It's MERCURY, man! MERCURY!!!!

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I knew the answer to tonight’s $250,000 question before ol’ Regis even finished asking it! It’s MERCURY!!!. This guy used a 50-50 and an Ask the Audience. He should have called me on the phone, damnit! And then he took another 20 minutes decided between Lead and Mercury! Agggh!! Now, I’m all for suspense and everything. But when I am so certain of the answer don’t make me wait that long for confirmation that I am right and subsequent bragging rights!!!

AAghghghgh!!!

And I knew the one about the Navajos, too. He had to phone-a-friend for that one.

Interestingly, the ones I don’t know are usually the $200 type questions.

That show is going to give me a heart attack, or make me pull all my hair out.

And I have a lot of hair.

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So what was the question? “What metal is liquid at 0 degrees C?”

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It was “What chemical, which used to be used to make felt hats, probably lead to the expression ‘mad as a hatter?’”

I think the choices were Mercury, Lead, Arsenic, and Bromine.

And the other question was “During WWII, what Native American language was used as a secret code by the Army and Marines?”

The answer is Navajo, of course. (I’m a cryptography buff)

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I know. I’ll blank on a $200 dollar one, but get up to $1m, and I’m yelling the answer before regis gets to the third word.

Odd.

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Sure, friedo, but where were you last Monday? We could have used you when we were playing trivia at the Old Toad.

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I have a perverse fantasy about getting on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, using all three lifelines on the first question, and still getting it wrong, thereby becoming infamous for being the biggest ignoramus in America.

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I could not believe that I knew more than the doctor that played the other night. I hardly missed a question and yes, I knew what a monotrene was. I also would have known the answer to the Hatter question was mercury and that Navajo was used as a code in WW2

We played the online version and for quite some time we were #1 in the country.

Sucks to be a Canadian and not be able to enter.

I could throw the mother of all Dopefests with my winnings.

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Um, actually Navajo was used as the basis for a code used in WW2, but the language was not used straight up. The original code-singers designed the code during their initial training. While all the words were Navajo, they used simile, euphimism, and plain old code words to further obscure the meaning to anyone other than another code-singer. The Japanese even captured several Navajo who were just ordinary GI’s, and these POW’s were unable to break the code.

Scott

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This was the answer to the first million dollar question more than a year ago. The question: what group won the first Grammy in the Heavy Metal category in 1988?

I remembered because JT is hardly what one would call Heavy Metal. I too pulled hair.

And what about the doofus that though Hannibal used llamas to cross the Alps? That was a @!#?@! $100 question. Gawd, wouldn’t that be humiliating to lose on the first question?

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Andes, Alps, what’s the difference? :slight_smile:

That asinine show is just a further example of the degredation of the American public’s intelligence. Most of the questions would cause me to smack the person asking them for being so damned dumb. And here I thought Jeopardy had gotten easier in the last few years.