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alfonzos

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« on: July 27, 2009, 06:11:25 PM »
Here are twelve questions, each worth one million dollars, from the series courtesy Mental Floss Magazine. How many did you get correctly? I scored four out of twelve. Slightly better than the law of averages.
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Matt Ottinger

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« Reply #1 on: July 27, 2009, 06:18:31 PM »
The tricky part for a lot of us is that in some cases, we know what the correct answer is now because we saw the shows in question.

Given that caveat, I got 11 our of 12.  Guessing, I'd say I probably knew eight of them before they became Famous Million Dollar Questions.
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tomobrien

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« Reply #2 on: July 27, 2009, 06:19:39 PM »
12 out of 12.  Fat lot of good it does me now...

WhammyPower

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« Reply #3 on: July 27, 2009, 06:27:09 PM »
6 out of 12.  Meh.

calliaume

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« Reply #4 on: July 27, 2009, 06:33:01 PM »
Embarrassing.  Four of 12.

Two caveats:  I never saw any of the million-dollar shows except the first two (I knew the answer to the Carpenter one, and the sciences have always been my weak point).  More importantly, most of us would walk away rather than guess and risk punting $375,000.  There's no penalty to guess here.

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« Reply #5 on: July 27, 2009, 06:35:33 PM »
I plucked off nine of the twelve; more realistically, I got six of nine, having seen the first three questions when they aired.
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tpirfan28

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« Reply #6 on: July 27, 2009, 07:00:04 PM »
6/12.
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Kevin Prather

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« Reply #7 on: July 28, 2009, 07:51:15 AM »
12/12, but I admit I only knew one of them when seeing it for the first time. (The Lesotho question.)

BillCullen1

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« Reply #8 on: July 28, 2009, 12:40:26 PM »
7 out of 12 right for me. Well, at least that's a majority.

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« Reply #9 on: July 28, 2009, 05:59:51 PM »
12 out of 12. Before seeing the videos, I knew the Sun-Earth distance question, the Bob House's question, the Paddington question, and the Slumdog question.
4 out of 12, that's not the worst here :)