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ARMED FORCES APPRECIATION WEEK

Curt Green
Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Air Force, retired

As a 25-year Air Force veteran he's worked with satellites and critical infrastructure and also with students.

$500: "You could be perceived as greedy" and "your children might not learn the value of money" were on a Business Insider list of the downsides of what?
A - getting sleep
B - getting rich
C - getting drunk
D - getting chin implants

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Answer: B (getting rich)

$1000: Which of these is the name of a photographer who took famous photos of Abraham Lincoln and NOT a member of "The Brady Bunch"?
A - Greg Brady
B - Mathew Brady
C - Peter Brady
D - Bobby Brady

Curt says he's a child of the 70s and used to watch this show along with Gilligan's Island.

Spoiler

Answer: B (Mathew Brady)

$2000: Thanks to its large, bicep-like appendages, a species of carabid beetle discovered in the early 2000s was given what name?
A - agra afflecki
B - agra eastwoodi
C - agra clooneyi
D - agra schwarzneggeri

Spoiler

Answer: D (agra schwarzeneggeri)

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$3000: To the likely chagrin of public health advocates, a popular electronics-based habit led Oxford Dictionaries to select what as its 2014 Word of the Year?
A - swipe
B - filter
C - earbud
D - vape

One jumps out at Curt but he's not sure so he decides to use his 50:50.

50:50 results

C and D

He then calls on his "amazing son Quincy", his +1, for confirmation. Quincy immediately says it's

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D, referring to e-cigarettes

. Curt says that's why he called Quincy down, because Curt isn't as "funky fresh" as Quincy.

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Answer: D (vape)

$5000: What military branch's official song features the lines "Valley Forge, Custer's ranks, San Juan Hill and Patton's tanks"?
A - Army
B - Navy
C - Air Force
D - Marines

Curt knows it's not the Air Force.

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Answer: A (Army)

$7000: After allowing competitors to freely copy its patented 3-point seatbelt's design, a certain automaker coined the slogan "there's a little" what "in every car"?
A - Volvo
B - Audi
C - Cadillac
D - Nissan

Spoiler

Answer: A (Volvo)

Curt decides to use the special "Cut the Question" lifeline. He would have gotten it right.

$7,000: Reportedly coined by White House aide Arthur Schlesinger, "Operation Castration" was a nickname for the 1961 attempt to overthrow what nation's leader?
A - the USSR
B - China
C - Vietnam
D - Cuba

Spoiler

Answer: D (Cuba)

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$10,000: The show "Mythbusters" has deemed it "Plausible" that you could raise a sunken ship from the ocean floor by filling it with what?
A - Alka-Selzer tablets
B - cotton
C - ping-pong balls
D - rubber bands

This is completely beyond Curt's knowledge of pop culture. He hopes the audience has watched an episode or two.

Ask the Audience results

A - 40%
B - 5%
C - 51%
D - 4%

Not the strongest showing Curt would have liked. He decides to "give the audience a shot".

Spoiler

Answer: C (ping-pong balls)

$20,000: While America WAS ready for it at the time, what 2001 hit is, to date, the last-ever song by a girl group to top the Billboard Top 100 charts?
A - Wannabe by the Spice Girls
B - Bootylicious by Destiny's Child
C - Walk Like an Egyptian by The Bangles
D - Waterfalls by TLC

Curt is going back and forth between

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B and C

and decides to walk away.

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Answer: B (Bootylicious by Destiny's Child)

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MILLIONAIRE "QUESTION OF THE DAY" Only ever bestowed upon two people, what is the highest possible rank of the United States Army?
A - Brigadier General
B - Major General
C - General of the Armies
D - Commander General

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Answer: C (General of the Armies)

$7000: After allowing competitors to freely copy its patented 3-point seatbelt's design, a certain automaker coined the slogan "there's a little" what "in every car"?
A - Volvo
B - Audi
C - Cadillac
D - Nissan

Spoiler

Answer: A (Volvo)

OK, I get this one. Let's see what the replacement is . . .

$7,000: Reportedly coined by White House aide Arthur Schlesinger, "Operation Castration" was a nickname for the 1961 attempt to overthrow what nation's leader?
A - the USSR
B - China
C - Vietnam
D - Cuba

Spoiler

Answer: D (Cuba)

OK, I get this one also.

$20,000: While America WAS ready for it at the time, what 2001 hit is, to date, the last-ever song by a girl group to top the Billboard Top 100 charts?
A - Wannabe by the Spice Girls
B - Bootylicious by Destiny's Child
C - Walk Like an Egyptian by The Bangles
D - Waterfalls by TLC

Curt is going back and forth between

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B and C

and decides to walk away.

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Answer: B (Bootylicious by Destiny's Child)

ATA

MILLIONAIRE "QUESTION OF THE DAY" Only ever bestowed upon two people, what is the highest possible rank of the United States Army?
A - Brigadier General
B - Major General
C - General of the Armies
D - Commander General

Spoiler

Answer: C (General of the Armies)

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I'm sure glad that the question wasn't which two. If Eisenhower's up there, it's sayonara.

5K: never heard that verse, but it fits "when those caissons go rolling along", the army song.

10K: I like A better than C. Now know can't trust 50/50 when there really is a good distractor. Hope I'd have sense to call +1.

20K: ATA

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:ARMED FORCES APPRECIATION WEEK

Curt Green
Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Air Force, retired

As a 25-year Air Force veteran he's worked with satellites and critical infrastructure and also with students.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$20,000: While America WAS ready for it at the time, what 2001 hit is, to date, the last-ever song by a girl group to top the Billboard Top 100 charts?
A - Wannabe by the Spice Girls
B - Bootylicious by Destiny's Child
C - Walk Like an Egyptian by The Bangles
D - Waterfalls by TLC

Curt is going back and forth between

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B and C

and decides to walk away.

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Answer: B (Bootylicious by Destiny's Child)

I presume that the "America WAS ready for it" is a clue, but it doesn't help me. I'll ATA and hope they know this.

ghostjmf wrote:5K: never heard that verse, but it fits "when those caissons go rolling along", the army song.

Technically the song is "The Army Goes Rolling Along" and there's no mention of caissons. They took that song and adapted it.