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Antoinette Donaldson
Philadelphia, PA
retired school teacher

Antoinette taught in the Philadelphia school system for over 30 years. She started teaching kindergarten and moved up to the 2nd grade by her last year. She feels that her years as an educator have made her a good contestant because her kids were curious and asked a lot of questions. She's grateful for Google because she used it a lot.

Topic Tree: (unrandomized)
10 - Giddyup
9 - Prize Winnings
8 - Attractive Terms
7 - Border Towns
6 - Early Childhood
5 - It's Only Natural
4 - The Cost of Living
3 - Special Displays
2 - Video Jargon
1 - Apt Apps

Topic Tree: (randomized)
9 - Prize Winnings
6 - Early Childhood
10 - Giddyup
8 - Attractive Terms
4 - The Cost of Living
7 - Border Towns
5 - It's Only Natural
1 - Apt Apps
3 - Special Displays
2 - Video Jargon

Question #1 (Video Jargon - Level 2)
Opening for the Ramones at CBGB in 1975, what group took its name from a television term used to describe footage of interviewees?
A - Talking Heads
B - Blondie
C - The Go-Go's
D - Oingo Boingo

Antoinette says that

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"Oingo Boingo" sounds like something from a kids' book

. She doesn't have a clue and she doesn't want

to be dumb so she decides to ask the audience.

ATA results

A - 88%
B - 5%
C - 5%
D - 2%

Antoinette doesn't look impressed. She says she thought it might be

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"Talking Heads" but it also might have been "Go-go's" because people would be ready to go

. She decides to go with the audience.

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Answer: A (Talking Heads)
Value: $500
Bank: $500

Question #2 (Special Displays - Level 3)
Located in his hometown of Ryazan, Russia, a museum dedicated to what notable figure features a taxidermied dog on display?
A - Karl Marx
B - Ivan Pavlov
C - Boris Pasternak
D - Leo Tolstoy

Antoinette remembers studying about

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Pavlov and his dogs

.

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Answer: B (Ivan Pavlov)
Value: $1,000
Bank: $1,500

Question #3 (Apt Apps - Level 1)
What food brand has a Jiggle-It app in which users can play a song on an iPhone and watch a cube of the food jiggle to it?
A - Wonder
B - Jell-O
C - Vlasic
D - Velveeta

Antoinette laughs as the question is read. She says that sometimes you make

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little Velveeta cubes or pickle cubes

.

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Answer: B (Jell-O)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $8,500

Question #4 (It's Only Natural - Level 5)
As slimy as they sound, snottites are collections of bacterial growth that ooze in what places?
A - icebergs
B - deserts
C - caves
D - meteor craters

The first thing that came to Antoinette was

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caves, when she saw the "tites" at the end

.

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Answer: C (caves)
Value: $10,000
Bank: $18,500

Question #5 (Border Towns - Level 7)
As a reflection of the neighboring state, a small town on the southern border of Virginia has what hybrid name?
A - Virgibama
B - Virgylvania
C - virgilina
D - Virgippi

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Answer: C (Virgilina)
Value: $2,000
Bank: $20,500

Question #6 (The Cost of Living - Level 4)
For decades New Yorkers have noted the Pizza Principle, which states that the price of a slice sticks remarkably close to the cost of what?
A - a pound of lox
B - a subway ride
C - an hour of parking
D - a ticket to a Mets game

Antoinette knows a lot of people in New York and there are lot of pizza parlors in Philadelphia. She notes that

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subway rides make it easy for people to get around

.

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Answer: B (a subway ride)
Value: $100
Bank: $20,600

commercial break

Question #7 (Attractive Terms - Level 8)
A "sapiosexual" is strongly attracted to someone's what?
A - appearance
B - clothing
C - intelligence
D - lifestyle

Antoinette knows that

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homo sapiens is a person, so it might be appearance

. She's thinking it's

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intelligence

but she doesn't know why. Meredith notes that Antoinette has been married for 36 years and asks what attracted her to her husband. Antoinette replies that she dated her husband's brother first, and that she and her husband met on a double date. Antoinette wants to keep going so she decides to jump the question.

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Answer: C (intelligence)
Value: $5,000
Bank: $20,600 (unchanged)

Question #8 (Giddyup - Level 10)
Though its last official combat cavalry division was dissolved in the 1950s, horse-mounted U.S. troops did engage in battle during what conflict?
A - War in Afghanistan
B - Korean War
C - Gulf War
D - Vietnam War

Antoinette is leaning toward

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the war in Afghanistan because it's more like a desert

. She decides to go for it.

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Answer: A (War in Afghanistan)
Value: $25,000
Bank: $45,600

Question #9 (Early Childhood - Level 6)
According to a University of Dundee study, the influence of 1950s TV on baby boomers' formative years has increased their likelihood to what?
A - distrust socialist policies
B - have a fallout shelter
C - live in the suburbs
D - dream in black and white

Antoinette says that if she misses this one she can't show her face any more. She observes that many of the 50s TV shows

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were set in the suburbs, mentioning "Leave it to Beaver", "Father Knows Best" and "I Love Lucy"

. She remembers

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people building fallout shelters

. She decides to go for it.

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Answer: D (dream in black and white)
Value: $15,000
Bank: $60,600

commercial break

Question #10 (Prize Winnings - Level 9)
What major awards ceremony initially presented its male winners with a scroll, a money clip and a cigarette lighter?
A - Grammy Awards
B - Tony Awards
C - Emmy Awards
D - Academy Awards

Antoinette is leaning toward

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the Emmy Awards because of Edward R. Murrow, since he smoked during his broadcasts, and a writer would be given a scroll

. She's going to play it smart, thoughm and jump the question.

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Answer: B (Tony Awards)
Value: $3,000
Bank: $60,600 (unchanged)

CLASSIC MILLIONAIRE

$100K - In football, what would a "Hail Mary" pass be called if it was named after the Biblical text from which the prayer derives?
A - Gospel of Matthew pass
B - Gospel of Mark pass
C - Gospel of Luke pass
D - Gospel of John pass

Antoinette says, "Hail Mary, full of grace, please help me now." She just started teaching religious education in a Catholic school. She thinks that most of the stories about Jesus' formative years are in

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Matthew

but she doesn't want to take the risk. Still, $25,000 is a nice chunk of change. She came to play and it's not about the money anyway.

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C (Gospel of Luke pass)

Antoinette leaves with the $25,000 consolation prize.

commercial break

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #7 (Attractive Terms - Level
A "sapiosexual" is strongly attracted to someone's what?
A - appearance
B - clothing
C - intelligence
D - lifestyle

Antoinette knows that

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homo sapiens is a person, so it might be appearance

. She's thinking it's

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intelligence

but she doesn't know why. Meredith notes that Antoinette has been married for 36 years and asks what attracted her to her husband. Antoinette replies that she dated her husband's brother first, and that she and her husband met on a double date. Antoinette wants to keep going so she decides to jump the question.

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Answer: C (intelligence)
Value: $5,000
Bank: $20,600 (unchanged)

Well done, Meredith. Antoinette is trying to reason out an answer, and you distract her to ask for some meaningless personal banter. And by the time she's done with that anecdote, she's totally lost her train of thought and burns a lifeline that might have helped her see the $250K question.

Let the contestants play the game, Meredith!

Question #8 (Giddyup - Level 10)
Though its last official combat cavalry division was dissolved in the 1950s, horse-mounted U.S. troops did engage in battle during what conflict?
A - War in Afghanistan
B - Korean War
C - Gulf War
D - Vietnam War

Antoinette is leaning toward

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the war in Afghanistan because it's more like a desert

. She decides to go for it.

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Answer: A (War in Afghanistan)
Value: $25,000
Bank: $45,600

JTQ.

Question #9 (Early Childhood - Level 6)
According to a University of Dundee study, the influence of 1950s TV on baby boomers' formative years has increased their likelihood to what?
A - distrust socialist policies
B - have a fallout shelter
C - live in the suburbs
D - dream in black and white

Antoinette says that if she misses this one she can't show her face any more. She observes that many of the 50s TV shows

Spoiler

were set in the suburbs, mentioning "Leave it to Beaver", "Father Knows Best" and "I Love Lucy"

. She remembers

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people building fallout shelters

. She decides to go for it.

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Answer: D (dream in black and white)
Value: $15,000
Bank: $60,600

JTQ 2

$100K - In football, what would a "Hail Mary" pass be called if it was named after the Biblical text from which the prayer derives?
A - Gospel of Matthew pass
B - Gospel of Mark pass
C - Gospel of Luke pass
D - Gospel of John pass

Antoinette says, "Hail Mary, full of grace, please help me now." She just started teaching religious education in a Catholic school. She thinks that most of the stories about Jesus' formative years are in

Spoiler

Matthew

but she doesn't want to take the risk. Still, $25,000 is a nice chunk of change. She came to play and it's not about the money anyway.

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C (Gospel of Luke pass)

Antoinette leaves with the $25,000 consolation prize.

ATA since I still have it, but it's gonna have to be a pretty good spike for me to go for it.