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Roxanne Medina
Landing, NJ
newly-named Vice Principal
Double Your Money Week

Topic Tree (pre-randomized):
10. For the Birds
9. Condensed News
8. Animal Appetite
7. Day of Faith
6. Music Moniker
5. Critic Quotes
4. TV Chemistry
3. Top 10 Lists
2. Third Class Object
1. Liquid Laughs


Topic Tree: (Randomized)
2. Third Class Object
10. For the Birds
7. Day of Faith
6. Music Moniker
4. TV Chemistry (DOUBLE MONEY)
1. Liquid Laughs
5. Critic Quotes
9. Condensed News
3. Top 10 Lists
8. Animal Appetite

Question 1 - Level 8. Animal Appetite

Thanks to its voracious appetite, a glutton is another name for what animal?

A: Yak
B: Wolverine
C: Cheetah
D: Gibbon

No idea, jumps the question.

Answer and value

B: Wolverine
Value: $15,000 (!)
Bank: $0

Question 2 - Level 3. Top 10 Lists

John Tyler, William McKinley and James Buchanan all made Time magazine's list of "Top 10 Forgettable" what?

A: Actors
B: Presidents
C: Writers
D: Inventors

Answer and value

B: Presidents
Value: $2,000
Bank: $2,000

Question 3 - Level 9. Condensed News

Known mainly for inventing condensed milk, Gail Borden Jr. was also the first to publish a report about what event in 1836?

A: Missouri Compromise
B: Completion of the Erie Canal
C: Nat Turner rebellion
D: Fall of the Alamo

She jumps this question, too.

Answer and value

D: Fall of the Alamo (Missouri Compromise was 1820, Nat Turner rebellion in 1831, Erie Canal completed in 1825)
Value: $25,000 (!)
Bank: $2,000

Question 4 - Level 5. Critic Quotes

What 2011 comedy was referred to by one critic as "The 40-Year-Old Nonvirgin in taffeta"?

A: Your Highness
B: Bridesmaids
C: Bad Teacher
D: The Hangover Part II

She asks the audience

A: 3%
B: 70%
C: 13%
D: 14%

Answer and value

B: Bridesmaids
Value: $3,000
Bank: $5,000

Question 5 - Level 1. Liquid Laughs

In a joke poking fun at those who buy bottled water, it has been cleverly noted, "Try spelling" what brand "backward"?

A: Perrier
B: Fiji
C: Evian
D: Dasani

Answer and value

C: Evian (spells naive)
Value: $1,000
Bank: $6,000

Commercial break.

Mom of 3 very tall boys. Son Ryan is here, along with mom Olga.

Question 6 - Level 4. TV Chemistry (DOUBLE MONEY)

What popular cable drama incorporates the chemical symbols for the elements Barium and Bromine into the show's title logo?

A: Big Love
B: Dexter
C: Damages
D: Breaking Bad

Answer and value

D: Breaking Bad
Value: $7,000 x 2=$14,000
Bank: $20,000

Question 7 - Level 6. Music Moniker

In the music industry, the term "hat acts" is used as a slang term for performers in what genre?

A: Classical
B: Jazz
C: Gospel
D: Country

Meredith repeats "hat acts" at the end of the question.

Spoiler

Roxanne gives a gasp of recognition when she reads "country," but then she goes back to Jazz and "chorus line," indicating some kind of headwear by moving her hand.

She said if she didn't know, she wasn't gonna guess. She walks with $10,000.

Answer and value

D: Country (refers to cowboy hats)
Value: $not revealed
Bank: (half of) $20,000

Next contestant!

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 2 - Level 3. Top 10 Lists

John Tyler, William McKinley and James Buchanan all made Time magazine's list of "Top 10 Forgettable" what?

A: Actors
B: Presidents
C: Writers
D: Inventors

Answer and value

B: Presidents
Value: $2,000
Bank: $2,000

Well, if you can answer the question, they haven't been forgotten, have they?

MarleysGh0st wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 2 - Level 3. Top 10 Lists

John Tyler, William McKinley and James Buchanan all made Time magazine's list of "Top 10 Forgettable" what?

A: Actors
B: Presidents
C: Writers
D: Inventors

Answer and value

B: Presidents
Value: $2,000
Bank: $2,000

Well, if you can answer the question, they haven't been forgotten, have they?

I'm sure John Tyler's grandsons remember.

Question 3 - Level 9. Condensed News

Known mainly for inventing condensed milk, Gail Borden Jr. was also the first to publish a report about what event in 1836?

A: Missouri Compromise
B: Completion of the Erie Canal
C: Nat Turner rebellion
D: Fall of the Alamo

She jumps this question, too.

Answer and value

D: Fall of the Alamo (Missouri Compromise was 1820, Nat Turner rebellion in 1831, Erie Canal completed in 1825)
Value: $25,000 (!)
Bank: $2,000

JTQ

SportsFan68 wrote:

Question 3 - Level 9. Condensed News

Known mainly for inventing condensed milk, Gail Borden Jr. was also the first to publish a report about what event in 1836?

A: Missouri Compromise
B: Completion of the Erie Canal
C: Nat Turner rebellion
D: Fall of the Alamo

She jumps this question, too.

Answer and value

D: Fall of the Alamo (Missouri Compromise was 1820, Nat Turner rebellion in 1831, Erie Canal completed in 1825)
Value: $25,000 (!)
Bank: $2,000

JTQ

I was nearly certain that the Missouri Compromise and Erie Canal were earlier than 1836. Furthermore, the Missouri Compromise would have received all the attention that any major legislative action would expect, while the opening of the Erie Canal likewise was accompanied by the hoopla appropriate to one of the major public works projects of the era.

Work was completed on October 26, 1825. The event was marked by a statewide "Grand Celebration," culminating in successive cannon shots along the length of the canal and the Hudson, a 90-minute cannonade from Buffalo to New York City. A flotilla of boats, led by Governor Dewitt Clinton aboard the Seneca Chief, sailed from Buffalo to New York City in ten days. Clinton then ceremonially poured Lake Erie water into New York Harbor to mark the "Wedding of the Waters." On its return trip, the Seneca Chief brought a keg of Atlantic Ocean water back to Buffalo to be poured into Lake Erie by Buffalo's Judge Samuel Wilkeson, who would later become mayor.

I wasn't certain of the date of Nat Turner's Rebellion, (

Spoiler

August 21 – 22, 1831, it turns out

) but I did remember the Alamo was in 1836. It would have been more than wicked to include that as a choice when the correct answer was some other event of that year.

And logically, that battle happened in a remote location, in the eyes of U.S. residents. It would have made sense that somebody got a scoop on that story.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Roxanne Medina
Landing, NJ
newly-named Vice Principal

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 2 - Level 3. Top 10 Lists

John Tyler, William McKinley and James Buchanan all made Time magazine's list of "Top 10 Forgettable" what?

A: Actors
B: Presidents
C: Writers
D: Inventors

Answer and value

B: Presidents
Value: $2,000
Bank: $2,000

We found out on yesterday's show how forgettable McKinley was.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 3 - Level 9. Condensed News

Known mainly for inventing condensed milk, Gail Borden Jr. was also the first to publish a report about what event in 1836?

A: Missouri Compromise
B: Completion of the Erie Canal
C: Nat Turner rebellion
D: Fall of the Alamo

She jumps this question, too.

Answer and value

D: Fall of the Alamo (Missouri Compromise was 1820, Nat Turner rebellion in 1831, Erie Canal completed in 1825)
Value: $25,000 (!)
Bank: $2,000

I guess Roxanne didn't "Remember the Alamo".

Nihil obstat®.