$100,000 Pyramid - Nathan Cook - "Hall of Fame Books"? 📚📖🤔 

Nathan was one of the coolest dudes ever. RIP

What? From what?

@@allprog He had a serious allergy to penicillin that he didn't know about. A terrible way to go, and at such a young age.

What on earth does his death have anything to do with this though? I think you just wanted to provide this trivia fact lol

@@jjs1990 I hate to break it to you, but people die sometimes. Despite appearances to the contrary, even Dick Clark didn't live forever.

agreed, his was a brilliant mind, lost too soon.

You don't get to see that, most to often !!!. It really is Amazing.😀👍

Seriously...all three of those were VERY tough.

“Enshrined in the Hall of Fame.” Ask any sports fan, they know that phrase.

Definitely a very tough one. However a little luck was involved. This was not the first time that subject was used. Nathan Cook (the actor receiving the clues) had actually seen the previous episode with that subject and admitted he had used it as a practice category for himself in preparation. So when she was giving the clues, enshrined clicked automatically because he realized it was being re-used. Nothing wrong with that, but as I said, some luck was involved because if Nathan hadn’t seen it previously he nay not have gotten it.

*FACTS!*

Keefe gave the absolute perfect clue though. Nathan Cook had things that were enshrined on another episode, and Keefe remembered that and gave the Hall of Fame clue that only Nathan would know.

@@shanejones8884I think the best clue would’ve been “hall of fame inductees”

@@nickpapageorgio926 You’re playing with fire with that one. Though as descriptive as the clue she gave, it could’ve caused a judge’s buzzer.

@@shanejones8884 I don’t see how it would be fire

Usually when they win the $100k, they jump and go wild

Nathan probably thought she simply collapsed!

She gave the clues every time she went to the winner’s circle. She was a fucking awesome clue giver. She knew where the line was drawn were one adjective was okay, and being to overly descriptive (except on what “blank” might say, they give you a ton of leeway on that one)

I would have never gotten things that are enshrined in a million years..well done..I used to love this show back in the Dick Clark days.

It was.

It was and it was also the only time a contestant won $100,000 when giving clues

There's not many better contestants.

@@Goomlahexpress My Top 5 1) Keefe Ferrandini 2) M.G. McCormick 3) Patty Geiger 4) Cheryl Reinwand 5) Richard Mahaffey

Exactly for instance in the 1st and 4th tournament win the category things in San Francisco was used in both tournaments

@@peterkrahn2224 Agreed. I think they also used things in Washington DC a couple times.

There was a case for the category "Reference Books," and the clue giver said, "Law library." It was, indeed, confirmed by Dick that the judge gave her a couple of seconds to "finish" the clue with "materials" or anything of the sort before buzzing her. As it stood, a law library is not a reference book, and that clue could be seen a way of getting the recipient to say "Reference" without listing a book, or material, as it were. The judges were strict on that. The clue giver should've said "thesaurus, encyclopedia, dictionary, atlas." Let's be honest. "Enshrine" is a very difficult word to get the recipient to say, as things that a clue giver lists for that category would also fit its synonyms. The thing is that you don't enshrine a shrine. The "Hall of Fame books" was the perfect escape clue. A "book 'Hall of Fame'" might be an iffy one for the same reason "Panty Dorm" was buzzed for "Things that are Raided": a nonexistent term to get the recipient to say "raided". Plus, the game deals with sounds. (FYI books titled "Hall of Fame" did exist in beginning in 1977, but we have the power of Google now; the judges didn't have Google in 1988)

​@@NJAD0This was the hardest $100k BY FAR. Shaggy? Compartments? Enshrined? Madness.

There was another tournament win where the top box was “things that are bound.” AfterDC said “HURRY” with four seconds left, she came up with “old fashioned Japanese women’s feet.” Truth is, foot binding was a Chinese practice, not Japanese. No buzzer, and somehow the contestant got it. Shelly Smith was the only celebrity to win the tournament twice.

The original air date for this episode was January 19, 1988. Cook passed away that June, on June 11th. So, the answer to your question is just a bit less than five months later.

What he died of

​@@larrylollis5875Allergic reaction to penicillin.

She probably meant to say "Hall of Fame players." But it was a great combo to say Torah and Hall of Fame to get enshrined. Nathan's great at getting it, but her clues were superb.

If she didn't correct herself and append "books," she would have been zapped. A "Hall of Fame" is, itself, a shrine, not something that _is_ enshrined. And by those rules, the "Hall of Fame" clue would go around the category and be zapped. Books made it legal.

@@NJAD0 Yeah, that is absolutely correct.

Because she was in shock that she had just won $100,000. The contestant has always had the option to give or receive. 99% of the time the contestants choose to receive, but this time she chose to give. “Enshrined”? Are you kidding me?

If someone else out there has more episodes of this week and shares them, we could verify 😜 I recall reading about how they used the same category in the last week when Nathan was on, and he used the clue "hall of fame books" to describe it

@@JsClassicTV this tournament only lasted two days so if it came up twice in the same tournament thatd be kind of foolish on the shows part

Ummm... This is from '88.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZrhyF6PQxO4.html unfortunately they did not, the contestant gave an illegal clue while giving the clues in the winner's circle.

@@JsClassicTV he gave a synonym on the fourth category. I apparently gave the same clue too.

First trip to the Winners Circle was for $10,000. If they won twice in the same show, return to WC would be for $100k.

@@eddiebell9963 I know that. If the $100k was on in the first half of a show, the second half was played for $10k.