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Mexicanos Dijeron by
Jason Hernandez, GSNN
Air time: 7p ET/6p CT on Telefutura
Host: Marco Antonio Regil |
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Family
Feud by
Chico Alexander, GSNN
Air time: Check listings or
familyfeud.com
Host: Richard Karn |
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Cooley
(Jennifer, Robbie, James, Lavelle, Phillip) |
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Thomas, Rachel, Sandy, Zina); $640 |
We have a five-on-six
Feud today, as Jennifer is expecting. Round 1:
a movie that takes place in space (7). Lost in Space
bets Armageddon, 3 to 7, giving the Yoos the board.
Thomas gets #1, Star Wars. 2001 and Star Trek are also
Space Cases. Can the Cooleys steal with ET? Nope! The
Yoos get the 67. Other answers: Apollo 13, Alien series.
Round 2: something that
could happen if you don't pay the IRS (5). Thomas pays a
fine for #2, while Robbie garnishes wages for #5. An
audit is up there, but Zina has the money answer with
"go to jail". The Cooleys get another chance to steal
with an auction... Yep. The challengers have 84.
Double Round: a reason
you might have to get your picture taken (5). Rachel's
passport is
at #2. Sandy's driver's license is #1. Graduation and
family event are also there, but the Cooleys get it
again with wedding pictures and go to 252.
Triple Round: something
women wear that hurts (4).
Sandy gets #2 with a brassiere. Lavelle gets #3 with a
girdle. Zina's shoes hurt the most at #1. It's down to
the Cooleys again with a thong... Up there! Cooleys win,
528-94.
Jennifer (and child) and
Lavelle play Fast Money for three, nickel and diming
their way to $585. |
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Jeopardy! by
Chico Alexander, GSNN
Air time: Check listings or
jeopardy.com
Host: Alex Trebek |
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It's the last day of Back
to School Week...
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Aman Birk
(swimmer from Irvine, CA) |
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Veronica Fazio (dancer/softballer from
Roselle, IL) |
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Emily Zhang
(National Science Merit Award winner from
Indianapolis) |
We start off with Aman
picking $200 Geography. And for the fifth time in five
tries, we have an early Daily Double under $1000
Vocabulary Test. Emily, in the lead at $2400, goes $1600
on "earth measure". "What is geometry?" She's up to
$4000.
Once again, you know
about the free computer and printer that comes with your
15 minutes of fame today, so I'll go no further with
it... Only to say that Aman wants to operate on
someone's brain... And from the sound of it, he wants to
do it now. At the end of the J! round, it's all about
Emily, with $5600 to Aman's $1600. He might want to
operate on Veronica's brain, because she's only got
$1200 going into...
... Double Jeopardy!,
which she starts with $400 Sports Stars. Emily finds the
first Daily Double under $800 American Government. Still
in the lead, she bets $1200 on the minimum number of
electoral votes a state can have in the Electoral
College. "I.. don't know." It was three, costing her to
$5600. Emily completes the trifecta with $1600 Reptiles.
Having rebounded, she goes $800. Here's Kelly. "The name
of this animal, found in Africa, is from the Greek
meaning 'ground lion.'" "What is iguana?" Nope, it's a
chameleon, leaving Emily with $6400. It gets worse for
her as she drops to second place at the end of
regulation, with $2800 to Aman's $3200. Meanwhile, it
gets downright painful for Veronica, who never managed
to climb out of her red zone. She leaves with $1000.
So it's a battle of
$2000 versus $10,000 in Final Jeopardy!. The category:
"Historic People": at 81, this Pennsylvanian
was the oldest delegate at the 1787 Constitutional
Convention. Correct response: Who was Benjamin Franklin?
In today's case, the
difference between victory and defeat was an N, as Emily
forgot to place one in "Bejamin." Aman remembers the N
and all the other letters to take home $10,000. |
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Lingo by
Chico Alexander, GSNN
Air time: 7p ET/6p CT on GSN
Host: Chuck Woolery |
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Best best friends
Trista (clothing designer) & Sherron (pet
sitter) |
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Good
friends Anne (retail store owner) & Brooke
(project manager fro a brokerage company) |
Anne & Brooke get WOVEN
for 25. Trista & Sherron return the favor with SWAMP,
following with MOMMY and a stopper. They get the draw
back with GRUMP, but lose it again on another stopper.
They get it back with CROCK... and lose it on a Lingo,
giving them 150 to the Reds' 25.
Anne & Brooke get ZOOMS and a red
ball. They get their draw back with SHOWN. And that's the round,
as Trista & Sherron lead, 150-75.
Round 2 starts with HOMES for Anne
& Brooke. And yet another red ball. They get it back with ROBIN,
and Lingo to take the lead with 275.
Anne & Brooke steal PLOWS, but
Anne draws another red ball. Can Trista & Sherron capitalize? No.
Brooke steals himself MOOSE, but draws red. Doesn't matter, as
Anne & Brooke win, 375-150.
With two Bonus Lingo letters, Anne & Brooke get UNZIP, ABORT,
HOBBY, CIVIC, and METRO for $500 and five balls, one for 10, four for 5.
The cash ball is 20, and Anne comes up with... 66. But they do
make the $5000. |
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The
Price is Right by Chico Alexander, GSNN
Air time: 11a ET/10a CT on CBS
(markets may vary)
Host: Bob Barker |
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We're looking to end the
week on a high note, and Bob enters from the audience,
so we just might. It's all about Eric Mees, as he wins a
fridge/freezer, as well as a chance to walk to Golden
Road... ooooohhh. He starts with an 81-cent package of
Jolly Ranchers. With that, he wins a $813 wine server
cart. With that, he wins a $2394 off-road motorcycle.
With that... he fumbles at the $81,243 cabin cruiser.
D'oh! Oh well, can't take a bike on the water anyways.
He doesn't get to take the
boat or the bike to the Showcase, though. That honor
goes to Danielle Castrillo, who wins a curio cabinet in
round 3, parlaying that into a win of... only $500
playing Plinko. At least she gets some radio binoculars,
a desktop arcade game, and a tortilla maker as well, not
to mention a spot in the Showcase.
She'll take on Carmilla
Lancaster, who won her way up on stage thanks to a pool.
Now she has a chance to win scuba gear and dinnerware at
Barker's Bargain Bar. She thinks the scuba gear is the
bigger bargain... and it is at $1000.
Onto the Showcase! First
up, a home gym package with an exercycle, a home gym,
and a crosstrailer. Add a snowmobile, and top winner
Carmilla passes to Danielle, who bids $13,027.
Meanwhile, Carmilla gets inventions that never quite
made it: a smellaphone (for a new range), a calm pilot
(for a trip to the ever-so-calm Hawaii), and a ramcorder
(for a Dodge Ram). Carmilla tags it at $18,000, a
difference of $14,211. Danielle's difference, a paltry
$2480. She's today's winner with $17,667.
Other winners:
Jordan Higley: TV; trip to Portugal winning the Grocery
Game
Kimberly St. Clair-Davis: luggage set; tailgate grill,
popcorn machine & dinette winning Most Expensive
Darryl Taylor: wall clock
Stats: 3/6, $48,769, and
one Palm Pilot with a palm tree planted inside. |
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Wheel
of Fortune by Jason Block, GSNN
Air time: Check listings or
wheeloffortune.com
Hosts: Pat Sajak & Vanna White |
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Who
Wants to Be a Millionaire by
Don Harpwood, GSNN
Air time: Check listings or
millionairetv.com
Host: Meredith Vieira |
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Yesterday, Lou Corradi
(Brooklyn, NY) made it to $8,000, but had to use all 3
of his lifelines on the way. Will he proceed any
farther?
Lou has been pondering what the next question will be
for a while, so he wants to get right to it. So they do
just that, as the game resumes with a question asking
which state's 20 electoral votes would end up
determining the winner of the 2004 presidential
election. And he just happens to know that it's Ohio.
Lou also knows that in 2005, newly-released transcripts
of Marilyn Monroe's therapy sessions revealed that she
once had a tryst with Joan Crawford, and that knowledge
gets him to $25,000 and the 4th lifeline! He'll have to
use that lifeline on the next question, though, because
he doesn't know the name of a fifth world ocean that the
International Hydrographic Organization demarcated the
limits of in 2000 (Southern Ocean). So, Lou switches
that out, and in comes this question, also worth
$50,000...
"Borborygmi" is the technical name for a bodily
condition more commonly referred to as what?
A: Ringing in the ears
B: Growling stomach
C: Frog in the throat
D: Seeing spots
Lou immediately locks in his answer, B... and he's
right! He actually heard George Carlin do a joke about "Borborygmi",
which is how he knew that one. But he doesn't know what
animal whose Latin term the colour taupe (a brownish
gray) gets its name from (mole), so Lou walks with
$50,000.
Next in the hot seat is Kathy Nucifore (Cornwall, NY).
She brought a fortune from a fortune cookie as a
good-luck charm, which says, "The star of riches is
shining upon you." Sounds like a good omen to me. Kathy
starts by knowing that the ancient Chinese famously
constructed a 3,000-mile-long "great wall" to keep their
enemies at bay. She continues through other questions,
including one that asks how long an Olympiad, an
interval of time, lasts by definition (4 years), before
getting to this $8,000 question...
At the National Spelling Bee, what do the judges do to
indicate that a word has been spelled incorrectly?
A: Raise a flag
B: Ring a bell
C: Blow a whistle
D: Hit a buzzer
Kathy has no idea, so she asks the audience. But the
results turn out to be quite interesting. The studio
audience shows 55% in favour of D, with 23% saying B.
But the AIM poll shows 51% in favour of B, with 35%
saying D. Talk about disagreement between audiences...
Anyway, Kathy decides to use the 50:50 to see if it'll
help any, but guess what? It leaves B and D, meaning
that one of the audiences is right. But which one? After
some consideration, Kathy decides to trust the studio
audience, and goes with D... but she trusted the wrong
audience! It's B! The AIM audience had it! Oh well, at
least Kathy does take home $1,000.
Moving on to the next contestant, Melissa Ginsberg
(Great Neck, NY). She's a law student at Columbia
University, in her first year. And she starts by knowing
that in response to the greeting "Give me five," friends
typically slap hands. Melissa then breezes through more
questions, including one that asks what U.S. highway
sign usually shows a car leaving S-shaped tire tracks
(slippery when wet). Soon enough, this $4,000 question
comes up...
What country star duets with Jessica Simpson in her 2005
cover of "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'"?
A: Dolly Parton
B: Willie Nelson
C: Loretta Lynn
D: Kenny Rogers
Melissa asks the audience. This time, both are in
agreement, as 65% of the studio audience and 69% of the
AIM users say B. She trusts them, and goes with B... and
they're right!
[This should be a good time to remind you of the Million
Dollar Buddy contest, detailed at millionairetv.com. As
for me, it doesn't help to be a Canadian when the
contest is open to U.S. residents only...]
On to the $8,000 question...
In order to avoid E. coli, people are commonly warned
not to eat what?
A: Undercooked beef
B: Raw oysters
C: Raw cookie dough
D: Wild mushrooms
The 50:50 leaves A and C. Not enough help for Melissa,
though, so she calls her father, Edwin. He says he is
85% sure that it's A, though some part of him is 100%
sure. Melissa goes with that and says A... and she's up
to $8,000!
And that's all for this week. Melissa will start Monday
in the same situation that Lou started today in ($8,000,
no lifelines). |
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