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Alex Marino
New York City, NY

As a sideshow daredevil, Alex is a natural risk-taker.

$500: A tax haven and playground for the rich, the Caribbean island of Antigua and Barbuda lives up to its reputation by having what as one of its national sports?
A - extreme thrift shopping
B - team dumpster diving
C - sailboat racing
D - synchronized ramen eating

Alex first quickly answers

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C

but then he takes his time and thinks it over before making

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C

his final answer.

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Answer: C (sailboat racing)

$1000: Throwing in a bunch of number 2s along with the regular O-shaped pieces, in late 1999 General Mills released what "once in a lifetime" cereal?
A - Calculus Crunch
B - Millenios
C - Frosted Mathy-Wheats
D - Raisin Algebran

Since

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1999 was the millennium and Cheerios are O-shaped

Alex knows the answer.

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Answer: B (Millenios)

$2000: Gloria Steinem once described a Liberated Woman as one who has "sex before marriage and" what "afterward"?
A - a bunch of cats
B - credit card debt
C - a job
D - a model railroading club

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Answer: C (a job)

$3000: According to DefensiveDriving.com, you can get your windshield to defrost faster in the morning by parking your car facing what direction?
A - north
B - east
C - south
D - west

Alex says

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the sun rises in the east

so it would make sense that a windshield would defrost faster parked facing that way.

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Answer: B (east)

$5000: Having a lawyer and a forestry scientist as two of its founding directors, the anti-nuclear Don't Make a Wave Committee later morphed into what?
A - The Salvation Army
B - UNICEF
C - Greenpeace
D - Doctors Without Borders

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Answer: C (Greenpeace)

$7000: Which statement is true about the music videos for Iggy Azalea's "Fancy," Britney Spears' "Baby One More Time" and Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit"?
A - they take place in schools
B - they're in black and white
C - they're animated
D - no people appear in them

Alex remembers

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a lot of color in "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and people in all of them

. He knows

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none of them were animated and although he hasn't seen "Fancy" he has seen the other two and they take place in schools

.

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Answer: A (they take place in schools)

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Alex says he's nervous about looking foolish and bringing shame to his family.

$10,000: Based on the lunar calendar, in which country is the Tet holiday celebrated not only as New Year's but traditionally also as everyone's birthday?
A - Cambodia
B - Japan
C - South Korea
D - Vietnam

Alex uses his ATA lifeline.

Ask the Audience results

A - 28%
B - 24%
C - 15%
D - 33%

That's the way Alex was leaning.

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Answer: D (Vietnam)

$20,000: According to IMDB.com, of the many "Tony" roles Tony Danza has played on TV, which did he play on his first series, "Taxi"?
A - Tony Micelli
B - Tony Banta
C - Tony Canetti
D - Tony DiMeo

Alex has a very clear image in his head of people yelling

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"Banta!"

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Answer: B (Tony Banta)

$30,000: According to Johns Hopkins Medicine, about 90% of Asian-Americans and 75% of African-Americans and Mexican-Americans have which genetic trait?
A - dimples
B - lactose intolerance
C - double-jointedness
D - red/green colorblindness

Alex chooses to use his 50:50.

50:50 results

B and C

Alex says "Yeah" a couple times. This is close to the opposite of what he was thinking. He decides to use his +1, his friend Lauren Smith. Lauren says she's African-American but isn't sure. She knows that

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her sister and her former roommate, who was Chinese, were lactose intolerant

.

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Answer: B (lactose intolerance)

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MILLIONAIRE "QUESTION OF THE DAY" Channeling rage toward one of its most famous exports, Finland hosts the annual world championship in what competitive event?:
A - laptop hurling
B - mobile phone throwing
C - priner tossing
D - ATM flinging

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Answer: B (mobile phone throwing)

$50,000: With 18 of them to his name, Michael Phelps has won more Olympic gold medals than all but which of the following countries?
A - Mexico
B - Iran
C - Jamaica
D - New Zealand

Alex doesn't even know how to approach this question without wild speculation. He's going to walk away.

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Answer: D (New Zealand)

Need answers inserted for $2000 and $7000. --Bob

7K: A kinda by default, but ATA anyway

30K: seems awfully high rate when so many African Africans raise cattle traditionally, but anyway

50K: rigged 50/50 would leave Jamaica & New Zealand; +1

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:]$500: A tax haven and playground for the rich, the Caribbean island of Antigua and Barbuda lives up to its reputation by having what as one of its national sports?

Antigua and Barbuda aren't an island. They are two different islands. Maybe they meant "island nation".

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Alex Marino
New York City, NY

As a sideshow daredevil, Alex is a natural risk-taker.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$20,000: According to IMDB.com, of the many "Tony" roles Tony Danza has played on TV, which did he play on his first series, "Taxi"?
A - Tony Micelli
B - Tony Banta
C - Tony Canetti
D - Tony DiMeo

Alex has a very clear image in his head of people yelling

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"Banta!"

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Answer: B (Tony Banta)

Louie DePalma (Danny DeVito) was always shouting "Banta!"

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$50,000: With 18 of them to his name, Michael Phelps has won more Olympic gold medals than all but which of the following countries?
A - Mexico
B - Iran
C - Jamaica
D - New Zealand

Alex doesn't even know how to approach this question without wild speculation. He's going to walk away.

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Answer: D (New Zealand)

I don't think Mexico or Iran has won more than 18 gold medals. So let's try the 50:50 and see what that leaves.

$50,000: With 18 of them to his name, Michael Phelps has won more Olympic gold medals than all but which of the following countries?
A - Mexico
B - Iran
C - Jamaica
D - New Zealand

Alex doesn't even know how to approach this question without wild speculation. He's going to walk away.

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Answer: D (New Zealand)

50/50, but it will leave Mexico and New Zealand. Sayonara.