Barbara Vollick of Chula Vista, CA, finally made it to the Hot Seat on January 22, 2003. Almost exactly one year earlier, she was in the Ring of Fire on the primetime show. She is a medical transcriber, a lover of all animals, and the mother of a teenage son, Lee. Let's play "Millionaire"!
A baby grand is a type of what? |
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A: Apple |
B: Piano |
C: Cloud |
D: Ten dollar bill |
Barbara immediately says B.
A baby grand piano is good for $100.
Founded in 1851, the Fruit of the Loom company is |
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A: Underwear |
B: Handbags |
C: Shoes |
D: Watches |
Barbara says A.
Yes they do, and they used to have a factory right here in Frankfort, KY, for many years. $200.
A famous folk song begins with the line |
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A: Guitar |
B: Jacket |
C: Hammer |
D: Wagon |
Barbara sings the line and inserts the word "hammer".
She's right for $300.
A pyromaniac is a person who has an irresistible |
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A: Chase cars |
B: Go shopping |
C: Take off his clothes |
D: Set fires |
Barbara says D.
Yeah, pyro means "fire". $500.
Neapolitan pizza is named after a city in what country? |
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A: France |
B: Italy |
C: Spain |
D: Switzerland |
Barbara picks B.
Yes, Neapolitan means "from Naples, Italy". $1,000! (fanfare plays)
The "L" in the technology abbreviation "LCD" |
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A: Low |
B: Local |
C: Liquid |
D: Linear |
Barbara thinks long and hard on this one, but decides to ask the audience.
The "L" in the technology abbreviation "LCD" |
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A: 13% |
B: 9% |
C: 62% |
D: 16% |
She thought it was liquid, but needed to be sure. She will now make it final.
The audience is successful once again! $2,000.
I didn't need a lifeline here.
(horn) And that's it for today. We'll be back tomorrow to pick up the game.
In a famous speech, who said "the only thing we |
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A: Mahatma Gandhi |
B: John F. Kennedy |
C: Martin Luther King, Jr. |
D: Franklin D. Roosevelt |
Barbara immediately says D. Final.
$4,000.
In the 1984 movie "The Flamingo Kid", what type |
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A: Beach club |
B: Car wash |
C: Casino hotel |
D: Drive-in movie theater |
Barbara read a little about this movie a long time ago, but she has never seen it. She's gonna phone her friend, John. John narrows it down to beach club or casino hotel... more confident about beach club. It didn't help Barbara much, so she's gonna use her final lifeline. Guess what the 50:50 leaves.
In the 1984 movie "The Flamingo Kid", what type |
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A: Beach club |
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C: Casino hotel |
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Naturally.
Out of nowhere, she blurts "A, final answer."
It took two lifelines, but she got it for $8,000!
I never watched this movie, so I would've asked the audience.
The value pi is required to calculate |
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A: Area of a trapezoid |
B: Area of a triangle |
C: Volume of a pyramid |
D: Volume of a cone |
Barbara knows that pi is used for circles and the only one of these shapes that resembles a circle is a cone... so she will go ahead and make D her final answer.
Yes, for $16,000!
Names such as "Hudson seal" and "River mink" are |
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A: Muskrat |
B: Beaver |
C: Chinchilla |
D: Ermine |
Barbara is between muskrat and beaver, as one would not normally expect either of their furs to be advertised. Once again, out of nowhere, she blurts "A, final answer".
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She could have played it safe and walked with $16,000...
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but the gamble got her $32,000! (fanfare plays)
This segment was heavily edited. Barbara spent several minutes talking about and mulling over all of the choices. At one point, taping actually stopped and EP Michael Davies stormed on to the set, demanding that she either give an answer or walk away within one minute or else he would discharge her from the game. This is why we see her blurting out a final answer.
Hey, Michael, blow it out your pompous arse. You're not the one sitting in the Hot Seat answering these damn questions.
As for me, I don't know dick about furs, so I would've had to use my PAF.
Seabees are members of the U.S. Navy that |
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A: Breaking codes |
B: Salvaging wrecks |
C: Docking submarines |
D: Building naval bases |
Barbara eliminates D, but she really has no clue. She's gonna go with the least likely of the other three. She makes C, docking submarines, final.
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Believe it or not, it was building naval bases. Barbara still goes home with $32,000.
I had no clue on this one. Even though I still had my 50:50, I would've guessed B and made it my final answer.