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Madalyn Mako
Astoria, NY

Thanks to a Double Money question worth $50,000, Madalyn has a bank worth $93,100 as she's about to play for $100,000. Madalyn has one Jump The Question lifeline left.

Thinking about the money, overnight, Madalyn has promised to take some friends to a beach house for a while. She also wants to open her own personal training studio.

Madalyn's nephew is back in the audience, "still looking scared," as Cedric says.


$100,000
The Darién Gap makes it nearly impossible to do what?

A: Accurately predict earthquakes B: Drive from North to South America
C: Travel faster than light D: Dive deeper than 1,000 feet

Madalyn says

Spoiler

it's not drive from North to South America. Maybe it's travel faster than light

, but she has a lifeline and she's going to use it. Madalyn jumps the question.

Answer

B: Drive from North to South America

$250,000
Which respected writer, poet and professor was not a skilled typist, using only two fingers to type the manuscript of his greatest work?

A: J.R.R. Tolkien B: J.M. Barrie
C: James Joyce D: George Orwell

Madalyn says $93,100 is way too much money to leave on the table, if she gets it wrong. She walks away.

Answer

A: J.R.R. Tolkien

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BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Madalyn Mako
Astoria, NY

Thanks to a Double Money question worth $50,000, Madalyn has a bank worth $93,100 as she's about to play for $100,000. Madalyn has one Jump The Question lifeline left.

Thinking about the money, overnight, Madalyn has promised to take some friends to a beach house for a while. She also wants to open her own personal training studio.

Madalyn's nephew is back in the audience, "still looking scared," as Cedric says.


$100,000
The Darién Gap makes it nearly impossible to do what?

A: Accurately predict earthquakes B: Drive from North to South America
C: Travel faster than light D: Dive deeper than 1,000 feet

Madalyn says

Spoiler

it's not drive from North to South America. Maybe it's travel faster than light

, but she has a lifeline and she's going to use it. Madalyn jumps the question.

Answer

B: Drive from North to South America

Got this one by process of elimination.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$250,000
Which respected writer, poet and professor was not a skilled typist, using only two fingers to type the manuscript of his greatest work?

A: J.R.R. Tolkien B: J.M. Barrie
C: James Joyce D: George Orwell

Madalyn says $93,100 is way too much money to leave on the table, if she gets it wrong. She walks away.

Answer

A: J.R.R. Tolkien

-- Commercial Break --

I got this one on the belief that only one of the answer choices was in fact also a poet and professor.

Congratulations, Maddy, on a great haul! --Bob

Bob78164 wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Madalyn Mako
Astoria, NY

Thanks to a Double Money question worth $50,000, Madalyn has a bank worth $93,100 as she's about to play for $100,000. Madalyn has one Jump The Question lifeline left.

Thinking about the money, overnight, Madalyn has promised to take some friends to a beach house for a while. She also wants to open her own personal training studio.

Madalyn's nephew is back in the audience, "still looking scared," as Cedric says.


$100,000
The Darién Gap makes it nearly impossible to do what?

A: Accurately predict earthquakes B: Drive from North to South America
C: Travel faster than light D: Dive deeper than 1,000 feet

Madalyn says

Spoiler

it's not drive from North to South America. Maybe it's travel faster than light

, but she has a lifeline and she's going to use it. Madalyn jumps the question.

Answer

B: Drive from North to South America

Got this one by process of elimination.

Congratulations, Maddy, on a great haul! --Bob

Before I saw the choices I thought the Darien Gap would have something to do with the speed of sound so I think I was fixated. I really had no clue. A lot of science terms sound geographical and if you think I could even come up with that amount of logic at this point you are mistaken, sir. I was so sad that I didn't just know the 250 question but I'm not so sad at the results.

Thanks, everyone. Reading all these transcripts really helped me make a good plan. I'm glad the audience knew that level 10 question I threw at them.

Yay, Maddy! Well done!

I dint know either one of 'em.

Maddy wrote:

Bob78164 wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Madalyn Mako
Astoria, NY

Thanks to a Double Money question worth $50,000, Madalyn has a bank worth $93,100 as she's about to play for $100,000. Madalyn has one Jump The Question lifeline left.

Thinking about the money, overnight, Madalyn has promised to take some friends to a beach house for a while. She also wants to open her own personal training studio.

Madalyn's nephew is back in the audience, "still looking scared," as Cedric says.


$100,000
The Darién Gap makes it nearly impossible to do what?

A: Accurately predict earthquakes B: Drive from North to South America
C: Travel faster than light D: Dive deeper than 1,000 feet

Madalyn says

Spoiler

it's not drive from North to South America. Maybe it's travel faster than light

, but she has a lifeline and she's going to use it. Madalyn jumps the question.

Answer

B: Drive from North to South America

Got this one by process of elimination.

Congratulations, Maddy, on a great haul! --Bob

Before I saw the choices I thought the Darien Gap would have something to do with the speed of sound so I think I was fixated. I really had no clue. A lot of science terms sound geographical and if you think I could even come up with that amount of logic at this point you are mistaken, sir. I was so sad that I didn't just know the 250 question but I'm not so sad at the results.

Thanks, everyone. Reading all these transcripts really helped me make a good plan. I'm glad the audience knew that level 10 question I threw at them.

When you get your check you should buy this book:

Watching on TV, I guessed the 100K & 250K answers. Having been to Panama and read lots of Tolkien, I must have come across these facts at some point. But I never would have risked real money on them. Great job, Maddy!

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: Madalyn Mako
Astoria, NY

Thanks to a Double Money question worth $50,000, Madalyn has a bank worth $93,100 as she's about to play for $100,000. Madalyn has one Jump The Question lifeline left.

Thinking about the money, overnight, Madalyn has promised to take some friends to a beach house for a while. She also wants to open her own personal training studio.

Madalyn's nephew is back in the audience, "still looking scared," as Cedric says.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$100,000
The Darién Gap makes it nearly impossible to do what?

A: Accurately predict earthquakes B: Drive from North to South America
C: Travel faster than light D: Dive deeper than 1,000 feet

Madalyn says

Spoiler

it's not drive from North to South America. Maybe it's travel faster than light

, but she has a lifeline and she's going to use it. Madalyn jumps the question.

Answer

B: Drive from North to South America

When we took our cruise through the Panama Canal this was mentioned.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$250,000
Which respected writer, poet and professor was not a skilled typist, using only two fingers to type the manuscript of his greatest work?

A: J.R.R. Tolkien B: J.M. Barrie
C: James Joyce D: George Orwell

Madalyn says $93,100 is way too much money to leave on the table, if she gets it wrong. She walks away.

Answer

A: J.R.R. Tolkien

A dream question for me. Tolkien himself alludes to this in the prologue to the trilogy - he mentions that the cost of a "four-fingered typist" was beyond his reach.

Over all well done, Maddy!