New York City, NY
consultant
Liz is dressed in orange and black, the colors of her alma mater, Princeton. She has an MBA from Yale also. Liz's mom Mona is in the relationship seat. Mona wishes Liz were less about Princeton and more about Prince Charming. She's been cajoling Liz for 15 years to have children. She wants grandchildren while she's young enough to enjoy them.
Topic Tree: (randomized)
Veggie Hero
Crafty Construction
Living History
Game On
Art on Display
Yoga Class
Words of Yore
Perfect Pitch
The Book of Jobs
The Old West
Question #1 (The Old West)
Concluding it was halfway between Salt Lake City and Los Angeles, what city did the Mormon Church pick in 1855 as a site to build a fort?
A - Albuquerque
B - Phoenix
C - Las Vegas
D - Denver
Liz knows that
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Denver is east of Salt Lake City
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Phoenix and Albuquerque are pretty far south
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Answer: C (Las Vegas)
Value: $5,000
Bank: $5,000
Value: $5,000
Bank: $5,000
Mimicking the way Apple names its gadgets, a 2005 biography of Steve Jobs has which of these titles?
A - geniUs
B - kinG
C - iCon
D - wiZard
Liz has a few Apple products and knows they are fond of using
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"i"
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Answer: C (iCon)
Value: $15,000
Bank: $20,000
Value: $15,000
Bank: $20,000
What singer's voice was deemed one of Michigan's "greatest natural resources" because she was raised in Detroit?
A - Gladys Knight
B - Barbra Streisand
C - Aretha Franklin
D - Tina Turner
Liz is a singer herself and can appreciate all of these women's contributions to music. She knows Michigan is home to
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Motown, so she doesn't think it will be Barbra Streisand
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Aretha Franklin
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Answer: C (Aretha Franklin)
Value: $1,000
Bank: $21,000
Value: $1,000
Bank: $21,000
Used for fastening items, which of the following is the Old English word for "narrow strip of leather"?
A - dongle
B - thwong
C - purloin
D - chuff
None of the answers particularly stand out to Liz. Since she's doing pretty well so far she's going to jump the question.
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Answer: B (thwong)
Value: $3,000
Bank: $21,000 (unchanged)
Value: $3,000
Bank: $21,000 (unchanged)
Just as it sounds, the corpse pose is a yoga position in which a person does what?
A - sits up straight
B - balances on their elbows
C - lies on their back
D - does a handstand
Liz thinks that this is going to be
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C
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Answer: C (lies on their back)
Value: $100
Bank: $21,100
Value: $100
Bank: $21,100
Liz has a lot of outstanding student loans and she'd like to wipe the slate clean.
Question #6 (Art on Display)
A 2011 exhibit at the Milwaukee Art Museum, "Impressionism: Masterworks on Paper" featured many works from what time and place?
A - 17th-century Italy
B - 18th-century England
C - 19th-century France
D - 20th-century United States
This past summer Liz was fortunate enough to spend part of the summer in
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France, where she visited a museum that had a fair amount of impressionism
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Answer: C (19th-century France)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $28,100
Value: $7,000
Bank: $28,100
Like the show it's based on, how many rappers commonly populate the game board of the MTV2 game show "Hip Hop Squares"?
A - 3
B - 6
C - 9
D - 12
Liz has never seen the show and knows very little about rap or hip hop so she's going to ask the audience.
ATA results
A - 1%
B - 10%
C - 80%
D - 9%
B - 10%
C - 80%
D - 9%
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Answer: C (9)
Value: $500
Bank: $28,600
Value: $500
Bank: $28,600
Despite being born in 1790, what U.S. president fathered a child when he was 70 and has two grandsons that are still alive today?
A - James K. Polk
B - Ulysses S. Grant
C - John Tyler
D - Martin Van Buren
Liz really doesn't know the answer so rather than guess randomly she's going to jump the question.
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Answer: C (John Tyler)
Value: $25,000
Bank: $28,600 (unchanged)
Value: $25,000
Bank: $28,600 (unchanged)
Longest Distance, Longest Airtime and Aerobatics are the three areas of competition at a world wide event for enthusiasts of what?
A - sandcastles
B - paper planes
C - miniature shipbuilding
D - Ping-Pong
"'Longest Distance, Longest Airtime and Aerobatics' imply things that travel," Liz says, eliminating
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sandcastles
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miniature shipbuilding because of the airtime and Ping-Pong because of aerobatics
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Answer: B (paper planes)
Value: $2,000
Bank: $30,600
Value: $2,000
Bank: $30,600
Question #10 (Veggie Hero)
Based on his reverence for all living creatures, which of these superheroes revealed he was a vegetarian in a 2003 comic book?
A - Spider-Man
B - Green Lantern
C - Superman
D - Captain America
Liz doesn't know much about comic books or superheroes. She says Spider-Man turns into "a living creature". She doesn't know anything about who Green Lantern is or what he does. She considers Superman but then hesitates and says she doesn't feel confident guessing so she's going to walk away.
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Answer: C (Superman)
Value: $10,000
Bank: $15,300 (half the bank)
Value: $10,000
Bank: $15,300 (half the bank)
Millionaire question of the day:
According to new research, emperor penguins stay warm by huddling together and replicating what common crowd activity?
A - stomping feet
B - hand clapping
C - crowd surfing
D - the wave
Answer:
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D (the wave)
