So the really cool news is that the last round of David's contest was aired LIVE on the CBS early show this morning! It was so cool! There was David - right there on our TV screen! The bad news is that the questions were crap! They showed the contestants photos of "celebrities" and made them buzz in to identify them - which is where Team Zissman ran into some problems. First of all, it was clear that the contestants could barely see the photos...and second, WHO WERE THOSE PEOPLE?! Adam and Teddy and I tried to play along and send good joojoo David's way. But some of those so-called "celebrities" were pretty obscure, even to us - and we could at least see them clearly!
The other contestant got the first two of them right away (James Gandolfini and MaryKate Olsen) - David fired back with Heather Locklear - and then neither of them answered the rest! How on earth could it have been a good list and a good set up if the top two contestants from this round of the trivia contest didn't get any of the answers on this list? (here are the rest of the celebs shown...)
David Bekham - his hair changes too often - and I only recognize him when he stands next to Posh Spice Bill Pullman - loved him in Airplane and Spaceballs - but I haven't seen him since. I think he might have been in some terrible Sandra Bullock movie in the early '90s. How did he make the list in this 2006 competition? Joey Lawrence - again - they showed a photo of the GUY FROM BLOSSOM (!?!) with a bald head on a screen 30 feet away. The dude is irrelevant. Venus Williams - She, too, was wearing fake/unrecognizable hair Danny Bonaducci - again with the relevance to 2006! Diane Keaton - should I keep going?
David and Linda (arch nemesis) didn't even realize how much time was left on the clock. Whatever. So Linda won and David got robbed. We all know that David could've kicked her ass (sorry family, but there's no other way to say it) had conditions been appropriate. He'd have had that in the bag.
Anyway - congrats to David for being the first Zissman (to my knowledge) on live national television - and for doing so incredibly well in this whole Gold Rush thing! Everyone's always noted his ability to become a crazy fountain of answers and now his talent has been confirmed by AOL, the great city of Minneapolis, and CBS.
Not that anyone is going to be reading this before we know the results, but I have a little update...
David, Donald and Linda walked into a bar. David and Linda ducked. Donald can go back to truck driving.
Thanks to Dee Snyder (turns out Dave needed a Twisted Sister, instead of his Literate Sister), David and Linda will be playing for $100k and a chance at $1m this morning on the Early Show.
So here's my dilemma -- Thanks to my new HR gig, I have an interview at 8:30 this morning and it takes me about an hour to get to the office. Let's hope that Julie Chen and HarrySmith aren't too chatty this morning.
I don't expect anyone to understand the title of this (it's a stretch even for those who do get it).
Anyway...quick GoldRush update!
They've posted the people David is competing against interview with our main main. See it all here.
And sure enough David's mad Monopoly skillz helped him proceed this far. If he wins, I'm making him pay me off to keep me from telling Monopoly stories from back in the day. Just kidding.
We're sure that you are kicking butt, David -- keep it up.
So some would say that the sole purpose of this post is to share in the potential winnings, but I seriously and unselfishly want to ask everyone that reads this to send all of your trivia karma towards my brother David as he attempts to win $100,000 this week and potentially $1,000,000 down the road.
You see, David is currently being sequestered somewhere in Minneapolis as one of three finalists in "round 11" of AOL's "Goldrush" online trivia game. David knows more about random trivia stuff than anyone I know and was engineered for this type of contest, so I have full faith in him. Plus, he is using our sister Judith as a lifeline and since she has read every book ever written (seriously -- look here), she should be able to help out if he needs it.
Anyways, our family has yet another internet star (Judith's 15 minutes can be found by going to Google and typing in "lost camera") and we are sure he will kick do well.
Trying to drive readership by piggy-backing on his fame, the Orlando Sentinel has even covered this: Read it here.
In the meantime, best of luck to David. Bring home the money.
By the way, yesterday I predicted that "Theodore Geisel" would be an answer he needs. Just a hunch.
I just got a postcard from Jenn Root, one of my favorite people ever. Apparently, she reads the blog! So, in her honor, I say this, and post a pic of us from about this time last year when I visited San Francisco:
I'm up to my ears in the election cycle - and Adam is up to his in the football season - so we've sort of let the blog go! I hope we haven't lost all of our readers since our last post on September 22nd!
I'm going to start updating you on the past few weeks - so stay tuned! (I'm going to post the updates under dates that correspond with when their photos took place - so see below for new posts!) Lots of pictures to come!
