PT-WWTBAM Transcript 08/10/09 Michelle Ribeiro

[BBTranscriptTeam]

Ring of Fire

Fred Roberts – Nashville, TN
Michelle Ribeiro – New York, NY
Melissa Mayer – River Ridge, LA
John Zimcosky – Chicago, IL
Dan Green – New York, NY
Gabrielle McMahan – Springfield, VA
Karl Allis – Denver, CO
Ron Geltz – Torrance, CA
Bobbie Laguio – Liberty, NY
Jeff Birt – Louisville, KY


Fast Finger Question

Put these U.S. holidays in the order they appear on the calendar, starting in January.
A. Veterans Day
B. Groundhog Day
C. Flag Day
D. Earth Day

Spoiler

BDCA

Fred Roberts – 6.89s
Melissa Mayer – 5.79s
Dan Green
Karl Allis
Bobbie Laguio
Jeff Birt – 6.27s
Ron Geltz – 6.04s
Gabrielle McMahan – 5.78s
John Zimcosky
Michelle Ribeiro – 5.72s

commercial break

Michelle Ribeiro
New York, NY
Recently unemployed – she was an editor with “Cosmogirl.”

Topic Tree:

Paper Work
Size Matters
Asian Relations
How’s That?
Fathers & Sons
Sweet Child O’Mine
Federal Law
Twisted Tunes
What’s Your Sign?
Make-Believe
Get In Shapes
Diaper Duty
Eating Out
On the Farm
Ants Marching

$100 Thief ants get their name because they often enter the nests of other ant species and do what?
A. Lay eggs
B. Steal food
C. Build tunnels
D. Sell subprime mortgages

The clock is down to three seconds before Regis finishes reading the choices. After reading the question, he starts to laugh and makes a comment about a face Michelle made and then says “This isn’t about “Cosmogirl” before he starts giving the choices.

Spoiler

B. Steal food (0)

$200 In the 1800s, which of these inventions was known to cattle ranchers as “thorny fence”?
A. Barbed wire
B. Silo
C. Tractor
D. Trough

Spoiler

A. Barbed wire (10)

$300 For many years, Denny’s has featured a punny menu offering called “Moons Over My” what?
A. Steaky
B. Hammy
C. Shrimpy
D. Chicky

Spoiler

B. Hammy (9)

$500 In 2009, Nadya Suleman made headlines by giving birth to multiple babies, earning her what nickname?
A. QuintoMom
B. SeptoMom
C. OctoMom
D. NovoMom

Spoiler

C. OctoMom (9)

$1K In geometry, which of these measurements applies only to circles and not triangles?
A. Circumference
B. Perimeter
C. Area
D. Hypotenuse

Spoiler

A. Circumference (4)

commercial break

They show a clip of Robby Roseman missing a question when he was on the show ten years ago. He is the first person to go out on the first question.
The question:
Hannibal crossed the Alps using what animals?
B. Elephants
C. Llamas

Robby is in the studio.
Regis asks Robby if he got a lot of abuse from his buddies in Chicago.
Robby said that he was only in his second week of working the floor at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange when he came in one morning and the entire floor was covered with pictures of elephants.

Robby currently lives in Los Vegas and is a professional poker player.

$2K In the popular “Ice Age” movies, the acorn-obsessed character Scrat is what type of fictional beast?
A. Duck-billed guinea pig
B. Fire-breathing gecko
C. Three-eyed platypus
D. Saber-toothed squirrel

ATA (21)

1% A. Duck-billed guinea pig
3% B. Fire-breathing gecko
5% C. Three-eyed platypus
91% D. Saber-toothed squirrel

Spoiler

D. Saber-toothed squirrel (16)

$4K Because Jesus’ birthday is celebrated on Christmas Day, his astrological sign is what?
A. Aries
B. Leo
C. Capricorn
D. Gemini

Spoiler

C. Capricorn (20)

$8K A 2007 book about misheard music lyrics, “Hold Me Closer, Tony Danza” has a title that references a hit song by whom?
A. Billy Joel
B. Paul Simon
C. Elton John
D. Bruce Springsteen

PAF (6)

Michelle’s PAF team:

Blaine from Peabody, MA – Michelle’s stepfather
David from Plymouth, MA
Deborah from Brooklyn, NY

PAF – Deborah

Deborah says she is 100% sure it is Elton John.

Spoiler

C. Elton John (6)

commercial break

$16K The influential 2002 legislation known as “McCain-Feingold” deals primarily with what issue?
A. Illegal immigration
B. Labor unions
C. Gun ownership
D. Campaign finance reform

ATE (17)

George: Oh, I’m all over that one Michelle.

Michelle: I knew you would be, George.

George: Go with D. D, campaign finance reform.

Spoiler

D. Campaign finance reform (17)

$25K Throughout her career in the kitchen, Julia Child often said the secret to a long life is what?
A. Garlic and cognac
B. Red meat and gin
C. French fries and foie gras
D. Red wine and oysters

Michelle: I don’t know and I really need money, so I quit.

Michelle leaves with $16K.

Spoiler

B. Red meat and gin (0)

Answers:
FF – BDCA
$100 B. Steal food
$200 A. Barbed wire
$300 B. Hammy
$500 C. OctoMom
$1K A. Circumference
$2K D. Saber-toothed squirrel
$4K C. Capricorn
$8K C. Elton John
$16K D. Campaign finance reform
$25K B. Red meat and gin

[etaoin22]

Et in Arcadia, ES.

[Jeemie]

Et in Arcadia, ES.

????

[NellyLunatic1980]

Fred Roberts – Nashville, TN
Michelle Ribeiro – New York, NY
Melissa Mayer – River Ridge, LA
John Zimcosky – Chicago, IL
Dan Green – New York, NY
Gabrielle McMahan – Springfield, VA
Karl Allis – Denver, CO
Ron Geltz – Torrance, CA
Bobbie Laguio – Liberty, NY
Jeff Birt – Louisville, KY

I don't know if Bay is reading this, but maybe she can correct me if I'm wrong. I'm almost 100% positive that I saw Fred at our tryout in Nashville.

Michelle Ribeiro
New York, NY
Recently unemployed – she was an editor with “Cosmogirl.”

WE/WE®

$100 Thief ants get their name because they often enter the nests of other ant species and do what?
A. Lay eggs
B. Steal food
C. Build tunnels
D. Sell subprime mortgages

The clock is down to three seconds before Regis finishes reading the choices. After reading the question, he starts to laugh and makes a comment about a face Michelle made and then says “This isn’t about “Cosmogirl” before he starts giving the choices.

Nice going, Reeg. And audience. We almost had a clock llama for the second time in two nights.

$500 In 2009, Nadya Suleman made headlines by giving birth to multiple babies, earning her what nickname?
A. QuintoMom
B. SeptoMom
C. OctoMom
D. NovoMom

E. Angelina

They show a clip of Robby Roseman missing a question when he was on the show ten years ago. He is the first person to go out on the first question.

....

Robby currently lives in Los (sic) Vegas and is a professional poker player.

And as most of us remember, he won a buttload of money at the WSOP Main Event a couple of years ago.

$2K In the popular “Ice Age” movies, the acorn-obsessed character Scrat is what type of fictional beast?
A. Duck-billed guinea pig
B. Fire-breathing gecko
C. Three-eyed platypus
D. Saber-toothed squirrel

Beast and squirrel in the same question... obvious Bored shoutout.

$25K: No idea on this one. I'll PAF. This should be easily Googleable.

[Jeemie]

ATA on the $8K and hope for the best.

Otherwise, no problems with that stack.

[Appa23]

I did not see the show. (Forgot that it even was airing last night.)

Was this contestant at least entertaining or attractive, or was it just another poor performance with a straght-forward stack?

[silverscreenselect]

$25K Throughout her career in the kitchen, Julia Child often said the secret to a long life is what?
A. Garlic and cognac
B. Red meat and gin
C. French fries and foie gras
D. Red wine and oysters

Spoiler

B. Red meat and gin (0)

Having seen Julie and Julia over the weekend with Mrs. SSS, I was somewhat surprised that I still had no idea whatsoever what the answer was. If Julia often said this was the secret to a long life, she didn't say it in the movie, and I could have easily talked myself into any one of the four answers (except perhaps French fries and foie gras).

[Jeemie]

My parents adored Julia Child- they watched her show all the time.

And she said it a lot on her show.

[MarleysGh0st]

I did not see the show. (Forgot that it even was airing last night.)

Was this contestant at least entertaining or attractive, or was it just another poor performance with a straght-forward stack?

She was typical SyndieBAM casting material: a young, attractive contestant from Where Else, with a celebrity anecdote connected to her job and a story about being terribly afraid of pigeons.

[colonial]

For the $100 question -- Regis and the control room screwed up royally on this, that's for sure.

But, at the same time, the contestant can't sit there like an idiot to wait for Regis to provide the choices. Look at the choices and answer -- don't wait for Regis to prompt you. Michelle, to me, came off as being easily distracted and with a short attention span. She could have also answered that $2K without help if she was able to put two and two together.

I think the audience would have gotten the $8K question without a problem.

For the $25K question, if you know anything about Julia Child, you know about her frequently talking about booze, putting it in her cooking, etc. I would have DD on that question and give the two booze answers as my choices.

JD

[Jeemie]

She could have also answered that $2K without help if she was able to put two and two together.

Didn't even think about this- another J!-type question with a clue to the answer in the question.

Although I had a question with a clue in the answer like this in the Hot Seat at Play-It! at MGM, and TDC screwed my brain up, causing me to burn my ATA lifeline (question was which is the only hamburger McDonald's sells that's a club sandwich).

But I see she called for ATA at 21 seconds left, so that was probably right after Regis finsihed reading the clues. Can't blame TDC for that one.

[etaoin22]

Et in Arcadia, ES.

????

an attempt at a multilingual pun, generating a nice ????.
I am happy about that

The original is "Et in Arcadia ego"

which usually is explained to me as "Even in a beautiful heaven-on-earth, I, Death, am there"

Latin with strict rules on endings of both nouns and verbs allows for wide variety of sentence structure, and IIRC here the classic phrase elides "ego sum" into just "ego".

I am afraid there are of course at least two BB's who will know all the errors I have already made in explanation.

Now, the second plural singular of "to be" in Latin (and directly into French as well, differently pronounced" is "es".
so that maybe IMO replacing "ego" to "es" sorta just changes the meaning from "I am" to "you are".

And capitalized but AFAIK relatively edentulous and I don't know squirrelogy in detail, ES is here on the bored.

[Jeemie]

Thanks for the explanation.

Now if you can only explain what that pun had to do with the contestant?

[etaoin22]

Thanks for the explanation.

Now if you can only explain what that pun had to do with the contestant?

More about the stack than about the contestnat, I admit

The hot seat is a very very special place, (I am told), and a squirrel with sabre teeth which at least sounds evil, shows up even there.

[Jeemie]

Thanks for the explanation.

Now if you can only explain what that pun had to do with the contestant?

The hot seat is a very very special place, (I am told), and a squirrel with sabre teeth which at least sounds evil, shows up even there.

OK.

Sorry etaoin- that joke just did a dull thud with me.

I guess you had to be there...

[etaoin22]

Thanks for the explanation.

Now if you can only explain what that pun had to do with the contestant?

The hot seat is a very very special place, (I am told), and a squirrel with sabre teeth which at least sounds evil, shows up even there.

OK.

Sorry etaoin- that joke just did a dull thud with me.

I guess you had to be there...

I thudded in the past, in the present and I'm sure I will in the future.

Even Homer thudded.

[secondchance]

$2K In the popular “Ice Age” movies, the acorn-obsessed character Scrat is what type of fictional beast?
A. Duck-billed guinea pig
B. Fire-breathing gecko
C. Three-eyed platypus
D. Saber-toothed squirrel

Beast and squirrel in the same question... obvious Bored shoutout.

This is totally a Bored shout out!!! Good catch!

Beast, had you noticed this??? lolol

[ten96lt]

I did not see the show. (Forgot that it even was airing last night.)

Was this contestant at least entertaining or attractive, or was it just another poor performance with a straght-forward stack?

She was typical SyndieBAM casting material: a young, attractive contestant from Where Else, with a celebrity anecdote connected to her job and a story about being terribly afraid of pigeons.

I'm just surprised she got called because I remember her walking out of the office from the video taped interview with a grim look and she was like, "I don't think I did well"

[MarleysGh0st]

I did not see the show. (Forgot that it even was airing last night.)

Was this contestant at least entertaining or attractive, or was it just another poor performance with a straght-forward stack?

She was typical SyndieBAM casting material: a young, attractive contestant from Where Else, with a celebrity anecdote connected to her job and a story about being terribly afraid of pigeons.

I'm just surprised she got called because I remember her walking out of the office from the video taped interview with a grim look and she was like, "I don't think I did well"

So she didn't know what the APs were looking for. She might have thought she came across as nervous and silly, when that's exactly what endeared her to TPTB.

And if she had lost her job before the audition, she had that working for her.

[ten96lt]

She was typical SyndieBAM casting material: a young, attractive contestant from Where Else, with a celebrity anecdote connected to her job and a story about being terribly afraid of pigeons.

I'm just surprised she got called because I remember her walking out of the office from the video taped interview with a grim look and she was like, "I don't think I did well"

So she didn't know what the APs were looking for. She might have thought she came across as nervous and silly, when that's exactly what endeared her to TPTB.

And if she had lost her job before the audition, she had that working for her.

I would have thought she did since she pretty much knew everything about the audition process in terms of the test because she was talking to a couple people what to expect inside, but I guess she was always a bridesmaid, never a bride with the test so didn't know what to look for. I did panic too because I remember when they asked why I wanna be on the show, I remember specifically using the word fanatic somewhere in my speech about I always make time to watch it during breakfast or in between class and I thought, "DAMN! Now I look like a millionaire stalker" but apparently they didnt mind.

[secondchance]

$300 For many years, Denny’s has featured a punny menu offering called “Moons Over My” what?
A. Steaky
B. Hammy
C. Shrimpy
D. Chicky

Spoiler

B. Hammy (9)

Ya know- I think this pun reference may have been a Bored shout out as well, come to think of it!

[Estonut]

For the $25K question, if you know anything about Julia Child, you know about her frequently talking about booze, putting it in her cooking, etc. I would have DD on that question and give the two booze answers as my choices.

By booze, I assume you mean the cognac and gin. I believe it is far more common in French cooking to use red wine. There were 3 choices of alcohol.

[ghostjmf]

I flipped the last 2 holidays; I would have flunked the FF.

$300: Another stupid pun Q, but I knew this one without much deciphering.

2K: Had trouble picturing the commercials, all I've seen of the Ice Age epics, but "acorns" kinda gives it away.

4K: Immediately ruled out Aries & Gemini because of people I know & their birthdays, guessed Capricorn, but with clock ticking would have ATAed "to be sure".

25K: "Pretty sure" of right answer, but would have burned double dip on it.

[Estonut]

4K: Immediately ruled out Aries & Gemini because of people I know & their birthdays, guessed Capricorn, but with clock ticking would have ATAed "to be sure".

This is not addressed to ghost, but her mentioning this question reminded me of this.

Why is it that people (here) get all bent out of shape about real movies and real music and whether questions about them constitute valid trivia or not, but no one makes a peep about all the questions they've asked about astrology?

[hanzz]

4K: Immediately ruled out Aries & Gemini because of people I know & their birthdays, guessed Capricorn, but with clock ticking would have ATAed "to be sure".

This is not addressed to ghost, but her mentioning this question reminded me of this.

Why is it that people (here) get all bent out of shape about real movies and real music and whether questions about them constitute valid trivia or not, but no one makes a peep about all the questions they've asked about astrology?

I don't deny that questions about movies and music are valid trivia, but I do have a problem when the slate of questions is heavily balanced in favor of pop culture questions with only a smattering of questions from any other subject.