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Millionaire’s Grand Giveaway Week

Celebrating Millionaire’s 1,000th episode.
Each contestant this week will start at the $2K question.

Gabe Castellanos
Hampton, NJ

$2K In the classic party song “Celebration” by Kool & The Gang, what phrase repeatedly follows the instruction “Celebrate good times”?
A. That’s right!
B. Oh yeah!
C. Come on!
D. Get down!

$4K Which of these professional sports leagues does not include a team from Canada?
A. Major League Baseball
B. National Basketball Association
C. National Hockey League
D. National Football League

ATA

0% A. Major League Baseball
26% B. National Basketball Association
1% C. National Hockey League
73% D. National Football League

$8K In 2007, a little white dog named Trouble made headlines by inheriting $12 million from the estate of whom?
A. Leona Helmsley
B. Tammy Faye Messner
C. Merv Griffin
D. Anna Nicole Smith

$16K A large bridge spanning the New River gorge is depicted on the 2005 commemorative quarter of what state?
A. Oregon
B. Kansas
C. West Virginia
D. California

50/50 leaves B. Kansas and C. West Virginia.

commercial break

Millionaire’s Grand Giveaway Winners

Rick Bunnell – Rockaway, NJ
Raymond Bustamantes – Fresno, CA
Frances Carty – Emeryville, CA
Christy Hewlett – Dover, NH
Blake Rhood – New London Township, PA

The show returns from commercial with a video clip of Regis & Kelly congratulating Meredith on her 1000th episode.

$25K What term describes people who experience flavors more intensely because they were born with extra taste buds?
A. Megamouths
B. Supertasters
C. Flavorfiends
D. Hypertongues

PAF – Tracy, a co-worker of Gabe’s.

Tracy says that she would say hypertongue.
When Gabe asks her how certain she is, she says “Not very.”

Gabe decides to leave with $16K.

Answers:
$2K C. Come on!
$4K D. National Football League
$8K A. Leona Helmsley
$16K C. West Virginia
$25K B. Supertasters

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Gabe Castellanos
Hampton, NJ

Northwestern NJ: WABC viewing area-Where else?

And, by coincidence, where a cousin of mine lives.

OK, how many river gorges are there in Kansas??? I remember driving through it on a family trip as a kid and didn't see any gorges with bridges. Geez, don't people even STUDY geography?

I read about supertasters somewhere.

Kazoo65 wrote:OK, how many river gorges are there in Kansas??? I remember driving through it on a family trip as a kid and didn't see any gorges with bridges. Geez, don't people even STUDY geography?

Plenty of rivers in Kansas, I think, though not so many gorges.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: Gabe Castellanos
Hampton, NJ

I presume this is in the WE area.

During the "pregame chat" Gabe said that his wife would call him and ask him the questions. He said he was good with those that were over $25K, at which point I commented to elwing, "Well, cue the funeral music."

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$4K Which of these professional sports leagues does not include a team from Canada?
A. Major League Baseball
B. National Basketball Association
C. National Hockey League
D. National Football League

I was surprised at the strong spike for the second-place answer, especially since I believe the Raptors play the Knicks several times a season.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$16K A large bridge spanning the New River gorge is depicted on the 2005 commemorative quarter of what state?
A. Oregon
B. Kansas
C. West Virginia
D. California

I lost my wedding ring while tubing on the New River. Gabe got a break on the 50/50 - there aren't many gorges in Kansas.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$25K What term describes people who experience flavors more intensely because they were born with extra taste buds?
A. Megamouths
B. Supertasters
C. Flavorfiends
D. Hypertongues

Gabe did the right thing since his PAF didn't come through. This didn't seem like a very hard question, unlike many at this value.

So do we know anyone on the list of the "Grand Giveaway" winners?

It still makes me wonder about people not having google PaFs. Really?!?!

peacock2121 wrote:It still makes me wonder about people not having google PaFs. Really?!?!

It seems like a no-brainer to people like us, but the average person may not think about using someone who can search, or may consider it unfair to use a search engine. But in Gabe's case (and Danyle's later) a Google PAF would have come in very handy.