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Tanay Kothari
San Francisco, Cal.

$500
Don’t worry if you don’t walk away with the million dollars. CNBC says that all but which of these are “easy ways to save some money every day”?
A: Make coffee at home B: Cut out cable
C: Plan out your meals for the week D: Sell a kidney

Answer

D: Sell a kidney

$1,000
What HGTV show follows couples looking for homes that are 600 square feet or smaller?
A: Tiny House Hunters B: Prison Cell hunters
C: Doomsday Bunker Hunters D: Flip This Broom Closet

Answer

A: Tiny House Hunters

$2,000
Attempting to justify why they should be allowed to make so much noise, which of the following are known for claiming that “loud pipes save lives”?
A: Death metal bands B: Motorcyclists
C: Jackhammer operators D: Tobacconists

ATA

A: 1% B: 86% C: 9% D: 4%
That’s what Tanay was thinking.

Answer

B: Motorcyclists

Commercial break

$3,000
A popular drink on Cinco de Mayo and sold at Dodger Stadium, the Michelada is a type of cerveza preparada — a cocktail that mixes lime juice, spices and what?
A: Beer B: Honey
C: Chocolate D: Pepsi

Answer

A: Beer

$5,000
Sharing its name with a local politician who ended up in the White House, 93.7 KLBJ is a radio station in what city?
A: Atlanta B: Philadelphia
C: Seattle D: Austin

Answer

D: Austin

$7,000
If his name included the term used for the North American version of reindeer, Santa’s chief navigator would instead be known as what?
A: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Elk B: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Musk Deer
C: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Caribou D: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Muntjac

50/50

50/50 leaves Elk and Caribou.

+1

Tanay’s +1 James says it’s Caribou.

Answer

C: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Caribou

Commercial break

QotD
Atrial fibrillation affects the upper chambers of the heart, which are known as the what?
A: Aortae B: Atria
C: Septa D: Ventricles

Answer

B: Atria

$10,000
Which of these is the blood flow-enhancing drug that got Maria Sharapova banned from tennis for two years, and NOT an element of the periodic table?
A: Tellurium B: Rubidium
C: Hafnium D: Meldonium

Answer

D: Meldonium

$20,000
Including the ones in its title, which song’s lyrics contain fewer than 20 unique words?
A: You Are So Beautiful B: Let It Be
C: Tubthumping D: My Heart Will Go On

Spoiler

Tanay knows “Let It Be” and “My Heart Will Go On” are wordy songs. He doesn’t know “You Are So Beautiful” and “Tubthumping.” He’s not going to walk away with 10 grand.

Answer

Tanay answers C: Tubthumping.
The right answer is A: You Are So Beautiful.
Tanay wins $5,000.

2K: Hope that "pipe" here refers to horns & not exhaust w/ lack of muffler

20K: Don't know lyrics to Tubthumping (know group had lotsa folkies in it & I think lyrics had lotsa nonsense but don't know actual words). Blanking out on Beautiful lyrics. ATA & prolly more.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Tanay Kothari
San Francisco, Cal.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$20,000
Including the ones in its title, which song’s lyrics contain fewer than 20 unique words?
A: You Are So Beautiful B: Let It Be
C: Tubthumping D: My Heart Will Go On

Spoiler

Tanay knows “Let It Be” and “My Heart Will Go On” are wordy songs. He doesn’t know “You Are So Beautiful” and “Tubthumping.” He’s not going to walk away with 10 grand.

No, he isn't.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:

Answer

Tanay answers C: Tubthumping.
The right answer is A: You Are So Beautiful.
Tanay wins $5,000.

I don't know the words to "Tubthumping" but I do know the words to "You Are So Beautiful", and aside from that repeated refrain, the only words are "you're everything I hoped for, everything I need".

Nihil obstat®.

earendel wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Tanay Kothari
San Francisco, Cal.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$20,000
Including the ones in its title, which song’s lyrics contain fewer than 20 unique words?
A: You Are So Beautiful B: Let It Be
C: Tubthumping D: My Heart Will Go On

Spoiler

Tanay knows “Let It Be” and “My Heart Will Go On” are wordy songs. He doesn’t know “You Are So Beautiful” and “Tubthumping.” He’s not going to walk away with 10 grand.

No, he isn't.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:

Answer

Tanay answers C: Tubthumping.
The right answer is A: You Are So Beautiful.
Tanay wins $5,000.

I don't know the words to "Tubthumping" but I do know the words to "You Are So Beautiful", and aside from that repeated refrain, the only words are "you're everything I hoped for, everything I need".

Nihil obstat®.

The catchy part of Tubthumping is the chorus: "I get knocked down, but I get up again. You're never gonna keep me down" repeated over and over again. Which is only about 15 words. But there is also the refrain portion of the song that starts off "He drinks a whiskey drink, he drinks a vodka drink....." That portion has about 20 unique words on its own.

earendel wrote:I don't know the words to "Tubthumping" but I do know the words to "You Are So Beautiful", and aside from that repeated refrain, the only words are "you're everything I hoped for, everything I need".

Nihil obstat®.

You are wrong, but so are the writers. You omitted the phrases "to me" and "Can't you see." They botched the whole question, though, as they are talking about the "edit version."

The complete lyrics are:
You are so beautiful
To me
You are so beautiful
To me
Can't you see
You're everything I hoped for
You're everything I need
You are so beautiful
To me

Such joy and happiness
You bring
Such joy and happiness
You bring
Like a dream
A guiding light that shines in the night
Heavens gift to me

You are so beautiful
To me

These are heard in their entirety in clips longer than 3 minutes, or so.

$7,000
If his name included the term used for the North American version of reindeer, Santa’s chief navigator would instead be known as what?
A: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Elk B: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Musk Deer
C: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Caribou D: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Muntjac

50/50

50/50 leaves Elk and Caribou.

+1

Tanay’s +1 James says it’s Caribou.

Answer

C: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Caribou

I think this is a horrible question. In Alaska they will tell you without hesitation that caribou are wild, reindeer are tame. Oh well.

Muntjac! You don't hear that very much. Here's where I first heard it. One of my friends was tired of getting stomped flat by the rest of us in a word game called Probe. So we let him get Mom's collegiate dictionary and find a word, and he came up with muntjac, a small Asian deer. He won that round, so we wouldn't let him use the dictionary after that. Decades later, we were playing Balderdash, and muntjac came up. He and I laughed hysterically, and we moved on to the next word.

Finally, elk are bigger than their Asian counterparts, red deer. There was some doubt about whether they were the same species, but DNA testing proved that they are.

$10,000
Which of these is the blood flow-enhancing drug that got Maria Sharapova banned from tennis for two years, and NOT an element of the periodic table?
A: Tellurium B: Rubidium
C: Hafnium D: Meldonium

Answer

D: Meldonium

50/50

$20,000
Including the ones in its title, which song’s lyrics contain fewer than 20 unique words?
A: You Are So Beautiful B: Let It Be
C: Tubthumping D: My Heart Will Go On

Spoiler

Tanay knows “Let It Be” and “My Heart Will Go On” are wordy songs. He doesn’t know “You Are So Beautiful” and “Tubthumping.” He’s not going to walk away with 10 grand.

Answer

Tanay answers C: Tubthumping.
The right answer is A: You Are So Beautiful.
Tanay wins $5,000.

This is a horrible question. I could guess it was C or D, but the lyrics to both are repetitive. Ugh!