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Muffy Marracco, from Los Angeles, CA was a contestant who appeared on the 16th season of the U.S. version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? on October 24 & 25, 2017. She walked away with $100,000.

In 1992, Muffy competed on the Jeopardy! Teen Tournament, being eliminated in the Quarterfinals. Her brother Peter was a contestant in the 1989 edition of the tournament, finishing as a Semifinalist.

Muffy first appeared on The Chase in 2014, gaining $50,000 in her cash builder, but being eliminated after getting caught by "The Beast", Mark Labbett. In early 2015, Muffy was invited back for a "Redemption" episode of the show, where she earned $55,000 in her cash builder, and along with her two teammates, successfully made it through to the Final Chase and defeated Mark, splitting a total of $105,000.

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Muffy's Run to the Million[]

$500 (1 of 14) - Not Timed
According to a well-known Biblical proverb, what "...goeth before a fall"?
⬥ A: An untied shoelace ⬥ B: A freshly-waxed floor
⬥ C: A carelessly-tossed banana peel ⬥ D: Pride
$1,000 (2 of 14) - Not Timed
With over 60 different meanings, including "multiply" and "kiss," what does "One-Letter Words: A Dictionary" call the English language's most versatile letter?
⬥ A: A ⬥ B: J
⬥ C: X ⬥ D: Z
$2,000 (3 of 14) - Not Timed
With San Francisco only coming in fourth place, the Farmers' Almanac says that Grand Banks, Newfoundland is actually North America's what?
⬥ A: Hottest place ⬥ B: Flattest place
⬥ C: Foggiest place ⬥ D: Driest place
$3,000 (4 of 14) - Not Timed
Before the practice was embraced by hip-hop artists, what singer famously Auto-Tuned her voice on the 1998 hit "Believe"?
⬥ A: Kesha ⬥ B: Cher
⬥ C: Rihanna ⬥ D: Katy Perry
$5,000 (5 of 14) - Not Timed
Pew Research found that while the others are used by less than 1/3rd of American adults, which social network is used by a whopping 68% of them?
⬥ A: Facebook ⬥ B: Pinterest
⬥ C: Twitter ⬥ D: Instagram
The klaxon called time. She will be back tomorrow with all of her lifelines available.
$7,000 (6 of 14) - Not Timed
U.C.-Berkeley offers a linguistics course taught by David J. Peterson, who's credited with creating the Dothraki language for what TV show?
⬥ A: Star Trek: The Next Generation ⬥ B: Stranger Things
⬥ C: Game of Thrones ⬥ D: Dr. Who
$10,000 (7 of 14) - Not Timed
Sambal Oelek, a trendy chili paste from Indonesia, derives the second part of its name from what kitchen tool that's known in Mexican cookin as a molcajete?
⬥ A: Vegetable peeler ⬥ B: Mortar and pestle
⬥ C: Melon baller ⬥ D: Nutcracker
$20,000 (8 of 14) - Not Timed
Which of these is NOT currently one of the official songs traditionally played just before a Triple Crown horse race?
⬥ A: My Old Kentucky Home ⬥ B: Maryland, My Maryland
⬥ C: New York, New York ⬥ D: Beautiful Ohio
$30,000 (9 of 14) - Not Timed
What Boeing helicopter is named after Native American tribe that, like Boeing, hails from the Pacific Northwest?
⬥ A: Apache ⬥ B: Chinook
⬥ C: Comanche ⬥ D: Black Hawk
$50,000 (10 of 14) - Not Timed
With roots dating back to 1881, which of the following British organizations uses the Latin motto "Vita donum Dei"?
⬥ A: Royal Pharmaceutical Society ⬥ B: Royal College of General Practitioners
⬥ C: Royal College of Midwives ⬥ D: Royal College of Psychiatrists
$100,000 (11 of 14) - Not Timed
Though he was raised by his mother and stepfather, which of these super-rich Americans is the biological son of a circus unicyclist?
"Ask the Audience", "Plus One", and "50:50" lifeline used.
⬥ A: Michael Bloomberg ⬥ B: Jeff Bezos
⬥ C: Steve Ballmer ⬥ D: Warren Buffett
Ask the Audience Results: A: 15% ⬥ B: 37% ⬥ C: 15% ⬥ D: 33%
$250,000 (12 of 14) - Not Timed
In an early draft of the first story featuring his iconic literary sleuth, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle referred to the Sherlock Holmes character by which of these names?
⬥ A: Sherbourne Holmes ⬥ B: Sherrinford Holmes
⬥ C: Sherfield Holmes ⬥ D: Shervington Holmes
She walked away on this question, her guess would have been A, but the correct answer is B: Sherrinford Holmes.

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Muffy on the Jeopardy! Teen Tournament

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Muffy in her second appearance on The Chase

Trivia[]

  • She answered 10 questions in-a-row correctly without using a lifeline until she all used on the 11th question.
  • Muffy had appeared on the show before as Michael Rankins' Plus One on December 5-6, 2016.
  • Muffy and Amy Martinez are the only two from Los Angeles to be on the Chase.

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