Last time on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.
Let's go with A, Bruce Springsteen.
Chad is right.
Oh!
I'm gonna go D, guitars.
Luetier makes guitars.
$32,000.
Yes, sir.
$64,000.
Oh!
Yes!
Mars and Jupiter, B, final answer.
You're kidding me.
I'm not.
Did it again for $14,000.
Did you just?
I'm out of here.
I'll use the 50-50.
I'll ask the audience.
Right for $4,000.
Now, join us from New York for Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.
Thank you very much, everybody.
Hello again and welcome to Thursday Night at Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.
Well, as you just saw, we had an amazing show Tuesday night.
Gave away a quarter million dollars to Paul Young, father of six, who said he just wanted
to know what it was like to have some money in the bank and now he's got it.
It's really nights like that when we really love what we do around here.
And now we have Tom Weddle from Rockville, Maryland in the hot seat right now.
Nice to see you again, Tom.
Thanks, Regis.
You left here the other night with a few bucks in your pocket.
Let's see if we can continue that, huh?
Good.
You were talking about your business and it entails a lot of traveling, huh?
Yeah.
What exactly do you do?
I do computer programming, but it's oriented around databases for companies.
And most of the work that I've done over the years has been making database applications
run faster or talk to other computer applications.
Do you know, look at me, do you know that I don't know how to run a computer?
Can you believe that?
What do you need to do it for?
Exactly.
Why do I need a computer?
All right, but obviously you're doing well with your computer.
So you've won $4,000 here.
You're eight questions away from winning $1 million.
And once you reach the $32,000 level, Tom, as you know, you're guaranteed to leave here
with at least that much money.
You have one lifeline left.
You can phone a friend.
Just one lifeline left.
If you want to play with Tom, go to theabc.com and join thousands of others using ABC's Enhanced
TV, which you did one time, didn't you?
Yes.
And had some fun doing it.
Okay, you ready to go here?
Yeah, let's go.
Why don't we do it?
Let's play Studio Audience, shall we?
Yes.
Okay.
Let's play Who Wants to be a Millionaire.
Okay, Tom, we're going for $8,000 right now.
Each of the following international cities is known as the Eternal City.
Is it Beijing, Paris, Rome, Athens?
Running out of lifelines.
The Eternal City.
As soon as I saw the question, I thought I knew what the answer was.
I'm going to go with C, Rome, final answer.
He said it.
He's got it right for $8,000.
All right, now he's up to $16,000.
What company used the Rolling Stone song, Start Me Up, as part of its 1995 advertising
campaign?
Was it Wendy's, Microsoft, Delta Airlines, Volkswagen?
Well, it's pretty hard to be in the computer business and not be aware of what Microsoft
is up to.
That would be B, Microsoft, final answer.
Yeah, that's what they were up to.
Start Me Up, Microsoft.
That's why I need a computer.
I want to know what's going on.
You're up to $32,000.
Very important question.
Here it is.
Which of the following U.S. mountain ranges is located in Alaska?
Brooks Range?
Humboldt Range?
Teton Range?
Sulwatch Range?
I have a friend who went backpacking for a couple of weeks up in Alaska, and he brought
back just some gorgeous pictures from the Brooks Range.
So the answer is A, the Brooks Range.
You see how a little scrap of information, just something that happened a few weeks ago,
put you in touch.
You think that's the answer?
Is that your final answer?
Yes, final answer.
And it's the right answer for $32,000.
Would you have known that if your friend didn't bring back a picture?
I'm not sure.
Yeah.
Not that.
Yeah.
First time I've heard of it, too.
We're going for $64,000.
You're five away from a million.
One lifeline is waiting.
So here it is.
In astronomy, what is the phenomena known as the Perseids?
Black hole?
Spiral galaxy?
Meteor shower?
Binary star?
The Perseids is a meteor shower.
Final answer, C.
A lot of confidence behind that tone.
You well should have it.
You got it right for $64,000.
We're going to break 20 for back to the
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Tom Whittle, Rockville, Maryland.
Right there.
$164,000.
Four away from a million dollars.
What do you think, Gail?
I'm pretty excited.
That's his wife, Gail, who is a nurse and thinking about going back to work, huh?
Possibly.
Maybe you won't have to.
We'll see.
You know, it was your daughter.
Now, you're the second show in a row where we've had a contestant whose family has urged
him to participate.
Make that 800 call.
You got through.
She did the dialing for you.
She sat on that re-dial, hitting that for hours and hours, and then finally, Dad, it's
ringing.
It's ringing.
Here, take it.
Okay, okay.
Let's go.
We're going for $125,000.
Big money.
You got plans for this money?
Oh, a couple things.
Put some money away for my children's college education.
We're behind on that like anybody else would be, I guess.
Also probably my mother-in-law needs a new car, and I understand my parents need the
roof fixed, so...
And listen, why don't you buy yourself a new computer?
And send yourselves an email.
I'm sorry.
I know.
I just can't.
It's my fault.
I can't.
I tried once.
Never mind.
I had a guy come to the house.
He gave me a quick lesson, and he left, and three hours later, I said, you know, that
was a lot of fun.
And I tried to get the thing open.
I couldn't even get that open.
That's when I gave up.
$125,000, four away from a million.
Let's do it.
Let's play.
Okay, Tom, you got one lifeline left.
Here it is for $125,000.
Which U.S. president was born with the name Leslie King, Jr.?
Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, Dwight Eisenhower, Ulysses S. Grant.
Leslie King, Jr.
Pretty sure, but pretty's not that pretty in this case.
Got that lifeline.
You can call someone if you think they have a better handle on it.
It's some question, isn't it?
Have you heard of Leslie King, Jr. before?
No, but I vaguely remember that some president, let's think about it, wouldn't have been popular
to have changed your name in Ulysses Grant's time.
Dwight Eisenhower.
Gerald Ford.
I'm wondering if, I don't know my old, did he play for Michigan?
Gerald Ford played for Michigan, yeah.
Pretty good player, too.
Ronald Reagan played for Notre Dame.
George Gimp, George Gimp.
Let's go ahead and use the phone of a friend.
Who do you want to call?
I want to call Jack.
And what does Jack do?
He's the deputy chief of staff for Trent Lott in the United States Senate.
Oh my gosh, well this is right down his alley then, right?
All right, we're going to get, what's his name?
Jack Howard.
Jack, we'll get Jack Howard on the phone AT&T.
Help us out, will you?
Thanks.
Hello.
Jack, yeah, Regis Philbin calling from ABC's Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.
Hey Regis.
How you doing?
How are you?
How are things in the Capitol?
We got everything under control.
Do you?
Okay.
Absolutely.
Well, Tom here was doing quite well.
In fact, he's doing just great.
He's 164,000.
Now he's going for 125,000.
Okay.
We have a question here that he thinks you'll be just right for, okay?
I'll do the best I can.
All right, he's going to read you the question, the four answers.
One of them is the right answer.
All yours, Tom.
Thirty seconds right now.
Hi, Jack.
Hey, Tom.
Which U.S. president was born with the name Leslie King Jr.?
Ronald Reagan.
Which U.S. president was born with the name Leslie King Jr.?
That's right.
Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, Dwight Eisenhower, or Ulysses S. Grant?
It's Gerald Ford.
You're completely sure of that?
Absolutely.
Okay.
Thanks, Jack.
Okay.
Thanks, Jack.
Nice talking with you.
Okay.
Was that who you had in mind when you said no?
I was thinking actors changed their name.
Well, that's a pretty good assumption, sure.
Let's go with B, Gerald Ford, for my final answer.
And he was right.
It's Gerald Ford.
All right.
Boy, that was a good lifeline you had right into the Capitol there.
Yeah, Gerald Ford's mother remarried, and the new husband adopted and renamed after
him Gerald R. Ford.
And that's how that happened.
All the lifelines are gone, my friend, but you've won 125,000.
Should you miss, you'll lose 93,000.
But here it comes for a quarter million dollars, 250,000.
One of Shelley Witch's two Oscars is on display at a museum in what city?
Jerusalem, Warsaw, London, Amsterdam.
Oh, this is the calmest I've been sitting up here because this one I really have no idea
on.
So I'm going to leave.
Sure, I understand.
125,000, a lot of money.
Want to take a guess just for the heck of it?
Warsaw.
Warsaw would have been wrong.
No, it was Amsterdam.
It's Amsterdam.
But here it is.
Tom Weller, 125,000.
Thanks a million, Tom.
Yes, indeed, Shelley Winters did win the Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 1959 for her role
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Now it's time to meet our next 10 fastest-finger contestants.
And they are...
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Roswell, Georgia, Russ Wisniewski, Brexville, Ohio, Mary C. Wilkins, Chantilly, Virginia,
Lisa Newell, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Stephen Healy, Edison,
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Put these historic U.S. legal trials in chronological order, starting with the earliest.
Chicago 7, Clinton impeachment, Oliver North, Patty Hearst.
Okay, time's up, everyone.
Let's see the answer in the correct order, starting with the earliest trial, Chicago
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Who got it right in the fastest time?
The winner is Brian DeRay.
Hey, Brian, there you go.
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We're gonna come right back.
Brian's gonna go for a million dollars.
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Brian DeRay from Northlake, Illinois.
That's a suburb of Chicago, and it's nice to have you here, Brian.
Congratulations.
Thank you.
He's one of four brothers in the DeRay family, and one of them is Mark, and sitting right
back there.
Hey, Mark, how you doing?
How you doing, Regis?
Are you the oldest one, Brian?
Yes, I am.
Good.
You look up to your older brother?
Sure do.
Now I do.
Was he the smartest one in the house?
Yes.
All right, good.
We got the right guy then.
But he's also one of those long-suffering Chicago Cub fans.
Certainly am.
How many years, Brian?
How long has it been?
Only 92 since they won last.
92?
Only 92, 1908.
Since they won the World Series?
Yes.
Yeah.
Since they played them when I guess it was in the late 40s?
55.
55 years.
All right.
So you're here, but now he's got a little superstition thing working at home.
When you listen to the game or watch it on TV, you have a little hat that you put on certain
statues.
We have a little statue on top of our TV.
Back in 1998 when they actually made the playoffs last time, every time they were winning, we
kept the hat on, the little statue, little Cub hat, little plastic one.
When they lost, we took it off and put it on a different statue or somewhere else.
Any superstitions about playing this game?
Well, when I walked in, I actually touched the top like a piece of wood on top such as
Notre Dame, like play like a champion.
Yeah.
And I do that like when I walk into rooms occasionally.
You just touch the top of the wood?
Tap it twice.
Okay, Brian.
Once in a while you meet a guy and there's something deeper than he looks.
You know what I mean?
Okay.
You know about the rules.
You know the lifelines.
50-50.
Ask the audience.
Phone a friend, Brian.
This is it.
I know you've called a hundred times to get through to get on the show.
You're here now.
You're ready?
Let's play Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.
Here we go.
We begin with that $100 question.
What snack food name also means a person of superior ability?
Cheetos, Ho-Hos, Cracker Jack, Meat Loaf?
C, final answer.
Cracker Jack.
Yeah, he's a cracker jack of a person.
$200.
It is sometimes said that someone who has died has bought the what?
Farm, turkey, wagon, bacon, cheeseburger.
I'm going to go with A, final answer.
He's bought the farm.
You're right for $200.
Here it is, the $300.
In the U.S., where in the body is an engagement ring traditionally worn?
Right hand, left hand, belly button, Adam's apple.
I'm actually going to ask the audience in this room.
Okay, audience, Brian needs your help.
If you're ready, on your keypads, using A, B, C, or D, vote now.
Will 88% say it's the left hand?
Brian, I just had to be safe.
I'll go with the audience, B, final answer.
Yes, the audience is right.
All right, we're up to $500.
On the TV show Wheel of Fortune, players lose their money after landing on what space on
the wheel?
Out of luck, failure, prison, bankrupt.
I'm going to go with D, final answer, bankrupt.
D, bankrupt, the right answer.
You've got $500.
For $1,000, what part of an automobile do the letters ABS most often referred to?
Brakes, corporate, airbag, transmission?
I'm going to go with A, brakes, final answer.
ABS, brakes, the right answer.
Yay, $1,000.
Okay, already he's 10 away from a million.
We're going for the $2,000.
Question, according to the 1978 song, The Gambler, you never do what when you're sitting
at the table?
Shuffle your cards, talk to the dealer, count your money, turn your back.
I'm going to go with C, count your money, final answer.
That's exactly what you never do.
Never count your money.
Sitting at the table.
Brian, $4,000.
Take a look.
By definition, what is a Donnybrook?
Fight, pond, hat, deer?
I'm going to go with A, fight, final answer.
Making it easy on me.
You're right, a Donnybrook is up to me.
It's a brawl.
$8,000.
Which of the following continents does not have a natural rainforest?
South America, Africa, Europe, Asia.
I'm going to go with C, Europe, final answer.
Take that one too, Marisa.
Brian, you're on a roll here.
Ever since you found out when you buy that engagement ring, it's going to go on our left
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Better to be safe than out with that.
That's right, Brian.
That's exactly right.
We're going for $16,000.
You're pretty quick tonight.
Which of these Dr. Seuss characters says, I speak for the trees?
Is it Obleck?
Yertle?
Bartholomew Cubbins?
Or Lorax?
Been a while since you read Dr. Seuss, huh?
Unfortunately, I've never really read many Dr. Seuss books.
Time to put the hat on a statue, I guess.
I know Yertle's a turtle.
Lorax.
I'm going to phone a friend.
Who do you want to call?
I'm going to call Adam.
What does Adam do?
He's our law student in Indiana.
All right.
And Indiana.
Oh, a lot going on over there.
All right, our friends at AT&T will find Adam at the law school in Indiana and get him on
the line for us.
Hello?
Adam?
Yes?
Regis Philbin here from ABC's Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.
Regis, good to hear from you.
How you doing out there in Indiana, you?
I'm doing very well, thank you.
Things pretty hectic after the Bobby Knight firing?
Oh, yes.
It was pretty crazy here yesterday night.
I'll bet.
All right.
We've got your pal here, Brian.
He needs your help.
He's already won the $8,000, going for $16,000.
He's going to give you the question of how much money he's going to give you.
How much money he's going to give you.
He needs your help.
He's already won the $8,000, going for $16,000.
He's going to give you the question, the four possible answers.
One of them is the right answer, OK?
OK.
OK, Adam, good luck.
Good luck to you, Brian.
Thirty seconds starts now.
Adam, which of these Dr. Seuss characters says, I speak for the trees?
Is it the Oblack, Yurto, Bartholomew Cubbins, or the Lorax?
I speak for the trees.
I am not familiar with that.
However, the only character that seems very familiar to me is the last one.
The Lorax?
Yeah, that is the last one that I'm familiar with, but I am not certain about that.
OK, do you know anything about the other two?
Repeat them again?
The Oblack and Bartholomew Cubbins.
Well, we ran out of time.
He thought it might be the Lorax.
It didn't sound too confident, though.
Well, well, look, you got a 50-50.
You can narrow it down by two and see if the Lorax is still there.
Or you can grab the 8,000 and make a run for it.
I'll use my 50-50.
OK, fine.
Computer, take away two of those wrong answers, please, leaving one wrong answer and the correct
one.
Well, I'll go with D, the Lorax.
Final answer.
Yes, it's the Lorax.
You got it.
You won $16,000.
We'll be back in a moment to continue.
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Ryan Dure from the Chicago area.
In the hot seat right now, graduated from the University of Illinois with a degree in political science.
Might go into teaching.
I certainly hope to.
Good.
If I could answer a few more questions it would be a lot easier.
Alright, fine.
And incidentally was on the high school scholastic ball which is good preparation for something like this.
It's a lot more nerve wracking up here.
You at least got teammates to fall back on.
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Well it paid off.
You got that right and here you are.
Alright, so now you won 16,000.
You're going for 32,000.
Let's play.
Here we go.
No lifelines left, Brian.
It's all you now.
Which of the following 1977 movies beat Star Wars for the Best Picture Academy Award?
Julia, Annie Hall, The Goodbye Girl, Saturday Night Fever.
I'll go with B, Annie Hall.
Annie Hall.
Final answer.
And Annie Hall did beat Star Wars.
You won 32,000.
Nice going, Brian.
We're going for 64,000.
He's five away from a million.
Here it comes.
The Persian Gulf War officially lasted how many days until the cessation of hostilities?
Twelve days.
Forty-three days.
A hundred and four days.
Two hundred and fifty-one days.
Looking for the official end of the war.
This is going to be a guess, whatever I say.
I'm not sure if they mean the ground war or the actual process of airlifting, Operation
Desert Storm and such.
It means when the fighting stopped.
It's going to be a guess.
The ground was obviously short.
The ground part of it.
Before that, I'm not sure exactly how long the air part of it was.
Desert Shield.
I'll go with B.
Forty-three days.
You're right.
You won 64,000.
Yes.
January 16 to February 28.
That's exactly 43 days.
Good for you.
Nice going.
We're going for 125,000 now if you feel like it.
I feel like it.
Let's take a look.
Feel better now.
Okay.
Let's take a look at the question now for $125,000.
The word reptile comes from a Latin word for what?
To creep.
To attack.
To regenerate.
To stare.
Reptile, huh?
To know.
Reptile.
I'm trying to look at the word here.
I'm trying to see how it looks.
Reptile.
I can't think of words with rept or tile.
Now if you miss it, you're going to lose 32,000.
Exactly.
That's why I'm trying to get this word.
Looking at the root.
You know what?
I'm not going to be able to deduce this right now.
I'm going to walk away.
Going to walk away with 64.
What do you think it would be, Brian?
Just strictly for a guess.
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To stare?
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Well then, thank you.
Very good.
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The fastest time and the winner is...
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There you go.
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He's from Edison, New Jersey. Of course, you know, the home of the great inventor Thomas Edison.
Single of course. And is a junior at Rutgers University.
Which means you must have missed a couple of, or skipped a couple of classes along the way.
Yeah, they moved me around when I was a little kid.
Aha. And you've done quite well. You're 18 years old and a junior already.
Yes. You'll graduate before you're 20 maybe?
I don't know, I'll be 20. No kidding. Well, that's terrific.
So you do it all. You play the piano. Yes.
You are in the physics and the math as a major. You worked in the physics lab this summer. Yes.
What do you want to be when you grow up? I mean, it sounds like a joke, but you know, you're only 18.
A theoretical physicist. You want to be what? A theoretical physicist.
Oh, really? So do I. You always had that haircut? Yeah, pretty much. Good. Good. Got a girlfriend?
Not at the moment. Okay. Let's see what happens here.
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Yeah, he lives by us, so he's around. Oh, that's great.
Alright, pal. You know the rules. You know the lifelines. 50-50. As the audience, photo friend Stephen.
So if you're ready, why don't we do it? Let's play Who Wants to be a Millionaire.
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For $100, Stephen, here's how it starts.
According to a common phrase, to get the last choice, option is to scrape the bottom of the what?
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There you go. Scrape the bottom of the barrel. $200. A Venetian gondola is propelled using what device?
Gas engine? Long oar? Paddle wheel? Hamster on a treadmill? B, long oar.
That's how they do it. They move that long oar.
Here it comes for $300. According to a common saying, what has charms to soothe the savage beast?
Nature? Music? Sculpture? Tapioca? B, music. Music charms the savage beast. You're right.
We're looking at the $500 question.
Toucan Sand is the advertising mascot for which of the following breakfast cereals?
Fruity Pebbles? Cocoa Crispies? Apple Jacks? Fruit Loops? D, Fruit Loops. Got it right for $500.
A thousand? A compass is most often used to draw what geometric figure? Circle? A rectangle? Triangle? Square? A circle.
That's what it's used for. You draw that circle.
Alright, ten away from a million. You nervous? Yes.
You're doing just fine. Here it is for $2,000.
In the kitchen, what utensil is normally used with a mortar to grind substances?
Grater? Spatula? Pestle? Baster? C, pestle. Final? Yes.
Yeah, go to the kitchen too for $2,000. Up to $4,000.
Which of these U.S. states shares the shortest border with Canada? Washington? Idaho? North Dakota? Minnesota? B, Idaho. Final? Yes.
It's Idaho!
Okay, how many miles? Just kidding. 48 miles, that's all we have in Idaho and Canada.
Hey, you're up to $8,000 already. Doing just great. Here it comes.
What U.S. president's social programs became known as the Great Society?
John F. Kennedy, Franklin Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, Lyndon Johnson.
My family's going to be mad at me for not being sure on this.
I was going to say this happened before you were born, but so many things did.
I think we're going to ask the audience just to make sure. Why not? Let's do it. Audience, if you need your help, come on.
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The Great Society. Well, the audience, 47 percent feel it's Franklin Roosevelt. 38 percent say Lyndon Johnson.
Kennedy and Reagan, very small percentages.
We still have two lifelines left. I'm almost sure it's not Franklin Roosevelt.
I thought it was Lyndon Johnson. I'm going to go D, Lyndon Johnson. Going against the audience. Yes.
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18-year-old Stephen Healy has won $8,000 going for $16,000.
And incidentally, 18 is just the right age to begin being a contestant on our show.
You had to wait a year at least to get on here, right?
Yeah, you were 18.
You came on a couple of months.
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All right, now, Stephen, you know, you really are a remarkable young man.
You're the president of the Society of Physics.
You've won the Dean's Award for Excellence, having a 4.0 GPA, your entire college career.
That's just, can't get any higher than that.
And he's got a lot of other honors as well.
Just great having you here.
We're going for $16,000.
You're seven away from a million and two lifelines are left.
Let's play.
Sixteen thousand, Steve. Here it comes.
Which of the following 1980s movies does not feature a hit song sung by Kenny Loggins?
Footloose.
Caddy Shack.
St. Elmo's Fire.
Top Gun.
I think I have an idea, but I think I'm going to use my 50-50.
Want to narrow it down? Sure.
Computer, take away two of those wrong answers, please.
Leaving in one wrong answer.
And the correct one?
Caddy Shack. St. Elmo's Fire.
The problem is all of these things were when you weren't born or at least when you were a little boy.
I'm going to use my phone to friend.
Why do we do that?
Who do you want to call?
My dad.
Your dad? Okay, fine.
All right, let's get Steve's, what's his name?
Ed.
Ed, we'll get out of the phone AT&T, please, right now.
Hello?
Hi, Ed.
Hi.
Regis Philbin here from New York. How you doing?
I'm doing fine, Regis.
I've got your remarkable son here with me.
Yes.
And I've got your remarkable father with me, too.
Okay.
They're all here. He's won $8,000. He's going for $16,000.
He's going to give you the question and just two possible answers, okay?
Okay.
All right, here's your son. Steve, good luck to you and good luck to you, Ed. 30 seconds right now.
Okay.
Hi, Dad.
Hi, Steve.
Which of the following 1980s movies does not feature a hit song sung by Kenny Loggins?
No hit song.
Caddy Shack or St. Elmo's Fire?
Caddy Shack or St. Elmo's Fire? No hit song by Kenny Loggins.
Does not feature a hit song.
Does not feature a hit song by Kenny Loggins. Caddy Shack or St. Elmo's Fire?
Caddy Shack or St. Elmo's Fire?
We're guessing St. Elmo's Fire, Steve, but not really sure.
You know you can always leave with the $8,000, but if you miss you'll leave with $1,000.
I thought it was St. Elmo's Fire, too.
Did you?
I think I'm going to go with that. I'm going to see.
You were right the last time on the first instinct you had about Lyndon Johnson.
Want to make it your final?
Yes.
Yes, just $116,000.
Whoa.
Okay.
That sound means that we're out of time for the night, but Steve will be back here Sunday night.
Joining him will be ten new contestants who have made it to the fastest finger seats.
And they are...
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And Jamie Travis.
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Now, we'll see you back here with Steve on Sunday night at 9 o'clock, 8 Central.
We'll have the phone lines open that night too.
So watch for the number.
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From New York, everybody.
Good night.
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