Transcript 10/29/12 Ryan Jones

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Ryan Jones
Slidell, LA
22 years old
Musical theater actor
Ryan just moved to New York two days ago.

Meredith tells us this Wednesday, they will have a special Halloween makeover of the show and all this week the lifelines will be renamed with a Halloween theme.
Jump the Question is now Bat Away the Question and Ask the Audience is now Picking the Audience’s Brain.

Topic Tree:

10 Home of the Brave
9 End of the World
8 Novel Settings
7 Words of Success
6 Island Jams
5 Team Mascots
4 Cult Films
3 House of Cards
2 Safety First
1 Wii Aim to Please

Topic Tree: (randomized)

3 House of Cards
8 Novel Settings
7 Words of Success
4 Cult Films
9 End of the World
5 Team Mascots
10 Home of the Brave
6 Island Jams
2 Safety First
1 Wii Aim to Please

Meredith tells us about a new lifeline for this week, Crystal Ball.
With this lifeline, the contestant can peek at the dollar value of a question.

Question 1 – 1 Wii Aim to Please
Which of these items is sold as an accessory for Nintendo’s WII Fit games?
A. Steering wheel
B. Microphone
C. Yoga mat
D. Laser gun

Spoiler

C. Yoga mat
$1K
Bank - $1K

Question 2 – 2 Safety First
A recent CDC study showed that “standing up from, sitting down on, or using the toilet” are the causes of 14.1% of injuries incurred where?
A. Bedroom
B. Kitchen
C. Bathroom
D. Living room

Spoiler

C. Bathroom
$2K
Bank - $3K

Question 3 – 6 Island Jams
Not surprisingly, the Bob Marley song “One Love” has been used in numerous commercials for what island nation?
A. Cuba
B. Barbados
C. Jamaica
D. Haiti

Spoiler

C. Jamaica
$3K
Bank - $6K

Question 4 – 10 Home of the Brave
Before officially given the name “the White House” in 1901, the presidential residence was formerly known as what?
A. Washington Manor
B. Commander’s House
C. First Estate
D. Executive Mansion

Ryan decides to use his Crystal Ball.

CB

The question is shown to be worth

Spoiler

$100

Ryan decides to Bat Away the Question

BATQ 1

Spoiler

D. Executive Mansion
$100
Bank - $6K

Question 5 – 5 Team Mascots
Corner Canyon High School in Utah found itself in the news after nixing what mascot name, supposedly because it was derogatory to older women?
A. Falcons
B. Cougars
C. Bulldogs
D. Gators

Spoiler

B. Cougars
$7K
Bank - $13K

commercial break

Question 6 – 9 End of the World
Many doomsday prophets believed the world was going to end in December of 2012 because of Nibiru, which they believed was a what?
A. Volcano god
B. Runaway planet
C. Monkey virus
D. Locust plague

BATQ 2

Spoiler

B. Runaway planet
$25K
Bank - $13K

Question 7 – 4 Cut Films
What is the title of a 1980s cult film whose tagline is “They’re tobacco chewin’, gut chompin’, cannibal kinfolk form hell?
A. Preppy Mummies
B. Slacker Vampires
C. Redneck Zombies
D. Beatnik Werewolves

Spoiler

C. Redneck Zombies
$500
Bank - $13,500

Question 8 – 7 Words of Success
Speaking at 2012’s Harvard Class Day, what “Saturday Night Live” performer joked of his tips on how to succeed, “Cut a hole in a box”?
A. Andy Samberg
B. Bill Hader
C. Jason Sudeikis
D. Seth Meyers

Spoiler

A. Andy Samberg
$5K
Bank - $18,500

Question 9 – 8 Novel Settings
In a famous novel, what character writes a letter that opens “My friend – Welcome to Carpathians, I am anxiously expecting you”?
A. Don Quixote
B. Frankenstein
C. Count Dracula
D. Professor Moriarty

Ryan decides to Pick the Audience’s Brain

PTAB

PTAB results

11% A. Don Quixote
7% B. Frankenstein
56% C. Count Dracula
26% D. Professor Moriarty

Spoiler

C. Count Dracula
$10K
Bank - $28,500

commercial break

Question 10 – 3 House of Cards
How many red cards are in a standard deck of playing cards?
A. 13
B. 26
C. 20
D. 40

Spoiler

B. 26
$15K
Bank - $43,500

$100K
In a 1970 appearance on “The Dick Cavett Show,” what director revealed that he once dined with an unknown Adolf Hitler, who had “no personality whatsoever”?
A. Alfred Hitchcock
B. Stanley Kubrick
C. Orson Welles
D. Cecil B. DeMille

Ryan decides to walk with $43,500.

Spoiler

C. Orson Welles

commercial break

[MarleysGh0st]

Ryan Jones
Slidell, LA
22 years old
Musical theater actor
Ryan just moved to New York two days ago.

Whew! Just made it in time for full WE/WE status!

[SportsFan68]

Question 6 – 9 End of the World
Many doomsday prophets believed the world was going to end in December of 2012 because of Nibiru, which they believed was a what?
A. Volcano god
B. Runaway planet
C. Monkey virus
D. Locust plague

BATQ 2

Spoiler

B. Runaway planet
$25K
Bank - $13K

I looked up Nibiru, and I may have heard of it at one time but forgot about it as irrelevant. Shows what I know. Anyway, JTQ.

Question 8 – 7 Words of Success
Speaking at 2012’s Harvard Class Day, what “Saturday Night Live” performer joked of his tips on how to succeed, “Cut a hole in a box”?
A. Andy Samberg
B. Bill Hader
C. Jason Sudeikis
D. Seth Meyers

Spoiler

A. Andy Samberg
$5K
Bank - $18,500

ATA

$100K
In a 1970 appearance on “The Dick Cavett Show,” what director revealed that he once dined with an unknown Adolf Hitler, who had “no personality whatsoever”?
A. Alfred Hitchcock
B. Stanley Kubrick
C. Orson Welles
D. Cecil B. DeMille

Ryan decides to walk with $43,500.

Spoiler

C. Orson Welles

JTQ 2

[TheConfessor]

Question 6 – 9 End of the World
Many doomsday prophets believed the world was going to end in December of 2012 because of Nibiru, which they believed was a what?
A. Volcano god
B. Runaway planet
C. Monkey virus
D. Locust plague

Nibiru is coming November 21, 2012, not December 2012.
http://weeklyworldnews.com/aliens/42896 ... r-21-2012/

This was a very nasty question. I assumed they were referring to the well known "end of the world in December 2012" allegedly predicted by the Mayan calendar, which led me to think it had something to do with a Mayan volcano god (since the other three choices don't seem very Mayan).

[hanzz]

Let's see, I've jumped Nibiru (and thus $25k), and I've got two lifelines and a $43.6k bank heading into Round 2. I have a hunch on Welles (Kubrick would be far too young, Demille possibly too old, and Hitchcock is kind of the wildcard other), and audience is essentially useless from this point on so might as well ATA. If they spike at Welles that might be enough for me to go for it. On the other hand, jumping it and then having a very minimal risk for $250k is an extremely enticing option. But on the third hand, getting it right means that you only need to know one of either the $250k or the $500k to take a peek at the MDQ. And then, of course, putting the love of the game aside, there's also the annuity factor to consider.

It's extremely telling that no one in 3 years of the shuffle format has made it 11 questions without having to use a lifeline (or at the very least, only having to use just the audience). So how many here would, with $100k in the bank, jump right over the $250k and $500k questions without a thought so as to have the most minimal risk possible at winning the million? If you were absolutely sure you knew the answer to the $250k or $500k (and taking into account that they are both, essentially, the same prizes, one just comes with an annuity), would you go ahead and at least answer one of them so as to assure yourself some good change?

[hss501]

Let's see, I've jumped Nibiru (and thus $25k), and I've got two lifelines and a $43.6k bank heading into Round 2. I have a hunch on Welles (Kubrick would be far too young, Demille possibly too old, and Hitchcock is kind of the wildcard other), and audience is essentially useless from this point on so might as well ATA. If they spike at Welles that might be enough for me to go for it. On the other hand, jumping it and then having a very minimal risk for $250k is an extremely enticing option. But on the third hand, getting it right means that you only need to know one of either the $250k or the $500k to take a peek at the MDQ. And then, of course, putting the love of the game aside, there's also the annuity factor to consider.

It's extremely telling that no one in 3 years of the shuffle format has made it 11 questions without having to use a lifeline (or at the very least, only having to use just the audience). So how many here would, with $100k in the bank, jump right over the $250k and $500k questions without a thought so as to have the most minimal risk possible at winning the million? If you were absolutely sure you knew the answer to the $250k or $500k (and taking into account that they are both, essentially, the same prizes, one just comes with an annuity), would you go ahead and at least answer one of them so as to assure yourself some good change?

The annuity was something I thought a lot about - really changes the math at the upper levels. Well, sort of: the first thing that changes the math is that not every dollar is equal. The first twenty thousand dollars probably means a lot more to most contestants than the second twenty thousand, and so on. The $225k between the $25k consolation prize and the 250k is worth way more to most people than the actual value of the 37.5k 20-year annuity for the MDQ, so you'd need to be pretty damn confident to take that shot. (Or believe you'd seen a photo of President Johnson drinking Yoo-Hoo.) (Or the Pope.)

It is a little surprising that only, what, one person has made it to R2 with both JTQs? But it will happen eventually. There's so much damn luck in this game, and it comes in all varieties. The woman who won 100k a few weeks ago on DYM week was lucky because she made it to round 2 with so little in her bank - it let her take a WAG that paid off big. Players who are "lucky" like you, Hans, in getting big money up front are probably significantly less likely to make it to round two, because they've got something to protect; players who can't find a five-figure amount to save their lives have so little to lose they've got a real shot to go home with their entire bank (or more).

Wasn't it that nobody in the world had won the top prize before John Carpenter? Something like that? The idea of the game is that the million dollars is possible, not that anybody needs to ever actually win it. The most anybody ever won of a maximum million on prime-time Weakest Link was also pretty low - less than 200k, IIRC. Nobody was ever going to win a million on a show like that, but on Millionaire, it WILL happen eventually.

[earendel]

Ryan Jones
Slidell, LA
22 years old
Musical theater actor
Ryan just moved to New York two days ago.

So he's a newly-minted WE/WE®.

Meredith tells us this Wednesday, they will have a special Halloween makeover of the show and all this week the lifelines will be renamed with a Halloween theme.
Jump the Question is now Bat Away the Question and Ask the Audience is now Picking the Audience’s Brain.

Two years (or more) too late, Meredith. We had a BB® ready to come on the show as a flying monkey.

Question 4 – 10 Home of the Brave
Before officially given the name “the White House” in 1901, the presidential residence was formerly known as what?
A. Washington Manor
B. Commander’s House
C. First Estate
D. Executive Mansion

Ryan decides to use his Crystal Ball.

CB

The question is shown to be worth

Spoiler

$100

Ryan decides to Bat Away the Question

BATQ 1

Spoiler

D. Executive Mansion
$100
Bank - $6K

It's still called that.

Question 5 – 5 Team Mascots
Corner Canyon High School in Utah found itself in the news after nixing what mascot name, supposedly because it was derogatory to older women?
A. Falcons
B. Cougars
C. Bulldogs
D. Gators

Spoiler

B. Cougars
$7K
Bank - $13K

This seems like PC gone a little too far.

Question 8 – 7 Words of Success
Speaking at 2012’s Harvard Class Day, what “Saturday Night Live” performer joked of his tips on how to succeed, “Cut a hole in a box”?
A. Andy Samberg
B. Bill Hader
C. Jason Sudeikis
D. Seth Meyers

Spoiler

A. Andy Samberg
$5K
Bank - $18,500

Time for a lifeline. I think I'll pick the audience's brain (better than picking their nose )

$100K
In a 1970 appearance on “The Dick Cavett Show,” what director revealed that he once dined with an unknown Adolf Hitler, who had “no personality whatsoever”?
A. Alfred Hitchcock
B. Stanley Kubrick
C. Orson Welles
D. Cecil B. DeMille

Ryan decides to walk with $43,500.

Spoiler

C. Orson Welles

I'd have paused on this one and considered Hitchcock. In the end I'd have to "bat away" the question.

[Bob Juch]

Question 5 – 5 Team Mascots
Corner Canyon High School in Utah found itself in the news after nixing what mascot name, supposedly because it was derogatory to older women?
A. Falcons
B. Cougars
C. Bulldogs
D. Gators

Spoiler

B. Cougars
$7K
Bank - $13K

The BYU sports team names are the Cougars.

[Snaxx]

Question 5 – 5 Team Mascots
Corner Canyon High School in Utah found itself in the news after nixing what mascot name, supposedly because it was derogatory to older women?
A. Falcons
B. Cougars
C. Bulldogs
D. Gators

Spoiler

B. Cougars
$7K
Bank - $13K

The BYU sports team names are the Cougars.

Also long-lost BB Wazzu_Kate's school. (Washington State)

[elwoodblues]

Question 5 – 5 Team Mascots
Corner Canyon High School in Utah found itself in the news after nixing what mascot name, supposedly because it was derogatory to older women?
A. Falcons
B. Cougars
C. Bulldogs
D. Gators

Spoiler

B. Cougars
$7K
Bank - $13K

The BYU sports team names are the Cougars.

Also long-lost BB Wazzu_Kate's school. (Washington State)

Also the University of Houston. The college matchup I want to see is the South Dakota Coyotes vs. the Texas-San Antonio Roadrunners. The game could be sponsored by Acme.

[themanwho]

Question 5 – 5 Team Mascots
Corner Canyon High School in Utah found itself in the news after nixing what mascot name, supposedly because it was derogatory to older women?
A. Falcons
B. Cougars
C. Bulldogs
D. Gators

Spoiler

B. Cougars
$7K
Bank - $13K

The BYU sports team names are the Cougars.

Also long-lost BB Wazzu_Kate's school. (Washington State)

Also the University of Houston. The college matchup I want to see is the South Dakota Coyotes vs. the Texas-San Antonio Roadrunners. The game could be sponsored by Acme.

Ditto my alma mater, the University of Sioux Falls (SD).

It's a wonder no one has made that 'Yotes-Roadrunners match-up happen.