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Second Chance Week

Dennis Stein
Las Vegas, NV

Dennis aspired to be on a game show his whole life. He wants to win the $1 million for his high school sweethart, married 52 years. They met through a friend who set them up as a joke. The day after their first date they were going steady and they got married 3 years later. The first time Dennis was here he got to the $100,000 question and went home on a music question. He is at $7,000 and has all his lifelines. His +1 is his wife Joan.

$10,000: Denoted with a crown on the label, what limited edition Sprite is named for an athlete's favorite blend of orange and cherry flavors with the lemon-lime?
A - LeBron's mix
B - Maridona's mix
C - Papi's mix
D - Rafi's mix

Dennis says that

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LeBron is "King James" and would wear a crown

.

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Answer: A (LeBron's mix)

$20,000: Fifty years before Darwin, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck's "Zoological Philosophy" outlined a theory of evolution that cited what feature as evidence?
A - shark teeth
B - giraffe necks
C - fish scales
D - snake tongues

Dennis doesn't think that it's

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B or D

so he opts to use his 50:50.

50:50 results

This leaves A and B.

Sharks aren't in zoos but he doesn't know of any theory that involves giraffe necks. He calls for his +1, his wife Joan. "This is a toughie," she remarks. She thinks the answer is

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A

and Dennis makes that his final answer.

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Answer: B (giraffe necks)

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BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Second Chance Week

Dennis Stein
Las Vegas, NV

Dennis aspired to be on a game show his whole life. He wants to win the $1 million for his high school sweethart, married 52 years. They met through a friend who set them up as a joke. The day after their first date they were going steady and they got married 3 years later. The first time Dennis was here he got to the $100,000 question and went home on a music question. He is at $7,000 and has all his lifelines. His +1 is his wife Joan.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$20,000: Fifty years before Darwin, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck's "Zoological Philosophy" outlined a theory of evolution that cited what feature as evidence?
A - shark teeth
B - giraffe necks
C - fish scales
D - snake tongues

Dennis doesn't think that it's

Spoiler

B or D

so he opts to use his 50:50.

50:50 results

This leaves A and B.

Sharks aren't in zoos but he doesn't know of any theory that involves giraffe necks. He calls for his +1, his wife Joan. "This is a toughie," she remarks. She thinks the answer is

Spoiler

A

and Dennis makes that his final answer.

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Answer: B (giraffe necks)

Lamarckism is the belief that acquired characteristics can be passed on to offspring - Lamarck used the illustration of a giraffe neck.

10K: About all I know here is that we don't call Big Papi "king". We call him Big Papi. ATA.

20K: Lamark thought you could inherit acquired characteristics. Made him a laughing stock for years. Now we know that through epigenetics, using "switches" on chromosomes that are influenced by the environment, you can turn genes on or off & have that on or offness passed down in the germ line. Whether its passed down by the genes in eggs & sperm having been turned on or off, or by the chemical environment of the parent (in which case it would have to be the mother) passed on to the embryo.

But because no-one has studied Lamark, I dunno what evidence he thought he had. And I'm supposed to be my own science "PAF". Probably call +1 for this anyway. If they don't know, burn more lifelines.

$10,000: Denoted with a crown on the label, what limited edition Sprite is named for an athlete's favorite blend of orange and cherry flavors with the lemon-lime?
A - LeBron's mix
B - Maridona's mix
C - Papi's mix
D - Rafi's mix

Dennis says that

Spoiler

LeBron is "King James" and would wear a crown

.

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Answer: A (LeBron's mix)

I drew a blank on this until I read Dennis's remark about King James. Oh well -- ATA gone.