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Michael Parker
Gainesville, VA
biologist

$500: According to the Book of Genesis, God created the land and seas, and then "saw that it was" what?
A - quitting time
B - not zoned correctly
C - trending on Twitter
D - good

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Answer: D (good)

$1000: With a stillness that one reviewer called "masterful," The Roots' Questlove recently fulfilled a fantasy by playing a what on "Law & Order: SVU"?
A - doctor
B - 5-year old
C - corpse
D - prostitute

Michael says that when he thinks of "Law & Order" he thinks of attorneys and potential suspects. He's leaning toward a couple of answers and decides to ask the audience.

Spoiler

Ask the Audience results:
A - 10%
B - 3%
C - 73%
D - 14%

Michael has to trust the audience and feels silly he didn't know this.

Spoiler

Answer: C (corpse)

$2000: What doggie treat company recently made headlines when it received a cease and desist order from a posh New York department store?
A - Wag-Mart
B - Collar Tree
C - K-9 Mart
D - Snaks 5th Avenchew

Michael isn't sure so he calls for his +1, his girlfriend of 10 years, Amy, because she has a pet. She focuses on

Spoiler

"posh"

as the key to the question. That helps Michael.

Spoiler

Answer: D (Snaks 5th Avenchew)

commercial break

$3000: An acronym for "middle-aged men in Lycra," the word "MAMIL" was added to the Oxford Dictionaries in 2014 to describe older enthusiasts of what sport?
A - snowshoeing
B - soccer
C - bicycling
D - fencing

Dan doesn't know much about sports so he uses his 50:50, leaving

50:50

50:50 results: A and C

He says that Lycra sounds

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mountainous

, which makes him think of

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snow

, so he goes for

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A

.

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Answer: C (bicycling)

END OF SHOW "NOISE"

MILLIONAIRE "QUESTION OF THE DAY" While it makes people think of Christmas, what song was actually written in LA on a sweltering sunny day in 1945?:
A - Winter Wonderland
B - White Christmas
C - Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!
D - Santa Baby

Spoiler

Answer: C (Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!)

So far so good

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Michael Parker
Gainesville, VA
biologist

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$500: According to the Book of Genesis, God created the land and seas, and then "saw that it was" what?
A - quitting time
B - not zoned correctly
C - trending on Twitter
D - good

Spoiler

Answer: D (good)

http://www.theonion.com/article/god-adm ... ing--52272

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$1000: With a stillness that one reviewer called "masterful," The Roots' Questlove recently fulfilled a fantasy by playing a what on "Law & Order: SVU"?
A - doctor
B - 5-year old
C - corpse
D - prostitute

Michael says that when he thinks of "Law & Order" he thinks of attorneys and potential suspects. He's leaning toward a couple of answers and decides to ask the audience.

Spoiler

Ask the Audience results:
A - 10%
B - 3%
C - 73%
D - 14%

Michael has to trust the audience and feels silly he didn't know this.

Spoiler

Answer: C (corpse)

Uh, oh.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$2000: What doggie treat company recently made headlines when it received a cease and desist order from a posh New York department store?
A - Wag-Mart
B - Collar Tree
C - K-9 Mart
D - Snaks 5th Avenchew

Michael isn't sure so he calls for his +1, his girlfriend of 10 years, Amy, because she has a pet. She focuses on

Spoiler

"posh"

as the key to the question. That helps Michael.

Spoiler

Answer: D (Snaks 5th Avenchew)

Two lifelines before the $5k plateau? This isn't going to end well.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$3000: An acronym for "middle-aged men in Lycra," the word "MAMIL" was added to the Oxford Dictionaries in 2014 to describe older enthusiasts of what sport?
A - snowshoeing
B - soccer
C - bicycling
D - fencing

Dan doesn't know much about sports so he uses his 50:50, leaving

50:50

50:50 results: A and C

He says that Lycra sounds

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mountainous

, which makes him think of

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snow

, so he goes for

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A

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Answer: C (bicycling)

So why does Lycra make someone think of mountains?

$3000: An acronym for "middle-aged men in Lycra," the word "MAMIL" was added to the Oxford Dictionaries in 2014 to describe older enthusiasts of what sport?
A - snowshoeing
B - soccer
C - bicycling
D - fencing

Dan doesn't know much about sports so he uses his 50:50, leaving

50:50

50:50 results: A and C

He says that Lycra sounds

Spoiler

mountainous

, which makes him think of

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snow

, so he goes for

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A

.

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Answer: C (bicycling)

We get a lot of those around here.