Yash Kadadi
Atlanta, GA
Yash is going for $20,000. He has his 50:50 and +1 lifelines remaining. Yash has an alter ego, either "DJ Kadadi" or "Yash Daddy" because he did a math rap.
$20,000: Because it's evenly divisible by every integer between 1 and 10, what did Plato consider to be an ideal number?
A - 1,880
B - 3,450
C - 5,040
D - 7,770
Yash says that they are all divisible by 1, 2 and 5. He then notes that
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to be divisible by 3 the digits must sum up to a number divisible by 3, so he eliminates 1,880
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Answer: C (5,040)
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$30,000: Though it was supposed to cure his fever, what toxic element with the symbol Sb may have fatally poisoned Mozart?
A - antimony
B - arsenic
C - bismuth
D - tungsten
Yash made it a point to distinguish between
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tin and antimony because they have similar symbols -Sn and Sb. He's sure that tin is Sn
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Answer: A (antimony)
$50,000: Argentina is greater in area than Belgium. Belgium has more people than Canada. Canada has more islands than Denmark. How many of those statements are true?
A - none of the above
B - one of the above
C - two of the above
D - all of the above
Yash says that
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the first statement is true, he doubts the second is true and doesn't know about the third one
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"50:50 results": C & D
Yash says that makes it a lot easier.
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Answer: C (two of the above)
$100,000: Which of the following words does Thesaurus.com list as a synonym for "synonym"?
A - metonym
B - ananym
C - demonym
D - allonym
Yash doesn't think it's
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C
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ananym sounds like antonym so he eliminates it
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allonym he thought of allotrope, a chemical term referring to two elements that are the same but differ in configuration
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metonym is like higher level or different, as in metadata or metamorphosis
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Answer: A (metonym)
Yash wins $50,000.
Yash wins $50,000.
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