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Johanna Loddo
Rye, NY

Johanna has been waiting a long time for this moment. She hasn't really prepared a lot, a few trivia games on the computer but not much.

Topic Tree: (randomized)
Home Base
Useful Gadgets
Bargain Name
Observe and Report
Book Debate
Illegal Action
Something Borrowed
Eat Your Veggies
Never Ending Game
In Other Words

Question #1 (In Other words)
If someone is practicing the art of scrying, what are they most likely looking into?
A - crystal ball
B - crowd of people
C - someone's eyes
D - telescope

Johanna knows this because of a show she liked to watch. Her husband knows it well.

Spoiler

Answer: A (crystal ball)
Value: $3,000
Bank: $3,000

Question #2 (Never Ending Game)
Updating his 18 and a half hour documentary, "Baseball," in 2010, Ken Burns added another four hours with an epilogue titled what?
A - Double Overtime
B - Sudden Death
C - The Tenth Inning
D - Tiebreaker

The only one that has anything to do with baseball is

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The Tenth Inning

.

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Answer: C (The Tenth Inning)
Value: $10,000
Bank: $13,000

Question #3 (Eat Your Veggies)
What vegetable is commonly grouped into two types, slicing and pickling?
A - pumpkins
B - cucumbers
C - red peppers
D - carrots

Spoiler

Answer: B (cucumbers)
Value: $2,000
Bank: $15,000

commercial break

Johanna's husband Nick is in the relationship seat. They've been married 31 years. They didn't celebrate their 30th and with the money she wins she hopes to be able to take Nick to Italy because he's never been.

Question #4 (Something Borrowed)
Because they mate for life, what animal was traditionally given by Korean grooms to the mother of the bride?
A - dove
B - dragonfish
C - turtle
D - wild goose

Johanna has no idea what animal mates for life so she's going to jump the question.

Spoiler

Answer: D (wild goose)
Value: $100
Bank: $15,000 (no change)

Question #5 (Illegal Action)
A book or movie that's been illegally downloaded from the Internet is said to be what?
A - vampired
B - pirated
C - ninja'd
D - zombied

Johanna laughs at the answers.

Spoiler

Answer: B (pirated)
Value: $25,000
Bank: $40,000

Question #6 (Book Debate)
In 2011, parents engaged in a heated debate over a new children's book called "Maggie Goes on a" what?
A - cruise
B - diet
C - date
D - rampage

Johanna isn't sure and she has a lot of money to guess. But she thinks that if it was a heated debate it was probably about

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dieting

so that's going to be her final answer.

Spoiler

Answer: B (diet)
Value: $500
Bank: $40,500

Question #7 (Observe and Report)
Where will you find the appropriately named Stratosphere Tower, the tallest freestanding observation tower in the U.S.?
A - Las Vegas
B - Seattle
C - Atlanta
D - Dallas

Johanna laughs because this is her favorite city in the whole world. She gives her answer and Meredith says, "I have to read them first."

Spoiler

Answer: A (Las Vegas)
Value: $1,000
Bank: $41,500

commercial break

Millionaire "Question of the Day":
According to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, what was the average cost of producing a new currency note in 2010?
A - 3.6 cents
B - 6.6 cents
C - 9.6 cents
D - 12.6 cents

Spoiler

C (9.6 cents)

Question #8 (Bargain Name)
Which of these is the slang term for getting two items for the price of one, and not the first name of a celebrity?
A - Topher
B - Rumer
C - Kiefer
D - Twofer

Johanna laughs. "I like that," she says.

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Answer: D (Twofer)
Value: $15,000
Bank: $56,500

Question #9 (Useful Gadgets)
After winning the 1960 election, John F. Kennedy said about what invention, "We wouldn't have had a prayer without that gadget"?
A - television
B - telegraph
C - radio
D - telephone

Johanna knows

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that JFK was said to have done well in the debate because of Nixon's 5-o'clock shadow

.

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Answer: A (television)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $63,500

THE END OF GAME "NOISE"

Johanna will be back on Monday with $63,500 in her bank and two lifelines (ATA and JTQ) remaining.

Question #7 (Observe and Report)
Where will you find the appropriately named Stratosphere Tower, the tallest freestanding observation tower in the U.S.?
A - Las Vegas
B - Seattle
C - Atlanta
D - Dallas

Johanna laughs because this is her favorite city in the whole world. She gives her answer and Meredith says, "I have to read them first."

Spoiler

Answer: A (Las Vegas)
Value: $1,000
Bank: $41,500

Isn't this where Sir Galahad usta give his take on the questions from? At the time, he was a Las Vegasan.

Las Vegasite?

SportsFan68 wrote:

Question #7 (Observe and Report)
Where will you find the appropriately named Stratosphere Tower, the tallest freestanding observation tower in the U.S.?
A - Las Vegas
B - Seattle
C - Atlanta
D - Dallas

Johanna laughs because this is her favorite city in the whole world. She gives her answer and Meredith says, "I have to read them first."

Spoiler

Answer: A (Las Vegas)
Value: $1,000
Bank: $41,500

Isn't this where Sir Galahad usta give his take on the questions from? At the time, he was a Las Vegasan.

Las Vegasite?

Indeed, it was!

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Johanna Loddo
Rye, NY

Johanna has been waiting a long time for this moment. She hasn't really prepared a lot, a few trivia games on the computer but not much.

If she's been waiting a long time why hasn't she been preparing?

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #7 (Observe and Report)
Where will you find the appropriately named Stratosphere Tower, the tallest freestanding observation tower in the U.S.?
A - Las Vegas
B - Seattle
C - Atlanta
D - Dallas

Johanna laughs because this is her favorite city in the whole world. She gives her answer and Meredith says, "I have to read them first."

Spoiler

Answer: A (Las Vegas)
Value: $1,000
Bank: $41,500

Shoutout to Sir G!! Seriously, that's how I made the connection, but I didn't think his recliner was located in a "freestanding observation tower".

Nihil obstat®, which is something I don't get to say as often as in the past.

SportsFan68 wrote:Isn't this where Sir Galahad usta give his take on the questions from? At the time, he was a Las Vegasan.

Las Vegasite?

Lost Vegan?

Estonut wrote:

SportsFan68 wrote:Isn't this where Sir Galahad usta give his take on the questions from? At the time, he was a Las Vegasan.

Las Vegasite?

Lost Vegan?

A Lost Vegan would be someone wandering in a butcher store, wouldn't it?