Millionaire Questions...

[Brandon Brooks]

[quote name=\'willmorris\' date=\'Mar 13 2004, 11:09 PM\'] Sales figures. [/quote]
 Peeps are more popular to me than Goldenberg's Peanut Chews.  Does that mean I'm right?

One, the question isn't specific enough.  Two, it would make a better Greed question.

Brandon Brooks

[Craig Karlberg]

As far as the JustBorn company question goes, my guess is C Marshmellow Peeps.  I figured that it always a hot item during Easter time, so the question asked seems appropiate now that Easter is just 4 weeks away.

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'willmorris\' date=\'Mar 13 2004, 09:09 PM\'] Sales figures. [/quote]
 Welcome to "Greed". Here's your accordion.

[HYHYBT]

There *is* a problem with questions like

What rock guitarist's life was spared because he didn't get on the August 1990 flight killing Stevie Ray Vaughan

Not because they're in particularly bad taste, but because, at least the way this one's worded, all answers would be correct unless they are 1) not rock guitarists, or 2) were on that flight.

[Kevin Prather]

What is the only game show ever to use the on-screen caption "To Be Continued..." at the end of an episode?

A: High Rollers
B: Press Your Luck
C: Body Language
D: Bullseye

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'whoserman\' date=\'Mar 20 2004, 01:54 PM\'] What is the only game show ever to use the on-screen caption "To Be Continued..." at the end of an episode?

A: High Rollers
B: Press Your Luck
C: Body Language
D: Bullseye [/quote]
Hmm. An interesting idea, but I gotta wonder...we know that most people know PYL as "that show with the Whammies", but I think that most of those people also recognize the show if the name is given to them, and I don't think the Larsen incident is THAT obscure.

I could be wrong. Certainly it requires the player to string together a list of events to come to that conclusion: a show requiring two episodes to conclude a single game, why that was necessary, and from that, which show. That in itself makes it a pretty good question.

[zachhoran]

[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Mar 20 2004, 04:58 PM\'] [quote name=\'whoserman\' date=\'Mar 20 2004, 01:54 PM\'] What is the only game show ever to use the on-screen caption "To Be Continued..." at the end of an episode?

A: High Rollers
B: Press Your Luck
C: Body Language
D: Bullseye [/quote]
Hmm. An interesting idea, but I gotta wonder...we know that most people know PYL as "that show with the Whammies", but I think that most of those people also recognize the show if the name is given to them, and I don't think the Larsen incident is THAT obscure.

I could be wrong. Certainly it requires the player to string together a list of events to come to that conclusion: a show requiring two episodes to conclude a single game, why that was necessary, and from that, which show. That in itself makes it a pretty good question. [/quote]
 The only bad point about Whoserman's question is that two of the shows aren't terribly well known outside the game show clique.

[Kevin Prather]

How about this, then...

What is the only game show ever to use the on-screen caption "To Be Continued..." at the end of an episode?

A: High Rollers
B: Press Your Luck
C: Wheel of Fortune
D: Family Feud

[Craig Karlberg]

[quote name=\'whoserman\' date=\'Mar 20 2004, 10:26 PM\'] How about this, then...

What is the only game show ever to use the on-screen caption "To Be Continued..." at the end of an episode?

A: High Rollers
B: Press Your Luck
C: Wheel of Fortune
D: Family Feud [/quote]
Either way it's written, it has to be B. Press Your Luck & the infamous Micheal Larsen 2-part episode.

[Kevin Prather]

Yeah, but the second question has four well-known game shows as choices, whereas the first one has two well-known and two obscure.

[CarShark]

The cases of Briggs v. Elliot and Bolling v. Sharpe were combined with others to form what landmark decision?

A. Roe v. Wade
B. Brown v. Board of Education
C. Tinker v. Des Moines
D. Gideon v. Wainwright

[Little Big Brother]

The cases of Briggs v. Elliot and Bolling v. Sharpe were combined with others to form what landmark decision?

A. Roe v. Wade
B. Brown v. Board of Education
C. Tinker v. Des Moines
D. Gideon v. Wainwright

Hmmm, this question is not entirely accurate.  I know the answer you are looking for is Brown v. Board, but the Bolling decision, while made the same day as Brown and having pretty much the same effect (it called for the desegregation of schools in Washington D.C. because DC did not fall under the jurisdiction of the Fourteenth Amendment), it was a distinct decision from Brown v. Board.  You might say it was "separate but equal" (ducks to avoid thrown tomatos and pumpkins)

[CarShark]

[quote name=\'Little Big Brother\' date=\'Mar 26 2004, 09:50 PM\']

The cases of Briggs v. Elliot and Bolling v. Sharpe were combined with others to form what landmark decision?

A. Roe v. Wade
B. Brown v. Board of Education
C. Tinker v. Des Moines
D. Gideon v. Wainwright

Hmmm, this question is not entirely accurate.  I know the answer you are looking for is Brown v. Board, but the Bolling decision, while made the same day as Brown and having pretty much the same effect (it called for the desegregation of schools in Washington D.C. because DC did not fall under the jurisdiction of the Fourteenth Amendment), it was a distinct decision from Brown v. Board.  You might say it was "separate but equal" (ducks to avoid thrown tomatos and pumpkins) [/quote]
 All the information that I have found says that Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, KS was made of five cases. Blacks from the states of Virginia, South Carolina, Delaware, and Kansas were represented as well as the District of Columbia. Bolling v. Sharpe was the case in DC.

[Little Big Brother]

Here's the quote from my Constitutional Law textbook regarding Bolling:

"In Bolling v. Sharpe, 347 U.S. 497 (1954), decided on the same day as Brown, the Court unanimously held school segregation in the District of Columbia unconstitutional.  Since the fourteenth amendment applies only to the states, the Court could not rely on the equal protection clause."

~Constitutional Law Fourth Edition: Stone, Seidman, Sunstein, Tushnet.  Aspen Law & Business, 2001.

Granted, I may be splitting hairs, or at least finding another thing to distract me from working on my politics paper about Brown ;-)

[CarShark]

[quote name=\'Little Big Brother\' date=\'Mar 26 2004, 11:16 PM\'] Here's the quote from my Constitutional Law textbook regarding Bolling:

"In Bolling v. Sharpe, 347 U.S. 497 (1954), decided on the same day as Brown, the Court unanimously held school segregation in the District of Columbia unconstitutional.  Since the fourteenth amendment applies only to the states, the Court could not rely on the equal protection clause."

~Constitutional Law Fourth Edition: Stone, Seidman, Sunstein, Tushnet.  Aspen Law & Business, 2001.

Granted, I may be splitting hairs, or at least finding another thing to distract me from working on my politics paper about Brown ;-) [/quote]
 Researching again, I found that Bolling v. Sharpe was part of the original suit, but since DC is separate from the states (like you said) they decided it would be better if it split and went on its own.

Suddenly I'm worried that the ambiguity might take away from the question, but  the way it is written is accurate.