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Tabitha Joseph
New Rochelle, NY

Tabitha is 19 years old and she's been watching the show for 9 years. She's envisioned herself on the show and here she is.

Question #1: According to Merriam-Webster, what versatile word can be used as a contraction of "am not," "are not," "is not," "have not," and "has not'?"
A - isn't
B - won't
C - can't
D - ain't

Tabitha runs through the choices and says that

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isn't, won't and can't are finite

.

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Answer: D (ain't)
Value: $15,000
Bank: $15,000

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If Tabitha won the million she would like to travel to India. She's been Bollywood dancing for a couple years. She would also like to put a down payment on a house for her and her mother.

Question #2: As goodhousekeeping.com points out, you'll never truly be done with what household chore unless you do it naked?
A - shopping
B - paying bills
C - laundry
D - dishes

There's only one answer that makes sense to Tabitha.

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Answer: C (laundry)
Value: $1,000
Bank: $16,000

Question #3: A University of AZ study found that, like humans, dogs appear to feel the euphoric "neurobiological reward for endurance exercise" that we call what?
A - climber's elbow
B - farmer's lung
C - runner's high
D - plumber's butt

Tabitha isn't much of an exerciser but she's heard from friends who are about the

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runner's high

.

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Answer: C (runner's high)
Value: $2,000
Bank: $18,000

Question #4: Shedding his traditional tube sock, the bassist for what band performed completely nude at Woodstock '99?
A - Rage against the Machine
B - Dave Matthews Band
C - Red Hot Chili Peppers
D - Metallica

Tabitha doesn't know this but she wants to think about it. She feels as if it's

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Red Hot Chili Peppers

but she's not sure so she asks the audience.

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Ask the Audience results:
A - 7%
B - 4%
C - 73%
D - 16%

Tabitha thinks it would be "kinda dumb" not to go along with the audience.

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Answer: C (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
Value: $5,000
Bank: $23,000

Question #5: Because it's in the Southern Hemisphere, when the Summer Olympics are held there in August 2016, it will technically be winter in what host city?
A - Rio de Janiero
B - Buenos Aires
C - Caracas
D - Santiago

Tabitha says

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"Rio is in Brazil...but that's not helpful

. She has no idea and believes that all four choices are in the Southern Hemisphere. She calls on her +1, her friend Jared, for help. Jared doesn't know it either. He doesn't think it's

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Buenos Aires because that's where the last Olympics were. Tabitha says, "In Argentina, right"? and Jared agrees. He identifies Santiago as being in Chile and Caracas as being in Venezuela, all in South America. Jared says that the equator runs along the Amazon so that would exclude Caracas. He says it's either Rio or Santiago but he can't say for sure

. After that discussion Tabitha decides to jump the question.

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Answer: A (Rio de Janiero)
Value: $7,000 (jumped)
Bank: $23,000 (unchanged)

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Question #6: "Rope," "wedge" and "stovepipe" are all varieties of what?
A - furnaces
B - skateboard tricks
C - ladders
D - tornadoes

She feels that

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stovepipe is a skateboard trick and a wedge is also. She's never heard of a wedge furnace, ladder or tornado

. She decides to go for it.

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Answer: D (tornadoes)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

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MILLIONAIRE "QUESTION OF THE DAY": Before helping Bill Clinton with his, "GMA" anchor George Stephanopoulos worked on the presidential campaign of what fellow Greek-American MA native?
A - Walter Mondale
B - Michael Dukakis
C - Jerry Brown
D - Lyndon LaRouche

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Answer: (Michael Dukakis)

Friday's show is a great example of why the Plus One lifeline should go. She had no clue and he wasn't much help-at least he knew that all four of those cities are in South America, but not much else-and the last Summer Olympics was in LONDON, which is part of a different content.

As for the rest of her questions:

1. D is the only one that makes sense-but my uncle told me when I was a kid "Ain't ain't a word and you ain't supposed to use it."

2. C, final answer

3. C again.

4. ATA

5. easy-I wouldn't need a lifeline here (like she used 2 on!)

6. JTQ. I should try to find out what kind of tornado ours was-it will be 35 years on May 13th.

Question #4: Shedding his traditional tube sock, the bassist for what band performed completely nude at Woodstock '99?
A - Rage against the Machine
B - Dave Matthews Band
C - Red Hot Chili Peppers
D - Metallica

Tabitha doesn't know this but she wants to think about it. She feels as if it's

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Red Hot Chili Peppers

but she's not sure so she asks the audience.

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Ask the Audience results:
A - 7%
B - 4%
C - 73%
D - 16%

Tabitha thinks it would be "kinda dumb" not to go along with the audience.

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Answer: C (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
Value: $5,000
Bank: $23,000

ATA

Question #6: "Rope," "wedge" and "stovepipe" are all varieties of what?
A - furnaces
B - skateboard tricks
C - ladders
D - tornadoes

She feels that

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stovepipe is a skateboard trick and a wedge is also. She's never heard of a wedge furnace, ladder or tornado

. She decides to go for it.

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Answer: D (tornadoes)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

Process of elimination gives me tornadoes, but I dunno. Been a long time since I've seen Twister.

Plus One one or JTQ.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Tabitha Joseph
New Rochelle, NY

Tabitha is 19 years old and she's been watching the show for 9 years. She's envisioned herself on the show and here she is.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #1: According to Merriam-Webster, what versatile word can be used as a contraction of "am not," "are not," "is not," "have not," and "has not'?"
A - isn't
B - won't
C - can't
D - ain't

Tabitha runs through the choices and says that

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isn't, won't and can't are finite

.

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Answer: D (ain't)
Value: $15,000
Bank: $15,000

When I was young my mother used to say "you can't say 'ain't' because 'ain't' ain't in the dictionary."

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #5: Because it's in the Southern Hemisphere, when the Summer Olympics are held there in August 2016, it will technically be winter in what host city?
A - Rio de Janiero
B - Buenos Aires
C - Caracas
D - Santiago

Tabitha says

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"Rio is in Brazil...but that's not helpful

. She has no idea and believes that all four choices are in the Southern Hemisphere. She calls on her +1, her friend Jared, for help. Jared doesn't know it either. He doesn't think it's

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Buenos Aires because that's where the last Olympics were. Tabitha says, "In Argentina, right"? and Jared agrees. He identifies Santiago as being in Chile and Caracas as being in Venezuela, all in South America. Jared says that the equator runs along the Amazon so that would exclude Caracas. He says it's either Rio or Santiago but he can't say for sure

. After that discussion Tabitha decides to jump the question.

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Answer: A (Rio de Janiero)
Value: $7,000 (jumped)
Bank: $23,000 (unchanged)

I was surprised that (a) the +1 was able to recognize that Caracas was north of the equator and (b) they couldn't identify Rio as the Olympics host.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #6: "Rope," "wedge" and "stovepipe" are all varieties of what?
A - furnaces
B - skateboard tricks
C - ladders
D - tornadoes

She feels that

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stovepipe is a skateboard trick and a wedge is also. She's never heard of a wedge furnace, ladder or tornado

. She decides to go for it.

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Answer: D (tornadoes)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

A pity. Growing up in OK we heard about the various shapes of tornadoes.

Q4: G-d knows why I know about Mr. Tube-Sock, but I do. Maybe its the housemate long ago who loved the Chili Peppers & was sure I would to, though I did not. However I would have ATA'd to be sure.

Q6: I was going for skater tricks, actually, because they have half-pipes, so why not stovepipes? But JTQ.