Does it bother you as it does me that even on some of the early questions the contestant hems and haws and goes thru his little BS when you know he knows the answer?. Thats OK but when they continue to do this with every question, I feel like telling the guy to cut the crap and just answer the question. I’m convinced that the producers tell them not to answer right away and to say anything to keep the suspense prolonged.
I’m with you! There was one guy this week that had a @!?#!@! paragraph to say about each question, even the stupid $100 one.
The 50-50 can’t by random computer; they must decide beforehand which two answers to leave. For instance, last night: the Titanic question. The Carpathia and the Californian were the two hardest answers to decide between. It never leaves behind an obviously wrong one.
Let the Truth of Love be lighted/ Let the Love of Truth shine clear. Sensibility/ Armed with sense and liberty
With the Heart and Mind united in a single/ Perfect/ Sphere. - Rush
I knew that one! I knew that one!
Last night, when they asked the “What punctuation mark is also part of the human body” question, I said “period”.
The Wife then hit me with her J. C. Penney catalogue.
As I have said before, you will all recognize me if I get on the show, for I shall lunge across the lecturn and slap Regis silly. I might have a good chance of getting on if I ever call the darn phone number…
I blame that on the Iron Horse question. The guy who answered that used a lifeline, but he explained in detail why he was using his lifeline. Later, the program gave back his lifeline–because they recognized his logic. If he hadn’t described his thought process, they would never have given it back.
Actually, I am convinced that most people don’t know the answers to the “trivial” questions. As someone once said, “No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the average human being.”
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I’ve seen the show a few times and it really annoys me the way they draw out the questions and the answers. They could get through a lot more people if they didn’t have all the dilly dallying. I guess they don’t want to give away that much money.
I would love to see somebody get in the hot seat, answer the first question and then say he/she is walking away.
I think that Regis is pretty arrogant. When that woman lost on the Baldwin brother’s question did you hear the comment he made later on about how she set a record? Dr.Fidelius I’d love to slap him silly as well.
Did any of you hear about how much money the guy that won the one million actually received? He only received around $550,000 after state and federal taxes. True he still made a nice sum of money, but that makes me sick that the gov’t will take that much money from us and yet we’re still in debt, facing a Social Security problem etc etc etc. I’m going off on a tangent, sorry.
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Lots written here on this show. They cut it up you know. One guy spent a half hour on one question. Be more fun if there was a time limit. Strectching things out is done so they dont have to give out so much money.