Transcript 10/7/2016 - Jimmy Miller

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Jimmy Miller
Palmdale, CA

$500: Inspiring other states to follow suit, North Carolina saw what jump 16% the year after it introduced the first "Click It or Ticket" campaign in 1993?
A - seat belt use
B - retractible pen sales
C - the number of Internet pop-up ads
D - enrollment in African language classes

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Answer: A (seat belt use)

$1000: Violating his Hindu beliefs, Brittanica says that Mohandas Gandhi's "most shocking" teenage behavior was what?
A - making prank calls
B - doing keg stands
C - eating meat
D - sexting

Jimmy says that

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Hindus consider cows sacred

.

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Answer: C (eating meat)

$2000: According to WebMD, if the answer is "yes," the victim will not be able to respond verbally when you ask them, "Are you" what?
A - dizzy
B - having a leg cramp
C - choking
D - experiencing a midlife crisis

Jimmy has a friend who is incoherent when

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he has a leg cramp

but he's one in a million.

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Answer: C (choking)

$3000: In what Olympic race do competitors travel as fast as they can while facing backwards?
A - racewalking
B - downhill skiing
C - luge
D - rowing

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Answer: D (rowing)

$5000: Which of these hit songs was performed by LeAnn Rimes and NOT by a band whose name rhymes?
A - Blame it on the Rain
B - Dead Man's Party
C - Free Bird
D - How Do I Know

Jimmy knows who sang

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C

but that's all. He asks the audience.

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Ask the Audience results:
A - 14%
B - 4%
C - 3%
D - 79%

Jimmy says he'll trust the audience.

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Answer: D (How Do I Know)

commercial break

Jimmy will use the money to pay off debt and also move out of a converted garage in his girlfriend's mother's house.

$7000: The 2010 book "The Disappearing Spoon" recounts the CIA's alleged plan to kill Fidel Castro by putting what poisonous element where?
A - thallium in his socks
B - magnesium in his underwear
C - barium in his hat
D - lithium in his handkerchief

Jimmy says that

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people take lithium by prescription and barium burns very hot. He decides to use his 50:50

.

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50:50 results: A and B

Jimmy remembers a party trick involving

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putting a magnesium spoon in water and watching it dissolve

. He knows that his +1 is shaking her head hoping he won't call her. He makes

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B

his final answer.

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Answer: A (thallium in his socks)

commercial break


MILLIONAIRE "QUESTION OF THE DAY": What royal lady was a true "Dancing Queen," with a love of the waltz so strong that Johann Strauss composed one in her honor?
A - Eleanor of Aquitaine
B - Marie Antoinette
C - Mary, Queen of Scots
D - Queen Victoria

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Answer: D (Queen Victoria)

[earendel]

Jimmy Miller
Palmdale, CA

$5000: Which of these hit songs was performed by LeAnn Rimes and NOT by a band whose name rhymes?
A - Blame it on the Rain
B - Dead Man's Party
C - Free Bird
D - How Do I Know

Jimmy knows who sang

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C

but that's all. He asks the audience.

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Ask the Audience results:
A - 14%
B - 4%
C - 3%
D - 79%

Jimmy says he'll trust the audience.

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Answer: D (How Do I Know)

I'd have to ATA also. The only one I know of is "Free Bird".

$7000: The 2010 book "The Disappearing Spoon" recounts the CIA's alleged plan to kill Fidel Castro by putting what poisonous element where?
A - thallium in his socks
B - magnesium in his underwear
C - barium in his hat
D - lithium in his handkerchief

Jimmy says that

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people take lithium by prescription and barium burns very hot. He decides to use his 50:50

.

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50:50 results: A and B

Jimmy remembers a party trick involving

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putting a magnesium spoon in water and watching it dissolve

. He knows that his +1 is shaking her head hoping he won't call her. He makes

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B

his final answer.

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Answer: A (thallium in his socks)

I was expecting "arsenic in his cigar". Of the 4 answers, I know that thallium is very poisonous.

[ghostjmf]

I distinctly remember answering on this board yesterday & now can't find it. Oh well.

5K: I only know C as well. ATA

7K: Only thallium is radioactive, & therefore would be poisonous in small dose.

[SportsFan68]

$5000: Which of these hit songs was performed by LeAnn Rimes and NOT by a band whose name rhymes?
A - Blame it on the Rain
B - Dead Man's Party
C - Free Bird
D - How Do I Know

Jimmy knows who sang

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C

but that's all. He asks the audience.

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Ask the Audience results:
A - 14%
B - 4%
C - 3%
D - 79%

Jimmy says he'll trust the audience.

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Answer: D (How Do I Know)

ATA

$7000: The 2010 book "The Disappearing Spoon" recounts the CIA's alleged plan to kill Fidel Castro by putting what poisonous element where?
A - thallium in his socks
B - magnesium in his underwear
C - barium in his hat
D - lithium in his handkerchief

Jimmy says that

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people take lithium by prescription and barium burns very hot. He decides to use his 50:50

.

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50:50 results: A and B

Jimmy remembers a party trick involving

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putting a magnesium spoon in water and watching it dissolve

. He knows that his +1 is shaking her head hoping he won't call her. He makes

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B

his final answer.

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Answer: A (thallium in his socks)

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