Weakest Link (4/16/01)
Chris Wolvie
will walk away with up to $1 million. The rest will leave with nothing as
round by round they are voted off as...
THE WEAKEST LINK! (for Monday, April 16)
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Contestants:
(Name, Age, Location, Occupation)
MARCUS, 45, Miami, FL, Airport Operations Supervisor
KIRA, 26, Hollywood, CA, Bartender
KARIN, 29, Philadelphia, PA, Attorney
JOHN, 42, Camdem, NJ, Funeral Director and Embalmer
RENEE, 32, Lake Stevens, WA, Placement Advisor
JEFF, 31, Ft. Wayne, NJ, Personal Trainer
JAMES, 18, Ventura, CA, Student
MARY, 48, Los Angeles, CA, Executive Recruiter
ROUND 1 2 minutes, 30 seconds
Money "banked": $27,500
Chains "banked": 2
MARCUS: 1 answer right, 1 answer wrong, 1 chain banked
KIRA : 2 answers right
KARIN : 2 answers right
JOHN : 2 answers right
RENEE : 2 answers right *STRONGEST LINK*
JEFF : 2 answers wrong, 1 chain banked *WEAKEST LINK* *BANKED MOST*
JAMES : 1 answer right, 1 answer wrong
MARY : 2 answers right
"Who's knowledge is best suited for WATCHING television, certainly not
APPEARING on it?"
MARCUS: JEFF
KIRA : JAMES
KARIN : JEFF
JOHN : JEFF
RENEE : JEFF
JEFF : MARCUS
JAMES : MARCUS
MARY : JEFF
Anne: "Karin, how's it going for you."
Karin: "Not too bad, thank you."
Anne: "Don't thank me, Karin, it's very early in the game. Had enough of
Jeff?"
Karin: "Not enough of Jeff the person, but he did lose us $25,000 when he
didn't 'bank'."
Anne: "What do you do, Karin?"
Karin: "I'm an attorney."
Anne: "Are you? Do you have to count if you're an attorney?"
Karin: "Thank God, no."
Anne: "Thank God for your clients, because...he only lost $10,000. Marcus,
what do you do?"
Marcus: "Supervisor for an airport operations."
Anne: "And were you so busy supervising, the election passed you by?" (Marcus
didn't know what the W. in George W. Bush's name stood for)
Marcus: "Being that I'm a Democrat, the "W"'s one I wanted to forget."
Anne: "Oh, I see...so, it's of no interest to you who the President is of the
United States? Why did YOU vote for Jeff?"
Marcus: "HE didn't know about Frosty the Snowman." (Jeff though Frosty's eyes
were made out of buttons, not coal)
Anne: "Jeff, the personal trainer who, alas, has worked on his body and not on
his brain. With 5 votes, you ARE the 'weakest link'. Good-bye."
ROUND 2 2 minutes, 20 seconds
Money "banked": $7,500
Chains "banked": 2
MARCUS: 1 answer right, 1 answer wrong, 1 chain banked
KIRA : 2 answers wrong *WEAKEST LINK*
KARIN : 2 answers right
JOHN : 2 answers right
RENEE : 2 answers right, 1 answer wrong
JAMES : 2 answers right, 1 chain banked *STRONGEST LINK* *BANKED MOST*
MARY : 2 answers right
"Who is keeping you out of the upper tax bracket?"
MARCUS: KIRA
KIRA : MARCUS
KARIN : KIRA
JOHN : RENEE
RENEE : KIRA
JAMES : KIRA
MARY : KIRA
Anne: "Mary...what do you do?"
Mary: "I'm an executive recruiter."
Anne: "Are you? Would you recruit Kira?"
Mary: "Um, if she were a psychiatric nurse, yes."
Anne: "Why have you voted her off?"
Mary: "Um, she doesn't seem to know the answers to the questions."
Anne: "Renee, what do YOU do?"
Renee: "I'm a placement advisor at a truck driving school."
Anne: "And would YOU hire Kira?"
Renee: "No."
Anne: "Why not?"
Renee: "Well, she hesitated on EVERY question and got them ALL wrong."
Anne: "Marcus...where are you from?"
Marcus: "Miami, Florida."
Anne: "And tell me, Marcus, in Miami, Florida, do the Scouts go around saying
'Always Faithful, Always Faithful'? (Marcus thought that was the Boy Scout
motto instead of 'Be Prepared') Kira, the bartender, it's time to fix yourself
a very hefty drink. With 5 votes, you ARE the 'weakest link'. Good-bye."
ROUND 3 2 minutes, 10 seconds
Money "banked": $1,000
Chains "banked": 1
MARCUS: 2 answers wrong *WEAKEST LINK* (lost most money)
KARIN : 2 answers wrong
JOHN : 2 answers right
RENEE : 1 answer right, 1 answer wrong, 1 chain banked *BANKED MOST*
JAMES : 2 answers right, 1 answer wrong
MARY : 2 answers right *STRONGEST LINK*
"Who's knowledge is very, very small indeed?"
MARCUS: KARIN
KARIN : MARCUS
JOHN : KARIN
RENEE : MARCUS
JAMES : MARCUS
MARY : MARCUS
Anne: "James...remind me of what you do?"
James: "I'm a student at St. Bonaventure High School where I'm a senior."
Anne: "Good grades?"
James: "Resonably."
Anne: "How reasonably?"
James: "Well, I'm number one in my class right now."
Anne: "You must come back after you've been to college, James. You think
Marcus would make the grade?"
James: "I don't think he would."
Anne: "Why's that, James?"
James: "He seemed to take way too long on the questions and the ones where he
did, he didn't seem to get the right answer for."
Anne: "Renee...why Marcus?"
Renee: "He choked. He took too long, he obviously didn't know the answer in
the first place, and wasted the time deciding which wrong answer he was going
to give."
Anne: "Karin...why Marcus?"
Karin: "Because he took way too long to answer as simple a question as
'tiramisu'." (Marcus didn't know that was the dessert made with lady fingers
and espresso and comes from the Italian phrase for "pick-me-up")
Anne: "And you'd've known that, would you, Karin?"
Karin: "Absolutely."
Anne: "Marcus...is an airline supervisor. Your flight is about to leave. With
4 votes, you ARE the 'weakest link'. Good-bye."
ROUND 4 2 minutes even
Money "banked": $10,000
Chains "banked": 1
KARIN : 1 answer right, 2 answers wrong
JOHN : 2 answers right, 1 answer wrong
RENEE : 2 answers right *STRONGEST LINK*
JAMES : 2 answer wrong, 1 chain banked *WEAKEST LINK* *BANKED MOST*
MARY : 2 answers right, 1 answer wrong
"Who should be put out of his misery? Which one of your teammates is gumming
up the works? You need to be ruthless...to be rich"
KARIN : JAMES
JOHN : KARIN
RENEE : JAMES
JAMES : KARIN
MARY : KARIN
Anne: "John...remind us what YOU do..."
John: "I'm a funeral director and embalmer."
Anne: "Why Karen?"
John: "She's outlived her usefulness."
Anne: "James, why Karin?"
James: "I think that, over the long run, that eliminating Karin would be
beneficial for the team."
Anne: "Did you think she was the 'weakest link'?"
James: "I did indeed."
Anne: "Statistically, she wasn't of course..."
James: "I know that but I think that...having me on this team for the next
couple of rounds would prove better for the team then having Karin."
Anne: "James - top in his class, he tells us - was the 'weakest link'. But
it's votes that count. (to Karin) With 3 votes, you ARE the 'weakest link'.
Good-bye."
ROUND 4 1 minute, 50 seconds
Money "banked": $15,000
Chains "banked": 2
JOHN : 2 answers right, 1 answer wrong, 1 chain banked
RENEE : 2 answers right, 2 answers wrong, 1 chain banked *WEAKEST LINK* *BANKED
MOST*
JAMES : 3 answers right, 1 answer wrong *STRONGEST LINK*
MARY : 2 answers right, 1 answer wrong
(Had nobody banked, they would've hit the $125,000 as they got the first eight
questions right)
"Who's mind's too small to be let out on it's own?"
JOHN : JAMES
RENEE : JOHN
JAMES : RENEE
MARY : JAMES
Anne: "John...so James is 'dead in the water'?"
John: "As far as I'm concerned."
Anne: "Why?"
John: "I just think he needs to go back to school."
Anne: "Mary, why James?"
Mary: "I think he's out of his league at this point."
Anne: "Statistically, the worst player was Renee...she went from 'strongest
link' to, statistically, 'weakest link' in one minute, 50 seconds. But she
survived. James, you ARE the 'weakest link'. Good-bye."
ROUND 5 1 minute, 40 seconds
Money "banked": $0
JOHN : 2 answers right, 2 answer wrong
RENEE : 2 answers right, 2 answer wrong *STRONGEST LINK* (don't ask me why)
MARY : 3 answer wrong *WEAKEST LINK*
(Anne, about the $0 'banked': "Now in Round 7, you get the chance to double
what you bank,...but that requires you to have banked something in the FIRST
place!")
"Who's past their best? Who is not up to scratch? For whom does the bell
toll?"
JOHN : MARY
RENEE : MARY
MARY : RENEE
Anne: "Team, we have tried...VERY HARD...to give you money...tonight.
Three-quarters of a million dollars have been at your disposal, and you have
managed to claim less than 10% of it. John, the undertaker,...why Mary?"
John: "Well, her poor banking skills and not getting any answers right."
Anne: "Mary, with 2 votes, you ARE the 'weakest link'. Good-bye."
ROUND 7 1 minute, 30 seconds
(DOUBLE ROUND)
Money "banked": $6,000 (doubled to $12,000)
Chains "banked": 2
JOHN : 2 answers right, 2 answer wrong, 1 chain banked
RENEE : 3 answers right, 1 answers wrong, 1 chain banked *BANKED MOST*
PLAYOFF ROUND (BANKED GRAND TOTAL: $73,000)
Renee, being 'strongest link' of Round 7, elects to go first
Renee - Q: In science, 32 degrees Farenheit is equal to which temperature on
the Celcius scale?
A: Zero (correct)
John - Q: Puccini's opera, "La Boheme", was the basis for which 1996 Tony
Award-winning Broadway musical?
A: "Rent" (correct)
Renee - Q: A "spelunker" is one who makes a hobby out of exploring and studying
what?
A: Caves (correct)
John - Q: In business, Jeff Bezos is the CEO and founder of which e-commerce
website?
A: Amazon.com (correct)
Renee - Q: Awarded to soldiers wounded or killed in action, the medal known as
the "Purple Heart" carries the image of what U.S. President?
A: Franklin Denalo Roosevelt (incorrect; George Washington)
John - Q: How may sequels have been made to the Mel Gibson/Danny Glover movie
"Lethal Weapon"?
A: Three (correct)
Renee - Q: In literature, Salman Rushdie was sentenced to death by the
Ayatollah Khomeni for writing which book?
A: I'm sorry; I know it and I cannot think of the answer. ("The Satanic
Verses")
John - Q: What if the official national language of Brazil?
A: Portuguese
1 2 3 4 5
Renee O O X X
John O O O O
John is the Strongest Link and wins $73,000!
Renee...leaves...with NOTHING!
Until the next review of "Weakest Link"...*wink*...good-bye.
(Hey, I gotta do SOMETHING until "2-Minute Drill" comes back...)
Chris B.
What I love is not the money aspect, but Robinson's tirades, especialy
about what they coutld have won.
Some of my favorites...
>Marcus: "Supervisor for an airport operations."
>Anne: "And were you so busy supervising, the election passed you by?" (Marcus
>didn't know what the W. in George W. Bush's name stood for)
>Marcus: "Being that I'm a Democrat, the "W"'s one I wanted to forget."
>Anne: "Oh, I see...so, it's of no interest to you who the President is of the
>United States?"
When I heard that, I just smiled...
>"Who is keeping you out of the upper tax bracket?"
Good thing Robinson is adapting her approach for the US audience.
(From what I understand, there are no taxes in the UK.)
>"Who should be put out of his misery? Which one of your teammates is gumming
>up the works? You need to be ruthless...to be rich"
Truer words were never spoken, at least for this game...
>(Anne, about the $0 'banked': "Now in Round 7, you get the chance to double
>what you bank,...but that requires you to have banked something in the FIRST
>place!")
See last comment...
>Anne: "Team, we have tried...VERY HARD...to give you money...tonight.
>Three-quarters of a million dollars have been at your disposal, and you have
>managed to claim less than 10% of it."
When I heard that, I was laughing so hard...
>Until the next review of "Weakest Link"...*wink*...good-bye.
>
>(Hey, I gotta do SOMETHING until "2-Minute Drill" comes back...)
And you're doing a great job...keep up the good work!
Dean Scungio
games.
"The Weakest Link" Stats
Date: 4/16/2001 (Premiere)
Anne is wearing a black--Oh, wait, she's *always* wearing black.
Anne's first victims (Contestants):
1. Marcus; 45; Miami, FL
2. Kira; 26; Hollywood, CA
3. Karin; 29; Philadelphia, PA
4. John; 42; Camden, NJ
5. Renee; 32; Lake Stevens, WA
6. Jeff; 31; Wayne, NJ
7. James; 18; Ventura, CA
8. Mary; 48; Los Angeles, CA
Round 1 (2:30)
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ROUND BANK: "a very disappointing" $27,500 (out of $125,000)
TOTAL BANK: $27,500 (out of $125,000)
STATS: ( *: correct, X: incorrect, $: banked, -: time expired )
Rnd Full
1 2 3 %age %age
Marcus * X $- 50 50 Banked $2,500, Lost $1,000
Kira * * 100 100
Karin * * 100 100
John * * 100 100
Renee * * 100 100 Strongest Link
Jeff $X X 0 0 Weakest Link, Banked $25,000, Lost $10,000
James X * 50 50
Mary * * 100 100
TEAM: 75 75
VOTING
Marcus: JEFF
Kira: JAMES
Karin: JEFF
John: JEFF
Renee: JEFF
Jeff: MARCUS
James: MARCUS
Mary: JEFF
Results: Jeff 5, Marcus 2, James 1
Round 2 (2:20)
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ROUND BANK: "a miserable, depressing, pathetic" $7,500 (out of $125,000)
TOTAL BANK: $35,000 (out of $250,000)
STATS: ( *: correct, X: incorrect, $: banked, -: time expired )
Rnd Full
4 5 6 %age %age
Marcus * $X 50 50 Banked $2,500
Kira X X 0 50 Weakest Link, Lost $10,000
Karin * * 100 100
John * * 100 100
Renee * * - 100 100
Jeff 0
James * $* 100 75 Strongest Link, Banked $5,000
Mary * * 100 100
TEAM: 79 77
VOTING
Marcus: KIRA
Kira: MARCUS
Karin: KIRA
John: RENEE
Renee: KIRA
James: KIRA
Mary: KIRA
Results: Kira 5, Marcus 1, Renee 1
Round 3 (2:10)
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ROUND BANK: "an embarassing" $1,000 (out of $125,000)
TOTAL BANK: $36,000 (out of $375,000)
STATS: ( *: correct, X: incorrect, $: banked, -: time expired )
Rnd Full
7 8 9 %age %age
Marcus X X 0 33 Weakest Link, Lost $2,500 twice
Kira 50
Karin X X 0 67
John * * 100 100
Renee X $* 50 83 Banked $1,000, Lost $1,000
Jeff 0
James * * X 67 71 Lost $1,000
Mary * * - 100 100 Strongest Link
TEAM: 54 70
VOTING
Marcus: KARIN
Karin: MARCUS
John: KARIN
Renee: MARCUS
James: MARCUS
Mary: MARCUS
Results: Marcus 4, Karin 2
Round 4 (2:00)
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ROUND BANK: $10,000 (out of $125,000)
TOTAL BANK: $46,000 (out of $500,000)
STATS: ( *: correct, X: incorrect, $: banked, -: time expired )
Rnd Full
10 11 12 13 %age %age
Marcus 33
Kira 50
Karin * X X 33 56 Lost $1,000
John * $X * 67 89 Banked $0
Renee * * - 100 88 Strongest Link
Jeff 0
James $X X 0 56 Weakest Link, Banked $10,000, Lost $1,000
Mary * * $X 67 89 Banked $0
TEAM: 54 66
VOTING
Karin: JAMES
John: KARIN
Renee: JAMES
James: KARIN
Mary: KARIN
Results: Karin 3, James 2
Round 5 (1:50)
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ROUND BANK: $15,000 (out of $125,000)
TOTAL BANK: $61,000 (out of $625,000)
STATS: ( *: correct, X: incorrect, $: banked, -: time expired )
Rnd Full
14 15 16 17 %age %age
Marcus 33
Kira 50
Karin 56
John * $* X 67 83 Strongest Link, Banked $5,000
Renee * $* X X 50 75 Weakest Link, Banked $10,000, Lost $1,000
Jeff 0
James * * X * 75 62
Mary * * X 67 83
TEAM: 64 66
VOTING
John: JAMES
Renee: JOHN
James: RENEE
Mary: JAMES
Results: James 2, John 1, Renee 1
Round 6 (1:40)
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ROUND BANK: "a magnificent" $0 (out of $125,000)
TOTAL BANK: $61,000 (out of $750,000)
STATS: ( *: correct, X: incorrect, $: banked, -: time expired )
Rnd Full
18 19 20 21 %age %age
Marcus 33
Kira 50
Karin 56
John * * X $X 50 75 Banked $0
Renee X * * - 67 73 Strongest Link, Lost $1,000
Jeff 0
James 62
Mary X X X 0 67 Weakest Link, Lost $2,500 and $1,000
TEAM: 40 63
VOTING
John: MARY
Renee: MARY
Mary: RENEE
Results: Mary 2, Renee 1
Round 7 (1:30) ($250,000 Chain)
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ROUND BANK: $12,000 (out of $250,000)
FINAL BANK: $73,000 (out of $1,000,000)
STATS: ( *: correct, X: incorrect, $: banked, -: time expired )
Rnd Full
22 23 24 25 26 %age %age
Marcus 33
Kira 50
Karin 56
John * $X * X 50 70 Banked $10,000, Lost $2,000
Renee * * X $* - 75 74 Banked $2,000
Jeff 0
James 62
Mary 67
TEAM: 63 63
Shootout
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Renee: (*) (*) (X) (X) (5)
John: (*) (*) (*) (*) (5)
John of Camden, NJ, just won $73,000, and Renee, as they used to say on
"Debt", goes home with absolutely NOTHING!
FINAL STATS:
JOHN
Overall record: 18/24 (75%)
Longest streak: 7 questions
Votes received: 1
Banked: $15,000
Lost: $2,000
RENEE:
Overall record: 16/23 (70%)
Longest streak: 5 questions
Votes received: 3
Banked: $13,000
Lost: $3,000
MARY:
Overall record: 10/15 (67%)
Longest streak: 8 questions
Votes received: 2
Banked: $0
Lost: $3,500
JAMES:
Overall record: 8/13 (62%)
Longest streak: 5 questions
Votes received: 5
Banked: $15,000
Lost: $7,000
KARIN:
Overall record: 5/9 (56%)
Longest streak: 4 questions
Votes received: 5
Banked: $0
Lost: $1,000
MARCUS:
Overall record: 2/6 (33%)
Longest streak: 1 questions
Votes received: 7
Banked: $5,000
Lost: $6,000
KIRA:
Overall record: 2/4 (50%)
Longest streak: 2 questions
Votes received: 5
Banked: $0
Lost: $10,000
JEFF:
Overall record: 0/2 (0%)
Longest streak: 0 questions
Votes received: 5
Banked: $25,000
Lost: $10,000
GROUP STATS:
Team overall record: 61/96 (64%)
Highest chain banked: $25,000 (Round 1, Jeff)
Highest link reached: $50,000 (Round 1, Jeff)
Most money lost: $10,000 (Round 1, Jeff; Round 2, Kira)
Longest streak of right answers: 8 (Round 5)
Longest streak of wrong answers: 5 (Round 5)
You are all weakest links. Goodbye! <wink>
--
Dean Scungio
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Peca Fan
<dscu...@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>As an accompaniment to Chris' recaps, here are some statistics from the
>games.
Wow, phenomenal job Dean. That makes the show much more interesting in
my mind. When watching, I felt that James was very strong, and was
being picked on unfairly because of his age.
The stats though, show him to be a middle of the pack kind of guy, and
he was voted off at just the right spot. In fact, everyone went in
pretty much the correct order, the weak guys first, and the two
strongest made it to the end, and the best player won.
--
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