Transcript 10/11/2011 Lauren Bowers (carryover)

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Lauren Bowers
Springfield, VA
English tutor


Carryover with $47100 remaining


When told the only bad news that she has no lifelines remaining, she said she doesn't need any of them.


Topic Tree from yesterday:
10 Child Composer
9 Pizza Delivery
8 Danes on Stage
7 Happy Birthday
6 Fun with Fashion
5 Thawesome Animal
4 Drink de Jour
3 Special Star
2 Today’s the Day
1 Eccentric Will


Topic Tree: (randomized)

5 Thawesome Animal
4 Drink de Jour
10 Child Composer
$2000
(Jumped, was $3K)
$15000
(Jumped, was $10K)
$100
$25000
$5000




Question 8 - Level 10 Child Composer
A likely star of a reality show if he were alive today, what composer had twenty children, including five boys named after himself?
A. Peter Tchaikovsky B. Ludwig van Beethoven
C. Johann Sebastian Bach D. Frederic Chopin

Spoiler

Lauren said she believes none of the other three had that many children, if any, and went with an educated guess of Bach.

Answer and value

C. Johann Sebastian Bach
Value: $7000
Bank: $54100

Question 9- Level 4 Drink de Jour
Celebrities like Rihanna and Madonna have endorsed what trendy fruit drink said to be high in electrolytes?
A. Kiwi soda B. Mango tea
C. Coconut water D. Guava milk

Spoiler

Lauren said in recent years she had dreams about coconuts and if she is right, this question is for her

Answer and value

C. Coconut water
Value: $1000
Bank: $55100

Question 10 - Level 5 Thawesome Animal
What animal can naturally survive being frozen solid?
A. Slow loris B. Prairie dog
C. Barn owl D. Wood frog

Spoiler

Lauren does not think it is a prairie dog or barn owl. She does not know what a slow loris is. She recalls reading something about frogs being frozen in the Arctic and being thawed back to life.
She went for it and Mere said after a dramatic pause, "I don't know what a slow loris is either but..."

Answer and value

D. Wood frog
Value: $500
Bank: $55600

Question 11 - $100K
Upon the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad in 1869, what single word was telegraphed to deliver the news?
A. Complete B. Huzzah
C. Finally D. Done

Spoiler

Lauren did not offer a guess and she decided to walk.

Answer

D. Done
Bank: $55600 (walk amount)

Commercial break

[earendel]

Lauren Bowers
Springfield, VA
English tutor

She wants to study in England, particularly medieval history - so maybe she is a Tudor after all.

Question 8 - Level 10 Child Composer
A likely star of a reality show if he were alive today, what composer had twenty children, including five boys named after himself?
A. Peter Tchaikovsky B. Ludwig van Beethoven
C. Johann Sebastian Bach D. Frederic Chopin

Spoiler

Lauren said she believes none of the other three had that many children, if any, and went with an educated guess of Bach.

Answer and value

C. Johann Sebastian Bach
Value: $7000
Bank: $54100

And that doesn't include PDQ Bach.

Question 9- Level 4 Drink de Jour
Celebrities like Rihanna and Madonna have endorsed what trendy fruit drink said to be high in electrolytes?
A. Kiwi soda B. Mango tea
C. Coconut water D. Guava milk

Spoiler

Lauren said in recent years she had dreams about coconuts and if she is right, this question is for her

Answer and value

C. Coconut water
Value: $1000
Bank: $55100

I'd have to walk away because I wouldn't have any lifelines and I have never heard this.

Question 10 - Level 5 Thawesome Animal
What animal can naturally survive being frozen solid?
A. Slow loris B. Prairie dog
C. Barn owl D. Wood frog

Spoiler

Lauren does not think it is a prairie dog or barn owl. She does not know what a slow loris is. She recalls reading something about frogs being frozen in the Arctic and being thawed back to life.
She went for it and Mere said after a dramatic pause, "I don't know what a slow loris is either but..."

Answer and value

D. Wood frog
Value: $500
Bank: $55600

This one, however, I knew.

Question 11 - $100K
Upon the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad in 1869, what single word was telegraphed to deliver the news?
A. Complete B. Huzzah
C. Finally D. Done

Spoiler

Lauren did not offer a guess and she decided to walk.

Answer

D. Done
Bank: $55600 (walk amount)

I'm beginning to believe that the $100K questions are easier than some of the lower tier questions, in order to help contestants get further along.

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Question 10 - Level 5 Thawesome Animal
What animal can naturally survive being frozen solid?
A. Slow loris B. Prairie dog
C. Barn owl D. Wood frog

Spoiler

Lauren does not think it is a prairie dog or barn owl. She does not know what a slow loris is. She recalls reading something about frogs being frozen in the Arctic and being thawed back to life.
She went for it and Mere said after a dramatic pause, "I don't know what a slow loris is either but..."

Answer and value

D. Wood frog
Value: $500
Bank: $55600

This one, however, I knew.

As did I. But I also know what a slow loris is so that it would not have been a distractor.

Its kinda like a potto! That should make it easier...

They are also not all that far on the evolutionary tree from the fellows getting a lift in my avatar.