Long Beach, CA
Teacher and father of triplets who just turned 14
$500 :
In recent years, many U.S. cities have upgraded their traditional coin-operated parking meters to take what modern form of payment?
A: Credit cards B: Magic beans
C: Gold bars D: Squirrel pelts
Spoiler
A: Credit cards
$1000 :
After the surgery that made him the first recipient of an artificial heart, Barney Clark professed to his wife, "Even though I have no heart, I still...," what?
A: Have heartburn B: Want a divorce
C: Should go easy on the deep-fried Oreos D: Love you
Spoiler
D: Love you
$2000 :
Downloaded more than a billion times, what music app used to identify songs shares its name with the DC Comics superhero who's Billy Batson's alter ego?
A: Shazam B: Kazaam
C: Shiraz D: Bazinga
Spoiler
A: Shazam
Second break
$3000 :
Adding one letter to the end of which hotel chain's name will spell the name of a holy month of Islam?
A: Marriott B: Westin
C: Hyatt D: Ramada
Spoiler
D: Ramada
$5000 :
Also the author of a memoir and a book of poetry, 1971's "Tarantula," who won the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature on the strength of his song lyrics?
A: Neil Young B: Bob Dylan
C: Leonard Cohen D: Bruce Springsteen
Spoiler
B: Bob Dylan
$7000 :
By writing "stet" beside it and placing a series of dots under it, a copy editor is suggesting the writer do what to an edited word?
A: Put it in boldface B: Leave it unchanged
C: Delete it D: Add quotation marks
Spoiler
A: 22% B: 24%
C: 29% D: 25%
C: 29% D: 25%
Spoiler
50/50 left B and D, leaving out the 25%
Spoiler
Ruben said his reasoning is that if you were going to leave it unchanged, you would not put marks around it so he will go with D
Spoiler
B: Leave it unchanged
Ruben left with $5000
Ruben left with $5000
Third break
QotD
Claiming to have the most cheesemakers per capita in the U.S., what state launched its first Cheesemakers Festival in 2009?
A: Vermont B: Idaho
C: Virginia D: Louisiana
Spoiler
A: Vermont