Grand Rapids, MI
teacher
$500: To determine the length of something using only pocket change, just remember that the diameter of a quarter is roughly equal to which measurement?
A - one inch
B - one food
C - one yard
D - one mile
Liz carries quarters in her purse.
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Answer: A (one inch)
$1000: Complete this lyric from a classic Cole Porter song: "Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it, let's do it, let's" what?
A - poop on people at the beach
B - sting someone and die
C - make dogs itchy while reading Kirkegaard
D - fall in love
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Answer: D (fall in love)
$2000: In 2017, Today.com said "Taco Bell's R&D department is either run by stoners or 13-year-olds" after its U.S. testing of the Chocladilla, a tortilla stuffed with what?
A - crushed Cap'n Crunch
B - shredded Twizzlers
C - melted Kit Kats or Twix
D - smushed Twinkies
Liz says only one of these has chocolate in it.
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Answer: C (melted Kit Kats or Twix)
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Liz teaches with Michigan Virtual, a nonprofit online school
$3000: Vulture.com lists "A '90s actress you almost forgot about"; "a failing family business" and "a town with a dumb name" among its "10 Essentials of Any" what?
A - Hallmark Christmas movie
B - Saturday morning cartoon
C - ESPN sports broadcast
D - National Geographic documentary
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Answer: A (Hallmark Christmas movie)
$5000: Apparently interested in other kinds of exploration, what author of "2001: A Space Odyssey" emigrated to Sri Lanka in 1956 to pursue his passion for scuba diving?
A - Philip K. Dick
B - Arthur C. Clarke
C - Ray Bradbury
D - Aldous Huxley
Liz doesn't know off the top of her head but she has a feeling. She thinks she can narrow it down to two but she's going to ask the audience first.
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Ask the Audience results:
A - 4%
B - 47%
C - 40%
D - 9%
A - 4%
B - 47%
C - 40%
D - 9%
Liz was thinking it was
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A or B
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Answer: B (Arthur C. Clarke)
$7000: Not counting the spaces between them, how many total stripes appear on a typical pair of Adidas' iconic Superstar sneakers?
A - 8
B - 12
C - 16
D - 20
Liz says that
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Adidas shoes have 3 stripes, and with two shoes, that would be 6, but there are stripes on both sides of each shoe
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Answer: B (12)
$10,000: Aiding in the absorption and digestion of fats, the yellow or greenish fluid known as bile is initially produced by what body part?
A - kidneys
B - liver
C - appendix
D - pancreas
Liz says its one of either
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liver or pancreas
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"50:50 results": B & D
That's what she thought would happen. She thinks her husband will know it, so she brings him on as her +1. He would feel confident with
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pancreas because it's part of the endocrine system and the liver filters out poisons
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Answer: B (liver)
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