http://www.democratandchronicle.com/app ... /1002/NEWS
Eric Melin, from Lawrence, Kansas, also gets his chance on Monday. He gets a much longer article, too. And he's had some game show experience.
http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2008/feb/1 ... city_local
And talk about lucky timing, read this report about his audition in Kansas City, last summer:“Lotion.”
That was Eric Melin’s answer to a question that has haunted him since appearing last summer on the VH1 program “The World Series of Pop Culture.”
The question: “In the famous scene from ‘There’s Something About Mary,’ what does Cameron Diaz mistakenly think is hanging from Ben Stiller’s ear?”
The answer was not lotion; it was hair gel. And the incorrect response helped knock Melin and his two other colleagues out of the team competition.
Spoiler Warning: Two of his questions/answers are listed in the article, although they don't mention their dollar amounts.Melin was one of only two people who passed the movie test, though he failed the general trivia portion.
Oddly enough, the tryout happened the same day as his team’s broadcast debut on VH1’s “Pop Culture”
“I told the producers if they want to see what I look like on TV, they could watch me that night,” he says.
The end of the article also includes a follow-up interview with KU grad Fowler Jones, who won $125K on WWTBAM back in 2000.