Philadelphia, PA
retired realtor
Within the past two years Liz has started taking art, piano and ukulele lessons and joined a bowling league.
Topic Tree: (randomized)
Biopics
Titillating Taxonomy
Put a Ring On It
Hoops
Latest and Greatest
What's in a Name?
Big Haul
What a Man
Popular Exports
Annals of Speech (Disney Giveaway question)
Question #1 (Annals of Speech) - Disney Giveaway question
Because a penny is worth far less today, what 16th century idiom is cheapened by 500 years of inflation?
A - penny for your schemes
B - penny for your soul
C - penny for your thoughts
D - penny for your heart
Liz is going to go right to it. She closes her eyes and gives her final answer.
Spoiler
Answer: C (penny for your thoughts)
Value: $100
Bank: $100
Value: $100
Bank: $100
In a time of economic distress, a Russian school district in Altai, Siberia once resorted to paying its schoolteachers with what?
A - nesting dolls
B - reindeer antlers
C - Faberge eggs
D - vodka
Liz says that
Spoiler
Faberge eggs are too expensive and reindeer antlers wouldn't be very welcome in a time of economic distress and neither would nesting dolls
Spoiler
Answer: D (vodka)
Value: $3,000
Bank: $3,100
Value: $3,000
Bank: $3,100
Ranked #69, who was the only man to appear on Maxim's 2012 list of the 100 "Most Beautiful Women"?
A - Robert Downey, Jr.
B - Mark Zuckerberg
C - Stephen Colbert
D - Justin Bieber
Liz tries to remember if any of them dressed up as a woman. She can't, so she decides to jump the question.
Spoiler
Answer: C (Stephen Colbert)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $3,100 (unchanged)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $3,100 (unchanged)
With 13 works of art valued at $300 million, the biggest art heist in history occurred in 1990 in what city's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum?
A - Boston
B - New York
C - San Francisco
D - Austin
Liz is going to close her eyes again and say
Spoiler
A, Boston
Spoiler
Answer: A (Boston)
Value: $1,000
Bank: $4,100
Value: $1,000
Bank: $4,100
In 2012, a countersuit against what rapper resulted in him owing over $2 million to the producers behind "The Carter," a documentary about his life?
A - 50 Cent
B - Lil Wayne
C - Drake
D - Mos Def
Liz isn't into rap. She decides to ask the audience.
ATA results
A - 34%
B - 58%
C - 4%
D - 4%
B - 58%
C - 4%
D - 4%
Spoiler
Answer: B (Lil Wayne)
Value: $500
Bank: $4,600
Value: $500
Bank: $4,600
Coming out of commercial another promo for the New Fantasyland is shown, along with information on how viewers can win a trip.
Question #6 (Latest and Greatest)
Retailing for around $3,000, Victorinox now offers a Swiss Army knife with a flash drive containing a storage capacity of up to what?
A - 1 gigabyte
B - 1 terabyte
C - 1 petabyte
D - 1 exabyte
Liz doesn't know the definition of any of these so she decides to jump the question.
Spoiler
Answer: B (1 terabyte)
Value: $2,000
Bank: $4,600 (unchanged)
Value: $2,000
Bank: $4,600 (unchanged)
The NBA has a new rule penalizing players who intentionally fall down when little or no contact is made, a practice known as what?
A - flopping
B - planking
C - proning
D - floor surfing
Liz doesn't have a clue but she's going to guess.
Spoiler
Answer: A (flopping)
Value: $25,000
Bank: $29,600
Value: $25,000
Bank: $29,600
In a role reversal movement, many women are now offering their boyfriends "man-gagement rings" when they are what?
A - on a first date
B - moving in
C - breaking up
D - proposing
Liz says
Spoiler
it better be D because otherwise it would be very awkward
Spoiler
Answer: D (proposing)
Value: $15,000
Bank: $44,600
Value: $15,000
Bank: $44,600
Which of the following animals could rightly be called an undulating ungulate?
A - a wiggling weasel
B - a dancing duck
C - a wobbling wildebeest
D - a swinging seabass
Liz says she wishes she knew what "ungulate" means. She doesn't know the word so she's going to have to walk away.
Spoiler
Answer: C (a wobbling wildebeest)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $22,300 (half the bank)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $22,300 (half the bank)
Millionaire question of the day:
Tetrodotoxin, a poison over 1,000 times deadlier than cyanide, is found in which of these creatures?
A - gila monster
B - black widow spider
C - king cobra
D - puffer fish
Answer:
Spoiler
D (puffer fish)
