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Jamie Rosler
Trivia host
Staten Island, N.Y.C.

Jamie already has $50,000, almost two years’ salary. Jamie’s apartment was burglarized in 2015, and her computer was stolen. Jamie’s +1 is improv coach Glenn Packman.

$100,000
If stacked on each other, going from top to bottom, which set of three standard billiard balls would match the color scheme of a typical traffic light?
A: 5-1-2 B: 3-7-2
C: 5-7-6 D: 3-1-6

ATA

A: 13% B: 23% C: 28% D: 36%

+1

Glenn voted for 3-1-6, but he’s not 100% sure.

Answer

D: 3-1-6

Commercial break

$250,000
How does Encyclopedia Britannica describe the first woman to be named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year, in 1936?
A: American aviator B: American first lady
C: French physicist D: American socialite

Jamie is leaning toward

Spoiler

American aviator

, but she walks away with $100,000.

Answer

D: American socialite (Wallis Simpson)

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Jamie Rosler
Trivia host
Staten Island, N.Y.C.

Jamie already has $50,000, almost two years’ salary. Jamie’s apartment was burglarized in 2015, and her computer was stolen. Jamie’s +1 is improv coach Glenn Packman.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$100,000
If stacked on each other, going from top to bottom, which set of three standard billiard balls would match the color scheme of a typical traffic light?
A: 5-1-2 B: 3-7-2
C: 5-7-6 D: 3-1-6

ATA

A: 13% B: 23% C: 28% D: 36%

+1

Glenn voted for 3-1-6, but he’s not 100% sure.

Answer

D: 3-1-6

I know the #1 ball is yellow, so I've already got it down to A or D. The #3 is red, so D, final answer.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$250,000
How does Encyclopedia Britannica describe the first woman to be named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year, in 1936?
A: American aviator B: American first lady
C: French physicist D: American socialite

Jamie is leaning toward

Spoiler

American aviator

, but she walks away with $100,000.

Answer

D: American socialite (Wallis Simpson)

Hmmm...1936 - A is Amelia Earhart; she had already made her trans-Atlantic flight, and disappeared a year later. B is probably Eleanor Roosevelt. C is Marie Curie but she was dead by 1936. D probably refers to Wallis Simpson. So it's probably either B or D (the contestant thought that 1936 was the first FDR term, when actually it was the 2nd). If I have my 50:50, I'll try using it.

100K: I could be out on this; know nothing here. ATA, then probably +1.

250K: Like contestant, couldn't place socialite. Kept thinking Clare Booth Luce, wife of Time founder, but she got this award only after Doing Stuff beyond being a socialite. Otherwise I had the same guesses contestant had. Would use 50/50, presuming I still have it. Like contestant, think timetable wrong for Eleanor Roosevelt (she wasn't famous for humanitarian stuff yet as she later would be, though she was continually involved in it). And think it too late for Earhart & Curie. If 50/50 left socialite & 1st Lady, & with current rigged 50/50 which leaves "best distractor" feel it would, would I have nerve to go for socialite?

earendel wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$250,000
How does Encyclopedia Britannica describe the first woman to be named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year, in 1936?
A: American aviator B: American first lady
C: French physicist D: American socialite

Jamie is leaning toward

Spoiler

American aviator

, but she walks away with $100,000.

Answer

D: American socialite (Wallis Simpson)

Hmmm...1936 - A is Amelia Earhart; she had already made her trans-Atlantic flight, and disappeared a year later. B is probably Eleanor Roosevelt. C is Marie Curie but she was dead by 1936. D probably refers to Wallis Simpson. So it's probably either B or D (the contestant thought that 1936 was the first FDR term, when actually it was the 2nd). If I have my 50:50, I'll try using it.

Wikipedia notes that on this date in 1937 Edward VIII married Wallis Simpson.

Anyone think of any other female American socialites relevant in 1936 which could have been distractors?

When Merkel was named Time's Person of the Year back in December, this generated quite of but of discussion. I happened to be playing trivia at O'Brien's that night so we reconstructed all the women who have been accorded the honor. (The Millionaire season had already finished all its taping by that point.)

It is serendipity like this that leads to correct answers!