Okay, so you’re sitting in the audience of the Millionaire show and the person in the hot seat, in your opinion, is the world’s biggest maroon who doesn’t deserve $100, much less the grand prize.
Now a question comes up that is so easy you are sure the answer must be obvious to anyone above the age of three, yet the idiot, er, contestant is stumped and elects to “ask the audience.”
How tempted are you to deliberately give the wrong answer?
I’d be tempted.
I guarantee you I would…
Everytime!
-Frankie
“Mother Mercy, can your loins bear fruit forever?/Is your fecundity a trammel or a treasure?”
-Bad Religion
I just wish it had a write in option, so I could make up my own answers.
You say “cheesy” like that’s a BAD thing.
Seal - I love it!!! ROFL!
It’s surprising that people don’t just go ahead and answer on the easy ones; I suppose they must tell them they have to wait for Regis to give all the choices.
Couldn’t believe the guy didn’t get “pinochle” last night.
Catrandom
Sometimes after a contestant has used 50/50, he uses Ask the Audience. On a couple of occasions, some smartass picks one of the eliminated answers. That’d be me if I were in the audience. 
I started watching the WWTBAM aired on the Saturday before Superbowl XXXIV, not realizing that it’d be all football trivia. Just the first fast-finger question had me stumped. In the first 5 questions, I only knew one. (By then, I figured out that it was a topical show.) The rest of the episode I was equally ignorant. But some of these players were getting up to the +$32,000 range.
With all that football trivia in their heads, how do these guys know anything else? 
Wrong thinking is punished, right thinking is just as swiftly rewarded. You’ll find it an effective combination.
Can’t believe that guy did not know the “Home on The Range” question. I mean geez, ranks right up there with Hannibal and the elephants and the lawyer who didn not know that a python (being a giant snake, hmm lawyer snake question, hmmm) was a reptile.
I have never played Pinochle. I had no idea how may cards there are in a Pinochle deck. I’ve played Spades, Rummy, Canadian Rummy, Battle, Blackjack and a little Poker, but no Pinochle. If there are only 48 cards, which ones are missing?
As I’ve stated before, in the Pit, I could never be an audience member on Millionaire. I’d be screaming, “It’s ‘B,’ you moron, ‘B!’” Then Regis would call Security, and that would be the last you’d ever see of me.
>< DARWIN >
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A pinochle deck leaves out the two through the eight. But it has nine through ace of each suit, twice.
I didn’t know the pinochle question last night, either. I don’t play cards (I’m the only person I know that has never, ever played Euchre).
I didn’t know the python one, either. Felt like an idiot. But I did know that Anchorage was the furthest city from NY, and that hard-boiled eggs aren’t cooked in a frying pan. So I guess I’m not hopeless.
Changing my sig, because Wally said to, and I really like Wally, and I’ll do anything he says, anytime he says to.
I’d like to see a celebrity WWTBAM. Imagine how bonehead THOSE questions would be.
Criti, I have never played Euchre, Cribbage, Pinochle or a few other card games, I rebel because my sister loved to play cards. When I got old enough to realize how silly that was, I just never got around to learning.
CRISTI,
I have never played Euchre, Cribbage, Rummy, Pinochle or a few other card games. My sister loved to play them so to rebel I just didn’t learn, by the time I figured out how silly that it, I didn’t have time to learn.
In college, I do believe I had enough credit hours to minor in Euchre…
I wouldn’t mind being a bonehead millionaire.
Sheesh, I would answer stupid questions for money!
tech, alright here is your question:
"If you have xenodochiophobia, you are spooked by:’
a. foreign hotels
b. large spiders
c. xerox machines
d. zoos
I have felt that I would like to be in the audience and give a wrong answer on purpose no matter what the question.
The audience is better than the phone a friend. How dumb are most of their friends?
Jeffery
Umm handy,
Definately not a fear of spiders, so that can’t be the answer.
xerox machines, well those are a brand name.
I almost want to use a lifeline, but in my days as a student…
Umm handy, I do believe that the first part of the word “xeno” has something to do with foreign objects or something so I will have to guess that it’s A. Foreign Hotels.
< fingers crossed > < mouth twitching >
Dare I say it?
All right,
Is that your final answer?