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Lisa Brown
College Station, TX
Homemaker

Lisa's husband Joe is in the relationship. She and Joe would like to adopt. Lisa returns with $26,000 in her bank but no lifelines remaining.

Topic Tree: (randomized)
8 - Scandalous Stories
9 - Poetry
5 - It's Physics
4 - To the Letter
2 - Peewee League
6 - Great Directions
7 - Jacuzzi Kin
1 - First Lady
10 - Bed Time
3 - Movie Lightning

Question #5 (Great Directions - Level 6)
Google Maps jokingly instructs users to "Jet ski across the Pacific Ocean," in its directions between China and what country?
A - Mongolia
B - India
C - Kazakhstan
D - Japan

"OK, so here's China," Lisa begins. "The Pacific Ocean and California," she adds as she makes motions atop the Hot Podium. Then we go across the Pacific -

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Hawaii, Japan, China. It would have to be Japan"

.

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Answer: D (Japan)
Value: $2,000
Bank: $28,000

Question #6 (Peewee League - Level 2)
A national sports program for kids, Lil' Kickers teaches what sport?
A - baseball
B - tennis
C - soccer
D - basketball

"The only sport in which you use your foot to kick is

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soccer"

.

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Answer: C (soccer)
Value: $3,000
Bank: $31,000

Question #7 (To the Letter - Level 4)
What does the "U" stand for in the name of military vehicles known as "UAVs"?
A - unmanned
B - underground
C - user
D - ultrasonic

Lisa is pretty sure that she remembers reading about this and it's

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unmanned

but she takes time to go over each one. "Gosh," she says several times as Meredith gives her her options. She finally gives a final answer.

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Answer: A (unmanned)
Value: $100
Bank: $31,100

Question #8 (It's Physics - Level 5)
Named after the man whose laws of nature explain how it works, a Newton's cradle consists of several dangling what?
A - dice
B - playing cards
C - metal balls
D - wooden pegs

"Laws of motion explain how it works - that would be

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dice

because...well...oh, wait." She changes her mind.

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Answer: C (metal balls)
Value: $10,000
Bank: $41,100

Lisa goes over and embraces Joe, who says, "You're doing great!"

Question #9 (Poetry - Level 9)
An "epithalanium" is a special poem or song intended for what event?
A - coronation
B - funeral
C - wedding
D - battle

Lisa says that

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epitaph (she has problems pronouncing it] is usually associated with a funeral

. She re-reads the question and then says it's between

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funeral and battle

.

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Answer: C (wedding)
Value: unrevealed (but either $500 or $5,000)
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

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BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #8 (It's Physics - Level 5)
Named after the man whose laws of nature explain how it works, a Newton's cradle consists of several dangling what?
A - dice
B - playing cards
C - metal balls
D - wooden pegs

"Laws of motion explain how it works - that would be

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dice

because...well...oh, wait." She changes her mind.

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Answer: C (metal balls)
Value: $10,000
Bank: $41,100

One detail that we can't omit here: After she tentatively expressed her first hunch, she simulated the clacking motion of the balls with her hands. And then she had it!

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #9 (Poetry - Level 9)
An "epithalanium" is a special poem or song intended for what event?
A - coronation
B - funeral
C - wedding
D - battle

Lisa says that

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epitaph (she has problems pronouncing it] is usually associated with a funeral

. She re-reads the question and then says it's between

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funeral and battle

.

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Answer: C (wedding)
Value: unrevealed (but either $500 or $5,000)
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

Shot down by a WWOQ.

Wikipedia says that epithalanium's roots are:

(Latin form of Greek ἐπιθαλάμιον epithalamion from ἐπί epi "upon," and θάλαμος thalamos nuptial chamber)

I'm not familiar with any other word with the thalamos root.

MarleysGh0st wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #8 (It's Physics - Level 5)
Named after the man whose laws of nature explain how it works, a Newton's cradle consists of several dangling what?
A - dice
B - playing cards
C - metal balls
D - wooden pegs

"Laws of motion explain how it works - that would be

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dice

because...well...oh, wait." She changes her mind.

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Answer: C (metal balls)
Value: $10,000
Bank: $41,100

One detail that we can't omit here: After she tentatively expressed her first hunch, she simulated the clacking motion of the balls with her hands. And then she had it!

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #9 (Poetry - Level 9)
An "epithalanium" is a special poem or song intended for what event?
A - coronation
B - funeral
C - wedding
D - battle

Lisa says that

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epitaph (she has problems pronouncing it] is usually associated with a funeral

. She re-reads the question and then says it's between

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funeral and battle

.

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Answer: C (wedding)
Value: unrevealed (but either $500 or $5,000)
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

Shot down by a WWOQ.

Wikipedia says that epithalanium's roots are:

(Latin form of Greek ἐπιθαλάμιον epithalamion from ἐπί epi "upon," and θάλαμος thalamos nuptial chamber)

I'm not familiar with any other word with the thalamos root.

Not that I knew all of this until two minutes ago, but Gr. Thalamos for bedroom or inner chamber, is latinized at Thalamus, with similar meaning, and which word is "aptly" used for the hard to get to inner structure of the brain.

What answer did she go with on that last question?

themanwho wrote:What answer did she go with on that last question?

She went with funeral.

Question #9 (Poetry - Level 9)
An "epithalanium" is a special poem or song intended for what event?
A - coronation
B - funeral
C - wedding
D - battle

Lisa says that

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epitaph (she has problems pronouncing it] is usually associated with a funeral

. She re-reads the question and then says it's between

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funeral and battle

.

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Answer: C (wedding)
Value: unrevealed (but either $500 or $5,000)
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

JTQ

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Lisa Brown
College Station, TX
Homemaker

Lisa's husband Joe is in the relationship. She and Joe would like to adopt. Lisa returns with $26,000 in her bank but no lifelines remaining.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #9 (Poetry - Level 9)
An "epithalanium" is a special poem or song intended for what event?
A - coronation
B - funeral
C - wedding
D - battle

Lisa says that

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epitaph (she has problems pronouncing it] is usually associated with a funeral

. She re-reads the question and then says it's between

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funeral and battle

.

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Answer: C (wedding)
Value: unrevealed (but either $500 or $5,000)
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

One of the suggested origins of the Song of Solomon was that it was written as one of these poems, which is how I heard the term.