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Tiffany Joseph
Brooklyn, NY

Terry says they're going to get right to it.

Question #1:
Flaunting the look in their music videos, Run-D.M.C. sparked a 1980s fashion craze by not wearing what?
A - monocles with their tuxes
B - ties with their shirts
C - lenses with their glasses
D - laces with their shoes

Tiffany was a little young when this group was popular but she vaguely remembers what they looked like.

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Answer: D (laces with their shoes)
Value: $25,000
Bank: $25,000

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Question #2:
"36-24-36 Wow!" a chapter in Norman Rockwell's autobiography, recounts his early experiences as a what?
A - car mechanic
B - beauty pageant judge
C - EMT
D - postal worker

There's only one that makes sense.

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Answer: B (beauty pageant judge)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $32,000

Question #3:
Before coming to mean "angry," which of these adjectives described skin that was bluish in color?
A - enraged
B - seething
C - livid
D - furious

Tiffany doesn't see any answer that jumps out at her as "blue". She looks at

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livid and that makes her think of "vivid" which she associates with color, but not just one color

. She decides to jump the question.

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Answer: C (livid)
Value: $100 (jumped)
Bank: $32,000 (unchanged)

Question #4:
A place like Times Square could never exist in the state of Vermont, which has a law that prohibits what?
A - fanny packs
B - tourists
C - theaters
D - billboards

Tiffany thinks that the first thing you think about Times Square is

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billboards

.

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Answer: D (billboards)
Value: $500
Bank: $32,500

Question #5:
Which of these U.S. bills features a rendering of Philadelphia's Independence Hall on its back?
A - $5
B - $10
C - $20
D - $100

Tiffany asks the audience.

Ask the Audience results

A - 2%
B - 19%
C - 29%
D - 50%

It's been a while since Tiffany saw one of those.

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The $100 has Benjamin Franklin on the front

.

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Answer: D ($100)
Value: $15,000
Bank: $47,500

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Tiffany was afraid of roller coasters but she decided one year that she was going to confront her fear so she rode one of the tallest coasters on the East Coast and lived to tell the tale.

Question #6:
Taco Fusion, a restaurant in Tampa Florida, recently created an "uproar" when it began selling tacos made with what meat?
A - rhinoceros
B - blue whale
C - lion
D - bald eagle

Tiffany says that

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"roar" makes her think of lion

.

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Answer: C (lion)
Value: $2,000
Bank: $49,500

Question #7:
If you "ate a ton" of Quarter Pounders and they weighed exactly a quarter pound each, how many would you have eaten?
A - 500
B - 2000
C - 5000
D - 8000

Tiffany does the math.

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Answer: D (8000)
Value: $5,000
Bank: $54,500

Question #8:
Which First Lady was the first to be eligible to vote for her husband in a presidential election?
A - Florence Harding
B - Lou Hoover
C - Helen Taft
D - Edith Roosevelt

Tiffany believes women got the right to vote around 1920. She decides to use her +1, her brother Adrian. He doesn't have a whole lot of confidence about the answer but agrees with Tiffany about the date for women's suffrage. They think it might be

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Edith Roosevelt but then they question whether she was married to Theodore or Franklin - if it's Theodore, then it's too early

. Terry explains her options, then she says

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she thinks Edith was married to FDR and Eleanor was married to Theodore, so that would put it in the 30s. She also notes that J. Edgar Hoover would have been much later as well, in the 50s, so B and D are eliminated

. She wants to go with

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C

but when Terry asks if that's her final answer, she changes to

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A

.

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Answer: A (Florence Harding)
Value: $10,000
Bank: $64,500

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Question #9:
which of the following is a line from Dr. Seuss' "One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish" and not a Black Eyed Peas lyric?
A - Get stupid, get it started
B - I got that boom, boom, boom
C - Did you ever ride a Wump?
D - Here we come, here we go

Tiffany is pretty sure that

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A and B are Black Eyed Peas lyrics, while the other two sound like they could be song lyrics

.

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Answer: C (Did you ever ride a Wump?)
Value: $1,000
Bank: $65,500

END OF SHOW "NOISE"



MILLIONAIRE "QUESTION OF THE DAY":
A legal order telling someone to immediately discontinue an action is known as a "cease and" what?
A - insist
B - resist
C - consist
D - desist

Question of the Day answer

D (desist)

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Tiffany Joseph
Brooklyn, NY

Terry says they're going to get right to it.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #8:
Which First Lady was the first to be eligible to vote for her husband in a presidential election?
A - Florence Harding
B - Lou Hoover
C - Helen Taft
D - Edith Roosevelt

Tiffany believes women got the right to vote around 1920. She decides to use her +1, her brother Adrian. He doesn't have a whole lot of confidence about the answer but agrees with Tiffany about the date for women's suffrage. They think it might be

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Edith Roosevelt but then they question whether she was married to Theodore or Franklin - if it's Theodore, then it's too early

. Terry explains her options, then she says

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she thinks Edith was married to FDR and Eleanor was married to Theodore, so that would put it in the 30s. She also notes that J. Edgar Hoover would have been much later as well, in the 50s, so B and D are eliminated

. She wants to go with

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C

but when Terry asks if that's her final answer, she changes to

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A

.

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Answer: A (Florence Harding)
Value: $10,000
Bank: $64,500

1920 is right for the date of the 19th amendment, so it's a matter of figuring out who was a candidate in the 1920 presidental race. Taft and Roosevelt are too early and Hoover is too late. I laughed at the confusion they demonstrated between the Roosevelts and their spouses.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #9:
which of the following is a line from Dr. Seuss' "One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish" and not a Black Eyed Peas lyric?
A - Get stupid, get it started
B - I got that boom, boom, boom
C - Did you ever ride a Wump?
D - Here we come, here we go

Tiffany is pretty sure that

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A and B are Black Eyed Peas lyrics, while the other two sound like they could be song lyrics

.

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Answer: C (Did you ever ride a Wump?)
Value: $1,000
Bank: $65,500

"Bump! Bump! Bump! Did you ever ride a wump? We have a Wump with just one hump. But, we know a man called Mr. Gump. Mr Gump has a seven hump Wump. So... if you Bump! Bump! Just jump on the hump on the Wump of Gump."

Nihil obstat®.

Question #6:
Taco Fusion, a restaurant in Tampa Florida, recently created an "uproar" when it began selling tacos made with what meat?
A - rhinoceros
B - blue whale
C - lion
D - bald eagle

Tiffany says that

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"roar" makes her think of lion

.

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Answer: C (lion)
Value: $2,000
Bank: $49,500

I guess "uproar" is enough of a hint to get this one.

Question #8:
Which First Lady was the first to be eligible to vote for her husband in a presidential election?
A - Florence Harding
B - Lou Hoover
C - Helen Taft
D - Edith Roosevelt

Tiffany believes women got the right to vote around 1920. She decides to use her +1, her brother Adrian. He doesn't have a whole lot of confidence about the answer but agrees with Tiffany about the date for women's suffrage. They think it might be

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Edith Roosevelt but then they question whether she was married to Theodore or Franklin - if it's Theodore, then it's too early

. Terry explains her options, then she says

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she thinks Edith was married to FDR and Eleanor was married to Theodore, so that would put it in the 30s. She also notes that J. Edgar Hoover would have been much later as well, in the 50s, so B and D are eliminated

. She wants to go with

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C

but when Terry asks if that's her final answer, she changes to

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A

.

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Answer: A (Florence Harding)
Value: $10,000
Bank: $64,500

JTQ. But I did know that women got the vote in 1920.

Question #9:
which of the following is a line from Dr. Seuss' "One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish" and not a Black Eyed Peas lyric?
A - Get stupid, get it started
B - I got that boom, boom, boom
C - Did you ever ride a Wump?
D - Here we come, here we go

Tiffany is pretty sure that

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A and B are Black Eyed Peas lyrics, while the other two sound like they could be song lyrics

.

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Answer: C (Did you ever ride a Wump?)
Value: $1,000
Bank: $65,500

I read the book about a million years ago but do not remember it. ATA and probably Plus One. Probably sayonara.