Chris Burns
Albany, NY
Chris a medical professor & EMT.
$500
In 1951, the first winner of the Miss World contest, Kiki Hakansson, was condemned by Pope Pius XII after she was crowned while wearing what?
A: A monocle B: A bikini
C: A sandwich board D: An "I'm With Stupid" T-shirt
Spoiler
B: A bikini
$1,000
While it may sound like a meal cooked by a rude, careless person, which of these is actually a classic Caribbean dish of spicy poultry?
A: Jerk chicken B: Twerp steak
C: Lameload pork chops D: Slimebag sausage
Spoiler
A: Jerk chicken
$2,000
Played by Johnny Depp in a movie, Joseph Pistone is a former undercover FBI agent who spent six years infiltrating the Bonanno crime family, using what alias?
A: Willy Wonka B: Gilbert Grape
C: Donnie Brasco D: Edward Scissorhands
Chris knows it's not
Spoiler
Willy Wonka or Edward Scissorhands
Spoiler
A: 1% B: 1% C: 96% D: 2%
Spoiler
C: Donnie Brasco
$3,000
As they're used in many health remedies, Chinese "ranchers" are making good money raising millions of what famously indestructible six-legged pests?
A: Cockroaches B: Spiders
C: Rats D: Millipedes
Spoiler
A: Cockroaches
$5,000
As the first part of the term suggests, a genogram most closely resembles which of these types of charts?
A: TV listings B: A family tree
C: A graph of sleep patterns D: A stock's value tracked over time
Spoiler
B: A family tree
$7,000
As of 2016, how many different women have served on the U.S. Supreme Court?
A: 3 B: 4
C: 5 D: 6
Chris can think of
Spoiler
at least 3 which makes sense given the options. He thinks 6 is too much
Spoiler
50/50 leaves 4 & 6.
Spoiler
B: 4
First commercial break
Chris says if he won the million he and his wife would settle down & stop moving from town to town.
$10,000
Eight years after exclaiming "It's raining men!" as part of The Weather Girls, Martha Wash belted out what famous line in a 1990 C+C Music Factory hit?
A: Don't go chasin' waterfalls! B: You're unbelievable!
C: Everybody dance now! D: Groove is in the heart!
Spoiler
C: Everybody dance now!
$20,000
The setting for the first season of "Survivor," what Pacific island contains parts of three different countries?
A: Borneo B: Tasmania
C: New Guinea D: Timor
Chris did not watch "Survivor"
Spoiler
Chris's +1 is his wife, Stephanie. Steph did not watch "Survivor" either. She doesn't think Tasmania is in the right area. She knows there's an East Timor, but she's leaning toward New Guinea
Steph tells him to go with the guess, which is against character—usually, she tells him to cash out when he's gambling and he usually doesn't listen—sometimes that's good; sometimes it's not so good.
Spoiler
Chris guesses New Guinea
The correct answer is A: Borneo
Chris wins $5,000
The correct answer is A: Borneo
Chris wins $5,000
Second commercial break