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Jacqui Magnuson
Las Vegas, NV
Stay-at-home mom

Meredith asks if Jacqui is a gambler. "Yes, I take risks, but I have no poker face," Jacqui replies.

Topic Tree: (unrandomized)
10 - World Record War
9 - Horse Rides
8 - LOL
7 - Beck
6 - Pretty People
5 - Dope Animals
4 - Modern Times
3 - By Popular Vote
2 - Corn Tales
1 - Classic Makeover

Topic Tree: (randomized)
8 - LOL
7 - Beck
9 - Horse Rides
3 - By Popular Vote
4 - Modern Times
6 - Pretty People
2 - Corn Tales
1 - Classic Makeover
10 - World Record War
5 - Dope Animals

Question #1 (Dope Animals - Level 5)
Which of these substances is banned in Major League Baseball, but legal when it comes to raising cattle?
A - amphetamines
B - glucosamine
C - growth hormones
D - creatine

Spoiler

Answer: C (growth hormones)
Value: $10,000
Bank: $10,000

Question #2 (World Record War - Level 10)
1896's Anglo-Zanzibar War is considered the shortest war in history at about what length of time?
A - 40 minutes
B - 2 hours
C - 7 hours
D - 24 hours

Jacqui isn't going to take a chance so she jumps the question.

Spoiler

Answer: A (40 minutes)
Value: $15,000
Bank: $10,000 (no change)

Question #3 (Classic Makeover - Level 1)
Which of these beloved fairy tales is given a hip-hop makeover in the 1993 children's book "Yo, Hungry Wolf! A Nursery Rap"?
A - Sleeping Beauty
B - Hansel and Gretel
C - Little Red Riding Hood
D - Rapunzel

The only fairy tale Jacqui can think of that has a wolf is

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Little Red Riding Hood

.

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Answer: C (Little Red Riding Hood)
Value: $100
Bank: $10,100

Question #4 (Corn Tales - Level 2)
According to Native American folklore, what treat is created when a spirit living inside a corn kernel becomes hot and angry?
A - cornmeal
B - creamed corn
C - popcorn
D - candy corn

The only one that makes sense to Jacqui is

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popcorn

.

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Answer: c (popcorn)
Value: $5,000
Bank: $15,100

commercial break

Jacqui wants to change the world in every little way she can. She would like to use the money she wins to "100% solar panel" her house. Jacqui also takes in strays.

Question #5 (Pretty People - Level 6)
The Wikipedia entry for "physical attractiveness" features photos of the Venus de Milo and what famed male statue?
A - Adonis
B - David
C - The Discus Thrower
D - The Thinker

Jacqui goes with

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A, Adonis

.

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Answer: A (Adonis)
Value: $25,000
Bank: $40,100

Question #6 (Modern Times - Level 4)
"Vibranxiety" is a slang term which refers to feeling phantom vibrations from what tech item?
A - alarm clock
B - cell phone
C - electronic toothbrush
D - laptop

As Meredith reads the question Jacqui laughs. Then she decides to ask the audience.

ATA results

A - 4%
B - 83%
C - 7%
D - 6%

That was one of the two Jacqui was looking at. She's going to trust the audience.

Spoiler

Answer: B (cell phone)
Value: $3,000
Bank: $43,100

Question #7 (By Popular Vote - Level 3)
A popular myth states that after conducting a poll at the University of Iowa to find the prettiest girl on campus, who met his wife?
A - George Gallup
B - Paul Reuter
C - Arthur Nielson
D - John Moody

Spoiler

Answer: A (George Gallup)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $50,100

commercial break

Jacqui's daughter Stephanie is eleven.

Question #8 (Horse Rides - Level 9)
Every summer, the National Pony Express Association re-enacts the famous ride between Missouri and what western city?
A - Sacramento
B - Albuquerque
C - Phoenix
D - San Diego

Jacqui has a guess but she has too much money to risk it so she's going to jump the question.

Spoiler

Answer: A (Sacramento)
Value: $1,000
Bank: $50,100 (no change)

Meredith asks Jacqui what her guess would have been and she replies, "Sacramento".

Question #9 (Beck - Level 7)
Featured in a 1990s Beck song, what is the translation of the Spanish lyric "Soy un perdedor"?
A - I'm a loser
B - Got a devil's haircut
C - Where it's at
D - The new pollution

Meredith asks if Jacqui knows Spanish. She knows some...it's been years since she studied it. She's not a Beck fan, either, but she does know his one song,

Spoiler

"I'm a Loser"

so that's her final answer.

Spoiler

Answer: A (I'm a loser)
Value: $2,000
Bank: $52,100

Question #10 (LOL - Level 8)
When "LOL" was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2011, the OED noted that its original usage stood for what?
A - labor of love
B - learned one's lesson
C - little old lady
D - load of laundry

Jacqui has never heard of three of the answers being used with that abbreviation so she's going to go with

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A, labor of love

as her final answer.

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Answer: C (little old lady)
Value: $500
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

Meredith says that it was used in the 1960s.

THE END OF GAME "NOISE"

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #2 (World Record War - Level 10)
1896's Anglo-Zanzibar War is considered the shortest war in history at about what length of time?
A - 40 minutes
B - 2 hours
C - 7 hours
D - 24 hours

Jacqui isn't going to take a chance so she jumps the question.

Spoiler

Answer: A (40 minutes)
Value: $15,000
Bank: $10,000 (no change)

My history books in school seem to have forgotten the subject of this WWOQ, so I had to go to Wikipedia. There's a note on that page that lays the groundwork for some controversy.

Notes

^ a b c Several durations are given by sources, including 38,[1][2] 40[3] and 45[4] minutes, but the 38 minute duration is the most often quoted. The variation is due to confusion over what actually constitutes the start and end of a war. Some sources take the start of the war as the order to open fire at 09:00 and some with the start of actual firing at 09:02. The end of the war is usually put at 09:40 when the last shots were fired and the palace flag struck, but some sources place it at 09:45. The logbooks of the British ships also suffer from this with St George indicating that cease-fire was called and Khalid entered the German consulate at 09:35, Thrush at 09:40, Racoon at 09:41 and Philomel and Sparrow at 09:45.[5]

So, not only isn't 40 minutes the most often cited source, but none of these have any mention of a declaration of war on one hand and a peace treaty on the other. Sounds mighty fishy, to me!

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #2 (World Record War - Level 10)
1896's Anglo-Zanzibar War is considered the shortest war in history at about what length of time?
A - 40 minutes
B - 2 hours
C - 7 hours
D - 24 hours

Jacqui isn't going to take a chance so she jumps the question.

Spoiler

Answer: A (40 minutes)
Value: $15,000
Bank: $10,000 (no change)

Never even heard of it.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #5 (Pretty People - Level 6)
The Wikipedia entry for "physical attractiveness" features photos of the Venus de Milo and what famed male statue?
A - Adonis
B - David
C - The Discus Thrower
D - The Thinker

Jacqui goes with

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A, Adonis

.

Spoiler

Answer: A (Adonis)
Value: $25,000
Bank: $40,100

I would have said David and gone down.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #7 (By Popular Vote - Level 3)
A popular myth states that after conducting a poll at the University of Iowa to find the prettiest girl on campus, who met his wife?
A - George Gallup
B - Paul Reuter
C - Arthur Nielson
D - John Moody

Spoiler

Answer: A (George Gallup)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $50,100

I met George Gallup '53 at a Princeton reunion. It turns out that was George Gallup Jr.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:[Question #10 (LOL - Level
When "LOL" was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2011, the OED noted that its original usage stood for what?
A - labor of love
B - learned one's lesson
C - little old lady
D - load of laundry

Jacqui has never heard of three of the answers being used with that abbreviation so she's going to go with

Spoiler

A, labor of love

as her final answer.

Spoiler

Answer: C (little old lady)
Value: $500
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

Meredith says that it was used in the 1960s.

Another impossible question. LOL could be any of these.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #10 (LOL - Level
When "LOL" was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2011, the OED noted that its original usage stood for what?
A - labor of love
B - learned one's lesson
C - little old lady
D - load of laundry

Jacqui has never heard of three of the answers being used with that abbreviation so she's going to go with

Spoiler

A, labor of love

as her final answer.

Spoiler

Answer: C (little old lady)
Value: $500
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

Meredith says that it was used in the 1960s.

Any bridge player would know this answer. --Bob

Bob78164 wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #10 (LOL - Level
When "LOL" was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2011, the OED noted that its original usage stood for what?
A - labor of love
B - learned one's lesson
C - little old lady
D - load of laundry

Jacqui has never heard of three of the answers being used with that abbreviation so she's going to go with

Spoiler

A, labor of love

as her final answer.

Spoiler

Answer: C (little old lady)
Value: $500
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

Meredith says that it was used in the 1960s.

Any bridge player would know this answer. --Bob

?? I too would have guessed Labor of Love. Actually, I would have jumped the question. But I guess that makes me no bridge player.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: Jacqui Magnuson
Las Vegas, NV
Stay-at-home mom

Meredith asks if Jacqui is a gambler. "Yes, I take risks, but I have no poker face," Jacqui replies.

Meredith tells Jacqui, "I do."

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: Question #2 (World Record War - Level 10)
1896's Anglo-Zanzibar War is considered the shortest war in history at about what length of time?
A - 40 minutes
B - 2 hours
C - 7 hours
D - 24 hours

Jacqui isn't going to take a chance so she jumps the question.

Spoiler

Answer: A (40 minutes)
Value: $15,000
Bank: $10,000 (no change)

I guessed correctly but had I been on the show I would have used JTQ also.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Zanzibar_War

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #5 (Pretty People - Level 6)
The Wikipedia entry for "physical attractiveness" features photos of the Venus de Milo and what famed male statue?
A - Adonis
B - David
C - The Discus Thrower
D - The Thinker

Jacqui goes with

Spoiler

A, Adonis

.

Spoiler

Answer: A (Adonis)
Value: $25,000
Bank: $40,100

"Adonis" is sometimes used as the male equivalent to Venus.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #9 (Beck - Level 7)
Featured in a 1990s Beck song, what is the translation of the Spanish lyric "Soy un perdedor"?
A - I'm a loser
B - Got a devil's haircut
C - Where it's at
D - The new pollution

Meredith asks if Jacqui knows Spanish. She knows some...it's been years since she studied it. She's not a Beck fan, either, but she does know his one song,

Spoiler

"I'm a Loser"

so that's her final answer.

Spoiler

Answer: A (I'm a loser)
Value: $2,000
Bank: $52,100

Jaqui also noted that "yo soy" means "I am", which makes A the logical choice.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #10 (LOL - Level
When "LOL" was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2011, the OED noted that its original usage stood for what?
A - labor of love
B - learned one's lesson
C - little old lady
D - load of laundry

Jacqui has never heard of three of the answers being used with that abbreviation so she's going to go with

Spoiler

A, labor of love

as her final answer.

Spoiler

Answer: C (little old lady)
Value: $500
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

Meredith says that it was used in the 1960s.

There are some advantages to living long.

SportsFan68 wrote:

Bob78164 wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #10 (LOL - Level
When "LOL" was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2011, the OED noted that its original usage stood for what?
A - labor of love
B - learned one's lesson
C - little old lady
D - load of laundry

Jacqui has never heard of three of the answers being used with that abbreviation so she's going to go with

Spoiler

A, labor of love

as her final answer.

Spoiler

Answer: C (little old lady)
Value: $500
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

Meredith says that it was used in the 1960s.

Any bridge player would know this answer. --Bob

?? I too would have guessed Labor of Love. Actually, I would have jumped the question. But I guess that makes me no bridge player.

I used to read all the time about the LOLs sitting East and West. Usually, they prevailed against Hideous Hog types. --Bob