Transcript 1/11/2013 - Sara Hoskins

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Sara Hoskins
Bensenville, IL

Sara came with her mom Liz. Sara, her husband and their daughter Nora have been staying in Liz's home and they'd love to move out and get a place of their own. Sara is pregnant.

Topic Tree: (randomized)
Celebrity Tributes
Cookie Times [Disney Cruise question]
Fact or Fiction?
Sing-Alongs
Filed Away
Up on the Roof
Name That George
Using Your Noodle
Book & Grind
Yea, Team

Question #1 (Yea, Team)
When the opposing team has the ball at football games, fans often hold a big cutout of the letter "D" next to a cutout of a what?
A - barn
B - porch
C - chimney
D - fence

Sara chants

Spoiler

"Dee-fence! Dee-fence!"

Spoiler

Answer: D (fence)
Value: $2,000
Bank: $2,000

Question #2 (Book & Grind)
Winners of MTV's first season of "America's Best Dance Crew," JabbaWockeeZ are named after a character from what book series?
A - Lord of the Rings
B - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
C - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
D - The Chronicles of Narnia

Sara believes that

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Jabberwocky was a poem originally written by Lewis Carroll

.

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Answer: C (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
Value: $1,000
Bank: $3,000

Question #3 (Using Your Noodle)
In honor of National Noodle Day, what restaurant company commissioned a portrait of Al Roker made from soba and lo mein noodles?
A - Red Lobster
B - P.F. Chang's
C - Cheesecake Factory
D - Olive Garden

Sara is sure that was a lovely portrait of Al. She knows that

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sobe and lo mein are Asian noodles

so only one answer makes sense.

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Answer: B (P.F. Chang's)
Value: $10,000
Bank: $13,000

Question #4 (Name That George)
Which of these Georges actually received a bachelor's degree from Georgetown University?
A - George Tenet
B - George Steinbrenner
C - George Stephanopoluos
D - George Carlin

Sara says that she was hoping that if she had to use a lifeline it would be on something she had no clue about and she has no inkling about this one. She decides to jump the question.

Spoiler

Answer: A (George Tenet)
Value: $25,000
Bank: $13,000 (unchanged)

Question #5 (Up on the Roof)
A helipad is a common feature on the roof of which of these places?
A - barbershop
B - library
C - hospital
D - church

Sara says that a helipad is where a helicopter lands and there's only one answer that makes sense to her.

Spoiler

Answer: C (hospital)
Value: $5,000
Bank: $18,000

commercial break

Question #6 (Filed Away)
Though he never visited the United States, what artist's FBI file described him as living "quietly with a woman...who was also an artist and Communist"?
A - Salvador Dali
B - Pablo Picasso
C - Diego Rivera
D - Jackson Pollock

Sara's husband is an art history professor. He talks about the subject all the time. This is tough because she feels like she really is leaning toward one. She says that

Spoiler

Diego Rivera lived with Frida Kahlo, who was also an artist and Sara's almost sure that Kahlo was a Communist

. That has to be the answer.

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Answer: C (Pablo Picasso)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

commercial break

Millionaire question of the day:
What author's mysterious death has been attributed to over a dozen causes, including rabies, diabetes and murder?
A - Arthur Conan Doyle
B - Agatha Christie
C - Edgar Allan Poe
D - Mary Shelley
Answer:

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C (Edgar Allen Poe)

[earendel]

Sara Hoskins
Bensenville, IL

Sara came with her mom Liz. Sara, her husband and their daughter Nora have been staying in Liz's home and they'd love to move out and get a place of their own. Sara is pregnant.

Question #4 (Name That George)
Which of these Georges actually received a bachelor's degree from Georgetown University?
A - George Tenet
B - George Steinbrenner
C - George Stephanopoluos
D - George Carlin

Sara says that she was hoping that if she had to use a lifeline it would be on something she had no clue about and she has no inkling about this one. She decides to jump the question.

Spoiler

Answer: A (George Tenet)
Value: $25,000
Bank: $13,000 (unchanged)

I'd have used a JTQ here also.

Question #6 (Filed Away)
Though he never visited the United States, what artist's FBI file described him as living "quietlyk with a woman...who was also an artist and Communist"?
A - Salvador Dali
B - Pablo Picasso
C - Diego Rivera
D - Jackson Pollock

Sara's husband is an art history professor. He talks about the subject all the time. This is tough because she feels like she really is leaning toward one. She says that

Spoiler

Diego Rivera lived with Frida Kahlo, who was also an artist and Sara's almost sure that Kahlo was a Communist

. That has to be the answer.

Spoiler

Answer: C (Pablo Picasso)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

And I'm gone. I wouldn't even have taken time to think it through. Rivera did live with Kahlo and she was a Communist. The reason that wasn't the right answer is because Rivera painted murals in San Francisco and NYC, which I didn't know.

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Question #4 (Name That George)
Which of these Georges actually received a bachelor's degree from Georgetown University?
A - George Tenet
B - George Steinbrenner
C - George Stephanopoluos
D - George Carlin

Sara says that she was hoping that if she had to use a lifeline it would be on something she had no clue about and she has no inkling about this one. She decides to jump the question.

Spoiler

Answer: A (George Tenet)
Value: $25,000
Bank: $13,000 (unchanged)

WWOQ!! They're back! JTQ 1

Question #6 (Filed Away)
Though he never visited the United States, what artist's FBI file described him as living "quietly with a woman...who was also an artist and Communist"?
A - Salvador Dali
B - Pablo Picasso
C - Diego Rivera
D - Jackson Pollock

Sara's husband is an art history professor. He talks about the subject all the time. This is tough because she feels like she really is leaning toward one. She says that

Spoiler

Diego Rivera lived with Frida Kahlo, who was also an artist and Sara's almost sure that Kahlo was a Communist

. That has to be the answer.

Spoiler

Answer: C (Pablo Picasso)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

I can eliminate Rivera and Pollock; maybe I can eliminate a third. Dali was born in Spain, but something is nagging at me about the U.S., nothing about a wife or significant other. Picasso, I got nothing. JTQ 2.