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Liz Turella
Philadelphia, PA
retired realtor

Within the past two years Liz has started taking art, piano and ukulele lessons and joined a bowling league.

Topic Tree: (randomized)
Biopics
Titillating Taxonomy
Put a Ring On It
Hoops
Latest and Greatest
What's in a Name?
Big Haul
What a Man
Popular Exports
Annals of Speech (Disney Giveaway question)

Question #1 (Annals of Speech) - Disney Giveaway question
Because a penny is worth far less today, what 16th century idiom is cheapened by 500 years of inflation?
A - penny for your schemes
B - penny for your soul
C - penny for your thoughts
D - penny for your heart

Liz is going to go right to it. She closes her eyes and gives her final answer.

Spoiler

Answer: C (penny for your thoughts)
Value: $100
Bank: $100

Question #2 (Popular Exports)
In a time of economic distress, a Russian school district in Altai, Siberia once resorted to paying its schoolteachers with what?
A - nesting dolls
B - reindeer antlers
C - Faberge eggs
D - vodka

Liz says that

Spoiler

Faberge eggs are too expensive and reindeer antlers wouldn't be very welcome in a time of economic distress and neither would nesting dolls

.

Spoiler

Answer: D (vodka)
Value: $3,000
Bank: $3,100

Question #3 (What a Man)
Ranked #69, who was the only man to appear on Maxim's 2012 list of the 100 "Most Beautiful Women"?
A - Robert Downey, Jr.
B - Mark Zuckerberg
C - Stephen Colbert
D - Justin Bieber

Liz tries to remember if any of them dressed up as a woman. She can't, so she decides to jump the question.

Spoiler

Answer: C (Stephen Colbert)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $3,100 (unchanged)

Question #4 (Big Haul)
With 13 works of art valued at $300 million, the biggest art heist in history occurred in 1990 in what city's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum?
A - Boston
B - New York
C - San Francisco
D - Austin

Liz is going to close her eyes again and say

Spoiler

A, Boston

.

Spoiler

Answer: A (Boston)
Value: $1,000
Bank: $4,100

Question #5 (What's in a Name?)
In 2012, a countersuit against what rapper resulted in him owing over $2 million to the producers behind "The Carter," a documentary about his life?
A - 50 Cent
B - Lil Wayne
C - Drake
D - Mos Def

Liz isn't into rap. She decides to ask the audience.

ATA results

A - 34%
B - 58%
C - 4%
D - 4%

Liz says she's going to Disney World no matter what so she goes with the audience's answer.

Spoiler

Answer: B (Lil Wayne)
Value: $500
Bank: $4,600

commercial break

Coming out of commercial another promo for the New Fantasyland is shown, along with information on how viewers can win a trip.

Question #6 (Latest and Greatest)
Retailing for around $3,000, Victorinox now offers a Swiss Army knife with a flash drive containing a storage capacity of up to what?
A - 1 gigabyte
B - 1 terabyte
C - 1 petabyte
D - 1 exabyte

Liz doesn't know the definition of any of these so she decides to jump the question.

Spoiler

Answer: B (1 terabyte)
Value: $2,000
Bank: $4,600 (unchanged)

Question #7 (Hoops)
The NBA has a new rule penalizing players who intentionally fall down when little or no contact is made, a practice known as what?
A - flopping
B - planking
C - proning
D - floor surfing

Liz doesn't have a clue but she's going to guess.

Spoiler

Answer: A (flopping)
Value: $25,000
Bank: $29,600

Question #8 (Put a Ring On It)
In a role reversal movement, many women are now offering their boyfriends "man-gagement rings" when they are what?
A - on a first date
B - moving in
C - breaking up
D - proposing

Liz says

Spoiler

it better be D because otherwise it would be very awkward

.

Spoiler

Answer: D (proposing)
Value: $15,000
Bank: $44,600

Question #9 (Titillating Taxonomy)
Which of the following animals could rightly be called an undulating ungulate?
A - a wiggling weasel
B - a dancing duck
C - a wobbling wildebeest
D - a swinging seabass

Liz says she wishes she knew what "ungulate" means. She doesn't know the word so she's going to have to walk away.

Spoiler

Answer: C (a wobbling wildebeest)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $22,300 (half the bank)

THE END OF GAME "NOISE"


Millionaire question of the day:
Tetrodotoxin, a poison over 1,000 times deadlier than cyanide, is found in which of these creatures?
A - gila monster
B - black widow spider
C - king cobra
D - puffer fish
Answer:

Spoiler

D (puffer fish)

Question #3 (What a Man)
Ranked #69, who was the only man to appear on Maxim's 2012 list of the 100 "Most Beautiful Women"?
A - Robert Downey, Jr.
B - Mark Zuckerberg
C - Stephen Colbert
D - Justin Bieber

Liz tries to remember if any of them dressed up as a woman. She can't, so she decides to jump the question.

Spoiler

Answer: C (Stephen Colbert)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $3,100 (unchanged)

ATA

Question #5 (What's in a Name?)
In 2012, a countersuit against what rapper resulted in him owing over $2 million to the producers behind "The Carter," a documentary about his life?
A - 50 Cent
B - Lil Wayne
C - Drake
D - Mos Def

Liz isn't into rap. She decides to ask the audience.

ATA results

A - 34%
B - 58%
C - 4%
D - 4%

Liz says she's going to Disney World no matter what so she goes with the audience's answer.

Spoiler

Answer: B (Lil Wayne)
Value: $500
Bank: $4,600

JTQ. Guess I'm not going to Disneyland.

Question #6 (Latest and Greatest)
Retailing for around $3,000, Victorinox now offers a Swiss Army knife with a flash drive containing a storage capacity of up to what?
A - 1 gigabyte
B - 1 terabyte
C - 1 petabyte
D - 1 exabyte

Liz doesn't know the definition of any of these so she decides to jump the question.

Spoiler

Answer: B (1 terabyte)
Value: $2,000
Bank: $4,600 (unchanged)

JTQ 2

Question #9 (Titillating Taxonomy)
Which of the following animals could rightly be called an undulating ungulate?
A - a wiggling weasel
B - a dancing duck
C - a wobbling wildebeest
D - a swinging seabass

Liz says she wishes she knew what "ungulate" means. She doesn't know the word so she's going to have to walk away.

Spoiler

Answer: C (a wobbling wildebeest)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $22,300 (half the bank)

I get this one, but I'm pretty sure I don't last much longer.

Millionaire question of the day:
Tetrodotoxin, a poison over 1,000 times deadlier than cyanide, is found in which of these creatures?
A - gila monster
B - black widow spider
C - king cobra
D - puffer fish
Answer:

Spoiler

D (puffer fish)

I learned this in a Dick Francis novel.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Liz Turella
Philadelphia, PA
retired realtor

Within the past two years Liz has started taking art, piano and ukulele lessons and joined a bowling league.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #3 (What a Man)
Ranked #69, who was the only man to appear on Maxim's 2012 list of the 100 "Most Beautiful Women"?
A - Robert Downey, Jr.
B - Mark Zuckerberg
C - Stephen Colbert
D - Justin Bieber

Liz tries to remember if any of them dressed up as a woman. She can't, so she decides to jump the question.

Spoiler

Answer: C (Stephen Colbert)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $3,100 (unchanged)

I probably would have blurted out "Justin Bieber" and gone home. He's the only one pretty enough to make the list.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #5 (What's in a Name?)
In 2012, a countersuit against what rapper resulted in him owing over $2 million to the producers behind "The Carter," a documentary about his life?
A - 50 Cent
B - Lil Wayne
C - Drake
D - Mos Def

Liz isn't into rap. She decides to ask the audience.

ATA results

A - 34%
B - 58%
C - 4%
D - 4%

Liz says she's going to Disney World no matter what so she goes with the audience's answer.

Spoiler

Answer: B (Lil Wayne)
Value: $500
Bank: $4,600

I'd ATA also.