Transcript 04/20/2012 Dina Carter (1Q contestant)

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Dina Carter
Edgewater, NJ

She came to the show to see Meredith. Dina will face the question that Kathleen would have had if she hadn't walked away (the category is "Shuttle Rebuttal"). If she gets it right she'll get $2,000 since it's Double Money Week.

As if inspired by the 1998 film "Armageddon," NASA's biggest post-shuttle mission is to send astronauts to a nearby what?
A - planet
B - asteroid
C - moon
D - comet

Dina asks if she can jump the question. She saw the movie a while ago. She makes

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C

her final answer.

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B (asteroid)

THE END OF GAME "NOISE"

[jarnon]

Dina may have confused Armageddon (with Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck) with Space Cowboys (2000, with Clint Eastwood and Tommy Lee Jones).

[earendel]

Dina Carter
Edgewater, NJ

She came to the show to see Meredith. Dina will face the question that Kathleen would have had if she hadn't walked away (the category is "Shuttle Rebuttal"). If she gets it right she'll get $2,000 since it's Double Money Week.

As if inspired by the 1998 film "Armageddon," NASA's biggest post-shuttle mission is to send astronauts to a nearby what?
A - planet
B - asteroid
C - moon
D - comet

Dina asks if she can jump the question. She saw the movie a while ago. She makes

Spoiler

C

her final answer.

Spoiler

B (asteroid)

I guess it wasn't memorable enough.

[earendel]

Dina may have confused Armageddon (with Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck) with Space Cowboys (2000, with Clint Eastwood and Tommy Lee Jones).

I thought Space Cowboys was about a mission to a satellite - and only peripherally about the moon (because TLJ's character died and they sent his body to the moon).

[jarnon]

Dina may have confused Armageddon (with Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck) with Space Cowboys (2000, with Clint Eastwood and Tommy Lee Jones).

I thought Space Cowboys was about a mission to a satellite - and only peripherally about the moon (because TLJ's character died and they sent his body to the moon).

Tommy's character actually dies on the moon. It's the scene I remember best.

Here's what I remember best about Armageddon:

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• Liv Tyler
  Songs "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" and "Leaving on a Jet Plane"

Here's what I remember best about a third similar movie, Deep Impact:

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[ulysses5019]

Dina may have confused Armageddon (with Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck) with Space Cowboys (2000, with Clint Eastwood and Tommy Lee Jones).

I thought Space Cowboys was about a mission to a satellite - and only peripherally about the moon (because TLJ's character died and they sent his body to the moon).

Yes, the satellite had nukes on it and the satellite was in danger of failing to earth. The design was Clint's and somehow the Russians got them but built it wrong. I think the only way to save the earth was to blast them to the moon but it needed a pilot to guide the satellite. It was convenient that TLJ had incurable cancer. The final song was Fly Me to the Moon.