Transcript 5/25/2012 - Jared Weintraub

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Jared Weintraub
Bronx, NY
intern at a PR firm

With the money he makes Jared would like to go to graduate school.

Topic Tree: (randomized)
Past Lives
Musical Directions
Mapping Sports
Animal Stamps
Puzzling Piece
English Eye
Record Highs
Thoughtful Ink
Cheesy Guy
Name Fool

Question #1 (Name Fool)
What male name can be tacked onto the front of the word "foolery" to create another common word that also means "silly behavior"?
A - Bob
B - Ken
C - Tom
D - Joe

"You know what?" Jared begins. "I think I'm going to have to ask the audience."

ATA results

A - 2%
B - 0%
C - 97%
D - 1%

Jared said he looked at it a second time and thought it would pop out at him but he'd rather be safe than sorry.

Spoiler

Answer: C (Tom)
Value: $1,000
Bank: $1.000

Question #2 (Cheesy Guy)
Named after the village he was discovered in, and not for his love of cheese, a 9,000-year-old British skeleton is called what?
A - Gorgonzola Man
B - Cheddar Man
C - Havarti Man
D - Gouda Man

"Nothing is really popping out at me," Jared says. He's going to have to jump the question.

Spoiler

Answer: B (Cheddar Man)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $1,000 (unchanged)

Meredith tells Jared that gorgonzola is from Italy, havarti is from Denmark and gouda is from Holland.

Question #3 (Thoughtful (Ink)
Tweeting in 2011 that it symbolized her support for gay marriage, Miley Cyrus sports a tattoo of what symbol on her finger?
A - equal sign
B - question mark
C - exclamation point
D - plus sign

Jared doesn't want to psych himself out.

Spoiler

Answer: A (equal sign)
Value: $3,000
Bank: $4.000

commercial break

Jared's mom and dad (Sharon and Steven) are in the relationship seats. Jared says that his parents spoiled him rotten when he was a kid and now it's time to do something nice for them. They took him halfway around the world and back and so he'd like to take them wherever they'd like to go.

Question #4 (Record Highs)
What are the only two U.S. states to have never recorded a temperature over 100 degrees?
A - Florida and Colorado
B - Georgia and Michigan
C - Minnesota and Alabama
D - Alaska and Hawaii

Jared thinks he's going to have to go with

Spoiler

D

.

Spoiler

Answer: D (Alaska and Hawaii)
Value: $100
Bank: $4,100

Question #5 (English Eye)
With 3.3 million annual visitors, the U.K.'s most popular paid tourist attraction is the London Eye, a giant what?
A - video screen
B - planetarium
C - telescope
D - Ferris wheel

Jared was in London when he was 7 or 8 and this was built after he was there. The only one that looks like a giant eye is

Spoiler

D

. Meredith asks if that's his final answer and he says, "Wait, let me slow it down for a second." Again he says he'd rather be safe than sorry and jumps the question.

Spoiler

Answer: D (Ferris wheel)
Value: $25,000
Bank: $4,100 (unchanged)

Question #6 (Puzzling Piece)
In jigsaw puzzles, a piece with a special shape that reflects the theme of the puzzle is often called a what?
A - whimsy
B - frolic
C - lark
D - gambol

Jared says that it might be a

Spoiler

gambol, both literally and figuratively (a gamble)

. He decides to make that his final answer.

Spoiler

Answer: A (whimsy)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $1,000 (half the bank)

commercial break


Millionaire question of the day:
The only item that William Shakespeare specifically left his wife Anne in his will was his "second-best" what
A - sword
B - stove
C - cow
D - bed
Answer:

Spoiler

D (bed)

Edit- correct spelling whimsy

[MarleysGh0st]

Question #1 (Name Fool)
What male name can be tacked onto the front of the word "foolery" to create another common word that also means "silly behavior"?
A - Bob
B - Ken
C - Tom
D - Joe

"You know what?" Jared begins. "I think I'm going to have to ask the audience."

ATA results

A - 2%
B - 0%
C - 97%
D - 1%

Jared said he looked at it a second time and thought it would pop out at him but he'd rather be safe than sorry.

Spoiler

Answer: C (Tom)
Value: $1,000
Bank: $1.000

Argh!

Question #2 (Cheesy Guy)
Named after the village he was discovered in, and not for his love of cheese, a 9,000-year-old British skeleton is called what?
A - Gorgonzola Man
B - Cheddar Man
C - Havarti Man
D - Gouda Man

"Nothing is really popping out at me," Jared says. He's going to have to jump the question.

Spoiler

Answer: B (Cheddar Man)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $1,000 (unchanged)

Meredith tells Jared that gorgonzola is from Italy, havarti is from Denmark and gouda is from Holland.

Argh, again!

Question #5 (English Eye)
With 3.3 million annual visitors, the U.K.'s most popular paid tourist attraction is the London Eye, a giant what?
A - video screen
B - planetarium
C - telescope
D - Ferris wheel

Jared was in London when he was 7 or 8 and this was built after he was there. The only one that looks like a giant eye is

Spoiler

D

. Meredith asks if that's his final answer and he says, "Wait, let me slow it down for a second." Again he says he'd rather be safe than sorry and jumps the question.

Spoiler

Answer: D (Ferris wheel)
Value: $25,000
Bank: $4,100 (unchanged)

Really, Jared? You reason it out and you're still having doubts?



Don't forget to take your parents someplace really nice with that $1,000 consolation prize!

[SportsFan68]

Question #4 (Record Highs)
What are the only two U.S. states to have never recorded a temperature over 100 degrees?
A - Florida and Colorado
B - Georgia and Michigan
C - Minnesota and Alabama
D - Alaska and Hawaii

Jared thinks he's going to have to go with

Spoiler

D

.

Spoiler

Answer: D (Alaska and Hawaii)
Value: $100
Bank: $4,100

I know it's not Colorado! I'm sure that Georgia and Alabama have hit 100 many times. Hawaii is known for its temperate climate, and I can easily see Alaska going below zero but never above 100. Alaska and Hawaii, final answer.

[Bob78164]

On the last question, I think choice A was spelled "whimsy." I no longer have the episode -- can someone confirm? --Bob

[Kazoo65]

1. easy. Hasn't he heard of tomfoolery??

2. I knew this one. J! has done categories about cheese on occasion.

3. I guessed and got this one right. Up there, I might use ATA.

4. Definitely NOT Michigan-we had some 100* plus days last year! I figured Alaska would be one of them, but I was surprised about Hawaii.

5. I remember hearing about this, so I knew it.

6. NFC. I don't do jigsaw puzzles-I find them hard. I jump the question.

[Snaxx]

On the last question, I think choice A was spelled "whimsy." I no longer have the episode -- can someone confirm? --Bob

Confirmed and edited. Thanks for pointing it out.

[Bob78164]

On the last question, I think choice A was spelled "whimsy." I no longer have the episode -- can someone confirm? --Bob

Confirmed and edited. Thanks for pointing it out.

Thanks for fixing it. --Bob

[earendel]

Jared Weintraub
Bronx, NY
intern at a PR firm

With the money he makes Jared would like to go to graduate school.

In public relations, or some other field?

Question #1 (Name Fool)
What male name can be tacked onto the front of the word "foolery" to create another common word that also means "silly behavior"?
A - Bob
B - Ken
C - Tom
D - Joe

"You know what?" Jared begins. "I think I'm going to have to ask the audience."

ATA results

A - 2%
B - 0%
C - 97%
D - 1%

Jared said he looked at it a second time and thought it would pop out at him but he'd rather be safe than sorry.

Spoiler

Answer: C (Tom)
Value: $1,000
Bank: $1.000

Seriously? He's never heard of tom-foolery? This does not bode well.

Question #5 (English Eye)
With 3.3 million annual visitors, the U.K.'s most popular paid tourist attraction is the London Eye, a giant what?
A - video screen
B - planetarium
C - telescope
D - Ferris wheel

Jared was in London when he was 7 or 8 and this was built after he was there. The only one that looks like a giant eye is

Spoiler

D

. Meredith asks if that's his final answer and he says, "Wait, let me slow it down for a second." Again he says he'd rather be safe than sorry and jumps the question.

Spoiler

Answer: D (Ferris wheel)
Value: $25,000
Bank: $4,100 (unchanged)

He's gonna regret using those lifelines.

Question #6 (Puzzling Piece)
In jigsaw puzzles, a piece with a special shape that reflects the theme of the puzzle is often called a what?
A - whimsy
B - frolic
C - lark
D - gambol

Jared says that it might be a

Spoiler

gambol, both literally and figuratively (a gamble)

. He decides to make that his final answer.

Spoiler

Answer: A (whimsy)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $1,000 (half the bank)

My grandfather and my mother were huge jigsaw puzzle fans and I can remember helping them work the really complicated ones. It was he who told me what these special pieces were called.