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Millionaire Whiz Kids

Chris Isozaki
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA

Terry says Chris is a 14-year-old science genius whose inventions have made a bang, in and out of the classroom. In the next ten years, he's plans on inventing something unimaginable.

Terry gets right into the game, without asking Chris to explain what that intended invention is.

As his Plus One, Chris has brougth the smartest person he knows and one of his personal heroes, his father.


Question #1
Sponsored by Sprint, the $10,000 "Backseat Adviser" scholarship is awarded to a student for reminding friends to not do what while driving?

A: Sing B: Text
C: Work out D: Deliver a baby

Answer/Value/Bank

B: Text
Question Value: $7,000
Bank: $7,000

Question #2
If true to mythology, the protagonist of Disney's "Hercules" and "The Little Mermaid" are cousins once removed, since Ariel is the granddaughter of whom?

A: Zeus B: Cronus
C: Poseidon D: Hades

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Poseidon
Question Value: $10,000
Bank: $17,000

Question #3
It's believed that what author was inspired to write his most famous work after learning of Mocha Dick, a whale that terrorized seafarers in the 1800s?

A: Nathaniel Hawthorne B: Washington Irving
C: Herman Melville D: Edgar Allan Poe

Chris uses his Plus One. His dad is thinking that

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Moby Dick was written by Herman Melville.

Chris goes with that answer.

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Herman Melville
Question Value: $1,000
Bank: $18,000

-- Commercial Break --


Question #4
In 1844, 100 acres of Concord Woods burned down when what famous naturalist accidentally started a forest fire while trying to cook some fish?

A: Henry David Thoreau B: Theodore Roosevelt
C: Ansel Adams D: John James Audubon

Chris says this is a tough one, because

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he knows that both Thoreau and Roosevelt really loved the outdoors. It could definitely be either one, and it's embarrassing not to know either of the other two options.

Chris cuts the question, although he would have guessed

Spoiler

Henry David Thoreau

.

Answer

A: Henry David Thoreau

Substitute Question #4
Billing itself as an "awe-inspiring journey through the world of numbers" is a recent book cleverly titled "Here's Looking at" whom?

A: Euclid B: Thespis
C: Sappho D: Aesop

Chris knows that

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Euclid invented Euclidean geometry and Aesop wrote fables. The other two sound smart.

He jumps the question.

Answer/Value/Bank

A: Euclid
Question Value: $3,000
Bank: $18,000

-- The End of Game "Noise" --

Chris will return on tomorrow's show.

So far, so good.

<sigh> Another dream stack that the whiz kid can't quite handle.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #2
If true to mythology, the protagonist of Disney's "Hercules" and "The Little Mermaid" are cousins once removed, since Ariel is the granddaughter of whom?

A: Zeus B: Cronus
C: Poseidon D: Hades

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Poseidon
Question Value: $10,000
Bank: $17,000

Christ handled this well, but did the question writers make this trickier than they intended? Cronus would be Ariel's great-grandfather.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #4
In 1844, 100 acres of Concord Woods burned down when what famous naturalist accidentally started a forest fire while trying to cook some fish?

A: Henry David Thoreau B: Theodore Roosevelt
C: Ansel Adams D: John James Audubon

Chris says this is a tough one, because

Spoiler

he knows that both Thoreau and Roosevelt really loved the outdoors. It could definitely be either one, and it's embarrassing not to know either of the other two options.

Chris cuts the question, although he would have guessed

Spoiler

Henry David Thoreau

.

Answer

A: Henry David Thoreau

Yes, Roosevelt was a naturalist, but he hadn't been born in 1844. Nor had Adams.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Substitute Question #4
Billing itself as an "awe-inspiring journey through the world of numbers" is a recent book cleverly titled "Here's Looking at" whom?

A: Euclid B: Thespis
C: Sappho D: Aesop

Chris knows that

Spoiler

Euclid invented Euclidean geometry and Aesop wrote fables. The other two sound smart.

He jumps the question.

Answer/Value/Bank

A: Euclid
Question Value: $3,000
Bank: $18,000

Chris didn't need to know his Greeks, just a classic movie quote.

Q2: Poseidon & Hercules have diff mothers, so technically they're 1/2-cousins. Whatever.


sub Q4 is a giveaway. To an older person who gets the pun. I'm sorry it went past the kid.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Millionaire Whiz Kids

Chris Isozaki
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA

Terry says Chris is a 14-year-old science genius whose inventions have made a bang, in and out of the classroom. In the next ten years, he's plans on inventing something unimaginable.

Terry gets right into the game, without asking Chris to explain what that intended invention is.

As his Plus One, Chris has brougth the smartest person he knows and one of his personal heroes, his father.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #4
In 1844, 100 acres of Concord Woods burned down when what famous naturalist accidentally started a forest fire while trying to cook some fish?

A: Henry David Thoreau B: Theodore Roosevelt
C: Ansel Adams D: John James Audubon

Chris says this is a tough one, because

Spoiler

he knows that both Thoreau and Roosevelt really loved the outdoors. It could definitely be either one, and it's embarrassing not to know either of the other two options.

Chris cuts the question, although he would have guessed

Spoiler

Henry David Thoreau

.

Answer

A: Henry David Thoreau

It's a little early to be TR.

Nihil obstat®.