Millionaire 2018-19 Season Discussion [SPOILERS]
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Re: Millionaire 2018-19 Season Discussion [SPOILERS]
Just curious, has anybody heard about Who Wants to Be A Millionaire being renewed for next season?
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Re: Millionaire 2018-19 Season Discussion [SPOILERS]
I don’t get it at all. Ratings keep going up, and costs are steady. Why anyone wants to take a chance on another show, I’m not sure but my only guess is demographics. Stations seem to want a female dominated audience
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Re: Millionaire 2018-19 Season Discussion [SPOILERS]
Instagets on all questions today.
Towards the end of the episode, you can see why this episode aired today. The $30,000 had the final line from the Seinfeld finale.
Tomorrow marks the 21st anniversary of the episode. Which I actually watched with my parents when I was a month and a half old. It was also the day Frank Sinatra died. May 14, 1998.
Towards the end of the episode, you can see why this episode aired today. The $30,000 had the final line from the Seinfeld finale.
Tomorrow marks the 21st anniversary of the episode. Which I actually watched with my parents when I was a month and a half old. It was also the day Frank Sinatra died. May 14, 1998.
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Re: Millionaire 2018-19 Season Discussion [SPOILERS]
I remember that! Not the part where you were watching, but the Sinatra announcement. We were watching Conan, I think, but maybe it was David Letterman. They broke into the show with some old-timey looking placard that said something like SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. And some orchestral music of the special announcement sort started playing. This went on for longer than it ought to. I'm guessing they were scurrying around behind the scenes finalizing the announcement and encountered complications. In any event, it went on long enough that my wife and I started laughing, thinking maybe this was a bit. Then someone finally came on screen and told us Frank had died.LucarioSnooperVixey wrote: ↑Mon May 13, 2019 8:33 pm Instagets on all questions today.
Towards the end of the episode, you can see why this episode aired today. The $30,000 had the final line from the Seinfeld finale.
Tomorrow marks the 21st anniversary of the episode. Which I actually watched with my parents when I was a month and a half old. It was also the day Frank Sinatra died. May 14, 1998.
I didn't realize that was later on the same day as Finalfeld.
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Sometimes I have no expectations to find that a Millionaire contestant has also appeared on J! although I check the Archive just to make sure. Today was the opposite as I fully expected to find Valerie Alexander in the Archive and yet she has not appeared on the show.
She does have quite the pages on Wikipedia and IMDb though:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2301399/bio ... _ov_bio_sm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Alexander
If she ever comes across the J! contestant coordinators then Valerie would be a good one for "The Call" unless she is ineligible due to some conflict of interest or contacts in the industry.
Comments on her Millionaire appearance today:
She does have quite the pages on Wikipedia and IMDb though:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2301399/bio ... _ov_bio_sm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Alexander
If she ever comes across the J! contestant coordinators then Valerie would be a good one for "The Call" unless she is ineligible due to some conflict of interest or contacts in the industry.
Comments on her Millionaire appearance today:
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Valerie's approach to asking only for medical experts on the ATA was unusual. Nice to see a +1 "drop some knowledge" as Chris sometimes says about that lifeline. That leaves the 50:50 lifeline. It's nice to have aspirations for a higher level question, though as a viewer I wonder what the 50:50 would have left when it is not used on some questions.
Good episode today.
Good episode today.
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Re: Millionaire 2018-19 Season Discussion [SPOILERS]
I had no clue on that question. Audience might have known?LucarioSnooperVixey wrote: ↑Mon May 13, 2019 8:33 pm Instagets on all questions today.
Towards the end of the episode, you can see why this episode aired today. The $30,000 had the final line from the Seinfeld finale.
Tomorrow marks the 21st anniversary of the episode. Which I actually watched with my parents when I was a month and a half old. It was also the day Frank Sinatra died. May 14, 1998.
Hilarious moment when his wife realized he'd drop to $5K with a wrong answer! Glad he walked. It seemed like he was itching to go for it, and her last comment nudged him in that direction
I liked the course correct by the Thousandaire. Blah blah blah - oh, never mind, I know this!
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I can't see the show getting the axe!triviawayne wrote: ↑Sat May 11, 2019 8:30 pmI don’t get it at all. Ratings keep going up, and costs are steady. Why anyone wants to take a chance on another show, I’m not sure but my only guess is demographics. Stations seem to want a female dominated audience
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Re: Millionaire 2018-19 Season Discussion [SPOILERS]
like i've said before, there is always the possibility that it stays on the 8 O&O's just to keep the rights out of the hands of Sony.morbeedo wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2019 10:20 pmI can't see the show getting the axe!triviawayne wrote: ↑Sat May 11, 2019 8:30 pmI don’t get it at all. Ratings keep going up, and costs are steady. Why anyone wants to take a chance on another show, I’m not sure but my only guess is demographics. Stations seem to want a female dominated audience
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Re: Millionaire 2018-19 Season Discussion [SPOILERS]
The Sergei Eisenstein question should have been $7,000 instead of $20,000.
Stephen Friedrich: T. S. Eliot was English I believe.
Bruce Springsteen: BORN IN THE USA!!!
Me: Actually, American born naturalized British citizen.
Stephen: I think that's the poem of ... that came on a path of forest, "the one less traveled by"?
Me: For (probably not) the last time. The Robert Frost poem is "The Road Not Taken".
Anyway, he had the wrong poem, but the right poet.
Stephen Friedrich: T. S. Eliot was English I believe.
Bruce Springsteen: BORN IN THE USA!!!
Me: Actually, American born naturalized British citizen.
Stephen: I think that's the poem of ... that came on a path of forest, "the one less traveled by"?
Me: For (probably not) the last time. The Robert Frost poem is "The Road Not Taken".
Anyway, he had the wrong poem, but the right poet.
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Actually, Eliot was also born in the USA (St. Louis). Didn't get British citizenship until ha was 39.LucarioSnooperVixey wrote: ↑Wed May 15, 2019 5:40 pm The Sergei Eisenstein question should have been $7,000 instead of $20,000.
Stephen Friedrich: T. S. Eliot was English I believe.
Bruce Springsteen: BORN IN THE USA!!!
Me: Actually, American born naturalized British citizen.
Stephen: I think that's the poem of ... that came on a path of forest, "the one less traveled by"?
Me: For (probably not) the last time. The Robert Frost poem is "The Road Not Taken".
Anyway, he had the wrong poem, but the right poet.
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Re: Millionaire 2018-19 Season Discussion [SPOILERS]
Uh... that's what he was saying.OrangeSAM wrote: ↑Thu May 16, 2019 11:12 amActually, Eliot was also born in the USA (St. Louis). Didn't get British citizenship until ha was 39.LucarioSnooperVixey wrote: ↑Wed May 15, 2019 5:40 pm The Sergei Eisenstein question should have been $7,000 instead of $20,000.
Stephen Friedrich: T. S. Eliot was English I believe.
Bruce Springsteen: BORN IN THE USA!!!
Me: Actually, American born naturalized British citizen.
Stephen: I think that's the poem of ... that came on a path of forest, "the one less traveled by"?
Me: For (probably not) the last time. The Robert Frost poem is "The Road Not Taken".
Anyway, he had the wrong poem, but the right poet.
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Re: Millionaire 2018-19 Season Discussion [SPOILERS]
The 5/16 episode had two people (Liz Fritz & Jeremy Cahnmann) with it not their first rodeo:
Correct answer:
An interview (from 2016) about Liz and her time on J! and studying abroad: https://www.iesabroad.org/study-abroad/ ... rUySW.dpbs
Comments:
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http://www.j-archive.com/showplayer.php?player_id=10315
The one post by Liz: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=3248&p=197040#p197040 is interesting as a reminder she got in trouble for her double shout-out.
$20,000
Jeremy won $50,000 in February after missing the $100,000 Q.
The one post by Liz: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=3248&p=197040#p197040 is interesting as a reminder she got in trouble for her double shout-out.
$20,000
Jeremy won $50,000 in February after missing the $100,000 Q.
Spoiler
They agreed to use the 50:50 which left A & B. Jeremy had at first been thinking A though did enough to convince Liz to go for the correct B after he liked the cuckoo is a bird connection.
Comments:
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The $20,000 Q messed with my head as I was almost sure that Cloud Cuckoo Land was in The Lego Movie while Happy Valley sounded like a perfectly good name for the setting of the movie that I could not recall. Happy Valley seemed impossible for Aristophanes. The other factor confusing me was recalling a Cloud Cuckooland in the Nintendo 64 game Banjo-Tooie.
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Re: Millionaire 2018-19 Season Discussion [SPOILERS]
MarkBarrett wrote: ↑Thu May 16, 2019 12:34 pm The 5/16 episode had two people (Liz Fritz & Jeremy Cahnmann) with it not their first rodeo:Correct answer:Spoiler
http://www.j-archive.com/showplayer.php?player_id=10315
The one post by Liz: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=3248&p=197040#p197040 is interesting as a reminder she got in trouble for her double shout-out.
$20,000
Jeremy won $50,000 in February after missing the $100,000 Q.An interview (from 2016) about Liz and her time on J! and studying abroad: https://www.iesabroad.org/study-abroad/ ... rUySW.dpbsSpoiler
They agreed to use the 50:50 which left A & B. Jeremy had at first been thinking A though did enough to convince Liz to go for the correct B after he liked the cuckoo is a bird connection.
Comments:Spoiler
The $20,000 Q messed with my head as I was almost sure that Cloud Cuckoo Land was in The Lego Movie while Happy Valley sounded like a perfectly good name for the setting of the movie that I could not recall. Happy Valley seemed impossible for Aristophanes. The other factor confusing me was recalling a Cloud Cuckooland in the Nintendo 64 game Banjo-Tooie.
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Happy Valley is a British TV series available on Amazon Prime. I've seen The Lego Movie but I don't remember this from there, only from Aristophanes...I guess that makes me an outlier...
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Another good day for me. Got $7,000 - $30,000 before choices came up. But Selenology for $30,000? Really?
For Liz, the most western mainland point in Europe is Cabo da Roca.
Also leant towards London for $50,000.
Seriously Jeremy, you call yourself dumb, yet you won $50,000 on that same show?
For Liz, the most western mainland point in Europe is Cabo da Roca.
Also leant towards London for $50,000.
Seriously Jeremy, you call yourself dumb, yet you won $50,000 on that same show?
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What's that then, the study of Veep?
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Re: Millionaire 2018-19 Season Discussion [SPOILERS]
Last night at pub quiz, there was a very easy question about the scientific name for the tailbone. After we'd turned in our answer, I asked my teammate Brian Fodera if he knew what bird it was named for. He didn't, and I told him it was the cuckoo, adding that one of Aristophanes' plays had a place called Nephelococcygia, or Cloud Cuckoo Land. Wild that that little bit would be worth $20,000 on TV some 16 hours later.
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That word was only implied this time, but it has explicitly come up on Millionaire before, in a $1M question during that Tournament of Ten thing many years ago. I think I'd learned the word in the Aristophanes context prior to seeing that, and forgotten it, but "coccygia" combined with the choices made me think of someone on their butt in a field as they watched the clouds.