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Lynn Hurley
Seattle, WA

Trying to win enough to pay for her wedding, which she has been waiting two years for.
With a million they would travel to Antarctica for their wedding then visit the other continents.

+1: Bill Corcoran, her cousin from Tampa, FL

$500 :
According to U.S. law, in order to be featured in a portrait on our paper currency, you must be what?
A: Named "George" B: Extremely rich
C: Dead D: Two-dimensional

Spoiler

C: Dead

$1000 :
Which of the following toys was accidentally created over 40 years ago by a scientist trying to invent a spray-on cast for broken bones?
A: Silly String B: Slinky
C: LEGO D: Barbie's Malibu Dreamhouse

Spoiler

Lynn says she works in a hospital and takes in a lot of people with broken bones to the ER.

A: Silly String

$2000 :
Popularizing the trend featured in the Tom Cruise movie "Cocktail", TGI Friday's is mentioned in the Wikipedia article entitled what?
A: Competitive eating B: Flaming desserts
C: Dinner theater D: Flair bartending

Spoiler

D: Flair bartending

$3000 :
Compared to the general population, what type of insurance usually costs more for people who are younger than 25 and older than 65?
A: Car B: Flood
C: Life D: Homeowners

Spoiler

A: Car

$5000 :
Ironically not Dr. McCoy, what "Star Trek" character's name is just one letter off from that of the "Uncle Vanya" playwright who was also a practicing M.D.?
A: Kirk B: Uhura
C: Chekov D: Sulu

Spoiler

C: Chekov

First break

$7000 :
Though one animal is better known than the other, which of these pairs of names refers to a large and a small mammal that are both native to Africa?
A: Tiger and Ziger B: Gorilla and Zorilla
C: Alligator and Zalligator D: Grizzly and Zizzly

ATA

A: 56% B: 41%
C: 2% D: 1%

Lynn said she was thinking B as she is not sure if there are tigers in Africa, as there are tigers in India.

50/50

50/50 left A and B

Lynn said she hates to go against the audience since they are right 80 percent of the time

+1

+1 also was leaning B because he is surer that gorillas are mammals. Lynn reminded him that tigers are mammals too
She went with B

Spoiler

B: Gorilla and Zorilla

Chris points out that the zorilla is a cousin of the weasel, with black and white stripes

$10K :
The military's oldest officer when he retired at 78, engineer Peter Hains was the only American officer to serve in the U.S. Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and what?
A: World War I B: World War II
C: Revolutionary War D: War of 1812

Spoiler

Lynn ruled out B as too late and C as too early. She guessed D.


A: World War I

Lynn left with $5000

Second break

7K: I was sure it was zyger & would have gone home here.

ghostjmf wrote:7K: I was sure it was zyger & would have gone home here.

Tigers are not native to Africa.

Estonut says:

Tigers are not native to Africa.

Yeah, & zygers are not native to anywhere.

I was so convinced I had heard the term "zyger" used somewhere (probably in some work of fiction back when I had time to read them) that I completely overlooked the "native to Africa" part of Q. Well, I didn't overlook it in ruling out zalligator & zizzly. This "reading for meaning" thing proves to be selective.

This is play-along is a game about how I think I would I have played this game, not a demo of my amazing knowledge & ability to reason & so forth.

I do that elsewhere.

On this list.

Trying to win enough to pay for her wedding, which she has been waiting two years for.
With a million they would travel to Antarctica for their wedding then visit the other continents.

I might travel to Antarctica if someone gave me a million dollars to do it, but it would be a near thing.

There *is* such a thing as a liger (male lion/female tiger child) which is probably what I was thinking of, even though tigers would still not have met lions in Africa by just wandering in from Asia (they probably "met" in a handy syringe).

ghostjmf wrote:There *is* such a thing as a liger (male lion/female tiger child)...

There *is* also such a thing as a tigon (male tiger/female lion child).

Ligers are HUGE - far bigger than both parent species.
Tigons are about the size of female tigers.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Lynn Hurley
Seattle, WA

Trying to win enough to pay for her wedding, which she has been waiting two years for.
With a million they would travel to Antarctica for their wedding then visit the other continents.

+1: Bill Corcoran, her cousin from Tampa, FL

Nihil obstat®.