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This week is Happy Couples Week. Every time a recently-engaged couple gets the $5,000 question correct they'll also win two tickets to the Eiffel Tower Experience at Paris Las Vegas.

Paul Abreu & Kristin Difrancesco
New York, NY
Paul & Kristin have been engaged for about eight months, since Christmas Day.
Kristin is in charge of locking in their final answer.

$500
Showing the value of community, a recent study found that married couples are much less likely to get divorced if their wedding had over 200 what?
A: Guests B: Flower girls
C: DJs D: Inappropriate toasts


$1000
The poem "Solitude" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox begins with the famous line, "Laugh, and the world laughs with you..." What's the next line?
A: Weep, and you weep alone B: Sneeze and you sneeze alone
C: Yawn, and you yawn alone D: Yodel, and you yodel alone


$2,000
With its legs a popular French delicacy, the animal with the scientific name Pelophylax exculentus is also known by what fitting common name?
A: Yummy donkey B: Edible frog
C: Tasty gerbil D: Delicious termite


$3,000
Although more famous for the brand of aircraft that bears his name, Bill Lear is also credited with inventing what music playback format in 1964?
A: MP3 B: 8-track tape
C: Compact disc D: Record player


$5,000
Accidentally stepping on the guillotiner's foot, whose famous last words were "Pardon me sir, I meant not to do it"?
A: Marie Antoinette B: William Wallace
C: Joan of Arc D: Benito Mussolini


First commercial break

$7,000
Which of these statements is NOT true about the contents of a blackjack show containing 8 full decks of cards?
A: There are 32 aces B: There are 96 face cards
C: There are 208 red cards D: There are 120 even-numbered cards

Paul & Kristin talk it out to figure out the math. After a few minutes, Kirstin asks Paul so D is our final answer?, locking in their answer by mistake.

Second commercial break

$10,000
The rock group ABBA's name was created by combining its four members' first initials. What gender do the four letters represent, respectively?
A: Man, woman, woman, man B: Man, man, man, woman
C: Woman, man, man, woman D: Woman, woman, woman, man

Kirstin is almost 100% sure the group is made up of 2 men and 2 women ruling out B & D but Paul only knows their songs and has no idea about the makeup of the band. If she had to guess Kirstin would say one of the women's name started with A but they don't have to guess...


Third commercial break
$20,000
Which of these celebrities is the only one who is engaged to a Major League Baseball player, and NOT married to a current or former NFL football player?
A: Kristin Cavallari B: Kate Upton
C: Ciara D: Kerry Washington



The horn
Paul & Kristin will return on Tuesday.

7K: This is famous mistake lock-in. Or not really, but in previous thread we're told that verification was edited out.

20K: I'd have needed ATA & maybe both other lifelines.

I don't know about the chronology of this show's taping but Kate Upton and Justin Verlander got married on November 4, 2017. It was a big deal here in Houston because that was just a few days after the Astros won the World Series. Verlander missed the victory parade because he and Upton were on their way to Italy for the wedding. So no longer engaged. Of course, none of the other answers would be correct either.

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No matter where you go, there you are.

This episode was recorded in early August.

So the show was taped in August.


elwing likes to tell the story of an experience she had in high school. She was asked a question in a math class that required her to know how many cards were in a deck. elwing grew up in a very strict Southern Baptist household and she didn't know how many cards were in a deck. She told the teacher, who refused to believe her.


Supermodels and sports figures are outside my wheelhouse, so I'd have to ATA on this one.

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"Elen sila lumenn omentielvo...A star shines on the hour of our meeting."

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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
Groucho Marx

Only after the contestants noted that Upton was a supermodel.

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"Elen sila lumenn omentielvo...A star shines on the hour of our meeting."