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Kevin Prather · « **Reply #510 on:** October 16, 2005, 06:27:46 PM »

As we've already established, if you go back and read my post.

clemon79 · « **Reply #511 on:** October 16, 2005, 07:11:18 PM »

[quote name=\'whoserman\' date=\'Oct 16 2005, 03:27 PM\']As we've already established, if you go back and read my post.

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Just for the record, I wanna make sure Who knows that I wasn't knocking his question, I was just curious as to whether something official existed, because that had never been part of the rule as I knew it. Heck, Cecil Adams's say-so is usually more than good enough for me, so I would have taken Straight Dope as gospel, too.

Kevin Prather · « **Reply #512 on:** October 16, 2005, 07:29:03 PM »

[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Oct 16 2005, 04:11 PM\']Just for the record, I wanna make sure Who knows that I wasn't knocking his question, I was just curious as to whether something official existed, because that had never been part of the rule as I knew it. Heck, Cecil Adams's say-so is usually more than good enough for me, so I would have taken Straight Dope as gospel, too.

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Understood. And you were right. The rule never existed officially. Therefore, the correct answers were A and C, so the question is, indeed, no good.

Matt Ottinger · « **Reply #513 on:** October 16, 2005, 08:36:54 PM »

[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Oct 16 2005, 07:11 PM\']Heck, Cecil Adams's say-so is usually more than good enough for me, so I would have taken Straight Dope as gospel, too.

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Sorta like the IMDB, Straight Dope is usually right, but I hardly ever use it as an authenticating source when I'm researching material. Cecil's little empire has gotten so big that he's got a team looking things up for him, and there can be cracks in the system.

BTW, my apologies to whoserman for not catching that he'd already trashed his own question. This silly thread's up to 74 pages, and I've lost track of who's said what.

Kevin Prather · « **Reply #514 on:** October 16, 2005, 09:14:51 PM »

Apology accepted, Matt.

Yeah, this thread is pretty long, but I think it's a good thread.

See what you think of this one...

Held at the Horseshoe Casino in Las Vegas in 1970, who was the champion of the first World Series of Poker?

A: Johnny Moss
B: Doyle Brunson
C: "Amarillo Slim" Preston
D: Nick "The Greek" Dandalos

clemon79 · « **Reply #515 on:** October 16, 2005, 09:37:19 PM »

[quote name=\'whoserman\' date=\'Oct 16 2005, 06:14 PM\']Held at the Horseshoe Casino in Las Vegas in 1970, who was the champion of the first World Series of Poker?
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Interesting question. Easy Google (first hit for "1970 wsop champion", in fact), but it's safe to assume that you wouldn't have a PAF by the time you got to the big one. I'm not sure how much reasoning it out you can really do, though. Certainly no worse a MDQ than asking who won the first Heavy Metal Grammy. (Which you not only couldn't really reason out, you would prolly screw yourself if you did.)

Kevin Prather · « **Reply #516 on:** October 21, 2005, 12:51:39 AM »

Here's one for you Shakespeare buffs...

In what Shakespearean play does a servant utter the line, "Holla, ho!"?

A: Romeo and Juliet
B: Taming of the Shrew
C: Richard III
D: Othello

TLEberle · « **Reply #517 on:** October 21, 2005, 04:12:58 PM »

Whether or not I'd place it at a million bucks, that question fits the acid tests of what an upper level question is: it's amusing, I want to know what the answer is...on the other hand, my knowledge of Shakespeare isn't that great, so I'd walk away. I wonder if you could Phone-a-Search Engine and come up with anything.

Still better than most of the arcane stuff that is uninteresting.

Gus · « **Reply #518 on:** October 21, 2005, 11:47:18 PM »

Just a side note, I noticed this thread is exactly two years old today (10/21). Happy birthday Millionaire questions thread!

Kevin Prather · « **Reply #519 on:** October 21, 2005, 11:58:42 PM »

Two years old? Wow! I feel old...

GS Warehouse · « **Reply #520 on:** October 22, 2005, 01:02:35 AM »

[quote name=\'Gus\' date=\'Oct 21 2005, 10:47 PM\']Just a side note, I noticed this thread is exactly two years old today (10/21). Happy birthday Millionaire questions thread!

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Speaking of GSF milestones, we're also over the 100,000 post mark here at the Invision board. (By definition, any discussion about the discussion board itself is automatically on-topic, right? :-) )

Kevin Prather · « **Reply #521 on:** October 22, 2005, 01:15:44 AM »

Looks like 97,000 still.

MillionaireMan · « **Reply #522 on:** November 02, 2005, 10:48:58 PM »

This one's for all ya sports buffs:

At the 1972 Olympics in Berlin, how many of Mark Spitz's seven gold medals were world record? Choices:

A) 1 B) 3 C) 5 D) 7

Kevin Prather · « **Reply #523 on:** November 02, 2005, 11:09:15 PM »

[quote name=\'MillionaireMan\' date=\'Nov 2 2005, 08:48 PM\']At the 1972 Olympics in Berlin, how many of Mark Spitz's seven gold medals were world record? Choices:

A) 1 B) 3 C) 5 D) 7

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Wait...what? I'm not sure I understand.

clemon79 · « **Reply #524 on:** November 02, 2005, 11:17:14 PM »

[quote name=\'whoserman\' date=\'Nov 2 2005, 08:09 PM\']Wait...what? I'm not sure I understand.

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He's asking how many times Spitz set world records in the finals of the events he won his seven gold medals in.

(At least, I hope he is. If he cites a record set during a preliminary heat, it will cement his Mah-rone Du Jour.)

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