Any couple answering the $5000 question gets a stay at Harrahs Lake Tahoe and lift tickets to a ski resort.
Kristen & Barry Tschopp
Las Vegas, NV
Kristen & Barry got engaged in Vegas 18 years ago.
$500: In 2018, those hoping to find life on Mars got good news when researchers discovered what beneath one of the planet's ice caps?
A - a half-eaten burrito
B - a TJ Maxx receipt
C - a lake
D - Bigfoot
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Answer: C (a lake)
$1000: The name of the candy bar Twix is said to be a stylized mash-up of which two words?
A - twin + sticks
B - twist + Brexit
C - twinkle + beatniks
D - twelve + LEGO bricks
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Answer: A (twin + sticks)
$2000: Credited with saving countless lives, what inexpensive, single battery-operated household device did Duane P. Pearsall pioneer in the mid-1960s?
A - TV remote
B - back massager
C - travel alarm clock
D - smoke detector
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Answer: D (smoke detector)
$3000: As you can tell from its "root" word, someone who suffers from hyperdontia has an excessive number of what?
A - teeth
B - fingers
C - organs
D - vertebrae
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Answer: A (teeth)
$5000: The city of Vladivostock is the last stop on which famous rail line?
A - The Trans-Siberian Railroad
B - The Darjeeling Limited
C - The Orient Express
D - The Rocky Mountaineer
They do not know this one, although Kristen says it's not
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C
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Ask the Audience results:
A - 87%
B - 6%
C - 7%
D - 0%
A - 87%
B - 6%
C - 7%
D - 0%
They trust the audience.
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Answer: A (The Trans-Siberian Railroad)
Kristen & Barry win the resort trip.
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Both Kristen & Barry moved to Vegas for their jobs. They met through mutual friends; they've been married 16 years.
$7000: Succeeding her father way back in 1952, England's Queen Elizabeth II has been on the throne for roughly how much of America's history?
A - 5%
B - 10%
C - 25%
D - 50%
Kristen says to start at 1776; Barry says it's a math question.
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Barry says she's been on the throne for 66 years
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Answer: C (25%)
$10,000: If Snow White's seven dwarfs stood in alphabetical order according to their names in the 1937 Disney movie, which one would be right in the middle at #4?
A - Dopey
B - Grumpy
C - Happy
D - Sleepy
They come up with the 2 of the other 3 dwarfs' names
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Bashful and Sneezy
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"50:50 results": A & B
That makes it easier.
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Answer: B (Grumpy)
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MILLIONAIRE "QUESTION OF THE DAY": When falling to the ground, the seeds of what variety of tree are often said to look like spinning helicopter blades?
A - hickory
B - beech
C - maple
D - dogwood
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Answer: C (maple)
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$20,000: By definition, which of these things is true about a food that's been "desiccated"?
A - it's spicy
B - it's dried out
C - it's without its peel or skin
D - it's sliced into strips
Kristen says
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it sounds like something destroyed, so she thinks it's C or D. Barry says that "dried out" would be dehydrated, so he eliminates that. He also rules out spicy
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either B or C, but more strongly toward C. He's not that sure, however
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C
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Answer: B (it's dried out)