A player on Millionaire got a great stack yesterday. The questions were really easy up to the $32K mark, then got harder but intersected my knowledge base, and then finally became impossible for me at $250K. The ones I remember:
32K: "Remember the Maine" is a slogan from what conflict?
A. Spanish-American war
B. US Civil War
C. War of 1812
D. World War I
$64K: The eyelike markings on a peacock's tail are called what? (sorry, don't remember choices-- correct answer was OCELLI, which I reasoned was the correct answer due to its common root with OCULAR).
$125K: In mathematics, what letter is commonly used to designate the slope of a line?
A. j
B. c
C. k
D. m
(Contestant asked the audience, who got it right by a large margin; I managed to pull it out of my memory).
$250K: Beethoven's Fifth symphony is in what key?
A. A minor
B. D major
C. C minor
D. F major
This one would have stopped me cold, but I would have had lifelines left.
Yes, this is how I think when I watch the show. In my defense(?), I did the same thing before I was a contestant, too.
Posted by Peter at September 24, 2003 10:07 AM