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RealityFreakWill:
I watched Duel last night and I enjoyed it. Will watch it for the rest of the week except that I will have to miss the last half hour tonight because I'm going to watch the Biggest Loser finale.

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I just watched my tape of the inaguaral program of the series of 6 of Duel. The way it works is a little bit complicated compared to other game shows:

1. An initial contestant is chosen randomly.
2. That contestant gets to choose an opponent from among 3 randomly chosen of the 40 odd contestants.
3. The first contestant Sue picks Marco because he seems the dumbest of the 3 offered(I agree with her assessment).
4. The game setup has them opposite each other. Each receives 10 chips to cover any of 4 answers which they think could be correct to a question. They can use 1, 2, 3 or 4 but when they run low they will be at a huge disadvantage.
5. A dueler may PRESS his/her opponent twice in a session by hitting a special button which gives that opponent only 7 seconds to make their choices. You do this when youknow the answer and think they don't know it.
6. Any chips on wrong answers are removed and each one counts as $5000 toward the final pot. Any chips left when the opponent is defeated count in your own personal stash.
7. A shield to prevent the opponent from seeing your choices and vice-versa is raised just before each question is asked.
8. Anyone getting the question wrong is out unless they both do; then there is sudden death overtime to eliminate one.

Questions are typically comparable in difficulty to the $2000 to $25000 range in Who Wants to be a Millionaire?

So, Sue is behind for much of the first duel, but a question comes up that she knows and Marco doesn't and he is eliminated. Sue has the option of choosing a computer guy, an author, or a lawyer, two of which she had not selected when they were in the first pool. She picks Denise the lawyer. They had duplicates answers for the first several rounds. it is totally spooky. The decisive question is about Scoville units, which measure the hotness of peppers. Denise knows this immediately and PRESSes. Sue does not know it and picks the wrong answers, which eliminates her.

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It appears that my TV guide was wrong on how long Duel was last night. it was 90 minutes and I only taped 60 minutes, so I missed Denise up against Monica. it goes to the first-ever shoot-out and Monica eliminates Denise.

Tonight Monica starts by making a choice among Julie, a suburban housewife, and a used car salesman(who I would have picked but more on him later), and a children's book author. She picks Julie, who then reveals that she is a former member of MENSA. She plays like it and easily takes out Monica. Julie then has a choice of 2 men and Sherry, a funeral home owner. She goes with the girl-power theme and chooses Sherry, obviously scared at what the men might be able to do. She easily defeats Sherry. She again gets the choice of a rocker Johnny and the author and Karla a nurse and chooses Karla. In one question Julie is gone; it was what is the sum of the # of reindeer including Rudolph and the number of days in Hanukah(9 + 8 = 17 is correct). This gives Karla $45,000. She will need it because she makes the mistake of thinking that Robert the used car salesman is an easy mark. It turns out that despite his Appalachian roots he memorized the encyclopedia Britannica at age 4. Robert wins easily and picks Johnny the rocker over an old male taxi cab driver and a female middle age university administrator. The game is just starting as tonight's show ends.

There are 4 chairs for the leading contenders for the final round. People who lose are eligible to go there if they can displace anyone already there. Right now Denise is in the #1 chair with 2 duels and $30,000. Karla is in the #2 chair with 1 duel and $45,000. It is not clear how a duel is worth more than money. Sue is in the #3 chair with $10,000 and 1 duel. The prize money builds as chips are taken off with every wrong answer. The pot is now up to $480,000 after only 3 hours of play.

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Robert and Johnny duel until a geography question separates the man from the boy. That question was "which is the northernmost of the lower 48 states?" Answer choices were Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Washington. A trivial question for any geography buff, who know that the answer is Lake-or-the-Woods, Minnesota. Johnny put his faith in Maine and Michigan. Robert had Maine, Michigan and Minnesota, so he won his 3rd straight duel.

Robert got to choose his next opponent and he selected a female belly dancer. After she came up it was revealed that she is currently in college with an above 4.0 grade point average. The critical question was also geography. It was how many states have two word names. Robert chose 7 and 8. Emily choose 10 and 12. I was thinking Robert was going to win, based on all the News and Norths and Souths. And he would have except for Rhode Island and West Virginia, which upped the total from 8 to 10 and eliminated him. He still got to occupy the #1 chair based on winning 3 duels.

Emily got to pick her next opponent and she picked Tammy the college administrator. Their duel is just starting as tonight's show ends.

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The Emily/Tammy duel ends quickly as a geography question decides it. It was which of these states is NOT part of the 4 corners: UT AZ CO NV. The missing 4th corner is NM and the bad apple is of course NV. Emily loses and Tammy takes the helm. She picks Robert the Telemarketer and loses to him. Robert then picks Stephen the Cab Driver and Stephen clean his clock. Stephen then goes up against Chris the Umpire, who takes him out. Chris the Umpire selects Ashlee the nurse, who also has a B.S. biology to go with her B.S. Nursing. She is sharp enough to take him out on the first quesiton, which is about which of 4 women makes the most money from acting annually after Oprah.  the choices are Ellen Degeneres, Judge Judy, Katie Couric, and another actress. Chris selects all except Judy Judy. Ashlee selects all, but answers the host that she thinks it is Judge Judy. It is Judge Judy indeed by a factor of about 2($30 million).  Ashlee selects as an opponent Kimberly but time runs out. The pool has grown to $1,060,000 for the champioinship round on Sunday. It looks like it might reach $1.4 million after Friday night's duels.

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