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Anna Fitzgerald
Alexandria VA

Man's Best Friend
War Heroes
Title Characters
Surreal Paintings
Mars Exploration
Ancient Cities
Food Chains
Rock On!
Universal Donor
Household Chores
Funny Pages
Looking Good
Slang
Stuffed Animals
50s Music

100 - A 1954 song by Bill Haley and the Comets urged its listeners to "shake, rattle and" what?

A roll
B flip
C bend
D cut back on the caffeine

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A roll [8]

200 - As its name implies, Pawparazzi is a company that sells what types of stuffed animals?

A frogs and toads
B snakes and lizards
C cats and dogs
D birds and bees

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C cats and dogs [8]

300 - A person with a history of getting into trouble is said to have what type of past?

A checkered
B polka-dotted
C argyled
D pinstriped

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A checkered [7]

500 - Fake Bake and L'Oreal Sublime Bronze are two popular lines of what beauty product?

A hair dye
B nail polish
C mascara
D self-tanner

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D self-tanner [9]

1000 - "Five-ana-half" is the self-described age of what classic comic strip character?

A Hagar the Horrible
B Dagwood Bumstead
C Dennis the Menace
D Cathy

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C Dennis the Menace [6]

Commercial break: Anna will open a no-kill dog shelter if she wins the million. She has a little dog named Chester.

2000 - Designed by Danish scientists, the hortibot is capable of performing which of these household chores?

A ironing clothes
B cleaning the toilet
C weeding the garden
D making the bed

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C weeding the garden [22]

4000 - A person known to doctors as a universal donor has which of these blood types?

A A
B B
C AB
D O

ATA [23]
A 2
B 1
C 9
D 88

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D O [20]

8000 - In the 2008 comedy "The Rocker" who plays the rocker?

A Seth Rogen
B Rainn Wilson
C Jack Black
D Paul Rudd

ATE [18]

Tom Spencer is very confident it is Rainn Wilson, even though he didn't see the movie (98% sure).

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B Rainn Wilson [15]

16000 - Restaurants in the Shula's Steak House chain feature decor inspired by what NFL team's perfect 1972 football season?

A Dallas Cowboys
B Miami Dolphins
C Denver Broncos
D Green Bay Packers

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B Miami Dolphins [21]

25000 - What South American country is home to the ruins of the ancient Incan city of Maccu Picu?

A Brazil
B Columbia
C Chile
D Peru

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D Peru [20]

50000 - What is the name of the NASA spacecraft that touched down on the polar region of Mars in May 2008?

A Daedalus
B Pegasus
C Triton
D Phoenix

PAF [37] - Anna calls her brother-in-law Paul. With a three-second warning, he says Daedalus. Anna goes with his answer and leaves with $25,000.

Spoiler

D Phoenix [25]

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Anna Fitzgerald
Alexandria VA

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:2000 - Designed by Danish scientists, the hortibot is capable of performing which of these household chores?

A ironing clothes
B cleaning the toilet
C weeding the garden
D making the bed

Spoiler

C weeding the garden [22]

Good reasoning on the "horti" portion of the product's name.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:4000 - A person known to doctors as a universal donor has which of these blood types?

A A
B B
C AB
D O

ATA [23]
A 2
B 1
C 9
D 88

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D O [20]

O is the universal donor, AB the universal recipient.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:8000 - In the 2008 comedy "The Rocker" who plays the rocker?

A Seth Rogen
B Rainn Wilson
C Jack Black
D Paul Rudd

ATE [18]

Tom Spencer is very confident it is Rainn Wilson, even though he didn't see the movie (98% sure).

Spoiler

B Rainn Wilson [15]

No idea, although I can rule out Jack Black. I'm not sure I'd recognize any of the other three.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:50000 - What is the name of the NASA spacecraft that touched down on the polar region of Mars in May 2008?

A Daedalus
B Pegasus
C Triton
D Phoenix

PAF [37] - Anna calls her brother-in-law Paul. With a three-second warning, he says Daedalus. Anna goes with his answer and leaves with $25,000.

Spoiler

D Phoenix [25]

This was in the news recently as the lander shut down due to low power. There were several articles that mentioned NASA's hope that it would rise "phoenix-like" when the sun's rays will be stronger.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Man's Best Friend
War Heroes
Title Characters
Surreal Paintings
Mars Exploration
Ancient Cities
Food Chains
Rock On!
Universal Donor
Household Chores
Funny Pages
Looking Good
Slang
Stuffed Animals
50s Music

First ten look good... and that's about it.

$4K: ARGH! I can never remember which of AB or O is the universal donor and which is the universal recipient. I'll have to ATA as well.

$8K: Never heard of this movie. Since Tom Spencer is a rock music genius, I'll ask him as well.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:25000 - What South American country is home to the ruins of the ancient Incan city of Maccu Picu?

A Brazil
B Columbia
C Chile
D Peru

This is a $25,000 question?!

$50K: Perfect PAF question.

Was the correct blood type even listed?

I think it should be O negative. And, now that I've bothered to search, the Mayo Clinic agrees.

ne1410s wrote:Was the correct blood type even listed?

I think it should be O negative. And, now that I've bothered to search, the Mayo Clinic agrees.

It is O- but since none of the types distinguished positive/negative, that's the best answer.

That PAF call had all the markings of a googler;
The long silence,
the request to "repeat the choices",
the confident-sounding answer thrown out in the final seconds...

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but obviously not a googler after all, or perhaps not a very good one. Searching on "may 2008 mars" pulls up nothing but "phoenix" references left and right. Of course it doesn't help that she made no attempt to distill the question.

Both of my sons instantly knew Phoenix since we had all watched together the coverage of the landing.