Re: Tonight's Millionaire

• From: jdinan8271 <no_reply_at_yahoogroups.com>
• Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 16:43:00 -0000
• Message-ID: <c1daik+s3t_at_...>

--- In quizbowl_at_yahoogroups.com, stat74 <no_reply_at_y...> wrote:
> Since I was in the audience--
> 
> Tom Waters will be among the fastest finger contestants in 
tonight's 
> Millionaire.  I'll resist the urge to post spoilage.
> 

    If he does escape the Ring of Fire and makes the hot seat, I 
encourage the young quizbowlers to watch Mr. Waters in action.  One 
of the greatest quizbowl players ever, and whose buzzer exploits have 
made him almost mythical to players who opposed him.  Plus, he is a 
very nice and cordial individual.

 
> They also did a segment that will appear on the Jimmy Kimmel show.

   Living in Washington, I won't be seeing that :)

> 
> I'm sitting in the second row on Regis' side.  Two of the million 
> dollar winners are behind me.  I don't remember names, but one of 
> them was the woman who won a million for knowing that "American 
> Gothic" is a picture of a dentist on the syndicated version.  
> Presumably they are "wise men" on some other night.

   Nancy Christy (the woman you mentioned) was a "Wise Man" on 
Sunday's premiere.  The world found out she was very knowledgable on 
condom commercials :P

  They were 
> actually quite rude, talking throughout the game.  I'm very 
surprised 
> the contestants didn't hear any of the answers they said to each 
> other.  However, it was telling when they didn't blab the answers 
to 
> any of the big money questions we saw.
> 

   Having been both a contestant and an audience member for quiz 
shows, I can tell you that no matter how many times an announcer, 
producer, etc. warns the audience not to blab out an answer during a 
taping, they blab out an answer.  When I was sitting in the Ring of 
Fire during my WWTBAM Zero-Dollar winners taping, an audience member 
was quite loud with an answer to a 500-thousand dollar question that 
Martin Poteralski was pondering.  Thankfully Martin quit, as the 
contestant's answer was wrong.


   James