Elmwood Park, NJ
$500: According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, only 2.5% of Americans are doing it at 6 PM, but 95.1% are doing it at 3 AM. What is it?
A - betting on dog races
B - eating Double Stuf Oreos
C - sleeping
D - trying on swimsuits
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Answer: C (sleeping)
$1000: Before doing actual hands-on work with Habitat for Humanity, what did President Jimmy Carter have built for his daughter Amy on the White House grounds?
A - tree house
B - outhouse
C - a NASCAR racetrack
D - igloo
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Answer: A (tree house)
$2000: Which of these is a word meaning "foolish things" and NOT a sign over a theater, a French nobleman or the frontman of the '90s hip-hop group the Funky Bunch?
A - marquis
B - marquee
C - Marky Mark
D - malarky
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Answer: D (malarky)
$3000: As you might guess from their names, Santa Fe Grande and Devil's Tongue are two common varieties of what?
A - cherry tomatoes
B - hot peppers
C - baby carrots
D - purple kale
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Answer: B (hot peppers)
$5000: Which director has helmed two blockbuster films whose titles can be defined as "the incarnation of a Hindu deity" and "having great magnitude, force, or power"?
A - Steven Spielberg
B - George Lucas
C - James Cameron
D - Tim Burton
Dan is not a movie buff so he asks the audience.
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Ask the Audience results:
A - 22%
B - 59%
C - 10%
D - 9%
A - 22%
B - 59%
C - 10%
D - 9%
Dan says when he thinks of
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George Lucas he thinks of Star Wars
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"50:50 results": C & D
"Very interesting," Dan says. "This has taken quite the turn." Dan knows
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James Cameron did "Titanic"
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Tim Burton did "The Princess Bride" and James Cameron did "Avatar"
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Answer: C (James Cameron)
commercial break
$7000: As Rihanna could probably tell you, Bridgetown is the capital of what Caribbean nation?
A - The Bahamas
B - Barbados
C - Haiti
D - Dominican Republic
Dan knows it's not
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Haiti, because that's Port-au-Prince, and he doesn't think it's the Dominican Republic
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The Bahamas
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Answer: B (Barbados)
Dan wins $5,000.
Dan wins $5,000.