# Who Wants to Be a Millionaire Top Questions? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 18, 2005, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire-top-questions/317518 "2005-08-18T01:55:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire-top-questions/317518/1 "2005-08-18T01:55:58Z")
Anyone know if an archive exists, fan-made or not, of all million-dollar questions exhibited on this show, and if so, where? Since the phrase “million dollar question” was known before the show, Google has been of little help. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![RyJae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9d8465/32.png) [@RyJae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RyJae)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire-top-questions/317518/2 "2005-08-18T02:29:03Z")
This has a couple of them [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who\_Wants\_to\_Be\_a\_Millionaire#Million\_winners](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Wants_to_Be_a_Millionaire#Million_winners) And this one seems to have them all for America’s version [http://www.tvgameshows.net/winners.htm](http://www.tvgameshows.net/winners.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire-top-questions/317518/3 "2005-08-18T03:49:20Z")
Questions, not winners. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![RyJae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9d8465/32.png) [@RyJae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RyJae)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire-top-questions/317518/4 "2005-08-18T04:23:38Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > Questions, not winners. 🙂 The questions are in there 🙂 Along with the correct answer, some in the wiki pretty much all in the other link. > [@](#): > > Dr. Kevin Olmstead won $2.18 million on a question asking who the inventor was of the first mass-produced helicopter (Igor Sikorsky). > He went all the way and answered during World War II, U.S. soldiers used the first commercial aerosol cans to hold insecticide. Toutant took away $1.86 million > > Thirty-one year-old John Carpenter. > His million-dollar question was to identify Richard Nixon as the only of four Presidential choices ever to appear on the satirical comedy series Laugh-In. > > Twenty-five year old California computer analyst Joe Trela became the sixth network millionaire, when he answered moth as the insect which shorted out a supercomputer and was the inspiration for the term “computer bug.” > > Bob House, an Auburn University alumnus who definitely knows the chant “War Eagle,” rolled to his $1 million question by using only one Lifeline. He used the other two Lifelines on his Big One, to identify which of four scientists did not have an element named after him (Isaac Newton). > > Hunt joined House as Millionaire IX July 6, 2000. The math teacher at Rossville Christian Academy in Collierville, Tn., joined the seven-figure club when he knew Lesotho was the only of four landlocked countries which was completely surrounded by another country. > > Cullen almost effortlessly coasted through his stack, only stopping for a Lifeline at $16,000 and toying with his audience and 50/50 helps on the $1 million question on the letter at the beginning of the registration of all non-military U.S. aircraft (“M”). All taken from [http://www.tvgameshows.net/winners.htm](http://www.tvgameshows.net/winners.htm) The rest seem to be in it as well. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire-top-questions/317518/5 "2005-08-18T05:22:59Z")
What a party-poopiing archive that is! Giving the answers in the same sentence as the question, like that. A _fun_ archive would have them listed with all four possible responses, and give the correct answers on a different page. No blame accrues to you, of course, **Lost Goals**. Thanks for finding that. ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire-top-questions/317518/6 "2005-08-18T16:11:33Z")
Has anyone ever missed the million-dollar question and fallen from $500,000 to $32,000? Everyone I’ve seen make it to the million-dollar question either answered it correctly or walked with $500,000. Also, does anyone know if, when they do Ask the Audience, if audience members are allowed to talk to one another when voting? Let’s say I’m in the audience with my mother sitting next to me. Could she nudge me and say, “it’s C”, in case I didn’t know myself? ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire-top-questions/317518/7 "2005-08-18T17:46:13Z")
1. No, at least in the US. 2. Yes. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire-top-questions/317518/8 "2005-08-18T17:54:01Z")
Something I’ve noticed (and it wasn’t worth opening a new thread to discuss) is that since they’ve introduced the AOL alternative audience lifeline, the AOL results are consistently less right/more wrong than the studio audience. This is because either (a) the AOL audience gets less time to think about the question, and doesn’t hear any of the contestant’s musings; or (b) AOL users are dumber.