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Steve Garrahan
Houston, TX

They get right into the game.

Question #1: All named after real men, which of these drinks wasn't sold until more than 200 years after its namesake died?
A - Jack Daniel's
B - Dom Pérignon
C - Heineken
D - José Cuervo

Steve's not confident that he knows the answer but he thinks he has an idea and decides to ask the audience to confirm it.

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Ask the Audience results:
A - 24%
B - 36%
C - 11%
D - 29%

Steve's guess was

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the next highest one (C)

. He wants to be sure so he jumps the question.

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Answer: B (Dom Pérignon)
Value: $1,000 (jumped)
Bank: $0

Question #2: Sounding like a farming technique, what style of parenting gives kids freedom to play unsupervised and travel independently?
A - free-range parenting
B - community parenting
C - grass-fed parenting
D - organic parenting

Steve associates

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free-range with chickens as a farming technique

.

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Answer: A (free-range parenting)
Value: $3,000
Bank: $3,000

Question #3: The Latin version of what Dr. Seuss book is sold under the title, "Virent Ova! Viret Perna!!"?
A - Oh, The Places You'll Go!
B - The Cat in the Hat
C - Green Eggs and Ham
D - Horton Hears a Who!

Steve decides to use his +1, his buddy Todd. Todd says the secret is in one of the words up there. He has several years of medical school and he knows that

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ova

means "egg"

, so Steve makes that his final answer.

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Answer: C (Green Eggs and Ham)
Value: $15,000
Bank: $18,000

commercial break

Question #4: Since the early days of McDonald's, it's been said that to be a successful employee, "you have to have" what "in your veins"?
A - ketchup
B - curry
C - vodka
D - soy sauce

Steve knew the answer before the choices came up.

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Answer: A (ketchup)
Value: $25,000
Bank: $43,000

Question #5: While presidents are entitled to a lifetime of Secret Service protection, who discontinued his in 1985 in order to help cut the federal deficit?
A - Ronald Reagan
B - Jimmy Carter
C - Gerald Ford
D - Richard Nixon

Steve says that

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in 1985 Reagan was president but then notes that he could have said he would waive the protection in the future

. He doesn't have a definite answer and he's used his lifelines. Steve doesn't think that

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Nixon is the kind of guy who would do that

. He decides to walk away.

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Answer: D (Richard Nixon)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $21,500 (half the bank)

MILLIONAIRE "QUESTION OF THE DAY": According to the FDA's standards of identity, what food must contain at least 10% butterfat?
A - yogurt
B - cottage cheese
C - ice cream
D - whole milk

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Answer:

So far, so good.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #5: While presidents are entitled to a lifetime of Secret Service protection, who discontinued his in 1985 in order to help cut the federal deficit?
A - Ronald Reagan
B - Jimmy Carter
C - Gerald Ford
D - Richard Nixon

Steve says that

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in 1985 Reagan was president but then notes that he could have said he would waive the protection in the future

. He doesn't have a definite answer and he's used his lifelines. Steve doesn't think that

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Nixon is the kind of guy who would do that

. He decides to walk away.

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Answer: D (Richard Nixon)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $21,500 (half the bank)

I would have never got this. But there's an adage, dating back to the earliest days of Millionaire: If one of the choices is named Nixon, that's the right answer.

Q1: Think its B, but not with confidence. Jump


Q5: Sit & figure out who was pres when. Can't be Reagan (he was pres then), don't think it was Carter or Ford. But call +1 to be sure. Er.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #5: While presidents are entitled to a lifetime of Secret Service protection, who discontinued his in 1985 in order to help cut the federal deficit?
A - Ronald Reagan
B - Jimmy Carter
C - Gerald Ford
D - Richard Nixon

Steve says that

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in 1985 Reagan was president but then notes that he could have said he would waive the protection in the future

. He doesn't have a definite answer and he's used his lifelines. Steve doesn't think that

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Nixon is the kind of guy who would do that

. He decides to walk away.

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Answer: D (Richard Nixon)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $21,500 (half the bank)

This shows me I need to keep paying attention to whatever I come in contact with. I do not remember the author, but he opened it by saying that Nixon picked him up at the airport for their interview without Secret Service.

Wonder what I'll come into contact with at bridge tonight . . .

SportsFan68 wrote:Wonder what I'll come into contact with at bridge tonight . . .

Cards that have never been washed...

Estonut wrote:

SportsFan68 wrote:Wonder what I'll come into contact with at bridge tonight . . .

Cards that have never been washed...

So true . . .

One of our players went home in the middle of the session with a horrible bad cold. I'm praying it doesn't turn into pneumonia. She's two months away from her 90th birthday.

I'm also praying I don't catch her cold.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Steve Garrahan
Houston, TX

They get right into the game.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #1: All named after real men, which of these drinks wasn't sold until more than 200 years after its namesake died?
A - Jack Daniel's
B - Dom Pérignon
C - Heineken
D - José Cuervo

Steve's not confident that he knows the answer but he thinks he has an idea and decides to ask the audience to confirm it.

Spoiler

Ask the Audience results:
A - 24%
B - 36%
C - 11%
D - 29%

Steve's guess was

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the next highest one (C)

. He wants to be sure so he jumps the question.

Spoiler

Answer: B (Dom Pérignon)
Value: $1,000 (jumped)
Bank: $0

That seemed the most obvious answer and on that basis I would have chosen it.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #3: The Latin version of what Dr. Seuss book is sold under the title, "Virent Ova! Viret Perna!!"?
A - Oh, The Places You'll Go!
B - The Cat in the Hat
C - Green Eggs and Ham
D - Horton Hears a Who!

Steve decides to use his +1, his buddy Todd. Todd says the secret is in one of the words up there. He has several years of medical school and he knows that

Spoiler

ova means "egg"

, so Steve makes that his final answer.

Spoiler

Answer: C (Green Eggs and Ham)
Value: $15,000
Bank: $18,000

"Ova" was the key for me also.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #5: While presidents are entitled to a lifetime of Secret Service protection, who discontinued his in 1985 in order to help cut the federal deficit?
A - Ronald Reagan
B - Jimmy Carter
C - Gerald Ford
D - Richard Nixon

Steve says that

Spoiler

in 1985 Reagan was president but then notes that he could have said he would waive the protection in the future

. He doesn't have a definite answer and he's used his lifelines. Steve doesn't think that

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Nixon is the kind of guy who would do that

. He decides to walk away.

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Answer: D (Richard Nixon)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $21,500 (half the bank)

I'd JTQ.