Transcript 3/13/2015 - Miriam Camara

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Miriam Camara
Staten Island, NY

No preliminary chitchat.

Question #1: Because spacewalks can last six hours or more, NASA spacesuits have a Maximum Absorption Garment, a fancy term for a what?
A - sweatband
B - athletic shirt
C - cooling system
D - diaper

Miriam says

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she has a problem holding it for more than 2 hours

.

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Answer: D (diaper)
Value: $15,000
Bank: $15,000

Question #2: Known better as a "Real Housewife of Atlanta" and "Mrs. T.I.," Kandi Burruss and Tiny Cottle were members of what 1990s girl group?
A - Xscape
B - TLC
C - 7O2
D - En Vogue

"Real Housewives" is Miriam's favorite show and

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Xscape

was her favorite band growing up.

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Answer: A (Xscape)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $22,000

commercial break

If Miriam won the million she'd get married to her boyfriend of 8 years - she wants the biggest ring and the biggest wedding Staten Island has ever seen.

Question #3: Which of the following is not a language, but an element on the periodic table?
A - Javanese
B - Cantonese
C - Manganese
D - Burmese

Miriam can eliminate

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B and D

right away.

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Answer: C (Manganese)
Value: $5,000
Bank: $27,000

Question #4: Because the practice can spread germs, NPR declared that "Julia Child Was Wrong: Don't" what your raw chicken?
A - baste
B - salt and pepper
C - dress
D - wash

Miriam doesn't think it would be

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wash, and she's torn between A and C

. She decides to ask the audience.

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Ask the Audience results:
A - 21%
B - 5%
C - 26%
D - 48%

Miriam doesn't trust the audience and skips the question.

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Answer: D (wash)
Value: $500 (jumped)
Bank: $27,000 (unchanged)

Question #5: If you were caught "tippling" in public, by definition, what are you most likely to be arrested for?
A - panhandling
B - public intoxication
C - indecent exposure
D - vandalism

All of them are things that one could be arrested for, but Miriam says that

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tippling is associated with alcohol

. She calls for her +1, her "fantastic intelligent mother". Miriam says she thinks it's

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B because a tippler is a drunkard

. Her mother agrees with her 100%.

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Answer: B (public intoxication)
Value: $25,000
Bank: $52,000

commercial break

Folks will be jealous of Miriam when she goes back to Staten Island.

Question #6: On "Jimmy Kimmel Live," Bill Clinton said he wouldn't be surprised if aliens visited Earth, but hoped "it's not like" which sci-fi film?
A - Contact
B - Independence Day
C - E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
D - Cocoon

Miriam knows it's not

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E.T. because he was super friendly; Independence Day had Will Smith and she thinks it was super scary with fighting and such

. Despite this, she decides to walk away.

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Answer: B (Independence Day)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $26,000 (half the bank)

commercial break

MILLIONAIRE "QUESTION OF THE DAY": Defined as "a mysterious, imaginary animal," the word "snark" is said to have been coined by whom in his poem "The Hunting of

the Snark"?
A - Rudyard Kipling
B - Dr. Seuss
C - Lewis Carroll
D - Edgar Allan Poe

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Answer: C (Lewis Carroll)

[earendel]

Miriam Camara
Staten Island, NY

No preliminary chitchat.

Question #2: Known better as a "Real Housewife of Atlanta" and "Mrs. T.I.," Kandi Burruss and Tiny Cottle were members of what 1990s girl group?
A - Xscape
B - TLC
C - 7O2
D - En Vogue

"Real Housewives" is Miriam's favorite show and

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Xscape

was her favorite band growing up.

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Answer: A (Xscape)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $22,000

commercial break

Never heard of Xscape nor either of the two women. Time to JTQ.

Question #4: Because the practice can spread germs, NPR declared that "Julia Child Was Wrong: Don't" what your raw chicken?
A - baste
B - salt and pepper
C - dress
D - wash

Miriam doesn't think it would be

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wash, and she's torn between A and C

. She decides to ask the audience.

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Ask the Audience results:
A - 21%
B - 5%
C - 26%
D - 48%

Miriam doesn't trust the audience and skips the question.

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Answer: D (wash)
Value: $500 (jumped)
Bank: $27,000 (unchanged)

She should have trusted the audience. Washing chicken can spread bacteria.

Question #6: On "Jimmy Kimmel Live," Bill Clinton said he wouldn't be surprised if aliens visited Earth, but hoped "it's not like" which sci-fi film?
A - Contact
B - Independence Day
C - E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
D - Cocoon

Miriam knows it's not

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E.T. because he was super friendly; Independence Day had Will Smith and she thinks it was super scary with fighting and such

. Despite this, she decides to walk away.

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Answer: B (Independence Day)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $26,000 (half the bank)

Wow - she had the answer but didn't go for it. Too bad.

[ghostjmf]

Q2: ATA & hope.

Q4: Having heard all those lectures about dressing/stuffing not getting hot enough inside the bird I'd go for "dress" & be out here.

Got rest of Qs, however.

[SportsFan68]

Question #2: Known better as a "Real Housewife of Atlanta" and "Mrs. T.I.," Kandi Burruss and Tiny Cottle were members of what 1990s girl group?
A - Xscape
B - TLC
C - 7O2
D - En Vogue

"Real Housewives" is Miriam's favorite show and

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Xscape

was her favorite band growing up.

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Answer: A (Xscape)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $22,000

Surely the audience knows this. ATA.