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Raj scored the highest among Americans competing in the World Trivia Championship. He is going for $50,000 and has used his +1 lifeline.
$50,000: Wildly outnumbering humans and boasting about 1 million species, an estimated 4 out of 5 living animals on earth are nematodes, a type of what?
A - fish
B - mosquito
C - worm
D - ant
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Answer: C (worm)
$100,000: Before fingerprinting became widespread, law enforcement relied heavily on the Bertillon System, which identified criminals how?
A - by measuring various body parts
B - by recording their voices
C - by measuring exact weight
D - by taking hair samples
Spoiler
Answer: A (by measuring various body parts)
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$250,000: One of the longest words in the Bible, Mahershalalhashbaz is the name of a character in which book?
A - Exodus
B - Job
C - Isaiah
D - Judges
Raj hasn't read any of these books so he uses his 50:50.
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"50:50 results": A & C
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Answer: C (Isaiah)
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$500,000: Saying they didn't have room for it, in 1956 New York's Museum of Modern Art rejected a free Andy Warhol drawing of what?
A - an ice cream cone
B - a shoe
C - a telephone booth
D - a dog
Raj asks the audience.
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Ask the Audience results:
A - 20%
B - 13%
C - 42%
D - 25%
A - 20%
B - 13%
C - 42%
D - 25%
Raj isn't willing to take the risk with that distribution so he opts to walk away
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Answer: B (a shoe)
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MILLIONAIRE "QUESTION OF THE DAY": Forty-three years old when audiences saw him don the mask and cape for the first time, which of these actors was the oldest when he first portrayed Batman?
A - Michael Keaton
B - George Clooney
C - Christian Bale
D - Ben Affleck
Spoiler
Answer: D (Ben Affleck)
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