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Natashia Lewis
Doctor
Newport Beach, CA

No preliminary chat.

$500: Opened in 1923, the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland claims that its historic building is "home to one of -- if not the" largest what "in the world"?
A - vault doors
B - trap doors
C - screen doors
D - doggie doors

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Answer: A (vault doors)

$1000: A secret "the beauty industry doesn't want you to know," Reader's Digest says the main difference between designer and drugstore cosmetics is what?
A - the quality of the ingredients
B - how good they look
C - how long they last
D - their packaging

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Answer: D (their packaging)

$2000: What word can describe someone from Arizona's capital AND the members of an ancient Mediterranean civilization?
A - Phoenicians
B - Tusconians [NOTE: spelled thus on the show rather than "Tucsonians"]
C - Flagstaffians
D - Yuman beings

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Answer: A (Phoenicians)

commercial break

Natashia is wearing pink because it's her power color; she often wears pink scrubs in the ER. She graduated from high school at 12, from college at 16, took a couple years off then went back for a masters in psychology and a medical degree.

$3000: Named for a phenomenon studied in chaos theory, what 2004 Ashton Kutcher thriller featured the tagline "Change one thing, change everything"?
A - The Worm Phenomenon
B - The Blowfish Principle
C - The Wombat Conjecture
D - The Butterfly Effect

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Answer: D (The Butterfly Effect)

$5000: Declining the help of experts in a native martial art, on a 1979 visit to Japan, Margaret Thatcher rejected an offer to be protected by 20 people called what?
A - "kung fu mistresses"
B - "karate ladies"
C - "caponeia maidens"
D - "taekwondo women"

Natashia knows that

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caponeia is from Brazil and taekwondo is from Korea

.

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Answer: B ("karate ladies")

$7000: With mentions in more than 20 books of the Old Testament, what is thought to be one of the earliest cultivated foods?
A - parsley
B - figs
C - bananas
D - potatoes

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Answer: B (figs)

$10,000: On its list of top places to retire, Kiplinger's magazine includes Oxford, MS -- home of "football", "food" and what Pulitzer Prize-winning author?
A - Robert Frost
B - F. Scott Fitzgerald
C - William Faulkner
D - Edna Ferber

Natashia thinks that

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Frost and Fitzgerald are New England, and doesn't know anything about Ferber

. She decides to use her 50:50.

50:50 results

B and C

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Answer: C (William Faulkner)

commercial break

$20,000: What is "Big Willie Style"?
A - a film about Willie Mays
B - a fashion line by Bill Blass
C - an album by Will Smith
D - a biography of Bill Clinton

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Answer: C (an album by Will Smith)

$30,000: The opposite of ambidextrous, someone who's equally clumsy with both hands is known as what?
A - ambimalevolent
B - ambisinister
C - ambiatrocious
D - ambicorrupt

Natashia says she knows that

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"sinister" refers to the left side

. She ponders using a lifeline but doesn't think that her +1 (her dad) would know it, nor would the audience.

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Answer: B (ambisinister)

commercial break

Natashia has lots of bills to pay but she would also like to have money to do research into neurodegenerative diseases.

$50,000: Since it has the smallest effect on circadian rhythms and melatonin production, what color bulb does the Harvard Health Letter recommend using in night lights?
A - orange
B - green
C - red
D - blue

Natashia knows about circadian rhythms. She can't decide, so she uses her ATA.

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Ask the Audience results:
A -15 %
B - 9%
C -11 %
D - 65%

She also knows that lights used to treat seasonal affective disorder are

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blue

. So she makes

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D

her final answer.

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Answer: C (red)

Natashia leaves with $5,000.

END OF SHOW "NOISE"


MILLIONAIRE "QUESTION OF THE DAY": By definition, when would you drink an alcoholic beverage called a digestif?
A - during a seance
B - while watching TV
C - in the midst of exercising
D - after a meal

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Answer: D (after a meal)

20K: Not Clinton or Mays. Unlikely to be Blass. Never heard of album, by the way.

50K: Tons of publicity about "turn those blue screens off before bedtime". But Dr.hasn't heard/read it.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$50,000: Since it has the smallest effect on circadian rhythms and melatonin production, what color bulb does the Harvard Health Letter recommend using in night lights?
A - orange
B - green
C - red
D - blue

Natashia knows about circadian rhythms and knows that lights used to treat seasonal affective disorder are

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blue

. So she makes

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D

her final answer.

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Answer: C (red)

Natashia leaves with $5,000.

This question, like the previous one, should be right up Natashia's alley. But she gets it backwards. They're asking for the color that affects circadian rhythms the least, which is red.

I was hoping she would go all the way. She seemed bright enough with all that education.

I would have needed help with the $5K question. I might have used ATA. I would also need help (maybe 50/50) on the last one she got. I didn't think it was blue lights,since all those electronic devices that we use have blue light.

The question writers are making us think this year.

I agree that an MD should have had a better guess for the $50K question. In Natashia's defense, however, the transcript fails to include her use of ATA, in which the audience overwhelmingly (65%) went for d) blue as well. Pity.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Natashia Lewis
Doctor
Newport Beach, CA

No preliminary chat.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$50,000: Since it has the smallest effect on circadian rhythms and melatonin production, what color bulb does the Harvard Health Letter recommend using in night lights?
A - orange
B - green
C - red
D - blue

Natashia knows about circadian rhythms and knows that lights used to treat seasonal affective disorder are

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blue

. So she makes

Spoiler

D

her final answer.

Spoiler

Answer: C (red)

Natashia leaves with $5,000.

This is really tough. I'd burn lifelines in order to get to the right answer.

clivedaw wrote:I agree that an MD should have had a better guess for the $50K question. In Natashia's defense, however, the transcript fails to include her use of ATA, in which the audience overwhelmingly (65%) went for d) blue as well. Pity.

Thanks for catching that. It's been fixed.

500: easy

1,000: easy

2,000: easy

3,000: easy

5,000: The only one that comes from Japan is karate, so I go with B.

7,000: I'm pretty sure one of the Three Wise Men ate figs on the way to meet baby jesus, so I go with B.

10,000: I remember William Faulkner being associated with Southern culture.

20,000: I doubt it's B or D. 50/50 will probably leave A and C, but it's more likely to be C.

30,000: I know that "sinister" refers to the left side, so I go with B.

50,000: I would've fallen in the same trap as Natashia and gone home with 5K.

$5000: Declining the help of experts in a native martial art, on a 1979 visit to Japan, Margaret Thatcher rejected an offer to be protected by 20 people called what?
A - "kung fu mistresses"
B - "karate ladies"
C - "caponeia maidens"
D - "taekwondo women"

Natashia knows that

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caponeia is from Brazil and taekwondo is from Korea

.

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Answer: B ("karate ladies")

ATA

$50,000: Since it has the smallest effect on circadian rhythms and melatonin production, what color bulb does the Harvard Health Letter recommend using in night lights?
A - orange
B - green
C - red
D - blue

Natashia knows about circadian rhythms. She can't decide, so she uses her ATA.

Spoiler

Ask the Audience results:
A -15 %
B - 9%
C -11 %
D - 65%

She also knows that lights used to treat seasonal affective disorder are

Spoiler

blue

. So she makes

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D

her final answer.

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Answer: C (red)

Natashia leaves with $5,000.

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