Transcript 11/24/2011 - Jamie Thompson

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Jamie Thompson
Pismo Beach, CA

This is Jamie's first visit to the Big Apple. Meredith welcomes her on behalf of everyone here.

Topic Tree: (randomized)
At the Movies
Tech Happy
Big Ben
Dear John Doe
Franchise Founder
Down on the Farm [DOUBLE MONEY question]
Scandalous Stories
Great Shops
Hidden Message
Rare Sightings

Question #1 (Rare Sightings - Level ??)
How many years in Edmond Halley's lifetime did he have a chance to witness the celestial object now known as Halley's comet?
A - none
B - one
C - two
D - three

"Boy, this is really something I should know, isn't it?" Jamie comments. "I actually don't know this," and she decides to jump the question.

Spoiler

Answer: B (one)
Value: $500
Bank: $0

Question #2 (Hidden Message - Level ??)
Artfully hiding his most famous work's title in the quote, who is credited with saying, "Some of my plays peter out, and some pan out"?
A - Sinclair Lewis
B - George Bernard Shaw
C - J.M. Barrie
D - Oscar Wilde

"Well, his most famous work was Peter Pan, so I would say

Spoiler

C.

Spoiler

Answer: C (J.M. Barrie)
Value: $15,000
Bank: $15,000

Question #3 (Great Shops - Level ??)
In 2011, the staff of a Great Clips store in Springfield, OH, set a Guinness World Record for most what by a team in one week?
A - shoe shines
B - haircuts
C - car washes
D - root canals

Meredith repeats "Great Clips". Jamie says, "Great Clips means

Spoiler

haircuts.

Spoiler

Answer: B (haircuts)
Value: $1,000
Bank: $16,000

commercial break

Jamie has tackled much tougher stuff than Millionaire. She's a cancer survivor; when the doctors diagnosed her they didn't give her much hope, only 7-12%. She told them that someone had to be in that 7-12%. They gave her an experimental treatment that no one else had received as part of a clinical trial. This was 12 years ago. Jamie's brother Jim is in the relationship seat.

Question #4 (Scandalous Stories - Level ??)
Appearing on all five Sunday morning talk shows in one day is called a "Full Ginsburg" in honor of what newsmaker's attorney?
A - Scooter Libby
B - Monica Lewinski
C - Elian Gonzales
D - Kenneth Lay

Jamie assumes this refers to Alan Ginsburg and all of the "Meet the Press" type of shows. He's been around a while. She wants to go in a particular direction but she decides to jump the question. Meredith asks what direction she was going and Jamie answers,

Spoiler

"Scooter Libby".

Spoiler

Answer: B (Monica Lewinski)
Value: $100
Bank: $16,000

Question #5 (Down on the Farm - Level ??) [DOUBLE MONEY]
What musician was inducted into the Agricultural Hall of Fame for his work as the founder and president of Farm Aid?
A - Garth Brooks
B - James Taylor
C - Bruce Springsteen
D - Willie Nelson

Jamie really hopes this is worth a lot.

Spoiler

Answer: D (Willie Nelson)
Value: $7,000 (doubled to $14,000)
Bank: $30,000

Question #6 (Franchise Founder - Level ??)
Which of the following is a nickname for one of the pioneers of restaurant franchising?
A - Hojo
B - Mojo
C - Dojo
D - Jojo

Jamie says she would have to think of them as

Spoiler

Howard Johnson

and that's her final answer.

Spoiler

Answer: A (Hojo)
Value: $25,000
Bank: $55,000

Question #7 (Dear John Doe - Level ??)
"Otto Normalverbraucher" is a long equivalent of "John Q. Public", for the average male in what country?
A - Spain
B - Germany
C - France
D - Poland

"Well, I would have to say that 'Otto' and 'verbracher' would make me think of

Spoiler

Germany.

Spoiler

Answer: B (Germany)
Value: $5,000
Bank: $60,000

commercial break

Question #8 (Big Ben - Level ??)
A signer of the Declaration of Independence, Benjamin Rush is also known as "The Father of American" what?
A - poetry
B - architecture
C - psychiatry
D - dentistry

"I'm going to have to ask the audience," Jamie says.

ATA results

A - 16%
B - 53%
C - 12%
D - 19%

Jamie likes that number. She was leaning that way for some reason so she's going to go with the audience.

Spoiler

Answer: C (psychiatry)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

[Brit Canuck]

Jamie Thompson
Pismo Beach, CA

This is Jamie's first visit to the Big Apple. Meredith welcomes her on behalf of everyone here.

...

Jamie has tackled much tougher stuff than Millionaire. She's a cancer survivor; when the doctors diagnosed her they didn't give her much hope, only 7-12%. She told them that someone had to be in that 7-12%. They gave her an experimental treatment that no one else had received as part of a clinical trial. This was 12 years ago. Jamie's brother Jim is in the relationship seat.

Bank: $60,000

Question #8 (Big Ben - Level ??)
A signer of the Declaration of Independence, Benjamin Rush is also known as "The Father of American" what?
A - poetry
B - architecture
C - psychiatry
D - dentistry

"I'm going to have to ask the audience," Jamie says.

ATA results

A - 16%
B - 53%
C - 12%
D - 19%

Jamie likes that number. She was leaning that way for some reason so she's going to go with the audience.

Spoiler

Answer: C (psychiatry)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

First of all, glad she survived her bout with cancer. I would never wish that (or an audience Dursting, for that matter) on my worst enemies . Hope her future is long and prosperous.

Second, and changing the topic to the inevitable hotpoint here, I'm inventing a new Millionaire acronym:

------- S.A.B.F. (TM) -------
Studio Audience Brain Fart

Too many of these recently. Remember last season's record-breaking Titanic question?

So, SABF (TM) is best applied on 'Millionaire' to audience results where:
- the contestant goes with the audience's answer and loses money as a result,
- the most popular answer has 50% or more of the audience vote, and
- the correct answer has the lowest audience percentage (including ties).

So feel free to use SABF (TM) when discussing 'Millionaire', or adapt it for audience results on other game shows as well.

Third, Happy U.S. Thanksgiving, everyone.


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[earendel]

Jamie Thompson
Pismo Beach, CA

This is Jamie's first visit to the Big Apple. Meredith welcomes her on behalf of everyone here.

Question #1 (Rare Sightings - Level ??)
How many years in Edmond Halley's lifetime did he have a chance to witness the celestial object now known as Halley's comet?
A - none
B - one
C - two
D - three

"Boy, this is really something I should know, isn't it?" Jamie comments. "I actually don't know this," and she decides to jump the question.

Spoiler

Answer: B (one)
Value: $500
Bank: $0

Halley explained the phenomenon so he saw it at least once. Assuming he didn't live a phenomenally long time, it's probable that he only saw it once.

Jamie has tackled much tougher stuff than Millionaire. She's a cancer survivor; when the doctors diagnosed her they didn't give her much hope, only 7-12%. She told them that someone had to be in that 7-12%. They gave her an experimental treatment that no one else had received as part of a clinical trial. This was 12 years ago. Jamie's brother Jim is in the relationship seat.

Congrats for beating the odds, Jamie.

Question #4 (Scandalous Stories - Level ??)
Appearing on all five Sunday morning talk shows in one day is called a "Full Ginsburg" in honor of what newsmaker's attorney?
A - Scooter Libby
B - Monica Lewinski
C - Elian Gonzales
D - Kenneth Lay

Jamie assumes this refers to Alan Ginsburg and all of the "Meet the Press" type of shows. He's been around a while. She wants to go in a particular direction but she decides to jump the question. Meredith asks what direction she was going and Jamie answers,

Spoiler

"Scooter Libby".

Spoiler

Answer: B (Monica Lewinski)
Value: $100
Bank: $16,000

I'd have to JTQ this one also. I couldn't remember which Ginsburg it was (certainly not Alan, the beat poet, and probably not Ruth Bader) and would have had no clue as to whom he was representing.

Question #6 (Franchise Founder - Level ??)
Which of the following is a nickname for one of the pioneers of restaurant franchising?
A - Hojo
B - Mojo
C - Dojo
D - Jojo

Jamie says she would have to think of them as

Spoiler

Howard Johnson

and that's her final answer.

Spoiler

Answer: A (Hojo)
Value: $25,000
Bank: $55,000

Growing up in Oklahoma City my mother, brother and I made frequent trips to Vinita to visit my grandparents. We went up the Turner Turnpike, which had roadside Howard Johnson's (and Phillips 66 gas stations).

Question #7 (Dear John Doe - Level ??)
"Otto Normalverbraucher" is a long equivalent of "John Q. Public", for the average male in what country?
A - Spain
B - Germany
C - France
D - Poland

"Well, I would have to say that 'Otto' and 'verbracher' would make me think of

Spoiler

Germany.

Spoiler

Answer: B (Germany)
Value: $5,000
Bank: $60,000

What's the over/under on how long it takes before someone claims this name for a Merry Man?

Question #8 (Big Ben - Level ??)
A signer of the Declaration of Independence, Benjamin Rush is also known as "The Father of American" what?
A - poetry
B - architecture
C - psychiatry
D - dentistry

"I'm going to have to ask the audience," Jamie says.

ATA results

A - 16%
B - 53%
C - 12%
D - 19%

Jamie likes that number. She was leaning that way for some reason so she's going to go with the audience.

Spoiler

Answer: C (psychiatry)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

I wonder why the audience was drawn to that answer? I also note that during the chat session after the last commercial break Meredith reminded Jamie that she still had the ATA lifeline and Jamie replied, "I'm looking forward to asking them." In retrospect I wonder if her sentiment changed?

[earendel]

Second, and changing the topic to the inevitable hotpoint here, I'm inventing a new Millionaire acronym:

------- S.A.B.F. (TM) -------
Studio Audience Brain Fart

Too many of these recently. Remember last season's record-breaking Titanic question?

So, SABF (TM) is best applied on 'Millionaire' to audience results where:
- the contestant goes with the audience's answer and loses money as a result,
- the most popular answer has 50% or more of the audience vote, and
- the correct answer has the lowest audience percentage (including ties).

So feel free to use SABF (TM) when discussing 'Millionaire', or adapt it for audience results on other game shows as well.

Third, Happy U.S. Thanksgiving, everyone.

Well, we already have a term - "dursting" - for when an audience strongly supports an answer that turns out to be wrong. I'm not sure that it isn't the same as your proposal.

[MarleysGh0st]

Question #1 (Rare Sightings - Level ??)
How many years in Edmond Halley's lifetime did he have a chance to witness the celestial object now known as Halley's comet?
A - none
B - one
C - two
D - three

"Boy, this is really something I should know, isn't it?" Jamie comments. "I actually don't know this," and she decides to jump the question.

Spoiler

Answer: B (one)
Value: $500
Bank: $0

Halley explained the phenomenon so he saw it at least once. Assuming he didn't live a phenomenally long time, it's probable that he only saw it once.

Yeah, it's possible that he might have had his first chance as a young child and then made his discovery of its periodicity in his old age, but he probably made his discovery during the prime of his life, making one the most likely answer.

Question #7 (Dear John Doe - Level ??)
"Otto Normalverbraucher" is a long equivalent of "John Q. Public", for the average male in what country?
A - Spain
B - Germany
C - France
D - Poland

"Well, I would have to say that 'Otto' and 'verbracher' would make me think of

Spoiler

Germany.

Spoiler

Answer: B (Germany)
Value: $5,000
Bank: $60,000

What's the over/under on how long it takes before someone claims this name for a Merry Man?

What a shame that Otto will have to wait a whole year for the next parade.

I had to check Google Translate to see what Normalverbraucher means. It's "normal consumer," or "middlebrow."

[MarleysGh0st]

Second, and changing the topic to the inevitable hotpoint here, I'm inventing a new Millionaire acronym:

------- S.A.B.F. (TM) -------
Studio Audience Brain Fart

Too many of these recently. Remember last season's record-breaking Titanic question?

So, SABF (TM) is best applied on 'Millionaire' to audience results where:
- the contestant goes with the audience's answer and loses money as a result,
- the most popular answer has 50% or more of the audience vote, and
- the correct answer has the lowest audience percentage (including ties).

So feel free to use SABF (TM) when discussing 'Millionaire', or adapt it for audience results on other game shows as well.

Third, Happy U.S. Thanksgiving, everyone.

Well, we already have a term - "dursting" - for when an audience strongly supports an answer that turns out to be wrong. I'm not sure that it isn't the same as your proposal.

Yeah, I don't think SABF would been the right description for this question. A "brain fart" usually means that a person would normally know an answer or be able to reason it out, but fails to do so because of the pressure of the situation or distraction or whatever. It's a temporary failure.

I think the Benjamin Rush question was a WWOQ that very few people would know the answer to. I'm not sure why the majority voted for architecture, but I suspect it's because all the other choices seemed less likely.

Personally, I had a vague memory of his name being related to a medical center, so I was torn between psychiatry and dentistry. If I had to take a guess, dentistry would probably have gotten my vote, just because of Freud's (later) association with psychiatry.

Benjamin Rush's Wikipedia page is interesting. While some of his opinions (about humane treatment for the mentally ill and about abolitionism, for example) were ahead of his time, some of his favored treatments would be considered outright quackery, today.

[MarleysGh0st]

Here's a short story about Jamie's appearance.

http://www.ksby.com/news/local-contesta ... llionaire/

[ulysses5019]

Benjamin Rush's Wikipedia page is interesting. While some of his opinions (about humane treatment for the mentally ill and about abolitionism, for example) were ahead of his time, some of his favored treatments would be considered outright quackery, today.

So he'd fit in just fine on the bored...and the parade.

[vettech]

Question #8 (Big Ben - Level ??)
A signer of the Declaration of Independence, Benjamin Rush is also known as "The Father of American" what?
A - poetry
B - architecture
C - psychiatry
D - dentistry

"I'm going to have to ask the audience," Jamie says.

ATA results

A - 16%
B - 53%
C - 12%
D - 19%

Jamie likes that number. She was leaning that way for some reason so she's going to go with the audience.

Spoiler

Answer: C (psychiatry)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

Those Declaration of Independence questions are a b&$^@!

[SportsFan68]

Question #1 (Rare Sightings - Level ??)
How many years in Edmond Halley's lifetime did he have a chance to witness the celestial object now known as Halley's comet?
A - none
B - one
C - two
D - three

"Boy, this is really something I should know, isn't it?" Jamie comments. "I actually don't know this," and she decides to jump the question.

Spoiler

Answer: B (one)
Value: $500
Bank: $0

One is the only one that makes sense. He wouldn't have his name attached to something he never witnessed, so it wouldn't be none, and he couldn't possibly witness it more than once -- he'd have to be more than 150 years old.

Question #2 (Hidden Message - Level ??)
Artfully hiding his most famous work's title in the quote, who is credited with saying, "Some of my plays peter out, and some pan out"?
A - Sinclair Lewis
B - George Bernard Shaw
C - J.M. Barrie
D - Oscar Wilde

"Well, his most famous work was Peter Pan, so I would say

Spoiler

C.

Spoiler

Answer: C (J.M. Barrie)
Value: $15,000
Bank: $15,000

This question made me think of a play Barrie wrote called The Old Lady Shows Her Medals, and since Google was handy, I checked to see if it had ever been made into a movie. Yes, Gary Cooper starred in Seven Days Leave, 1930.

Question #4 (Scandalous Stories - Level ??)
Appearing on all five Sunday morning talk shows in one day is called a "Full Ginsburg" in honor of what newsmaker's attorney?
A - Scooter Libby
B - Monica Lewinski
C - Elian Gonzales
D - Kenneth Lay

Jamie assumes this refers to Alan Ginsburg and all of the "Meet the Press" type of shows. He's been around a while. She wants to go in a particular direction but she decides to jump the question. Meredith asks what direction she was going and Jamie answers,

Spoiler

"Scooter Libby".

Spoiler

Answer: B (Monica Lewinski)
Value: $100
Bank: $16,000

I never heard of this. JTQ.

Question #5 (Down on the Farm - Level ??) [DOUBLE MONEY]
What musician was inducted into the Agricultural Hall of Fame for his work as the founder and president of Farm Aid?
A - Garth Brooks
B - James Taylor
C - Bruce Springsteen
D - Willie Nelson

Jamie really hopes this is worth a lot.

Spoiler

Answer: D (Willie Nelson)
Value: $7,000 (doubled to $14,000)
Bank: $30,000

Yay! $30,000!

Question #8 (Big Ben - Level ??)
A signer of the Declaration of Independence, Benjamin Rush is also known as "The Father of American" what?
A - poetry
B - architecture
C - psychiatry
D - dentistry

"I'm going to have to ask the audience," Jamie says.

ATA results

A - 16%
B - 53%
C - 12%
D - 19%

Jamie likes that number. She was leaning that way for some reason so she's going to go with the audience.

Spoiler

Answer: C (psychiatry)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

I never heard of this either. Second JTQ.

[Estonut]

Question #1 (Rare Sightings - Level ??)
How many years in Edmond Halley's lifetime did he have a chance to witness the celestial object now known as Halley's comet?
A - none
B - one
C - two
D - three

"Boy, this is really something I should know, isn't it?" Jamie comments. "I actually don't know this," and she decides to jump the question.

Spoiler

Answer: B (one)
Value: $500
Bank: $0

One is the only one that makes sense. He wouldn't have his name attached to something he never witnessed, so it wouldn't be none, and he couldn't possibly witness it more than once -- he'd have to be more than 150 years old.

It comes around every 75 or 76 years. If he saw it once as a child, he could easily have seen it again as a man in his 80s, but, as Marley pointed out above, Halley most likely would have done his best scientific work somewhere well between those two ages.