Transcript 10/2/2015 - Arianna Alexander

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Off to College Week

Arianna Alexander
Chicago, IL

Arianna made headlines when she received over $3 million in college scholarship money. She has a 5.1 GPA and was accepted by 6 out of 8 Ivy League schools. She chose the University of Pennsylvania. Chris asked her how she got such a high GPA; she told him she took Advanced Program courses. She intends to go to the Wharton School of Business so she can be an entrepreneur. Arianna brought her mom and dad as her +1 and "Extra Help".

$500: In her song "Shake it Off" Taylor Swift claims that people say all but which of the following things about her?
A - she stays out too late
B - she has nothing in her brain
C - she goes on too many dates
D - she killed a drifter in his sleep

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Answer: D (she killed a drifter in her sleep)

[$1000: When Facebook began at Harvard in 2004 as "Thefacebook," its front page read, "You can use Thefacebook to" do all but which of these things?
A - search for people at your school
B - look up your friends' friends
C - access your professor's private medical files
D - find out who is in your classes

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Answer: C (access your professor's private medical files

$2000: Following in her mother's footsteps, in 1935, Irene Joliot-Curie won which of the following?
A - the Nobel Prize in chemistry
B - the Olympic gold medal in fencing
C - the Grammy award for best new artist
D - America's next top model

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Answer: A (the Nobel Prize in chemistry

$3000: Oxford Dictionaries' list of "10 Awesome Ways to Say Awesome" includes all but which of the following words?
A - bogus
B - boss
C - bad
D - bodacious

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Answer: A (bogus)

$5000: The symbol for which of these elements shares its two letters with a U.S. state's postal abbreviation?
A - boron
B - helium
C - aluminum
D - hydrogen

Arianna says that it's not

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boron or hydrogen because they have one-letter symbols

.

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Answer: C (aluminum)

commercial break

$7000: Which of these is the scientific name of a real-life "dragon" and NOT a character from the TV show "Game of Thrones"?
A - Khal Drogo
B - Daenerys Targaryen
C - Varanus Komodoensis
D - Daario Naharis

Arianna doesn't watch a lot of television and hopes that the audience does.

Ask the Audience results:

A - 17%
B - 14%
C - 62%
D - 7%

Arianna was leaning toward

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Khal Drogo because of "Drogo"

but the audience might be right so she uses her 50:50.

50:50 results

The two answers left are C and D

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Answer: C (Varanus Komodoensis

$10,000: If a hen lays 265 eggs a year, about how long would it take her to lay one million of them?
A - 3.77 years
B - 37.7 years 377 years 3,770 years
C - 377 years
D - 3,770 years

Arianna works through the math and thinks that

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A, B and C are too small

.

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Answer: D (3,770 years)

commercial break

$20,000: What classic novel features a character named Vivian Darkbloom, an anagram of the author's name?
A - Lord of the Flies
B - Lolita
C - Catch-22
D - Animal Farm

Arianna knows it's not

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D because that's George Orwell

. She calls upon her mother as her +1.
Mom Alison says she's so nervous. She tries to remember the names of the authors. She works at a library. She tells Arianna she's lost but she doesn't think it's

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A

. Arianna asks her mom if she knows anything about

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Catch-22

but Alison says she hasn't read it. Arianna calls her "Extra Help", her father. He rules out

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A and D

. Arianna is leaning toward

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Catch-22

and her dad says to go for it, so she does.

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Answer: B (Lolita)

commercial break

MILLIONAIRE "QUESTION OF THE DAY": On RateMyProfessors.com, "James seems sloppy and distracted" is a critique of what actor's stint teaching the NYU class "Film 704"?
A - James Spader
B - James Woods
C - James Franco
D - James Earl Jones

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Answer: C (James Franco

[SportsFan68]

$10,000: If a hen lays 265 eggs a year, about how long would it take her to lay one million of them?
A - 3.77 years
B - 37.7 years 377 years 3,770 years
C - 377 years
D - 3,770 years

Arianna works through the math and thinks that

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A, B and C are too small

.

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Answer: D (3,770 years)

Plus One

[Coupon Boy]

$2k: Using my +1 already. Oh dear.

$5k: Extra help time, though I eventually figured it out on my own.

$7k: ATA. 62% would've been high enough for me to go straight for it, especially when it's a free guess. If only Arianna didn't doubt the audience enough to use the 50/50 here, as it probably would've helped her on the $20k question.

$20k: 50/50 here. Unless Catch-22 stays I'd be going for Lolita and probably bailing with $20k on the next question.

[K.P.]

Off to College Week

Arianna Alexander
Chicago, IL

Arianna made headlines when she received over $3 million in college scholarship money. She has a 5.1 GPA and was accepted by 6 out of 8 Ivy League schools. She chose the University of
Pennsylvania. Chris asked her how she got such a high GPA; she told him she took Advanced Program courses. She intends to go to the Wharton School of Business so she can be an
entrepreneur. Arianna brought her mom and dad as her +1 and "Extra Help".

A rare Nihil Obstat(R) for me. I only knew the last one because it was a recent Final Jeopardy clue, but I think I could have puzzled through those authors easily enough.

[tlynn78]

$7000: Which of these is the scientific name of a real-life "dragon" and NOT a character from the TV show "Game of Thrones"?
A - Khal Drogo
B - Daenerys Tregaryan
C - Varanus Komodoensis
D - Daario Naharis

Did the show misspell Targaryen?

[MarleysGh0st]

Arianna made headlines when she received over $3 million in college scholarship money. She has a 5.1 GPA and was accepted by 6 out of 8 Ivy League schools. She chose the University of
Pennsylvania. Chris asked her how she got such a high GPA; she told him she took Advanced Program courses.

Good for her, but I wonder how anyone who was offered that much in scholarship money (I'm assuming the offers came from multiple schools, so she couldn't actually collect it all) fit the show's casting theme of "new college students who need to win some money to pay their tuition."

I'm also wondering how her school's grading policy, as far as giving extra points for AP courses, compares to other schools, nationwide. There's not a standard, is there?

$20,000: What classic novel features a character named Vivian Darkbloom, an anagram of the author's name?
A - Lord of the Flies
B - Lolita
C - Catch-22
D - Animal Farm

Arianna knows it's not

Spoiler

D because that's George Orwell

. She calls upon her mother as her +1.
Mom Alison says she's so nervous. She tries to remember the names of the authors. She works at a library. She tells Arianna she's lost but she doesn't think it's

Spoiler

A

. Arianna asks her mom if she knows anything about

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Catch-22

but Alison says she hasn't read it. Arianna calls her "Extra Help", her father. He rules out

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A and D

. Arianna is leaning toward

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Catch-22

and her dad says to go for it, so she does.

Having all three of the family on stage together made for a telegenic moment. Too bad the only author's name they could come up with between them was Orwell.

[earendel]

Off to College Week

Arianna Alexander
Chicago, IL

Arianna made headlines when she received over $3 million in college scholarship money. She has a 5.1 GPA and was accepted by 6 out of 8 Ivy League schools. She chose the University of
Pennsylvania. Chris asked her how she got such a high GPA; she told him she took Advanced Program courses. She intends to go to the Wharton School of Business so she can be an
entrepreneur. Arianna brought her mom and dad as her +1 and "Extra Help".

$20,000: What classic novel features a character named Vivian Darkbloom, an anagram of the author's name?
A - Lord of the Flies
B - Lolita
C - Catch-22
D - Animal Farm

Arianna knows it's not

Spoiler

D because that's George Orwell

. She calls upon her mother as her +1.
Mom Alison says she's so nervous. She tries to remember the names of the authors. She works at a library. She tells Arianna she's lost but she doesn't think it's

Spoiler

A

. Arianna asks her mom if she knows anything about

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Catch-22

but Alison says she hasn't read it. Arianna calls her "Extra Help", her father. He rules out

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A and D

. Arianna is leaning toward

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Catch-22

and her dad says to go for it, so she does.

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Answer: B (Lolita)

Too bad - her mother worked in a library but none of them knew anything about Catch-22 (Have they never heard of a "Catch-22 situation"? Not that that would necessarily help them identify a character.)

[earendel]

$7000: Which of these is the scientific name of a real-life "dragon" and NOT a character from the TV show "Game of Thrones"?
A - Khal Drogo
B - Daenerys Tregaryan
C - Varanus Komodoensis
D - Daario Naharis

Did the show misspell Targaryen?

I suspect that was an error by the transcriptionist.

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$7000: Which of these is the scientific name of a real-life "dragon" and NOT a character from the TV show "Game of Thrones"?
A - Khal Drogo
B - Daenerys Tregaryan
C - Varanus Komodoensis
D - Daario Naharis

Did the show misspell Targaryen?

It's been corrected.

[ghostjmf]

I've still got all lifelines.

It really upset me that whole family did not discuss author's names on last Q. They disregarded the actual Q.

[tlynn78]

$7000: Which of these is the scientific name of a real-life "dragon" and NOT a character from the TV show "Game of Thrones"?
A - Khal Drogo
B - Daenerys Tregaryan
C - Varanus Komodoensis
D - Daario Naharis

Did the show misspell Targaryen?

It's been corrected.

Not complaining, as I very much appreciate the transcripts. Just curious if it was the show or the transcriptionist.

[K.P.]

Not complaining, as I very much appreciate the transcripts. Just curious if it was the show or the transcriptionist.

If I'm not mistaken, it wouldn't be the first time the show made that mistake. I remember transcribing Joe Trela's $500,000 question to somebody, and they responded "Dear God, they didn't really spell "Zuul" like that, did they?" (The show spelled it "Zool". Sure they could have been referring to the early-90s video game, but given the subject matter of the question, they were probably going for the Ghostbusters character.)

[jarnon]

$7000: Which of these is the scientific name of a real-life "dragon" and NOT a character from the TV show "Game of Thrones"?
A - Khal Drogo
B - Daenerys Tregaryan
C - Varanus Komodoensis
D - Daario Naharis

Did the show misspell Targaryen?

I ran on this street today:



Didn't notice any dragons.

(Many place names in Philadelphia's Main Line suburbs, like Tregaron Road, are of Welsh origin.)