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Sophia Lucas
Brooklyn, NY

Sophia has a cat that's more famous than she is. The cat has an Instagram account and is a fashion maven, giving advice to other felines. She also looks like Emma Stone (a picture is shown). Chris says he doesn't see it. Sophia's +1 is her husband Shane. He's more excited about being here than she is.

$500: While it sounds like a rhetorical question you'd hear during an argument, which of these is a TV series that traces a celebrity's family tree?
A - Who Do You Think You Are?
B - Oh, So You're Better Than Me?
C - Is This Some Kind of Joke?
D - Why Do I Even Bother?

Spoiler

Answer: A (Who Do You Think You Are?)

$1000: According to HGTV, you can make freshly-painted rooms smell nicer by adding a tablespoon of what to each gallon of paint?
A - barbecue sauce
B - vanilla extract
C - mustard
D - hot sauce

Spoiler

Answer: B (vanilla extract)

Sophia says she's more of a cook than a painter.

$2000: In a 1936 NY Times article, what job's requirements were listed as: "Weight: 100 to 110 pounds; Height: 5 feet to 5 feet 4 inches; Age: 20 to 26 years"?
A - nun
B - air hostess
C - teacher
D - hairdresser

Spoiler

Answer: B (air hostess)

$3000: It's been pointed out that if Katniss and Peeta from what popular book series were a celebrity couple, their nickname might be "Katpee" or "Peenis"?
A - Game of Thrones
B - The Hunger Games
C - Harry Potter
D - Twilight

Spoiler

Answer: B (The Hunger Games)

$5000: What answer has evolutionary biologist Peter Turchin given to those who ask, "Why do men now wear pants instead of kilts"?
A - canoes
B - horses
C - cannons
D - plows

Spoiler

Answer: B (horses)

commercial break

$7000: Though one is a measure of volume and the other of weight, in the U.S., a pint and a pound can both be described as what?
A - 2 liters
B - 1000 grams
C - 16 ounces
D - 50 cubic centimeters

Spoiler

Answer: C (16 ounces)

$10,000: Because parts of the movies were shot there, what Las Vegas hotel often receives requests for the "Rain Man suite" or the "Hangover suite"?
A - Bellagio
B - Flamingo
C - Mandalay Bay
D - Caesar's Palace

Sophia has seen both movies but can't remember the hotel. She decides to use her +1 and Shane comes down to join her.

+1

Shane says he's pretty confident that they were shot at Caesar's Palace. Sophia said that that was her gut instinct. Shane was at Caesar's for the Marine Corps Ball.

Spoiler

Answer: C (Caesar's Palace)

$20,000: In 2014, 17-year-old Pakistani Malala Yousafzai became the youngest person ever awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of her work for what?
A - animal welfare
B - freedom of the press
C - nuclear disarmament
D - education rights

Spoiler

Answer: D (education rights)

commercial break

Chris recognizes Shane for serving 2 terms in Iraq as a member of the Marine Corps.

$30,000: Bearing the motto "Sic semper tyrannis," which state's seal depicts the goddess Virtus standing with one foot on the chest of an enemy?
A - South Carolina
B - Virginia
C - Massachusetts
D - Connecticut
Sophia is thinking that it's could refer to the relationship between the U.S. and Britain and there are several original colonies among the answers. She opts to use her 50:50.

50:50 results

The two remaining answers are South Carolina and Virginia.

This helps Sophia because one of the two was her original pick. She wants to make that her final answer but she's only 60% sure. She goes for it.

Spoiler

Answer: B (Virginia)

commercial break

MILLIONAIRE "QUESTION OF THE DAY": In addition to being valedictorian of her high school, which supermodel received a scholarship to attend Northwestern for chemical engineering?
A - Linda Evangelista
B - Cindy Crawford
C - Christy Turlington
D - Tyra Banks

Spoiler

Answer: B (Cindy Crawford)

$50,000: The Collins Dictionary says "rhythm," "spryly," "sylphy" and a word referring to what are the longest English words without an "A", "E", "I", "O" or "U"?
A - DNA being replicated
B - sun, moon and Earth aligning
C - gasses becoming solid
D - neutrinos colliding with atoms

Sophia doesn't know

Spoiler

the word for "D" at all. "Sun, moon and earth aligning" isn't eclipse but some other word

. She uses her last lifeline.

ATA

Ask the Audience results:
A - 18%
B - 21%
C - 24%
D - 37%

Sophia feels that she would remember a word that she knew that lacked vowels. She's inclined to agree with the majority of the audience but it's a very difficult decision. She has to walk away. Sophia leaves with $30,000.

Spoiler

Answer: B (sun, moon and Earth aligning)

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: $5000: What answer has evolutionary biologist Peter Turchin given to those who ask, "Why do men now wear pants instead of kilts"?
A - canoes
B - horses
C - cannons
D - plows

Spoiler

Answer: B (plows)

This answer letter is correct, but it does not match the correct answer word.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: Sophia Lucas
Brooklyn, NY

Sophia has a cat that's more famous than she is. The cat has an Instagram account and is a fashion maven, giving advice to other felines. She also looks like Emma Stone (a picture is shown). Chris says he doesn't see it. Sophia's +1 is her husband Shane. He's more excited about being here than she is.

I agree with Chris - I didn't think the cat looked like anything but a cat.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$1000: According to HGTV, you can make freshly-painted rooms smell nicer by adding a tablespoon of what to each gallon of paint?
A - barbecue sauce
B - vanilla extract
C - mustard
D - hot sauce

Spoiler

Answer: B (vanilla extract)

Sophia says she's more of a cook than a painter.

I suppose that any of these could make a room smell nicer, depending upon your proclivities.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$7000: Though one is a measure of volume and the other of weight, in the U.S., a pint and a pound can both be described as what?
A - 2 liters
B - 1000 grams
C - 16 ounces
D - 50 cubic centimeters

Spoiler

Answer: C (16 ounces)

"A pint's a pound the world around." I don't know where I heard that but it was a long time ago.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$50,000: The Collins Dictionary says "rhythm," "spryly," "sylphy" and a word referring to what are the longest English words without an "A", "E", "I", "O" or "U"?
A - DNA being replicated
B - sun, moon and Earth aligning
C - gasses becoming solid
D - neutrinos colliding with atoms

Sophia doesn't know

Spoiler

the word for "D" at all. "Sun, moon and earth aligning" isn't eclipse but some other word

. She uses her last lifeline.

Spoiler

Ask the Audience results:
A - 18%
B - 21%
C - 24%
D - 37%

Spoiler

Answer: B (sun, moon and Earth aligning)

Sophia feels that she would remember a word that she knew that lacked vowels. She's inclined to agree with the majority of the audience but it's a very difficult decision. She has to walk away. Sophia leaves with $30,000.

I knew this one before the answers came up. "Syzygy" is one of my favorite words.

TheConfessor wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: $5000: What answer has evolutionary biologist Peter Turchin given to those who ask, "Why do men now wear pants instead of kilts"?
A - canoes
B - horses
C - cannons
D - plows

Spoiler

Answer: B (plows)

This answer letter is correct, but it does not match the correct answer word.

It's been fixed.

earendel wrote: I knew this one before the answers came up. "Syzygy" is one of my favorite words.

One of Bernie Cullen's as well, I would wager.

$10,000: Because parts of the movies were shot there, what Las Vegas hotel often receives requests for the "Rain Man suite" or the "Hangover suite"?
A - Bellagio
B - Flamingo
C - Mandalay Bay
D - Caesar's Palace

Spoiler

Answer: C (Caesar's Palace)

ATA

$30,000: Bearing the motto "Sic semper tyrannis," which state's seal depicts the goddess Virtus standing with one foot on the chest of an enemy?
A - South Carolina
B - Virginia
C - Massachusetts
D - Connecticut
Sophia is thinking that it's could refer to the relationship between the U.S. and Britain and there are several original colonies among the answers. She opts to use her 50:50.

50:50 results

The two remaining answers are South Carolina and Virginia.

This helps Sophia because one of the two was her original pick. She wants to make that her final answer but she's only 60% sure. She goes for it.

Spoiler

Answer: B (Virginia)

Plus One

$50,000: The Collins Dictionary says "rhythm," "spryly," "sylphy" and a word referring to what are the longest English words without an "A", "E", "I", "O" or "U"?
A - DNA being replicated
B - sun, moon and Earth aligning
C - gasses becoming solid
D - neutrinos colliding with atoms

Sophia doesn't know

Spoiler

the word for "D" at all. "Sun, moon and earth aligning" isn't eclipse but some other word

. She uses her last lifeline.

Spoiler

Ask the Audience results:
A - 18%
B - 21%
C - 24%
D - 37%

Spoiler

Answer: B (sun, moon and Earth aligning)

I dunno what the other three are, but I know that alignment of the sun, moon, and earth is xyzygy.