Millionaire Questions...

[Craig Karlberg]

Let me take a stab at some of the questions I saw here.

The Olympic question is easy C. Greece.  It's ironic because Athens hosts this year's games.

I though Chase was on the $100K bill.  Oh well.

Don't get me started on the atmosphere one.  The numbers are TOO large for me to comprehend.

As far as continuous laughter goes, I'm thinking I Love Lucy because of the conveyor belt episode where Lucy was wrapping up chocolate, but the belt sped up forcing her to "eat" some of the chocolate.  That was FUNNY!

[gromit82]

[quote name=\'willmorris\' date=\'May 22 2004, 12:18 AM\']
What is the only nation to have competed in every Olympiad?

A:  Sweden
B:  Great Britain
C:  Greece
D:  France[/quote]
Is there a valid answer to this question?  As far as I can tell, Great Britain has competed in every Olympic Games, and so has France.  (Neither country boycotted the 1980 Olympics in Moscow.)  Greece has competed in every Summer Olympics, but skipped four Winter Olympics.

Sweden apparently didn't participate in 1904, thus making it a wrong answer to this question.

[gromit82]

[quote name=\'Jay Temple\' date=\'Feb 9 2004, 12:00 AM\']/   Which Oscar™ category's voters   \
\ must view all the nominated films? /
A. Best Picture
B. Best Art Direction
C. Best Documentary
D. Best Foreign Film[/quote]
It looks like nobody answered this question yet.

Voters for both Best Documentary and Best Foreign Film must see all of the nominees, so both C and D are correct.

Documentary Award
Foreign Language Film Award

[Matt Ottinger]

[quote name=\'DjohnsonCB\' date=\'May 21 2004, 03:10 PM\'] Which of these names often seen in vintage issues of Mad Magazine is the actual name of an Assistant Track and Field Coach at Cedarville University?

A. Roger Kaputnik

B. Alfred Newman

C. Mickey Bitsko

D. Don Martin [/quote]
 This is just one step above "What's the name of my cat?" for completely meaningless obscurity.

[willmorris]

To my Olympic question, the correct answer is Great Britain.

France missed the 1956 Winter Games, Sweden the 1904 Summers, and Greece some of the early Winters.

[Kevin Prather]

[quote name=\'Craig Karlberg\' date=\'May 22 2004, 01:47 AM\'] As far as continuous laughter goes, I'm thinking I Love Lucy because of the conveyor belt episode where Lucy was wrapping up chocolate, but the belt sped up forcing her to "eat" some of the chocolate.  That was FUNNY! [/quote]
 You actually make a good point. My source may be wrong.

The answer from my source is The Johnny Carson Show, from Ed Ames' Tomahawk throw. It was a little over a minute. Was the Lucy one longer?

[Blanquepage]

I'll give this whole Super Millionaire question writing business a try:

$5Million question:

In the United States numbering system, a centillion is exponentially expressed as what power of ten?

A) 63rd
B) 600th
C) 120th
D) 303rd

$10Million:

According to the geological time scale, dinosaurs first appeared during which era and period?

A)Paleozoic era, Permian period
B)Mesozoic era, Jurassic period
C)Mesozoic era, Triassic period
D)Mesozoic era, Cretaceous period

--Jamie

[willmorris]

Centillion is too easy for $5M, methinks, it's 303.

$10M, I think, is C.

[Blanquepage]

Centillion is too easy for $5M, methinks, it's 303.
$10M, I think, is C.

Gee, that shows me. :-P

--Jamie

[Millionaire76]

Let's say this $2.5 Million is hard to see.

$2,500,000
Approximately, how many fibers are in the optical nerve in the eye?

A: 1,200,000
B: 968,000
C: 1,050,000
D: 2,700,000

Don't hurt your brain on this one.

$5,000,000
Communication between hemispheres are caused by what structure of the brain which connects right and left hemispheres?

A: Limbic System
B: Basal Ganglia
C: Corpus Callosum
D: Parietal Lobe

[Millionaire76]

[quote name=\'johnnya2k3\' date=\'May 21 2004, 10:53 PM\'] Well, the $10 million Super Millionaire question must be the toughest one in television history, so...

What is the actual weight of the earth's atmosphere?

A. 3,192,827,306,281,391,053 lbs.
B. 1,639,205,571,901,572,176 lbs.
C. 2,334,545,454,545,454,545 lbs.
D. 2,712,501,471,988,510,010 lbs.

BTW, on Joker's Wild '90 they had that same question.

Jonathan Allen [/quote]
 Fantastic question. I don't have a clue. Hard to research too.

[Steve McClellan]

[quote name=\'Millionaire76\' date=\'May 24 2004, 05:33 PM\'][quote name=\'johnnya2k3\' date=\'May 21 2004, 10:53 PM\'] What is the actual weight of the earth's atmosphere?

A. 3,192,827,306,281,391,053 lbs.
B. 1,639,205,571,901,572,176 lbs.
C. 2,334,545,454,545,454,545 lbs.
D. 2,712,501,471,988,510,010 lbs. [/quote]
Fantastic question.[/quote]
...or not. To the average person, what's the difference between 1.6 quintillion and 3.1 quintillion?

Approximately, how many fibers are in the optical nerve in the eye?

A: 1,200,000
B: 968,000
C: 1,050,000
D: 2,700,000

Numbers questions are difficult to pull off. Three of your choices are within 20% of each other. Say someone knows that it's about a million. You've got some ridiculously boring television on your hands while the guy tries to pick one of the three close ones over the others. Heck, even the original I've Got a Secret knew that once someone got close to a number, that was good enough because it's no fun to just play for numbers.

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'johnnya2k3\' date=\'May 21 2004, 08:53 PM\'] Well, the $10 million Super Millionaire question must be the toughest one in television history, so...

What is the actual weight of the earth's atmosphere?

A. 3,192,827,306,281,391,053 lbs.
B. 1,639,205,571,901,572,176 lbs.
C. 2,334,545,454,545,454,545 lbs.
D. 2,712,501,471,988,510,010 lbs.

BTW, on Joker's Wild '90 they had that same question.

Jonathan Allen [/quote]
 "Yeah, I'd like to phone a friend."

"Yeah, by the time you finish reading those numbers the time will have expired twice over, so we won't bother. Next."

[JayC]

Try this one on...

What book was the most banned book by American libraries and schools in the 1990's?
A. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
B. Scary Stories
C. The Chocolate War
D. Daddy's Roomate

[gromit82]

[quote name=\'willmorris\' date=\'May 24 2004, 09:06 AM\']To my Olympic question, the correct answer is Great Britain.

France missed the 1956 Winter Games, Sweden the 1904 Summers, and Greece some of the early Winters.[/quote]
France did compete in the 1956 Winter Olympics; they just didn't win any medals that year.

1956 Winter Olympic athletes by country -- in French

1956 Winter Olympic Results (Top 6 in each event) -- in French