Kyle Foster
Las Vegas, NV
6th grade school teacher
If Kyle answers the first five questions correctly, he wins a $5,000 Disney gift card. If he gets the $50,000 question correct, he will win a trip for two to NYC for "Mickey: The True Original" exhibition and immersive art experience.
$500: Free iPhone tip! Dragging a text message to the left reveals what?
A - the meaning of life
B - the winner of next year's Super Bowl
C - what happened to Amelia Earhart
D - its time stamp
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Answer: D (its time stamp)
$1000: With a body the size of a softball and blades spinning at nearly 3,000 RPM, what does NASA plan to send to Mars in 2020 to give them an overview of the planet?
A - a tiny high-tech helicopter
B - a bee with a video camera
C - a flying blender
D - a talking parrot with an eye for detail
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Answer: A (a high-tech helicopter)
$2000: To protect its brand, instead of selling off its older signature brown trucks, what company simply repaints them white and uses them for internal tasks?
A - Domino's
B - UPS
C - U-Haul
D - Good Humor
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Answer: B (UPS)
$3000: Because many dogs get scared and run away the night before, what is generally considered the busiest day of the year at dog shelters?
A - February 15th
B - April 16th
C - July 5th
D - December 26th
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Answer: C (July 5th)
$5000: In the same way that Donald Duck has Huey, Dewey and Louie, Mickey Mouse has two what, named Morty and Ferdie?
A - grandfathers
B - lawyers
C - nephews
D - mechanics
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Answer: C (nephews)
Mickey comes out to confirm the answer.
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$7000: According to the official MLB rules in Spanish, first base is called "primera." All but which of these are the Spanish words for the other three bases?
A - segunda
B - plato
C - tercera
D - pelota
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Answer: D (pelota)
$10,000: Bill of Rights nerds know that "probable cause" is a phrase found in which amendent to the Constitution?
A - first
B - fourth
C - fifth
D - ninth
Kyle's +1 is Jessica, an attorney. He calls for her for help. She identifies the first and fifth amendments but doesn't know what the ninth is. She does know that
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the fourth amendment deals with search and seizure
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Answer: B (fourth)
$20,000: A Russian estate where a specific type of fruit is grown provides the setting for what last play written by Anton Chekhov?
A - The Strawberry Garden
B - The Cherry Orchard
C - The Cranberry Bog
D - The Orange Grove
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Answer: B (The Cherry Orchard)
$30,000: Currently, the longest non-stop flight originating in the U.S. is the 8,700-mile United Airlines jaunt from LAX to Changi Airport, the main airport in which country?
A - The Philippines
B - Vietnam
C - China
D - Singapore
Kyle says this is a tricky one and thinks he might ask the audience. He decides to do so.
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Ask the Audience results:
A - 7%
B - 17%
C - 25%
D - 51%
A - 7%
B - 17%
C - 25%
D - 51%
That's a significant majority and he goes with their answer.
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Answer: D (Singapore)
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Kyle can't wait to use the gift card to go to Orlando and ride Space Mountain as often as he can until he gets sick.
$50,000: The largest crowd in TX history to assemble for a one-day event, an estimated 400K people gathered in San Antonio in September 1987 to see whom?
A - Michael Jackson
B - President Ronald Reagan
C - Queen Elizabeth II
D - Pope John Paul II
Kyle uses his 50:50.
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"50:50 results": A & D
Kyle is going to take a chance.
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Answer: D (Pope John Paul II)
$100,000: All but which of the following are true of Tony the Tiger as he currently appears on boxes of Kellogg's Frosted Flakes?
A - the "whites" of his eyes are yellow
B - his whiskers are orange
C - his ears are black and white
D - the tip of his nose is blue
Kyle really doesn't know so it will be a blind guess. He goes with
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B
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Answer: B (his whiskers are orange)
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MILLIONAIRE "QUESTION OF THE DAY"While "Steamboat Willie" is more famous, the first Mickey Mouse cartoon ever made was actually a Charles Lindbergh-inspired short called what?:
A - Railroad Madness
B - Driving in Circles
C - Plane Crazy
D - Silly Submarine
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Answer: C (Plane Crazy)
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$250,000: In May 1849 Abraham Lincoln was granted what is still the only patent ever obtained by an American president - for what invention?
A - a plow designed to cut through dense soil
B - an inexpensive plug for wine bottles
C - a mechanism to increase a ship's buoyancy
D - a writing desk for left-handed children
Kyle never thought of "Honest Abe" as an inventor. He knows Lincoln was
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strong, so he might have made a plow
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Answer: C (a mechanism for increasing a ship's buoyancy)