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Deborah Bishop
Long Beach, MS
Spanish teacher and Liza Minnelli lookalike.
Won a $50 in a costume contest without even trying.


Topic Tree (pre-randomized):
10. Q Tips
9. Early Jobs
8. Science Fail
7. We're Walking
6. History's Mysteries
5. Fashion Fun
4. Family Relations
3. Matchmaker
2. Letter Lawsuits
1. One-time Infections

Topic Tree: (Randomized)
6. History's Mysteries
7. We're Walking
10. Q Tips
5. Fashion Fun
2. Letter Lawsuits
1. One-time Infections
9. Early Jobs
8. Science Fail
4. Family Relations
3. Matchmaker

Question 1 - Level 3. Matchmaker

A new trend in matchmaking, "pheromone parties" are get-togethers in which singles seek to find a compatible mate based on a person's what?

A: Smell
B: Taste
C: Feel
D: Voice

Answer and value

A: Smell
Value: $25,000!
Bank: $25,000

She's gonna buys some shoes!

Question 2 - Level 4. Family Relations

Which of your relatives would be correctly referred to as your "meemaw"?

(Before the choices are even revealed) Oh, I hate that

Spoiler

grandmother

name!"

A: Brother
B: Grandfather
C: Grandmother
D: Father

Answer and value

C: Grandmother (Deborah's grandkids call her Dee-Dee.)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $32,000

Question 3 - Level 8. Science Fail

Radioactive thorium was believed to be so beneficial that it was used to make what household item during WWII?

A: Cough drops
B: Toothpaste
C: Orange juice
D: Shampoo

JTQ

Answer and value

B: Toothpaste (A German toothpaste, specifically)
Value: $100
Bank: $32,000

Commercial break.

Question 4 - Level 9. Early Jobs

Before winning a 1988 Pulitzer Prize for her own material, what novelist edited Muhammad Ali's 1975 biography?

A: Alice Walker
B: Terry McMillan
C: Maya Angelou
D: Toni Morrison

ATA

Spoiler

A: 19%
B: 4%
C: 49%
D: 28%

Deborah gets chastized for interrupting Meredith. The audience matches what Deborah was thinking.

JTQ

Answer and value

D: Toni Morrison
Value: $15,000
Bank: $32,000

Question 5 - Level 1. One-time Infections

In medical lore, what disease got its name from the observation that it was a "weaker" version of smallpox?

A: Wimppox
B: Chickenpox
C: Loserpox
D: Pansypox

Answer and value

B: Chickenpox
Value: $2,000
Bank: $34,000

Deborah asks Meredith not to tell her husband how much money she's winning. He's a Southern gentleman who thinks he has to run her life.
Meredith (laughing): "I don't know what you're talking about."

Question 6 - Level 2. Letter Lawsuits

In 2010, the International House of Prayer was sued over its abbreviated name by a restaurant chain best known for serving what?

A: Pizza
B: Poultry
C: Pie
D: Pancakes

Answer and value

D: Pancakes
Value: $3,000
Bank: $37,000

Deborah worked at that restaurant in college.

Question 7 - Level 5. Fashion Fun

First gaining popularity in the 1950s amongst British rock 'n' roll fans, winklepickers are a long, pointed style of what fashion item?

A: Boots
B: Pants
C: Hat
D: Scarf

She attempts to query the audience, and gets a very chilly shushing from Meredith.

Answer and value

A: Boots
Value: $10,000
Bank: $47,000

Commercial break.

Question 8 - Level 10. Q Tips

How many member countries of the United Nations have "q" tips, or names that begin or end with the letter "q"?

A: One
B: Two
C: Three
D: Four

A lot of chatter here, some of it amusing.

Spoiler

She thinks of Qatar.

And then more chatter.

Meredith: "You want a Q word?"
Deborah: "Quit?"

She walks with $23,500.

Answer and value

B: Two (Iraq and Qatar)
Value: $not revealed
Bank: (half of) $47,000

QOTD (date unknown):

On "The Simpsons", what is the title of the Itchy & Scratchy cartoon with "Special Guest Director Quentin Tarantino"?

A: Reservoir Cats
B: Germs of Endearment
C: Skinless in Seattle
D: Spay Anything

Spoiler

A

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BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Deborah Bishop
Long Beach, MS
Spanish teacher and Liza Minnelli lookalike.
Won a $50 in a costume contest without even trying.

I didn't see the resemblance. And as I noted elsewhere Deborah had a "surfeit of personality".

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 3 - Level 8. Science Fail

Radioactive thorium was believed to be so beneficial that it was used to make what household item during WWII?

A: Cough drops
B: Toothpaste
C: Orange juice
D: Shampoo

JTQ

Answer and value

B: Toothpaste (A German toothpaste, specifically)
Value: $100
Bank: $32,000

I figured it was either toothpaste or shampoo. I'll JTQ.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 7 - Level 5. Fashion Fun

First gaining popularity in the 1950s amongst British rock 'n' roll fans, winklepickers are a long, pointed style of what fashion item?

A: Boots
B: Pants
C: Hat
D: Scarf

She attempts to query the audience, and gets a very chilly shushing from Meredith.

Answer and value

A: Boots
Value: $10,000
Bank: $47,000

Since I have it, I'll ATA.

Question 3 - Level 8. Science Fail

Radioactive thorium was believed to be so beneficial that it was used to make what household item during WWII?

A: Cough drops
B: Toothpaste
C: Orange juice
D: Shampoo

JTQ

Answer and value

B: Toothpaste (A German toothpaste, specifically)
Value: $100
Bank: $32,000

JTQ 1

Question 4 - Level 9. Early Jobs

Before winning a 1988 Pulitzer Prize for her own material, what novelist edited Muhammad Ali's 1975 biography?

A: Alice Walker
B: Terry McMillan
C: Maya Angelou
D: Toni Morrison

ATA

Spoiler

A: 19%
B: 4%
C: 49%
D: 28%

Deborah gets chastized for interrupting Meredith. The audience matches what Deborah was thinking.

JTQ 2

Answer and value

D: Toni Morrison
Value: $15,000
Bank: $32,000

JTQ 2

Question 7 - Level 5. Fashion Fun

First gaining popularity in the 1950s amongst British rock 'n' roll fans, winklepickers are a long, pointed style of what fashion item?

A: Boots
B: Pants
C: Hat
D: Scarf

She attempts to query the audience, and gets a very chilly shushing from Meredith.

Answer and value

A: Boots
Value: $10,000
Bank: $47,000

I'll ATA, but I think I'm outta luck. Let's pretend they get it.

Question 8 - Level 10. Q Tips

How many member countries of the United Nations have "q" tips, or names that begin or end with the letter "q"?

A: One
B: Two
C: Three
D: Four

A lot of chatter here, some of it amusing.

Spoiler

She thinks of Qatar.

And then more chatter.

Meredith: "You want a Q word?"
Deborah: "Quit?"

She walks with $23,500.

Answer and value

B: Two (Iraq and Qatar)
Value: $not revealed
Bank: (half of) $47,000

OK, Qatar and Iraq. And what else? . . . I'm outta there.

Deborah treated her students to a trip to New Orleans. She's also setting up a couple scholarships...and she's buying herself some shoes.

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?secti ... id=8886813

Incidentally, some reporter apparently thought the postal abbreviation for Mississippi was MI, then some headline writer read that byline and turned Deborah into a "Michigan teacher". Now that would have been a long limo ride to New Orleans!

Deborah's class trip has also been mentioned in the Huffington Post.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/1 ... 46130.html

They got her state right!

Deborah's class trip just got cited as an anecdote in this column about teaching as a career.

http://www.telegram.com/article/2012120 ... 2/BUSINESS

Teachers are special people. Mississippi Spanish teacher Deborah Bishop won a $23,500 prize on the TV game show “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” and spent a chunk of it to treat her 20 Spanish Honor Society students to a night on the town — dinner at a fancy restaurant, limousine pick-up and tickets to the opera, all while dropping off toy donations at the Children’s Hospital on the way.