Well, you are of course correct in saying Woods is known for Impressions but I can’t seem to find any mention of Cezanne. 
At the risk of posting 4 in a row I think I may have misunderstood mr. jp’s post. 
A Spanish TV show used to include some questions from the Bible. I’m not talking about “identify the following quote by book, chapter and verse”, but things like “what’s the first book in the Bible” or “which Apostle wrote a Gospel”.
People got those so completely wrong that now they only get trotted out for the endgame or when the contestants’ average age is over 40. Catholic Spain, u-hu…
Not at all. Being able to calculate your expectation and determine your risk is what the show is all about. See my first example of the woman who quit because she wasn’t capable of understanding that she had very little downside and a chance to triple her money. There are scenarios in Deal or No Deal where you could have almost nothing to lose by continuing to play. Likewise, there are scenarios where you have little to gain. Identifying those has relevance to the current game - it’s not something that takes 1000 games before you see the effect.
A more trivial example - once in a while you’ll hear someone debating whether to continue, and you’ll hear them or a family member say, “If you pick a low number, the offer will go way up!”. A simple calculation in your head will show that in fact the offer won’t move very much in that circumstance. If you can’t figure out the consequences of your choices before you make them, you’re playing blind.
I’m still not convinced.
In your first example the woman is 3/1 against to pick the $750k. I wouldn’t say a 3/1 chance constitutes very little downside. True, it’s the outsider of 4 choices but it’s still going to happen 25% of the time.
Also you need to consider the woman’s personal circumstances. $285k in the bag is going to set her thinking about how she can use that sum. It could be worth a house, or paying off a mortgage which she might not achieve if she went down to $170k.
If you were in her position and you picked the $750k followed by the $500k, which I believe is 11/1 to occur, you would certainly be very unlucky. But would you be at ease with yourself knowing that you had made the ‘correct’ play yet missed out on $285k in the process?
Contingent on the offer after the $750k has gone, of course.
Family Feud, circa 1991. Lightning round.
Question: Something that droops.
Guy buzzes in, yells out “Breasts!”. Then does a priceless “Oh my Og what did I just say?” doubletake complete with :smack: . Audience, host and other contestants burst out laughing and have to pause for a little while to compose themselves before continuing.
“Breasts” was answer number 2.
Weakest Link, American version:
Anne: "Idiot1, whose portrait is on the US one dollar bill?
Idiot1: “Um, Mona Lisa?”
Anne: “Wrong. Idiot2, what current president is the son of former president George HW Bush?”
Idiot2: “Richard Nixon!”
Anne: “Wrong. End of round one. Idiot2, ever heard of George W Bush?”
Idiot1: “Yeah, I can’t believe you didn’t know that. HA HA!”
Idiot2: “Yeah, well, at least I know he’s on the one dollar bill.”
Pretty much.
Family Feud - Richard Dawson says, “Name a kitchen appliance.” A woman hits the buzzer and says, “Spoon.”
Newlywed Game - The question is what does your husband wash first in the shower. The woman says hair and her husband is completely bald. (Not necessarily wrong, I know, but funny nonetheless.)
This is not so much dumb as funny, and it was a “live” game show instead of televised. It was on a cruise ship. The game was “Newlywed and not so Newlywed.” The couples were newlyweds, married 25 years, and married 50 years. My parents were the old couple.
The question was “Whoopee has never been the same since we did it – Where?”
My mother answered “Toronto.”
My father answered “In front of grandma’s house.”
I never knew my great-grandmother was Canadian. :eek:
The panelists on Hollywood Squares always make jokes before giving the real answer.
I want to see the clip of Richard Dawson going “Show me breasts”.
On Wheel of Fortune, every one of the letters have been revealed, showing the phrase to be:
GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION
When asked to solve, the contestant gleefully yells, “General Motors Cooperation!”
It was Ray Combs, actually. But Og, it was hilarious.
I’ve seen that happen more than once, all the letters exposed and the contestant misreads it. I’ve watched others pronounce each word very carefully, presumably to avoid making a mistake.
There was a thread somewhere where the subject was something like, “What kind of miracle would you need to believe in God?” In this instance, I imagine the contestant whose turn it was next experiencing a religious conversion.
Well, as I understood that one, she answered automatically, based on when her own pregnancy would start to show. Not the same as if she thought that was an acceptable answer; it most certainly was not what she meant to say!
I think I just broke something.
To be fair, I’d be OK on Millionaire when I have time to think. But rapid fire would blank my mind; I probably wouldn’t even have the wherewithal to answer.
The best part of that is that the other thing the family was screaming out other than Europe was… AFRICA.
Apparently, though, they don’t have a lot of respect for their contestants. I say this based on the latest twist: the “Double or Nothing” final offer made to a contestant after she had accepted a money offer.
As I recall, she quit with five cases on the board: $750,000, and four “left side” cases (the value of the small cases is basically immaterial in such a situation). So, she accepted an offer of $99,000 and quit. Then, they wheel out two big cases, giving her the chance to go “double or nothing” by picking one case. If it said “double”, her winnings were doubled; if it said “nothing”, she left with nothing.
Well, how dumb did they think she was? She had just quit a game with better odds than that. If she had wanted to risk her winnings and continued to play the main game, her odds of picking a low-numbered case and increasing her offer were 75%, assuming, in the worst case scenario, that she wasn’t holding the $750K case. If she was holding the $750K case, of course, her odds of picking a low number and increasing her offer would be 100%.
So, now they expect her to risk $99K on a 50% chance, when she was just given a 75% chance of making more money and decided not to risk it?
If they ever do that again, they’ll need to at least change it to “double or half”, or else no one will ever play it.