Transcript 2/15/2013 - Charlene Delinski (1Q contestant)

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Charlene Delinski 1Q contestant
Deerfield, MA
retired elementary school principal

She's here with her identical twin and a good friend. Charlene will get the $250K question that Antoinette would have faced.

[$250K] - Decades before New York's first subway trains, inventor Alfred Beach had a working model designed to transport people underground in what?

Charlene never heard of Alfred Beach. She doesn't know but she's going to guess that it's

Spoiler

horse-drawn carts

.
A - pneumatic tubes
B - gondolas
C - rickshaws
D - horse-drawn carts

Spoiler

A (pneumatic tubes)

THE END OF GAME "NOISE"

Millionaire question of the day:
Groundhog Day is traced to German immigrants who observed a similar tradition in their homeland with which of these animals?
A - badgers
B - beavers
C - moles
D - rabbits
Answer:

Spoiler

A (badgers)

[MarleysGh0st]

Hmmm, sounds like an interesting story, involving Boss Tweed, wealthy 19th-century NIMBYs, economics crashes, etc. If things had gone differently, "that giant sucking sound" might have just been the subway!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beach_Pneumatic_Transit