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"Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?"
12.21.2000 - Apparently,
not me. I appeared on the College Edition of ABC's "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?"
on December 21st, 2000 and I got screwed by the audience. On my $8000 question, I
polled the audience. 80% of them said that the answer was B. I hesitated. I thought
they were wrong and I was going to use another lifeline, but then I looked at the
80% on the bar graph again and I decided not to waste any more lifelines and to just
go with B. I figured they must have known something I didn't. My final answer was
wrong, and I dropped down to $1000. Only 8% of the audience had chosen the correct
answer. It was the most wrong the audience has ever been in the history of the show.
Lucky me.
As it turns out, the question
I missed had to do with computers, so I really should have known the answer, but
whatever. I didn't. Here's the question that I missed.
What online
magazine is owned by Microsoft?
A. Salon
B. Wired C. Feed D. Slate
Upon polling the audience,
these were the results:
A. 5% B.
80% C. 7% D. 8%
I had initially ruled out
Salon and Wired. I thought it was either Feed or Slate, and I knew Wired was probably
the only one the audience had ever heard of, but the 80% was just too much to ignore
and the ignorance of the masses led me astray. Thus, I am not a millionaire. So please,
send me a dollar. Seriously. See a full-size picture here.
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