Latham, NY
emergency room physician
Cedric introduces her by saying "if anyone can work under pressure, it's" Haritha because she spends her days saving lives. "So this trivia thing should be a piece of cake." Her name means green buttermilk village in Telagu, the south Indian language she speaks. Cedric jokes that his family speaks that all the time.
Topic Tree (unrandomized):
10 - Go for the Gold
9 - Artistic Cut-Ups
8 - Drinking and Singing
7 - Total Recalls
6 - When in Rome
5 - Just a Reality Star
4 - Strange Phobias
3 - Constricted Rights
2 - Animal Control
1 - In the Kitchen
Topic Tree (randomized):
4 - Strange Phobias
9 - Artistic Cut-Ups
7 - Total Recalls
8 - Drinking and Singing
1 - In the Kitchen
2 - Animal Control
6 - When in Rome
3 - Constricted Rights
10 - Go for the Gold
5 - Just a Reality Star
Question #1 (Just a Reality Star - Level 5):
An act of "facial profiling," Jase Robertson was thrown out of an NYC hotel when a staffer assumed he was a vagrant rather than the star of what?
A - Here Comes Honey Boo Boo
B - Duck Dynasty
C - Basketball Wives
D - Catfish
Haritha immediately goes to the audience for help.
Ask the Audience results
A - 7%
B - 62%
C - 20%
D - 11%
B - 62%
C - 20%
D - 11%
Spoiler
Answer: B (Duck Dynasty)
Value: $5,000
Bank: $5,000
Value: $5,000
Bank: $5,000
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's freshman roommate at Harvard competed in the London Olympics representing what country?
A - Gambia
B - Mexico
C - Haiti
D - France
Haritha believes that one of Zuckerberg's co-founders was
Spoiler
Mexican
Spoiler
Answer: C (Haiti)
Value: $10,000
Bank: $5,000 (unchanged)
NOTE: An infographic notes that he competed in the triple jump.
Value: $10,000
Bank: $5,000 (unchanged)
NOTE: An infographic notes that he competed in the triple jump.
According to USA Today, etiquette experts believe that airline passengers in certain seats have a claim to both armrests, a benefit known as the what?
A - window-seat entitlement
B - middle-seat privilege
C - aisle-seat advantage
D - exit-row inalienable right
Haritha says, "if you have both armrests," then apologizes and says she has to think it out, so she verbalizes her thought process to come up with her final answer.
Spoiler
Answer: B (middle-seat privilege)
Value: $500
Bank: $5,500
Value: $500
Bank: $5,500
Long before the "roast" became tradition, in ancient Rome archimimes mocked people at their own what?
A - funerals
B - weddings
C - trials
D - excommunications
Spoiler
Answer: A (funerals)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $12,500
Value: $7,000
Bank: $12,500
Cedric introduces Haritha's mother Mali, in the relationship seat. Haritha doesn't want to look at her because she's nervous.
Question #5 (Animal Control - Level 2):
To keep their female gorilla populations at a reasonable number, zoos typically provide them with what?
A - condoms
B - birth control pills
C - excuses
D - a hotter gorilla friend
Spoiler
Answer: B (birth control pills)
Value: $2,000
Bank: $14,500
Value: $2,000
Bank: $14,500
Playing on one of his most famous lines, a T-shirt depicts Richard Nixon holding a spatula and saying which of the following?
A - Cut softly and carry a big fork
B - I had a cream filling
C - I am not a cook
D - Tear down this Waldorf salad
Spoiler
Answer: C (I am not a cook)
Value: $100
Bank: $14,600
Value: $100
Bank: $14,600
:What performer launched a brand of tequila called 901, which is the area code of his hometown of Memphis, Tennessee?
A - Aaron Neville
B - Justin Timberlake
C - Ludacris
D - Cee Lo Green
Haritha knows that
Spoiler
Justin Timberlake
Spoiler
Answer: B (Justin Timberlake)
Value: $25,000
Bank: $39,600
Value: $25,000
Bank: $39,600
Because it had a rear fuel tank like the exploding Pinto, what 1970s car model was preemptively recalled?
A - Mercury Bobcat
B - Dodge Spider Monkey
C - Chevy Ocelot
D - Plymouth Beaver
Haritha narrows it down to two answers but she's not sure so she uses her last lifeline and jumps the question.
Spoiler
Answer: A (Mercury Bobcat)
Value: $3,000
Bank: $39,600 (unchanged)
Value: $3,000
Bank: $39,600 (unchanged)
Toward the end of his life, what artist created a series of "Blue Nude" paper cutouts that he called "painting with scissors"?
A - Paul Gaugin
B - Henri Matisse
C - Vincent van Gogh
D - Claude Monet
Haritha knows it's not
Spoiler
Gaugin or van Gogh
Spoiler
Answer: B (Henri Matisse)
Value: $1,000
Bank: $40,600
Value: $1,000
Bank: $40,600
Cedric likens this situation to a patient coming into the emergency room - she has to keep it alive.
Question #10 (Strange Phobias - Level 4):
If someone is koumpounophobic, they might have trouble getting dressed because they have a debilitating fear of what object?
A - cotton
B - pockets
C - buttons
D - zippers
Haritha says it's probably not
Spoiler
cotton or pockets
Spoiler
Answer: C (buttons)
Value: $15,000
Bank: $55,600
Value: $15,000
Bank: $55,600
commercial break
Cedric jokes about how calm Haritha is.
CLASSIC MILLIONAIRE:
$100K -
On the TV series "Lost," Sawyer was never seen reading which of these classic novels?
A - A Farewell to Arms
B - The Fountainhead
C - Watership Down
D - A Wrinkle in Time
Haritha knows all of these books. She thinks
Spoiler
Watership Down is about a rabbit
She comments on how dramatic the music was. She never saw an episode of "Lost" and she decides to walk away.
Spoiler
Answer: A (A Farewell to Arms)
MILLIONAIRE "QUESTION OF THE DAY":
As noted in a famous tag line from the 1960s, "nothing sucks like" a what?
A - Ford
B - Electrolux
C - Yoo-hoo
D - Lean Cuisine
Question of the Day answer
B (Electrolux)
