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Alex Dickson
Carroll Gardens, NY
administrative assistant

Alex has a terrible poker face. Chris says that she's a woman of many faces and asks her to demonstrate some of them. Alex's +1 is her best friend, Rafe (or possibly Ralph).

$500: Catering to women, a major retail chain operates hundreds of stores across the US with what name?
A - Lady Office Depot
B - Lady PetSmart
C - Lady Foot Locker
D - Lady Outback Steakhouse

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Answer: C (Lady Foot Locker)

$1000: According to OxfordDictionaries.com, "a person or thing that is spectacularly unsuccessful or disordered" is commonly called a what?
A - tepid shambles
B - hot mess
C - lukewarm disarray
D - room temperature chaos

Alex has used this expression before, but never about herself.

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Answer: B (hot mess)

$2000: Though it's not clear if real pirates ever actually spoke it, National Geographic says stereotypical "pirate talk" first became popularized thanks to what Disney film?
A - The Little Mermaid
B - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
C - Treasure Island
D - High School Musical 3

Alex says there's only one answer about pirates.

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Answer: C (Treasure Island)

$3000: Because he was born in Johannesburg, TIME once called Dave Matthews "perhaps the only white pop star...who could legitimately claim to be" what?
A - Asian-American
B - South American
C - Native American
D - African-American

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Answer: D (African-American)

$5000: According to WebMD, it's normal to have between 10 and 40 melanocytic nevi by adulthood, which are more commonly known as what?
A - teeth
B - moles
C - fingers
D - black hairs

Alex says it wouldn't be normal to have more than

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10 fingers

. She then comments that "melanocytic" sounds like

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melanoma and knows that moles can lead to melanoma

. She also says that people have a set number of

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teeth

.

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Answer: B (moles)

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In high school Alex made money by encouraging her friends to concoct gross-looking and tasting things and she would eat them; the grosser the more money she charged. The most she made in one bite was $5.00 consuming a concoction of raw egg, oatmeal and milk and some other things.

$7000: Causing millions to choose between #whiteandgold and #blueandblack, a 2015 viral phenomenon was spawned by what simple question?
A - What color is this car?
B - What color is this flag?
C - What color is this cat?
D - What color is this dress?

Alex got this email and was fascinated by it.

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Answer: D (What color is this dress?)

$10,000: Most commonly made from grapes, which of the following alcoholic beverages derives its name from a Dutch word meaning "burnt wine"?
A - brandy
B - bourbon
C - liqueur
D - tequila

Alex has an idea and she's going to ask the audience to see if they agree with her.

Ask the Audience results

A - 40%
B - 41%
C - 15%
D - 4%

Alex says that this helps because on a whiskey tour in Ireland she learned that

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bourbon is made in America

. She was thinking it was either

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A or C

.

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Answer: A (brandy)

$20,000: Expanding your options beyond killing your stepdad, the "Choose Your Own Adventure"-style adaptation of what Shakespeare play has over 100 possible endings?
A - Macbeth
B - King Lear
C - Hamlet
D - Othello

Alex went to acting school and had to study Shakespeare's plays. She talks through the four options, describing what each one is about. She says she's not going to overthink this.

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Answer: C (Hamlet)

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Now Alex works as an administrative assistant by day; if she wins the big money she'd quit and devote her full time to acting because it's her true passion.

$30,000: Ruling the Dominican Republic for three decades, what dictator is rumored to have, in one election, received more votes than there were voters?
A - Rafael Trujillo
B - Augusto Pinochet
C - Simon Bolivar
D - Fulgencio Batista

Alex has heard of three of them and knows enough about two of them to know the countries with which they are associated. She hopes that her 50:50 will resolve this dilemma so she uses that lifeline

50:50 results

A and D

That didn't help because she knew

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B and C

. She just can't guess. She calls down her +1 for help. He wishes he could help with the answer = he also knew the same two that Alex did. Alex says she knows a little about

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Batista

but not whether he's associated with the Dominican Republic. Her instinct is that she should walk because when she practiced for the show and got the choices down to two she always picked the wrong one. Rafe's advice is to walk and she agrees.

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Answer: A (Rafael Trujillo)

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MILLIONAIRE "QUESTION OF THE DAY" In 1947, which famous fashion house introduced its bamboo-handled bag, still one of its most popular and iconic designs?:
A - Gucci
B - Prada
C - Louis Vuitton
D - Hermes

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Answer: A (Gucci)

so far so good

I actually didn't know the $500 Q for sure, but all the other options were even worse than the right one; chose it on that basis.
Because these days they've gone back to having silly Qs for the 1st one or two.

So far, so good.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Alex Dickson
Carroll Gardens, NY
administrative assistant

Alex has a terrible poker face. Chris says that she's a woman of many faces and asks her to demonstrate some of them. Alex's +1 is her best friend, Rafe (or possibly Ralph).

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:In high school Alex made money by encouraging her friends to concoct gross-looking and tasting things and she would eat them; the grosser the more money she charged. The most she made in one bite was $5.00 consuming a concoction of raw egg, oatmeal and milk and some other things.

I had a friend who did the same thing.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$7000: Causing millions to choose between #whiteandgold and #blueandblack, a 2015 viral phenomenon was spawned by what simple question?
A - What color is this car?
B - What color is this flag?
C - What color is this cat?
D - What color is this dress?

Alex got this email and was fascinated by it.

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Answer: D (What color is this dress?)

I never saw either combination.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$30,000: Ruling the Dominican Republic for three decades, what dictator is rumored to have, in one election, received more votes than there were voters?
A - Rafael Trujillo
B - Augusto Pinochet
C - Simon Bolivar
D - Fulgencio Batista

Alex has heard of three of them and knows enough about two of them to know the countries with which they are associated. She hopes that her 50:50 will resolve this dilemma so she uses that lifeline

50:50 results

A and D

That didn't help because she knew

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B and C

. She just can't guess. She calls down her +1 for help. He wishes he could help with the answer = he also knew the same two that Alex did. Alex says she knows a little about

Spoiler

Batista

but not whether he's associated with the Dominican Republic. Her instinct is that she should walk because when she practiced for the show and got the choices down to two she always picked the wrong one. Rafe's advice is to walk and she agrees.

Spoiler

Answer: A (Rafael Trujillo)

Pinochet is Chile, Bolivar was South America, Batista was Cuba.

Nihil obstat®.

I drink eggnog. I eat cookie dough. There'd have to be something actually gross in that food mixture to make it gross to me. Could I get people to pay to watch an old woman drink eggnog, or do you have to be young to pull this off (she asks rhetorically).