Transcript 10/26/2007 - Rich Swanson (carryover contestant)
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 6:04 pm
Rich Swanson
Waterford, CT
Newspaper layout specialist
Rich needed two lifelines to get to the $4K level, but he still has Meredith's favorite lifeline, the ATA. She advises Rich not to look back because the lifelines are there for a reason. He shouldn't be negative.
$8K - In 2006, what philanthropist announced plans to give away 85 percent of his estimated $44 billion fortune?
A - Richard Branson
B - Ted Turner
C - Sumner Redstone
D - Warren Buffett
$16K - What is the chemical formula of dry ice?
A - CO2
B - H2O
C - H2O2
D - CO
Rich works in a pottery studio and does glazing. THe past few years he's done a crash course in chemistry (he never took it in high school). H2O is out, that's water. Rich thinks H2O2 is the formula for heavy water. He decides to ask the audience.
ATA results:
A - 60%
B - 2%
C - 21%
D - 17%
Rich decides to trust the audience and his own intuition.
Meredith says that "the best lifeline" came through for Rich.
$25K - In 2007, George W. Bush received a hero's welcome when he became the first sitting U.S. president to visit what country?
A - Norway
B - Morocco
C - Albania
D - Venezuela
Meredith asks if Rich remembers reading about this and Rich says yes. He believes it's Albania and makes that his final answer.
Commercial break
Rich only got the call to be on Millionaire a few days ago. They were out on Long Island Sound on the Mystic Sailor dinner cruise. He gets a call on his cell phone and it has a 212 area code. His boss and department head are standing nearby and he calls out, "Can I have Friday off so I can be on Millionaire?" Rich said the cruise turned into a much bigger party after that.
$50K - Expressed using old-fashioned slang terms for money, which of the following amounts is equal to twenty dollars?
A - one sawbuck & two fins
B - two fins
C - two sawbucks & one fin
D - four sawbucks
Rich had an idea that a fin is a five but he doesn't want to chance it, so he decides to switch the question. Before showing the new question Rich says he wants to guess, and says, "one sawbuck & two fins."
$50K (STQ) - Which of the following U.S. cities is not mentioned in the 1983 Huey Lewis and the News song "The Heart of Rock and Roll"?
A - Boston
B - Chicago
C - San Francisco
D - Seattle
Rich wasn't a big Huey Lewis fan but he was working in a record store at the time so he should remember this. Huey Lewis was from San Francisco and he can't imagine it wouldn't be mentioned. Meredith asks if Rich can hear the song in his head, but he can't. Rich says that if he were writing a song that would cover the nation, he wouldn't mention Seattle because that was pre-grunge. He just can't see it being important yet. Then he stops and realizes that Jimi Hendrix was from Seattle. Now he's concerned about talking himself out of the answer. He finally makes Seattle his final answer.
ANSWERS:
$8K - D (Warren Buffett)
$16K - A (CO2)
$25K - C (Albania)
$50K - A (one sawbuck & two fins)
$50K (STQ) - B (Chicago)
Waterford, CT
Newspaper layout specialist
Rich needed two lifelines to get to the $4K level, but he still has Meredith's favorite lifeline, the ATA. She advises Rich not to look back because the lifelines are there for a reason. He shouldn't be negative.
$8K - In 2006, what philanthropist announced plans to give away 85 percent of his estimated $44 billion fortune?
A - Richard Branson
B - Ted Turner
C - Sumner Redstone
D - Warren Buffett
$16K - What is the chemical formula of dry ice?
A - CO2
B - H2O
C - H2O2
D - CO
Rich works in a pottery studio and does glazing. THe past few years he's done a crash course in chemistry (he never took it in high school). H2O is out, that's water. Rich thinks H2O2 is the formula for heavy water. He decides to ask the audience.
ATA results:
A - 60%
B - 2%
C - 21%
D - 17%
Rich decides to trust the audience and his own intuition.
Meredith says that "the best lifeline" came through for Rich.
$25K - In 2007, George W. Bush received a hero's welcome when he became the first sitting U.S. president to visit what country?
A - Norway
B - Morocco
C - Albania
D - Venezuela
Meredith asks if Rich remembers reading about this and Rich says yes. He believes it's Albania and makes that his final answer.
Commercial break
Rich only got the call to be on Millionaire a few days ago. They were out on Long Island Sound on the Mystic Sailor dinner cruise. He gets a call on his cell phone and it has a 212 area code. His boss and department head are standing nearby and he calls out, "Can I have Friday off so I can be on Millionaire?" Rich said the cruise turned into a much bigger party after that.
$50K - Expressed using old-fashioned slang terms for money, which of the following amounts is equal to twenty dollars?
A - one sawbuck & two fins
B - two fins
C - two sawbucks & one fin
D - four sawbucks
Rich had an idea that a fin is a five but he doesn't want to chance it, so he decides to switch the question. Before showing the new question Rich says he wants to guess, and says, "one sawbuck & two fins."
$50K (STQ) - Which of the following U.S. cities is not mentioned in the 1983 Huey Lewis and the News song "The Heart of Rock and Roll"?
A - Boston
B - Chicago
C - San Francisco
D - Seattle
Rich wasn't a big Huey Lewis fan but he was working in a record store at the time so he should remember this. Huey Lewis was from San Francisco and he can't imagine it wouldn't be mentioned. Meredith asks if Rich can hear the song in his head, but he can't. Rich says that if he were writing a song that would cover the nation, he wouldn't mention Seattle because that was pre-grunge. He just can't see it being important yet. Then he stops and realizes that Jimi Hendrix was from Seattle. Now he's concerned about talking himself out of the answer. He finally makes Seattle his final answer.
ANSWERS:
$8K - D (Warren Buffett)
$16K - A (CO2)
$25K - C (Albania)
$50K - A (one sawbuck & two fins)
$50K (STQ) - B (Chicago)