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00:02This is the battlefield for our game of speed and strategy.
00:06These are the letters which lead to victory on Blockbuster!
00:11And here's the style of Blockbuster, Bill Kelly!
00:17Hi there.
00:19Hi there.
00:21Welcome.
00:22Hello, team.
00:25Thank you, Bob.
00:27Mr. Hilfiger, thank you.
00:29Hello.
00:33Hi there.
00:33Welcome to Blockbusters.
00:34Hey, we had a rip-snorting...
00:36They don't use that word anymore.
00:37Those words, rip-snorting game.
00:39But we did have a rip-snorting game going between...
00:42Well, first of all, I want you to meet the champion because she's here defending.
00:45Ladies and gentlemen, her name is Jean Visage.
00:47Her husband is in the audience with us watching her win.
00:51And so far, she's won $27,200.
00:55Good going, Jean.
00:56Thank you, Bob.
00:57Thank you, Bob.
01:00How's it feel to have the money sort of amassed like that?
01:04Fantastic.
01:05Uh-huh.
01:05It's overwhelming.
01:06Well, you do, you play a very good game.
01:08And our family pair here, I'm sure, is quite aware of that.
01:11They are a mother and daughter team.
01:13The mother is Wilma Tisch, and the daughter is Debbie Quinn.
01:16Welcome, both of you.
01:21Uh...
01:21Uh, when time...
01:23We introduced you yesterday and started right in on a game because we wanted to get the game going.
01:27We didn't have time to talk with you.
01:29So, Wilma, suppose you tell us a little bit about yourself.
01:31Well, this is my youngest, Debbie.
01:34Uh-huh.
01:35In Alaska, that's where all of my children were born.
01:37That's where I was reared.
01:38Oh, really?
01:38Yes.
01:39A native Alaskan.
01:40A native Alaskan.
01:41Right.
01:42What was it that took your family up to Alaska?
01:44Was it a reason that they went up there originally, or...?
01:47I think there was a depression in the lower 48.
01:49Uh-huh.
01:50Uh-huh.
01:50And my father chose to go up there, um, many years ago.
01:54That's very interesting.
01:55And now, of course, the big attraction is the pipeline and the work that surrounds it.
01:59I hear things are much more expensive in Alaska, are they not?
02:02Very similar to Southern California.
02:05Kind of like living in Newport Beach.
02:07Oh, really?
02:08And you don't have the climate at all.
02:10Well, there's a lot of climate.
02:12Oh, yeah, a lot of climate in Alaska.
02:13I know that.
02:14And it is true, people do not live in igloos or things like that.
02:17They have houses and streets and...
02:18Well, I spent 27 years there, and I haven't seen an igloo yet.
02:22I wasn't making light of it.
02:24Actually, sometimes that is a misconception.
02:26This is Debbie, your youngest.
02:27Hello, Debbie.
02:28Hi.
02:28How about you that you want us to know about?
02:30Well, I live in Orange County.
02:32I'm married and have five beautiful sons.
02:34My goodness.
02:35Have you been to Alaska?
02:35I assume you have.
02:36Well, I was born there.
02:37Oh, you were born there?
02:38Started out there.
02:39Okay, we got some real Alaskans here.
02:41Where were you born, Jean?
02:42Mount Vernon, New York.
02:44Mount Vernon, I know that.
02:45And Mount Vernon very well.
02:46I was born in a humble log cabin in Pittsburgh.
02:50It was one of the only log cabins they had.
02:52Yesterday, the game we interrupted, it's game one of this match.
02:55You see the family pair is represented by the white hexagons and our solo player by the red.
03:00Family pair tries to make that side-to-side connection and solo player top to bottom.
03:05Now, Wilma, you had come up with the last correct answer when we went off the air, so it is
03:09your turn to choose.
03:10Where would you like to go?
03:11This is game one, by the way.
03:13To the L.
03:14Okay.
03:14To the letter L.
03:15Answer begins with L.
03:17Ready with your buttons and the moment you think I know, you know.
03:20Don't worry about me.
03:21I never know.
03:22The moment you think you know, hit the button.
03:24What L contains about one-third more citric acid than its large...
03:30Jean?
03:31Lemon?
03:31Nope.
03:32I repeat it now.
03:33For either of the family pair, raise your hand.
03:35What L contains about one-third more citric acid than its larger cousin, the lemon?
03:41Oh.
03:42Wilma, what did you have?
03:45Time.
03:46The lime.
03:47Oh.
03:48The lime.
03:49I thought sure you were going to give me the answer, Wilma.
03:51But I've been wrong before in expecting answers from ladies.
03:55Here comes another L question.
03:56What L is the floor covering introduced at the Philadelphia...
04:01Jean?
04:02Linoleum?
04:03...World's Fair in 1876.
04:05Linoleum is it, Jean, and you got it.
04:08So, solo player, where are you going, Jean?
04:11Let's try the M, Bill.
04:13Letter M.
04:14Question.
04:16What M means little mountain in Italian and was inherited by Thomas Jefferson at the age...
04:23Jean?
04:24Monticello.
04:25Monticello.
04:25Monticello is the right answer at the age of 14.
04:28Again, the solo player.
04:30Oh, boy.
04:31Jean.
04:32Jean's on a run right now.
04:34Where are you going, Jean?
04:35Let's try the C, please.
04:36Letter C.
04:36And, of course, Wilma or Debbie, you want to interrupt.
04:40What C did Groucho Marx call a fellow who uses his mouth to sing through his nose?
04:47And is what Bing Crosby was?
04:50Jean?
04:51Croner.
04:51Croner's the right answer.
04:53Jean, you got it again.
04:56Boy.
04:58Well, you come out loaded for bear.
05:00Where are you going?
05:01Let's please try the N.
05:02If Jean gets this one correctly, she will have won the game in $500 and will take the lead in
05:08the match.
05:08Wilma and Debbie, you want to move if you can.
05:10What end does the Census Bureau say is the fastest growing state?
05:18Debbie.
05:19Nebraska.
05:20Nope.
05:20Repeat it for you, Jean.
05:21What end does the Census Bureau say is the fastest growing state?
05:24Please don't help.
05:25Possible game here.
05:27Nevada?
05:28You have just won the game.
05:29Nevada is the right answer.
05:31And that's $500 more.
05:34Okay.
05:36That's it.
05:40So, Jean, you won another one.
05:42Now your total winnings, $27,700.
05:45And we'll be back and give Wilma and Debbie a chance to tie this match.
05:49But right now, we're going to pause.
05:57Yeah.
05:58All right.
06:01The situation is this.
06:02Jean Visich, our champion, has won game one of this match.
06:05And Debbie Quinn and her mother, Wilma Tisch, is going to try to win game two and tie the match
06:09up.
06:10If everybody's ready, we're going to begin this board with the letter B.
06:14The answer starts with B, and here we go.
06:15What B did the sorcerer's apprentice command to carry his water for him, but he didn't know how to stop
06:25them?
06:30Brooms.
06:31Brooms.
06:32Fantasia.
06:32Brooms carrying water and stuff like sweeping the floor.
06:34Oh, that was a good one.
06:36Here comes another B.
06:37This B I know you're going to like better than the last one.
06:40That's all I can promise.
06:41All ready?
06:42Wilma?
06:42Debbie?
06:42Jean?
06:43Bill?
06:44Right.
06:44What B is the sport that originated as a religious right when Christians were required to knock down a club
06:53by rolling a rock?
06:55Debbie's going to take a shot.
06:57Bowling.
06:57Bowling's the right answer, Debbie.
06:58There you go.
07:03Where to?
07:04Uh, just go to the T.
07:06Okay, letter T, trying to make that side-to-side connection as the family pair.
07:10Here comes the T question.
07:12What T is the beaver cleaver's first name or...
07:18Wilma?
07:19Theodore.
07:20Theodore's the right answer, Wilma.
07:21You got it.
07:24Question.
07:26Question.
07:26Question would have continued or Spiro Agnew's middle name.
07:30Theodore is it.
07:31Hey, the family pair's on a roll.
07:32Where are you going, Wilma?
07:33To the J.
07:34To the J.
07:35Question.
07:36What J is the 17-year-old son of John Lennon or a kind of calendar?
07:45Jean?
07:46Julian.
07:47Julian is the right answer, Jean, and you have it.
07:49The Julian calendar.
07:52The Julian calendar.
07:52The Gregorian and Julian and...
07:54Let's try the O, please.
07:56And the pin-up.
07:57Okay, O.
07:58The answer starts with O.
08:00What O is a cloth, a shoe, or an English university?
08:07It's Jean again.
08:08Oxford.
08:09Oxford's the right answer again.
08:12Now, Jean's on the run here.
08:15Let's please go to the K for Catherine again.
08:18K for Catherine.
08:20K for Catherine question coming, Wilma and Debbie.
08:23What K is where you'd find London, Paris, Warsaw, and...
08:31Debbie?
08:32Kansas.
08:33Nope.
08:33Repeat it for Jean.
08:35What K is where you'd find London, Paris, Warsaw, and Churchill Downs?
08:39Kentucky.
08:40Kentucky is there.
08:42That last little bit of information there you needed, Debbie.
08:48Well, Jean...
08:48I have to go to the D, please, Bill.
08:51Look what happens if Jean answers this D correctly.
08:54That's game and match.
08:56So, Wilma and Debbie, you want to do it now.
08:58Possible game and match for Jean.
09:02What D sang Ruby Baby with the Belmonts?
09:09Debbie?
09:09Dion.
09:10Dion is the right answer.
09:12Yes, a new block.
09:13That's a good block.
09:15Dion, you did it.
09:17Oh, that was a nick in time block for you, Debbie.
09:20Where are you going?
09:23To the H, please.
09:25Okay, letter H.
09:26Family pair now.
09:27I'm going to try to win this game.
09:28Everybody ready.
09:29What H is the maiden name of Patricia Shaw?
09:35Don't help.
09:38Jean has a thought.
09:39Hurst.
09:39Hurst is the right name.
09:40That's Betty Hurst's married name.
09:42Good recalling.
09:46And he asks again, where to, Jean?
09:49Let's try the W, please, Bill.
09:51W.
09:51And family pair, I know, want to block,
09:53because it would not only be a good block,
09:54it would be sort of good positioning for you.
09:57Answer begins with W.
09:58If Jean gets it, it's game and match.
10:00Question.
10:01Everybody ready.
10:02What W are comedian Ed...
10:06...for the game and the match?
10:07Win.
10:07And his actor son, Keenan.
10:09Win is the answer.
10:10You have won it all.
10:11Congratulations, Jean.
10:20Jean, you go on.
10:21Yes.
10:23Very good getting on all of it.
10:25You can get your call.
10:27Debbie and Wilma, I thank you for being with us.
10:30You got yourself going there,
10:31but Jean's turned into a whirlwind these past years.
10:34She sure has.
10:35We have some very nice consolation prizes for you.
10:37Sit right there and be comfortable.
10:39Jean, we'll be back there.
10:40You'll give you a chance at $5,000 more in a moment.
10:42But right now, we're going to pause,
10:43because we've got to go out and get $5,000.
10:45Like this, we'll see.
10:51There we are.
10:54Well, Jean, I keep saying, I keep saying, well, Jean, you did it again and you keep doing
10:59it again.
11:00This is like the seventh time or thereabouts, Jean.
11:02Whatever.
11:03Whatever.
11:04$28,200.
11:06Great.
11:06You got your good luck charms ready?
11:07Yes, I have.
11:08I am about to push the button.
11:09Come on up and you're going to get a chance at another $5,000.
11:13Good luck, Jean.
11:20Well, you're all right.
11:21You're doing a real good job.
11:22You got the picture of the family.
11:23Yes, I have.
11:24Do you want to get the family's picture on television?
11:26Would you like that?
11:27Hold it toward that camera there directly.
11:29And tilt it downward a little bit.
11:30See how much we can get of the family.
11:32Now, I have to hold it very...
11:33Isn't that cute?
11:34There they are.
11:36Don't awe the family.
11:37Anyway, that's you and the husband and 10 in all, huh?
11:40Right.
11:40Okay.
11:41You know how it works, Jean.
11:42I know you do, but I'll explain it just for the record.
11:45Jean's going to start on the left side there and try to connect the gold to the gold without
11:49interruption.
11:49If she does, she wins $5,000 more.
11:52If she misses, we put a block up, but that block usually can be worked around.
11:57You have 60 seconds.
11:58Right now, you're going on $28,200.
12:01This will put you up to $33,200.
12:03Okay, put the 60 seconds.
12:05It's up there while I was talking.
12:07The clock will begin starting down when you begin.
12:09Good luck.
12:10I hope you do it.
12:10Thank you, Bill.
12:12LTS.
12:13His wife was Marie Antoinette.
12:16Louis XVI.
12:17Correct.
12:18NOS.
12:19Louisiana football team.
12:21New Orleans Saints.
12:22Right.
12:22KH.
12:23A North Carolina air strip.
12:25Kitty Hawk.
12:25Right.
12:26HTMAM.
12:27Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable, Lauren Bacall film.
12:35RV.
12:36He sang through a megaphone.
12:39Rudy Valley.
12:40UA.
12:41Formerly married to John Derrick.
12:45Ursula Andress.
12:46That's it.
12:47You got yourself to $5,000.
12:49How much time was it?
12:50Can't see the clock.
12:52Congratulations.
12:54Good.
12:55Good.
12:56Good.
12:56Good.
13:04You have, if I may say, and I may because there's nothing wrong with my saying it, you
13:10have a remarkable store of general knowledge and knowledge that indicates good recall, like
13:16that coming up with Patricia Shaw, Patty Hearst.
13:18Very good.
13:19You remember things you read, do you not?
13:20Yes, I do, Bill.
13:21I've always said I know a little bit about a lot of things and a lot about nothing.
13:25Well, that's the best way in the world, I think, to get through life.
13:27Look at you.
13:28You now have run your winnings to $33,200.
13:32You only, that's pretty good.
13:35Very few people.
13:36Now, I bet also, you probably will recall the HTMAM question that you missed.
13:44The only one you missed, Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable, Lauren Bacall film.
13:47I'm not going to push you and embarrass you because you don't need to answer it.
13:50How to marry a millionaire.
13:51Oh, sure.
13:52I was thinking diamonds are a girl's best friend.
13:54And they are, but that would have been D-A-G-B-F.
13:57I know that, Bill.
13:57Is that right?
13:58I guess something like, anyway, congratulations.
14:00You have a good win and you're still playing.
14:03Go on back and get yourself comfortable.
14:05We're going to pick you a new opponent.
14:07You're all right, Gene.
14:08See you in just a moment.
14:09Right now, would you watch this, please?
14:21Well, Gene is, Gene Bissett doing a remarkable job now.
14:25I had forgotten, in the time you've been with us, Gene, I've asked you a lot of things.
14:28We've talked about it.
14:29I've forgotten you were a professional ball player at one time.
14:31Were you in a baseball?
14:32A long time ago, Bill.
14:33Oh, that's all right.
14:34It's before women were accepted in the sport.
14:36Oh, that's for sure.
14:37You played with an all-woman team?
14:39Yes, it was an all-girl league.
14:41And it was way back in the late 1940s.
14:44Oh, boy, you sure done well since then.
14:45We have a pair of brothers-in-law here.
14:48Notice how correctly I say that grammatically.
14:50They are Joe Volpe and his brother-in-law, Hank West.
14:53Welcome, Hank.
14:54Welcome, Joe.
14:54How are you doing?
14:57Well, Joe, what's new with the Volpe clan lately?
15:02Well, I'm a native of Toronto, Canada, Bill.
15:05I came down here about three years ago, and I really love it down here.
15:08No question about it.
15:09You're now living down here, aren't you?
15:09I live in California here.
15:12Toronto's a fine city.
15:13It's a marvelous city.
15:14It's just a little frigid, but nice.
15:16It does get cold in the winter.
15:17Oh, yeah.
15:17I used to go to Canada when I was a kid, because that was before you were there.
15:20It was during Prohibition, as a matter of fact, when we...
15:23That goes back to, like, 1969 or 70.
15:26Yeah, 1670, that's right.
15:27Time does fly when you're having fun, doesn't it?
15:29I just wanted to say, Bill, if I could, that the staff here, Carol and Stephanie, for example,
15:33are just marvelous people, and we've had a wonderful time so far.
15:36Oh, it's very nice of you to see.
15:37There are people who take care of our players.
15:40They're here.
15:43Hi there, Hank.
15:45How you doing, Bill?
15:45What's new with you?
15:47Oh, really nothing.
15:48I originally came from Lithuania.
15:50Came over in the United States in 1949.
15:54You came here from Lithuania?
15:56Yes, I was born in Lithuania.
15:58Oh, boy.
15:59Did you speak the language when you came here?
16:01Yes, and I still do.
16:02I haven't forgotten yet.
16:05I mean, did you speak English when you came here?
16:06No, absolutely not.
16:07You learned English since you'd been here.
16:09And how old were you at the time?
16:10I believe nine years old.
16:12That's amazing.
16:13You speak with no trace of an accent or anything.
16:15You fellas ready to go?
16:17We're ready.
16:17Okay, now, Carolyn and Stephanie will stop bowing to the audience.
16:21They're out there taking bows and throwing...
16:24Thank you, ladies.
16:26There you are.
16:27You're on.
16:28Get them in silhouette.
16:29That's a good shot.
16:30That's good.
16:31There they are.
16:32The mystery girls.
16:35Now, the reason that shot is interesting is that Stephanie was not wearing anything
16:41there.
16:41But in the silhouette, that's the reason we did the silhouette picture.
16:46Joe and Hank, you ready to go?
16:47Yes, sir.
16:48Just having a little fun, you know, to sort of break the monotony and all that.
16:51Sounds great.
16:51Okay, Jean?
16:52Ready?
16:52Wasn't all that much fun, was it?
16:54Not for me.
16:55Well, Joe and Hank, I know you know how it works.
16:56The very moment you think you know, hit the button.
16:58Do not hesitate if you think you know.
17:00It's a calculated risk and usually a good one.
17:02Right, Jean?
17:03Okay, there's the board.
17:03We're going to begin this one with the letter Y.
17:06Answer starts with Y and here's the first question.
17:09What Y is the fungus that gives wine its kick?
17:14Hank?
17:15Yeast.
17:15Yeast is right, Hank, and you're off to a darn good start.
17:19Very good.
17:20Very good.
17:21Very good.
17:21Alright, Hank, where would you like to go?
17:24I think we'll go with the O.
17:26Sure.
17:27Letter O, answer starts with O.
17:29Question.
17:30What O is a Kansas University or the capital of Canada?
17:36That's Jean.
17:37Ontario.
17:38Nope.
17:38Repeated for either of the family pair.
17:41What O is a Kansas University, and boy are they ready,
17:44or the capital of Canada?
17:45Okay, you're the captain, Joe.
17:48Ottawa.
17:48Ottawa is the right answer.
17:50You were both ready for that.
17:51Oh, Canada.
17:52Are you kidding?
17:54I had to be.
17:56I bet you were happy to hear that Ontario answer.
17:59As soon as I heard Canada, I felt very nice.
18:01Yes.
18:01Thank you very much.
18:02You have each done very well so far.
18:04Your turn to pick, Joe.
18:05Where are you going?
18:06We'll go with the G, please.
18:08Going to have to watch these two.
18:09They're city slickers, Jean.
18:11Going with a G here.
18:13The answer starts with a G.
18:14What G began his film career in 1954 when he rose from the depths of the Sea of Japan and
18:24...
18:25Jean.
18:25Godzilla.
18:26Destroyed Tokyo.
18:27Godzilla is the right answer, Jean.
18:29That's right.
18:29That's right.
18:30That's right.
18:32Too bad.
18:33Too bad you moved in so quick because I was giving that a very dramatic reading.
18:36I know.
18:36But I'll get to it again.
18:38Where are you going, Jean?
18:39D, please.
18:40All right.
18:41D question.
18:42What D is the hometown of the National Football League's Lions?
18:51Detroit.
18:52Detroit.
18:52Detroit is right.
18:53You've got another one, Jean.
18:53Inside it all up.
18:54We've got to go here.
18:55We've got to go.
18:55Yeah.
18:56That's right.
18:58Many people in Detroit watch us on WDIV.
19:01Is that IV or WDTV?
19:03IV.
19:04WDIV.
19:05Many people watch us there.
19:06And there are some who don't.
19:08We did not address that to them.
19:10Where are you going, Jean?
19:11B, please, Bill.
19:12Okay.
19:13The letter B.
19:15Maybe you have to pick up that momentum again.
19:18I'm ready.
19:19Here we go.
19:19B.
19:20What B is the species of whale that can be as...
19:25Joe?
19:25Blue.
19:26As long as three Greyhound buses, blue is the answer.
19:29And you've got it.
19:30My, my, my.
19:31There you go.
19:32I don't know where to go here.
19:36You'll see what Jean did.
19:37She moved your little captures apart there.
19:40We'll give you a chance to look at the board.
19:42Because when we get back here, you'll make a selection.
19:44But right now, we're going to pause.
19:45Because we're going out and see if we can get some dough.
19:47In the book.
19:47On the book.
19:48Whatever.
19:54That's a good idea, Bob.
19:56Thank you, Hank and Joe, very much for being with us.
19:58And Jean, thank you.
19:59You're doing quite well.
20:00We'll be back next time.
20:01Pick this up right here.
20:02See if someone can't win some money.
20:03I hope they can.
20:04Bye.
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21:19This is Bob Hilton speaking for Blockbusters, a Mark Goodson, Bill Todman production.
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