Most memorable questions?

I was actually there when the episode was taped and had the same reaction as the 'expert' when the question was read. I talked to him before he went on and he was really nice. For me, Alan Carvers game. I was there for the second day. You can actually see me in Mecha's video as the text fades in 00:10 above 'most' wearing the red shirt and my dad is sitting next to me with the blue-gray shirt. You can hear me :22 with the "WHHHHOOOOO", and when he won the $25,000. Anyways, I didn't know how well he did because the first part was taped the day before we went. I was surprised when he answered the question so quickly.

Kplewisvox is totally and utterly right, for a very smart contestant he seemed to make a stupid mistake. Wentworth has been known for her bad guesses and he surely must know that a quote is not her specialist subject. I believe that he could have been a lot more cautious, condifering he had 2 other lifelines remaining (Double dip or Phone a friend). If he had been a bit wiser he could have chose more that one or he could have phoned a trustworthy person. I believe he messed it up to keep his reputation of a "Quick answerer".

Those questions were actually just fine where they were. You need to remember that the $500,000 question was asked in 1999. Pokemon was still in its infancy in America at that time, and it was very much a kid thing, not an adult thing. And don't think that Frodo was an easy pick either; the first movie didn't come out until 2001, so you had to know Frodo from the book.

Like any other fad, Pokemon fell out of popularity before too long, and by 2009, Pikachu was not common knowledge anymore. Maybe it could have been better at $8,000 or $4,000, but no lower. A contestant might know that there's a yellow Pokemon, but will he remember its name is Pikachu?