Tutor
Los Angeles, Cal.
$7,000
U.C.-Berkeley offers a linguistics course taught by David J. Peterson, who’s credited with creating the Dothraki language for what TV show?
A: Star Trek: The Next Generation B: Stranger Things
C: Game of Thrones D: Dr. Who
Spoiler
C: Game of Thrones
$10,000
Sambal Oelek, a trendy chili paste from Indonesia, derives the second part of its name from what kitchen tool that’s known in Mexican cooking as a molcajete?
A: Vegetable peeler B: Mortar and pestle
C: Melon baller D: Nutcracker
Spoiler
B: Mortar and pestle
$20,000
Which of these is NOT currently one of the official songs traditionally played just before a Triple Crown horse race?
A: My Old Kentucky Home B: Maryland, My Maryland
C: New York, New York D: Beautiful Ohio
Spoiler
D: Beautiful Ohio
$30,000
What Boeing helicopter is named after a Native American tribe that, like Boeing, hails from the Pacific Northwest?
A: Apache B: Chinook
C: Comanche D: Black Hawk
Spoiler
B: Chinook
Commercial break
$50,000
With roots dating back to 1881, which of the following British organizations uses the Latin motto “Vita donum Dei”?
A: Royal Pharmaceutical Society B: Royal College of General Practitioners
C: Royal College of Midwives D: Royal College of Psychiatrists
Spoiler
C: Royal College of Midwives
Commercial break
$100,000
Though he was raised by his mother and stepfather, which of these super-rich Americans is the biological son of a circus unicyclist?
A: Michael Bloomberg B: Jeff Bezos
C: Steve Ballmer D: Warren Buffett
Spoiler
A: 15% B: 37% C: 15% D: 33%
Spoiler
Muffy’s +1 is her friend Maryn. She doesn’t know either.
Spoiler
50/50 leaves Bezos and Ballmer. Muffy guesses Bezos.
Spoiler
B: Jeff Bezos
Commercial break
QotD
Consumer Reports says if you follow the manufacturer’s maintenance schedule, your car can go up to 100K miles before needing new what?
A: Tires B: Spark plugs
C: Oil D: Brakes
Spoiler
B: Spark plugs
$250,000
In an early draft of the first story featuring his iconic literary sleuth, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle referred to the Sherlock Holmes character by which of these names?
A: Sherbourne Holmes B: Sherrinford Holmes
C: Sherfield Holmes D: Shervington Holmes
Muffy says Dr. Watson was originally called Ormond Sacker, but doesn’t know this about Holmes. She decides to walk.
Spoiler
B: Sherrinford Holmes
Muffy wins $100,000.
Muffy wins $100,000.