Transcript 01/18/2012 Patty Gallagher (carryover)

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Patty Gallagher
Las Vegas, NV
lost and found clerk

Something of a gambler, and 2-time national pool champion.

Topic Tree: (Randomized)
TV Personalities
Street Games
Man of Faith
Secret Ingredient
$2,000
jump ($1,000)
$5,000
$100
$500 (ATA)
jump ($10,000)

Bank of $7,600, no lifelines remain

Question 7 - Secret Ingredient

Often found in ice cream and toothpaste, Irish moss is not a moss but a type of what?

A: Seaweed
B: Fern
C: Mushroom
D: Ivy

Spoiler

"There's a lot of seaweed in the Irish Sea."

Answer and value

A: Seaweed
Value: $3,000
Bank: $10,600

Question 8 - Man of Faith

A 2010 poll on religion conducted by the Pew Research Center revealed that only 8% of Americans knew Maimonides was what?

A: Protestant
B: Quaker
C: Jewish
D: Mormon

Answer and value

C: Jewish
Value: $7,000
Bank: $17,600

Question 9 - Street Games

In 2009, large colored squares were laid on San Francisco's twisty Lombard Street for a life-size version of what children's board game?

A: Operation
B: Candy Land
C: Risk
D: Clue

The audience starts clapping before she even finishes saying her answer, much less "Final."

Answer and value

B: Candy Land
Value: $25,000
Bank: $42,600

Question 10 - TV Personalities

What well-known TV personality starred in a 1963 television ad as the first-ever Ronald McDonald?

A: Johnny Carson
B: Bob Barker
C: Regis Philbin
D: Willard Scott

Spoiler

She knows Johnny Carson was a magician. She thinks about Regis or Willard.

She walks with $21,300.

Answer and value

D: Willard Scott (Meredith knew it was her Today Show pal.
Value: $15,000 (unrevealed)
Bank: $(half of) 42,600

Commercial Break.

[themanwho]

A little time-consuming, but fairly painless. I knew all these.

[elwoodblues]

Question 8 - Man of Faith

A 2010 poll on religion conducted by the Pew Research Center revealed that only 8% of Americans knew Maimonides was what?

A: Protestant
B: Quaker
C: Jewish
D: Mormon

Answer and value

C: Jewish
Value: $7,000
Bank: $17,600

If you still have the ATA you could use it here and take the answer that gets 8%.

[themanwho]

Question 8 - Man of Faith

A 2010 poll on religion conducted by the Pew Research Center revealed that only 8% of Americans knew Maimonides was what?

A: Protestant
B: Quaker
C: Jewish
D: Mormon

Answer and value

C: Jewish
Value: $7,000
Bank: $17,600

If you still have the ATA you could use it here and take the answer that gets 8%.

I'm not sure if that's hilarious or brilliant. Probably both. Well played.

[SportsFan68]

Down one JTQ.

Question 7 - Secret Ingredient

Often found in ice cream and toothpaste, Irish moss is not a moss but a type of what?

A: Seaweed
B: Fern
C: Mushroom
D: Ivy

Spoiler

"There's a lot of seaweed in the Irish Sea."

Answer and value

A: Seaweed
Value: $3,000
Bank: $10,600

I thought it was guar gum. I'll go look it up.

. . .

OK, that, or carrageenan, or or . . .

Question 8 - Man of Faith

A 2010 poll on religion conducted by the Pew Research Center revealed that only 8% of Americans knew Maimonides was what?

A: Protestant
B: Quaker
C: Jewish
D: Mormon

Answer and value

C: Jewish
Value: $7,000
Bank: $17,600

I wonder if the 8% live in NY. Let's pretend that they do and that the ATA worked so I can go on.

Question 10 - TV Personalities

What well-known TV personality starred in a 1963 television ad as the first-ever Ronald McDonald?

A: Johnny Carson
B: Bob Barker
C: Regis Philbin
D: Willard Scott

Spoiler

She knows Johnny Carson was a magician. She thinks about Regis or Willard.

She walks with $21,300.

Answer and value

D: Willard Scott (Meredith knew it was her Today Show pal.
Value: $15,000 (unrevealed)
Bank: $(half of) 42,600

I'm certain of the answer, but I don't know how. Maybe I learned it back in the day of our Q of the Day.

[MarleysGh0st]

Question 8 - Man of Faith

A 2010 poll on religion conducted by the Pew Research Center revealed that only 8% of Americans knew Maimonides was what?

A: Protestant
B: Quaker
C: Jewish
D: Mormon

Answer and value

C: Jewish
Value: $7,000
Bank: $17,600

If you still have the ATA you could use it here and take the answer that gets 8%.

Nah. 25% can be the 8% in this game!

[earendel]

Patty Gallagher
Las Vegas, NV
lost and found clerk

Something of a gambler, and 2-time national pool champion.

Question 7 - Secret Ingredient

Often found in ice cream and toothpaste, Irish moss is not a moss but a type of what?
A: Seaweed
B: Fern
C: Mushroom
D: Ivy

Spoiler

"There's a lot of seaweed in the Irish Sea."

Answer and value

A: Seaweed
Value: $3,000
Bank: $10,600

I knew that ice cream contained carrageenan, a thickener made from seaweed, so I figured that was the right answer here.

Question 10 - TV Personalities

What well-known TV personality starred in a 1963 television ad as the first-ever Ronald McDonald?
A: Johnny Carson
B: Bob Barker
C: Regis Philbin
D: Willard Scott

Spoiler

She knows Johnny Carson was a magician. She thinks about Regis or Willard.

She walks with $21,300.

Answer and value

D: Willard Scott (Meredith knew it was her Today Show pal.
Value: $15,000 (unrevealed)
Bank: $(half of) 42,600

Patty made a comment about Vegas being built on losers. She couldn't bring herself to go for it. I knew this one not the least because I worked for the Golden Arches in the distant past.