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Luisa Jurado
Chicago, IL
Occupation

will be glad to get her Millionaire appearance over with because it means no more sweaty palms and no more arguments with her husband Ray about how to play the game. Ray is in the audience. Luisa is a risk-taker and loves to gamble but Ray likes to quit while he's ahead. He says you have to define the risk and look at the money.

Topic Tree: (unrandomized)
10 - Tough to Follow
9 - Old Cities
8 - I'm So Sorry
7 - Accurate Portraits
6 - Commander in Chats
5 - Cash for Kids
4 - Millionaire Movie
3 - Huge Symbolism
2 - Army Life
1 - Apt Intro

Topic Tree: (randomized)
9 - Old Cities
6 - Commander in Chats
10 - Tough to Follow
2 - Army Life
4 - Millionaire Movie
7 - Accurate Portraits
1 - Apt Intro
8 - I'm So Sorry
3 - Huge Symbolism
5 - Cash for Kids

Question #1 (Cash for Kids - Level 5)
Multiplying the number on its bottles by 100, $5,700 is the top prize in an annual kids contest offered by what food brand?
A - Ragu
B - Budweiser
C - Heinz
D - Evian

"Wow, I don't know this one," Luisa says. "The most logical one would be

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Heinz."

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Answer: C (Heinz)
Value: $15,000
Bank: $15,000

Question #2 (Huge Symbolism - Level 3)
Picking a nice flat surface to display it, the largest U.S. flag ever made was draped over what landmark in 1996?
A - Mount Rushmore
B - The Alamo
C - Hoover Dam
D - Statue of Liberty

"I want to say, or I don't want to say...I think I'm going to ask the audience."

ATA results

A - 4%
B - 12%
C - 79%
D - 5%

That seems right to Luisa.

Spoiler

Answer: C (Hoover Dam)
Value: $2,000
Bank: $17,000

Question #3 (I'm So Sorry - Level 8)
Using phrases like "Life isn't fair", in 2009 Hallmark released a set of cards for people who have experienced what unfortunate event?
A - lost their job
B - crashed their car
C - failed a class
D - been dumped online

"All good reasons," Luisa says. "The one that makes the most sense is

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'lost their job'".

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Answer: A (lost their job)
Value: $5,000
Bank: $22,000

Question #4 (Apt Intro - Level 1)
Appropriately, Sarah Jessica Parker wrote the introduction to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's 2011 book entitled "100" what?
A - shoes
B - cars
C - tables
D - cats

Luisa is a big fan of Sarah Jessica Parker.

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Answer: A (shoes)
Value: $25,000
Bank: $47,000

commercial break

So far the risks that Luisa has taken have paid off.

Question #5 (Accurate Portraits - Level 7)
What artist famously included her unibrow and faint moustache in her many self-portraits?
A - Mary Cassatt
B - Frida Kahlo
C - Georgia O'Keeffe
D - Lee Krasner

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Answer: B (Frida Kahlo)
Value: $10,000
Bank: $57,000

Question #6 (Millionaire Movie - Level 4)
What retired "Millionaire" lifeline is also the name of a 2011 Seth Rogen movie?
A - Phone-a-friend
B - Double Dip
C - Ask the Expert
D - 50/50

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Answer: D (50/50)
Value: $3,000
Bank: $60,000

Question #7 (Army Life - Level 2)
A captain in the Israeli army in the 1950s, Uziel "Uzi" Gal won a competition for his design of a type of what?
A - armored tank
B - aircraft carrier
C - bulletproof vest
D - submachine gun

Luisa thinks

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"uzi" is a gun.

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Answer: D (submachine gun)
Value: $100
Bank: $60,100

Question #8 (Tough to Follow - Level 10)
Fred Kaps, the man who had to follow The Beatles after their historic debut on "The Ed Sullivan Show," was what type of performer?
A - mime
B - tap dancer
C - opera singer
D - magician

Luisa doesn't know this and she wasn't around then, so she'd like to jump the question.

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Answer: D (magician)
Value: $500
Bank: $60,100 (unchanged)

Question #9 (Commander in Chats - Level 6)
Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Fireside Chats" were primarily broadcast from either the White House or what other location?
A - Ann Arbor, MI
B - Yorba Linda, CA
C - Hyde Park, NY
D - Simi Valley, CA

Luisa is going to have to jump this question also.

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Answer: B (Hyde Park, NY)
Value: $1,000
Bank: $60,100 (unchanged)

commercial break

Luisa is feeling nervous but good.

Question #10 (Old Cities - Level 9)
In 2010, what city celebrated the 1,000th anniversary of its founding, when it was originally known as Thang Long?
A - Seoul
B - Beijing
C - Hanoi
D - Tokyo

Luisa says that "Thang Long" is the name of a great restaurant in San Francisco. She thinks it might be

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Vietnamese

but she isn't sure, so she decides to walk away.

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Answer: C (Hanoi)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $30,050 (half the bank)

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #8 (Tough to Follow - Level 10)
Fred Kaps, the man who had to follow The Beatles after their historic debut on "The Ed Sullivan Show," was what type of performer?
A - mime
B - tap dancer
C - opera singer
D - magician

Luisa doesn't know this and she wasn't around then, so she'd like to jump the question.

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Answer: D (magician)
Value: $500
Bank: $60,100 (unchanged)

WWOQ!

But aside from that, what producer scheduled any act to follow the Beatles? Surely, they knew that appearance was going to be bigger than anything else they'd ever have on the show? You don't use them as a warm-up act for a magician!

Question #5 (Accurate Portraits - Level 7)
What artist famously included her unibrow and faint moustache in her many self-portraits?
A - Mary Cassatt
B - Frida Kahlo
C - Georgia O'Keeffe
D - Lee Krasner

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Answer: B (Frida Kahlo)
Value: $10,000
Bank: $57,000

Let's pretend the audience knew this, because I sure don't. I don't know who Lee Krasner is.

Question #8 (Tough to Follow - Level 10)
Fred Kaps, the man who had to follow The Beatles after their historic debut on "The Ed Sullivan Show," was what type of performer?
A - mime
B - tap dancer
C - opera singer
D - magician

Luisa doesn't know this and she wasn't around then, so she'd like to jump the question.

Spoiler

Answer: D (magician)
Value: $500
Bank: $60,100 (unchanged)

JTQ.

Question #9 (Commander in Chats - Level 6)
Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Fireside Chats" were primarily broadcast from either the White House or what other location?
A - Ann Arbor, MI
B - Yorba Linda, CA
C - Hyde Park, NY
D - Simi Valley, CA

Luisa is going to have to jump this question also.

Spoiler

Answer: B (Hyde Park, NY)
Value: $1,000
Bank: $60,100 (unchanged)

Gotta be NY. Everyplace else is too far away from DC.

Question #10 (Old Cities - Level 9)
In 2010, what city celebrated the 1,000th anniversary of its founding, when it was originally known as Thang Long?
A - Seoul
B - Beijing
C - Hanoi
D - Tokyo

Luisa says that "Thang Long" is the name of a great restaurant in San Francisco. She thinks it might be

Spoiler

Vietnamese

but she isn't sure, so she decides to walk away.

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Answer: C (Hanoi)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $30,050 (half the bank)

JTQ 2.

SportsFan68 wrote:

Question #9 (Commander in Chats - Level 6)
Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Fireside Chats" were primarily broadcast from either the White House or what other location?
A - Ann Arbor, MI
B - Yorba Linda, CA
C - Hyde Park, NY
D - Simi Valley, CA

Luisa is going to have to jump this question also.

Spoiler

Answer: B (Hyde Park, NY)
Value: $1,000
Bank: $60,100 (unchanged)

Gotta be NY. Everyplace else is too far away from DC.

I suppose that reasoning works for the time period in question, if you don't remember where Roosevelt's home/Presidential Library was.

The question writers were being cute on this question. The other towns are where the Presidential Libraries for Ford, Nixon and Reagan are located.

MarleysGh0st wrote:

SportsFan68 wrote:

Question #9 (Commander in Chats - Level 6)
Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Fireside Chats" were primarily broadcast from either the White House or what other location?
A - Ann Arbor, MI
B - Yorba Linda, CA
C - Hyde Park, NY
D - Simi Valley, CA

Luisa is going to have to jump this question also.

Spoiler

Answer: B (Hyde Park, NY)
Value: $1,000
Bank: $60,100 (unchanged)

Gotta be NY. Everyplace else is too far away from DC.

I suppose that reasoning works for the time period in question, if you don't remember where Roosevelt's home/Presidential Library was.

The question writers were being cute on this question. The other towns are where the Presidential Libraries for Ford, Nixon and Reagan are located.

I was thinking of the time period, and there was no Air Force One.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: Luisa Jurado
Chicago, IL

will be glad to get her Millionaire appearance over with because it means no more sweaty palms and no more arguments with her husband Ray about how to play the game. Ray is in the audience. Luisa is a risk-taker and loves to gamble but Ray likes to quit while he's ahead. He says you have to define the risk and look at the money.

Well, Luisa, it's your game, so play it the way you like.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #2 (Huge Symbolism - Level 3)
Picking a nice flat surface to display it, the largest U.S. flag ever made was draped over what landmark in 1996?
A - Mount Rushmore
B - The Alamo
C - Hoover Dam
D - Statue of Liberty

"I want to say, or I don't want to say...I think I'm going to ask the audience."

ATA results

A - 4%
B - 12%
C - 79%
D - 5%

That seems right to Luisa.

Spoiler

Answer: C (Hoover Dam)
Value: $2,000
Bank: $17,000

Which is the only one with a (relatively) flat surface?

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #6 (Millionaire Movie - Level 4)
What retired "Millionaire" lifeline is also the name of a 2011 Seth Rogen movie?
A - Phone-a-friend
B - Double Dip
C - Ask the Expert
D - 50/50

Spoiler

Answer: D (50/50)
Value: $3,000
Bank: $60,000

I'd be using ATA on this one. Never heard of the movie.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #8 (Tough to Follow - Level 10)
Fred Kaps, the man who had to follow The Beatles after their historic debut on "The Ed Sullivan Show," was what type of performer?
A - mime
B - tap dancer
C - opera singer
D - magician

Luisa doesn't know this and she wasn't around then, so she'd like to jump the question.

Spoiler

Answer: D (magician)
Value: $500
Bank: $60,100 (unchanged)

I doubt that an opera singer would be scheduled immediately after another singing act. Aside from that I can't rule any of them out so I'll JTQ.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #10 (Old Cities - Level 9)
In 2010, what city celebrated the 1,000th anniversary of its founding, when it was originally known as Thang Long?
A - Seoul
B - Beijing
C - Hanoi
D - Tokyo

Luisa says that "Thang Long" is the name of a great restaurant in San Francisco. She thinks it might be

Spoiler

Vietnamese

but she isn't sure, so she decides to walk away.

Spoiler

Answer: C (Hanoi)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $30,050 (half the bank)

Beijing and Tokyo are older than that and "Thang Long" sounds more SE Asian than Korean, so I'll go with Hanoi.

Which musician, later a member of the Monkees, also appeared on the same Ed Sullivan show as the Beatles in February 1964.

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Davy Jones in the cast of Oliver

earendel wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #2 (Huge Symbolism - Level 3)
Picking a nice flat surface to display it, the largest U.S. flag ever made was draped over what landmark in 1996?
A - Mount Rushmore
B - The Alamo
C - Hoover Dam
D - Statue of Liberty

"I want to say, or I don't want to say...I think I'm going to ask the audience."

ATA results

A - 4%
B - 12%
C - 79%
D - 5%

That seems right to Luisa.

Spoiler

Answer: C (Hoover Dam)
Value: $2,000
Bank: $17,000

Which is the only one with a (relatively) flat surface?

B and C.

Estonut wrote:

earendel wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #2 (Huge Symbolism - Level 3)
Picking a nice flat surface to display it, the largest U.S. flag ever made was draped over what landmark in 1996?
A - Mount Rushmore
B - The Alamo
C - Hoover Dam
D - Statue of Liberty

"I want to say, or I don't want to say...I think I'm going to ask the audience."

ATA results

A - 4%
B - 12%
C - 79%
D - 5%

That seems right to Luisa.

Spoiler

Answer: C (Hoover Dam)
Value: $2,000
Bank: $17,000

Which is the only one with a (relatively) flat surface?

B and C.

Perhaps I should have added "large" to the qualifiers.