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Roslyn Daniel
Moorestown, NJ

Roslyn just took her only child, Rachel, to college. She's at Fairleigh Dickenson studying pre-med. Roslyn says it's an adjustment. She's a single mom.

Topic Tree: (randomized)
Sister Organization
Career Change
Fashion Houses
Fishing for Snacks
Song Spoofs
Menu Items
Games Abroad
Prize Winners
Travel Books
Home Economics

Question #1 (Home Economics)
In a Time magazine website article "12 Things We Buy in a Bad Economy," which of the following items did not make the list?
A - new cars
B - lottery tickets
C - generic drugs
D - fast food

Roslyn says that

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new cars are an investment, an expenditure she doesn't have

.

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Answer: A (new cars)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $7,000

Question #2 (Travel Books)
What is the title of a 2012 book whose subtitle is "History of the Floating City"?
A - Madrid
B - Dublin
C - Venice
D - Moscow

"Let's process this," Roslyn begins.

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"Venice is on water, right? You can't tell me but I'm processing this in my head"

.

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Answer: C (Venice)
Value: $10,000
Bank: $17,000

Question #3 (Prize Winners)
What common saying is thought to be a reference to the prizes often won at mid-20th century fairgrounds?
A - bite the bullet
B - close, but no cigar
C - bury the hatchet
D - all that glitters is not gold

Roslyn is feeling a little bit like it might be

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C

but she decides to jump the question because she isn't sure.

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Answer: B (close, but no cigar)
Value: $3,000
Bank: $17,000 (unchanged)

Question #4 (Games Abroad)
In the German version of Scrabble, "Q" and what other letter have ten point values because they are used so rarely in German?
A - J
B - X
C - U
D - Y

"You know what? I hate to do it but..." then Roslyn stops and says she wants to think about it for a moment. She's unfortunately going to have to jump this question also.

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Answer: D (Y)
Value: $1,000
Bank: $17,000 (unchanged)

Question #5 (Menu Items)
Considering its chipper name, it's no surprise that which of these restaurants offers customers a Happy Ending sundae?
A - Friendly's
B - Olive Garden
C - Arby's
D - Bob's Big Boy

Roslyn is going to go for

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Friendly's

because that's her daughter's favorite and it was their "Sunday gig".

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Answer: A (Friendly's)
Value: $15,000
Bank: $32,000

commercial break

Roslyn needs the money to help with tuition. She'd also like a "hot, red car - a hot, red, luxury car." She knows she can't name the brand. A convertible. She'd have fabulous red hair and a fabulous outfit, on the road to visit her daughter at Columbia Medical School.

Question #6 (Song Spoofs)
Opening with the line "On a dark office evening," a joke "theme song" for Wikipedia is a take-off of what famous tune?
A - Good Vibrations
B - Hotel California
C - Smells Like Teen Spirit
D - Hey Jude

Roslyn tries to recall the tune but can't, so she needs some help. She's going to ask the audience.

ATA results

A - 9%
B - 81%
C - 6%
D - 4%

"That's a huge number," Roslyn says. She's going to go with their answer.

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Answer: B (Hotel California)
Value: $5,000
Bank: $37,000

Question #7 (Fishing for Snacks)
In a great example of their tool-making abilities, what animals poke sticks into the ground in order to grab tasty termites to eat?
A - camels
B - hawks
C - raccoons
D - chimpanzees

Roslyn knows this one because she and her daughter love The Discovery Channel, because they don't have cable.

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Answer: D (chimpanzees)
Value: $2,000
Bank: $39,000

commercial break

Millionaire question of the day:
What beer's commercials turned the catchphrase "Whassup!" into a national phenomenon?
A - Miller Lite
B - Heineken
C - Budweiser
D - Michelob
Answer:

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C (Budweiser)

Question #8 (Fashion Houses)
Adding the letter "o" to the end of which of these fashion houses produces the first name of the man who founded it?
A - Armani
B - Hermes
C - Gucci
D - Prada

Roslyn toys with adding the letter to each of the answers. She knows it's not

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A because his name is Georgio and she knows it's not D because Mucchio is his first name

. She can't decide between the other two and she'd rather leave with some money than no money (or less money). She decides to walk away.

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Answer: C (Gucci)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $19,500

THE END OF GAME "NOISE"

Question #6 (Song Spoofs)
Opening with the line "On a dark office evening," a joke "theme song" for Wikipedia is a take-off of what famous tune?
A - Good Vibrations
B - Hotel California
C - Smells Like Teen Spirit
D - Hey Jude

Roslyn tries to recall the tune but can't, so she needs some help. She's going to ask the audience.

ATA results

A - 9%
B - 81%
C - 6%
D - 4%

"That's a huge number," Roslyn says. She's going to go with their answer.

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Answer: B (Hotel California)
Value: $5,000
Bank: $37,000

I'll ATA also.

Question #8 (Fashion Houses)
Adding the letter "o" to the end of which of these fashion houses produces the first name of the man who founded it?
A - Armani
B - Hermes
C - Gucci
D - Prada

Roslyn toys with adding the letter to each of the answers. She knows it's not

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A because his name is Georgio and she knows it's not D because Mucchio is his first name

. She can't decide between the other two and she'd rather leave with some money than no money (or less money). She decides to walk away.

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Answer: C (Gucci)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $19,500

JTQ

When we were in the GR watching old episodes, Ros said a few things that had me a little worried about whether she was prepared for the game, like not knowing that you only got half your bank when you walked. She was incredibly sweet, though, so I'm glad it worked out quite nicely for her.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #8 (Fashion Houses)
Adding the letter "o" to the end of which of these fashion houses produces the first name of the man who founded it?
A - Armani
B - Hermes
C - Gucci
D - Prada

Roslyn toys with adding the letter to each of the answers. She knows it's not

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A because his name is Georgio and she knows it's not D because Mucchio is his first name

. She can't decide between the other two and she'd rather leave with some money than no money (or less money). She decides to walk away.

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Answer: C (Gucci)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $19,500

The only two that even sound remotely correct in my mind would be Guccio and Armanio, and given that Giorgio Armani is a somewhat household name, I'd jump on C and hope it wasn't a stupid decision.

That would leave me with 1 JTQ and the ATA for the rest of Roslyn's stack.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Roslyn Daniel
Moorestown, NJ

Roslyn just took her only child, Rachel, to college. She's at Fairleigh Dickenson studying pre-med. Roslyn says it's an adjustment. She's a single mom.

And has a surfeit of personality. It's not hard to see why TPTB chose her.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #3 (Prize Winners)
What common saying is thought to be a reference to the prizes often won at mid-20th century fairgrounds?
A - bite the bullet
B - close, but no cigar
C - bury the hatchet
D - all that glitters is not gold

Roslyn is feeling a little bit like it might be

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C

but she decides to jump the question because she isn't sure.

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Answer: B (close, but no cigar)
Value: $3,000
Bank: $17,000 (unchanged)

I was afraid that we were going to see another 3-and-done contestant. Fortunately she thought better of her answer. Interestingly there was a category called "Close But no Cigar" in the 1st contestant's stack.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #8 (Fashion Houses)
Adding the letter "o" to the end of which of these fashion houses produces the first name of the man who founded it?
A - Armani
B - Hermes
C - Gucci
D - Prada

Roslyn toys with adding the letter to each of the answers. She knows it's not

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A because his name is Georgio and she knows it's not D because Mucchio is his first name

. She can't decide between the other two and she'd rather leave with some money than no money (or less money). She decides to walk away.

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Answer: C (Gucci)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $19,500

I'd JTQ on this one. The only first name of the four I knew was Armani.