Special Sub-Topic: Millionaire Game Show II Authored by: quizmiz Sub-topic of: Millionaire Style

{$100:} What color is milk?

white. Milk is white because of the protein casein and also because the cream in milk contains a white-colored fat.

{$200:} When it's pouring rain outside, people sometimes say 'it's raining cats and _____.'

dogs.

{$300:} When you bait a hook and throw it into a stream or a lake, you are most likely trying to catch what?

a fish.

{$500:} If you can't supply what is best, a common expression says that 'you can't cut the ________.' (Lifeline hint: it's more golden than yellow.)

mustard.

{$1,000:} New York City is also known by what nickname?

The Big Apple. The Big Orange is Los Angeles. The Big Easy is New Orleans. The Big Traffic Jam would be a good second nickname for New York City.

{$2,000:} 'BTW' is a commonly seen acronym on computer bulletin boards and in chatrooms. What does 'BTW' stand for?

by the way.

{$4,000:} The largest of the Hawaiian Islands is: (Lifeline hint: James Michener wrote a book with this title.)

Hawaii. Hawaii aka 'The Big Island.' Maui is second. Oahu is third. Molokai is fifth. Missing is the fourth largest, 'The Garden Isle' aka what?

{$8,000:} Who is the only president who has ever paid off the national debt? (Lifeline hint: our 7th {president;} orphaned {young;} very {poor;} lived in a log cabin.)

Andrew Jackson. Andrew Jackson our 7th president.

{$16,000:} What is pot-au-feu?

boiled meat and potatoes. A French boiled dinner which literally means 'pot on the fire.'

{$32,000:} What is the capital of Northern Ireland?

Belfast.

{$64,000:} Where is the largest radio (dish-antenna) telescope located?

Puerto Rico. Near Arecibo, PR, it's 1,000 feet in diameter and covers 25 square acres. The other location choices all have large dish-antenna telescopes as well.

{$125,000:} Who invented velcro?

George de Mestral. Out for a walk one day with his dog in the 1940's de Mestral (of Switzerland) noticed cockleburs stuck to the dog and to his own clothing upon returning home. Studied under the microscope, the burrs have a natural hook-like shape. The name 'velcro' comes from velour and crochet. Sybilla Masters was the first American inventor in recorded history. Charles Macintosh invented a way of waterproofing clothing. Sally Fox grows cotton which doesn't need to be dyed because it grows in beautiful browns, oranges and yellows, naturally.

{$250,000:} The book 'Wild Blue' by Stephen Ambrose is an account of B24 pilots over Germany during WWII. Who is featured as the main character of the book?

George McGovern. Jimmy Carter was a navy man as well as our 39th president. He graduated 59th in a class of 820 from the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis. Gerald Ford our 38th president served in the navy during WWII as an aviation operations officer. Hubert Humphrey was our 38th vice president (to Lyndon Johnson).

{$500,000:} In the movie 'Gone In 60 Seconds' legendary car thief Memphis Raines (Nicolas Cage) must steal fifty cars in order to save his brother's life. What car does he steal last?

Ford Shelby GT 500. The Shelby GT is named for famed auto racer Carroll Shelby.

{$1,000,000:} In genetics, the definition of an allele typically includes what:

different colors of flower petals in peas. CONGRATULATIONS if you answered all 15 without a lifeline! You must be a true 'brainiac.' As you know, Allele is any of two or more alternative forms of a gene occupying a specific position on a {chromosome;} such as that which determines flower petal color in peas.