(2014) Former “Millionaire” & “Jeopardy” contestant arrested

[jarnon]

From 'Jeopardy!' Contestant to Indictment in Stalking Case

[jarnon]

Meet Claire Ogilvie. She once graduated from Yale. She once won $50,000 on Millionaire. And she once was sane.

[silverscreenselect]

Meet Claire Ogilvie. She once graduated from Yale. She once won $50,000 on Millionaire. And she once was sane.

I wonder if working as a patent attorney contributed to her mental issues.

[TheConfessor]

She has a history of bad strategy. She was in perfect position to win this game on a triple stumper with a small FJ wager, but made a clueless "everything but a dollar" wager instead. If only she had invested a few minutes into studying betting strategy, it might have changed her whole life for the better.
http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=2533

[TheConfessor]

February 14, 2005 recap:
http://www.gameshownewsnet.com/shortshots/021405.html

After a week for loooove, we're back with Claire Ogilvie, a law student from Washington, DC. So far, she's at $2000 with all her lifelines intact. But she needs the help of the people on $4000: Bill Clinton's 1996 campaign prominently featured the theme "building a bridge to the" what? The audiences agree on "the 21st Century".
Then she needs the 50/50 on $16,000: In which of these races do participants travel the farthest? That leaves Tour de France and Ironman Triathlon. She goes for the Tour de France... and gets to see the $25,000 milestone!

... which goes like this: In his famous essay, "Self-Reliance," who wrote "To be great is to be misunderstood"? a) Henry David Thoreau b) Mark Twain c) Walt Whitman d) Ralph Waldo Emerson. Thanks to her high-school English teacher, Claire locks in D as her final answer... and she has $25,000!

For $50,000: Garrison Keillor named his radio show, "A Prairie Home Companion", after a what? a) Book b) Cemetary c) Fly-fishing stream d) Family farm. She switches out. Correct: B. New question: According to a DOJ study, about how many Americans were in prison, on probation or on parole in 2003? a) 1.3 million b) 2.5 million c) 4.7 million d) 6.5 million. She's thinking "somewhere around one percent" of all Americans. She goes to her PAF, law professor Michael. "One in 32. About 6.9 million, I think." She takes the freeball... And they're right!

For $100,000: Which of these is not one of the three stars that form the belt in the constellation Orion? a) Alnitak b) Mintaka c) Rastaban d) Alnilam. After mulling over probability for a bit, Claire decides to walk. She would've guessed Rastaban... and she would've been right.

[Bob Juch]

Here's another take on her:

http://abovethelaw.com/2014/02/former-b ... ore-303829

[silverscreenselect]

Here's another take on her:

http://abovethelaw.com/2014/02/former-b ... ore-303829

From the article:

She attended Yale University and George Washington Law, and then snagged a position as a patent attorney at Foley & Lardner. Once she decided she’d had enough of her litigious lifestyle, she quit and became a teacher.

And then, something happened. Ogilvie is currently being held without bond at the Albemarle Charlottesville Regional Jail on charges of burglary, abduction, and malicious wounding, all felonies, after allegedly breaking into a married man’s house and attacking his wife.

Reading between the lines, people don't generally give up what a patent attorney makes in order to become a high school teacher. This may have been one of those "resign and we'll all keep quiet about it" situations.

[Bob78164]

Meet Claire Ogilvie. She once graduated from Yale. She once won $50,000 on Millionaire. And she once was sane.

I wonder if working as a patent attorney contributed to her mental issues.

Hey! --Bob

[littlebeast13]

Alas... she was early in my infamous run as MBFFB®, before I'd really made the character the sarcastic smartass I... er, he was. I was going to post The Brain's take on her stack, but it isn't anything special...

lb13

[christie1111]

And they are not requesting bail so that is interesting.

[Rafferbee]

Is it usual for defendant to request to stay in jail like that?

[Snaxx]

I found there was a BBTranscriptTeam on the old Bored at the time... Maybe a reason to keep transcribing.

Transcript 02/04/05 Claire Ogilvie
Author: BBTranscriptTeam

Claire Ogilvie
Washington, DC
Law Student

Meredith asked if she knew the last question of Grant's stack. Claire says she knew it, she has studied a lot because she did not want to waste this opportunity and she saw it twice in the course of her studies. Then Meredith asks how would she have done with Grant's stack and Claire says that she is convinced that she was destined to go in Grant's spot because she would have seen the $100,000 without having to use a single lifeline.

$100 - By definition, a SWAT team is a specially-trained group of whom?
A. Police officers B. School Administrators
C. Truck drivers D. Bug Killers

$200 - By definition, an ovate object is shaped like a what?
A. Pyramid B. Egg
C. Cone D. Heart

$300 - The TV series "LAX" is set in what L.A. location?
A. Shopping mall B. Police precinct
C. Radio station D. Airport

$500 - "Mouse potato" is a recently introduced slang term for someone who spends a lot of time doing what?
A. Driving a car B. Using cell phones
C. Using a computer D. Listening to the news

$1000 - Hot peppers and cheese are deep-fried to make a popular appetizer known as "jalapeno" what?
A. Poppers B. Gobblers
C. Tossers D. Snackers

$2000 - The internet domain suffix ".com" is a shortened form of what word?
A. Command B. Commercial
C. Computer D. Compartment

Claire will return a week from Monday, after Play to Pay for Your Wedding Week.



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Answers:
$100 - A. Police officers
$200 - B. Egg
$300 - D. Airport
$500 - C. Using a computer
$1000 - A. Poppers
$2000 - B. Commercial






Transcript 02/14/05 Claire Ogilvie
Author: BBTranscriptTeam

Claire Ogilvie
Washington, DC
Law Student

Claire still has her 50/50, PAF and ATA.

$4K Bill Clinton's 1996 campaign prominently featured the theme "building a bridge to the" what?
A. Middle East
B. American dream
C. Children of America
D. 21st century

Claire was thinking "future", but since that is not one of the choices, she decides to...

ATA/AOL
2% - 7% A. Middle East
7% - 10% B. American dream
2% - 6% C. Children of America
89% - 77% D. 21st century

$8K The voltaic pile, made by Alessandro Volta in 1800 out of metal and wet cardboard was an early type of what?
A. Radio
B. Light bulb
C. Battery
D. Telegraph

$16K In which of these races do participants travel the farthest?
A. Tour de France
B. Ironman Triathlon
C. Iditarod Sled Dog Race
D. Indianapolis 500

50/50 leaves A. Tour de France and B. Ironman Triathlon.

$25K In his famous essay "Self-Reliance," who wrote "To be great is to be misunderstood"?
A. Henry David Thoreau
B. Mark Twain
C. Walt Whitman
D. Ralph Waldo Emerson

commercial break

When Claire was younger she lived in New York. She was in third or fourth grade when movie scouts came to her school looking for a young girl to play Barbara Hershey's daughter in "Beaches". The decision came down to Claire and the girl that got the part, Grace Johnston.

$50K Garrison Keillor named his radio show, "A Prairie Home Companion," after a what?
A. Book
B. Cemetery
C. Fly-fishing stream
D. Family farm

Claire has never heard of Garrison Keillor or the radio show, so she decides to...
STQ

$50K According to a D.O.J. study, about how many Americans were in prison, on probation or on parole in 2003?
A. 1.3 million
B. 2.5 million
C. 4.7 million
D. 6.9 million

Claire has the figure of 1% of the U.S. population in her head, but she does not know if that includes people on probation or parole, so she decides to ...

PAF

Claire does not give the choices after asking the question.
Michael, Claire's law professor, says "1 in 32 or 6.9 million adults" as time runs out.
Meredith says "You didn't even read him the answers and he said 6.9 million".
Claire is happy Meredith said this because she thought Michael said 3.9 million.

commercial break

$100K Which of these is not one of the three stars that form the belt in the constellation Orion?
A. Alnitak
B. Mintaka
C. Rastaban
D. Alnilam

Claire is not sure and decides to leave with $50K. She thinks it might be C. Rastaban.


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Answers:
$4K D. 21st century
$8K C. Battery
$16K A. Tour de France
$25K D. Ralph Waldo Emerson
$50K B. Cemetery
$50K D. 6.9 million
$100K C. Rastaban

[Estonut]

Alas... she was early in my infamous run as MBFFB®, before I'd really made the character the sarcastic smartass I... er, he was. I was going to post The Brain's take on her stack, but it isn't anything special...

Wait. MBFFB® was you? Holy crap!!!11

[jarnon]

Meet Claire Ogilvie. She once graduated from Yale. She once won $50,000 on Millionaire. And she once was sane.

Nobody picked up my little homage to Robin Williams.

[Rafferbee]

I was wondering what happened to this case. She pled guilty and was sentenced to 50 years in prison (all but 4 suspended). http://www.dailyprogress.com/news/crime ... eaaa5.html

[Bob Juch]

I was wondering what happened to this case. She pled guilty and was sentenced to 50 years in prison (all but 4 suspended). http://www.dailyprogress.com/news/crime ... eaaa5.html

Rather than risk it all for the $1 million jackpot, Claire Ogilvie took the sure $50,000 and walked away.

Sitting in the bright lights of the hit TV game show “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” on Feb. 14, 2005, the 26-year-old law student bagged the money after correctly answering a question about the number of Americans behind bars.

Add one more. I hope she's gotten help or she's going to go back after she gets out. I've never heard of a probation that requires a person to leave the state.

[Jeemie]

I'd not heard about this story, but when I saw the headline pop up on the Bored today, I thought "Who on the Bored has been on both J! and BAM..."

[jaybee]

I was wondering what happened to this case. She pled guilty and was sentenced to 50 years in prison (all but 4 suspended). http://www.dailyprogress.com/news/crime ... eaaa5.html

Rather than risk it all for the $1 million jackpot, Claire Ogilvie took the sure $50,000 and walked away.

Sitting in the bright lights of the hit TV game show “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” on Feb. 14, 2005, the 26-year-old law student bagged the money after correctly answering a question about the number of Americans behind bars.

Add one more. I hope she's gotten help or she's going to go back after she gets out. I've never heard of a probation that requires a person to leave the state.

Since the ruling stated that she must remain at least 100 miles from Charlottesville, and it sits smack-dab in the middle of Virginia, they might as well make it easy and ban her from the state entirely. 100 miles out only leaves the South-Western 'tail' of the state and a corner by Virginia Beach.

[TheConfessor]

Since the ruling stated that she must remain at least 100 miles from Charlottesville, and it sits smack-dab in the middle of Virginia, they might as well make it easy and ban her from the state entirely. 100 miles out only leaves the South-Western 'tail' of the state and a corner by Virginia Beach.

According to the article, they DID ban her from the state (after she's out of prison). Here's the quote:

Upon release from prison, Ogilvie must leave the state and live at least 100 miles from Charlottesville. Barring an emergency, she cannot stop within 100 miles of the city.

This appears to ban her from all of Virginia, and small portions of West Virginia and Maryland.

It also appears to say she can drive (or maybe even walk) anywhere she wants, as long as she doesn't stop. Which was probably not the intent.

[SpacemanSpiff]

From 'Jeopardy!' Contestant to Indictment in Stalking Case

I was not!!!!

[smilergrogan]

It also appears to say she can drive (or maybe even walk) anywhere she wants, as long as she doesn't stop. Which was probably not the intent.

None of us can ever stop anywhere. We're all constantly moving with continental drift, the Earth's rotation, Earth's orbit, the Sun's orbit, the Milky Way's motion, the Universe's expansion.

[SportsFan68]

Since the ruling stated that she must remain at least 100 miles from Charlottesville, and it sits smack-dab in the middle of Virginia, they might as well make it easy and ban her from the state entirely. 100 miles out only leaves the South-Western 'tail' of the state and a corner by Virginia Beach.

According to the article, they DID ban her from the state (after she's out of prison). Here's the quote:

Upon release from prison, Ogilvie must leave the state and live at least 100 miles from Charlottesville. Barring an emergency, she cannot stop within 100 miles of the city.

This appears to ban her from all of Virginia, and small portions of West Virginia and Maryland.

It also appears to say she can drive (or maybe even walk) anywhere she wants, as long as she doesn't stop. Which was probably not the intent.

My guess is that it was the intent. Maybe they were thinking about the shortest distance to a hypothetical destination between, just for example, Charlotte, NC and Annapolis, MD, going through the banned area.

[Estonut]

I thought this thread was about this guy:


https://www.yahoo.com/tv/s/jeopardy-con ... 00812.html

[zachhoran1]

ANother former WWTBAM contestant in the news: LIsa McElroy, who won $5K on syndie WWTBAM in January 2010, has been suspended and accused to sending a hardcore porn link to her class at Drexel university.

[Gary Glitter]

I thought this thread was about this guy:


https://www.yahoo.com/tv/s/jeopardy-con ... 00812.html

HEY!!!