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La Tanaya Hall
New York, NY
Singer

$100 “It’s not easy being cheesy” was a slogan for what popular supermarket brand?
A. Ovaltine
B. Tropicana
C. Cheetos
D. Scott Baio’s Salad Dressing

$200 Native to South and Central America, the aptly named howler monkey is known for being very what?
A Loud
B. Fat
C. Hairy
D. Strong

$300 Appropriately, what game pieces were often depicted on 45s produced by the music label Chess Records?
A. Marbles
B. A pair of dice
C. A knight and a bishop
D. Dominoes

$500 Which of these women began her career at a Nashville TV station, becoming its first female African-American anchor?
A. Aretha Franklin
B. Toni Morrison
C. Venus Williams
D. Oprah Winfrey

$1K At the playground, a slide is an example of what type of simple machine?
A. Inclined plane
B. Pulley
C. Lever
D. Wheel and axle

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La Tanaya has toured with Diana Ross, Harry Belafonte and Aretha Franklin. She is currently touring with Bobby McFerrin.

La Tanaya is a former Miss Colorado and third runner up for Miss America.

$2K “Ciclone” is the Italian word for what type of natural event?
A. Avalanche
B. Earthquake
C. Tornado
D. Tidal wave

$4K In his poem “Don Juan,” whom did Lord Byron call “the sole mortal who could grapple, since Adam, with a fall or with an apple?
A. René Descartes
B. Isaac Newton
C. Leonardo da Vinci
D. Charles Darwin

$8K Thought to be a combination of “simon” and “napoleon,” “simoleon” is an old-fashioned slang term for a what?
A. Dollar bill
B. Baby
C. Car
D. Soldier

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$16K Which of these movies features a scene in which Brad Pitt’s character wrestles a bear?
A. 12 Monkeys
B. Legends of the Fall
C. Seven Years in Tibet
D. A River Runs Through It

ATA
2% A. 12 Monkeys
64% B. Legends of the Fall
11% C. Seven Years in Tibet
23% D. A River Runs Through It

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La Tanaya will return for tomorrow’s show.

Answers:
$100 C. Cheetos
$200 A. Loud
$300 C. A knight and a bishop
$500 D. Oprah Winfrey
$1K A. Inclined plane
$2K C. Tornado
$4K B. Isaac Newton
$8K A. Dollar bill
$16K B. Legends of the Fall

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:La Tanaya Hall
New York, NY
Singer

Oh joy, she's a WE/WE®...

$16K: The only movie out these four that I've seen was "A River Runs Through It". Better ATA.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:La Tanaya Hall
New York, NY
Singer

Most definitely a WE/WE®, but evidently a fairly recent one if she ran for Miss Colorado (see below)

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$500 Which of these women began her career at a Nashville TV station, becoming its first female African-American anchor?
A. Aretha Franklin
B. Toni Morrison
C. Venus Williams
D. Oprah Winfrey

As we find out later, La Tanaya has toured with Aretha.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$16K Which of these movies features a scene in which Brad Pitt’s character wrestles a bear?
A. 12 Monkeys
B. Legends of the Fall
C. Seven Years in Tibet
D. A River Runs Through It

ATA
2% A. 12 Monkeys
64% B. Legends of the Fall
11% C. Seven Years in Tibet
23% D. A River Runs Through It

OK, time to use a lifeline - ATA since it's a movie question and the audience is pretty good with these.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:La Tanaya Hall
New York, NY
Singer

A semi-celebrity WE/WE with bonus celebrity connections...must be sweeps!



I'd also have ATA'ed the Brad Pitt question. I knew it wasn't Seven Years in Tibet , didn't think it was A River Runs Through It, but I had no idea about the other two.

Decent start. ATA was better than I might have thought and doing better than her We/We-dom, occupation and quasi celebrity-ness might have suggested at the start.

$16K: The only movie out these four that I've seen was "A River Runs Through It". Better ATA.

LotF was the only one I have seen. They're easy if ya know 'em, ain't they?

Hi Y'all,

I didn't see this program, but my wife did. According to the transcript, this is the $1000 question and reply:
$1K At the playground, a slide is an example of what type of simple machine?
A. Inclined plane
B. Pulley
C. Lever
D. Wheel and axle

According to my wife, the question was about a "see-saw", not a slide. If the question is about a see-saw, the answer is lever.
If the question was about a "slide", it would be an inclined plane, not a lever (and not a very good example of an inclined plane".

Can someone 'splain?

Mo Hillbilly

mo_hillbilly wrote:Hi Y'all,

I didn't see this program, but my wife did. According to the transcript, this is the $1000 question and reply:
$1K At the playground, a slide is an example of what type of simple machine?
A. Inclined plane
B. Pulley
C. Lever
D. Wheel and axle

According to my wife, the question was about a "see-saw", not a slide. If the question is about a see-saw, the answer is lever.
If the question was about a "slide", it would be an inclined plane, not a lever (and not a very good example of an inclined plane".

Can someone 'splain?

Mo Hillbilly

The question was about a slide.