Transcript 2/17/2012 - Alison McCreary (carryover)

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Alison McCreary
Summit, NJ
Runs an organic sunscreen company

Meredith opens the show by noting that this week two contestants have seen the $250,000 question and waiting backstage is another one. Alison comes out wearing an outfit that looks like Meredith's and a necklace with a playing card on it. Meredith asks about it and Alison says it's because she's a big gambler. It was made by an artist friend of hers. It also has a "lucky elephant" on it, with the trunk pointing upward (for good luck). She says she needs all the luck she can get. Alison has $100,000 in her bank but no lifelines remaining.

$250K - In 1919, what future author waws hired by the Oxford English Dictionary to define "w" words including "warm," "waggle" and "wallop"?
A - George Orwell
B - Virginia Woolfe
C - J.R.R. Tolkien
D - Agatha Christie

Alison says that "future author" means that he or she wasn't writing in 1919. She reads through the rest of the question. "Waggle" and "wallop" sound like cartoon words. "Hired to define them" means that he or she used them. Tolkien wrote "those hobbit books" and Orwell wrote "Animal Farm". Alison would like to go for it but she's not stupid. $100,000 is a nice round number. Meredith asks if Alison is leaning toward any particular answer. Alison seems to focus on either Orwell or Tolkien. "Do hobbits waggle or wallop?" she asks. It's too much money to leave behind so she decides to walk.

Spoiler

C (J.R.R. Tolkien)

Spoiler

"Damn hobbits!" Alison jokingly exclaims.

commercial break

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I have one JTQ remaining.

$250K - In 1919, what future author waws hired by the Oxford English Dictionary to define "w" words including "warm," "waggle" and "wallop"?
A - George Orwell
B - Virginia Woolfe
C - J.R.R. Tolkien
D - Agatha Christie

Alison says that "future author" means that he or she wasn't writing in 1919. She reads through the rest of the question. "Waggle" and "wallop" sound like cartoon words. "Hired to define them" means that he or she used them. Tolkien wrote "those hobbit books" and Orwell wrote "Animal Farm". Alison would like to go for it but she's not stupid. $100,000 is a nice round number. Meredith asks if Alison is leaning toward any particular answer. Alison seems to focus on either Orwell or Tolkien. "Do hobbits waggle or wallop?" she asks. It's too much money to leave behind so she decides to walk.

Spoiler

C (J.R.R. Tolkien)

Spoiler

"Damn hobbits!" Alison jokingly exclaims.

JTQ 2

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Alison McCreary
Summit, NJ
Runs an organic sunscreen company

Meredith opens the show by noting that this week two contestants have seen the $250,000 question and waiting backstage is another one. Alison comes out wearing an outfit that looks like Meredith's and a necklace with a playing card on it. Meredith asks about it and Alison says it's because she's a big gambler. It was made by an artist friend of hers. It also has a "lucky elephant" on it, with the trunk pointing upward (for good luck). She says she needs all the luck she can get. Alison has $100,000 in her bank but no lifelines remaining.

$250K - In 1919, what future author waws hired by the Oxford English Dictionary to define "w" words including "warm," "waggle" and "wallop"?
A - George Orwell
B - Virginia Woolfe
C - J.R.R. Tolkien
D - Agatha Christie

Alison says that "future author" means that he or she wasn't writing in 1919. She reads through the rest of the question. "Waggle" and "wallop" sound like cartoon words. "Hired to define them" means that he or she used them. Tolkien wrote "those hobbit books" and Orwell wrote "Animal Farm". Alison would like to go for it but she's not stupid. $100,000 is a nice round number. Meredith asks if Alison is leaning toward any particular answer. Alison seems to focus on either Orwell or Tolkien. "Do hobbits waggle or wallop?" she asks. It's too much money to leave behind so she decides to walk.

Spoiler

C (J.R.R. Tolkien)

Spoiler

"Damn hobbits!" Alison jokingly exclaims.

commercial break

Here's the windup, and the pitch...it's going back, back, back...IT'S GONE!!!

What a great question this would have been for me.