Cash cab

Last September while stolling the streets of Manhattan near Times Square, we came upon this scene. We thought somebody was shooting a commercial for a taxi cab company or something, so we stopped, gawked and took a picture or two. Now, after watching the Discovery Channel, we figured out that they must have been shooting the opening credits for Cash Cab, the game show that takes place inside a New York taxi. Kathleen and I have watched it a few times and it is a fun show, if you like trivia. Unassuming people enter the "Cash Cab" as simple passengers taking a normal taxi ride, only to be shocked when they discover that they’re instant contestants. Ben Bailey, above, the host and driver of Cash Cab, then offers them the following proposition:
The Cash Cab will drive you all the way to your destination and ask you general knowledge questions along the way. The questions start out on the easy side, then get harder along the way – the harder the question, the more money it’s worth. The first four questions are worth $25 for each correct answer. The next four are worth $50 and then every question after that is worth $100.. -- Trailboss