Oh my goodness! Is anyone else still
flying high from last night? Talking
about hanging from the seat of your
pants, or your skirts, or whatever you're
wearing.
I'm your host, Sarah Pribis. This is HQ.
Congrats again to our 12 winners winning
a quarter of a million dollars! Playing a
free game to win money? Such a great idea.
We should do it again. Like, right now! Is
this your first time playing? Well,
welcome. Are you an HQ vet by now? Well
then, you know the drill. Some hot tips:
make sure your phone is charged, you got
that good good Wi-Fi connection, and you
can always swipe the chat away, but I
like to keep it on. I see you, including
Lindsey Cook, Becca, Ford Schweitzer, and
all the brokers at Titan, York, and
Toronto, and the Hayfield Athletic Club.
Go, Hawks! We have 718,961 of
you ready to get a little piece of the
HQ action. Yup, 729,178
players here competing against
each other live right now. We had 12
winners last night. Who's going to take
this one home to put on your mantle? Well,
you're gonna have to answer 12 questions
with ten seconds. If you get them all
right, then you win today's prize, which
is $5,000! 5,000 buck-a-roonies. That could get you
tickets to a baseball game team of your
choice. It'd have to be the Phillies for
me, but don't judge me. Happy Opening Day
everyone. Let's knock this one out of the
park. Here we go. Q1: What kind of salad
normally contains the most lettuce?
Potato salad, fruit salad, or Caesar salad?
Croutons, Parmesan, olive oil... maybe some chicken or hard-boiled egg on a bed
of romaine. Yeah romaine is lettuce. So
it's got to be a Caesar salad! The
correct answer is Caesar salad here at
Q1, and 727,520 of you got it. How do you
eat your croutons? Do you just stab around
until you get one, or do you use your
fingers? Q2: Militia soldiers in the
American Revolutionary War were commonly
called what? Minutemen, Millenniummen, or
Monthmen? They were noted and named for
their ability to be ready for battle on
very short notice—on a minute's notice.
The correct answer is Minutemen. Did that
help you? See, I'm on your side. I'm here
giving clues. 647,005 of you got that. You know
your American history. Are you ready for
Q3? No more wasting time. Next question: In
the NCAA Basketball Tournament,
the last four teams alive are known as
the what? Lone Survivors, Grand Slams, or
Final Four? After the first weekend, get
the Sweet 16,
next comes the Elite Eight, and if we
continue with this alliteration pattern,
then we get the Final Four. It's the
Final Four for the right answer. And 616,800
of you got that. The even more elite
Final Four. Well, March Madness is still
happening. Now I want to know, how's your
team doing? Do you have a good bracket
this year? Well if not, you can always win
HQ. So here we go. Q4: What pedal is
usually missing from a car with
automatic transmission? Brake, gas, or
clutch? Soon we're gonna have driverless
cars, so we won't have to worry about any of
this. Although maybe we should worry. Is
that more or less terrifying? The correct
answer is clutch. That clutch pedal is
not needed in automatic cars. And
596,143 of you got that. I wish
I knew how to drive stick.
Both my parents know, and they never
taught me. Clutch on, cuz here comes Q5:
Which famous character does NOT
grow larger by interacting with a
mushroom? Alice in Wonderland, Nintendo's
Mario, or Thumbelina? Mushrooms! So hot
right now.
Did you see Phantom Thread? Thumbelina,
the fairy tale.
She's always small. The correct answer is
Thumbelina. And 396,688 of you
got that. Mario powers up
after jumping on that
'shroom. Alice adjusts her size by taking a
bite of one. But Thumbelina—
she's small, yet mighty! Good things come
in small packages. Q6: What was "Weird
Al" Yankovic's birth name? Albert Yarborough,
Alfred Yankovic, or Adam Yacopino?
The man behind "Eat It" and "Like a Surgeon"—
lots of great parody songs—goes by Al,
but it was Alfred Yankovic! That's it. Not
so different. Scott just saw him on tour,
actually. And we have 211,475 of
you still in it.
Al's ancestry includes Italian and
English, but his father's Yugoslavian
lineage made him Alfred Mathieu Yankovic.
Q7: "Betteridge's Law" is a famous
observation about what? Headlines,
smartphone size, or cable news ratings? I
try to keep my observations to myself. You know,
unless they're nice, and then I share
them. Because I'm a good person. Well,
you're making headlines if that's what
you've tapped cuz the correct answer is
headlines. And 117,372 of you got that. Is this the
craziest question in HQ history? No. It's
not. We know that because as British
journalist Ian Betteridge said, any
headline that ends in a question mark
can be answered by the word "no". Q8: Who
directed the motion picture credited as
the first to show of flushing toilet?
Alfred Hitchcock, Frank Capra, or John
Waters? It's a taboo subject in film
throughout its earliest decades. Quite
unbecoming to even think of the bathroom
until Alfred Hitchcock. Yeah, he was the
first one. 65,529 of you knew that. So,
he broke the porcelain barrier in 1960
when Janet Lee tried to flush a torn-up
note in Psycho. Remember that? Q9: What
type of medical treatment gets its name
from the Latin for "I shall please"?
Analgesic, narcotic, or placebo? Gotta
brush up on your Latin or your medical
treatments. But see a doctor first.
It's a "cebo-play". See, I speak Latin. All
right. It's placebo for those of you who
don't. The correct answer is placebo.
34,658
of you killing it! That's
right! The wimpy little placebo, the decaf
of medicine means "I shall please".
You got that one right, and you're not
experiencing a placebo effect right now.
This high is real! Feel it! Q10: In the
heyday of the Mutoscope, where would you
have been most likely to find one? Horse
racetrack, amusement arcade, or doctor's
office? Mutoscope may be the
inspiration for the muting on Twitter?
No, it wasn't. This was at an amusement
arcade. Amusement arcade for the right
answer. And 12,638
of you got that.
So they used Mutoscopes in the early
20th century. It's a hand cranked
coin-operated movie viewer that showed a
short, silent Moving Picture Show to an
audience of one, which I think sounds
really nice. Because right now when I go
to the movies I just hear phones all the
time. Q11: What African nation gets
its name from the Arabic for "The Islands"?
Madagascar, Algeria, or Comoros? I'll tell
you what, I'd love to travel to all of
these. They're bucket-list destinations
for me. Toto inspired me to go to Algeria
first. Doesn't that sound nice? Arabic for
"The Islands". 1,763 you got that, and we
have our first savage question all the
way here at Q11! Oh! You were so close.
I'm feeling that. You made it this far.
It's alright. You can come back tonight.
But in the meantime, let's talk about
Algeria. It's a beautiful country
neighboring Libya and Morocco where,
according to Instagram, everyone is
currently on vacation
except for me. Shout out to our
Moroccan friends. Can I please stay with
you? Alright. This is it! The final
question. Who is going to be able to
cross winning HQ off their bucket list?
Cuz this is it. You've made it this far.
It's Q12: Which of these is NOT a kind
of apple? Dog's Snout, Bloody
Ploughman, or Everett's Knave?
Whatever happened to Golden Delicious,
Granny Smith, Macintosh? Oh that's right,
Q12 happened. It gets harder. Well, the Dog
Snout is a cooking apple that if you
turn your head, kind of—sort of—resembles
a dog's nose. Adorable. You can cook
with it. You can "boop" it. Whatever.
The Bloody Ploughman sounds made up—
so does Everett's Knave. But Bloody
Ploughman is a blood red apple from
Scotland. It's even red on the inside,
which means as great as it sounds, we
made up Everett's Knave. So Everett's Knave
is your answer, and yes! We have
992 people chomping at the bit! Woo!
A lot of winners today. I'm so proud of all 992 of you.
Getting through some really tough questions
there. $5.00 to—almost starting the weekend.
we're almost there.
"christyoditt", you are so beautiful.
May I just say, I love that photo of you.
"-mspot-", cute little pup. I'm loving all
these animal avatars lately.
"Chris0728", lovely couple. Lovely
wedding it looks like. "BabsD73", looks
like you're gonna be able to take some
more vacations like the one you're on in
your avatar. Congratulations, guys, that...
that game was a home run.
I'm Sarah Pribis. Are you going on a big
trip soon? Send me some of your
bucket-list travel destinations. Morocco, and
where else? I need some ideas. We'll be
back tonight at 9 p.m. Eastern, 6 p.m.
Pacific with another quiz and another
chance to win some money. I'll even give
you a hint since you stuck around this
long: study... everything. Yeah, it's, it's all...
it's all off limits. Okay, I'll be here. Will you?
I'll see you then. Bye!
