What makes a good $1,000,000 Question

[zachhoran]

[quote name=\'HYHYBT\' date=\'Mar 1 2004, 04:27 AM\']

If I remember rightly, the problem wasn't that you could pick Frodo out as being a Lord of the Rings character, but that if you hadn't read the thing recently and didn't remember the spelling of strange names well you might pick out Golem for the same reason. [/quote]
 As of last night, that question will be an $8K Meredith question as best, thanks to LotR's record-tying sweep of the Oscars(did Titanic or Ben Hur, the other 11 time Oscar winners, get nominated for a category and didn't win)

[Matt Ottinger]

[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Mar 1 2004, 10:57 AM\'] As of last night, that question will be an $8K Meredith question as best, thanks to LotR's record-tying sweep of the Oscars(did Titanic or Ben Hur, the other 11 time Oscar winners, get nominated for a category and didn't win) [/quote]
 Just in case it comes up as a trivia question one of these days:

Titanic got eleven trophies out of 14 nominations.  Best Actress nominee Kate Winslett, Best Supporting Actress nominee Gloria Stewart and the nominated make-up team all failed to win the Oscar.

Ben-Hur won eleven out of its 12 nominations.  Karl Tunberg lost the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar.

[carlopanno]

[quote name=\'GS Warehouse\' date=\'Feb 25 2004, 11:47 PM\'] [quote name=\'carlopanno\' date=\'Feb 25 2004, 12:40 PM\'] When I was at Jeopardy! (1985-1990) ... [/quote]
Carlo Panno?!  Aren't you that guy mentioned in The Jeopardy! Book as a contestant from the Fleming version who came on to buy an engagement ring?  The way you played is one reminder of why only the winners keep their cash in the current version. [/quote]
 Actually, I met the woman I married while I was a contestant on Jeopardy! in 1978, so no, getting money for an engagement ring was not on my mind at the time. And, as it happens, we got married the week I started on the current Jeopardy! in 1985.

As to the rest, Zach nailed it. I still have "the Cross-Wits couch," as my wife and kids call it, and also the Rice-A-Roni prize card that Steven gave me before I left Jeopardy!

Thanks for the warm welcome. I look forward to participating.

--C

[ChuckNet]

Welcome aboard, Carlo...I remember you from my early days on ATGS (96-97) and it's always good when some industry vets like Randy West and yourself find this place. :-)

Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")

[Robert Hutchinson]

[quote name=\'HYHYBT\' date=\'Mar 1 2004, 04:27 AM\']If I remember rightly, the problem wasn't that you could pick Frodo out as being a Lord of the Rings character, but that if you hadn't read the thing recently and didn't remember the spelling of strange names well you might pick out Golem for the same reason.[/quote]
You'd really deserve to lose, then, as "Golem" wasn't one of the choices.

Jigglypuff, Frodo, Squirtle, Pikachu. The 50:50 left the first two.

[Kevin Prather]

When I saw the pokemon question, I debated between Frodo and Squirtle, because I'd never heard of either of them.

[GS Warehouse]

[quote name=\'carlopanno\' date=\'Mar 1 2004, 12:36 PM\'] Actually, I met the woman I married while I was a contestant on Jeopardy! in 1978, so no, getting money for an engagement ring was not on my mind at the time. And, as it happens, we got married the week I started on the current Jeopardy! in 1985. [/quote]
 OK, so it's been a lone time since I last read that book.  The man I was thinking of was an unnamed 1967 contestant.  But it did mention that the contestant coordinator knew there was something going on between you two before you did.

[ChuckNet]

When I saw the pokemon question, I debated between Frodo and Squirtle, because I'd never heard of either of them

I was inclined to believe it was Frodo, having seen his name mentioned as part of a blurb in the long-defunct "Video Marketplace" magazine about the animated version of Lord of the Rings.

Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")

[carlopanno]

[quote name=\'GS Warehouse\' date=\'Mar 1 2004, 10:23 PM\'] [quote name=\'carlopanno\' date=\'Mar 1 2004, 12:36 PM\'] Actually, I met the woman I married while I was a contestant on Jeopardy! in 1978, so no, getting money for an engagement ring was not on my mind at the time. And, as it happens, we got married the week I started on the current Jeopardy! in 1985. [/quote]
OK, so it's been a lone time since I last read that book.  The man I was thinking of was an unnamed 1967 contestant.  But it did mention that the contestant coordinator knew there was something going on between you two before you did. [/quote]
 That's true. It said that in the book because I told Peter that, actually...

--C

[HYHYBT]

Oops! I must have been remembering an ATGS discussion about the question instead of actual events.

Sorry about that.