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100 Mexicanos Dijeron by Jason Hernandez, GSNN

Air time: 7p ET/6p CT on Telefutura
Host: Marco Antonio Regil
STAY TUNED...
 
 
Family Feud by Chico Alexander, GSNN

Air time:  Check listings or familyfeud.com
Host: Richard Karn
Newsom (Terry, Michelle, Nichole, Lynnie, Mark)
Heredia (Coreena, Lisa Lynn, Mary, Alex, Bianca); $810

Can the Heredias keep their mojo working against a hilarious cousin?  Round 1: seomthing you keep on doing even though you know it's wrong (5). Terry gets #2, smoking. Coreena gets #5, drinking. Michelle gets lying, #3. Cheating is #4. Only #1 remains... Mark thinks cursing... Damn wrong. It goes to the Heredias. They go with eating for the steal and the 46.

Round 2: a rason why a person might turn down a job (full board). Lisa Lynn gets the top spot with not enough money, as the rest of the family follows with hours, locations, don't like the job, don't like job, no benefits, a better offer, and ... medical reasons? The Newsoms hope so...  Not there! The Heredias have 139. Other answer: overqualified.

Double Round: something some people can sleep through while others wake up instantly (full board). Nichole gets #3, television. Mark gets #1, a thunderstorm. Then comes an alarm clock. The Heredias go with music for the steal... Up there for 265! Other answers: nightmare, sirens.

Triple Round: something people lose that can ruin a vacation (4). Alex gets credit card... count it for #1. Luggage, tickets, and... how about your keys? The Newsoms hope so... They go with room keys...Not there! Heredias win, 544-0. Here's a hint, if they ask for a specific answer, chances are that specific answer is up there... And this case... it was: car keys.

Coreena takes Lisa Lynn to Fast Money. Coreena delivers with 73. On the dumb answer front: a sport that doesn't use a ball... Lisa Lynn said "bowling." She comes up to 146 for another $730.

 
Jeopardy! by Chico Alexander, GSNN

Air time:  Check listings or jeopardy.com
Host: Alex Trebek
Kevin Marshall (student from Metairie, LA); $90,202, five days
Brian Poole (support center analyst from Redondo Beach, CA)
Emily Short (travel agent from New York City)

Kevin's knocking on the door of $100,000. A win today will take him there. But the competition looks fierce. Will youth be served? He starts with $200 Historic Names. The Daily Double is under $1000, and Brian gets to bet that much on this: Gian Gastone, who died in 1737, was the last member of this family to rule over Florence & Tuscany. "Who are the Medicis?" Right for $1800, still leading. Kevin goes from the red to $3000 at the half, while Brian still leads with $4800. Emily has $2600 and a chance to stir things up in Double Jeopardy!...

... but first, a bit of a twist. One category is called "Take This Category Last!!" because that category has information from the five before it. That oughta rattle your reflexes a bit. Okay, Emily, start us off with $400 Geography, as she finds the first Daily Double under $2000. She only trails by $600. She bets double that on the peninsula that lies between the Bering Sea and the Sea of Okhotsk. "What is the Archangel Peninsula?" Close, but no, it's the Kamchatka Peninsula, leaving her with $3000. She also has the second Daily Double under $1200 Hero & Villain. Still trailing, but very much alive, she bets... $2800. The clue: "I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die", complains this Wilde character. "Who is Dorian Gray?" Right for the tie with Kevin, $8600. Brian claims the final clue and widens the margin with $15,600 to Kevin's $11,800. Emily still has $6600, though.

Final Jeopardy! in "Women Leaders": it's the world's most populous country with a female head of government, Khaleda Zia. Correct question: What is Bangladesh?

Kevin is wrong, losing only $3801. Now all he can do is hope that Brian misses and bets the farm. He did miss. But that's only half the battle... and here's the other half. In another amazing stroke of luck, Kevin pulls it out by $400 with $7999, giving him a six-day total of $98,201.

 
The Price is Right by Chico Alexander, GSNN

Air time:  11a ET/10a CT on CBS (markets may vary)
Host: Bob Barker
Casey White, Martha Beck-Monroe, Laurie Hammond, and Katrina Underwood start the ball rolling with two bikes. Laurie picks up those cycles and a chance for a lawn tractor at $980, a dinette at $3202, and a treadmill at $1599. One of these prices is wrong, hence the name of the game, One Wrong Price. She goes with the dinette... which is $2725!

MSG Chico Albis gets a spa in round 2, but can the Marine convert into a Ford Mustang? The game is Lucky Seven. First number: 2. He goes with 6 first... it's 1, which'll cost him $5. Next: 5. That was a 7, which costs him the other two. No Mustang for MSG Albis...

Katrina gets her shot with a cappuccino/espresso machine. And she can buy all the coffee she can handle with $16,000! Capzasin P cream, Hot Pockets, Oxford index cards, Glad Forceflex bags, Fisher mixed nuts, and St Ives apricot scrub are in the Bag. First up: 69c. She goes with the index cards. Then comes $12.99. She goes with the cream. Then comes $3.29. She goes with the bags (ultimate of ironies, a bag in a bag). Then comes $6.49. She goes nuts. Finally, $4.49. She goes with the scrub. The cards are 69c for $1000! The cream is... $12.99 for $2000! And that's where she stops. Good thing, too, because the bags weren't $3.29. It was the scrub.

And Albis may not have won the Mustang, but he did win a place in the Showcase.

Before we continue, we have to say Happy Birthday to stagehand Marty! From there we go to Virginia...  Bowman. She wins a washer/dryer and a chance to win a trip to Antigua! That'll happen if Hans doesn't fall off Mt. PIR. And he won't if she knows about a novelty mailbox, a CD rack, and a tortilla maker. She thinks the mailbox is $20... It's $24, as Hans only moves four steps. She thinks the CD rack is $25... It's $30, as Hans moves to 9. Margin of error is 16. She thinks the tortilla maker is $45... It's $35, and she's a winner!

Kenneth Carley is also down and up thanks to his & hers golf equipment. He tries to convert the Squeeze Play for an upright piano. The setup: 7 6 8 9 5. He pulls the 9... Should've pulled the 6. It was $7895.

Last chance for Martha or Casey to jump on stage comes with a grill.... and it goes to Martha! She gets a chance at a bookcase ($789), a steam iron ($24), dinnerware ($813)... and a 2006 Ford Focus! First number is 1. Last number is 0. Line'em Up! First chance: $17,430. That's... one right. She switches to $17,280... Only two right. It was $17,210. Darn...

Showdown time, as Kenneth spins out the score to beat, 90 cents. It's never beaten, as he joins Albis in the Showcase.

First up, a visit to the rug market, where we find rugs for kitchen appliances (a gas range, fridge/freezer, and dishwasher), a trip to Switzerland, and a ski boat. Top winner Kenneth bids $49,500. Albis gets an HDTV, a new bedroom with sleep set, and a 2006 Ford Five Hundred. He bids $24,200, off by $12,016. Actual price for Kenneth's Showcase: $28,832. Albis is the big winner today with $38,211.

Stats: 2-3-1, $58,706.

 
Wheel of Fortune by Jason Block, GSNN

Air time:  Check listings or wheeloffortune.com
Hosts: Pat Sajak & Vanna White
Just like Eddie Money sang...it's time for the Tuesday edition of "Two Tickets to Paradise" Week! (with some college students--Recapper Notes: This week is one of the weeks where WOF tapes 6 shows instead of 5 in certain weeks and adds them to make another week! )

The $1,000 Tossup is PHRASE. Ellen is a student at Syracuse and a sister at Kappa Kappa Gamma. She solved HEAVEN ON EARTH for $1,000. Jennifer Mays is a junior at Oklahoma. RJ Green is from Underwood, Iowa majoring in Biology at Iowa State.

The $2,000 Tossup is OCCUPATION. Jennifer misses, Ellen misses, and RJ misses...it was BAGGAGE HANDLER. And we add a ConTiki Holiday to Australia worth $9,000! RJ starts this round which is FUN AND GAMES. (He gets to starts this round because he is player #1). He hits and picks up the $1,000 Fandango Bucks Gift Tag. He misses...over to Ellen. She
misses...over to Jennifer. She hits the Australia trip and solves GET OUT OF JAIL FREE CARD for said trip worth $9,000!

The jackpot round is sponsored by Midas. The category is ON THE MENU. Ellen starts. She hits the Jackpot wedge...and solves GRILLED TENDERLOIN MEDALLIONS for $9,850 in total cash. She has $10,850 in cash!

The mystery round prize is $10,000. The category is THINGS...and it's a PRIZE PUZZLE. Jennifer starts and misses...over to RJ. She misses...over to Ellen.. She misses...over to Jennifer, who hits a $3,500 C. She hits Lose A Turn. Over to RJ...he hits Bankrupt...over to Ellen...who does the same....and so does Jennifer. RJ, realizing it was a PRIZE PUZZLE,
solves BALMY TROPICAL BREEZES. Charlie tells him he is going to Curacao! It's a trip to the Cura Julanda resort in Curacao with airfare from Air Jamaica worth $6,000! And if you have the SPIN ID of TP00510 you are off to Curacao! And if you are a Sony Card member, you win $50,000 from Sony Card! He has the trip worth $6,000!

The $3,000 Tossup is next. It's TV TITLE. RJ is up to $9,000. RJ starts this round which is EVENT. He misses...over to Ellen...but we are into the FINAL SPIN. $1,500 a letter tonight. And Jennifer wins with HOUSEBREAKING YOUR NEW PUPPY and $3,000. She wins with $12,000 including a trip to Australia. Ellen leaves with $10,850! And RJ is going to Curacao with a total of $9,000!

A lot of money and trips given away tonight...will there be more. She lands on the third 0 in $100,000. Her category tonight is PEOPLE. With the RSTLNE we have:

_ E _
S _ _ _ _

SHe chooses D C B I and we have:

_ E _
S _ _ _ D

As a college student she blurts out PEP SQUAD with one second to spare. And she can go rah rah rah over $25,000 in cash! She leaves with
$37,000...$28,000 in cash and a trip to Australia!
 
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire by Don Harpwood, GSNN

Air time:  Check listings or millionairetv.com
Host: Meredith Vieira
Al Martorana (Holbrook, NY) has $8,000 so far, with 2 lifelines left going into today. He wants the million; will he get it?

Apparently, despite the retirement, Al is now working harder than before, because of housework. Vacuuming, laundry, that stuff. He even made his own dinner, and baked his own chocolate chip cookies. But here, all he has to do is sit in that hot seat and answer questions. The game resumes, and after easily getting the $16,000 question, he has this...

[$25,000]
What band became a trio in 1997 with the departure of Bill Berry, who had played drums with the group for 17 years?
A: Van Halen
B: Bon Jovi
C: Genesis
D: R.E.M.

Al wants to ask the audience. 46% of the studio audience and 47% of the AIM users are saying D. Al trusts them... and he has $25,000! On to the upper tier...

[$50,000]
In a famous 1951 cartoon called "Duck and Cover," what animal tells American kids what to do in case of a nuclear attack?
A: Fred the Eagle
B: Gary the Gopher
C: Sam the Hamster
D: Bert the Turtle

Al calls his daughter's father-in-law Tony, but he doesn't give an answer in time. So, Al then decides to switch the question. After finding out that the answer was D, this comes up...

[$50,000] (Q)
According to the U.S. Census, what state had the highest turnout in the 2004 election, with 79% of eligible voters going to the polls?
A: Massachusetts
B: Ohio
C: Florida
D: Minnesota

Al takes a guess and says B... but it's D! Well, at least he didn't lose anything, and Al is going home with $25,000!

The next player is Jenna Fletcher (Allentown, PA), and she can't believe she's really there. She's a college senior, but she is also engaged to be married. Yeah, I think it's safe to say she needs the money. Jenna starts by knowing that light rain is an example of precipitation. She sweeps the lower tier, then faces this...

[$2,000]
In 2004, what specialty magazine introduced a puzzle for its readers titled "Run This Rack"?
A: Bowling Digest
B: Golf Digest
C: Billiards Digest
D: Auto Racing Digest

Jenna asks the audience, and man, do they ever come through. 95% of the studio audience picks C, and so does 70% of the AIM users. She trusts them and goes with C... and they're right! Another few questions later, and she gets to this...

[$25,000]
Indigenous to the Kalahari desert, what plant is the main ingredient of Trimspa and many other diet supplements?
A: Valerian
B: Hoodia
C: Kava
D: Milk thistle

Jenna decides to call her fiancé Nate's mother, Mary, but she has no idea. Jenna then uses the 50:50, which leaves B and C. That's still not enough for her, so she walks. The answer was B, but she does have $16,000, which should be a good chunk of change for her!

Ed DiAngelo (Sayreville, NJ) is up next. He knew the answer to that last question. Figures, since he recently lost 115 pounds! But he didn't use diet pills. Ed starts by knowing that to protect surfaces, coasters are most commonly placed underneath drinking glasses (I don't think coasters would be enough for excited puppies). He then gets to $200.

And there's the horn. Ed will be back tomorrow in the hopes of winning a lot more money.
 
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