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Michelle Moreno
Dental hygienist
Naugatuck, Conn.

Michelle’s +1 is her college buddy Jason.

$500
Since large ones could be extremely valuable, 18th-century bandits often stole what directly off the heads of their victims?
A: Ray-Bans B: Headphones
C: Wigs D: Dandruff flakes

Answer

C: Wigs

$1,000
In the 1990s, Dan FitzSimons failed in his attempt to launch what cable channel, dedicated exclusively to footage of animals being “the cuties that they are”?
A: The Puppy Channel B: Home Gorilla Network
C: Walrus Broadcasting System D: Arctic Fox News

Answer

A: The Puppy Channel

$2,000
Because people are said to throw away enough of their tubes each year to fill the Empire State Building twice, Scott Naturals has introduced a special “tube-free” what?
A: Toilet paper roll B: Fish aquarium
C: Bicycle tire D: Vacuum cleaner

Answer

A: Toilet paper roll

$3,000
Though invited in America, Sudoku was first popularized in Japan, where its lengthy original name loosely translates to “the” what “must occur only once”?
A: Letter B: Number
C: Picture D: Color

ATA

A: 7% B: 88% C: 4% D: 1%

Answer

B: Number

Commercial break

$5,000
Dividing movies into categories of “Religion,” “Values” and “Art,” the Vatican’s official list of great films includes all but which of these Best Picture winners?
A: Ben-Hur B: Gandhi
C: Kramer vs. Kramer D: Schindler’s List

Answer

C: Kramer vs. Kramer

$7,000
Though it may not sound like it, according to Dictionary.com, which of the following words is actually the plural form of a household item?
A: Sconce B: Gravy boat
C: Candelabra D: Doiley

50/50

Michelle’s leaning toward candelabra, but she can’t remember the singular form.
50/50 leaves candelabra and doiley.

Answer

C: Candelabra (It’s the plural of candelabrum.)

$10,000
Vienna’s Academy of Fine Arts twice rejected the application of what famous figure?
A: Albert Einstein B: Sigmund Freud
C: Friedrich Nietzsche D: Adolf Hitler

Answer

D: Adolf Hitler

Commercial break

$20,000
If you were to go on a shopping spree spending $1 million per hour, roughly how long would it take you to spend a billion dollars?
A: 14 hours B: 6 days
C: 42 days D: 578 days

Spoiler

“You make me do math! OK. … So we have to add three more zeros, so that would be a hundred hours.”

Answer

Michelle answers B: 6 days.
The right answer is C: 42 days.
Michelle wins $5,000.

Commercial break

Alec, a Patient Ambassador from Shriners Hospitals for Children, reads the QotD.

QotD
Enacted in all 50 states, “lemon laws” are designed to protect people who buy what?
A: Automobiles B: Real estate
C: Stocks D: Art

Answer

A: Automobiles

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$20,000
If you were to go on a shopping spree spending $1 million per hour, roughly how long would it take you to spend a billion dollars?
A: 14 hours B: 6 days
C: 42 days D: 578 days

Spoiler

“You make me do math! OK. … So we have to add three more zeros, so that would be a hundred hours.”

Answer

Michelle answers B: 6 days.
The right answer is C: 42 days.
Michelle wins $5,000.

Michelle worked on this question for a couple of minutes, but it's too painful for me (a mathematician) to transcribe any more of it.

$5k: ATA. Given the overwhelming majority they had on the previous question, they probably would've been able to help me here, too.

$10k: 50/50 and hope C doesn't stay (as I was torn between C and D)

$20k: Pretty easy if can work work out that one billion = 1,000 million.

20K: Grit teeth, which are already down to a powder, & do the arithmetic.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: Michelle Moreno
Dental hygienist
Naugatuck, Conn.

Michelle’s +1 is her college buddy Jason.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$20,000
If you were to go on a shopping spree spending $1 million per hour, roughly how long would it take you to spend a billion dollars?
A: 14 hours B: 6 days
C: 42 days D: 578 days

Spoiler

“You make me do math! OK. … So we have to add three more zeros, so that would be a hundred hours.”

Answer

Michelle answers B: 6 days.
The right answer is C: 42 days.
Michelle wins $5,000.

She was on the right track but didn't go far enough. It's 1000 hours, which is then divided by 24 to get to 42 (rounded).

Nihil obstat®.

$20,000
If you were to go on a shopping spree spending $1 million per hour, roughly how long would it take you to spend a billion dollars?
A: 14 hours B: 6 days
C: 42 days D: 578 days

Spoiler

“You make me do math! OK. … So we have to add three more zeros, so that would be a hundred hours.”

Answer

Michelle answers B: 6 days.
The right answer is C: 42 days.
Michelle wins $5,000.

Oh good grief. OK, lemme think. A billion is a thousand million. $1 million an hour is $24 million per day. 10 days = 240 million. 20 days = 480 million. 40 days = 960 million. 42, we're there. 578 is way too many.