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Celebrity Week

Paula Deen (carryover)

Paula thought she would be out of the game right away, so she only brought 1 outfit.

She has a $55,600 bank and a JTQ lifeline.

Topic Tree: (Randomized)

8. Famous Places
9. Connect the Dots
$7,000 (10. Historical Nicknames)
$15,000 (1. Yummy Punch)
JTQ ($10,000 - 7. War Quotes)
$3,000 (6. Grammy Moment)
$25,000 (ATA - 2. Treasure Hunters)
$500 (4. Lack of Resources)
$5,000 (5. Grunt Work)
$100 (3. Animal Kingdom)

Question 9 - Level 9. Connect the Dots

Though technically a mistranslation of its Arabic name, "armpit" of Orion accurately describes the placement of what star in the constellation?

A: Sirius
B: Betelgeuse
C: Pollux
D: Alpha Centauri

JTQ

Answer and value

B: Betelgeuse (She'd have guessed Sirius.)
Value: $2,000
Bank: $55,600

Question 10 - Level 8. Famous Places

What famed landmark is, unbeknownst to many of its visitors, actually a mausoleum?

A: Taj Mahal
B: Great Wall of China
C: Big Ben
D: Leaning Tower of Pisa

She travels a lot, but she hasn't been to any of these places. She doesn't know it, but she whips out

Spoiler

A

as a guess, final answer.

Answer and value

A: Taj Mahal
Value: $1,000
Bank: $56,600

The audience gives her a round of hearty applause while chanting, "Paula! Paula!"

Paula: One hundred dollars (sic). This next one ain't no BS, is it?
Meredith: You're like my little idiot savant.
Paula: That's what I call my manager.

CLASSIC MILLIONAIRE

Question 11 - $100K

Bizarrely, which of these products was advertised for several decades as a feminine hygiene product?

A: Pledge
B: Comet
C: Lysol
D: Pine-Sol

Spoiler

"Surely not Pine-Sol." Then she starts joking about spraying your panties with Lysol, and Meredith (and the audience) just about dies.

She takes her money and leaves.

Answer

C: Lysol

Spoiler

Paula is shocked at how close she came to the correct answer.

The Alzheimer's Association gets $56,600.

Commercial break.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Celebrity Week

Paula Deen (carryover)

Paula thought she would be out of the game right away, so she only brought 1 outfit.

She has a $55,600 bank and a JTQ lifeline.

I can sympathize with the transcriptionist - a little Paula Deen goes a long way.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 9 - Level 9. Connect the Dots

Though technically a mistranslation of its Arabic name, "armpit" of Orion accurately describes the placement of what star in the constellation?

A: Sirius
B: Betelgeuse
C: Pollux
D: Alpha Centauri

JTQ

Answer and value

B: Betelgeuse (She'd have guessed Sirius.)
Value: $2,000
Bank: $55,600

Betelgeuse is the only star of the four that is in Orion, so it's not hard to figure out. Now if they'd included Rigel and Bellatrix , that would have been worthy of a second-tier question.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 10 - Level 8. Famous Places

What famed landmark is, unbeknownst to many of its visitors, actually a mausoleum?

A: Taj Mahal
B: Great Wall of China
C: Big Ben
D: Leaning Tower of Pisa

She travels a lot, but she hasn't been to any of these places. She doesn't know it, but she whips out

Spoiler

A

as a guess, final answer.

Answer and value

A: Taj Mahal
Value: $1,000
Bank: $56,600

Sometimes I think Paula's "dumb Southern girl" routine is a put-on. I suspect she knew the answer to this one.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 11 - $100K

Bizarrely, which of these products was advertised for several decades as a feminine hygiene product?

A: Pledge
B: Comet
C: Lysol
D: Pine-Sol

Spoiler

"Surely not Pine-Sol." Then she starts joking about spraying your panties with Lysol, and Meredith (and the audience) just about dies.

She takes her money and leaves.

Answer

C: Lysol

It's certainly not Comet (I shudder to think about the abrasiveness factor). "Lysol" makes sense as an odor-preventer (or -masker).

Question 9 - Level 9. Connect the Dots

Though technically a mistranslation of its Arabic name, "armpit" of Orion accurately describes the placement of what star in the constellation?

A: Sirius
B: Betelgeuse
C: Pollux
D: Alpha Centauri

JTQ

Answer and value

B: Betelgeuse (She'd have guessed Sirius.)
Value: $2,000
Bank: $55,600

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