[quote name=\'starcade\' date=\'Feb 27 2004, 08:57 PM\'] Let's see, one contestant doesn't know antihistamines work on allergies...
Then he doesn't know the "I Have a Dream" speech...
THEN he doesn't know what a URL is...
Then we get the "Three Wise Men" screwing up a contestant, making him think life began 500 million years ago. [/quote]
Honestly, of those four questions, only the allergy question should have been a gimme, and even there you never know what holes will pop up in someone's knowledge. As Peter mentioned, the King speech choices were tricky. Lots of people know "URL" without knowing what it stands for. The origins of life question stumped four very smart people, three with nothing to lose.
If you knew them, good for you. Best of luck on the phone-in game come May. But the contestants who struggled with them -- under the lights with real money on the line -- aren't blithering idiots for not knowing them.