Steve enters in a miner’s hat carrying
a flashlight and making jokes about the great blackout. Shortly after 5pm on November 9, most of New York
City lost power, and would remain without power for much of the night. The blackout was the result of a malfunction
in a transmission line in Ontario, and affected large parts of eastern Canada,
most of New York State, and parts of several neighboring states. In all, more than 30 million people were in
darkness. More than 800,000 commuters
were trapped on the NYC subways. A
similar blackout in 2003 would affect more people, but for a shorter span of
time.
Norris and Ross McWhirter from London, England brought a book with
them: “The book contains over 10,000 world records, facts and statistics…we’ve
memorized everything in the book”
The McWhirter
twins published the first Guinness Book
of Records in 1955. Today, the name “Guinness” is synonymous with world
records of every sort. Originally conceived as a way to settle bar bets about
natural facts (the idea was inspired by a managing director of the Guinness
breweries), over time its focus has shifted to unusual and extreme feats of
human accomplishment by individuals simply trying to set records. Guinness World Records, as the media franchise is known today, claims to
be the world's best-selling copyrighted book.
John Baker
from Raleigh, North Carolina: “I gave him a pair of my shoes” and Philip
Caeser from Portland, Maine: “He’s the only other football player who wears
size 16 shoes”
“Big John”
Baker is a defensive lineman for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Philip plays high school football in Maine
but was in danger of missing the season because he had outgrown his
cleats. Baker came through with one of
his enormous custom-made pairs. Baker
would play for four teams in an eleven-season career, ending with the Detroit
Lions in 1968. From 1978 until 2002, he
served as sheriff of Wake County, where his home of Raleigh is located.
Special guest
Omar Sharif speaks many languages. He
challenges the panel, who lack his linguistic skills, to communicate with
various non-English speakers and try to get various point across with facial
expressions and gestures. Sharif became
known to American audiences with his English-language debut in Lawrence of Arabia (1962). His film Doctor
Zhivago (1965) is about to open.
That film would make him an international superstar. In addition to his film career, Sharif was an
avid player of the card game bridge, and for a time was ranked among the best
players in the world. Oddly, we have a brief clip of him on the panel of the
French version of I've Got a Secret
from 1983.
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