Transcript 11/11/2016 - Cortez Brokenbrough

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Transcript 11/11/2016 - Cortez Brokenbrough

#1 Post by BBTranscriptTeam » Tue Nov 15, 2016 6:23 am

Cortez Brokenbrough
New Castle, DE


Cortez served in the Air Force and was elected "king" of his air base. Chris says he heard Cortez was known for his singing; Cortez says that his wife wrote some lyrics and he set them to music - the song is about being on the show.

$500: Someone who makes a lot of money while doing little work for it is commonly said to be riding a what?
A - freight train
B - gravy train
C - bridal train
D - soul train
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Answer: B (gravy train)
$1000: Largely due to France ending the practice of military conscription, reduced demand has left the country with only one supplier of traditional what?
A - croissants
B - paintings
C - berets
D - wines
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Answer: C (berets)
$2000: In 2016, NPR experienced a minute of dead air after a "junior journalist" pressed the wrong button, a mishap that occurred on what special day?
A - St. Patrick's Day
B - Arbor Day
C - Take Your Child to Work Day
D - New Year's Day

Cortez says that he has "junior people" that work with him -
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his children
.
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Answer: C (Take Your Child to Work Day)
$3000: What 2016 Broadway musical employs a "pie consultant" who makes a fresh pie before each performance to send an authentic aroma through the theater?
A - The Book of Mormon
B - School of Rock
C - Waitress
D - The Lion King
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Answer: C (Waitress)
$5000: Researchers have recently made major advances in their study of the gene NEK-1, thanks to donations from the Ice Bucket Challenge, created to help fight what?
A - diabetes
B - ALS
C - leukemia
D - autism
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Answer: B (ALS)
commercial break

$7000: Partly due to its banker villain, what movie did the House Un-American Activities Committee suspect of being Communist propaganda when it was first released?
A - Pinocchio
B - Casablanca
C - The Graduate
D - It's a Wonderful Life

Cortez thinks he knows this and, because he's in Las Vegas, he's willing to gamble.
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Answer: D (It's a Wonderful Life)
$10,000: If you travel outside the United States, it may be helpful to know that 37 degrees Celsius is considered what?
A - freezing point of water
B - boiling point of water
C - normal body temperature
D - room temperature

Cortez isn't sure so he asks the audience.
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Ask the Audience results:
A - 17%
B - 10%
C - 52%
D - 21%
Cortez says that's pretty compelling.
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Answer: C (normal body temperature)
$20,000: Five hundred fifty-five feet tall and weighing over 80,000 tons, what was briefly the world's tallest structure before being surpassed by the Eiffel Tower?
A - Washington Monument
B - Gateway Arch
C - Golden Gate Bridge
D - Statue of Liberty

Cortez has an idea but he uses his 50:50 to make sure.
50:50 results
A and D
That doesn't help so Cortez calls for his +1, his best friend since high school, Michael. Michael doesn't know, but he does know that the French gave us the Statue of Liberty and thinks it would be just like the French to pull a prank. He thinks the answer is
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D
. Cortez goes with
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A
.
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Answer: A (Washington Monument)
commercial break

MILLIONAIRE "QUESTION OF THE DAY": In addition to land mines, soldiers at the Battle of El Alamein faced which hazard during World War II?
A - poison ivy
B - avalanches
C - quicksand
D - hay fever
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Answer: C (quicksand)
commercial break

$30,000: Made only in its factory in Israel, Charoset is a limited edition Ben & Jerry's ice cream inspired by a ritual food traditionally eaten on what Jewish holiday?
A - Passover
B - Hanukkah
C - Yom Kippur
D - Rosh Hashanah

Cortez says that
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Passover is known for having different food types
and that
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Hanukkah is a celebration
. He can't decide so he walks away.
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Answer: A (Passover)
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Re: Transcript 11/11/2016 - Cortez Brokenbrough

#2 Post by earendel » Tue Nov 15, 2016 6:46 am

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Cortez Brokenbrough
New Castle, DE


Cortez served in the Air Force and was elected "king" of his air base. Chris says he heard Cortez was known for his singing; Cortez says that his wife wrote some lyrics and he set them to music - the song is about being on the show.
BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$30,000: Made only in its factory in Israel, Charoset is a limited edition Ben & Jerry's ice cream inspired by a ritual food traditionally eaten on what Jewish holiday?
A - Passover
B - Hanukkah
C - Yom Kippur
D - Rosh Hashanah

Cortez says that
Spoiler
Passover is known for having different food types
and that
Spoiler
Hanukkah is a celebration
. He can't decide so he walks away.
Spoiler
Answer: A (Passover)
Doesn't charoset taste like horseradish? Strange flavor for ice cream.
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Re: Transcript 11/11/2016 - Cortez Brokenbrough

#3 Post by ghostjmf » Tue Nov 15, 2016 8:57 am

10K: I try to do conversions w/ figures I can't remember, I rule out A& B, I call +1
Not my finest minute

20K: B & C not right time frame (built much later); not sure when A built. 50/50, ATA. Probablly go home here

30K: Pity I don't get to see this, because charosis (by the European pronunciation for Hebrew I grew up with) is one of my favorite things. On Passover its a symbolic stand-in for mortar the Jewish slaves used in building. Although they didn't eat their mortar.

Its chopped apples, chopped nuts, & Concord grape (in the US, anyway!) wine.

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Re: Transcript 11/11/2016 - Cortez Brokenbrough

#4 Post by ghostjmf » Tue Nov 15, 2016 9:06 am

ear: horseradish is "moror", meaning "bitter" in Hebrew (same linguistic root as name Mary), "chrain", (with that Hebrew "ch"), as name of veggie in Yiddish.

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Re: Transcript 11/11/2016 - Cortez Brokenbrough

#5 Post by SportsFan68 » Tue Nov 22, 2016 11:21 pm

$30,000: Made only in its factory in Israel, Charoset is a limited edition Ben & Jerry's ice cream inspired by a ritual food traditionally eaten on what Jewish holiday?
A - Passover
B - Hanukkah
C - Yom Kippur
D - Rosh Hashanah

Cortez says that
Spoiler
Passover is known for having different food types
and that
Spoiler
Hanukkah is a celebration
. He can't decide so he walks away.
Spoiler
Answer: A (Passover)
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