Transcript 2/12/2016 - Mackenzie King

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Whiz Kids Week

Mackenzie King
Camp Verde, AZ

Mackenzie reads 12 books a week and plans to be a neuroscientist.

$500: A reminder of what they should avoid, what rhyming phrase is often used to teach kids how to stay safe when they're by themselves?
A - stranger danger
B - whisk risk
C - quartet threat
D - tennis menace

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Answer: A (stranger danger)

$1000: Featuring helpful hints from a sensei, what popular smartphone app lets you slice through watermelons with a virtual sword?
A - Candy Crush Saga
B - Doodle Jump
C - Fruit Ninja
D - Words with Friends

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Answer: C (Fruit Ninja)

$2000: Look at the following words, and tell me which is a preposition?
A - piece
B - of
C - cake
D - right?

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Answer: B (of)

$3000: Columbia.edu gives information about a New York City university, but you can learn about a South American country by changing .edu to .com and doing what?
A - changing the C to a K
B - changing the U to an O
C - changing the B to a P
D - changing the I to a Y

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Answer: B (changing the U to an O)

$5000: Better known as a silversmith, who do some consider to be America's first forensic dentist, as he famously used his knowledge of teeth to identify a fallen soldier?
A - Benjamin Franklin
B - John Adams
C - Alexander Hamilton
D - Paul Revere

Mackenzie uses her +1, her father. He reminds her of their trip to Boston and Mackenzie realizes the correct answer.

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Answer: D (Paul Revere)

$7000: In the game Battleship, a player has 2 grids of holes, each consisting of columns 1-10 and rows A-J. Counting both grids, how many total holes does each player have?
A - 50
B - 100
C - 200
D - 400

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Answer: C (200)

$10,000: Corresponding with the planets named for them, Mars was Jupiter's son, who in turn was Saturn's sun, who in turn was the son of Caelus, also known as whom?
A - Mercury
B - Venus
C - Uranus
D - Neptune

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Answer: C (Uranus)

commercial break

$20,000: Though they're not close geographically, what two US state capitals end with the same eight letters?
A - Utah and New York
B - Missouri and Nevada
C - Delaware and Colorado
D - Illinois and Florida

Mackenzie uses her 50:50, which leaves

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B & D

. She thinks that the capital of Missouri is

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Jackson

. She opts to cut the question.

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Answer: B (Missouri and Nevada)

$20,000: The US Department of the Treasury will sell you a sheet of 16 $100 bills for $1,800, which means they place what premium on selling them uncut?
A - 8.5%
B - 12.5%
C - 16.5%
D - 20.25%

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Answer: B (12.5%)

$30,000: MythBusters says the Diet Coke and Mentos eruption works so well because of the candy's many microscopic craters, which gives it a greater what?
A - surface area
B - volume
C - mass
D - viscosity

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Answer: A (surface area)

$50,000: What Republican, and 30th president, ended up with allerative initials after dropping his actual first name, John?
A - Calvin Coolidge
B - Woodrow Wilson
C - Ronald Reagan
D - Herbert Hoover

Mackenzie has no idea so she asks the audience.

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Ask the Audience results:
A - 22%
B - 28%
C - 29%
D - 21%

Mackenzie decides to walk away with $30,000.

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Answer: A (Calvin Coolidge)

MILLIONAIRE "QUESTION OF THE DAY": Which of the following is not an actual merit badge awarded by the Boy Scouts of America?
A - shotgun shooting
B - knife throwing
C - dentistry
D - nuclear science

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Answer: B (knife throwing)

[earendel]

Whiz Kids Week

Mackenzie King
Camp Verde, AZ

Mackenzie reads 12 books a week and plans to be a neuroscientist.

$50,000: What Republican, and 30th president, ended up with allerative initials after dropping his actual first name, John?
A - Calvin Coolidge
B - Woodrow Wilson
C - Ronald Reagan
D - Herbert Hoover

Mackenzie has no idea so she asks the audience.

Spoiler

Ask the Audience results:
A - 22%
B - 28%
C - 29%
D - 21%

Mackenzie decides to walk away with $30,000.

Spoiler

Answer: A (Calvin Coolidge

I'm surprised at the audience split - the Bushes were presidents 41 and 43, so Reagan couldn't have been 30. Wilson was a Democrat.

[ghostjmf]

So far so good. Might have used +1 on 50K " to be sure".

[SportsFan68]

So far, so good.