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Stephanie Teeter
Apex, NC

Stephanie says she had a midlife crisis at age 30 and is ready to win the million and enjoy the ride. She would like to pay off some debt - a mortgage and student loans (she went back to grad school as part of her midlife crisis) and do some traveling. Her +1 is her mom, Susan.

Question #1:
What nickname is often given to students who return home to live with their parents after college?
A - boomerang kids
B - javelin juveniles
C - Frisbee offspring
D - lawn dart delinquents

Stephanie confesses that she was one of these kids, living at home for 5 years after college. Her dad might argue that she is a

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lawn dart delinquent

but that would be a whole separate issue.

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Answer: A (boomerang kids)
Value: $25,000
Bank: $25,000

Stephanie points to her mother and says she thought it was a bad thing that she moved back home but this shows that it was a good thing.

Question #2:
At the behest of its environmentalist mayor, in 2013, Paris installed four sheep outside its municipal archives building to serve as eco-friendly what?
A - lawnmowers
B - tour guides
C - taxis
D - bus benches

Stephanie has a funny story as to why she knows this.

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She moved into a new building at work a few years ago and there was a shorter building next door with a green roof. It was just dirt at first, but then the grass grew in and got long and she wondered what they were going to do - there were no stairs, just ladders, and she joked that they should have sheep live up there to keep the grass short

.

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Answer: A (lawnmowers)
Value: $1,000
Bank: $26,000

Question #3:
The polar opposite of TIME's famous feature, GQ publishes what list that has included people such as Guy Fieri, Justin Bieber and Mitt Romney?
A - Least Attractive People
B - Least Influential People
C - Least Intelligent People
D - Least Hygienic People

Stephanie wonders how these people would feel if they were on a list of Least Hygienic People. She's a little bit of a news junkie so she knows that TIME publishes lists of

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most influential people

.

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Answer: B (Least Influential People
Value: $100
Bank: $26,100

Question #4:
Buckingham Palace reportedly pays over $40,000 a year to its horological conservator, a staff member whose job includes which task?
A - watering plants
B - researching genealogy
C - winding clocks
D - maintaining the royal stables

Stephanie thinks that

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watering plants would be horticulture

but she doesn't know what the other three are. She decides to jump the question.

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Answer: C (winding clocks)
Value: $15,000 (jumped)
Bank: $26,100 (unchanged)

Stephanie says she was thinking "C".

commercial break

Question #5:
If you ask a store clerk for "lucifers" in the Netherlands, they'll most likely give you a what?
A - roll of paper towels
B - book of matches
C - stack of newspapers
D - bag of potato chips

Stephanie is thinking that

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Lucifer is another name for the devil, which makes her think of fire, so the answer is probably a book of matches

. Stephanie has never been to the Netherlands, but she'd like to go there some day.

Ask the Audience results

A - 6%
B - 87%
C - 1%
D - 6%

Stephanie hopes

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she didn't lead the audience to that answer; she hopes they knew it independently

.

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Answer: B (book of matches)
Value: $500
Bank: $26,600

Question #6:
Which of these is the name of a former First Lady of the United States and NOT a popular country singer?
A - June Carter
B - Caroline Harrison
C - Amy Grant
D - Gretchen Wilson

Stephanie knows for a fact that

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June Carter and Amy Grant

are country singers. She decides to use her +1 lifeline. Stephanie asks her mom to tell her that she knows this. Mom says

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she thinks Gretchen Wilson

is also a popular singer. That's what Stephanie was thinking. She says her mom wouldn't know about country singers but might know about First Ladies. They both think the same thing and Stephanie says that "two maybes makes a yes." Mom says "Don't be mad at me if we're wrong." Stephanie says she won't be.

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Answer: B (Caroline Harrison)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $33,600

Question #7:
Way more dangerous than your expired mayo, vials of what eradicated disease were found sitting in an unsecured FDA refrigerator in 2014?
A - hepatitis
B - tuberculosis
C - smallpox
D - rubella

Stephanie is a scientific research technician and she's pretty sure she remembers reading this. She's 95% sure but wants a moment to digest the question.

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Answer: C (smallpox)
Value: $3,000
Bank: $36,600

commercial break

Question #8:
What cell phone maker's name translates to English as "three stars"?
A - Nokia
B - Samsung
C - Verison
D - Sony

When Stephanie heard the question her knee-jerk thought was

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Nokia

. She isn't sure that

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Verizon

is a foreign word. She wishes she spoke more languages than she does. She's trying to pull out a syllable that might mean "three", figuring that these are multi-syllable words and one would be "three" and the other would be "stars". She might regret it but she decides to go with

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Nokia

as her final answer.

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Answer: B (Samsung)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

commercial break

MILLIONAIRE "QUESTION OF THE DAY":
A funny comment recently found on a 3500-year-old Babylonian tablet led the New York Daily News to call it the "world's oldest" what?
A - knock knock joke
B - yo mama joke
C - light bulb joke
D - blonde joke

Question of the Day answer

B (yo mama joke)

Q6: Unless she's the one with the very short skirts & the "Same Trailer" album I haven't heard Gretchen Wilson, but I know she's country. Am sure about Carter & Grant. Plus I know Roselyn Carter is not named June. So go for Caroline Harrison.


Q8: I am reasonably sure that Sony is Akira? Sony's name. Haven't googled it to be sure of the 1st name, but the founder of Sony was, well, Sony. And Verizon is some kind of pretend-Latinate word that doesn't incorporate any of the Latin for "stars". About the other 2 I have no idea. Yes, I know

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Samsung makes Galaxy phones

, as Terry C. said in his extro, but that didn't play in my trying to answer the Qs. I have all my lifelines, so will JTQ here.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #3:
The polar opposite of TIME's famous feature, GQ publishes what list that has included people such as Guy Fieri, Justin Bieber and Mitt Romney?
A - Least Attractive People
B - Least Influential People
C - Least Intelligent People
D - Least Hygienic People

Stephanie wonders how these people would feel if they were on a list of Least Hygienic People. She's a little bit of a news junkie so she knows that TIME publishes lists of

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most influential people

.

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Answer: B (Least Influential People
Value: $100
Bank: $26,100

I'm pretty sure that the least influential people would be those whom nobody (including GQ magazine) has ever heard of. Perhaps they intended this to be a list of Least Influential People In Relation To Their Notoriety.

Question #2:
At the behest of its environmentalist mayor, in 2013, Paris installed four sheep outside its municipal archives building to serve as eco-friendly what?
A - lawnmowers
B - tour guides
C - taxis
D - bus benches

Stephanie has a funny story as to why she knows this.

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She moved into a new building at work a few years ago and there was a shorter building next door with a green roof. It was just dirt at first, but then the grass grew in and got long and she wondered what they were going to do - there were no stairs, just ladders, and she joked that they should have sheep live up there to keep the grass short

.

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Answer: A (lawnmowers)
Value: $1,000
Bank: $26,000

That's probably eco-friendly in in Paris, maybe anyplace in Europe, for that matter. Out here in the Arid West, sheep aren't all that eco-friendly, and I'm still mad at an area sheep rancher who herded his sheep into one of our favorite camping, hunting, woodcutting, and hiking spots over the Fourth of July weekend in 2012. He then left them much later than usual because it was a dry year, and here's part of the SteelersFan letter to the Forest Service that resulted: "My family camped out at a favorite spot over the Independence Day weekend, and I know that was when the sheep were brought in because they came through our camp, overturning our water containers and other things and leaving 'sheep deposit' everywhere. Just as I had done the previous three decades, I scouted over the summer and early fall and was confident of a good hunt because I saw elk into early September. Usually that’s when the sheep come down and do not disrupt the fall hunt. This year, with the extended grazing, both the grass and the elk were gone by hunting season."

Question #7:
Way more dangerous than your expired mayo, vials of what eradicated disease were found sitting in an unsecured FDA refrigerator in 2014?
A - hepatitis
B - tuberculosis
C - smallpox
D - rubella

Stephanie is a scientific research technician and she's pretty sure she remembers reading this. She's 95% sure but wants a moment to digest the question.

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Answer: C (smallpox)
Value: $3,000
Bank: $36,600

I remember the story and the outrage it generated, but I never did hear the answer to the question, "Why we saving this stuff?" So I googled it, and it appears to be egregious carelessness: "The FDA said the collection 'was most likely assembled between 1946 and 1964 when standards for work with and storage of biological specimens were very different from those used today.' " The smallpox vials were dated 1954.

Question #8:
What cell phone maker's name translates to English as "three stars"?
A - Nokia
B - Samsung
C - Verison
D - Sony

When Stephanie heard the question her knee-jerk thought was

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Nokia

. She isn't sure that

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Verizon

is a foreign word. She wishes she spoke more languages than she does. She's trying to pull out a syllable that might mean "three", figuring that these are multi-syllable words and one would be "three" and the other would be "stars". She might regret it but she decides to go with

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Nokia

as her final answer.

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Answer: B (Samsung)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

JTQ

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #4:
Buckingham Palace reportedly pays over $40,000 a year to its horological conservator, a staff member whose job includes which task?
A - watering plants
B - researching genealogy
C - winding clocks
D - maintaining the royal stables

Stephanie thinks that

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watering plants would be horticulture

but she doesn't know what the other three are. She decides to jump the question.

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Answer: C (winding clocks)
Value: $15,000 (jumped)
Bank: $26,100 (unchanged)

Stephanie says she was thinking "C".

Easy if you know "horloge" is the French word for

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clock

.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #5:
If you ask a store clerk for "lucifers" in the Netherlands, they'll most likely give you a what?
A - roll of paper towels
B - book of matches
C - stack of newspapers
D - bag of potato chips

Stephanie is thinking that

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Lucifer is another name for the devil, which makes her think of fire, so the answer is probably a book of matches

. Stephanie has never been to the Netherlands, but she'd like to go there some day.

Ask the Audience results

A - 6%
B - 87%
C - 1%
D - 6%

Stephanie hopes

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she didn't lead the audience to that answer; she hopes they knew it independently

.

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Answer: B (book of matches)
Value: $500
Bank: $26,600

Even without Stephanie thinking out loud, everyone in the audience who's never been to Holland would guess matches. I'd ask the audience, and if another answer got a significant number of votes, I'd jump the question.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: Stephanie Teeter
Apex, NC

Stephanie says she had a midlife crisis at age 30 and is ready to win the million and enjoy the ride. She would like to pay off some debt - a mortgage and student loans (she went back to grad school as part of her midlife crisis) and do some traveling. Her +1 is her mom, Susan.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #8:
What cell phone maker's name translates to English as "three stars"?
A - Nokia
B - Samsung
C - Verison
D - Sony

When Stephanie heard the question her knee-jerk thought was

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Nokia

. She isn't sure that

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Verizon

is a foreign word. She wishes she spoke more languages than she does. She's trying to pull out a syllable that might mean "three", figuring that these are multi-syllable words and one would be "three" and the other would be "stars". She might regret it but she decides to go with

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Nokia

as her final answer.

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Answer: B (Samsung)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

Samsung makes phones and tablets called "Galaxy", so it stands to reason that their name might have something to do with celestial objects. I'd be confident enough to go with that answer.

Nihil obstat®.