Amal Gulaid is a 24-year-old cancer research specialist from Enfield, Connecticut. She appeared on the U.S. version of the show, during its fifteenth season and won $20,000.
Amal's Run to the Million[]
| $500 (1 of 14) - Not timed | |
| The Oxford Companion to Food is a reference work in which you can find entries on which of the following topics? | |
| ⬥ A: Viruses and antiviruses | ⬥ B: Matter and antimatter |
| ⬥ C: Gravity and antigravity | ⬥ D: Pasta and antipasto |
| $1,000 (2 of 14) - Not timed | |
| Offering blue doughnuts and Slurpee cups with bites taken out of their sides, in 2016 7-11 began selling specialty products in honor of what? | |
| ⬥ A: Women's History Month | ⬥ B: Shark Week |
| ⬥ C: The NASA space program | ⬥ D: Canada Day |
| $2,000 (3 of 14) - Not timed | |
| What eco-friendly Danish capital likes to boast that it has more bicycles commuters than the entire United States combined? | |
| ⬥ A: Warsaw | ⬥ B: Copenhagen |
| ⬥ C: Prague | ⬥ D: Berlin |
| Amal knew Berlin was in Germany and Warsaw was in Poland, and she remembered biking with her college friends in Copenhagen, so she went for that and got it right. |
| $3,000 (4 of 14) - Not timed | |
| One of the basic sitting poses, the yoga position known as the lotus requires you to put your left foot on your what? "Plus One" lifeline used. | |
| ⬥ A: Left elbow | ⬥ B: Right thigh |
| ⬥ C: Left thigh | ⬥ D: Right shoulder |
| Amal was not so sure, so she decided to call down her Plus One, her friend Nicole. Even though she was not into yoga, she thought the answer was B, so Amal went for it and got it right. |
| $5,000 (5 of 14) - Not timed | |
| Suggesting that the Univ. of GA overpaid rapper Chris Bridges to perform, a Washington Post article jokingly noted that "paying $65,000 for the artist is..." what? | |
| ⬥ A: Cray Z | ⬥ B: Ludacris |
| ⬥ C: Nas-sensical | ⬥ D: Mos Def-initely Not Worth It |
| $7,000 (6 of 14) - Not timed | |
| Because "age discrimination is a fact of life in today's job market," Business Insider warns against doing which of these old-fashioned things on a resume? | |
| ⬥ A: Including your email address | ⬥ B: Including your cell phone number |
| ⬥ C: Using double spaces after a period | ⬥ D: Listing your most recent position |
| Amal eliminated A and B, thinking those were very important. She also thought it was not D, so she went for C and got it right. |
| $10,000 (7 of 14) - Not timed | |
| A smash hit around the world, what recent family film did The Daily Beast describe as "a shrewd commentary on racism in America"? | |
| ⬥ A: The Angry Birds Movie | ⬥ B: Zootopia |
| ⬥ C: The Jungle Book | ⬥ D: Finding Dory |
| $20,000 (8 of 14) - Not timed | |
| If a casino shoe holds 8 decks of cards, what is the maximum number of times a blackjack can be dealt? "Ask the Audience" lifeline used. | |
| ⬥ A: 16 | ⬥ B: 24 |
| ⬥ C: 32 | ⬥ D: 40 |
| Ask the Audience Results: A: 6% ⬥ B: 6% ⬥ C: 80% ⬥ D: 8% | |
| Amal has not played blackjack since college and she was never familiar with the rules, so she decided to ask the audience. A whopping 80% said it was C: 32, which Amal thought made sense. She decided to go with them, and they were right. |
| $30,000 (9 of 14) - Not timed | |
| What notoriously dry city has battled its chronic lack of rain by deriving over 40% of its drinking water from desalinated Indian Ocean seawater? "50:50" lifeline used. | |
| ⬥ A: Lima, Peru | ⬥ B: Dakar Senegal |
| ⬥ C: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates | ⬥ D: Perth, Australia |
| Amal did not think it was B, and she went to C as a child, but only for a week. However, she did not quite know the answer, so she used her 50:50, which got rid of A and B. After thinking about the question for a long time, she decided to walk away with $20,000. She would have went with C, but the correct answer was D: Perth, Australia. |
Source[]
| Preceded by Mike Obstgraten |
U.S. contestants (Season 15) Amal Guliad |
Succeeded by Steve Gadlin |