Las Vegas, NV
registered nurse
Jennifer spends more than 80 hours a week as a caregiver.
Topic Tree (randomized):
The Right Medicine
Form and Function
Uh-Oh
Don't Touch
Better Late Than Never
Gettin' Hot in Here
Poetic Television
Courtroom Drama
Biorhythms
On Strike
Question #1 (On Strike):
In a humorous 2013 video, Matt Damon declared that until everyone in the world had acces toclean water and sanitation, he would refrain from doing what?
A - making movies
B - using a toilet
C - talking to Ben Affleck
D - having sex
Jennifer knows what she would do but this is about Matt Damon.
Spoiler
Answer: B (using a toilet)
Value: $500
Bank: $500
Value: $500
Bank: $500
If it literally lived up to its name, the California record store called Amoeba Music might only sell songs that are performed by what?
A - carnivorous flowers
B - single-cell organisms
C - prehistoric reptiles
D - parasitic insects
Jennifer would have to turn in her nurse card if she missed this one.
Spoiler
Answer: B (single-cell organisms)
Value: $10,000
Bank: $10,500
Value: $10,000
Bank: $10,500
Heard at the 2013 trial of James "Whitey" Bulger, a dialect with colorful words like "vig," "juice" and "hang around guys" is called what?
A - mobspeak
B - smugglerspeak
C - cartelspeak
D - thiefspeak
Spoiler
Answer: A (mobspeak)
Value: $100
Bank: $10,600
Value: $100
Bank: $10,600
Entitled "Leaves of Glass," a 2013 article published by the Poetry Foundation discussed "Breaking Bad" and its fixation on what author?
A - Ralph Waldo Emerson
B - Walt Whitman
C - Henry David Thoreau
D - Margaret Fuller
"Let's not waste time," Jennifer says. "I don't have a clue. But my audience looks pretty smart, so I think I'm going to use my ask the audience lifeline.
Ask the Audience results
A - 10%
B - 64%
C - 17%
D - 9%
B - 64%
C - 17%
D - 9%
Spoiler
Answer: B (Walt Whitman)
Value: $1,000
Bank: $11,600
Value: $1,000
Bank: $11,600
Though others consider it morally questionable, Denmark has begun converting the heat from what facilities to make energy for residential use?
A - Russian saunas
B - crematoriums
C - pottery studios
D - tanning salons
Jennifer fixes on "morally questionable".
Spoiler
Answer: B (crematoriums)
Value: $3,000
Bank: $14,600
Value: $3,000
Bank: $14,600
Question #6 (Better Late Than Never):
With Watergate getting in the way decades ago, the Super Bowl-winning 1972 Miami Dolphins finally got to go where in 2013?
A - Graceland
B - a local Chuck E. Cheese's
C - the White House
D - the Alamo
Jennifer says she loves "Chuckie" but she doesn't think they were around in 1972.
Spoiler
Answer: C (the White House)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $21,600
Value: $7,000
Bank: $21,600
Described as "riding a so-called sea cow like a body board," a woman turned herself into police in 2012 for mounting what endangered animal?
A - giant jellyfish
B - Goliath frog
C - manatee
D - green sea turtle
Jennifer "kinda remembers hearing about this" and is torn between two choices.
Spoiler
Answer: C (manatee)
Value: $25,000
Bank: $46,600
Value: $25,000
Bank: $46,600
While fiddling with her daddy's phone, a 14-month Oregon toddler accidentally bought a 1962 Austin Healey on what site?
A - eBay
B - etsy
C - Overstock.com
D - FreshDirect
Jennier says it seems like children come out of the womb knowing how to use a smart phone.
Spoiler
Answer: A (eBay)
Value: $2,000
Bank: $48,600
Cedric says that the kid bought it for $225.
Value: $2,000
Bank: $48,600
Cedric says that the kid bought it for $225.
Describing a new take on an item "once reserved for the gym and lazy weekends," in 2013 Harper"s Bazaar heralded the rise of the what?
A - trendy cargo shorts
B - hip Hawaiian shirts
C - fashion sweatshirts
D - haute suspenders
Jennifer considers each answer and decides to jump the question even though she thinks she knows what it might be.
Spoiler
Jennifer was right
Spoiler
Answer: C (fashion sweatshirts)
Value: $15,000
Bank: $48,600 (unchanged)
Value: $15,000
Bank: $48,600 (unchanged)
Question #10 (The Right Medicine):
Which of the following people would most likely be prescribed both Ambien and Avandia by a doctor?
A - a balding epileptic
B - an asthmatic pregnant woman
C - a diabetic insomniac
D - a visually impaired leper
Jennifer says that the show wanted her to play her nurse card.
Spoiler
Answer: C (a diabetic insomniac)
Value: $5,000
Bank: $53,600
Value: $5,000
Bank: $53,600
$100K - In the 1950s, the U.S. Air Force spearheaded "Project A119" whose goal was to detonate a nuclear bomb where?
A - at the bottom of the ocean
B - at the South Pole
C - underneath Los Angeles
D - on the moon
Jennifer thinks that the "A" in "Project A119" could stand for
Spoiler
Apollo, which was part of space, and that's where the moon is
Spoiler
Answer: D (on the moon)
$250K - Harry Houdini was good friends with what author until they publicly feuded over whether supernatural phenomena such as séances were real?
A - L. Frank Baum
B - Rudyard Kipling
C - Arthur Conan Doyle
D - Lewis Carroll
Jennifer rules out
Spoiler
Lewis Carroll
Spoiler
Answer: C (Arthur Conan Doyle)
Jennier leaves with $53,600.
Jennier leaves with $53,600.
MILLIONAIRE "QUESTION OF THE DAY":
Delivered on August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech begins with what phrase?
A - Three score years ago
B - Four score years ago
C - Five score years ago
D - Six score years ago
Question of the Day answer
C (Five score years ago)
