First a Partick, then a Berman! It's an ESPN conspiracy, I tell you! Anyways, Rob won his way up with this question:
| A. The Fifth Element | B. Death Becomes Her
| C. The Sixth Sense | D. Blind Date
| Correct Order (drag the mouse over the letters): C-A-B-D
| Rob's winning time: 5.70 Competitors: 5/9 | |
Let's see if this Berman CAN... GO... ALL... THE... WAY!!
| 1. According to Christmas tradition, you will get kissed if you stand under what? |    A. Chimney | B. Poinsettia
| C. Mistletoe | D. Yule log
| Rob chooses C... And it's right! $100. | ||||
| 2. What does 'Mardi Gras' mean in English? | | A. Blue Monday | B. Fat Tuesday
| C. Blue Tuesday | D. Black Friday
| Rob picks B... Vrai encore! $200. | ||||
| 3. What animal is covered with sharp quills? | | A. Camel | B. Giraffe
| C. Hamster | D. Porcupine
| Rob guesses D...
| Correct! $300. | |||
| 4. According to Joyce Kilmer's poem, who alone can make a tree? | | A. Mother | B. Sunlight
| C. God | D. Mr. Acorn
| Rob is living the fear that every contestant has - that he'll be unsure about a lower-tier question. So, he'll ask the poetically-just audience. A. Mother - 3% | B. Sunlight - 11% |  C. God - 75% | D. Mr. Acorn - 11%
| That's convincing enough for Rob. He'll settle on C... And that will be his final answer. He got it! $500. | ||||||||
| 5. A Japanese pagoda is which of the following? | | A. Horse | B. Building
| C. Hat | D. Baby
| Rob selects B... And he's nailed the thousand!
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| 6. What Latin phrase commonly refers to an attorney's services being offered for free? | | A. Pro bono | B. Pro se
| C. Pro forma | D. Quid pro quo
| Rob says it's A... For his final answer. He got it! $2000! | ||||
| 7. What TV family lives in the 'Little House on the Prairie'? | | A. Johnson | B. Ingalls
| C. Cartwright | D. Robinson
| Rob picks B... That's his final answer. And he keeps rolling along! $4000! | ||||
| 8. In a matriarchy, who controls familial and political rule? | | A. Kings | B. Men
| C. Women | D. Priests
| Rob chooses C... Final answer? Of course. And he's right again! $8000! | ||||
| 9. Which one of these movies was not based on a novel? | | A. The Shining | B. Message in a Bottle
| C. Men in Black | D. Ordinary People
| He knows two that are wrong, and has a hunch about the other two. He thinks Men in Black is a comic book, not a novel. So he'll take C... As his final answer. Nice job talking it through! He's correct! | ||||
| 10. At sea level, water freezes at what temperature? | | A. 32 Fahrenheit | B. 0 Fahrenheit
| C. 64 Fahrenheit | D. 12 Fahrenheit
| It looks as if the "At sea level" part of this is throwing him off, because he wants to use the 50:50. A. 32 Fahrenheit | B. 0 Fahrenheit |  OUT | OUT
| The two most logical choices are still there. Well, it appears something finally clicked in Rob's head, because he's saying A... Which will be his final answer.
It looked like Rob was going to freeze up...
But instead he won $32,000!!
 LOOGAROO LAMENTS: This must be one of those questions which your brain locks up on when you're in front of the camera. I was wondering why this was a middle-tier question, let alone the 10th question. But I guess difficulty isn't the only thing the writers consider; confusion plays a part as well. | ||||||||
| 11. What Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway play features the character Willy Loman? | | A. Death of a Salesman | B. The Glass Menagerie
| C. The Iceman Cometh | D. Our Town
| Being that Rob is a musical conductor, he knows this one pretty esily. He chooses A... And that's his final answer.
Well, no sense in drawing it out-
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| 12. Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein's best-known paintings most closely resemble what part of a newspaper? | | A. Headline | B. Comic strip
| C. Advertisement | D. Photograph
| Rob is once again quick on the trigger. He's going with B... As his final answer.
He's pulling a Carpenter, folks.
Especially since he's won ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS!!!!
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So far we've had three $250,000 winners. Rob can be #4 if he gets the next one right. |
| 13. Which of the following is the patron saint of lost causes? | | A. St. Ignatius of Loyola | B. St. Christopher
| C. St. Jude | D. St. Francis of Assisi
| This question looks like one, doesn't it? Rob has no idea, so he's going to take his final Lifeline and call his mother, Debra. Here's the transcript after all the obligatory stuff:
Rob: "That's OK. Any guess?" Debra: "Uh... No.... Probably I'd go between Ignatius and Jude, but I really don't know." (Burp burp)  Reege: "Well, you know, maybe we should say a prayer right now to whoever that saint is?" With no concrete idea on the question, Rob will not risk it. He's stopping.
The correct answer was C. St. Jude. LOOGAROO LAMENTS: Not a bad game by Rob. I think the 50:50, if he had held on to it at the $32K level, may have helped him out quite a bit, especially if B or D was left over. But, as it stands, $125,000 is better than a kick in the shins. | ||||||||||
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