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Rosalie Hooper
Ambler, PA
recent college graduate

The screen displays a photo of Rosalie performing in a heavy metal band. She's playing a guitar and wearing a studded eyepatch. She also plays classical music and played in the band in high school. She says that the rock band is a different performance situation. Rosalie's parents Vanessa and Tim are in the relationship seats. She's getting ready to start a part time job as a cashier in a supermarket and living on $100 a month. Her mom suggested that since Rosalie wasn't doing anything at the time she should go to the Millionaire auditions because she needed the money.

Topic Tree: (randomized)
Crack Team
Game On
A Brand is Born
Bugs Bunny Says
Failed Ascents
Six Feet Under or Over?
Good Group
World Literature
Faded Fashions
Southern Patois

Question #1 (Southern Patois)
According to a popular saying, an overly nervous person may be said to be "sweating like a pregnant" what?
A - stewardess
B - cook
C - nun
D - teacher

Spoiler

Answer: C (nun)
Value: $5,000
Bank: $5,000

Question #2 (Faded Fashions)
The music website FadedFlannel.com appropriately features live webcams of what city?
A - Seattle
B - Boston
C - Chicago
D - Memphis

Rosalie plays in a metal band and there's not a lot of flannel there. She knows that

Spoiler

there's a genre that has a lot of flannel, and that's the grunge movement, such as Nirvana, and they were based in Seattle

.

Spoiler

Answer: A (Seattle)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $12,000

Question #3 (World Literature)
Who had an 1896 obit that cited "Oncle Tom's Hutte" and "De Hut van Onkel Tom" as two popular translations of one of her books?
A - Charlotte Brontë
B - Jane Austen
C - Harriet Beecher Stowe
D - Emily Dickenson

Rosalie believes the books are translations of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and she read it in school and knows the author's name.

Spoiler

Answer: (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
Value: $100
Bank: $12,100

Question #4 (Good Group)
What daytime talk show's panel includes two Ivy League grads, a military veteran and one of the richest women in the U.K.?
A - The Chew
B - The Talk
C - The Doctors
D - The View

Rosalie really doesn't know the answer to this and doesn't remember if any of them had someone from the U.K. She decides to ask the audience.

ATA results

A - 10%
B - 72%
C - 12%
D - 6%

Rosalie's going to trust the audience.

Spoiler

Answer: B (The Talk)
Value: $500
Bank: $12,600

commercial break

Question #5 (Six Feet Under or Over?)
In 2011, Russia's ruling party commissioned an online poll asking whether what former leader's body should finally be buried?
A - Nikita Khrushchev
B - Joseph Stalin
C - Leonid Brezhnev
D - Vladimir Lenin

Rosalie has heard about a Soviet leader's body being on display and thinks it was

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one of the earlier leaders, so she's ruling out A and C

.

Spoiler

Answer: D (Vladimir Lenin)
Value: $15,000
Bank: $27,600

Question #6 (Failed Ascents)
Which of these peaks do some claim is named after an African tribal phrase meaning "we failed to climb it"?
A - Mt. Kilimanjaro
B - Mt. McKinley
C - The Matterhorn
D - Aconagua

Rosalie says that

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if it's named after an African phrase then it's probably located in Africa

. She knows that

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Mt. ]McKinley and the Matterhorn are not in Africa. She doesn't know

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where Aconagua is located but she does know that Kilimanjaro is in Africa

.

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Answer: A (Kilimanjaro)
Value: $1,000
Bank: $28,600

Question #7 (Bugs Bunny Says)
Bugs Bunny delivers the line "Here's looking for you, Kit" in an animated short aptly titled what?
A - Bugs of Arabia
B - Citizen Cottontail
C - Carrotblanca
D - The Maltese Rabbit

Rosalie knows that the line is referring to

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"Here's looking at you, kid," which she knows is from "Casablanca"

.

Spoiler

Answer: C (Carrotblanca)
Value: $3,000
Bank: $31,600

commercial break

Question #8 (A Brand is Born)
Early in the 20th century, Natale Olivieri copied his wife's process of preserving homemade tomato sauce when creating what drink?
A - Orangina
B - A&W
C - Yoo-hoo
D - Mountain Dew

Rosalie has never heard of Natale Olivieri, but she figures that if it involves preserving tomato sauce then the drink would have to be

something that would contain something needing to be preserved. She knows that

Spoiler

A&W is a root beer and Mountain Dew is a soda as well, while Yoo-hoo is a chocolate milk drink

. She knows that

Spoiler

Orangina has actual oranges in it

so that's the only one that would have something in it to preserve. She doesn't know how old any of the drinks are.

Spoiler

Answer: C (Yoo-hoo)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

Meredith tells Rosalie that it was the best way to preserve chocolate.

Millionaire question of the day:
Illegal in some places, the dangerous pastime known as "noodling" involves trying to catch what animals entirely by hand?
A - catfish
B - alligators
C - groundhogs
D - wild boars
Answer:

Spoiler

A (catfish)

THE END OF GAME "NOISE"

1. I've never heard this, but "nun" makes sense.2. easy.3. easy.4. I know "The Talk" features Sharon Osborne, who's British.  5. easy.6.easy. Kilimanjaro is in Africa.
7.easy.
8. I have no idea, and don't think the audiece would, either. JTQ 1.

"Oncle Tom's Hutte" must be the Frengerman translation.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Her mom suggested that since Rosalie wasn't doing anything at the time she should go to the Millionaire auditions because she needed the money.

<sigh>

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Rosalie Hooper
Ambler, PA
recent college graduate

The screen displays a photo of Rosalie performing in a heavy metal band. She's playing a guitar and wearing a studded eyepatch. She also plays classical music and played in the band in high school. She says that the rock band is a different performance situation. Rosalie's parents Vanessa and Tim are in the relationship seats. She's getting ready to start a part time job as a cashier in a supermarket and living on $100 a month. Her mom suggested that since Rosalie wasn't doing anything at the time she should go to the Millionaire auditions because she needed the money.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #1 (Southern Patois)
According to a popular saying, an overly nervous person may be said to be "sweating like a pregnant" what?
A - stewardess
B - cook
C - nun
D - teacher

Spoiler

Answer: C (nun)
Value: $5,000
Bank: $5,000

Figured out the answer but I've never heard that expression.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #5 (Six Feet Under or Over?)
In 2011, Russia's ruling party commissioned an online poll asking whether what former leader's body should finally be buried?
A - Nikita Khrushchev
B - Joseph Stalin
C - Leonid Brezhnev
D - Vladimir Lenin

Rosalie has heard about a Soviet leader's body being on display and thinks it was

Spoiler

one of the earlier leaders, so she's ruling out A and C

.

Spoiler

Answer: D (Vladimir Lenin)
Value: $15,000
Bank: $27,600

And in Venezuela, Hugo Chavez's body is going to be given a similar treatment.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #8 (A Brand is Born)
Early in the 20th century, Natale Olivieri copied his wife's process of preserving homemade tomato sauce when creating what drink?
A - Orangina
B - A&W
C - Yoo-hoo
D - Mountain Dew

Rosalie has never heard of Natale Olivieri, but she figures that if it involves preserving tomato sauce then the drink would have to be something that would contain something needing to be preserved. She knows that

Spoiler

A&W is a root beer and Mountain Dew is a soda as well, while Yoo-hoo is a chocolate milk drink

. She knows that

Spoiler

Orangina has actual oranges in it

so that's the only one that would have something in it to preserve. She doesn't know how old any of the drinks are.

Spoiler

Answer: C (Yoo-hoo)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

Meredith tells Rosalie that it was the best way to preserve chocolate.

I'd JTQ. Why would you need to preserve chocolate?

Question #4 (Good Group)
What daytime talk show's panel includes two Ivy League grads, a military veteran and one of the richest women in the U.K.?
A - The Chew
B - The Talk
C - The Doctors
D - The View

Rosalie really doesn't know the answer to this and doesn't remember if any of them had someone from the U.K. She decides to ask the audience.

ATA results

A - 10%
B - 72%
C - 12%
D - 6%

Rosalie's going to trust the audience.

Spoiler

Answer: B (The Talk)
Value: $500
Bank: $12,600

ATA

Question #5 (Six Feet Under or Over?)
In 2011, Russia's ruling party commissioned an online poll asking whether what former leader's body should finally be buried?
A - Nikita Khrushchev
B - Joseph Stalin
C - Leonid Brezhnev
D - Vladimir Lenin

Rosalie has heard about a Soviet leader's body being on display and thinks it was

Spoiler

one of the earlier leaders, so she's ruling out A and C

.

Spoiler

Answer: D (Vladimir Lenin)
Value: $15,000
Bank: $27,600

JTQ

Question #8 (A Brand is Born)
Early in the 20th century, Natale Olivieri copied his wife's process of preserving homemade tomato sauce when creating what drink?
A - Orangina
B - A&W
C - Yoo-hoo
D - Mountain Dew

Rosalie has never heard of Natale Olivieri, but she figures that if it involves preserving tomato sauce then the drink would have to be

something that would contain something needing to be preserved. She knows that

Spoiler

A&W is a root beer and Mountain Dew is a soda as well, while Yoo-hoo is a chocolate milk drink

. She knows that

Spoiler

Orangina has actual oranges in it

so that's the only one that would have something in it to preserve. She doesn't know how old any of the drinks are.

Spoiler

Answer: C (Yoo-hoo)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

Meredith tells Rosalie that it was the best way to preserve chocolate.

WWOQ. JTQ