Gilbert, AZ
psychology and anthropology professor
a reality TV addict, she spends time watching "messed up" people, then diagnosing them and feeling better about her own life
Topic Tree (pre-randomized):
10. Home Sweet Home
9. Giving Back
8. Defense Mechanisms
7. Culinary Crossover
6. Planetary Responsibilities
5. Racing Music
4. Time and Space
3. Word Origins
2. For the Ladies
1. Internet Explorers
Topic Tree: (Randomized)
10. Home Sweet Home
7. Culinary Crossover
8. Defense Mechanisms
6. Planetary Responsibilities
2. For the Ladies
3. Word Origins
9. Giving Back
5. Racing Music
4. Time and Space
1. Internet Explorers
Question 1 - Level 1. Internet Explorers
Allowing anyone to became a "virtual Jacques Cousteau", Google Maps unveiled an expansion in 2012 that takes users where?
A: Desert
B: Rainforest
C: Underwater
D: Space
Answer and value
C: Underwater
Value: $5,000
Bank: $5,000
Value: $5,000
Bank: $5,000
What's the only U.S. state that borders the Atlantic Ocean and spans across two time zones?
A: Maine
B: New York
C: North Carolina
D: Florida
Spoiler
She knows Florida doesn't span two time zones, and she doesn't think New York does. She also eliminates NC, making Maine her suspicion (she visited as a teen). She suddenly remembers Long Island...
Allison: I'm talking to myself.
Meredith: That's the first sign.
She contemplates asking all the New Yorkers in the audience. Then she reconsiders the map, and the question. She realizes what the question is really asking is, which state extends farther to the west. D, Florida, final answer.
Allison: I'm talking to myself.
Meredith: That's the first sign.
She contemplates asking all the New Yorkers in the audience. Then she reconsiders the map, and the question. She realizes what the question is really asking is, which state extends farther to the west. D, Florida, final answer.
Answer and value
D: Florida
Value: $100
Bank: $5,100
Value: $100
Bank: $5,100
In the Stephen Foster song "Camptown Races," how long is the Camptown racetrack?
A: Two miles
B: Three miles
C: Four miles
D: Five miles
She sings it in the head (since her voice is bad).
Answer and value
D: Five miles
Value: $2,000
Bank: $7,100
Value: $2,000
Bank: $7,100
What artist's 1949 painting "Cartel des Don Juan Tenorio" was stolen from a Manhattan art gallery in 2012 and mailed back one week later?
A. Diego Rivera B. Salvador Dali
C. Frida Kahlo D. Pablo Picasso
ATNYA
Spoiler
A: 31%
B: 34%
C: 8%
D: 27%
B: 34%
C: 8%
D: 27%
Spoiler
"Don Juan" makes her think Spain, but she thinks Rivera and Kahlo were Mexican.
Answer and value
B: Salvador Dali
Value: $10,000
Bank: $7,100
Value: $10,000
Bank: $7,100
Fittingly, what "clumsy" word derives from a Middle English term meaning "in the wrong direction"?
A: Awkward
B: Different
C: Eccentric
D: Weird
Spoiler
Awkward jumps out at her (she thinks the "ward" part refers to direction.) The others don't seem right, but...
Answer and value
A: Awkward
Value: $3,000
Bank: $7,100
Value: $3,000
Bank: $7,100
Question 6 - Level 2. For the Ladies
Made to "fit comfortably" to a woman's hand and offered in pink and purple, Bic curiously offers a "For Her" line of what seemingly gender neutral item?
A: Camera
B: Scissors
C: Pen
D: Coffee mug
Spoiler
Allison runs through the items, rating them on their "gender neutrality." Meredith rereads the question, with just a smidge more empasis on the name "Bic" than she had used before. Allison then starts to focus on C. She's hesitant to take a chance, but she does.
Answer and value
C: Pen
Value: $15,000
Bank: $22,100
Value: $15,000
Bank: $22,100
Pushing particles inward by its gravitational pull, a moon that orbits near the edge of a planet's ring is called what?
A: Shepherd moon
B: Steward moon
C: Ploughman moon
D: Messenger moon
Spoiler
Shepard seems to be the obvious answer, with stewart also making sense. A shepard would be more likely to push something. She goes with A.
Answer and value
A: Shepherd moon
Value: $500
Bank: $22,600
Value: $500
Bank: $22,600
Scientists theorize what dinosaur species could create a sonic boom by whipping its tail faster than the speed of sound?
A: Velociraptor
B: Iguanodon
C: Apatosaurus
D: Triceratops
Spoiler
She eliminates triceratops. She doesn't think it's apatosaurus. She doesn't know what an iguanadon is, but she knows an iguana has a long tail. Velociraptors are fast, but are their tails fast?
Answer and value
C: Apatosaurus (She was kind of thinking that at the end, but she wasn't sure.
Value: $not revealed
Bank: (half of) $22,600
Value: $not revealed
Bank: (half of) $22,600
Commercial break.
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