Transcript 01/26/12 - Twilight Cofield

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Twilight Cofield
Arlington, MA
Nurse Practitioner

Topic Tree (Unrandomized)
10: The Award Goes To...
9: The Sea
8: Flavorful Words
7: At the Pump
6: Base Element
5: More Than One
4: Religious Refreshment
3: Sticks and Stones
2: Eerie Shapes
1: Get Crackin'

Topic Tree (Randomized)
3: Sticks and Stones
1: Get Crackin'
6: Base Element
10: The Award Goes To...
5: More Than One
8: Flavorful Words
9: The Sea
2: Eerie Shapes
7: At the Pump
4: Religious Refreshment


Question #1 - Level 4: Religious Refreshment
Created in 2002, Mecca-Cola is a beverage company that markets itself towards members of what religious group?

A: Mormons B: Buddhists
C: Muslims D: Jews

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Muslims
Question Value: $2,000
Bank: $2,000

Question #2 - Level 7: At the Pump
According to the Federal Trade Commission, gasoline pumps must post their octane ratings on stickers that are a bright shade of what?

A: Red B: Blue
C: Yellow D: Green

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Yellow
Question Value: $25,000
Bank: $27,000

-- Commercial Break --


Twilight got her name because she was born at twilight.


Question #3 - Level 2: Eerie Shapes
Though they're not usually black, which of these objects often go by the name "witches' hats" in Australian slang?

A: Trash cans B: Traffic cones
C: Baby strollers D: Flower pots

Answer/Value/Bank

B: Traffic cones
Question Value: $500
Bank: $27,500

Question #4 - Level 9: The Sea
Which of these seas experiences virtually no tides?

A: Arabian Sea B: Baltic Sea
C: North Sea D: Bering Sea

Twilight says she doesn't have any lead on this and she doesn't think she wants to ask the audience on this. That elicits loud groans from the audience. She jumps the question.

Answer/Value/Bank

B: Baltic Sea
Question Value: $15,000
Bank: $27,500

Question #5 - Level 8: Flavorful Words
Traditionally made with red pepper flakes, Arrabbiata sauce gets its name from the Italian word for what?

A: Angry B: Sexy
C: Scared D: Loud

Twilight says it sound like

Spoiler

Angry

. She goes with that answer.

Answer/Value/Bank

A: Angry
Question Value: $ 5,000
Bank: $32,500

Question #6 - Level 5: More Than One
Which of these nouns is made plural by adding an "e" at the end of the word?

A: Virus B: Cactus
C: Larva D: Goose

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Larva
Question Value: $100
Bank: $32,600

Question #7 - Level 10: The Award Goes To...
Which of these notorious figures was never selected by Time magazine as its "Man of the Year"?

A: Joseph Stalin B: Adolf Hitler
C: Ayatollah Khomeini D: Saddam Hussein

Twilight thinks all of them are viable answers. She uses her second Jump The Question.

Answer/Value/Bank

D: Saddam Hussein
Question Value: $1,000
Bank: $32,600

Question #8 - Level 6: Base Element
Also known as quicksilver, what element was used during the California Gold Rush to extract gold from mine deposits?

A: Mercury B: Aluminum
C: Platinum D: Nickel

Twilight asks the audience.

ATA

A: 73% B: 8% C: 3% D: 16%

Answer/Value/Bank

A: Mercury
Question Value: $3,000
Bank: $35,600

-- Commercial Break --


Twilight's husband, Jason, is in the audience. Twilight and Jason have talked about how to spend the money, if she wins big, and they'd love to buy a vacation house on Cape Cod.


Question #9 - Level 1: Get Crackin'
For 50 years, Dr. Donald Under regularly cracked the knuckles on his left hand, but not his right, to test if the habit caused what?

A: Insomnia B: Asthma
C: Baldness D: Arthritis

Answer/Value/Bank

D: Arthritis
Question Value: $7,000
Bank: $42,600

Question #10 - Level 3: Sticks and Stones
The word "egghead" became popular after it was used to mock Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson, who was both bald and what?

A: Bearded B: Intelligent
C: Absent-minded D: Buck-toothed

Answer/Value/Bank

B: Intelligent
Question Value: $10,000
Bank: $52,600

-- Commercial Break --


It is time to play Classic Millionaire!


$100,000
What Wild West figure's daughter, Elizabeth, wrote, "O, Fair New Mexico," the first official state song of New Mexico?

A: Bat Masterson B: Will Bill Hickok
C: Pat Garrett D: Wyatt Earp

Twilight walks away with $52,600.

Answer

C: Pat Garrett

[RanBadSoSadByeBye]

I met Twilight in the green room and I'm very happy for her, but...

(sigh)

[SportsFan68]

Question #1 - Level 4: Religious Refreshment
Created in 2002, Mecca-Cola is a beverage company that markets itself towards members of what religious group?

A: Mormons B: Buddhists
C: Muslims D: Jews

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Muslims
Question Value: $2,000
Bank: $2,000

LB! You can switch to Mecca-Cola!

Question #4 - Level 9: The Sea
Which of these seas experiences virtually no tides?

A: Arabian Sea B: Baltic Sea
C: North Sea D: Bering Sea

Twilight says she doesn't have any lead on this and she doesn't think she wants to ask the audience on this. That elicits loud groans from the audience. She jumps the question.

Answer/Value/Bank

B: Baltic Sea
Question Value: $15,000
Bank: $27,500

JTQ.

Question #8 - Level 6: Base Element
Also known as quicksilver, what element was used during the California Gold Rush to extract gold from mine deposits?

A: Mercury B: Aluminum
C: Platinum D: Nickel

Twilight asks the audience.

ATA

A: 73% B: 8% C: 3% D: 16%

Answer/Value/Bank

A: Mercury
Question Value: $3,000
Bank: $35,600

We toured a gold mine and processing plant in Alaska, and the tour guide said the employees smuggled out the gold combined with mercury by swallowing it, then retrieving it the next day. I asked if they didn't know it would kill them. The guide said it was a risk they were willing to take.

$100,000
What Wild West figure's daughter, Elizabeth, wrote, "O, Fair New Mexico," the first official state song of New Mexico?

A: Bat Masterson B: Will Bill Hickok
C: Pat Garrett D: Wyatt Earp

Twilight walks away with $52,600.

Answer

C: Pat Garrett

I would have pulled the trigger on this one. Garrett was the only one, as far as I know, anyway, to live in NM for any extended period of time. He's the guy who shot Billy the Kid.

"There's 21 men I have put bullets through,
Sheriff Pat Garrett must make 22."

Or something like that. It's a Marty Robbins ballad. Bet it doesn't show up on LS...

[MarleysGh0st]

Question #4 - Level 9: The Sea
Which of these seas experiences virtually no tides?

A: Arabian Sea B: Baltic Sea
C: North Sea D: Bering Sea

Twilight says she doesn't have any lead on this and she doesn't think she wants to ask the audience on this. That elicits loud groans from the audience. She jumps the question.

Answer/Value/Bank

B: Baltic Sea
Question Value: $15,000
Bank: $27,500

JTQ.

It's not really a difficult question, if you know where they are. The Baltic is the only one of these which is (nearly) isolated: any tidal flow has to force itself through the narrow channel of the Kattegat. The Arabian, North and Bering Seas, OTOH, are seas only in a notional sense, really being parts of the Indian, Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, respectively. No barriers at all to the tides, there.

[SportsFan68]

Question #4 - Level 9: The Sea
Which of these seas experiences virtually no tides?

A: Arabian Sea B: Baltic Sea
C: North Sea D: Bering Sea

Twilight says she doesn't have any lead on this and she doesn't think she wants to ask the audience on this. That elicits loud groans from the audience. She jumps the question.

Answer/Value/Bank

B: Baltic Sea
Question Value: $15,000
Bank: $27,500

JTQ.

It's not really a difficult question, if you know where they are. The Baltic is the only one of these which is (nearly) isolated: any tidal flow has to force itself through the narrow channel of the Kattegat. The Arabian, North and Bering Seas, OTOH, are seas only in a notional sense, really being parts of the Indian, Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, respectively. No barriers at all to the tides, there.

I knew that about the Baltic and North seas. I thought the Arabian Sea might be like the Red Sea or the Persian Gulf.

I know I'll need to study geography if by some miracle I ever get on the show.

[Estonut]

Question #4 - Level 9: The Sea
Which of these seas experiences virtually no tides?

A: Arabian Sea B: Baltic Sea
C: North Sea D: Bering Sea

Twilight says she doesn't have any lead on this and she doesn't think she wants to ask the audience on this. That elicits loud groans from the audience. She jumps the question.

Answer/Value/Bank

B: Baltic Sea
Question Value: $15,000
Bank: $27,500

JTQ.

It's not really a difficult question, if you know where they are. The Baltic is the only one of these which is (nearly) isolated: any tidal flow has to force itself through the narrow channel of the Kattegat. The Arabian, North and Bering Seas, OTOH, are seas only in a notional sense, really being parts of the Indian, Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, respectively. No barriers at all to the tides, there.

This question sucks. The only one of these I've ever been to is the Baltic Sea. I've seen the tide go from where you stand somewhere and the water is ankle-deep and then, a few hours later, it's chest deep. I've also heard of some of the islands in Estonia that one can drive or walk to at low tide, but require boats or swimming when the tide is in. I would not call these situations "virtually no tide."

[TheConfessor]

I met Twilight in the green room and I'm very happy for her, but...

(sigh)

I don't know you so it's hard to read your mind. Can you be more explicit? You think her strategy was bad? You think she should have known more of the answers? You think she doesn't belong on the show? You wish you had her stack? I think they could have found more knowledgeable contestants, if that's what you mean, but she didn't seem any worse than most of the other risk-averse types that they seem to prefer these days.

[MarleysGh0st]

I met Twilight in the green room and I'm very happy for her, but...

(sigh)

I don't know you so it's hard to read your mind. Can you be more explicit? You think her strategy was bad? You think she should have known more of the answers? You think she doesn't belong on the show? You wish you had her stack? I think they could have found more knowledgeable contestants, if that's what you mean, but she didn't seem any worse than most of the other risk-averse types that they seem to prefer these days.

I think the sigh is contrasting the stack she got with the stack he got.

[RanBadSoSadByeBye]

I met Twilight in the green room and I'm very happy for her, but...

(sigh)

I don't know you so it's hard to read your mind. Can you be more explicit? You think her strategy was bad? You think she should have known more of the answers? You think she doesn't belong on the show? You wish you had her stack? I think they could have found more knowledgeable contestants, if that's what you mean, but she didn't seem any worse than most of the other risk-averse types that they seem to prefer these days.

I think the sigh is contrasting the stack she got with the stack he got.

THIS. And really, if my MadLibs question had been swapped with Roger Daltrey relative to stack location, I'm celebrating a decent run where I likely cashed five figures, as questions 2, 3, and 4 followed.

[littlebeast13]

Question #1 - Level 4: Religious Refreshment
Created in 2002, Mecca-Cola is a beverage company that markets itself towards members of what religious group?

A: Mormons B: Buddhists
C: Muslims D: Jews

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Muslims
Question Value: $2,000
Bank: $2,000

LB! You can switch to Mecca-Cola!

Ha!

BTW, the real Sam's Cola will eat a hole through your stomach. I drank plenty of it my first year at Mecca since it was too tempting to pass up at 25 cents a can.... blech!

lb13

[Bob Juch]

$100,000
What Wild West figure's daughter, Elizabeth, wrote, "O, Fair New Mexico," the first official state song of New Mexico?

A: Bat Masterson B: Will Bill Hickok
C: Pat Garrett D: Wyatt Earp

Twilight walks away with $52,600.

Answer

C: Pat Garrett

I would have pulled the trigger on this one. Garrett was the only one, as far as I know, anyway, to live in NM for any extended period of time. He's the guy who shot Billy the Kid.

"There's 21 men I have put bullets through,
Sheriff Pat Garrett must make 22."

Or something like that. It's a Marty Robbins ballad. Bet it doesn't show up on LS...

Pat Garrett killed more men than Billy the Kid. He was not always on the right side of the law.

[ulysses5019]

Question #1 - Level 4: Religious Refreshment
Created in 2002, Mecca-Cola is a beverage company that markets itself towards members of what religious group?

A: Mormons B: Buddhists
C: Muslims D: Jews

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Muslims
Question Value: $2,000
Bank: $2,000

LB! You can switch to Mecca-Cola!

Ha!

BTW, the real Sam's Cola will eat a hole through your stomach. I drank plenty of it my first year at Mecca since it was too tempting to pass up at 25 cents a can.... blech!

lb13

Maybe you should try mixing it with Crystal Pepsi.

[MarleysGh0st]

This column has another paragraph about Twilight's appearance.

http://medford.patch.com/articles/aroun ... illionaire

This one also refers to this being "the third time she set foot in the studios of the game show" without explaining the significance of that statement. Heck, I've set foot in the studio something like twenty times!

[earendel]

Twilight Cofield
Arlington, MA
Nurse Practitioner

I wonder how much ribbing she gets now that the vampire series of the same name is so popular. I seem to recall some explanation of why her parents gave her that name but I can't recall it.

Twilight got her name because she was born at twilight.

Ah, I knew something had been said.

Question #4 - Level 9: The Sea
Which of these seas experiences virtually no tides?

A: Arabian Sea B: Baltic Sea
C: North Sea D: Bering Sea

Twilight says she doesn't have any lead on this and she doesn't think she wants to ask the audience on this. That elicits loud groans from the audience. She jumps the question.

Answer/Value/Bank

B: Baltic Sea
Question Value: $15,000
Bank: $27,500

I like the fact that the audience audibly clued her not to use the ATA lifeline. I'd JTQ also.

Question #7 - Level 10: The Award Goes To...
Which of these notorious figures was never selected by Time magazine as its "Man of the Year"?

A: Joseph Stalin B: Adolf Hitler
C: Ayatollah Khomeini D: Saddam Hussein

Twilight thinks all of them are viable answers. She uses her second Jump The Question.

Answer/Value/Bank

D: Saddam Hussein
Question Value: $1,000
Bank: $32,600

In thinking of the effects that the four individuals had on world events (the reason why they would have been selected) Hussein is the least "influential" so I'll go with him.

$100,000
What Wild West figure's daughter, Elizabeth, wrote, "O, Fair New Mexico," the first official state song of New Mexico?

A: Bat Masterson B: Will Bill Hickok
C: Pat Garrett D: Wyatt Earp

Twilight walks away with $52,600.

Answer

C: Pat Garrett

The only one I associate with New Mexico is Garrett, but I don't think that's enough to go on. I don't think the audience will know, but I have the ATA so might as well use it before walking away.

[MarleysGh0st]

Twilight got her name because she was born at twilight.

Ah, I knew something had been said.

She also joked that her parents usually aren't that creative, but in this case, they were.

Question #4 - Level 9: The Sea
Which of these seas experiences virtually no tides?

A: Arabian Sea B: Baltic Sea
C: North Sea D: Bering Sea

Twilight says she doesn't have any lead on this and she doesn't think she wants to ask the audience on this. That elicits loud groans from the audience. She jumps the question.

Answer/Value/Bank

B: Baltic Sea
Question Value: $15,000
Bank: $27,500

I like the fact that the audience audibly clued her not to use the ATA lifeline. I'd JTQ also.

After saying she wouldn't use the ATA, I interpreted the groans as an indication that they did want her to ask them! And any feedback from the audience, before she officially decides to use the lifeline, seems improper to me. Otherwise, I can imagine a contestant sounding out their confidence level. "By applause, how many of you are absolutely confident you know this?"