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April 24. 2002 recap Dec 28, 2022 12:02:44 GMT -5

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Post by mechamind on Dec 28, 2022 12:02:44 GMT -5

Airdate: April 24, 2002

From Sony Pictures Studio, it's America's game! This is NASCAR Week!

We are greeted by John Andretti, Stacy Compton, and Jeff Green.

We wave our checkered flag to begin this Toss-Up round!

$1,000 Toss-Up

EVENT

Go!

EVENT

Terese solves A TRIP TO LONDON.

Fernando	Chris	Terese
		$1,000

Maybe that's a prize for one of these three?
Terese Simoncini: Pharmaceutical sales rep, and she's a fan of Jeff Gordon and Dale Earnhardt, Jr.; from Santa Monica, CA (originally from NJ)
Fernando Flores: Certified surgical technologist and stand-up comedian, and he's a paintball fan; from Bell, CA
Chris Beaver: Engaged pharmacy technician, to be married in September 2003; he's a high school track and field coach in northern Lebanon, and he wants to make the U.S. Olympic Team; from Jonestown, PA

Maybe they'd need some extra cash for the trip, and this Toss-Up could give them enough.

$2,000 Toss-Up

PERSON

Go!

PERSON

Terese solves ONE SMART COOKIE.

Fernando	Chris	Terese
		$3,000

Now that we're starting a real round, can Terese demonstrate that she's a smart cookie?

Round 1

PROPER NAME

The $1,200 Gift Tag from (76) returns to the Wheel!

Fernando	Chris	TERESE
		Gift Tag: T $600: N -$250: E (x2) $450: S $600: L -$250: I $300: F Solve: Correct!
		$1,450+

PROPER NAME

Perfection! Terese solves GLORIA ESTEFAN to win the 76 Gift Tag for a year of gasoline.

Fernando	Chris	Terese
		$5,650

So it's not going to be London, but one contestant could grab a NASCAR adventure to Daytona USA with tickets to the Pepsi 400, and stay at Adam's Mark Resort (labeled DAYTONA) worth $3,000.

If you're one smart cookie yourself, then winning the Jackpot should be really easy!

Round 2

FILL IN THE NUMBER

FERNANDO	Chris	Terese
$450: R (x2) $3,500: S -$250: E (x4) Jackpot: H $500: M (DUD!)	$550: T (x2) Jackpot: N (x2) $300: L -$250: I -$250: O $300: X DAYTONA: C (x2) -$250: U $600: G (DUD!)	$300: P BANKRUPT! ($300)
$4,150	$950+
$600: (Buzz out!)	$700: Y Only vowels left! Solve: Correct!
$4,150	$1,650+

Chris asked to "buy a letter" before the U.

Fernando changes his mind and wants to buy a vowel after his last spin, but it's too late for that. He can't think of a consonant in time.

FILL IN THE NUMBER

Chris solves THE NEXT LEAP YEAR OCCURS IN #### to keep the trip. He can leap ahead of Terese by taking a $3,000 bonus for filling in the number.

And he knows that the number is 2004.

Fernando	Chris	Terese
	$7,650	$5,650

But we don't want to wait until 2004 for our next prize! We want it now, so we're getting a Tide Racing getaway including hotel accommodations, dinner with Ricky Craven, official personalized Tide Racing pit crew uniform, and two Tide Racing jackets (labeled TIDE) worth $4,000.

It's a narrow space to try and fit through if you want to get to that $10,000 prize. Try not to crash and burn!

Round 3

PHRASE

Fernando	CHRIS	Terese
	$400: T (x3) $3,500: H -$250: E (x2) -$250: I (x3) $800: R (DUD!)	$500: S $500: W Solve: Correct!
	$4,200	$1,000

PHRASE

Terese solves JUST THE WAY I LIKE IT.

Fernando	Chris	Terese
	$7,650	$6,650

Pat warns the contestants that they will get a 20,000-volt electrocution if they buzz in with a wrong answer.

$3,000 Toss-Up

THING

Go!

THING

Chris solves FOOTLONG HOT DOG to widen his lead. And nobody dies.

Fernando	Chris	Terese
	$10,650	$6,650

Chris has waited long enough for the $5,000 space to arrive!

Round 4

SAME NAME

Fernando	CHRIS	Terese
	TIDE: T (x2) $300: N (x2) -$250: O -$250: U $600: B (x2) -$250: A $300: S (DUD!)
	$1,050+

SAME NAME

DING DING! DING DING!

Did someone just press a button offstage? After that sound, Pat gives the Wheel a Final Spin. Consonants are worth $600 + $1,000 for $1,600 a piece.

Terese: L (x2) ($3,200)
Fernando: S (Repeat)
Chris: Y ($2,650+)
Terese: M (DUD!)
Fernando: C ($1,600)

SAME NAME

Fernando quietly guesses BILLY & BLANC BUTTON.

Chris: P ($5,850+)

Only vowels left!

SAME NAME

Chris guesses BILLY & PANIC BUTTON. He then says the correct answer just after the buzzer.

Terese says the answer BELLY & PANIC BUTTON ...but she lost the race.

We'll check the tape, but regardless of any possibly score change, Chris is the big winner. Pat accidentally counts the TIDE prize as part of his total before being corrected from off-stage.

Fernando	Chris	Terese
	$10,650	$9,850

Someone finally crashed. Fernando just couldn't make any progress, and he's now stuck with some nice parting gifts.

BONUS ROUND:

Chris might have panicked, but he doesn't need to anymore! It's over, he's in Bonus Land, and he could win one of these:

"The cash" ($25,000)

Corvette convertible (over $50,000)
Ford F-150 (over $27,000)

Chevy Tahoe (over $38,000)

76 Gasoline for life ($60,000)

"Life in the fast lane!" ($100,000!)

Quickly, now! Chris must spin that Bonus Wheel, and after a big spin, he finally stops at the C in CASH. He faces this puzzle on the board:

Bonus Puzzle

THING

RSTLNE gives him:

THING

PGHA gets him just past the halfway point.

THING

He says EDDY, and after some silence, he solves A BIRDBATH ...in another post-buzzer response.

We're going to check the tape a second time, though Pat believes that the buzzer beat him. We see the $25,000 in the envelope before checking the tape.

In the post-game chat, it is confirmed that the buzzer beat Chris.

After that, we watch a clip of what Vanna did before the race. Early in the morning, the drivers do practice laps, and Vanna likes checking on the drivers even though she can hardly hear them. Just before the big race, she greeted the drivers onstage as they were introduced to a crowd of over 100,000 fans! Hello, Michael Waltrip! Finally, she gets to enjoy watching the race.