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Nancy Duran
Sleepy Hollow, NY
Double Your Money Week
Food editor, wants to renovate hme kitchen to give cooking lessons
Hubby Jason is in audience.


Topic Tree: (Randomized, no unrandomized values shown)
State of Consonants
1950s TV Ads - DOUBLE MONEY
Found in the Sun
Bizarre Brain
In Remembrance
Logos
jumped ($15,000) - Dam It
$2,000 - Patriotic Heist
$1,000 - Wobbly Woman
$25,000 - Closed for Business

With $28,000 in her bank and ATA and 1 JTQ lifelines available, let's play.

Question 5 - Logos

Which of these colors does not appear in the letters of Google's standard logo?

A: Purple
B: Blue
C: Red
D: Green

She's seen this logo a million times! But, she only remembers one color. She asks the audience.

Spoiler

She knows blue. Green doesn't ring a bell.

A: 80%
B: 3%
C: 9%
D: 8%

Answer and value

A: Purple
Value: $10,000
Bank: $38,000

Question 6 - In Rememberance

In his first State of the Union address, who lamented that three of the prior seven elected U.S. presidents had been assassinated?

A: Zachary Taylor
B: Ulysses S. Grant
C: Theodore Roosevelt
D: Lyndon Johnson

Spoiler

She remembers Kennedy, Lincoln, and "that other guy nobody ever remembers."

She counts back a bunch of presidents from LBJ. It's more than 7. She thinks it must be TR, but she's not sure.

She Js the Q.

Answer and value

C: Theodore Roosevelt (McKinley was the one that no one ever remembers.)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $38,000

Question 7 - Bizarre Brain

What aptly-named neurological condition can cause a person to believe their head and hands have grown abnormally large?

A: Peter Pan syndrome
B: Alice in Wonderland syndrome
C: Rapunzel syndrome
D: Mowgli syndrome

Answer and value

B: Alice in Wonderland syndrome
Value: $100
Bank: $38,100

Question 8 - Found in the Sun

What element was accidentally found by a French astronomer in 1868 while analyzing a solar eclipse?

A: Neon
B: Plutonium
C: Helium
D: Oxygen

Spoiler

She knows there's helium in the sun. She re-reads the whole question out loud, emphasizing the word "solar."

She says, "C. Helium." Loooooooooong pause. "Final answer."

Answer and value

C: Helium
Value: $3,000
Bank: $41,100

Commercial break.

Question 9 - 1950s TV Ads - DOUBLE MONEY

When Marilyn Monroe says "Put Royal Triton in Cynthia's little tummy" in a 1950s TV ad, she's asking a man to do what?

A: Feed dog food to her dog
B: Insert film in her camera
C: Pump gas into her car
D: Put detergent in her washer

Answer and value

C: Pump gas into her car
Value: $500x2=$1000
Bank: $42,100

Question 10 - State of Consonants

Which of these vowel-deprived state names is missing E's instead of A's?

A: RKNSS
B: LBM
C: TNNSS
D: LSK

She again reads the question out loud, to clarify what is being asked.

Answer and value

C: TNNSS (Tennessee.)
Value: $5000
Bank: $47,100

CLASSIC MILLIONAIRE

Question 11 - $100K

In Watertown, Wisconsin, these is a plaque dated 1856 that commemorates America's first what?

A: Golf course
B: Synagogue
C: Kindergarten
D: State fair

She doesn't know. She leaves with her $47,100.

Answer

C: Kindergarten

Meredith goes right to the next player.

Onward! I've used my ATA.

Question 5 - Logos

Which of these colors does not appear in the letters of Google's standard logo?

A: Purple
B: Blue
C: Red
D: Green

She's seen this logo a million times! But, she only remembers one color. She asks the audience.

Spoiler

She knows blue. Green doesn't ring a bell.

A: 80%
B: 3%
C: 9%
D: 8%

Answer and value

A: Purple
Value: $10,000
Bank: $38,000

Purple! Google and Barney!

Question 6 - In Remembrance

Question 8 - Found in the Sun

What element was accidentally found by a French astronomer in 1868 while analyzing a solar eclipse?

A: Neon
B: Plutonium
C: Helium
D: Oxygen

Spoiler

She knows there's helium in the sun. She re-reads the whole question out loud, emphasizing the word "solar."

She says, "C. Helium." Loooooooooong pause. "Final answer."

Answer and value

C: Helium
Value: $3,000
Bank: $41,100

JTQ.

Question 11 - $100K

In Watertown, Wisconsin, these is a plaque dated 1856 that commemorates America's first what?

A: Golf course
B: Synagogue
C: Kindergarten
D: State fair

She doesn't know. She leaves with her $47,100.

Answer

C: Kindergarten

JTQ 2.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Nancy Duran
Sleepy Hollow, NY
Double Your Money Week
Food editor, wants to renovate hme kitchen to give cooking lessons
Hubby Jason is in audience.

An interesting goal - I'm sure there are lots of people who would be interested in cooking lessons.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 6 - In Rememberance

In his first State of the Union address, who lamented that three of the prior seven elected U.S. presidents had been assassinated?

A: Zachary Taylor
B: Ulysses S. Grant
C: Theodore Roosevelt
D: Lyndon Johnson

Spoiler

She remembers Kennedy, Lincoln, and "that other guy nobody ever remembers."

She counts back a bunch of presidents from LBJ. It's more than 7. She thinks it must be TR, but she's not sure.

She Js the Q.

Answer and value

C: Theodore Roosevelt (McKinley was the one that no one ever remembers.)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $38,000

Counting back from Johnson doesn't produce the answer, so it has to be TR.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 8 - Found in the Sun

What element was accidentally found by a French astronomer in 1868 while analyzing a solar eclipse?

A: Neon
B: Plutonium
C: Helium
D: Oxygen

Spoiler

She knows there's helium in the sun. She re-reads the whole question out loud, emphasizing the word "solar."

She says, "C. Helium." Loooooooooong pause. "Final answer."

Answer and value

C: Helium
Value: $3,000
Bank: $41,100

I don't know if I'd call it "accidental". More like "serindipitous".

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 11 - $100K

In Watertown, Wisconsin, these is a plaque dated 1856 that commemorates America's first what?

A: Golf course
B: Synagogue
C: Kindergarten
D: State fair

She doesn't know. She leaves with her $47,100.

Answer

C: Kindergarten

I've still got ATA and a JTQ so I'll use the 2nd JTQ here.