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"Are you a bore?" she asks another.

"Have you ever gotten drunk?"

Omarosa tells the candidates that they shouldn't take her invasive questioning personally, and she's right. The show's judges will be just as harsh. Yet the applicants, who can fire off their quarterly earnings and the particulars of their multiple higher degrees, aren't sure how to handle inquiries about their favorite cocktails and sexual orientation.

As one contestant describes her proudest business accomplishment -- starting a nonprofit that donates books to African kids -- Omarosa looks somewhat pained.

"I'm a big advocate for charity," Omarosa says, "but I'm also an advocate for making a whole lot of money."

Another accomplished female applicant is thrown off guard by this question: "If something on the show required you to do something in the nude, would you?" When she answers no, that she doesn't need to use her body to succeed in business, Omarosa reminds her that if she won't, "someone else will."

"For a quarter of a million dollars," Omarosa says, "I'd get buck naked with some black socks on."

During their lunch break, the applicants chat and mentally prepare for individual interviews. They don't know how many of them, if any, will be chosen, and they don't know when they'll hear back, but they're enjoying their shot at reality-TV fame.

After all, this is a competitive bunch. When entering the interview room earlier, Omarosa asked, "Who's going to win?" All 10 raised their hands.