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Dolores Cruz
San Gabriel, CA
3rd grade teacher

Dolores wants to use her winnings to buy new computers for her school and a new car for her husband.

Today's ATE is advertising legend and television host, Donny Deutsch.

Topic Tree:

Famous Documents
Breaking Barriers
Inventors
Hormones
Island Nations
The Titanic
Animal Names
Stuck in the Middle
In the News
Women’s Wear
Famous Singers
Talk TV
U.S. Geography
Big Business
Children’s Songs

$500 “How I wonder what your are?” is the second line to what beloved children’s ditty?
A. Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
B. The Farmer in the Dell
C. Hey Diddle Diddle
D. The Itsy Bitsy Mortgage Crisis

Spoiler

A. Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (5)

$1K Known for popular product lines such as Hot Wheels, Mattel Inc. bills itself as a leading manufacturer of what?
A. Paper
B. Kitchen appliances
C. Computer chips
D. Toys

Spoiler

D. Toys (10)

$2K Mount Harvard, Mount Yale, and Mount Oxford are all part of a Colorado wilderness area known as what?
A. Collegiate Peaks
B. Musical Peaks
C. Presidential Peaks
D. European Peaks

Spoiler

A. Collegiate Peaks (7)

$3K A talk show that debuted in 2009, “The Joy Behar Show” is hosted by a co-host of what other TV talk show?
A. Good Morning America
B. The Early Show
C. The View
D. The Today Show

ATA (9)

0% A. Good Morning America
6% B. The Early Show
90% C. The View
4% D. The Today Show

Spoiler

C. The View (6)

$5K A five-decade career and several top twenty hits earned Gladys Knight the nickname “the Empress of” what?
A. Soul
B. Country
C. Disco
D. Metal

Spoiler

A. Soul (9)

$7.5K Named after the title of an operetta, a “merry widow” is an informal term for a type of what ladies’ clothing item?
A. Pants
B. Undergarment
C. Scarf
D. Overcoat

Spoiler

B. Undergarment (24)

$10K As part of her trip to the Grand Canyon in 2009, Malia Obama identified “igneous,” sedimentary” and “metamorphic” what?
A. Trees
B. Clouds
C. Rocks
D. Insects

Spoiler

C. Rocks (24)

$12.5K What is the name of the landmass that lies between the Adriatic Sea and the Black Sea?
A. Sinai Peninsula
B. Jutland Peninsula
C. Balkan Peninsula
D. Yucatán Peninsula

ATE (15)

Donny says that it is just a guess, but would he would go with Sinai since it’s in the Sinai area. He again states that it is just a guess.

DD (14)

Dolores’ first choice, Sinai Peninsula, is incorrect.
Dolores’ second choice is correct.

Spoiler

C. Balkan Peninsula (12)

commercial break

$15K Groundhogs are also commonly known as what?
A. Chipmunks
B. Woodchucks
C. Prairie dogs
D. Hedgehogs

Dolores decides to leave with $12.5K.

Spoiler

B. Woodchucks (5)

Answers:
$500 A. Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
$1K D. Toys
$2K A. Collegiate Peaks
$3K C. The View
$5K A. Soul
$7.5K B. Undergarment
$10K C. Rocks
$12.5K C. Balkan Peninsula
$15K B. Woodchucks

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$12.5K What is the name of the landmass that lies between the Adriatic Sea and the Black Sea?
A. Sinai Peninsula
B. Jutland Peninsula
C. Balkan Peninsula
D. Yucatán Peninsula

ATE (15)

Donny says that it is just a guess, but would he would go with Sinai since it’s in the Sinai area. He again states that it is just a guess.

Does Donny think Moses parted the Black Sea on his way to Mt. Sinai? He must have been absent for that lesson in Hebrew School.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Dolores Cruz
San Gabriel, CA
3rd grade teacher

Dolores wants to use her winnings to buy new computers for her school

A terrific gesture. I will definitely root for her.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$7.5K Named after the title of an operetta, a “merry widow” is an informal term for a type of what ladies’ clothing item?
A. Pants
B. Undergarment
C. Scarf
D. Overcoat

That's it for me. Even before the choices came up, I thought it was a scarf.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$10K As part of her trip to the Grand Canyon in 2009, Malia Obama identified “igneous,” sedimentary” and “metamorphic” what?
A. Trees
B. Clouds
C. Rocks
D. Insects

Spoiler

C. Rocks (24)

They couldn't get Malia to read this as a Celebrity Q?

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Dolores Cruz
San Gabriel, CA
3rd grade teacher

Dolores wants to use her winnings to buy new computers for her school and a new car for her husband.

A nice ambition, but with the rate that people have been winning, she'll have to choose between the two.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$3K A talk show that debuted in 2009, “The Joy Behar Show” is hosted by a co-host of what other TV talk show?
A. Good Morning America
B. The Early Show
C. The View
D. The Today Show

ATA (9)

0% A. Good Morning America
6% B. The Early Show
90% C. The View
4% D. The Today Show

Spoiler

C. The View (6)

I wonder if Meredith will talk to Joy about this since they're "good friends" (Meredith's words).

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$5K A five-decade career and several top twenty hits earned Gladys Knight the nickname “the Empress of” what?
A. Soul
B. Country
C. Disco
D. Metal

Spoiler

A. Soul (9)

So she outranks Aretha, who is the Queen of Soul?

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$12.5K What is the name of the landmass that lies between the Adriatic Sea and the Black Sea?
A. Sinai Peninsula
B. Jutland Peninsula
C. Balkan Peninsula
D. Yucatán Peninsula

ATE (15)

Donny says that it is just a guess, but would he would go with Sinai since it’s in the Sinai area. He again states that it is just a guess.

DD (14)

Dolores’ first choice, Sinai Peninsula, is incorrect.
Dolores’ second choice is correct.

Spoiler

C. Balkan Peninsula (12)

I guess third graders are a little young to be teaching geography to.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$15K Groundhogs are also commonly known as what?
A. Chipmunks
B. Woodchucks
C. Prairie dogs
D. Hedgehogs

Dolores decides to leave with $12.5K.

Spoiler

B. Woodchucks (5)

As I said - it's a choice between the car (or a down payment) and computers.