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Mary Lally
Wilmington, DE

Mary has banked $50,100, with all of her lifelines gone. She's between jobs, so she can really use the money, now.

Question Topics (Randomized):
* Children's Tales
* [Jumped]
* $100
* $25,000
* [Jumped]
* $10,000
* $1,000
* $7,000
* $2,000
* $5,000


Question #10 * Children's Tales
What children's book features the story of a boy who saves his country by plugging a leaking dike with his finger?

A: Heidi B: Hans Brinker
C: Anne of Green Gables D: The Tale of Peter Rabbit

Answer/Value/Bank

B: Hans Brinker
Question Value: $500
Bank: $50,600

Mary is now in Round Two. It it time to play Classic Millionaire!


$100,000
Like the Nile, which of these major U.S. rivers also ends just after passing a city named Cairo?

A: Delaware B: Missouri
C: Colorado D: Ohio

Mary: [Throwing up her hands] B: Missouri--ohhh!

Meredith: Final?

Mary: No! [The audience reacts with applause.]

Meredith reminds Mary that she risks dropping to $25,000 if she gets it wrong.

Mary: Oh, I'll risk it. Ummm. Yes, no, oh, this is terrible, I'm sorry!

Mary considers the question a bit longer before saying

Spoiler

D: Ohio.

Meredith: Final?

Mary: Why not? Final answer.

Meredith: [pausing] Do you want to know?

Mary: Yes.

Meredith: It's the

Spoiler

Ohio.

Answer

D: Ohio

-- Commercial Break --


$250,000
Intermittently throughout his life, Henry David Thoreau supported himself by working at his parents' factory, which made what?

A: Pencils B: Hunting rifles
C: Stained glass windows D: Flags

Mary is thinking New England and eliminating

Spoiler

stained glass windows

for some reason. She thinks it's either

Spoiler

hunting rifles or flags

, but she walks away with $100,000.

Answer

A: Pencils

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$100,000
Like the Nile, which of these major U.S. rivers also ends just after passing a city named Cairo?

A: Delaware B: Missouri
C: Colorado D: Ohio

Mary: [Throwing up her hands] B: Missouri--ohhh!

Meredith: Final?

Mary: No! [The audience reacts with applause.]

Meredith reminds Mary that she risks dropping to $25,000 if she gets it wrong.

Mary: Oh, I'll risk it. Ummm. Yes, no, oh, this is terrible, I'm sorry!

Mary considers the question a bit longer before saying

Spoiler

D: Ohio.

Meredith: Final?

Mary: Why not? Final answer.

Meredith: [pausing] Do you want to know?

Mary: Yes.

Meredith: It's the

Spoiler

Ohio.

Answer

D: Ohio

Mary got a bit of extra help from the audience on this question.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$100,000
Like the Nile, which of these major U.S. rivers also ends just after passing a city named Cairo?

A: Delaware B: Missouri
C: Colorado D: Ohio

Answer

D: Ohio

This has to be the easiest $100/125K question in the history of the syndicated show.

jarnon wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$100,000
Like the Nile, which of these major U.S. rivers also ends just after passing a city named Cairo?

A: Delaware B: Missouri
C: Colorado D: Ohio

Answer

D: Ohio

This has to be the easiest $100/125K question in the history of the syndicated show.

Yeah, there have been a lot tougher questions in Round One.

Residents of the U.S. city might be upset that Meredith pronounced it like the Egyptian city (KYE-roh) instead of the way they do it (KAY-roh).

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: Mary Lally
Wilmington, DE

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$100,000
Like the Nile, which of these major U.S. rivers also ends just after passing a city named Cairo?

A: Delaware B: Missouri
C: Colorado D: Ohio

Mary: [Throwing up her hands] B: Missouri--ohhh!

Meredith: Final?

Mary: No! [The audience reacts with applause.]

Meredith reminds Mary that she risks dropping to $25,000 if she gets it wrong.

Mary: Oh, I'll risk it. Ummm. Yes, no, oh, this is terrible, I'm sorry!

Mary considers the question a bit longer before saying

Spoiler

D: Ohio.

Meredith: Final?

Mary: Why not? Final answer.

Meredith: [pausing] Do you want to know?

Mary: Yes.

Meredith: It's the

Spoiler

Ohio.

Answer

D: Ohio

981 miles from Pittsburgh to the Mississippi near Cairo.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$250,000
Intermittently throughout his life, Henry David Thoreau supported himself by working at his parents' factory, which made what?

A: Pencils B: Hunting rifles
C: Stained glass windows D: Flags

Mary is thinking New England and eliminating

Spoiler

stained glass windows

for some reason. She thinks it's either

Spoiler

hunting rifles or flags

, but she walks away with $100,000.

Answer

A: Pencils

Wow, this would have been an absolute dream stack - I'd have had all my lifelines with only two questions between me and the $1M.

The Mary Grandpre, The Doors, and the Beverly Hills 90210 questions would have eaten up my lifelines. Pop culturish questions seem to always do that for me.