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Kari Deike
Henderson, NV
librarian

This is Kari's second visit to New York City. She's seen the World Trade Center memorial, which was beautiful, and she took her husband to Times Square and Central Park. But she hasn't eaten from a foot truck yet - "street meat" she calls it. Meredith says that sounds like something else and she should be careful.

Topic Tree: (randomized)
In Circulation
Objectionable Offspring
Why the Long Face?
What a Coincidence
Same Name
Music and Literature
Food Fight
Gotta Dance
Nude Thinker
Figurative Games

Question #1 (Figurative Games)
Which of the following idiomatic expressions describes the metaphoric meaning of a "shell game"?
A - twist of fate
B - stroke of luck
C - act of faith
D - sleight of hand

Kari has been sitting with Scott in the green room and he's a master of this.

Spoiler

Answer: D (sleight of hand)
Value: $10,000
Bank: $10,000

Question #2 (Nude Thinker)
Which Founding Father championed the "air bath" and sat naked in his chambers each morning while reading and writing?
A - Benjamin Franklin
B - John Jay
C - Alexander Hamilton
D - George Washington

Kari doesn't know how she knows this and doesn't want the image in her head the rest of the day.

Spoiler

Answer: A (Benjamin Franklin)
Value: $3,000
Bank: $13,000

Question #3 (Gotta Dance)
In 1988, 119,986 people in Miami were told to "grab the shoulders of the person in front of you and dance" as they set the record for the longest what?
A - square dance
B - limbo
C - conga line
D - flamenco

Kari works the answer out.

Spoiler

Answer: C (conga line)
Value: $100
Bank: $13,100

commercial break

Kari has entered some beauty pageants and is the current Mrs. Nevada. She did this to make turning 40 awesome. She set a goal of winning a state title and after 5 years achieved it.

Question #4 (Food Fight)
To prove his country's prosperity, in 1967, Fidel Castro boasted that Cuba would be able to produce more flavors of what than any other country?
A - ice cream
B - potato chips
C - yogurt
D - oatmeal

Kari didn't know they had any of these things in Cuba. She has absolutely no idea so she jumps the question.

Spoiler

Answer: A (ice cream)
Value: $1,000
Bank: $13,100 (unchanged)

Question #5 (Music and Literature)
The pop singer Adele shares her name with a French girl who is the pupil of what novel's lead character?
A - The Scarlet Letter
B - Wuthering Heights
C - Jane Eyre
D - Pride & Prejudice

Kari says this is her worst nightmare - a literature question and her being a librarian and not knowing the answer. She read these in high school but she can't remember them. She hopes the audience knows more about books than she does so she asks them.

ATA results

A - 11%
B - 20%
C - 46%
D - 23%

That is what Kari was leaning toward. She goes with the audience's answer.

Spoiler

Answer: C (Jane Eyre)
Value: $5,000
Bank: $18,100

Kari says that if she had gone home on that question she wouldn't have been able to go home.

Question #6 (Same Name)
Which of the following gets its name from the tool that was once used to make it?
A - jumping jacks
B - marbles
C - jigsaw puzzle
D - Jack-in-the-box

Kari loves these.

Spoiler

Answer: C (jigsaw puzzle)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $25,100

Question #7 (What a Coincidence)
In 2012, a man named Walter White was wanted by police for making and selling methamphetamine, strongly paralleling what fictional TV show?
A - Boardwalk Empire
B - Trie Blood
C - Breaking Bad
D - Sons of Anarchy

The only way Kari knows this is because of her sons. They keep telling her she needs to watch this show. She's going to go home and watch it.

Spoiler

Answer: C (Breaking Bad)
Value: $500
Bank: $25,600

commercial break

Kari's husband Bob is in the relationship seat.

Question #8 (Why the Long Face?)
A picture of an elderly man went viral in 2012 because the left side of his face was much more wrinkled than his right, a result of what longtime job?
A - police officer
B - truck driver
C - landscaper
D - mailman

Kari doesn't know about New York City but in Vegas and Chicago

Spoiler

mailmen sit on "this side" (gesturing to her right)

. So the one person who would be behind the wheel all the time would be

Spoiler

a truck driver

.

Spoiler

Answer: B (truck driver)
Value: $2,000
Bank: $27,600

Question #9 (Objectionable Offspring)
According to Argentinian legend, families abandoned their seventh son for fear he would turn into a lobizón, which is what creature?
A - vampire
B - demon
C - werewolf
D - warlock

Kari says that it's good she stopped having children after five so as not to take the risk. In Spanish

Spoiler

"lobo" means wolf

so she's going to make that her final answer.

Spoiler

Answer: C (werewolf)
Value: $25,000
Bank: $52,600

Question #10 (In Circulation)
The two largest magazines in the U.S. based on circulation are both published by what organization?
A - NRA
B - PTA
C - AARP
D - ASPCA

"The gun people, the teachers, the retired people or the dog people," Kari muses. She's leaning between

Spoiler

B and C because they're both very active and very vocal

. But she's not confident so she jumps the question.

Spoiler

Answer: C (AARP)
Value: $15,000
Bank: $52,600 (unchanged)

commercial break

CLASSIC MILLIONAIRE

$100K - Which of these units of time is the shortest?
A - picosecond
B - microsecond
C - femtosecond
D - nanosecond

Kari knows that

Spoiler

nanosecond is smaller than microsecond

. She hasn't heard of the other two. Her son, the engineering student is going to kill her dead for not knowing this. She told herself that if she didn't know with 100% certainty she had to do what was best for the family and although she's from Vegas and would love to gamble, $52,600 will pay a lot of college tuition. She walks away.

Spoiler

C (femtosecond)

Millionaire question of the day: (shown before the $100K question)
Originally referring to the Alaskan village Hoochinoo, "hooch" is slang for what?
A - oil
B - money
C - alcohol
D - prison
Answer:

Spoiler

C (alcohol)

THE END OF GAME "NOISE"

I had heard whispers that I'd gotten a shout-out from Kari, but I assumed it would be cut from the broadcast. Little did I know she'd mentioned me in a way that was impossible to cut. Yay for an extra few seconds on top of my fifteen minutes!

Kari, by the way, is an incredibly awesome person who defied every stereotype I had about pageant winners. She's a school librarian, genuinely humble, and has a dry sense of humor. If I were the casting producer, she'd be the first person I'd put on the show.

Question #7 (What a Coincidence)
In 2012, a man named Walter White was wanted by police for making and selling methamphetamine, strongly paralleling what fictional TV show?
A - Boardwalk Empire
B - Trie Blood
C - Breaking Bad
D - Sons of Anarchy

The only way Kari knows this is because of her sons. They keep telling her she needs to watch this show. She's going to go home and watch it.

Spoiler

Answer: C (Breaking Bad)
Value: $500
Bank: $25,600

ATA

Question #10 (In Circulation)
The two largest magazines in the U.S. based on circulation are both published by what organization?
A - NRA
B - PTA
C - AARP
D - ASPCA

"The gun people, the teachers, the retired people or the dog people," Kari muses. She's leaning between

Spoiler

B and C because they're both very active and very vocal

. But she's not confident so she jumps the question.

Spoiler

Answer: C (AARP)
Value: $15,000
Bank: $52,600 (unchanged)

JTQ

$100K - Which of these units of time is the shortest?
A - picosecond
B - microsecond
C - femtosecond
D - nanosecond

Kari knows that

Spoiler

nanosecond is smaller than microsecond

. She hasn't heard of the other two. Her son, the engineering student is going to kill her dead for not knowing this. She told herself that if she didn't know with 100% certainty she had to do what was best for the family and although she's from Vegas and would love to gamble, $52,600 will pay a lot of college tuition. She walks away.

Spoiler

C (femtosecond)

JTQ 2

I liked the shout out to Scott. It's almost 4th wall-breaking in that I'm sure TPTB would like to give the illusion that contestants just sort of spontaneously appear and haven't been cooped up in a green room for sometimes days on end.

hanzz wrote:I liked the shout out to Scott. It's almost 4th wall-breaking in that I'm sure TPTB would like to give the illusion that contestants just sort of spontaneously appear and haven't been cooped up in a green room for sometimes days on end.

I'd been asked to prepare some magic for possible use on-air, and wound up just bringing a bunch of stuff - magic and balloons. I specialize in children's magic, which is more of the parlor and stage variety, so I don't do a ton with cards. Still, I have about a half-dozen miracles I can do with a standard deck, and I wasn't shy to share them. And after Grace the PA did the 21-card-trick - quite possibly the worst trick in magic (sorry, Grace, but you admitted as much!) - my stuff looked even better by comparison.

We were actually very close to me giving Meredith a balloon animal flower at the start of my second episode - it was made and ready, but then the stage manager brought it out and I guess it didn't look good under the lights?

So I would say, if you asked my green room buddies what about the green room they remember most, I bet the majority would say the magic and balloons. Or the sandwiches.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: Kari Deike
Henderson, NV
librarian

This is Kari's second visit to New York City. She's seen the World Trade Center memorial, which was beautiful, and she took her husband to Times Square and Central Park. But she hasn't eaten from a food truck yet - "street meat" she calls it. Meredith says that sounds like something else and she should be careful.

I LOLed at this remark.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #1 (Figurative Games)
Which of the following idiomatic expressions describes the metaphoric meaning of a "shell game"?
A - twist of fate
B - stroke of luck
C - act of faith
D - sleight of hand

Kari has been sitting with Scott in the green room and he's a master of this.

Spoiler

Answer: D (sleight of hand)
Value: $10,000
Bank: $10,000

It's not often that a previous contestant gets a shout-out. Nice of Kari to mention Scott.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #10 (In Circulation)
The two largest magazines in the U.S. based on circulation are both published by what organization?
A - NRA
B - PTA
C - AARP
D - ASPCA

"The gun people, the teachers, the retired people or the dog people," Kari muses. She's leaning between

Spoiler

B and C because they're both very active and very vocal

. But she's not confident so she jumps the question.

Spoiler

Answer: C (AARP)
Value: $15,000
Bank: $52,600 (unchanged)

I guessed correctly but had I been at the Blackjack Table® I'd have used a JTQ.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$100K - Which of these units of time is the shortest?
A - picosecond
B - microsecond
C - femtosecond
D - nanosecond

Kari knows that

Spoiler

nanosecond is smaller than microsecond

. She hasn't heard of the other two. Her son, the engineering student is going to kill her dead for not knowing this. She told herself that if she didn't know with 100% certainty she had to do what was best for the family and although she's from Vegas and would love to gamble, $52,600 will pay a lot of college tuition. She walks away.

Spoiler

C (femtosecond)

Probably one of the easiest $100K questions of late (yeah, I know..."they're only easy if you know them").