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Gillian West
Pensacola, FL
3rd grade teacher

Gillian teaches at Pea Ridge Elementary, "home of the Chiefs". She's going for $20,000 and has used her 50:50.

$20,000: With a name meaning "earth pig" in Afrikaans, what one-of-a-kind animal is the only surviving member of its order, family and genus?
A - porcupine
B - armadillo
C - platypus
D - aardvark

Gillian doesn't know, so she calls on her +1, her sister Nicole. Nicole was

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leaning away from "armadillo" and thinks it's "porcupine"

. They try to imagine what the animals look like.

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They know the platypus has a duck bill and the porcupine has a bunch of needles

. She decides to ask the audience.

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Ask the Audience results:
A - 23%
B - 15%
C - 14%
D - 48%

Gillian says that's a good percentage. She wants to go with her gut even though it's not telling her anything. She decides to gamble on the audience.

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Answer: D (aardvark)

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Gillian wants to buy books for their reading library and encourage "flexible seating".

$30,000: Not including Mexico and Canada, what foreign nation lies closest to the U.S.?
A - Cuba
B - the Bahamas
C - Russia
D - the Dominican Republic

Gillian has been to the Dominican Republic and the Bahamas. She also knows that

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at some times of the year one can walk to Russia. She also mentions "someone who said they could see Russia"

. She's not a gambler but she's going for it.

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Answer: C (Russia)

$50,000: Because it contains a special amino acid that stimulates the enzymes that break down alcohol, which of these is often touted as a hangover cure?
A - orange juice
B - pork
C - asparagus
D - popcorn

"Oh, goodness," Gillian says. She had hangovers when she was in college. She says

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asparagus is staring her in the face

. She has no lifelines and she's not a risk-taker but she decides to go for it.

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Answer: C (asparagus)

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Gillian can't believe that she took the risk.

$100,000: Before FDR changed it to the single word "infamy," the draft of his famous Pearl Harbor address called December 7, 1941 "a date which will live in" what?
A - eternal memory
B - world history
C - the annals of time
D - shame, cowardice, and treachery

Gillian's gut isn't telling her anything. She doesn't think it's

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B and is leaning toward A

. It's a free guess and she goes with how she was leaning.

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Answer: B (world history)

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MILLIONAIRE "QUESTION OF THE DAY": Though they are eligible for the "Gold Whistle Award" for sports officiating, what league's officiants do not use whistles?
A - NBA
B - NFL
C - MLB
D - NHL

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Answer: C (MLB)

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BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Gillian West
Pensacola, FL
3rd grade teacher

Gillian teaches at Pea Ridge Elementary, "home of the Chiefs". She's going for $20,000 amd has used her 50:50.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$50,000: Because it contains a special amino acid that stimulates the enzymes that break down alcohol, which of these is often touted as a hangover cure?
A - orange juice
B - pork
C - asparagus
D - popcorn

"Oh, goodness," Gillian says. She had hangovers when she was in college. She says

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asparagus is staring her in the face

. She has no lifelines and she's not a risk-taker but she decides to go for it.

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Answer: C (asparagus)

I'd have to use lifelines on this one. Maybe the audience will know.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$100,000: Before FDR changed it to the single word "infamy," the draft of his famous Pearl Harbor address called December 7, 1941 "a date which will live in" what?
A - eternal memory
B - world history
C - the annals of time
D - shame, cowardice, and treachery

Gillian's gut isn't telling her anything. She doesn't think it's

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B and is leaning toward A

. It's a free guess and she goes with how she was leaning.

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Answer: B (world history)

50:50 please.

$30,000: Not including Mexico and Canada, what foreign nation lies closest to the U.S.?
A - Cuba
B - the Bahamas
C - Russia
D - the Dominican Republic

Gillian has been to the Dominican Republic and the Bahamas. She also knows that

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at some times of the year one can walk to Russia. She also mentions "someone who said they could see Russia"

. She's not a gambler but she's going for it.

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Answer: C (Russia)

I'm glad this came up; I might have said Cuba without thinking. As for walking there, I found out how you can do it in this article: https://russianblogger.me/how-to-get-fr ... to-russia/

When the Bering Strait is iced over, you can walk between Little Diomede (U.S.) and Big Diomede (Russia) islands.

$100,000: Before FDR changed it to the single word "infamy," the draft of his famous Pearl Harbor address called December 7, 1941 "a date which will live in" what?
A - eternal memory
B - world history
C - the annals of time
D - shame, cowardice, and treachery

Gillian's gut isn't telling her anything. She doesn't think it's

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B and is leaning toward A

. It's a free guess and she goes with how she was leaning.

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Answer: B (world history)

If I get this far (not a sure thing), I miss this. D is the only one IMHO that would moderate into infamy.