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Adam Clark
Lansdale, PA

Adam just joined the police academy. He wanted to make his six-year-old daughter proud.

Cedric says the money and questions have already been randomized. The Topic Tree is not shown, but it is after the first question.

Topic Tree (Randomized)
?: Classic TV
?: Ingenious Insects
?: To Reduce Confusion
?: Lots of Paper
?: Name Change
?: Why Are We Drinking?
?: Office Space
?: Ladylike Landmasses
?: Shredded Speeches
?: $100


Question #1 - Level ?
Saying he could relate to it himself, psychologist and author of 57 books Wayne Oates coined what term in 1968?

A: Staycation B: Chillax
C: Frenemy D: Workaholic

Adam says the other three choices all sound like fairly recent terms.

Answer/Value/Bank

D: Workaholic
Question Value: $100
Bank: $100

Question #2 - Level ?: Shredded Speeches
As a precaution, President Nixon has a speech prepared called "In Event of Moon Disaster" to mourn the loss of what pair?

A: Sonny & Cher B: Cheech & Chong
C: Armstrong & Aldrin D: Captain & Tennille

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Armstrong & Aldrin
Question Value: $7,000
Bank: $7,100

Question #3 - Level ?: Ladylike Landmasses
Sounding like it was named after a woman, which of the following is a former supercontinent that is believed to have existed about 200 million years ago?

A: Mariafrica B: Fionaustralia
C: Deboramerica D: Laurasia

Answer/Value/Bank

D: Laurasia
Question Value: $2,000
Bank: $9,100

Question #4 - Level ?: Office Space
Fittingly adorned with a bat and a "savage hound," the desk wher what author wrote "Dracula" was put on the auction block in 2012?

A: Bram Stoker B: Mary Shelley
C: Edgar Allan Poe D: Charlotte Brontë

Answer/Value/Bank

A: Bram Stoker
Question Value: $10,000
Bank: $19,100

-- Commercial Break --


Question #5 - Level ?: Why Are We Drinking?
According to the California Avocado Commission,Americans consumed approximately 87 million pounds of avocados last what?

A: Memorial Day B: St. Patrick's Day
C: Cinco de Mayo D: New Year's Eve

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Cinco de Mayo
Question Value: $15,000
Bank: $34,100

Adam's girlfriend, Shawna, is in the audience. She says Adam is "the smartest guy I know."


Question #6 - Level ?: Name Change
What fad toy was first sold in the U.S. as the "Dammit" doll, in honor of Thomas Dam, the Danish woodcutter who invented it?

A: Cabbage Patch Kids B: Kewpie doll
C: Pet Rock D: Troll doll

Adam is thinking

Spoiler

Troll doll,

but he's not certain enough. He jumps the question.

Answer/Value/Bank

D: Troll doll
Question Value: $5,000
Bank: $34,100

Question #7 - Level ?: Lots of Paper
The first African-American to be listed in the Forbes 400, John H. Johnson made a fortune after founding Jet and what other magazine?

A: Car and Driver B: Ebony
C: Teen Vogue D: Soap Opera Digest

Answer/Value/Bank

B: Ebony
Question Value: $500
Bank: $34,600

-- Commercial Break --


Question #8 - Level ?: To Reduce Confusion
What capital city passed legislation asserting that its state's name should be "pronounced in 3 syllables with the final 's' silent"?

A: Austin B: Topeka
C: Little Rock D: Boston

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Little Rock
Question Value: $1,000
Bank: $35,600

Question #9 - Level ?: Ingenious Insects
By teaching them to associate the chemical trinitrotoluene with sugar, scientists in Croatia have been conditioning bees to detect what?

A: Land mines B: Bootlegged alcohol
C: Sinkholes D: Marijuana

Answer/Value/Bank

A: Land mines
Question Value: $25,000
Bank: $60,600

-- Commercial Break --


Question #10 - Level ?: Classic TV
A take-off of a classic television show, which of these is an actual fan site that includes music videos for "Baby" and "One Time"?

A: I Dream of Springsteen B: Everybody Loves Rihanna
C: Leave It to Bieber D: Fergie Knows Best

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Leave It to Bieber
Question Value: $3,000
Bank: $63,600

It's time to play Classic Millionaire!


$100,000
Both extinct for millions of years, the Tyrannosaurus rex was a fierce dinosaur but the Tyrannasorus rex was closely related to a what?

A: Scarab beetle B: Dire wolf
C: German wasp D: Cave rate

Adam has no idea. He jumps the question.

Answer

A: Scarab beetle

$250,000
"Bye" is the last line of which of these classic films?

A: Bonnie and Clyde B: Close Encounters of the Third Kind
C: Dr. Strangelove D: The Birds

Adam asks the audience.

ATA

A: 17% B: 60% C: 12% D: 11%

Adam was kind of thinking that, too. He goes with the audience.

Answer

B: Close Encounters of the Third Kind

-- The End of Game "Noise" --


Adam returns on tomorrow's show to see the $500,000 question!

When it's my turn to post a transcript, I usually wait for others to post the first replies. But it doesn't look like that's happening.

Maybe it just lined up with my wheelhouse, but I think Adam got one of the best stacks of the season.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #6 - Level ?: Name Change
What fad toy was first sold in the U.S. as the "Dammit" doll, in honor of Thomas Dam, the Danish woodcutter who invented it?

A: Cabbage Patch Kids B: Kewpie doll
C: Pet Rock D: Troll doll

Adam is thinking

Spoiler

Troll doll,

but he's not certain enough. He jumps the question.

Answer/Value/Bank

D: Troll doll
Question Value: $5,000
Bank: $34,100

That was also my hunch, although I thought the Troll dolls were from Norway, not Denmark. Maybe I'd take the chance, but lets say nerves forced me to jump this one, too.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #10 - Level ?: Classic TV
A take-off of a classic television show, which of these is an actual fan site that includes music videos for "Baby" and "One Time"?

A: I Dream of Springsteen B: Everybody Loves Rihanna
C: Leave It to Bieber D: Fergie Knows Best

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Leave It to Bieber
Question Value: $3,000
Bank: $63,600

Not one for an LS cellarmeister, but I expect the ATA would help here.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$100,000
Both extinct for millions of years, the Tyrannosaurus rex was a fierce dinosaur but the Tyrannasorus rex was closely related to a what?

A: Scarab beetle B: Dire wolf
C: German wasp D: Cave rat

Adam has no idea. He jumps the question.

Answer

A: Scarab beetle

Throw away the rest of the names and the key part of the question was what type of animal a "sorus" was. It was 50/50 for me, between A and C, but I'd have to use my second jump, here.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$250,000
"Bye" is the last line of which of these classic films?

A: Bonnie and Clyde B: Close Encounters of the Third Kind
C: Dr. Strangelove D: The Birds

Adam asks the audience.

ATA

A: 17% B: 60% C: 12% D: 11%

Adam was kind of thinking that, too. He goes with the audience.

Answer

B: Close Encounters of the Third Kind

I had the same memory as Adam, that it was the little kid saying "Bye" to the aliens. This hunch was strong enough to go for it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrannasorus

Etymology

It was named after Tyrannosaurus rex, the dinosaur, although its discoverers provide an etymology for the name based on the word Hybosorus, the genus that formed the basis for the subfamily, known as Hybosoridae, to which the species belongs. The stem of the generic name is derived from the Latin tyrannus, meaning "master" or "tyrannical", while the suffix -sorus means "pile" or "hump" in Latin. The name, "tyrannical hump", ultimately refers to the mound of sap in which the observed specimen was fatally trapped.

Tyrannical hump???

Well, that wouldn't have been any help, at all!

And don't get that confused with Tyrannosorus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrannosorus

Tyrannosorus is a genus of fungi in the class Dothideomycetes.

Don't know how I missed this.

Question #3 - Level ?: Ladylike Landmasses
Sounding like it was named after a woman, which of the following is a former supercontinent that is believed to have existed about 200 million years ago?

A: Mariafrica B: Fionaustralia
C: Deboramerica D: Laurasia

Answer/Value/Bank

D: Laurasia
Question Value: $2,000
Bank: $9,100

First I've heard of this one. They must teach it to Fifth Graders these days . . . JTQ 1

Question #5 - Level ?: Why Are We Drinking?
According to the California Avocado Commission, Americans consumed approximately 87 million pounds of avocados last what?

A: Memorial Day B: St. Patrick's Day
C: Cinco de Mayo D: New Year's Eve

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Cinco de Mayo
Question Value: $15,000
Bank: $34,100

I'm glad Super Bowl Sunday wasn't up here. The Avocado Board estimates that 104 million pounds of avocados were consumed this year.

$100,000
Both extinct for millions of years, the Tyrannosaurus rex was a fierce dinosaur but the Tyrannasorus rex was closely related to a what?

A: Scarab beetle B: Dire wolf
C: German wasp D: Cave rate

Adam has no idea. He jumps the question.

Answer

A: Scarab beetle

JTQ 2

$250,000
"Bye" is the last line of which of these classic films?

A: Bonnie and Clyde B: Close Encounters of the Third Kind
C: Dr. Strangelove D: The Birds

Adam asks the audience.

ATA

A: 17% B: 60% C: 12% D: 11%

Adam was kind of thinking that, too. He goes with the audience.

Answer

B: Close Encounters of the Third Kind

This one didn't seem that hard to me. Maybe that's because I somehow accidentally knew a second-tier question.