Santa Fe, NM
No preliminary chit-chat
Question #1:
Because ants are repelled by calcium carbonate, you can keep them outdoors by drawing lines around your house with a type of what?
A - sidewalk chalk
B - pencil
C - Crayola crayon
D - Magic Marker
David says he's pretty sure it's
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chalk
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Answer: A (sidewalk chalk)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $7,000
Value: $7,000
Bank: $7,000
In a case of art imitating life, in "The Expendibles 3," Wesley Snipes' character Doc says he was in jail for what reason?
A - tax evasion
B - illegal gambling
C - counterfeiting
D - car theft
David starts to say something before Terry reads the answers. He says that he wishes he could ask Terry because he knows Terry was in the movie and would know the answer. Terry says it's an awesome movie. David says the key is "art imitating life" and thinks he remembers seeing something about Wesley Snipes.
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Answer: A (tax evasion)
Value: $5,000
Bank: $12,000
Value: $5,000
Bank: $12,000
"This dress was on sale" and "I'm in no hurry to have kids" are two lines in a Men's Health feature titled what?
A - 7 Lies Your Wife Tells You
B - 7 Things a Kleptomaniac Says
C - 7 Mantras to Start Your Day
D - 7 Excuses to Give the Cops
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Answer: A (7 Lies Your Wife Tells You)
Value: $500
Bank: $12,500
Value: $500
Bank: $12,500
Sharing deep intellectual thoughts instead of links to cat videos, users like @Nick Kristof and @davidfrum are often described as members of the what?
A - Twitterati
B - eBay Brain Trust
C - Wikipedian Society
D - Craigslist Security Council
David rules out
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eBay and Craigslist because they're sites for buying or selling
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not to trust Wikipedia because it isn't reliable
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Answer: A (Twitterati)
Value: $3,000
Bank: $15,500
Value: $3,000
Bank: $15,500
According to TV Guide, an NBC memo reveals that test audiences thought what show's pilot was "only mildly realistic" and "needed a better backup ensemble"?
A - Seinfeld
B - Murphy Brown
C - Friends
D - Laverne & Shirley
David jumps the question.
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Answer: A (Seinfeld)
Value: $100 (jumped)
Bank: $15,500 (unchanged)
Value: $100 (jumped)
Bank: $15,500 (unchanged)
David has the tip of a deer antler hanging around his neck. It's a good luck charm that he acquired while on a cultural exchange field trip to Canada with his class. The student who gave it to him said it was for protection and it must have worked because at David's audition he didn't get any math questions.
Question #6:
Regardless of whether or not you look both ways, in Boston you can be hit with a hefty $1 fine for committing what crime?
A - embezzlement
B - arson
C - high treason
D - jaywalking
After eliminating three choices, David says
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he can still his mother saying "Look both ways before you cross the street"
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Answer: D (jaywalking)
Value: $25,000
Bank: $40,500
Value: $25,000
Bank: $40,500
In a precursor to Freedom Fries, what did Americans re-brand German measles during World War I?
A - Allied measles
B - Liberty measles
C - Our measles
D - Star-Spangled Measles
David doesn't think it would be
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"our measles"
Ask the Audience results
A - 41%
B - 41%
C - 9%
D - 9%
B - 41%
C - 9%
D - 9%
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it's a tie
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Answer: B (Liberty measles)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $20,250 (half the bank)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $20,250 (half the bank)
MILLIONAIRE "QUESTION OF THE DAY":
Before it was a Beastie Boys song, what type of monkey was colloquially used to describe extreme temperatures?
A - chunky monkey
B - spider monkey
C - brass monkey
D - sock monkey
Question of the Day answer
C (brass monkey)
