Transcript 3/20/2015 - Terri Hoshell

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Terri Hoshell
Warrenville, IL

No preliminary chitchat.

Question #1: In addition to being credited for popularizing the word "cool," Lester Young is believed to be the first jazz musician to play nightclubs while wearing what?
A - a sombrero
B - flip-flops
C - sunglasses
D - a bolo tie

Terri says that

Spoiler

sombreros are cool but not jazz cool, and the same with bolo ties and flip-flops

.

Spoiler

Answer: C (sunglasses)
Value: $25,000
Bank: $25,000

Question #2: Before JLo brought us Glow, Miss Piggy released her own celebrity fragrance with what name?
A - Oh, Brother
B - Kermie
C - Oink
D - Moi

Terri doesn't think it's

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Oh, Brother because that doesn't fit in with the other answers

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Spoiler

Answer: D (Moi)
Value: $500
Bank: $25,500

Question #3: Panned as one of the worst ever, which foreign car was sold in the U.S. with the unimaginative name, "Le Car"?
A - Yugo GV
B - Volkswagon Rabbit
C - Renault 5
D - Toyota Echo

Terri says there's a

Spoiler

Rabbit here so it's not that, and she doesn't think Yugos were ever called "Le Car", and there's an Echo also

.

Spoiler

Answer: C (Renault 5)
Value: $15,000
Bank: $40,500

commercial break

Question #4: According to Slate.com, the Chinese legal system has seen a rise in "ding zui," the practice of hiring someone to carry out your what?
A - arranged marriage
B - deportation order
C - military service
D - prison sentence

Terri is really not sure so she jumps the question.

Spoiler

Answer: D (prison sentence)
Value: $3,000 (jumped)
Bank: $40,500 (unchanged)

Question #5: Serving under Calvin Cooledge, Nobel Prize winner Charles G. Dawes is the only Vice President to have done what?
A - written a hit pop song
B - piloted a plane across the Pacific
C - run over 20 marathon
D - fathered over 20 children

Terri decides to use her +1, her brother Steve. He says

Spoiler

it's probably not a pop song. He can't remember when marathons were recognized as an Olympic event. He really thinks it's B

. Terri toys with the idea of walking away; Terry asks her if she wants to use her last lifeline. She does and asks the audience.

Spoiler

Ask the Audience results:
A - 15%
B - 51%
C - 16%
D - 18%

Terri says they came here to be crazy so she goes with the audience's answer.

Spoiler

Answer: A (written a hit pop song)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

commercial break

MILLIONAIRE "QUESTION OF THE DAY": A company that provides funds for newly launched businesses is known as a "VC" firm, which is short for "venture" what?
A - Capital
B - Craft
C - Certificate
D - Cuisine

Spoiler

Answer: A (Capital)

[SportsFan68]

Question #3: Panned as one of the worst ever, which foreign car was sold in the U.S. with the unimaginative name, "Le Car"?
A - Yugo GV
B - Volkswagon Rabbit
C - Renault 5
D - Toyota Echo

Terri says there's a

Spoiler

Rabbit here so it's not that, and she doesn't think Yugos were ever called "Le Car", and there's an Echo also

.

Spoiler

Answer: C (Renault 5)
Value: $15,000
Bank: $40,500

JTQ

Question #4: According to Slate.com, the Chinese legal system has seen a rise in "ding zui," the practice of hiring someone to carry out your what?
A - arranged marriage
B - deportation order
C - military service
D - prison sentence

Terri is really not sure so she jumps the question.

Spoiler

Answer: D (prison sentence)
Value: $3,000 (jumped)
Bank: $40,500 (unchanged)

Plus One

Question #5: Serving under Calvin Cooledge, Nobel Prize winner Charles G. Dawes is the only Vice President to have done what?
A - written a hit pop song
B - piloted a plane across the Pacific
C - run over 20 marathon
D - fathered over 20 children

Terri decides to use her +1, her brother Steve. He says

Spoiler

it's probably not a pop song. He can't remember when marathons were recognized as an Olympic event. He really thinks it's B

. Terri toys with the idea of walking away; Terry asks her if she wants to use her last lifeline. She does and asks the audience.

Spoiler

Ask the Audience results:
A - 15%
B - 51%
C - 16%
D - 18%

Terri says they came here to be crazy so she goes with the audience's answer.

Spoiler

Answer: A (written a hit pop song)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

ATA and Sayonara

[ghostjmf]

Q4: Even in China, is it legal to get a stand-in for prison? JTQ

Q5: Want that JTQ back.

Think is too early in history for Pacific flight or marathon record.

Use ATA, use +1, but likely have to walk here.


I tried to spoilerize below but it's not working for me. Avert your eyes to avoid if you wish.

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He wrote the tune, it turns out, to All In the Game. In 1911. It didn't become a hit 'til '58, after Carl Sigman gave it words in '51. This Q is unfair. He didn't write a hit. It didn't become a hit 'til it had words.

[Estonut]

Question #3: Panned as one of the worst ever, which foreign car was sold in the U.S. with the unimaginative name, "Le Car"?
A - Yugo GV
B - Volkswagon Rabbit
C - Renault 5
D - Toyota Echo

Terri says there's a

Spoiler

Rabbit here so it's not that, and she doesn't think Yugos were ever called "Le Car", and there's an Echo also

.

Spoiler

Answer: C (Renault 5)
Value: $15,000
Bank: $40,500

JTQ

Spoiler

Really? The fact that "Le Car" is in French isn't a big, fat clue?

[ghostjmf]

OK OK. I read more on the song; while not yet a #1, it was a respectable enough hit w/o words. Tommey Dorsey & Fritz Kreisler played it.

[earendel]

Terri Hoshell
Warrenville, IL

No preliminary chitchat.

Question #5: Serving under Calvin Cooledge, Nobel Prize winner Charles G. Dawes is the only Vice President to have done what?
A - written a hit pop song
B - piloted a plane across the Pacific
C - run over 20 marathon
D - fathered over 20 children

Terri decides to use her +1, her brother Steve. He says

Spoiler

it's probably not a pop song. He can't remember when marathons were recognized as an Olympic event. He really thinks it's B

. Terri toys with the idea of walking away; Terry asks her if she wants to use her last lifeline. She does and asks the audience.

Spoiler

Ask the Audience results:
A - 15%
B - 51%
C - 16%
D - 18%

Terri says they came here to be crazy so she goes with the audience's answer.

Spoiler

Answer: A (written a hit pop song)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

I knew the answer but I think this is a poorly-worded question. Dawes didn't write a "pop song". He wrote a piano piece that was later made into a pop song when lyrics were added and it became known as "It's All in the Game". It was a #1 hit in the 1950s and later recorded by a number of artists.

[Kazoo65]

1. easy-sunglasses make you look cool.

2. way easy.

3. I remember this. I don't think it sold very well.

4. WWOQ. It's time to JTQ.

5. Plus One and hope they're a history nut. I thought it was B.