Charlotte, NC
Levi and his fiancee shared an interesting dream right before he auditioned for the show. He was holding a big check for a big amount of money on a big show. Cedric interrupts to ask if Levi is married yet. Levi says he isn't; Cedric jokes that Levi was dreaming about holding big money and his fiancee comes into the dream. Levi is a sharing man - and his fiancee is like the government and will get half. Cedric points to Levi's fiancee, who is in the relationship seat.
Topic Tree (unrandomized):
10 - Weird Contests
9 - Famous Hancock
8 - Fit for a King
7 - Root Languages
6 - Crimes Against Food
5 - Mistaken Identity
4 - Who's Tweeting Me?
3 - Trying to Forget
2 - Blowing Up
1 - Faking It
Topic Tree (randomized):
7 - Root Languages
2 - Blowing Up
10 - Weird Contests
1 - Faking It
4 - Who's Tweeting Me?
9 - Famous Hancock
5 - Mistaken Identity
8 - Fit for a King
3 - Trying to Forget
6 - Crimes Against Food
Question #1 (Crimes Against Food - Level 6):
As Boston writer Aaron Goldstein once said, "it isn't illegal in Massachusetts to put" what in clam chowder, "it just feels like it is"?
A - tomato
B - onion
C - celery
D - potato
Levi says he knows that
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onions are in clam chowder and potatoes are a mainstay. Celery is a root vegetable so he thinks that would be right with it
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Answer: A (tomato)
Value: $2,000
Bank: $2,000
Value: $2,000
Bank: $2,000
A boardwalk roller coaster on the Jersey Shore destroyed by Sandy will be replaced by a thrill ride with what especially evocative name?
A - Earthquake
B - Super Storm
C - Tornado
D - Blizzard
Levi eliminates two of the answers and then realizes that
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Sandy was a hurricane and they called it a super storm
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Answer: B (Super Storm)
Value: $3,000
Bank: $5,000
Value: $3,000
Bank: $5,000
Largely funded by Johnny Depp, whose funeral included his ashes being shot from a cannon followed by the playing of Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man"?
A - Hunter S. Thompson
B - Michael Crichton
C - Ian Fleming
D - Ray Bradbury
Levi thinks he's going to have to jump this question.
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Answer: A (Hunter S. Thompson)
Value: $25,000
Bank: $5,000 (unchanged)
Value: $25,000
Bank: $5,000 (unchanged)
Led by an overzealous spelunker, a French youth group that set out to clean up graffiti ended up damaging ancient what?
A - cave paintings
B - Roman temples
C - burial grounds
D - pottery fragments
Levi wonders what a spelunker is. He says they spelunk and thinks they do it
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in caves
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Answer: A (cave paintings)
Value: $5,000
Bank: $10,000
Value: $5,000
Bank: $10,000
What company's logo, used since 1886 is modeled after a founder's signature?
A - Budweiser
B - Cartier
C - Johnson & Johnson
D - Lay's
Levi says nothing is really jumping out at him, though he doesn't feel like it's
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Lay's or Budweiser
Ask the Audience results
A - 18%
B - 30%
C - 48%
D - 4%
B - 30%
C - 48%
D - 4%
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Answer: C (Johnson & Johnson)
Value: $100
Bank: $10,100
Value: $100
Bank: $10,100
Question #6 (Who's Tweeting Me? - Level 4):
Listing hair icon, pantsuit aficionado and glass ceiling cracker in her bio, what famous "texter" finally joined Twitter in 2013?
A - Condoleezza Rice
B - Michelle Obama
C - Hilary Clinton
D - Laura Bush
Levi says he doesn't think that
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Laura Bush would text or tweet anything at all, and Michelle Obama is "kinda wicked" so she's probably already part of Twitter nation. And it just doesn't sound like something "Condi" would do
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Answer: C (Hilary Clinton)
Value: $15,000
Bank: $25,100
Value: $15,000
Bank: $25,100
So everyone inside can sense its power, the BMW M5 replicates and plays what sounds through the stereo?
A - windshield wipers
B - anti-lock brakes
C - engine
D - muffler
Only one answer makes sense to Levi.
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Answer: C (engine)
Value: $10,000
Bank: $35,100
Value: $10,000
Bank: $35,100
"Khar Bii," one of the most popular television programs in Senegal, has been described as an American Idol-style search for Senegal's most perfect what?
A - lion
B - sheep
C - jackal
D - antelope
Levi groans in dismay. He has an idea it might be
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sheep
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Answer: B (sheep)
Value: $1,000
Bank: $35,100 (unchanged)
Value: $1,000
Bank: $35,100 (unchanged)
Derived from the Irish word for fragment, something that has violently exploded is often said to be "blown to" what?
A - ladidas
B - smithereens
C - woebegones
D - scoobydoos
Levi says he likes the sound of
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scoobydoos because he liked Scooby Doo as a child, prompting Cedric to do his Scooby imitation
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Answer: B (smithereens)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $42,100
Value: $7,000
Bank: $42,100
Cedric asks if Levi's dream check was this big ($42,100). Levi spoke about the size of the physical check - it was big, big, big.
Question #10 (Root Languages - Level 7):
The linguistic root of the Romance group of languages has what not-so-romantic name?
A - gross Latin
B - profane Latin
C - rough Latin
D - vulgar Latin
Levi toys with the answers, eliminating
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gross and rough. He thinks it might be vulgar
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Answer: D (vulgar Latin)
Value: $500
Bank: $ 21,050 (half the bank)
Value: $500
Bank: $ 21,050 (half the bank)
MILLIONAIRE "QUESTION OF THE DAY":
When it was introduced to consumers in the 1930s, the garbage disposal was nicknamed what?
A - ravenous raven
B - gaping shark
C - vibrating goat
D - electric pig
Question of the Day answer
D (electric pig)
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