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Simi Lipsman
Las Vegas, NB

Simi’s Plus one is her very good friend, Paula, who was Simi’s mother-in-law for ten years.

$500 In a 2014 study, Swiss researchers found that what items often worn by livestock can produce up to 113 decibels and may be deafening them?
A. Cowbells
B. Sheepdrums
C. Pigtubas
D. Horseflutes

Spoiler

A. Cowbells

$1K RealSimple.com suggests replacing sweet vermouth with Mainschewitz wine if you want to make a Manhattan cocktail that is what?
A. Non-alcoholic
B. Zero calories
C. Kosher
D. Hallucinogenic

Spoiler

C. Kosher

$2K Because of its geographically-inspired name, what SuV sounds like it was designed for someone who tosses the caber and eats haggis?
A. Nissan Visigoth
B. Toyota Highlander
C. Volkswagen Aborigine
D. Chevy Quaker

Spoiler

B. Toyota Highlander

$3K What former politician once led a weekly study group at Harvard fittingly called “Third Party Politics: Body-Slamming the Political Establishment”?
A. Jesse Ventura
B. Bill Bradley
C. Arnold Schwarzenegger
D. Heath Shuler

Spoiler

A. Jesse Ventura

$5K Previously rare, fast food movie tie-ins became popular in 1977, when Burger King sold glasses with characters from what film on them?
A. Back to the Future
B. Raiders of the Lost Ark
C. Star Wars
D. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

Spoiler

C. Star Wars

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$7K Though it’s actually Paris’ oldest of its kind, Pont Neuf is an iconic structure whose name means “New” what?
A. Bridge
B. Museum
C. Castle
D. Fountain

50/50

50/50 leaves

A. Bridge
D. Fountain

Spoiler

A. Bridge

$10K Called “The Old West’s most famous newspaper,” what still-operational gazette reported on the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in 1881?
A. The Dodge City Lookout
B. The Deadwood Deliverer
C. The Eldorado Canyon Surveyor
D. The Tombstone Epitaph

+1

Paula is leaning toward

Spoiler

D. The Tombstone Epitaph.

Simi says it isn’t

Spoiler

Deadwood or Dodge City.

Simi makes

Spoiler

The Tombstone Epitaph

her final answer.

Spoiler

D. The Tombstone Epitaph

$20K In a family of big nicknames and bigger voices, what singer’s father was a famous preacher known as “The Man with the Million-Dollar Voice”?
A. Diana Ross
B. Etta James
C. Gladys Knight
D. Aretha Franklin


ATA

ATA results

9% A. Diana Ross
10% B. Etta James
14% C. Gladys Knight
67% D. Aretha Franklin

Spoiler

D. Aretha Franklin

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$30K Often likened to the width of a pinky finger, what is both the thickest and longest nerve in the human body?
A. Radial
B. Sciatic
C. Femoral
D. Ulnar

When Simi went back to college ten years ago, after she received her pharmacy degree, she taught anatomy.
She points to her body where the nerves are located and makes

Spoiler

femoral

her final answer.

Spoiler

B. Sciatic
Simi leaves with $5K

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QOTD
According to a “royal source,” Queen Elizabeth II became addicted to what when she saw her grandson using it after lunch one day?
A. Slip ‘N Slide
B. Nintendo Wii
C. Super Soaker
D. Electronic cigarettes

Spoiler

B. Nintendo Wii

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: Simi Lipsman
Las Vegas, NB

Simi’s Plus one is her very good friend, Paula, who was Simi’s mother-in-law for ten years.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: $3K What former politician once led a weekly study group at Harvard fittingly called “Third Party Politics: Body-Slamming the Political Establishment”?
A. Jesse Ventura
B. Bill Bradley
C. Arnold Schwarzenegger
D. Heath Shuler

Spoiler

A. Jesse Ventura

Simi at first was torn between Ventura and Schwarznegger but finally caught on to "body-slamming".

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: $7K Though it’s actually Paris’ oldest of its kind, Pont Neuf is an iconic structure whose name means “New” what?
A. Bridge
B. Museum
C. Castle
D. Fountain

50/50

50/50 leaves

A. Bridge
D. Fountain

Spoiler

A. Bridge

Simi said she took French and after she used the lifeline she remembered a song she learned about a bridge.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: $30K Often likened to the width of a pinky finger, what is both the thickest and longest nerve in the human body?
A. Radial
B. Sciatic
C. Femoral
D. Ulnar

When Simi went back to college ten years ago, after she received her pharmacy degree, she taught anatomy.
She points to her body where the nerves are located and makes

Spoiler

femoral

her final answer.

Spoiler

B. Sciatic
Simi leaves with $5K

I think she may have been confusing the femoral artery with the sciatic nerve.

So I'd be at this level with all my lifelines.

It's interesting that Chris Harrison has said there are no more easy questions, but the first five are like the Regis era questions - easy unless you overthink them.

earendel wrote: It's interesting that Chris Harrison has said there are no more easy questions, but the first five are like the Regis era questions - easy unless you overthink them.

I don't know that I agree. I can definitely point out examples of first round questions this season which were grossly undervalued. And the fact that they're never straightforward anymore makes them even harder.

I'd say the first level questions are about the same difficulty as they were during the 2nd season of the clock format, only they require considerably more reasoning than those questions. So far this season roughly half the contestants made it through the first 5 questions with all their lifelines intact, which is on par with the 2009-2010 season. It definitely helps knowing that these are "easy" level questions so the obvious answer is going to be the correct one. Quite a few people jumped questions like the $3,000 one during the shuffle format because they thought the obvious answer could easily be incorrect.

$7K Though it’s actually Paris’ oldest of its kind, Pont Neuf is an iconic structure whose name means “New” what?
A. Bridge
B. Museum
C. Castle
D. Fountain

50/50

50/50 leaves

A. Bridge
D. Fountain

Spoiler

A. Bridge

50/50

$20K In a family of big nicknames and bigger voices, what singer’s father was a famous preacher known as “The Man with the Million-Dollar Voice”?
A. Diana Ross
B. Etta James
C. Gladys Knight
D. Aretha Franklin

ATA

ATA results

9% A. Diana Ross
10% B. Etta James
14% C. Gladys Knight
67% D. Aretha Franklin

Spoiler

D. Aretha Franklin

ATA