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Post by millionairenut on Jun 11, 2018 12:07:48 GMT -5
One of the best episodes of Millionaire in any country occurred on this date in 2000: So, we start off with Tom O'Brien going for the $1,000,000 question. Regis asks if there was any last minute cramming. Tom said if he didn't know it now then he wouldn't remember it. He gets this question: Before the American colonies switched to the Gregorian calendar, on what date did their new year start? A. March 25 B. July 1 C. September 25 D. December 1 Tom says anything would be a guess, but Regis asks if he could've won the Million. He said March 25, and he would've been right. What made him choose A? What made him think March 25? It's definitely an interesting question, and here is a little something I found on Tom's experience. www.abc7i.com/millionaire/obrien.htmTom said he can't remember his own phone number, but he can remember useless knowledge. I'm curious what made him 60% sure on this question. He seemed like a gutsy player, especially with the $500,000 question in which he didn't know for sure, but he went with the Reichstag. Yet every player has their own strategy, and he didn't know it 100%, so he walked. Apparently he was a contestant on Jeopardy back in the 1980s, this article said. Jeopardy alumni usually tend to do very well on Millionaire, and this is no exception. He was absolutely correct when he said nothing prepares you for Millionaire. Tom alludes to a second champions edition of Millionaire and Regis said they'll see him again for that, too. Yet they never did. How come? For what reason(s) was there no champions show again? Did not enough people want to come back and do it like David Fite? Well, the hot seat doesn't stay vacant, and it's time to fill it. 24-year-old Allen Harris wins the fastest finger. He manages to answer his first 11 questions without using a lifeline, and as such, that puts him in great shape. He gets a question on which international incident set up a direct hotline between the White House and Kremlin. As someone who loves U.S. Government, history, etc., this was a pretty easy question for me. Allen decides to use his 50:50 and chooses the Cuban Missle Crisis over the Yalta Conference. Allen is then asked which U.S. President was the first to be term limited by the Constitution for $250,000. Millionaire says there are no trick questions, but this comes very close since the 22nd Amendment was adopted towards the end of Truman's presidency, and Eisenhower won the election in 1952 and Truman was a choice. Allen wisely knew that Truman was grandfathered and Eisenhower was the first term limited. It paid off. Then his question for $500,000 is this: Which author's first and only novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction? A: Harper Lee B: Ralph Ellison C: John Kennedy Toole D: Marjorie Rawlings Did Allen use his lifelines out of order here? Does the audience still go with Harper Lee if his phone a friend doesn't say it? I'm not sure, but there is the old theory that the audience usually goes along with a contestant or a phone a friend. That was pretty high. Someone was asked a question for a high monetary amount in Britain. I think this person had all three lifelines and the audience voted 93% for one choice and he still walked away. I think even his phone a friend said the right answer too. Well, you can't accuse Allen of being greedy. He was very emotional backstage and Regis said how smart he was. That is so true. Of course, I would've liked to have seen Allen go for it, but it's hard to blame him if he was happy. Of course, this $500,000 is now outdated, as Harper Lee wrote Go Set a Watchman not too long before her death. We get another fastest finger question, and I frankly had no idea there was a contestant in between Allen Harris and Bob House. I always thought Bob House immediately followed, but we get Diane Buchek, who does quite well and wins $64,000. Just like Tom and Allen before her, Diane's answer would have been correct had she gone for it, which most likely means the show would've ran out of time and she possibly would have been the returning contestant, which would have potentially changed Millionaire history. One more fastest finger comes, and Bob House just sneaks in. It's interesting to point out he came in second behind Allen Harris when Allen was the winner, but Bob answers his first two questions and will be back in two days to go for the Million. Some interesting things: #1 I love the old school commercials, especially the AT&T one. Commercials were so different back in 2000. They had a different style to them. Of course we rarely see pay phones these days, though I know of a place that still has one. #2 The old ABC promos. I miss these and grew up during these. Notice Regis has a big check he's for $1,000,000 and it's dated November 1999, which was when John Carpenter won it. #3 So how about that? Just five days ago I posted a video from 2002 in which we had back-to-back $250,000 winners. This time, it's a Million Dollar Question, a $500,000 question and a woman wins $64,000. Regis said how it wasn't long ago they didn't give away more than $1,000, and now everybody wanted to go for the Million. #4 Watch the fastest finger introductions. Did Bob House dab before dabbing was a thing? It sure looks like he did. I'm not sure if I will be available to review on Wednesday because of my job and I know I will be working pretty much all day and I will be very busy and I will be getting busy with work later today, but I wanted to make sure I got this in before I started to focus on my job and go into work later. |
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Post by millionairenut on Jun 13, 2018 18:18:22 GMT -5
I don't have time to review the whole run, at least not today. I have been working day and night since Friday, and began working since around 9 a.m. this morning. I will be going back to work in about an hour, but I am on a break relaxing right now. I can look at the full run tomorrow when I'm off. Here's the Million Dollar Question and win, though. Bob House was a great Millionaire player, not just because he won the million, but because of the run that he had. He did not use his first lifeline until his $32,000 question when he asked the audience, and answered the $64,000-$500,000 question without any help. Then he gets this question for $1,000,000: Which of the following men does not have a chemical element named for him? A: Albert Einstein B: Neils Bohr C: Isaac Newton D: Enrico Fermi Bob immediately goes for the 50:50 and says he thinks he knows it. He decides to check in with Donna Cates, who confirms his answer, as that's what he was thinking, then he makes a joke about him being the goat if he misses the question. The audience laughs and Regis joins in. If you think about it, the $32,000 question was the only one Bob didn't actually know. Of course, not many people like John Carpenter win the top prize without using all of their lifelines. David Paterson comes to mind as he won in South Africa without using Ask the Audience. What a run from June 7-13, 2000. We get a $500,000 winner, a $250,000 winner who would've seen the Million Dollar Question if he went for it, a $64,000 winner and a Millionaire. Just think, if that $64,000 winner went for her $125,000 question, which would've been right, Bob House may never have gotten into the hot seat, unless he tried again in 2001, 2002 or syndicated. Maybe the woman would've won the million. Also, there was this article regarding what was going on at the time with Bob's win: www.nytimes.com/2000/06/14/arts/tv-notes-is-millionaire-a-survivor.htmlI regret it so much by watching Survivor and not Millionaire during this time period, but I was a little kid and I watched what my household watched. Survivor is still on today, and while I loved the first season, what I would give for Primetime Millionaire to come back. "That led to some whispers among television and advertising executives that ABC might be depending far too much on ''Millionaire'' to prop up the entire network: the show is expanding to four nights a week next fall." I understand the ratings still did well for mostly the 2000-2001 season, but how true this was. "Mr. House said that his wife planned to buy a new car and that they would set aside a chunk of the money to send their two children to college. He also said he planned to continue to watch ''Millionaire.'' As for ''Survivor,'' Mr. House said, ''I think I saw part of one episode.'' Let's hope he continued to watch Millionaire. Apparently he shows all of his students his Million Dollar win on the first day of class. Sadly, this younger generation doesn't know Millionaire, not like we know it. Watching Millionaire would be far more useful than watching reality TV and people who are famous for being famous. I just don't get how other TV shows that do so well and fade out get a second run, but this doesn't, especially since Super Millionaire did well in the ratings and the 10th Anniversary was the No. 1 show in the ratings. I still have hope, and I always will, and I will be the first one to apply, try out, audition, etc., should that day ever come. One more thing. There were some similarities between Bob and Pat Gibson. Both have a wife named Sheila. Both took the 50:50 and Phone-A-Friend into the final question and both of them had a feeling on their final question and their Phone-A-Friends confirmed what they thought. |
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Post by millionairenut on Jun 14, 2018 11:28:49 GMT -5
Well, I watched Bob House's full run, not having the time to do so yesterday. He had a certain personality style to him and could be witty. His wife said he was sarcastic. He said after he won the million, "That's a lot of zeroes."
Anyway, there's no time to waste, as we have another major anniversary. We've had quite a few of these this month, even though it's almost half over, which is hard to believe.
I love it how Regis says it's time to adjust the thinking caps and right as he says that, the first fastest finger contestant introduced does just that.
Yes, Mary Burke, the last person on Primetime to win $500,000. Anniversaries like this are sad.
This was a pretty good episode. One contestant won $125,000 before Mary got into the hot seat. It reminds me a contestant who won 125,000 in Britain before Robert Brydges won the million.
She chose to ask the audience at $32,000, which was her first lifeline she used, just like Bob House.
In my humble opinion, that was a relatively easy $64,000 question.
Mary seemed to either know every answer or have a gut on all of them. The first lifeline she used, she was tossed up between Hudson and Magellan. The second lifeline she used was her Phone-A-Friend, which was what she was thinking as well.
I wonder if she would have gone for it if she used her 50:50 on the Million Dollar Question instead of the $500,000 question.
So, how about that? $625,000 won combined between two contestants in a row. That's quite good.
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Post by millionairenut on Jun 15, 2018 16:14:50 GMT -5
Well, this actually happened eight years ago yesterday. I don't know my anniversaries that well for this show. So, I'll weigh in:
I think Paul Wolfenden has done a lot of great things for honorable causes for children, and certainly he would have been worthy of $1,000,000. It's too bad he didn't answer correctly.
I don't think I've weighed in on the Hot Seat version yet, so here's what I think.
The only thing I think could actually be worse than the Hot Seat format is the Shuffle format, and I'm not too thrilled about the current Chris Harrison format either, as there's still no hot seat and everything else has been changed.
There are many reasons I don't like the hot seat format. One reason is because someone cannot win or walk away with a dollar amount like traditional Millionaire. It's usually either $0, $1,000 or $1,000,000.
Then you have someone like Jeff Tarr, who answered every question from the question on the show up until the Million Dollar Question, and all he was given was $1,000. Seriously? He does all that work and all somebody gets for qualifying for a Million Dollar Question is $1,000? Who came up with that rule?
People study hard for Millionaire. They do what they can to learn a lot and attain general knowledge that may come up in questions on the show. Somebody could answer how many questions in a row and either walk away with nothing or just $1,000. Then someone could go into the hot seat and win a six figure amount on one question.
This comes to mind.
You have a game where people would not be allowed to use lifelines (I think they made some changes where you could buy a lifeline) and this person right here, good for him, won $250,000, but oftentimes, as I have seen with watching clips of the show, people just completely guess on some of the questions.
I'm not sure who came up with the hot seat idea. I'm not a fan. The fact that the hot seat format has lasted longer in Australia than the original Millionaire has me perplexed. Not to mention the music in Hot Seat as nowhere near as dramatic in Millionaire.
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Post by millionairenut on Jun 17, 2018 11:35:42 GMT -5
This one I had never seen before. This is another golden anniversary, and it makes sense to post this, as today is Father's Day, just like it was in 2001.
Did you notice the way they introduced the fastest finger contestants? It's different than how they usually did it. It started with the people near the stairs instead of the other way around.
I think the first father and son had relatively easy questions for a bit. They went home with $1,000. I knew their questions past $4,000 and wasn't too sure about the one for $8,000. I did not know about the one for $16,000.
Well, that meant it was time to fill the hot seats, and Joe and Austin from Texas got to play next.
I found myself cheering for these two when watching this. They seemed to be very likeable, especially Austin. He really enjoyed his experience. It was pretty emotional when the dad said his daughter had diabetes and that he'd want to make a contribution.
Austin seemed very sure at that $16,000 question, and with good reason, too. His dad wasn't too sure, but he put his trust in Austin, and it paid off.
They used two lifelines for $32,000, but at least they used the right ones. It turns out the audience was indeed correct on this question. It just wasn't decisive enough. So, they decide to a phone a friend, and luckily, they got the right person.
This was great strategy on the $64,000 question to be gutsy and not use their last lifeline. I wonder what made the dad go for Sodapop over Kool-Aid. I have to say that I've never read the Outsiders, but I did read the sequel, That Was Then, This Is Now, when I was in summer school for one year, and I vaguely remember the name Sodapop, so that would have been my guess.
Then comes the question for $125,000 for Ephesus. I have to admit I was torn between Iraq and Turkey, but was reasonably confident it was Turkey after they narrowed it down, due to the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The Temple of Artemis was at Ephesus.
Austin brought up an awfully good point though, about Kuwait, and his logic was not wrong. The less obvious choices are usually the right answer for these high dollar amount questions. So it's easy to see why he wanted to go for Kuwait. Of course, the 50:50 is random. Some people get lucky with it. Some get unlucky. Austin is lucky his father overruled him on this question, as well as the one about the big horn.
They did not know the question for $250,000, and neither did I. Those two did really well and I'm happy they won six figures.
Finally, we have Jim and Anthony, who got up to $1,000, but were invited to play again on Tuesday, and I do not know of the next episode. They used their lifeline on the $1,000 question, and Anthony was correct, that Google is a search engine. Little did they know how much Google would be ingrained into our society today, that it has become a verb, that so many of us, myself included, are often dependent on it, and that would be the brand that it is today.
David Rice, a $250,000 winner, was in the audience, and introduced by Regis. He looked the same, except for the glasses.
One person even commented on how there was a time Google was not instantly recognizable and that it's hard to believe. Think of how much has changed since then. We had no smartphones, no social media, no tablets, hashtags weren't a thing and it seemed to be a more innocent time. We have changed, though not necessarily for the better.
On a side note, I love the commercials in this video. There's nothing quite like the original ABC broadcasts of Millionaire as opposed to the ones they show on Game Show Network. It makes me feel nostalgic for that time.
We will have the beginning of another major anniversary coming right up tomorrow.
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Post by millionairenut on Jun 18, 2018 19:51:09 GMT -5
Another Father's Day episode happened, this time it was in 2000, and it was a memorable one at that.
In the flashbacks, some players got up to high dollar amounts, but went for it and lost.
Todd Creekmore is the returning contestant for this one, and he does rather well early on as he won $1,000 before returning in this episode. In my opinion he got some pretty easy questions up to and including the $32,000 level. I wasn't 100% sure on the question about condensation, but I guessed correctly. The rest of them until $32,000 were quite easy for me.
Then comes the question for $64,000.
In a common phrase about impending disaster, whose sword is said to be hanging over your head?
A: Pericles'
B: Orion's
C: Gideon's
D: Damocles'
Todd calls his father, who says Damocles, but isn't sure. Then, for confirmation, he goes 50:50 and says D, final answer. Regis, fittingly, says father knows best. To think it's Father's Day and his dad is one who gave him a gift instead.
He then gets asked what kind of creature is a John Dory?
A: Fish
B: Quail
C: Turtle
D: Deer
Todd decides to poll the audience, with fish getting the highest percentage at 37%. Still, Todd decides not to risk it, and it's a good idea, since it was not decisive and he would have incorrectly have guessed quail. The answer was indeed fish.
One of the commenters on the video asked if Dory from the Finding Nemo series was named for John Dory. That would make sense, and I thought that, too. Of course, Finding Nemo wouldn't come out until 2003. So, it might not have been as well known in 2000.
We get the introduction of 10 new contestants, and Jim Stewart is the winner. I correctly guessed the fastest finger order for this one, although I never actually heard of Alan King.
For me, personally, I think Jim's earlier questions were tough and then they got easier as they went along. That's just me, though. As someone who loves history, the Star Wars one was easy, and so was the James Bond question, as I'm a big fan of the Bond movies and have seen them all. Many of these Millionaire questions are outdated. This one is not, as Clapton has still never sung the theme of a Bond song. The Starbucks one was relatively easy, for me, at least. He runs out of lifelines on the $32,000 question, but he uses them to get him up to $32,000.
His $64,000 is as follows:
By chewing on willow bark, an 18th century clergyman rediscovered the natural form of what medicine?
A: Insulin
B: Penicilin
C: Aspirin
D: Calamine
Jim's logic makes sense, and I did not know, and would have gone with calamine, as well, but at least he got to $32,000 and lost nothing.
Then, Millionaire history is made, in more than one way. Kim Hunt and Beth Rohr tie on the fastest finger. Kim was also in second place on Jim Stewart's fastest finger, but this time, he wins by breaking the tie. Ties don't happen often on Millionaire's fastest finger, but it's Kim who broke through.
I currently cannot find the clip right now, but a tiebreaker in Australia happened when Trevor Sauer was a fastest finger first contestant, though he did not get it.
Here is an example of one.
Regis gets all excited at the tiebreaker. Chris is reserved.
Kim hardly has any trouble, getting up to $16,000 without a lifeline. He had a nice exchange with Regis, with Regis saying he was sure one of them was the right answer, but Kim did not know the owner.
The audience comes in handy by saying Aaron Spelling did not produce Baywatch, but Kim gets to $32,000 and the klaxon sounds.
Well, does Beth Rohr win the $1,000,000 if she gets into the hot seat instead? It's hard to tell.
Did you notice how Kim and Beth were shown simultaneously together on all three fastest finger questions they were in? The last one is obvious. The first two is quite a coincidence.
I wonder if Kim ever got to see the Hello Deli and an episode of Letterman. Well, we'll pick this up where we left off, on July 6. This episode of Millionaire went by fast, in my opinion, with most of these questions being relatively easy for me.
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Post by millionairenut on Jun 19, 2018 20:17:23 GMT -5
Well, Father's Day continued on Tuesday night:
Anthony seriously carried Jim here. He got so many of these correct, even when Jim doubted him. Anthony knew more than Jim did, though. It's a good thing Jim listened to Anthony on $16,000, otherwise he might've phoned a friend and maybe even used a 50:50. Anthony clearly would have done well on his own. Jim seemingly didn't want to listen to any advice except his own and wanted to march to the beat of his own drum. He needed to place trust into his son, which he reluctantly did, and it paid off.
The $32,000 question was a good use of the 50:50 lifeline. Of course, this lifeline, in my opinion, should be preserved for as late as possible, but Anthony knew which answers were incorrect, and they got good fortune on this one. The 50:50 doesn't always swing somebody's way. Obviously, this was a different kind of microwaves here. If it was one of the first five questions, microwaves probably would've been right.
Anthony knew the question for $64,000, but not $125,000. You can't know them all. So Jim phones a friend, who guesses Ted Turner for the question, but Jim goes with Bill Gates. It was Ted Turner. Watching this, it's hard to root for Jim, though impossible to root against Anthony here.
Anthony is also the great grandson of Orville Redenbacher, which is cool. Apparently Orville set something up for his great grandchildren for higher education. Regis says he interviewed Orville and Anthony saw him around three times a year. This is the second person I can think of related to someone famous who sat in the chair. Ricki Lake's father, Barry, sat in the hot seat as well, but why would he go on Millionaire if his daughter is Ricki Lake? It reminds me of Robert Brydges, but Regis asked Barry if Ricki was a phone a friend, to which Barry said she was busy.
This was also Jim's wedding anniversary, which today would be his 36th anniversary. Hopefully all is well. That's quite a busy weekend to have your wedding anniversary, Father's Day and play Millionaire all at once.
We get a fastest finger question, which was relatively easy. Bob and Alicia get into the hot seat, and Alicia is around Anthony's age. They get a fitting $1,000 question with patriarch being the father. It's only appropriate for Father's Day, after all.
They use their first lifeline at $32,000, who correctly say Hal and Lois are the first names of Malcolm's parents in Malcolm in the Middle. They then incorrectly guess Mont Blanc as where Zermatt is at. They debated phoning a friend, but didn't. They probably should have. It's too bad to go home without using all of one's lifelines. At least Bob and Alicia seemed more like a team, unlike Anthony carrying Jim the entire way and Jim not trusting Anthony or his phone a friend.
They had another fastest finger question that, too, was pretty easy, yet only one got it right. It's probably because of the pressure, but it's Frank and Jessica in the hot seat, another incoming ninth grader.
Of course, there's probably no $100 questions about video stores these days, they are next to extinct, which is too bad. I used to love going to Blockbuster and its kind when I was a kid. I just looked it up, apparently there is one not too far from where I'm at right now. I'm not originally from where I'm at now, but I came down here 10 months ago because of a job.
Frank said he coaches his daughter's 10U softball team, while Jessica said she plays and she was a state champion. Frank said he doesn't like to change his clothes if his team is winning.
How old exactly did a kid have to be to qualify for the family show? Apparently the younger sister was too young, but on a Thanksgiving special, one kid was eight. I wonder if she ever tried out when she got older.
They should've trusted themselves on $64,000, but just to make sure, they used a 50:50. Their first instinct was right. They equal the $125,000 by correctly saying Cochise was part of the Apache tribe, but it just didn't feel as exciting as when Jim and Austin won it. Speaking of Jim and Austin, the family was in the audience for this show.
The Phone-A-Friend was 75% sure it was a Theseus on who did not have a God as at least one of their parents, but it was Jason. He was cut off, but he might have said 75% it wasn't him either. Maybe not.
That does it, then. Two families won $125,000. Joe and Austin were fantastic, while I loved Anthony. We have another Hot Seat anniversary tomorrow.
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Post by millionairenut on Jun 20, 2018 19:56:42 GMT -5
I'm not quite sure how exactly it has been seven years since this happened, but here we are:
Of course, Million Dollar Questions are rare in any format, and this was no exception. To date, I think there have only been seven on Millionaire Hot Seat, with Edwin Daly's win being the most recent. I remember being bummed out when Jim got it wrong.
Jim says he is tossing and turning between Royal Dux and Royal Prefect on which is a type of collectible porcelain. He seemed rather calm, although he did not know the answer. If you think about it, much of this is guessing your way on Hot Seat, which I don't really like, but there was no tense moment here.
The $250,000 question was different, though. How lucky is Jim when Eddie asks him to lock in Jupiter and he says yes, then Eddie asks for Jim to say lock it in. Can you imagine Regis or Chris asking final answer, a contestant says yes, then they are asked to say the words final answer, only for them to change their incorrect answer to a correct one? Well, he locks in Saturn.
Eddie asked a good question why Jim changed. It seems there was no rhyme or reason to his changing. Eddie soon tells him Mercury and Uranus are incorrect.
He reminds him that he changed from Jupiter to Saturn, "As a result of doing that, Jim, the next question I ask is for $1,000,000." That's just a great line right there. There's something about that that I really like.
Eddie brings up that Jim answered 13 of the 14 questions correctly before he got into the hot seat and that he deserves a massive round of applause. He also deserves more than just $1,000.
Jim's thinking is wrong, though not completely, unreasonable, on his Million Dollar Question. He makes the assumption that it is modeled after how they are located in the world, when Eddie said it's been turned around. Jim initially wanted to go Iceland and then changed to Norway, but there's no magic this time for $1,000,000.
He was truly exceptional. That's what disappointing about this show.
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Post by millionairenut on Jun 27, 2018 21:17:27 GMT -5
In my opinion, this is the saddest day on the Millionaire calendar. June 27, 2002 is the last of the Primetime series until the 2004 return of Super Millionaire. Of course, syndicated would debut soon, but it's not the same. At least we had a couple of contestants make it into six figures for the show. Heather was clearly very intelligent and knew a lot. Regis thought she could have been the female John Carpenter. Nancy Christy was less than year away from this. She used ask the audience on $2,000 and breezed to $125,000. Heather's personal experiences really helped her, as her sister was a science teacher and her numerous trips to Disney World, which she said she'd use the money to go to. It even helped her win $125,000. Her $250,000 question stumped her, though. It is questionable that she phoned her sister first then used 50:50, but in the end, it turned out not to matter. Then, we get our final contestant. I never noticed this until tonight. Carol Alaimo had a fastest finger time of 8.46. She beat out a contestant at 8.47. We could have had a tiebreaker, but instead it was a heartbreaker for the other contestant. Carol certainly has been very adventurous with her life, and rather knowledgeable, too. She used two of her lifelines by $32,000, and in my opinion, her first five questions were pretty difficult compared to other first five, but she called a previous $250,000 winner who helped her win $125,000. She could have won $250,000 herself if she was brave enough to go for it. Carol had the right answer. The New York Times eulogized Millionaire in May 2002. www.nytimes.com/2002/05/20/business/media-who-wants-to-bury-a-millionaire.htmlI didn't see the final episode. I found out about it on Pardon the Interruption on ESPN. I wish I had now. I wish it went back to limited editions and on a part time basis. Well, we got Super Millionaire and a 10th anniversary and hopefully a 20th anniversary in 2009. To think, the number of episodes it aired was equivalent to 16 years, all in less than three. I wish ABC handled it better. I wish it took better care and not pushed it to four nights a week and that it handled its two nights a week better. I resent myself for not watching it more because I was a little kid at the time this all happened. Regis himself knew the show was overexposed. Please come back in August 2019. That's all I ask. |
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Post by millionairenut on Jul 6, 2018 7:36:49 GMT -5
Well, in 2000, Millionaire went on hiatus for a little bit and they returned with new shows with Kim Hunt still in the hot seat. Kim's run is linked in one of my earlier posts.
Kim has two of his lifelines left, and answers the $64,000, $125,000 and $250,000 questions without any hesitation.
Then we get to the question for $500,000, which gives him some trouble.
In the 1964 movie "My Fair Lady," who dubbed in the singing voice for the character Eliza Doolittle?
A: Julie Andrews
B: Roberta Peters
C: Shirley Jones
D: Marni Nixon
Kim uses the 50:50 and phones a friend, who says she thinks it isn't Shirley Jones, and is about 60% sure. Interestingly, the article on Tom O'Brien and his run, he said he was about 60% sure on his Million Dollar Question.
Kim is trying to picture the singing voice of Shirley Jones, and also the songs, to see if it was her or not. He said he's never heard of Marni Nixon, which actually could be an advantage in this game because if there's a choice you've never heard of, it might be the one if another sounds too obvious or you're not sure if it's it.
Still, Kim correctly answers Marni Nixon for $500,000.
Then comes his Million Dollar Question.
Which of the following landlocked countries is entirely contained within another country?
A: Lesotoho
B: Burkina Faso
C: Mongolia
D: Luxembourg
Kim rules out C and D almost immediately and says he wishes he had a map of Africa. Of course, in 2018, faced with this question, a contestant would probably say they wish they had their phone.
He correctly answers for the top prize, Lesotho, and correctly says he thinks it's in South Africa. There was loud applause and confetti for this one.
It's more than just being right. Kim was extremely gutsy on both the $500,000 and Million Dollar Questions. It's also about being courageous to go for it, and not everyone would have had they been faced with those questions, even if they had an idea what the answer was.
So how about that? Kim Hunt ties with another contestant on the fastest finger. He wins that, and then the million.
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Post by millionairenut on Jul 11, 2018 20:12:26 GMT -5
Well, five days after Kim Hunt, we're back at it. A visually impaired contestant made it to the fastest finger five days after Kim Hunt's big win, and Regis read the four answers out loud before it officially began. I know I saw another instance like this, but I cannot precisely track it down. Anyway, this was the result: I don't necessarily dislike David Goodman, per se. It's just that I couldn't really get too into him personality wise. Obviously, he's very smart. Many of his questions, for me personally, were not that difficult. Certainly he's very well read and informed, and talked about his smarts after he won the $1,000. As you may or may not know, David Goodman is one of three Millionaire Primetime contestants to answer the first 14 questions without using a lifeline. John Carpenter was the first, and Regis mentioned this. Carpenter's win was the first top prize win anywhere in the franchise, and the only one before 2000. David did it again here. He used a lot of good, deductive reasoning, although I do wonder what led him to choose Cyclops on $64,000. David also mentioned him going to the University of Michigan. Some of you might recall Kevin Olmstead's run when he won the jackpot that he mentored David at the quiz bowl in college. David was actually on the phone to briefly talk to Kevin after Kevin won $500,000. Another note is his $500,000 question asks which U.S. Congress is currently in session. One of the choices is 115th. The 115th Congress is the current U.S. Congress in session here in 2018. He gets this question for $1,000,000: In the children's book series, where is Paddington Bear originally from? A: India B: Peru C: Canada D: Iceland Now, here's an interesting strategy in the use of lifelines. You might recall Bernie Cullen asked the audience first and then went with the 50:50. The audience voted 69% for the right answer, and it held up. Steve Perry also went the Bernie Cullen route, but the one that got the most audience votes was eliminated on the 50:50. Here, David narrowed it down and then asked the audience. What if he polled the audience first? Does the audience still vote for Peru as the majority? 1% voted for C, which, as some commenters pointed out, is not that bad of a strategy if somebody doesn't know it. On his phone a friend, I've seen some people speculate that the person looked up the answer online. From what it seems is that his phone a friend had a team of couple and what you heard was not typing but someone checking and asking. Interestingly, somebody knew the answer and was 100% certain. Well, Regis talked about Joe Trela's win back in March, and that it took a long time until Bob House won the million. Then he asked what's going on, as it was the third Millionaire in four weeks. What was going on, or about to go on, was the progressive jackpot. No winners until Kevin Olmstead, David's mentor, nine months later, although a few people did reach the final question, and Pat Thompson would have won the jackpot had she decided to go for it. On the 10th anniversary in 2009, Meredith asked Regis what was never the correct answer to a winning million dollar question on Primetime. Evidently, Regis forgot about this. He double dipped and said Peru first before going to the Grapes of Wrath. Carpenter's Richard Nixon and Dan Blonsky's 93 Million were the other choices. There's also some good reading material here. I didn't know David talked to Tony Kornheiser. I used to love watching him on Pardon the Interruption when I was a kid. www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2000/07/23/the-millionaire-and-the-read-ink/817c34d3-b416-4d11-b758-0ae938cf9841/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.e3b70f3ecd57You might also enjoy this feature from People on the first six Millionaires, and how David almost did not get on because of his shirts: people.com/archive/millionaire-makeovers-vol-54-no-20/I read something else recently on how he always checked out everything he could on every subject from his library and he knew he would do well. Even though I'm not the biggest David Goodman fan, his run, especially at 24, was impressive, although Steve Perry would have been the youngest to win had he correctly answered his question, and Ken Basin was also 24 at the time he was on, though I don't know if he was older or younger than David was at the time. It would have been a pretty interesting research had Ken Basin won. |
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Post by millionairenut on Jul 23, 2018 21:05:32 GMT -5
Well, it's another major anniversary on the Millionaire calendar:
We pick up with a woman who won $2,000. She uses her lifelines throughout the questions, using her 50:50 on the $64,000. For the people who say the 50:50 leaves the choices a person says out loud, she sure got lucky on this one and it got rid of one of her two choices. Unfortunately, however, she went with probably the most obvious answer for $125,000, and she lost $32,000.
Well, now it's time for the fastest finger, and I notice a chair is empty and there's only nine people. Is there any reason for this particular episode? Did somebody have the same problem as Steve Devlin and suffer an anxiety problem?
Joe Kelleher wins it, using his first lifeline at $2,000. He cruises up to his $32,000 question where he phones a friend and uses 50:50. This is the first of a number of gutsy moves on Joe's end, going with his phone a friend, and it paid off. He wins $32,000.
Then, just like John Gallantry in the U.K. in 2007, he goes for a complete guess on 64,000, and it pays off, saying Scotty was the name of the dog Monopoly token. He guessed the right one here. Even though it's a free guess, it's still very impressive.
He kept it going for $125,000 by narrowing it down by two in his head, saying the Gorges was in China, and he guessed right on the Yangtze River. The gutsy moves keep paying off.
Joe finally gets an upper tier question he knows, by correctly identifying Rene Descartes as saying Cogito Ergo Sum, and that paid off by studying philosophy. It's another show with $250,000.
He goes with his gut yet again by correctly guessing McCaughey for $500,000. It's truly unbelievable that this man was out of lifelines at $32,000 and he not only wins $500,000, he guesses more or less on three of them, including the $500,000 question.
Joe then gets this question for $1 Million:
What best selling author was born Howard Allen O'Brien?
A: Danielle Steele
B: Anne Rice
C: JK Rowling
D: Toni Morrison
You might recall Toni Morrison would later be answer D on Tom Hoobler's $1 Million question as well.
It certainly isn't conventional, this question, as Howard Allen O'Brien is a male name 99.9% of the time. This is the one exception.
Joe gives it a minute or two, then walks as he has no clue. It was the right choice, as Anne Rice was correct, and was not given the chance to guess. Apparently he still is a doctor in San Diego and is now 63 years old. It looks like his real first name is Arthur.
Well, there's one final fastest finger question, and it's Richard Rosner, who was identified as Rick Rosner on the first show. You might know that on the UK episode with Adrian Pollack, the brother of Diana Ingram, David Edwards was a fastest finger first contestant, though he appeared on this show as Dave Edwards.
Richard shows a ton of emotion and gets through the questions in this episode without trouble. Of course, he would later have a controversial question.
Here's the story on Rick's life:
It's a very interesting series of videos for anybody who wants to watch it.
Also, did anybody notice that Regis was more dramatic and paused more before revealing the correct answers in this episode? It sure seemed that way to me.
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Post by millionairenut on Aug 13, 2018 21:50:28 GMT -5
Some people get into the hot seat just in time, like the audience being wrong. That causes history to follow.
Phil gets up to $300. Let's see how he'll do two nights from now.
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Post by millionairenut on Aug 16, 2018 23:06:16 GMT -5
If I were to name my top five favorite contestants in Millionaire history, Phil Gibbons would easily be up there. To be out of lifelines at $8,000 and go all the way to the Million Dollar Question is unbelievable. He obviously got some tough questions early on, but maybe he was just nervous and felt like he had nothing to lose after he ran out of lifelines. I really wish that he got that final question correct. You might also know that Nancy Christy won the million after being out of lifelines at $16,000 and in the U.K., Roger Walker got to the Million Pound question after being out of lifelines at 16,000. Phil is now doing photography and journalistic work. You can read more about it here: www.someveryfamouspeople.com/?page_id=32This is also a great article: emceesteve.tripod.com/gibbons.htmIt's really interesting Phil's questions for $16,000 and $32,000 were actually switched and they appeared differently on TV than they did in real time. You can see how smart Phil was, on his comment that ABC should dial back nights on Millionaire, not add on. That's really sad to read. He also outsmarted the staff when they asked him what he majored in in college, figuring out they were asking what his strengths were. The way he played that off was genius. He went from nearly not making the hot seat, to running out of lifelines at $8,000 to $500,000. Moving onto tonight's anniversary. Yes, can you believe it's been 19 years? I really remember watching the first U.S. episode. Gosh, I am nostalgic, and I can't believe it's been 19 years. Edit: I tried to link a video of a recent video of Phil discussing his run. Sadly, this did not show up. I'm sorry. They started off by showing footage in the U.K., with Regis explaining the game, how it works and introducing the 10 contestants. You might notice Rick Rosner as a fastest finger contestant. He got into the hot seat in 2000. David Korotkin wins the first-ever fastest finger. David is a member of Mensa. You might notice the $100 question had no joke answer for D, as would later become tradition. Maybe it's because it's the first night, but contestants don't look as comfortable, and Regis does not look as polished. David loses on his $4,000 question, going back down to $1,000. At least it wasn't a major drop. I wonder why he went for India, and why he didn't use his Phone-A-Friend? Of course, he might have been thinking about strategy. Hillary Daw wins the fastest finger. Is it me, or are the first five questions for David and Hillary a bit challenging? She gets up to $8,000 before the klaxon sounds. This was only a half-hour episode. You might notice that the contestants the next night were introduced after a commercial break. How different, plus Lawrence Caplan was seen as a contestant for the next night. So, that's that. The very first U.S. episode of this great game, and it aired 19 years ago tonight. That is unreal. |
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Post by Peachfanclub on Aug 16, 2018 23:50:20 GMT -5
You can see how smart Phil was, on his comment that ABC should dial back nights on Millionaire, not add on. That's really sad to read. I agree. Methinks ABC has finally taken that memo as they've been able to add the same three weekly game shows to their summer lineup. I have faith that they'll do the same with Millionaire should they bring that back to primetime on a regular. I just think Millionaire has always worked better in primetime (not to mention I would like to see the return of Fastest Finger First). He also outsmarted the staff when they asked him what he majored in in college, figuring out they were asking what his strengths were. The way he played that off was genius. I presume that was so he would have the staff guessing on what kind of questions to give him? I didn't find that bit in either of the articles. |
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) I guess the next on will be Poland then...
