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

{$100:} Long hair on the head and neck of an animal, such as a male lion or a horse, is called what?

mane.

{$200:} F.Y.I. is an abbreviation of 'for your ___________'?

information.

{$400:} Following a great performance, the audience gives enthusiastic applause often accompanied by what?

a standing ovation.

{$500:} The shortest distance between two points is what?

a straight line.

{$1,000:} What actor's name is Hawaiian for 'cool breeze over the mountains' (Lifeline hint: 'The Matrix')?

Keanu Reeves. Congratulations! If you answered all five questions correctly, you cannot leave with less than $1,000. Larry and Andy Wachowski wrote and directed 'The Matrix'. Don Ho was a Hawaiian singer, song-writer and actor who did his thing for more than seventy years. Billy Crudup is an actor.

{$2,000:} If someone calls you a 'nudnik' they're telling you that you're a what?

pest.

{$4,000:} What is your pollex?

thumb. Your big toe is your hallux.

{$8,000:} This herb is used in folk medicine for its beneficial effect on the immune system. (Lifeline hint: also known as Purple Cone Flower.)

echinacea. Echinacea Augustifolia, a beautiful plant in many perennial gardens.

{$16,000:} On what show does Kenny Dale Johnson play drums and sing?

The Chris Isaak Show.

{$32,000:} Who owns ABC, ESPN, Sam Adams and go.com, among others?

Walt Disney Company. Congratulations! If you've answered all ten questions correctly, you cannot leave with less than {$32,000.}

{$64,000:} What city is the 'Live Music Capital of the World'?

Austin, TX. Cleveland has The Rock 'N Roll Hall Of Fame. Nashville has The Grand Ole Opry. New Orleans (AKA 'The Big Easy') has go-cups, the blues and lots of jazz.

{$125,000:} 'A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:' is the first line of what poem?

Endymion. They're all by John Keats (1795-1821). 'Its loveliness {increases;} it will never pass into {nothingness;} but still will keep a bower quiet for us, and a sleep full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.' 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' features, 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.'

{$250,000:} Who was the first African-American woman to ever fly an airplane and the first woman ever to earn an international pilot's license?

Bessie Coleman. Bessie Coleman, born 1892, was a Chicago manicurist who had a calling to be a pilot. She had to go to Europe to learn because she knew that no white pilot in the United States would teach her. After getting her pilot's license, she became a daredevil stunt pilot in order to earn money. She was working to establish an American flight school for blacks when she fell to her death during a practice run in Jacksonville, FL in 1926. In 1995, Coleman's accomplishments were commemorated on a U.S. postage stamp.

{$500,000:} Where is the most remote spot on earth?

Bouvet Island. According to Guinness, it's Bouvet Island. Owned by Norway (known there as 'Bouvetoya') it's 1,500 miles southwest of the Cape of Good Hope.

{$1,000,000:} What is a strigil?

skin scraping instrument. Congratulations! If you've answered all fifteen questions correctly, you just won a cool million. A strigil was used in ancient Greece and Rome after the bath.