Transcript 10/25/11 - Chris Zehnder

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Chris Zehnder
Shamong, NJ
Architect

Meredith says that Shamong is two hours outside of Philadelphia.

Chris has brought along his wife, Amy. They recently had a baby girl, who joined her three year old brother, Zach. Chris tried to tell Zach that he'd be on Millionaire, but Zach shooed him away and said to put the cartoons back on the television.

In a sudden change of procedure, Meredith asks for both the money and the questions to be randomized at the same time, so the unrandomized Topic Tree is never shown.

Topic Tree (Randomized)
?: Lead Through Adversity
?: Literary Dads
?: Medical Procedures
?: Party Pooper
?: Local Attractions
?: Self Portraits
?: Sensational Shirt
?: Solve the Puzzle
?: Eat Your Words
?: Hive Mind


Question #1 - Level ?: Hive Mind
A 2011 study showed that animals like locusts coordinate their swarms by engaging in what human-like behavior?

A: Social networking B: Brainwashing
C: Project scheduling D: Collective bargaining

Chris: Wow! Do they have Twitter for locusts?

Answer/Value/Bank

A: Social networking
Question Value: $5,000
Bank: $5,000

Question #2 - Level ?: Eat Your Words
Kummerspeck, the German word used to describe weight gained from emotional overeating, translates to what in English?

A: Grief bacon B: Agony butter
C: Emptiness cake D: Torment candy

Chris says he's going to go for

Spoiler

C: Emptiness cake, because Germans are know for their strudel and things like that.

Meredith reminds Chris that he has lifelines and Chris decides he'll jump the question.

Answer/Value/Bank

A: Grief bacon
Question Value: $15,000
Bank: $5,000

Question #3 - Level ?: Solve the Puzzle
A disco ball, Luke Skywalker and a gas pump are some of the images seen when solving a 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzle titled what?

A: The 1960s B: The 1970s
C: The 1980s D: The 1990s

Answer/Value/Bank

B: The 1970s
Question Value: $10,000
Bank: $15,000

-- Commercial Break --


Question #4 - Level ?: Sensational Shirt
After sparking outrage, JC Penney was forced to stop selling a girls' shirt that reads "I'm too pretty to" what?

A: Walk the dog B: Go bowling
C: Drive a car D: Do homework

Chris remembers this from a year or two ago.

Answer/Value/Bank

D: Do homework
Question Value: $25,000
Bank: $40,000

-- The End of Game "Noise" --


Chris will return on tomorrow's show.

[MarleysGh0st]

In a sudden change of procedure, Meredith asks for both the money and the questions to be randomized at the same time, so the unrandomized Topic Tree is never shown.[/i]

I don't know if this was a sudden rules chance (in the middle of an episode???) or if they were running a little over in time and needed to trim a few seconds. Perhaps they did it normally and then retaped this scene after the episode was complete; if that's so, no real damage done.

But if they had done this when I was standing at the Hot Podium, prepared to take notice of the upper level questions as we've been talking about for the last two seasons, I'd have screamed bloody murder.

[15QuestionsAway]

In a sudden change of procedure, Meredith asks for both the money and the questions to be randomized at the same time, so the unrandomized Topic Tree is never shown.[/i]

I don't know if this was a sudden rules chance (in the middle of an episode???) or if they were running a little over in time and needed to trim a few seconds. Perhaps they did it normally and then retaped this scene after the episode was complete; if that's so, no real damage done.

Yeah, it was strange that this happened in the middle of the episode. I'm wondering if there was a computer problem that forced the scene to be recreated.

I looked at it frame by frame to see if there was any evidence of the prerandomized order. Nothing there. Unfortunately, none of the topics were used on previous (aired) episodes, so there's no deriving the difficulty levels that way either.

Hopefully this was due to some sort of glitch and the players can still see the prerandomized topic tree. I guess we'll see in Wednesday's episode when the next player starts.

[earendel]

Chris Zehnder
Shamong, NJ
Architect

Meredith says that Shamong is two hours outside of Philadelphia.

Chris has brought along his wife, Amy. They recently had a baby girl, who joined her three year old brother, Zach. Chris tried to tell Zach that he'd be on Millionaire, but Zach shooed him away and said to put the cartoons back on the television.

In a sudden change of procedure, Meredith asks for both the money and the questions to be randomized at the same time, so the unrandomized Topic Tree is never shown.

I wondered about this when I watched - I even went back to the first of the show to see if Laraine's stack had been similarly scrambled, but it wasn't. Was this something new that TPTB were testing or was there some other reason? Maybe they've figured out that good game players are noting where the difficult questions are.

Question #2 - Level ?: Eat Your Words
Kummerspeck, the German word used to describe weight gained from emotional overeating, translates to what in English?

A: Grief bacon B: Agony butter
C: Emptiness cake D: Torment candy

Chris says he's going to go for

Spoiler

C: Emptiness cake, because Germans are know for their strudel and things like that.

Meredith reminds Chris that he has lifelines and Chris decides he'll jump the question.

Answer/Value/Bank

A: Grief bacon
Question Value: $15,000
Bank: $5,000

Is it pepper bacon?

[MarleysGh0st]

Chris Zehnder
Shamong, NJ
Architect

Meredith says that Shamong is two hours outside of Philadelphia.

Chris has brought along his wife, Amy. They recently had a baby girl, who joined her three year old brother, Zach. Chris tried to tell Zach that he'd be on Millionaire, but Zach shooed him away and said to put the cartoons back on the television.

In a sudden change of procedure, Meredith asks for both the money and the questions to be randomized at the same time, so the unrandomized Topic Tree is never shown.

I wondered about this when I watched - I even went back to the first of the show to see if Laraine's stack had been similarly scrambled, but it wasn't. Was this something new that TPTB were testing or was there some other reason? Maybe they've figured out that good game players are noting where the difficult questions are.

Since we've been talking about it since the first episode under those news rules, they'd have to be pretty slow on the update to be noticing it now.

Then again, it took TPTB ten years to (officially) notice that PAFs were googling answers.