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Well….here’s what happened.
First things first, how much did I win?
$8,000.00
And I’m happy with that. Not as happy as I would have been with a million of course, but it’s $8,000 more than I had last October, eh? So that and two free trips to New York are a great reward for taking a little multiple choice test at Valley Fair Mall.
But what happened with the show? When will it be on?
Good question. It was originally scheduled to air February 11th and 12th, but it hasn’t aired yet. The producers for the show are on hiatus until June 20th or so, and there’s no one we can contact in New York that can give us an answer. BUT, we got our check today (dated February 12th), so I figured it’s safe to spill the beans. Five months is a long time to keep a secret. Even if it’s only $8,000.
So how did the game play out?
Well, after seeing eight other episodes taped, and answering almost all of the other contestants questions correctly in the Green Room, I was feeling pretty confident. I had only seen the show a handful of times before the trip to New York, and seeing a half-million dollar question about Big Bird’s feathers made me a little OVERconfident. Because once I got in that chair, everything changed.
Rubber Duckie and I muddled through questions about Count Chocula, the Massachusetts State Flower, and other things, and were doing really well, until we got to a question about Walt Whitman.
Walt Whitman. Poetry. My Kryptonite. I’ve never liked poetry, and never read Walt Whitman at all. So when I got what should have been a relatively simple question, I started second guessing myself. The question was:
“A Walt Whitman poem begins with the phrase ‘I sing the body __________ .’”
A. Fantastic
B. Electric
C. Mystic
D. Eclectic
Or something like that. The correct answer is of course B. But because “I Sing the Body Electric” is also the title of a Ray Bradbury novel, my wheels started spinning, and then I got “I trip the light fantastic” mixed in there, so I was going back and forth between A and B A and B A and B. I burned through all my lifelines on this one question. The audience came back with a 50/50 split, the computer “randomly” cut it down to the same 50/50, and I finally called my lifeline, my brilliant sister, who knew the correct answer.
Shoulda called her first, eh?
Anyway, I answered a few more questions right, and came to the one that stopped me cold:
It was something like this: “This company’s Rockport, Maine Headquarters Store has been open 24 hours a day since opening in the 1950’s.”
A. J. Crew
B. L.L. Bean
C. Land’s End
D. Another catalogue store—I don’t remember.
I thought about it for a few minutes, but if you know me, you KNOW I don’t know Jack about clothing. All four of the companies seemed equally likely to me, and if I had hazarded a guess, I would have guessed “Land’s End,” since Maine is…uh…the end of land in that part of the country. And I would have been wrong, because it’s L.L. Bean. So yeah. I chose to walk away with $8,000, less than we had hoped for, but not too shabby for a few hours of Coke and cookies in the Green Room. Do I replay the game over and over again in my head? Of course. Would I do it differently? Probably not. It was a lot of fun, most people were nice, and I made a few good friends that I’m still in contact with.
So if you happen to be watching “Millionaire” and see a goofy but very good looking guy with a Rubber Duckie, some Fisher Price Little People, and a hot-but-nervous wife in the audience…it’s probably me.
That’s it.
Thought y’all should know.
Quinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
First things first, how much did I win?
$8,000.00
And I’m happy with that. Not as happy as I would have been with a million of course, but it’s $8,000 more than I had last October, eh? So that and two free trips to New York are a great reward for taking a little multiple choice test at Valley Fair Mall.
But what happened with the show? When will it be on?
Good question. It was originally scheduled to air February 11th and 12th, but it hasn’t aired yet. The producers for the show are on hiatus until June 20th or so, and there’s no one we can contact in New York that can give us an answer. BUT, we got our check today (dated February 12th), so I figured it’s safe to spill the beans. Five months is a long time to keep a secret. Even if it’s only $8,000.
So how did the game play out?
Well, after seeing eight other episodes taped, and answering almost all of the other contestants questions correctly in the Green Room, I was feeling pretty confident. I had only seen the show a handful of times before the trip to New York, and seeing a half-million dollar question about Big Bird’s feathers made me a little OVERconfident. Because once I got in that chair, everything changed.
Rubber Duckie and I muddled through questions about Count Chocula, the Massachusetts State Flower, and other things, and were doing really well, until we got to a question about Walt Whitman.
Walt Whitman. Poetry. My Kryptonite. I’ve never liked poetry, and never read Walt Whitman at all. So when I got what should have been a relatively simple question, I started second guessing myself. The question was:
“A Walt Whitman poem begins with the phrase ‘I sing the body __________ .’”
A. Fantastic
B. Electric
C. Mystic
D. Eclectic
Or something like that. The correct answer is of course B. But because “I Sing the Body Electric” is also the title of a Ray Bradbury novel, my wheels started spinning, and then I got “I trip the light fantastic” mixed in there, so I was going back and forth between A and B A and B A and B. I burned through all my lifelines on this one question. The audience came back with a 50/50 split, the computer “randomly” cut it down to the same 50/50, and I finally called my lifeline, my brilliant sister, who knew the correct answer.
Shoulda called her first, eh?
Anyway, I answered a few more questions right, and came to the one that stopped me cold:
It was something like this: “This company’s Rockport, Maine Headquarters Store has been open 24 hours a day since opening in the 1950’s.”
A. J. Crew
B. L.L. Bean
C. Land’s End
D. Another catalogue store—I don’t remember.
I thought about it for a few minutes, but if you know me, you KNOW I don’t know Jack about clothing. All four of the companies seemed equally likely to me, and if I had hazarded a guess, I would have guessed “Land’s End,” since Maine is…uh…the end of land in that part of the country. And I would have been wrong, because it’s L.L. Bean. So yeah. I chose to walk away with $8,000, less than we had hoped for, but not too shabby for a few hours of Coke and cookies in the Green Room. Do I replay the game over and over again in my head? Of course. Would I do it differently? Probably not. It was a lot of fun, most people were nice, and I made a few good friends that I’m still in contact with.
So if you happen to be watching “Millionaire” and see a goofy but very good looking guy with a Rubber Duckie, some Fisher Price Little People, and a hot-but-nervous wife in the audience…it’s probably me.
That’s it.
Thought y’all should know.
Quinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
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