I was a little disappointed in the show. All the brains of The Match Game combined with the exciting fast-paced action of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. I want that half hour of my life back.
And that first guy – he had to use all three of his cheats on his first three questions. What a maroon!
I’ll admit that I did miss a couple of questions myself. The presidential one? Andrew Jackson. Lyndon Johnson. Randi Jackson? Jack Johnson! Yeah, that’s it! The name Andrew Johnson rolled through my brain, but I was really unsure of it. And the triangle question – I got it wrong until I reasoned it through, something I couldn’t have done in that high-pressure situation.
I got all of 'em right. Considering that they only managed to squeeze in 6 questions in 30 minutes…that’s not saying much. Just a tiny bit of padding going on.
The contestants for these shows just keep getting dumber. One lady didn’t know the name of the ship that the pilgrims sailed over here on.
Why are they even allowed those “cheats?” If they can’t answer a question from a 5th grade textbook, then don’t deserve to go any further.
I think these shows are geared towards creating the best chance that the contestant will win a lot of money. They think that’s what the audience wants to see. I get nothing out of that at all. A game show only engages me if I find it entertaining or challenging to play along. If it’s too easy, I can’t get into it. If they spend to much time trying to milk the drama or talking to the contestants’ inbred family members (Deal or no Deal), I become actively repulsed. I’d like to see a return to some old school, hard edged quiz shows. No multiple choice. No “lifelines,” just Q and A. No stupid people allowed. It will never happen, though. I guess I still have to settle for Jeopardy.
I didn’t miss any questions last night. I didn’t even have to ponder any of them, or rack my brain. They really were questions for children. No challenge at all.
Some of the questions were incredibly, incredibly simple. But there were a few that were surprisingly… slightly less simple. Like I said, the triangle one threw me for a curve. After muscling my way through it with logic, that old math rule came back to me, but it’s not like it’s a formula I’ve needed to use in every day life for the past 30 years. And I’m really bad at remembering when the lesser holidays are.
Probably so the producers could wrangle them during show…feed them instructions, tell the skinny kid to quit picking his nose…that kind of thing. Fifth graders are like monkeys with clothes on. They need a lot of direction.
Probably stage directions, if they cheated something like that would get out awfully quickly.
I didn’t get the impeachment question, but I’m Canadian so I’m not all that heartbroken about it. In thinking back to grade 4/5 I remembered that we did a huge unit on the Aztecs and it isn’t exactly something I’ve kept up on so I can imagine the game show could find a question or two there I wouldn’t know but the ones they asked last night were common knowledge.
I watched a bit of it. I have to admit, if I were on the show (heaven forbid), I would have been gaffed by the polar bear/penguin one. My first reaction was, “yeah, of course, polar bears will eat anything.” Took me a minute or so before I thought a bit about where polar bears live and where penguins live.
But the contestants were so certifiably dim that I switched it off after a few minutes. Give me Jeopardy any day of the week over this.
Six questions only? I caught the very end when they were asking about REM sleep and she had to copy the kid’s answer…and then they had to take a break before revealing anything?? :smack:
Actually, that was the only question I didn’t know. Useless American propaganda trivia from the second grade. When they gave the answer, I immediately :smack:, but considering how little truth there is in elementary school American history (or was 30+ years ago when I was being indoctrinated), I’ve chosen to delete those bits of useless trivia and fill it with more entertaining bits of useless trivia.
And what about that song? Ugh. Shoulda stuck with “A-B-C”
The whole show is contrived, insincere, fake and thus (I’m with Diogenes the Cynic) not engaging. The kids are hand picked for appearance of cute precociousness. The adults are selected for hammed up stupidity. The pushing of the button serves no purpose (it’s not even as “dramatic” as its use in Deal/No Deal).
The set is cool! I like the set. Although in my opinion the quizmaster and participants should stay behind their podiums (podia?) This walking about because we’re oh so casual rubs me the wrong way.
As a Canadian, the U.S. based questions gave me pause. I knew Nixon wasn’t impeached but I did not know of any prez who had been. I knew Columbus Day was in October.
Although, as soon as I heard “Name the ship…” my mind jammed on “Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria” I knew those were Columbus’ ships, but their presence blocked the recall of “Mayflower” for a good few seconds. I finally got it before the contentant pushed her button - but if that had been a timed quiz show (like Jeopardy) I may have blown that one.
Wow. I didn’t see the show, but with questions like that, sign me the fuck up!
(Of course, I imagine the audition process is like Jeopardy, but the ones who score the lowest on the qualifying tests are the ones that go on. )
Dammit, I only scored 7 out of 10! I’m only as smart as a 4th grader.
But I thought the Incas were in Central America. And I read “turtle” as “frog.” And what do I know about fast birds? How fast does a road runner run? If Warner Brothers cartoons are any sort of documentaries, I’d say pretty damn fast.
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