Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
Chris invented an earthquake-proof desk in the 6th grade. He got the inspiration from several earthquakes that took place that year (in Haiti and Japan). A video is shown of a car being hauled up by a crane and then released over a desk. The car was dropped from different heights and the desk survived. Chris has banked $18,000 but has only his Ask the Audience lifeline available.
Question #5:
Born Peter Hernandez, what singer of "Locked Out of Heaven" shares part of his stage name with the fourth planet from the Sun?
A - Jackie Venus
B - Bruno Mars
C - Levi Jupiter
D - Kenny Neptune
Chris is a big fan so he knows this one.
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Answer: B (Bruno Mars)
Value: $100
Bank: $18,100
Value: $100
Bank: $18,100
According to OxfordDictionaries.com, there aren't any legitimate English words that have what?
A - over 12 letters
B - more than 9 syllables
C - more than 6 total vowels
D - the same letter 3 times in a row
Chris says this is a hard one but he thinks that there is no word
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with the same letter three times in a row
Ask the Audience results
A - 4%
B - 15%
C - 6%
D - 74%
B - 15%
C - 6%
D - 74%
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Answer: D (the same letter 3 times in a row)
Value: $5,000
Bank: $23,100
Value: $5,000
Bank: $23,100
Based upon how its elements are physically linked, chemists often use what letter string to refer to a molecule of water?
A - OOH
B - HOHO
C - HOH
D - HOOH
Chris knows the formula for water and knows that it has
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one hydrogen and two oxygens, so it can't be B or D
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A because there aren't two oxygens
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Answer: C (HOH)
Value: $500
Bank: $23,600
[transcriber's note - I went back and checked and he did say that the formula for water was H2O but did actually say "one hydrogen and two oxygens" despite his later statement.]
Value: $500
Bank: $23,600
[transcriber's note - I went back and checked and he did say that the formula for water was H2O but did actually say "one hydrogen and two oxygens" despite his later statement.]
Though scrunched up neatly in the human body, the large and small intestines of an adult actually have a combined length of about what?
A - two feet
B - six feet
C - twelve feet
D - twenty-five feet
Chris knows that
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if the small intestine is stretched out it would be larger than a human, and the large intestine would be big also, so he eliminates A and B. Adding the two together he makes his final answer
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Answer: D (twenty-five feet)
Value: $15,000
Bank: $38,600
Value: $15,000
Bank: $38,600
Question #9:
Alluding to the "cradle of civilization," what pun did the Economist use to describe a region where agriculture began at least 10,000 years ago?
A - Sahara Dessert
B - Fertile Croissant
C - Shaved Iceland
D - Honey Baked Hamalayas
Chris says it can't be
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the Sahara Dessert because there's not a lot of growing going on there even today and it can't be Shaved Iceland because it's really cold there. Nor can it be Honey Baked Hamalayas because they still aren't populated
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Answer: B (Fertile Croissant)
Value: $2,000
Bank: $40,600
Value: $2,000
Bank: $40,600
In the year she turned 114, the world's oldest person, Misao Okawa of Japan, accomplished the rare feat of having lived for how long?
A - 50,000 days
B - 10,000 weeks
C - 2,000 months
D - 1 million hours
"Mental math!" Chris exclaims. He's going to have to use his brain. He says there are 365 days in a year.
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50,000 days is too short. He decides to work from the number of months and decides that 2,000 months is too big. He then evaluates the number of weeks, rounding the number of weeks in a year to 50, and makes the calculation, concluding that the only answer is D
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Answer: D (1 million hours)
Value: $25,000
Bank: $65,600
Value: $25,000
Bank: $65,600
CLASSIC MILLIONAIRE:
$100K - In 1885, Thomas Edison proposed to his fiancée by tapping letters into her hand. Lucky for him, she said "yes," which in Int'l Morse Code, is what?
A - -- . ...
B - -- ...- .-.
C - .-. - .
D - -.-- . ...
Chris wishes he was about 100 years older. He knows those are the two different symbols but he doesn't know the combinations. This isn't one that he expected. Chris is going to have to walk away.
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Answer: D (-.-- . ...)
Chris walks away with $65,600.
Chris walks away with $65,600.
MILLIONAIRE "QUESTION OF THE DAY":
What Egyptian "boy king" ascended the throne at about age nine and made a media splash 3,255 years later when his tomb was discovered?
A - Romulus
B - Alexander the Great
C - Hammurabi
D - King Tut
Question of the Day answer
D (King Tut)
