Tobyhanna, PA
Meredith says that the third time is the charm but for Alison it was the twelfth time. She watches the show each day with her parents. When she was in high school she wanted to be a cheerleader and it took her four times before she was chosen. Meredith asks her to demonstrate. The silver ribbon Alison wears is to honor her parents, both of whom are suffering from Alzheimer's - she's their caregiver. She wants to win enough to take them on a cruise - the boat is nice and flat and she can push them around. She waves and says she's going to win enough for the new bathroom - and the cruise.
Topic Tree: (unrandomized)
10 - Time Change
9 - Little Bars
8 - TV on TV
7 - Cute as a Button
6 - Band Origins
5 - Native Cooking
4 - Vatican Showbiz
3 - Big Animals
2 - Jackpots
1 - One Across
Topic Tree: (randomized)
9 - Little Bars
6 - Band Origins
10 - Time Change
4 - Vatican Showbiz
7 - Cute as a Button
5 - Native Cooking
8 - TV on TV
3 - Big Animals
1 - One Across
2 - Jackpots
Question #1 (Jackpots - Level 2)
In 2012, Russia revealed the existence of a giant asteroid crater in Siberia, beneath which lies "trillions of carats" of what?
A - gold
B - pearls
C - diamonds
D - platinum
"
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Pearls
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Gold is measured in carats, but that's the purity; platinum also is measured in carats but it's purity.
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diamonds, noting that they're measured in carats but that's also size.
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Answer: C (diamonds)
Value: $1,000
Bank: $0
Value: $1,000
Bank: $0
"Estimated," "refund," "April" and "fifteenth" are four answers to a crossword puzzle available on what U.S. agency's website?
A - FBI
B - NASA
C - IRS
D - EPA
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Answer: C (IRS)
Value: $100
Bank: $100
Value: $100
Bank: $100
The MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas claims it has the largest bronze statue in the U.S., a 45-foot-tall rendering of a what?
A - bear
B - lion
C - elephant
D - coyote
Alison says that MGM is the movie company Metro Goldwyn Mayer and adds that they
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always started their movies with a lion roaring.
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Answer: B (lion)
Value: $500
Bank: $600
Value: $500
Bank: $600
In a bit of obvious homage, one of the characters in the HBO series "Girls" has a poster of what other TV show up in her apartment?
A - Six Feet Under
B - The Sopranos
C - Sex and the City
D - The Wire
Alison says that "Girls" has been compared to another HBO series then says that all four of the choices are HBO shows. She adds that the last time her sister came to New York she made Alison take photos of her in front of
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every "Sex and the City" poster she found.
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Answer: C (Sex and the City)
Value: $15,000
Bank: $15,600
Value: $15,000
Bank: $15,600
In the 17th century, Spaniard Bernabé Cobo wrote of Peruvian Indians who "toast a certain kind of" what "until it bursts ... and they use it as a confection"?
A - tomato
B - mushroom
C - corn
D - potato
Alison says that there's only one that bursts when you toast it.
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Answer: C (corn)
Value: $25,000
Bank: $40,600
Value: $25,000
Bank: $40,600
When the show comes back from commercial Meredith and Alison are talking with Hailey, Alison's daughter, who "is having an emotional moment," Meredith says. Hailey says she has "crazy" emotions. Meredith says that it's harder to be in the relationship seat than any other place.
Question #6 (Cute as a Button - Level 7)
Buttons that read "I Heart Darcy" are sold at the gift shop in a Bath, England attraction called what?
A - The William Shakespeare Center
B - The Charles Dickens Center
C - The Jane Austen Center
D - The Oscar Wilde Center
Alison has been there. They sell water there that tastes terrible.
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Answer: C (The Jane Austen Center)
Value: $3,000
Bank: $43,600
Value: $3,000
Bank: $43,600
Which of these terms is used to indicate a "meeting" with the pope?
A - papal audience
B - papal powwow
C - papal affair
D - papal huddle
Alison jokes that no one is allowed to have
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a papal affair.
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Answer: A (papal audience)
Value: $2,000
Bank: $45,600
Value: $2,000
Bank: $45,600
Considering the standard time difference, which of the following would be an accurate title change for the 2011 film "Midnight in Paris"?
A - 4 p.m. in New York
B - 6 p.m. in New York
C - 8 p.m. in New York
D - 10 p.m. in New York
Alison says she's trying to figure out the time difference. She knows it's
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five to six hours
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one hour before that.
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8 p.m. in New York.
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Answer: B (6 p.m. in New York)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $45,600 (unchanged)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $45,600 (unchanged)
According to legend, which of these rock bands got the inspiration for their name from an electrical label they saw on the back of a sewing machine?
A - U2
B - Matchbox 20
C - AC/DC
D - Steely Dan
Alison says the obvious answer is
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AC/DC
ATA results
A - 5%
B - 3%
C - 86%
D - 6%
B - 3%
C - 86%
D - 6%
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Answer: C (AC/DC)
Value: $10,000
Bank: $55,600
Value: $10,000
Bank: $55,600
commercial break
Meredith asks what needs to be done to the bathroom. Alison says they want to replace the bathtub with a walk-in shower with seats.
Question #10 (Little Bars - Level 9)
Which of these Hershey chocolate bars is only available in miniature size, and not as a regular bar?
A - Krackel
B - Hershey's Milk
C - Special Dark
D - Mr. Goodbar
Alison hasn't been to Hershey, PA. She's not big on candy but her parents are. She has a friend who loves to buy bags of miniatures that have all of these in them. She eliminates
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the milk one and thinks they make a special dark.
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Answer: A (Krackel)
Value: $5,000
Bank: $27,800
Value: $5,000
Bank: $27,800
