Charles Horowitz
Weston, FL
13 years old
Charles's IQ has been measured at genius level.
$500: Which of these is a type of dumpling used in a Chinese soup and NOT a type of particle analyzed in physics?
A - photon
B - gluon
C - lepton
D - wonton
Charles knows what some of these are, especially that
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wontons are used in Chinese cooking
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Answer: D (wonton)
A - In Case You Missed It
B - I Challenge Your Monkey's Intelligence
C - Ice Cream? Yum! May I?
D - I'm Carpooling with Your Mambo Instructor
Charles says that people might use
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C
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Answer: A (In Case You Missed It)
A - Maine
B - Alaska
C - Oregon
D - New Mexico
Charles knows which state is the 49th.
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Answer: B (Alaska)
$3000: Melting down pennies to sell the metal carries a fine of up to $10,000, which one could pay with exactly how many pennies?
A - 100,000
B - 1 million
C - 10 million
D - 1 billion
Charles says he learned a trick in the 5th grade;
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he added 2 zeroes to $10,000, which eliminates D and C
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Answer: B (1 million)
A - eastern Ukraine
B - northern Norway
C - central Germany
D - southern France
Charles doesn't know so he uses his "Cut the Question" lifeline.
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Answer: C (central Germany)
A - star in the Milky Way
B - species of animal
C - element on the periodic table
D - mechanical invention
Charles says that
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A would be astronomy and B isn't chemistry, nor is D
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Answer: C (element on the periodic table)
A - ponytails
B - hats
C - facial hair
D - eyeglasses
Charles doesn't think that it's
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A or B, and Roosevelt has glasses; Lincoln has a beard
50:50 results
A & C
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Answer: C (facial hair)
$10,000: To win the popular iPhone game 2048, you slide numbered tiles on a grid until you create a tile with the number 2048, also known as 2 to the what power?
A - 10
B - 11
C - 12
D - 13
Charles runs through the powers of 2 to come up with the answer.
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Answer: B (11)
A - Bangladesh
B - Nepal
C - Pakistan
D - Kyrgystan
Charles knows that
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India and China
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C isn't surrounded by China and A is only surrounded by India. D is "just out there"
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Answer: B (Nepal)
MILLIONAIRE "QUESTION OF THE DAY" What unique prize is given to winners of the Teen Choice Awards?:
A - surfboard
B - electric guitar
C - gold sunglasses
D - scooter
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Answer: A (surfboard)
A - ostrich
B - kangaroo
C - scorpion
D - lobster
Charles says that
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ostriches don't really have tails
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Ask the Audience results:
A - 1%
B - 30%
C - 32%
D - 37%
A - 1%
B - 30%
C - 32%
D - 37%
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Answer: B (kangaroo)
Charles will return on Monday to finish his run.