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Rishi Bhandari
Brooklyn, NY

Rishi is one question away from Round Two, with $63,500 in his bank. It's also Rishi's birthday, as Meredith noticed from Rishi's wife, mom, dad and sister all wearing shirts that say "Happy Birthday Rishi".

All of Rishi's lifelines are gone.

Topic Tree (Randomized)
?: Oy, Pooch
?: $1,000
?: [Jumped]
?: $5,000
?: $10,000
?: $500
?: $25,000
?: $15,000
?: $7,000
?: [Jumped]

Question #10 - Level ?: Oy, Pooch
In the humor book "Yiddish For Dogs," the definition of the word "putz" is given next to a photo of a dog wearing what?

A: Lab coat B: Lingerie
C: Dunce cap D: Monocle

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Dunce cap
Question Value: $2,000
Bank: $65,500

It's time to play Classic Millionaire!


$100,000
During the Civil War, Northern Democrats who opposed fighting the South were given what snake-inspired nickname?

A: Keelheads B: Copperheads
C: Sidewinders D: Diamondbacks

For some reason,

Spoiler

Copperheads

is jumping out at Rishi.

Answer

B: Copperheads

-- Commercial Break --


Rishi and his wife have been arguing about how to spend the money, but the one thing they haven't argued about is giving money to two charities that they support.


$250,000
According to Italian author Ruggero Marino's theory, Pope Innocent VIII is the father of what historical figure?

A: Christopher Columbus B: Joan of Arc
C: Johannes Gutenberg D: Leonardo da Vinci

Rishi is torn between

Spoiler

Columbus and da Vinci

. He's leaning towards

Spoiler

Columbus

, but he walks away with $100.000.

Answer

A: Christopher Columbus

Used the ATA and one JTQ.

$100,000
During the Civil War, Northern Democrats who opposed fighting the South were given what snake-inspired nickname?

A: Keelheads B: Copperheads
C: Sidewinders D: Diamondbacks

For some reason,

Spoiler

Copperheads

is jumping out at Rishi.

Answer

B: Copperheads

This is an ancient memory for me. I think I learned it the first time I studied the Civil War in Jr. High.

$250,000
According to Italian author Ruggero Marino's theory, Pope Innocent VIII is the father of what historical figure?

A: Christopher Columbus B: Joan of Arc
C: Johannes Gutenberg D: Leonardo da Vinci

Rishi is torn between

Spoiler

Columbus and da Vinci

. He's leaning towards

Spoiler

Columbus

, but he walks away with $100.000.

Answer

A: Christopher Columbus

JTQ 2.

I can't recall ever hearing of Ruggero Marino, but from the Amazon summary, it sounds like that was only a minor point from the book!

Spoiler

http://www.amazon.com/Christopher-Colum ... ero+Marino

MarleysGh0st wrote:I can't recall ever hearing of Ruggero Marino, but from the Amazon summary, it sounds like that was only a minor point from the book!

Spoiler

http://www.amazon.com/Christopher-Colum ... ero+Marino

I was all set to get all bent out of shape on what seemed at first to be a single-source question, but I googled it by subtracting out Marino and got lots of hits with the same theory.

This was the first time I'd heard of the theory that Columbus was the son of a pope. However, I've heard or read another of Marino's theories several times, the one positing that 1492 was Columbus's second voyage to what later became North America.

SportsFan68 wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:I can't recall ever hearing of Ruggero Marino, but from the Amazon summary, it sounds like that was only a minor point from the book!

Spoiler

http://www.amazon.com/Christopher-Colum ... ero+Marino

I was all set to get all bent out of shape on what seemed at first to be a single-source question, but I googled it by subtracting out Marino and got lots of hits with the same theory.

This was the first time I'd heard of the theory that Columbus was the son of a pope. However, I've heard or read another of Marino's theories several times, the one positing that 1492 was Columbus's second voyage to what later became North America.

Unless there was a vast conspiracy, his first voyage was in 1492. He obviously did not know how far he had to go before he got to land in the west on that voyage.

Columbus was a Jew from Barcelona anyway.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: Rishi Bhandari
Brooklyn, NY

Rishi is one question away from Round Two, with $63,500 in his bank. It's also Rishi's birthday, as Meredith noticed from Rishi's wife, mom, dad and sister all wearing shirts that say "Happy Birthday Rishi".

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$250,000
According to Italian author Ruggero Marino's theory, Pope Innocent VIII is the father of what historical figure?

A: Christopher Columbus B: Joan of Arc
C: Johannes Gutenberg D: Leonardo da Vinci

Rishi is torn between

Spoiler

Columbus and da Vinci

. He's leaning towards

Spoiler

Columbus

, but he walks away with $100.000.

Answer

A: Christopher Columbus

So, based on yesterday's transcript I would still have all my lifelines. No doubt that I JTQ here. Like Rishi I could have eliminated B and D (although there was this nagging voice in my head saying "maybe he was a French pope"). Unlike Rishi I would have been leaning toward Leonardo. Turns out that Innocent was born in Genoa, Columbus' home town.

I find it interesting that neither of the Wikipedia entries for Innocent VIII and Columbus mentions this possible relationship. The Columbus article, in fact, states that his father was "Domenico Colombo, a middle-class wool weaver".

earendel wrote:I find it interesting that neither of the Wikipedia entries for Innocent VIII and Columbus mentions this possible relationship. The Columbus article, in fact, states that his father was "Domenico Colombo, a middle-class wool weaver".

But it's the lack of all evidence that shows how huge the conspiracy is!!!