Brooklyn, NY
("rhymes with fishy," as Meredith notes.)
Wearing his lucky wedding shoes (wife Heather is in the audience.)
Topic Tree (pre-randomized):
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Topic Tree: (Randomized)
Oy, Pooch
Actual Meanings
Music Education
Ad Man
Honorable Authors
Out There
Cut the Mustard
Tom's Threesome
Prize Place
Cosby Quotes
Question 1 - Cosby Quotes
Bill Cosby once joked "Always end the name of your child with a" what "so that when you yell, the name will carry"?
A: Consonant
B: Silent "a"
C: Vowel
D: Hard "g"
He tries working out the answer, but ends up JTQ.
Answer and value
C: Vowel
Value: $3,000
Bank: $0
Value: $3,000
Bank: $0
A Nobel Peace Prize is on permanent display at the presidential library located in what U.S. city?
A: Atlanta, GA
B: Austin, TX
C: Boston, MA
D: Little Rock, AR
Spoiler
He knows Jimmy Carter won a Nobel Peace Prize
Answer and value
A: Atlanta, GA
Value: $7,000
Bank: $7,000
Value: $7,000
Bank: $7,000
Question 3 - Tom's Threesome
When he and Katie Holmes split, tabloids noted that the three wives of Tom Cruise were all what age when they called it quits with him?
A: 27
B: 30
C: 33
D: 36
He thinks he knows this from devouring US Weekly in the weeks before the show.
Answer and value
C: 33
Value: $15,000
Bank: $22,000
Value: $15,000
Bank: $22,000
What spice is added to American style mustard to give it a bright yellow color?
A: Caraway
B: Tumeric
C: Anise
D: Fennel
Spoiler
He knows Anise is in Twizzlers, Fennel is in sausage, Caraway is in rye bread, and Tumeric in Indian Food. He doesn't know what they look like.
Spoiler
A: 4%
B: 90%
C: 3%
D: 3%
B: 90%
C: 3%
D: 3%
Answer and value
B: Tumeric
Value: $25,000
Bank: $47,000
Value: $25,000
Bank: $47,000
Commercial break.
Question 5 - Out There
Rural parts of the country that are far away from cities and towns are commonly called what?
A: The rocks
B: The sticks
C: The leaves
D: The weeds
Answer and value
B: The sticks
Value: $500
Bank: $47,500
Value: $500
Bank: $47,500
Because he descended from nobility, the author of "War & Peace" was also known as which of the following?
A: Count Chekhov
B: Count Dostoyevsky
C: Count Nabokov
D: Count Tolstoy
Answer and value
D: Count Tolstoy
Value: $10,000
Bank: $57,500
Value: $10,000
Bank: $57,500
Question 7 - Ad Man
With the tagline "Some stars show you the way," a 2012 Louis Vuitton ad depicts what former sports legend with his boxing glove-clad grandson?
A: Wayne Gretzky
B: Williw Mays
C: Muhammad Ali
D: Arnold Palmer
Answer and value
C: Muhammad Ali
Value: $5,000
Bank: $62,500
Value: $5,000
Bank: $62,500
QOTD (from 1-12-2011)
Found at rural English fairs, "gurning" is an odd tradition in which people compete at doing what?
A. Lulling animals to sleep B. Carving walnuts
C. Climbing into barrels D. Making funny faces
Spoiler
D
Sent there in 1913 for firing his stepfather's pistol, what jazz great learned to read and write music at a New Orleans school for wayward children?
A: Dizzy Gillespie
B: Louis Armstrong
C: Duke Ellington
D: Count Basie
He can't eliminate it down to one, so JTQ
Answer and value
B: Louis Armstrong
Value: $100
Bank: $62,500
Value: $100
Bank: $62,500
Which of the following common expressions is derived from an important tenet in Islamic and Cabalist doctrine?
A: One in a million
B: Third time's a charm
C: Six Degrees of Separation
D: Seventh Heaven
Spoiler
He thinks 6 degrees of separation comes from an experiment when they mailed letters. Seventh heaven jumps out when you're looking at religious things. 1 in a million sticks out, because Arabs had the concept of zero.
Spoiler
D
Answer and value
D: Seventh Heaven
Value: $1,000
Bank: $63,500
Value: $1,000
Bank: $63,500
End of show horn. Rishi returns tomorrow with a $63,500 bank and no lifelines, one question away from "Classic Millionaire."
