Transcript 02/17/11 - Mary Kate Meehan (1 Q Contestant)

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We are almost out of time, so instead of starting a new game, an audience member gets a shot at $1,000.

Mary Kate Meehan
New York, NY

Mary Kate is orginally from South Jersey. She lives and works in the city now, as an accountant.

Mary Kate will look at the next question that Carter would have gotten, so it's a $500,000 question. If Mary Kate gets it right, she'll will $1,000. Right or wrong, she gets the WWTBAM game for the Wii.


At an estimated 84.4 years, which of these places does the U.S. Census Bureau list as having the world's longest life expectancy?

A: Macau B: Liechtenstein
C: Singapore D: Monaco

Mary Kate goes goes with

Spoiler

Singapore

as her final answer, but that's not correct, so she gets the Millionaire game.

Answer

A: Macau

[earendel]

We are almost out of time, so instead of starting a new game, an audience member gets a shot at $1,000.

Mary Kate Meehan
New York, NY

Mary Kate is orginally from South Jersey. She lives and works in the city now, as an accountant.

Mary Kate will look at the next question that Carter would have gotten, so it's a $500,000 question. If Mary Kate gets it right, she'll will $1,000. Right or wrong, she gets the WWTBAM game for the Wii.


At an estimated 84.4 years, which of these places does the U.S. Census Bureau list as having the world's longest life expectancy?

A: Macau B: Liechtenstein
C: Singapore D: Monaco

Mary Kate goes goes with

Spoiler

Singapore

as her final answer, but that's not correct, so she gets the Millionaire game.

Answer

A: Macau

OK, if this had been in Carter's stack I'd have walked away because I would have had no idea. Macau was probably the third on my mental list of the four choices.

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We are almost out of time, so instead of starting a new game, an audience member gets a shot at $1,000.

Mary Kate Meehan
New York, NY

Mary Kate is orginally from South Jersey. She lives and works in the city now, as an accountant.

Mary Kate will look at the next question that Carter would have gotten, so it's a $500,000 question. If Mary Kate gets it right, she'll will $1,000. Right or wrong, she gets the WWTBAM game for the Wii.


At an estimated 84.4 years, which of these places does the U.S. Census Bureau list as having the world's longest life expectancy?

A: Macau B: Liechtenstein
C: Singapore D: Monaco

Mary Kate goes goes with

Spoiler

Singapore

as her final answer, but that's not correct, so she gets the Millionaire game.

Answer

A: Macau

OK, if this had been in Carter's stack I'd have walked away because I would have had no idea. Macau was probably the third on my mental list of the four choices.

Why would the U.S Census Bureau be tracking this? Don't they have enough trouble keeping track of our population?

Macau made as much sense as Singapore to me. The Chinese, and Asians in general, seem to live a long time if they have a decent standard of living and Macau, as a long time Portuguese territory and more recent history of income from the gambling industry there probably has typically done better than mainland China and presumably has regular access to protein from seafood.