!

If you didn't mean "playing," it must be sick, indeed...

[NellyLunatic1980]

Oh, man. What a dream stack this would've been for me! I've read many biographies on Franklin, and I've seen the movie "1776" at least twice. I called Franklin before the choices even came up.

I'd be going for the quarter with all lifelines intact.

[earendel]

Guest host Shaun Robinson, co-host of Access Hollywood.

And still the slowest reader of answers.

$100K (You Are So Grounded):
Ironically what Founding Father had a son who was declared an "enemy to the liberties of this country?"
A. George Washington B. Thomas Jefferson
C. John Adams D. Benjamin Franklin

Spoiler

Melissa said she was not sure enough and will leave with $50K and pay off her student loans.
Shaun gave her a chance to take a guess just for fun and she said it would be Jefferson.

Answer: D. Benjamin Franklin (:12)

With no lifelines I figured she'd be one-and-done unless the question was square in her wheelhouse, which this wasn't. As for me, still having PAF and ATE I'd be using the PAF. Tom's mention of his best subjects being 60s and 70s pop culture would make me leery of using him for this one.

[gsabc]

And thank you to the musical 1776 for my knowing this. Wish they'd saved this one for my turn.

I like the category title.

Ha! That's how I knew it too. Kind of one of the sickest movies made. With Mr. Feeney playing John Adams!

Many of the inside jokes on "Boy Meets World" were about William Daniels' previous work. Why else do you think Corey and Topanga went to John Adams High? Or that Bonnie Bartlett, Daniels' wife, was the dean of the college they attended?

[lv42day]

I would have guessed Benjamin Franklin, (if I decided to be brave and throw caution to the wind), because the other choices didn't make sense to me. Washington, I don't think had children of his own. If John Adams had another son, at odds with America, then that would have been a major hurdle for JQ Adams to overcome to be president. Jefferson struck me as being too young to have a son at odds with America, at least if this was said of him at the time of the Revolution.

[Rafferbee]

Jefferson only had daughters with his legal wife, anyway.

[clem21]

Jefferson only had daughters with his legal wife, anyway.

Musta been after he went high high high diddle diddle with the fiddle...