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Phoebe Search
Edgewater, NJ

Phoebe is a Fourth Grade schoolteacher and a mom to 16-month-old twin boys.

Phoebe: They're my little wrecking balls and then I get to go to school and hang out with my big wrecking balls!

Meredith asks the computer to randomize the money and the questions. The unrandomized Topic Tree is not shown.

Topic Tree (Randomized)
?: It's In The Cards
?: An Ear for Music
?: Nothing to Lose
?: Before Apple
?: Quick Bites
?: Fashion Forward
?: Border Nation
?: Paring Down
?: Halfway There
?: Mapping America


Question #1 - Level ?: Mapping America
Though it was eventually renamed, it's believed that a British surveyor gave the name River Glades to a large marshy area that later became part of what U.S. state?

A: Kentucky B: Michigan
C: Florida D: Tennessee

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Florida
Question Value: $2,000
Bank: $2,000

Question #2 - Level ?: Halfway There
"Half Evil Tattoo" is part of the name of a Saskatoon, Canada tattoo parlor whose full name logically begins with what numbers?

A: 111 B: 222
C: 333 D: 444

Answer/Value/Bank

C: 333
Question Value: $100
Bank: $2,100

Question #3 - Level ?: Paring Down
What is the name of a new dieting program where participants are held accountable to their social network contacts by announcing what they consume?

A: Tweet What You Eat B: iDiet
C: Like Me For Weight Loss D: Pin Your Way To Thin

Phoebe jumps the question. She was thinking

Spoiler

Tweet What You Eat

.

Answer/Value/Bank

A: Tweet What You Eat
Question Value: $25,000
Bank: $2,100

-- Commercial Break --


Question #4 - Level ?: Border Nation
Calling its outline "kidney-shaped," the travel guide series Lonely Planet insists "There is no place like" where?

A: Israel B: Kenya
C: Hungary D: Argentina

Phoebe jumps the question.

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Hungary
Question Value: $5,000
Bank: $2,100

Question #5 - Level ?: Fashion Forward
"Skinny-jean tug-of-war" and "horn-rimmed-glasses-throwing" are two of the featured events in what annual "Olympics" of style?

A: Punk Olympics B: Hipster Olympics
C: Bohemian Olympics D: Preppy Olympics

Answer/Value/Bank

B: Hipster Olympics
Question Value: $3,000
Bank: $5,100

Question #6 - Level ?: Quick Bites
The father of an Iowa boy who bit 11 students at his middle school told police that his son did it after watching what movie?

A: The Avengers B: The Hunger Games
C: Twilight D: Transformers

Phoebe's suspicion is that

Spoiler

if he's biting, he's hungry, so it must have something to do with The Hunger Games.

She makes that her final answer.

Answer

C: Twilight

Although it made sense to Meredith, Phoebe is wrong. She leaves with "total winnings" of $1,000.


-- Commercial Break --




Edited to add answer for Question #4.

Met her for about 5 minutes backstage, very nice and anxious to play. "Hunger Games" was a nasty distractor (and diehard readers might actually remember an anecdote in the second or third book about a previous Hunger Games contestant who ate his victims).

Question #4 - Level ?: Border Nation
Calling its outline "kidney-shaped," the travel guide series Lonely Planet insists "There is no place like" where?

A: Israel B: Kenya
C: Hungary D: Argentina

Phoebe jumps the question.

Answer/Value/Bank

Question Value: $5,000
Bank: $2,100

And there goes another geography Q I knew.

...

And there goes a good stack for me. Not for this contestant, though.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #6 - Level ?: Quick Bites
The father of an Iowa boy who bit 11 students at his middle school told police that his son did it after watching what movie?

A: The Avengers B: The Hunger Games
C: Twilight D: Transformers

Phoebe's suspicion is that

Spoiler

if he's biting, he's hungry, so it must have something to do with The Hunger Games.

She makes that her final answer.

Answer

C: Twilight

I think Phoebe's going to have a hard time facing her students, tomorrow.

Even if she wasn't aware of the themes of these movies, she thinks a middle schooler would bite 11 of his classmates because he was hungry???

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: Phoebe Search
Edgewater, NJ

Phoebe is a Fourth Grade schoolteacher and a mom to 16-month-old twin boys.

Phoebe: They're my little wrecking balls and then I get to go to school and hang out with my big wrecking balls!

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #4 - Level ?: Border Nation
Calling its outline "kidney-shaped," the travel guide series Lonely Planet insists "There is no place like" where?

A: Israel B: Kenya
C: Hungary D: Argentina

Phoebe jumps the question.

Answer/Value/Bank

Question Value: $5,000
Bank: $2,100

Trying to go through the shapes in my head the only one that looks kidney shaped is Hungary.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #6 - Level ?: Quick Bites
The father of an Iowa boy who bit 11 students at his middle school told police that his son did it after watching what movie?

A: The Avengers B: The Hunger Games
C: Twilight D: Transformers

Phoebe's suspicion is that

Spoiler

if he's biting, he's hungry, so it must have something to do with The Hunger Games.

She makes that her final answer.

Answer

C: Twilight

I jokingly said to elwing that "The Hunger Games" was the answer and the kid bit the other children because he was hungry. Little did I know that Phoebe would use the same reasoning for real.

SportsFan68 wrote:

Question #4 - Level ?: Border Nation
Calling its outline "kidney-shaped," the travel guide series Lonely Planet insists "There is no place like" where?

A: Israel B: Kenya
C: Hungary D: Argentina

Phoebe jumps the question.

Answer/Value/Bank

Question Value: $5,000
Bank: $2,100

And there goes another geography Q I knew.

What was the answer?

themanwho wrote:

SportsFan68 wrote:

Question #4 - Level ?: Border Nation
Calling its outline "kidney-shaped," the travel guide series Lonely Planet insists "There is no place like" where?

A: Israel B: Kenya
C: Hungary D: Argentina

Phoebe jumps the question.

Answer/Value/Bank

Question Value: $5,000
Bank: $2,100

And there goes another geography Q I knew.

What was the answer?

Hungary

earendel wrote:

themanwho wrote:What was the answer?

Hungary

The transcript has been updated.