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Victoria Bruton
Philadelphia, PA

Victoria is a bookworm who loves books so much that she's even been known to read them in a nightclub bathroom. She says it was a horrible date.

Topic Tree (Unrandomized)
10: Political Chit Chat
9: Unkind Edits
8: Dinner and a Show
7: Musical Origins
6: Shameful Exports
5: Ouch
4: Running Water
3: Rhyme Time
2: Baby Foods
1: Way to Go

Topic Tree (Randomized)
9: Unkind Edits
6: Shameful Exports
3: Rhyme Time
8: Dinner and a Show
4: Running Water
5: Ouch
10: Political Chit Chat
2: Baby Foods
7: Musical Origins
1: Way to Go


Question #1 - Level 1: Way to Go
A 2012 exhibit at St. Louis' Museum of Transportation, "The Whistle Stop" examined the history of U.S. presidents traveling on what?

A: Trains B: Airplanes
C: Automobiles D: Boats

Answer/Value/Bank

A: Trains
Question Value: $1,000
Bank: $1,000

Question #2 - Level 7: Musical Origins
According to members of the Furious Five, the music genre known as "hip-hop" got its name from nonsense syllables used to describe what?

A: Dog barking B: Soldiers marching
C: Balloons bursting D: Boxers fighting

Victoria doesn't think it's

Spoiler

A or C

. She asks the audience.

ATA

A: 11% B: 43% C: 6% D: 40%

Victoria: Ohhhhhhh! That's what I was thinking, too!

Meredith start reading the results before asking: What were you going to say?

Victoria:

Spoiler

B or D.

Meredith: Well, you're all thinking alike. That's great!

Victoria: I'm gonna go with

Spoiler

B,

final answer.

Answer/Value/Bank

B: Soldiers marching
Question Value: $15,000
Bank: $16,000

Question #3 - Level 2: Baby Foods
Some hip Brooklyn cafes are catering to toddlers by offering "babyccinos," which lack caffeine since they're just a glass of what?

A: Seltzer B: Steamed milk
C: Apple juice D: Orange juice

Answer/Value/Bank

B: Steamed milk
Question Value: $10,000
Bank: $26,000

Question #4 - Level 10: Political Chit Chat
In 1957, what politician set a U.S. Senate record by going on a one-man filibuster that lasted more than 24 hours?

A: Sam Rayburn B: Ted Stevens
C: Joseph McCarthy D: Strom Thurmond

Victoria is leaning towards

Spoiler

C,

but here's the thing: she's not sure what a filibuster is. She jumps the question.

Answer/Value/Bank

D: Strom Thurmond
Question Value: $100
Bank: $26,000

Question #5 - Level 5: Ouch
A helpful tip to treat ankle sprains, the medical acronym "RICE" stands for "rest, ice, compression" and what?

A: Exercise B: Elevation
C: Extension D: Electricity

Victoria gives her answer before Meredith can read the choices.

Answer/Value/Bank

B: Elevation
Question Value: $25,000
Bank: $51,000

-- Commercial Break --


Victoria's brother, Jason, and daughter, Julia, are in the audience.


Question #6 - Level 4: Running Water
According to a common phrase, something that has no effect on you is like "water off a" what?

A: Fish's tail B: Duck's back
C: Frog's leg D: Shark's nose

Answer/Value/Bank

B: Duck's back
Question Value: $3,000
Bank: $54,000

Question #7 - Level 8: Dinner and a Show
An ad for the Hard Rock Cafe that referenced a famous song by Queen featured which of the following slogans?

A: All you need is lunch B: Come on baby, light my grill
C: We will, we will feed you D: Good libations

Answer/Value/Bank

C: We will, we will feed you
Question Value: $7,000
Bank: $61,000

Question #8 - Level 3: Rhyme Time
In Cockney rhyming slang, your "trouble and strife" is slang for your what?

A: Fife B: Knife
C: Wife D: Lowlife

Victoria wants to say

Spoiler

C: Wife

but she's not confident about it. She jumps the question.

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Wife
Question Value: $500
Bank: $61,000

Question #9 - Level 6: Shameful Exports
Due to its "sinful" associations, what did the Germans call the "French disease," the French call the "Italian disease" and the Russians call the "Polish disease"?

A: Tuberculosis B: Cholera
C: Smallpox D: Syphilis

Answer/Value/Bank

D: Syphilis
Question Value: $2,000
Bank: $63,000

Question #10 - Level 9: Unkind Edits
His guardian after an 1889 mental breakdown, scholars now believe what thinker's sister secretly edited his work to make it appear pro-fascist?

A: Friedrich Nietzsche B: Martin Heidegger
C: Karl Marx D: Immanuel Kant

Victoria feels it's

Spoiler

either A or C,

but she walks away with $31,500.

Answer

A: Friedrich Nietzsche

-- Commercial Break --

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #4 - Level 10: Political Chit Chat
In 1957, what politician set a U.S. Senate record by going on a one-man filibuster that lasted more than 24 hours?

A: Sam Rayburn B: Ted Stevens
C: Joseph McCarthy D: Strom Thurmond

Victoria is leaning towards

Spoiler

C,

but here's the thing: she's not sure what a filibuster is. She jumps the question.

Answer/Value/Bank

D: Strom Thurmond
Question Value: $100
Bank: $26,000

This one wasn't as hard as it might have seemed. Ted Stevens represented Alaska, which wasn't a state yet in 1957, and Sam Rayburn was Speaker of the House, not a Senator. McCarthy died in 1957, so he was a possibility, but he had already been disgraced a few years earlier during the Army-McCarthy hearings. --Bob

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #2 - Level 7: Musical Origins
According to members of the Furious Five, the music genre known as "hip-hop" got its name from nonsense syllables used to describe what?

A: Dog barking B: Soldiers marching
C: Balloons bursting D: Boxers fighting

Victoria doesn't think it's

Spoiler

A or C

. She asks the audience.

ATA

A: 11% B: 43% C: 6% D: 40%

Victoria: Ohhhhhhh! That's what I was thinking, too!

Meredith start reading the results before asking: What were you going to say?

Victoria:

Spoiler

B or D.

Meredith: Well, you're all thinking alike. That's great!

Victoria: I'm gonna go with

Spoiler

B,

final answer.

Answer/Value/Bank

B: Soldiers marching
Question Value: $15,000
Bank: $16,000

Amazing discovery! When you lead the audience, they follow your lead!

And Meredith, perhaps not even noticing how Victoria ruled out two answers before using her ATA, thinks that's great.

Question #2 - Level 7: Musical Origins
According to members of the Furious Five, the music genre known as "hip-hop" got its name from nonsense syllables used to describe what?

A: Dog barking B: Soldiers marching
C: Balloons bursting D: Boxers fighting

Victoria doesn't think it's

Spoiler

A or C

. She asks the audience.

ATA

A: 11% B: 43% C: 6% D: 40%

Victoria: Ohhhhhhh! That's what I was thinking, too!

Meredith start reading the results before asking: What were you going to say?

Victoria:

Spoiler

B or D.

Meredith: Well, you're all thinking alike. That's great!

Victoria: I'm gonna go with

Spoiler

B,

final answer.

Answer/Value/Bank

B: Soldiers marching
Question Value: $15,000
Bank: $16,000

JTQ

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: Victoria Bruton
Philadelphia, PA

Victoria is a bookworm who loves books so much that she's even been known to read them in a nightclub bathroom. She says it was a horrible date.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #2 - Level 7: Musical Origins
According to members of the Furious Five, the music genre known as "hip-hop" got its name from nonsense syllables used to describe what?

A: Dog barking B: Soldiers marching
C: Balloons bursting D: Boxers fighting

Victoria doesn't think it's

Spoiler

A or C

. She asks the audience.

ATA

A: 11% B: 43% C: 6% D: 40%

Victoria: Ohhhhhhh! That's what I was thinking, too!

Meredith start reading the results before asking: What were you going to say?

Victoria:

Spoiler

B or D.

Meredith: Well, you're all thinking alike. That's great!

Victoria: I'm gonna go with

Spoiler

B,

final answer.

Answer/Value/Bank

B: Soldiers marching
Question Value: $15,000
Bank: $16,000

I'm guessing that Furious Five is the name of a hip-hop group. I spent my first two years of high school in a military academy and we marched to the drill sergeant (a high school junior or senior) calling out the cadence, "Hup, two, three, four". I figured that might be the answer.

Nihil obstat®.