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Double Your Money Week
Liz Speck
Rockville Centre, NY
Law student (Third year at St. John’s)

Topic Tree:

10 Change of Business
9 Therapeutic Video Game
8 Bad Math
7 Nice Threads
6 Air Time
5 Label Maker
4 Spray Fail
3 The Great Outdoors
2 Nerdspeak
1 Colonial times 101

Topic Tree: (randomized)

8 Bad Math
5 Label Maker
2 Nerdspeak
9 Therapeutic Video Game
6 Air Time
10 Change of Business (DOUBLE MONEY)
1 Colonial Times 101
4 Spray Fail
7 Nice Threads
3 The Great Outdoors

Question 1 - 3 The Great Outdoors
Featuring a tree you can drive a car through, the Avenue of the Giants is a 31-mile-long tourist attraction in what state?
A. California
B. Minnesota
C. Kentucky
D. Vermont

Spoiler

A. California
$100
Bank - $100

Question 2 – 7 Nice Threads
Known for writing bestsellers such as “The Bonfire of the Vanities,” what author is frequently seen wearing his trademark white suit?
A. Jonathan Franzen
B. Thomas Pynchon
C. Stephen King
D. Tom Wolfe

ATA

ATA results

9% A. Jonathan Franzen
13% B. Thomas Pynchon
7% C. Stephen King
71% D. Tom Wolfe

Spoiler

D. Tom Wolfe
$2K
Bank - $2,100

Question 3 – 4 Spray Fail
While it may have an “Oompa Loompa” effect when over-applied, a spray containing dihydroxyacetone is used to achieve what?
A. Curly hair
B. A fresh scent
C. White teeth
D. A tan

Spoiler

D. A tan
$3K
Bank - $5,100

Question 4 – 1 Colonial Times 101
To the dismay of some U.S. History buffs, who was Sarah Palin talking about when she said, “Part of his ride was to warn the British”?
A. Samuel Adams
B. Thomas Paine
C. Paul Revere
D. Benedict Arnold

Spoiler

C. Paul Revere
$7K
Bank - $12,100

Question 5 – 10 Change of Business (DOUBLE MONEY)
What businessman left a legacy of humanitarianism years after a mistakenly published obituary called him a “merchant of death”?
A. Cornelius Vanderbilt
B. Alfred Nobel
C. Andrew Carnegie
D. John Rockefeller

JTQ 1

Spoiler

B. Alfred Nobel
$10K
Bank - $12,100

Question 6 – 6 Air Time
Blake Griffin won the 2011 NBA Slam Dunk contest when he shocked fans by jumping over a what?
A. Pinball machine
B. Horse
C. Car
D. Barbecue grill

Spoiler

C. Car
$1K
Bank - $13,100

commercial break

Question 7 – 9 Therapeutic Video Game
Oxford University scientists have found in lab research that playing what classic video game may help prevent post-traumatic flashbacks?
A. Tetris
B. Pac-Man
C. Asteroids
D. Frogger

JTQ 2

Spoiler

A. Tetris
$15K
Bank - $13,100

Question 8 – 2 Nerdspeak
In slang, a nerdy person is an “L7” because if you form those characters with your fingers, you get what geometric shape?
A. Star
B. Triangle
C. Square
D. Circle

Spoiler

C. Square
$500
Bank - $13,600

Question 9 – 5 Label Maker
What rap artist started his own record label called Shady Records?
A. Eminem
B. P. Diddy
C. 50 Cent
D. Jay-Z

Spoiler

A. Eminem
$5K
Bank - $18,600

Question 10 – 8 Bad Math
Evangelical preacher Harold Campig predicted the Rapture would occur in 2011, believing it to be 7,000 years after what Biblical event?
A. David slays Goliath
B. Noah finishes the Ark
C. Moses parts the Red Sea
D. Fall of Sodom and Gomorrah

Liz believes the answer is “D.”
She talks for a little bit and then says she is going to walk away.
She then says she isn’t going to walk and makes

Spoiler

Noah finishes the Ark

her final answer.

Spoiler

B. Noah finishes the Ark
$25K
Bank - $43,600

commercial break

$100K
Billed as the first perfume clinically perfume clinically proven to make men flirt with women, “Eau Flirt” mixes the scent of lavender with what baked good?
A. Pumpkin pie
B. Chocolate chip cookies
C. Wheat bread
D Blueberry muffins

Liz says that

Spoiler

chocolate chip cookies

jump out at her, but she decides to leave with $43,600.

Spoiler

A. Pumpkin pie

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: Question 5 – 10 Change of Business (DOUBLE MONEY)
What businessman left a legacy of humanitarianism years after a mistakenly published obituary called him a “merchant of death”?
A. Cornelius Vanderbilt
B. Alfred Nobel
C. Andrew Carnegie
D. John Rockefeller

JTQ 1

Spoiler

B. Alfred Nobel
$10K
Bank - $12,100

Another "easy" high level question. (By which I mean, I think it's easy, but they're all easy if you know them.) I wouldn't consider the fact that the Nobel Prizes are meant to atone for the invention of dynamite to be obscure.

Question 10 – 8 Bad Math
Evangelical preacher Harold Campig predicted the Rapture would occur in 2011, believing it to be 7,000 years after what Biblical event?
A. David slays Goliath
B. Noah finishes the Ark
C. Moses parts the Red Sea
D. Fall of Sodom and Gomorrah

Liz believes the answer is “D.”
She talks for a little bit and then says she is going to walk away.
She then says she isn’t going to walk and makes

Spoiler

Noah finishes the Ark

her final answer.

Spoiler

B. Noah finishes the Ark
$25K
Bank - $43,600

The amount of attention this got last year vexed and perplexed me. Perhaps I should have paid closer attention myself. I was doing just fine up to here, but I would have gone with Sodom and Gomorrah.

-M

Question 7 – 9 Therapeutic Video Game
Oxford University scientists have found in lab research that playing what classic video game may help prevent post-traumatic flashbacks?
A. Tetris
B. Pac-Man
C. Asteroids
D. Frogger

JTQ 2

Spoiler

A. Tetris
$15K
Bank - $13,100

That would have been my guess, but I would never have pulled the trigger. JTQ.

Question 9 – 5 Label Maker
What rap artist started his own record label called Shady Records?
A. Eminem
B. P. Diddy
C. 50 Cent
D. Jay-Z

Spoiler

A. Eminem
$5K
Bank - $18,600

ATA

Question 10 – 8 Bad Math
Evangelical preacher Harold Campig predicted the Rapture would occur in 2011, believing it to be 7,000 years after what Biblical event?
A. David slays Goliath
B. Noah finishes the Ark
C. Moses parts the Red Sea
D. Fall of Sodom and Gomorrah

Liz believes the answer is “D.”
She talks for a little bit and then says she is going to walk away.
She then says she isn’t going to walk and makes

Spoiler

Noah finishes the Ark

her final answer.

Spoiler

B. Noah finishes the Ark
$25K
Bank - $43,600

JTQ 2

$100K
Billed as the first perfume clinically perfume clinically proven to make men flirt with women, “Eau Flirt” mixes the scent of lavender with what baked good?
A. Pumpkin pie
B. Chocolate chip cookies
C. Wheat bread
D Blueberry muffins

Liz says that

Spoiler

chocolate chip cookies

jump out at her, but she decides to leave with $43,600.

Spoiler

A. Pumpkin pie

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Sayonara.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: Double Your Money Week
Liz Speck
Rockville Centre, NY
Law student (Third year at St. John’s)

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Topic Tree: (randomized)

8 Bad Math
5 Label Maker
2 Nerdspeak
9 Therapeutic Video Game
6 Air Time
10 Change of Business (DOUBLE MONEY)
1 Colonial Times 101
4 Spray Fail
7 Nice Threads
3 The Great Outdoors

IIRC both "Bad Math" and "Nerdspeak" were categories for one of the contestants on Friday's show.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 7 – 9 Therapeutic Video Game
Oxford University scientists have found in lab research that playing what classic video game may help prevent post-traumatic flashbacks?
A. Tetris
B. Pac-Man
C. Asteroids
D. Frogger

JTQ 2

Spoiler

A. Tetris
$15K
Bank - $13,100

I would not have known this, so I'll JTQ.

Here's a link to the research: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Ad ... ne.0004153

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$100K
Billed as the first perfume clinically perfume clinically proven to make men flirt with women, “Eau Flirt” mixes the scent of lavender with what baked good?
A. Pumpkin pie
B. Chocolate chip cookies
C. Wheat bread
D Blueberry muffins

Liz says that

Spoiler

chocolate chip cookies

jump out at her, but she decides to leave with $43,600.

Spoiler

A. Pumpkin pie

I thought it would be the cookies also.

I'm impressed that she went for it on Q10--especially after changing her mind. Well done.