Transcript 05/08/08 - Christine Babett

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Christine Babett
Wilmington, DE
Fitness instructor


Christine likes to schedule her workouts around Millionaire, particularly cardio.

Christine: It's a great game to watch at the gym! I fell off the eliptical watching it, one day, because "I know this answer! I know it, I know it, I know it!" So let me tell you guys out there on the elliptical right now, it's a lot easier on the elliptical than it is here.


$25,000
A YouTube sensation after becoming the 2007 winner of "Britain's Got Talent," Paul Potts is an accomplished what?

A: Opera singer B: Saxophonist
C: Magician D: Tap dancer

Christine: Thank you, YouTube. This man has the most beautiful voice. It is A: Opera singer, final answer.


$50,000
What American author wrote one of his most famous works under the pen name "Diedrich Knickerbocker"?

A: James Fenimore Cooper B: Upton Sinclair
C: Thornton Wilder D: Washington Irving

Christine has an idea, but with two lifelines, she'd like to Phone A Friend.

PAF: Christine calls her husband, Bill. She start with just, "Author Didrich Nickerbocker" before reading the answers and then reading the whole question and answers, again. Five seconds, Bill.

Bill: Washington Irving, 100%!

Christine: I love you. Thank you.

Christine: D. He said D, right, Washington Irving? I was too busy--freaking out. Washington Irving, 100%, final answer.

Meredith: No. [Audience: "Awwwwwww!"] He didn't say D, he said Washington Irving, but that is the right answer.


$100,000
Also known as "Mosi-oa-Tunya" or "The Smoke That Thunders," Victoria Falls is located on what African river?

A: Zambezi B: Limpopo
C: Niger D: Congo

Christine has an idea. She think about it. A: Zambezi, final answer.


-- Commercial Break --


Christine is feeling fantastic.


$250,000
In 1968, the first official 911 call was placed in what U.S. town?

A: Cumberland, IN B: Haleyville, AL
C: Smyrna, GA D: McKeesport, PA

Christine switches the question.


STQ $250,000
In order to pay off the current national debt, each U.S. resident would have to contribute about how much?

A: $3,000 B: $30,000
C: $300,000 D: $3,000,000

Christine walks with $100,000, after thanking everyone here at Millionaire and her friends and family who are rooting for her.


Answers:
$25,000: A: Opera singer
$50,000: D: Washington Irving
$100,000: A: Zambezi
$250,000: B: Haleyville, AL
STQ $250,000: B: $30,000

[slam]

Couldn't she even try to figure out the $250K question? Do the multiplication of the amounts times 300,000,000 people and see what the total amount is. They come out to $900 billion, $9 trillion, $90 trillion and $900 trillion. Maybe one of them sounds familiar as the size of the total debt. It's certainly a number which appears in the newspaper often enough.

The $50K and $100K are the surprisingly easy for that level, but the first $250K was incredibly difficult, imho. Is that something that is a known nugget?

[Ritterskoop]

Couldn't she even try to figure out the $250K question? Do the multiplication of the amounts times 300,000,000 people and see what the total amount is. They come out to $900 billion, $9 trillion, $90 trillion and $900 trillion. Maybe one of them sounds familiar as the size of the total debt. It's certainly a number which appears in the newspaper often enough.

The $50K and $100K are the surprisingly easy for that level, but the first $250K was incredibly difficult, imho. Is that something that is a known nugget?

Yep. It has come up before, I think even on Millionaire. For roughly this amount.

Or I imagined all that. Maybe it was in a stack one of us wrote for the group.

[LoudmouthLee]

the 911 question has appeared, verbatim, in the Duel online game. (wrong answer choices and all)

[NellyLunatic1980]

$25K: No clue. Better throw this to the audience.

$50K: Leaning toward Cooper, but I'd rather PAF at this level.

$100K: WOOHOO! Wheelhouse!

$250K: Switch!

$250K #2: Thank you, CNN! $10 trillion debt, 300 million U.S. residents... I said "around $30,000" before the choices came up, and there's $30,000.

So I'm going for $500,000 with my 50:50 still active.

[MarleysGh0st]

Couldn't she even try to figure out the $250K question? Do the multiplication of the amounts times 300,000,000 people and see what the total amount is. They come out to $900 billion, $9 trillion, $90 trillion and $900 trillion. Maybe one of them sounds familiar as the size of the total debt. It's certainly a number which appears in the newspaper often enough.

Compared to that middle stack question about life expectancy we saw earlier this week, I thought the question writers were very generous making these choices an order of magnitude apart!

Bill and Christine did a pretty good job working together on that PAF question, but Christine might have given Bill a couple more seconds to give her his response!