John Paddock
Dearborn, MI
middle school science teacher
$500: If you want to preserve fresh herbs, The Pioneer Woman cooking blog recommends freezing them in ice cube trays filled with what common type of oil?
A - motor oil
B - olive oil
C - midnight oil
D - humpback whale oil
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Answer: B (olive oil)
$1000: In 2016, a contestant covered with 43 insect bites won the "tastiest girl" competition at what bizarre annual event held in the Ural Mountains?
A - Russian Mosquito Festival
B - Dutch Butterfly Convention
C - Chilean Ladybug Fair
D - Filipino Cricket Jubilee
John knows nothing about any of these, but he knows which animal bites.
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Answer: A (Russian Mosquito Festival)
$2000: Showing propaganda videos as in-flight entertainment, what country's state-owned airline Air Koryo was named by Skytrax as the world's worst?
A - Switzerland
B - North Korea
C - Norway
D - Australia
Spoiler
Answer: B (North Korea)
$3000: Ironically, which of the following English words can be found within the Italian word for "goodbye"?
A - greet
B - enter
C - arrive
D - meet
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Answer: C (arrive)
$5000: The "MTrain Tour," "That Bass Tour" and "The Untouchable Tour" were all headlined by what Grammy-winning artist known for her retro singing style?
A - Meghan Trainor
B - Selena Gomez
C - Rihanna
D - Carrie Underwood
Spoiler
Answer: A (Meghan Trainor)
$7000: The fear of palindromes is appropriately known as what "phobia"?
A - mysophobia
B - astraphobia
C - aibohphobia
D - cynophobia
John is happy about this question because he knows what a palindrome is.
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Answer: C (aibohphobia)
commercial break
$10,000: While the .dog domain recently became available for canine lovers to use, the .cat domain has already been taken by residents of a region in which country?
A - France
B - Germany
C - England
D - Spain
John says he has nothing. He hopes the audience can get him on the right track so he asks them.
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Ask the Audience results:
A - 20%
B - 7%
C - 17%
D - 56%
A - 20%
B - 7%
C - 17%
D - 56%
He's going to lean on the audience.
Spoiler
Answer: D (Spain)
$20,000: Three of these choices are titles of movies starring Brad Pitt, with one letter removed. Which one is NOT?
A - The Big Shot
B - Munch
C - Toy
D - Fur
John's +1 is someone he brought for this specific reason - she's knowledgeable about movies. John is confident about two of them. He brings down Amy, his sister-in-law. She's a big Brad Pitt fan. She agrees that
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A is The Big Short and C is Troy. B is Munich but that isn't a Brad Pitt Movie, and D is Fury
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Answer: B (Munich)
commercial break
MILLIONAIRE "QUESTION OF THE DAY"In a creative fundraising initiative, the nonprofit organization Discover Life In America is selling the opportunity to do what?:
A - invent a language
B - hunt big game
C - travel to space
D - name a species
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Answer: D (name a species)
$30,000: Though removed in the final draft, the Declaration of Independence originally included a paragraph condemning what?
A - the ownership of firearms
B - women's inability to vote
C - the slave trade
D - freedom of the press
John knows that he can eliminate
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A and D
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"50:50 results": B & C
John jokes that this made it much easlier for him. His goal was to get some life-changing money and he's right on the threshold. His students would tell him a bird in the hand is better than two in the bush.
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Answer: C (the slave trade)
END OF SHOW "NOISE"