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Cruise In and Win Week

Meg Arbo
Galloway, NJ

Meg is about to face her question to win a Disney cruise. Meg has wanted to be on this show for thirteen years; she's tried a few times before, passed the test and talked to the producers, who've said "thanks, but no thanks."

Meg has been on a cruise once before, when she got rained on at every port of call.

Meg has $26,500 in her bank, with one Jump The Question remaining.


Topic Tree (Randomized)
?: Where Babies Come From
?: Pledge Punctuation
?: Looking Back
?: Do You Speak Starbucks?
?: All Ablaze
?: [Disney Cruise]
?: $500
?: $25,000
?: [Jumped]
?: $1,000


Question #5 - Level ?: [Disney Cruise]
What company's founder appropriately titled his 1993 autobiography, "When You Care Enough"?

A: Victoria's Secret B: Hallmark
C: 1-800-FLOWERS D: Russell Stover

Answer/Value/Bank

B: Hallmark
Question Value: $3,000 + Cruise
Bank: $29,500

Question #6 - Level ?: All Ablaze
Fire extinguishers marked Class "K" for "kitchen" are especially useful in combating what?

A: Electrical fires B: Grease fires
C: Gasoline fires D: Textile fires

Answer/Value/Bank

B: Grease fires
Question Value: $15,000
Bank: $44,500

Question #7 - Level ?: Do You Speak Starbucks?
Though it sounds like it means "made quickly," which coffee drink name comes from an Italian term for "pressed out"?

A: Cappucino B: Macchiato
C: Americano D: Espresso

Answer/Value/Bank

D: Espresso
Question Value: $100
Bank: $44,600

Question #8 - Level ?: Looking Back
"Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray, South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio," is a lyric from a song referencing events from 1949, the birth year of what singer?

A: Rod Stewart B: Billy Joel
C: James Brown D: Sting

Meg had to do a history paper on this in her senior year in high school.

Answer/Value/Bank

B: Billy Joel
Question Value: $2,000
Bank: $46,600

Question #9 - Level ?: Pledge Punctuation
According to the U.S. Flag Code, what word in the Pledge of Allegiance appears immediately before and after a comma?

A: Republic B: Stands
C: Justice D: Indivisible

Meg recites the pledge, without verbally noting the commas. Her gut says

Spoiler

A

, but she may be over-analyzing the question. She jumps the question.

Answer/Value/Bank

D: Indivisible
Question Value: $10,000
Bank: $46,600

-- Commercial Break --


Question #10 - Level ?: Where Babies Come From
On early 20th-century American life, John Steinbeck once quipped "Most of the babies of the period were conceived" in what?

A: Zeppelins B: Otis elevators
C: Model T Fords D: Iron lungs

Meg's gut feeling is

Spoiler

Model T Fords

. She wants to take a chance, but $23,000 would literally change her life. Meg makes that her final answer.

Meredith stops some premature applause from the audience and holds Meg is a long moment of suspense, before saying that's right.

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Model T Fords
Question Value: $5,000
Bank: $51,600

Meredith asks Meg what this money means to her. Meg says she's now officially out of debt. In addition, her parents retired to Florida, after which her stepfather was diagnosed with cancer. Now, Meg will be able to go there to spend time with them.

It's time to play Classic Millionaire!


$100,000
According to estimates, which one of these rare occurrences causes more human deaths worldwide than the others?

A: Snake bite B: Elephant attack
C: Shark attack D: Avalanche

Meg walks away with $51,600. If she had to guess, she would have said

Spoiler

snake bite

.

Answer

A: Snake bite

-- Commercial Break --

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #8 - Level ?: Looking Back
"Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray, South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio," is a lyric from a song referencing events from 1949, the birth year of what singer?

A: Rod Stewart B: Billy Joel
C: James Brown D: Sting

Meg had to do a history paper on this in her senior year in high school.

Answer/Value/Bank

B: Billy Joel
Question Value: $2,000
Bank: $46,600

I think the new, wide-screen TVs in the studio have convinced the writers that their questions can be twice as long as they used to be!

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #9 - Level ?: Pledge Punctuation
According to the U.S. Flag Code, what word in the Pledge of Allegiance appears immediately before and after a comma?

A: Republic B: Stands
C: Justice D: Indivisible

Meg recites the pledge, without verbally noting the commas. Her gut says

Spoiler

A

, but she may be over-analyzing the question. She jumps the question.

Answer/Value/Bank

D: Indivisible
Question Value: $10,000
Bank: $46,600

Since Meg never stated where she thought the commas were, when she so rapidly recited the pledge, I'm not sure if she was just punctuating it incorrectly or if she didn't understand the question. If it was the former, I can't see how she thought it was "to the, republic, for which it stands".

Question #5 - Level ?: [Disney Cruise]
What company's founder appropriately titled his 1993 autobiography, "When You Care Enough"?

A: Victoria's Secret B: Hallmark
C: 1-800-FLOWERS D: Russell Stover

Answer/Value/Bank

B: Hallmark
Question Value: $3,000 + Cruise
Bank: $29,500

When you care enough to send the very best.

$100,000
According to estimates, which one of these rare occurrences causes more human deaths worldwide than the others?

A: Snake bite B: Elephant attack
C: Shark attack D: Avalanche

Meg walks away with $51,600. If she had to guess, she would have said

Spoiler

snake bite

.

Answer

A: Snake bite

They shoulda included mosquitoes.

Great stack!

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Cruise In and Win Week

Meg Arbo
Galloway, NJ

Meg is about to face her question to win a Disney cruise. Meg has wanted to be on this show for thirteen years; she's tried a few times before, passed the test and talked to the producers, who've said "thanks, but no thanks."

Meg has been on a cruise once before, when she got rained on at every port of call.

Meg has $26,500 in her bank, with one Jump The Question remaining.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #9 - Level ?: Pledge Punctuation
According to the U.S. Flag Code, what word in the Pledge of Allegiance appears immediately before and after a comma?

A: Republic B: Stands
C: Justice D: Indivisible

Meg recites the pledge, without verbally noting the commas. Her gut says

Spoiler

A

, but she may be over-analyzing the question. She jumps the question.

Answer/Value/Bank

D: Indivisible
Question Value: $10,000
Bank: $46,600

I wouldn't say she overanalyzed since she didn't try to insert commas when reciting the pledge.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$100,000
According to estimates, which one of these rare occurrences causes more human deaths worldwide than the others?

A: Snake bite B: Elephant attack
C: Shark attack D: Avalanche

Meg walks away with $51,600. If she had to guess, she would have said

Spoiler

snake bite

.

Answer

A: Snake bite

Since snakes are more widespread than elephants or sharks and avalanches are generally confined to regions where there are few people it makes sense that A is the right answer. However had I been in Meg's place I probably would have used a JTQ (if I still had one - I wouldn't have needed one for today's stack but don't recall how I might have done on the first part).