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Post by Logie Bear on Mar 8, 2017 2:35:47 GMT -5
What is the first letter in the English Alphabet? A: C B: D C: A D: B There, I said it. Easiest or hardest? =P Here's an example of a stupid jackpot question, asked in Nigeria in March 2016: Which team won the Major League Baseball World Series in 2003? A: St. Louis Cardinals B: New York Yankees C: Florida Marlins D: Texas Rangers Of course they put the Yankees in there as a possible answer just to throw off 83% of the audience?! I've heard of 81% of a British audience saying "state opening" over "budget speech" but I swear this was intentional, why would you ask that question in 2016? Why not in 2004 when the Nigerian version premiered, when some Nigerians may have kept track of it? Apparently none of the audience voted for the correct answer, and I think this has to do with Frank Edoho advising the audience not to vote if they didn't know the answer, which may have skewed the results as follows:  Does anything like this happen elsewhere in the world? I'm curious. I think this sort of thing happens in Russia too...the audience are really mean... |
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Post by Peachfanclub on Mar 8, 2017 18:39:58 GMT -5
One of the hardest $1m questions I've ever seen was asked to Rob "Coach" Fulton in 2005, who would become Australia's first Millionaire.
Which of these popular 60s TV shows premiered first?
A: Bewitched
B: Get Smart
C: Hogan's Heroes
D: I Dream of Jeannie
When you factor in the fact that three of these four shows debuted one day apart from each other, and the other show debuted only one year earlier, I honestly don't see how anyone can ever figure these things out and imo they should only be used at the third tier of questions when it comes to RPGs. Seriously, this question should have been a potential $5m question on "Multi-Millionaire". That's how hard I thought it was.
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Post by marik on Mar 9, 2017 12:08:45 GMT -5
Like a Peachfanclub said this was happend on Ukrainian verison.  And Only one person won with this result |
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Post by kplewisvox on Mar 9, 2017 15:25:40 GMT -5
One of the hardest $1m questions I've ever seen was asked to Rob "Coach" Fulton in 2005, who would become Australia's first Millionaire. Which of these popular 60s TV shows premiered first? A: Bewitched B: Get Smart C: Hogan's Heroes D: I Dream of Jeannie When you factor in the fact that three of these four shows debuted one day apart from each other, and the other show debuted only one year earlier, I honestly don't see how anyone can ever figure these things out and imo they should only be used at the third tier of questions when it comes to RPGs. Seriously, this question should have been a potential $5m question on "Multi-Millionaire". That's how hard I thought it was. It really helps if you know that A) only Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie had whole seasons in black and white, and B) I Dream of Jeannie was considered a knock-off of Bewitched. |
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Post by millionaire2000 on Mar 9, 2017 19:47:57 GMT -5
I remember that one of the British Million Dollar Questions was which of the following is not part of the American Triple Crown for horse racing? The one that wasn't was Arlington Million, and the guy won. Obviously that would be a much harder question for the rest of the world (although it still seemed a little easy compared to others), but being from the U.S., I would've been screaming the answer at the TV if I was watching it live!
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Post by Peachfanclub on Mar 9, 2017 22:10:29 GMT -5
Even though I'm also from the U.S., I was a bit young and didn't follow horse racing at all when I first saw the question, so I was set to guess one of the Stakes competitions. I think when he took the 50/50, I may even have ignored the Arlington Million. =P
I can imagine a question such as follows has been asked outside of the U.S.:
Which of the following was never the President of the United States?
A: Thomas Jefferson
B: Benjamin Franklin
C: Abraham Lincoln
D: Andrew Jackson
Would something like this be difficult to answer outside of the U.S. these days?
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Post by wannabeamillionaire on Mar 10, 2017 12:27:40 GMT -5
One I haven't seen in this thread, but one of the easiest, for me, anyway was:
What letter must appear at the beginning of the registration number of all non-military aircraft in the U.S.?
A) N [correct answer]
B) A
C) U
D) L
Anyone else feel that way?
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Post by Peachfanclub on Mar 10, 2017 12:31:45 GMT -5
One I haven't seen in this thread, but one of the easiest, for me, anyway was: What letter must appear at the beginning of the registration number of all non-military aircraft in the U.S.? A) N [correct answer] B) A C) U D) L Anyone else feel that way? Not really. I for one haven't seen any registration numbers, nor do I get how it couldn't be A, U, or L. My only lead would be N for "non-military", but that would probably just lead me to dismiss N right away because it seems too obvious. |
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Post by mysteryman123 on Apr 24, 2017 16:16:57 GMT -5
What is the first letter in the English Alphabet? A: C B: D C: A D: B There, I said it. Easiest or hardest? =P Here's an example of a stupid jackpot question, asked in Nigeria in March 2016: Which team won the Major League Baseball World Series in 2003? A: St. Louis Cardinals B: New York Yankees C: Florida Marlins D: Texas Rangers Of course they put the Yankees in there as a possible answer just to throw off 83% of the audience?! I've heard of 81% of a British audience saying "state opening" over "budget speech" but I swear this was intentional, why would you ask that question in 2016? Why not in 2004 when the Nigerian version premiered, when some Nigerians may have kept track of it? Apparently none of the audience voted for the correct answer, and I think this has to do with Frank Edoho advising the audience not to vote if they didn't know the answer, which may have skewed the results as follows: Does anything like this happen elsewhere in the world? I'm curious. My theory about that is that the Yankees are probably the only baseball team anyone outside of North America or Japan has heard of, so 83% of the audience went with the only team they know. |
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Post by exambolor on May 4, 2017 21:11:51 GMT -5
Hardest one I've seen is Steve Devlin's MDQ, which he chose not to answer.
In 1912, former US President Theodore Roosevelt was a candidate for which political party?
• A: Bull Moose
• B: Bull Dog
• C: Bull Elephant
• D: Bull Frog
Most people would know Roosevelt, but not the party,. it also looked like a trick question.
This probably would have been a lower amount question on the US version
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Post by Peachfanclub on May 5, 2017 13:15:41 GMT -5
I happen to have read this in APUSH, but you have a point, not many people took that course, let alone remember Roosevelt running in 1912
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Post by kplewisvox on May 5, 2017 15:40:23 GMT -5
It's a regional thing. In the US, if you know one thing about Teddy Roosevelt, it's "Bull Moose".
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Post by Peachfanclub on May 5, 2017 15:56:08 GMT -5
It's a regional thing. In the US, if you know one thing about Teddy Roosevelt, it's "Bull Moose". But even in the U.S. I wouldn't think many people have heard of Bull Moose. |
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Post by kplewisvox on May 12, 2017 15:56:44 GMT -5
It's a regional thing. In the US, if you know one thing about Teddy Roosevelt, it's "Bull Moose". But even in the U.S. I wouldn't think many people have heard of Bull Moose. I can't speak for all Americans, but I'm inclined to disagree. It's not a small part of American history. |
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Post by futuregshost on May 13, 2017 11:56:24 GMT -5
But even in the U.S. I wouldn't think many people have heard of Bull Moose. I can't speak for all Americans, but I'm inclined to disagree. It's not a small part of American history. I second that. I think I remember hearing that in my middle school history class (mind you, this wasn't a private or even magnet school; this was a run-of-the-mill public school). I don't think it's a piece of knowledge that's commonplace, but it's a bit of trivia that a large portion of people know. |
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) I guess the next on will be Poland then...
