"Millionaire" 9/24

Remember, this is really the start of the season's first Double Your Money Week. Those players who bomb out in R1 still get $1K, but those one-question audience players who answer their question at the end of an episode will receive $2K.

First up from the regular contestant department will be Phyllis Jackson from The Big Apple (who has sold clothing to famous people in Chicago, including President Obama).

Pre-Randomized Topics: Doing Time, Spectacular Stunts, Special Serenade, Bold Claims, Famous Posters, Empire States, Proud Papa, Get Your Vaccines, Secret Spies & Fruit Facts
Randomized Category List: Empire States, Secret Spies, Famous Posters, Doing Time, Spectacular Stunts, Fruit Facts, Proud Papa, Bold Claims (DOUBLE MONEY), Get Your Vaccines & Special Serenade

1. Possibly due to its confusing ceremonies & laws, what medieval empire's name became an adjective meaning "complicated"?

A: Macedonian
B: Assyrian
C: Byzantine
D: Phoenician

FA: Byzantine- $7K

2. Often disguised as a poor farm wife, whose intelligence work for the Union army earned her a place at the International Spy Museum?

A: Susan B. Anthony
B: Harrier Beecher Stowe
C: Mary Todd Lincoln
D: Harriet Tubman

FIRST JUMP USED (A: Tubman; she would've lost $6K by locking in Anthony)- $3K

3. Now seen on everything from coffee cups to t-shirts, what morale-boosting slogan was originally issued as a poster by the British government in 1939?

A: Keep calm & cheerio
B: Keep calm & chin up
C: Keep calm & tally-ho
D: Keep calm & carry on

FA: Keep calm & carry on- $2K ($9K)

4. A person who's given "25-to-life" is being sent to prison for what minimum amount of time?

A: 25 hours
B: 25 days
C: 25 minutes
D: 25 years

FA: 25 yrs.- $500 ($9.5K)

5. Because he was crossing an international border, Nik Wallenda carried a passport on his tightrope walk over what tourist destination this yr.?

A: Niagara Falls
B: Hoover Dam
C: Grand Canyon
D: Mount Rushmore

FA: Niagara Falls- $25K ($34.5K)

6. Giving the "Peach State" a bit of an identity crisis, Georgia's best-selling fruit crop since 2010 has been what?

A: Cherries
B: Watermelon
C: Blueberries
D: Grapefruit

ASK THE AUDIENCE

A: 24%
B: 34%
C: 22%
D: 20%

OTHER JUMP USED (A: Blueberries)- $1K

7. What TV news anchor joked that he felt "unmitigated joy" at watching his daughter's awkward lovemaking scenes in the HBO series "Girls"?

A: Bill O'Reilly
B: Sean Hannity
C: Brian Williams
D: Wolf Blitzer

FA: Brian Williams- $100 ($34,600)

8. Scientists at a 2011 conference declared they were "95% sure" that what mythical creature's real & lives in the Russian tundra?

A: Bigfoot
B: El Chupacabra
C: Unicorn
D: Griffin

FA: Bigfoot (even though her dad's probably telling her to stop)- $30K ($64,600)

9. Edward Jenner was led to his vaccine for smallpox from an old wives' tale that claimed what workers were immune to the disease?

A: Tanners
B: Milkmaids
C: Fishermen
D: Brewers

BAILOUT W/ $32,300 (A: Milkmaids, which she was leaning towards)

Q of the Day: In the Disney movie "Beauty and the Beast", what 1970s teen idol provided the voice of the Beast?

A: Leif Garrett
B: Shaun Cassidy
C: Robby Benson
D: Donny Osmond

A: Robby Benson

$2K Player: Daniel Tennenbaum (a second-year medical student at the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey)

At a '11 benefit concert, Lady GaGa proclaimed "I am having my first Marilyn moment" after singing what to Bill Clinton?

A: "Happy Anniversary"
B: "Happy Easter"
C: "Happy July 4th"
D: "Happy Birthday"

FA: "Happy Birthday"- WIN!

EPISODE RATING: 7