Weakest Link Rounds 5-7 (10/13/2020)

Here are the clues from Round 5 of “Weakest Link” (10/13/2020) with host Jane Lynch. We are now down to 4 players from 8. The player voted the weakest link gets eliminated at the end of each round until only 2 are left standing. The range this round is $2500 – $250,000.

$2500 (Queen Shereen) In what 40-year-old video game is a round, yellow creature chased by ghosts named Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde?

$2500 (Katie) Larry King or King Tut: Which one was married eight times?

$5000 (Josh) This handsome character on your screen belongs to what species of endangered great apes?

$10,000 (Meghan) In literature, what author wrote the poetry collection “Ariel” and the novel “The Bell Jar”? BANK

$2500 (Queen Shereen) In 1997, Hong Kong was returned to Chinese control by which country?

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$2500 (Katie) What fast-food chain’s long-running ad campaign features rebel cows with signs that say, “Eat Mor Chikin”?

$5000 (Josh) In 2017, Ben Platt won a Tony Award for his breakout performance in what musical?

$2500 (Meghan) Michael Phelps has 28 Olympic medals. If three are silver and two are bronze, how many gold medals does he have?

$5000 (Queen Shereen) What now-defunct political party did President John Adams belong to?

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Jane Lynch Quotes:
• Out of a possible $250,000, you banked less than that. You banked $10,000. That brings your total bank to $47,000.
• Who’s a fax machine in an internet world?
• Who’s as dense as the molecule osmium?

2 votes made Queen Shereen the Weakest Link

ROUND 6: There are now 3 players left and $47,000 in the bank. This is the last chance to bank more money and the range is $2500 to $500,000.

$2500 (Meghan) What movie franchise is celebrated by fans each year on May the fourth?

$5000 (Katie) What food brand has a cute little doughboy mascot named ‘Poppin Fresh’?

$10,000 (Josh) In soccer, what country has won the most FIFA Men’s World Cup titles? WRONG

$2500 (Meghan) What word for a cure-all comes from the name of the daughter of the Greek god of medicine? WRONG

$2500 (Katie) Kanye West’s song “Gold Digger” samples lyrics from “I Got a Woman” by what artist? WRONG

$2500 The name of what popular Mexican food item literally translates to ‘little donkey’? BANK

$2500 (Meghan) What novel by James Fenimore Cooper is the second book in his “Leatherstocking Tales” series?

$2500 (Katie) What southern university calls its football team the Volunteers?

$5000 (Josh) In what movie does an exasperated Harrison Ford throw a torch into a pit and say, “Snakes. Why’d it have to be snakes”? BANK

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Jane Lynch Quotes:
• Watching that was like trying to watch a bear trying to open a safe: so much effort, so little result. You banked $7,500 out of a possible half million dollars, which brings your total bank to $54,500.
• Who got too many gold stars as a kid?
• Whose nickname is “do not resuscitate”?

Josh and Meghan both voted for Katie and made her the Weakest Link.

FINAL ROUND: Tiffany and John have to answer 5 questions each. Jane Lynch: “Josh and Meghan have banked and bullied their way into the final where one of them is about to win $54,500….. No voting, no chain making, no banking, just $54,500 to the one who gives me the most correct answers.”

Meghan’s Questions:
1. The first woman on Earth in Greek mythology shares her name with what popular music streaming app?
2. What must your minimum net worth be to become a member of the ‘Three Comma Club’?
3. What Oscar-winning film’s final scene features the line “I do wish we could chat longer, but I’m having an old friend for dinner”?
4. During World War II, the Marines were assisted in capturing Iwo Jima by code talkers from what Native American tribe? WRONG
5. What swingin’ ‘60s fashion staple did British designer Mary Quant say she named for her favorite automobile? WRONG

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Josh’s Questions:
1. In 1970, Congress created the National Passenger Railroad Corporation, better known today as what railway company?
2. According to lore, what rock wall can you kiss on a castle in Ireland that will give you the ‘gift of gab’?
3. What seasonal character’s head appears on the best-selling PEZ dispenser of all time? WRONG
4. With 37 wins, what television spin-off holds the record for the most Emmys ever won by a sitcom? WRONG
5. The first and last man to walk on the moon both earned degrees from what Indiana university? WRONG

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Winner: Meghan $54,500

Jane Lynch: Congratulations, Meghan, you are tonight’s Strongest Link and you leave here with $54,500.
Meghan: Josh is a great competitor. I thought he had it. He was so close…
Josh: I was so excited to make it to that final round. Tonight we learned what kind of a jerk lord knows the name of a college president but not the name of that college.