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Since I'm bored lets see if we can get anyone else to participate in this what would you do game. Say you're given the task of writing questions for Millionaire and you're at the MDQ. What would you make as your MDQ?

Mine:
$1 Million
What is the 10th digit past the decimal point in the mathematical constant known as "pi"?
A. 3 B. 5
C. 7 D. 9

Spoiler

B. 5

ten96lt wrote:Since I'm bored lets see if we can get anyone else to participate in this what would you do game. Say you're given the task of writing questions for Millionaire and you're at the MDQ. What would you make as your MDQ?

Mine:
$1 Million
What is the 10th digit past the decimal point in the mathematical constant known as "pi"?
A. 3 B. 5
C. 7 D. 9

Spoiler

B. 5

Now this is downright spooky. I once thought about this, and this is EXACTLY the question that I figured I would ask. And one I would like to have been asked on the show (since I know the answer).

wintergreen48 wrote:

ten96lt wrote:Since I'm bored lets see if we can get anyone else to participate in this what would you do game. Say you're given the task of writing questions for Millionaire and you're at the MDQ. What would you make as your MDQ?

Mine:
$1 Million
What is the 10th digit past the decimal point in the mathematical constant known as "pi"?
A. 3 B. 5
C. 7 D. 9

Spoiler

B. 5

Now this is downright spooky. I once thought about this, and this is EXACTLY the question that I figured I would ask. And one I would like to have been asked on the show (since I know the answer).

I figured it'd be good because it's a number everyone knows about, but how far down does the average person remember. And great minds think alike.

Approximately, how far does light travel in one billionth of a second?
a. 1 inch
b. 1 foot
c. 1 yard
d. 10 feet

My Grace Hopper question to compliment the 'computer bug' question.

BackInTex wrote:Approximately, how far does light travel in one billionth of a second?
a. 1 inch
b. 1 foot
c. 1 yard
d. 10 feet

My Grace Hopper question to compliment the 'computer bug' question.

"Cut me some nanoseconds, boys!"

BackInTex wrote:Approximately, how far does light travel in one billionth of a second?
a. 1 inch
b. 1 foot
c. 1 yard
d. 10 feet

My Grace Hopper question to compliment the 'computer bug' question.

Not only did I see Grace Hopper hold up the bug, I saw Gene Amdahl hold up a wire illustrating how far electricity travelled in a nanosecond (which is near the speed of light).

BackInTex wrote:Approximately, how far does light travel in one billionth of a second?
a. 1 inch
b. 1 foot
c. 1 yard
d. 10 feet

My Grace Hopper question to compliment the 'computer bug' question.

I am unfamiliar with the question so I had to break it down. Is the answer

Spoiler

b?

Phil Ken Sebbin wrote:

BackInTex wrote:Approximately, how far does light travel in one billionth of a second?
a. 1 inch
b. 1 foot
c. 1 yard
d. 10 feet

My Grace Hopper question to compliment the 'computer bug' question.

I am unfamiliar with the question so I had to break it down. Is the answer

Spoiler

b?

Spoiler

YOU'VE WON A MILLION DOLLARS!

Bob Juch wrote:

BackInTex wrote:Approximately, how far does light travel in one billionth of a second?
a. 1 inch
b. 1 foot
c. 1 yard
d. 10 feet

My Grace Hopper question to compliment the 'computer bug' question.

Not only did I see Grace Hopper hold up the bug, I saw Gene Amdahl hold up a wire illustrating how far electricity travelled in a nanosecond (which is near the speed of light).

I never saw Grace hold up the bug, but I did see her twice with her nanosecond. Once in '76 at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, IN and around '80 at Texas A&M.

BackInTex wrote:

Phil Ken Sebbin wrote:

BackInTex wrote:Approximately, how far does light travel in one billionth of a second?
a. 1 inch
b. 1 foot
c. 1 yard
d. 10 feet

My Grace Hopper question to compliment the 'computer bug' question.

I am unfamiliar with the question so I had to break it down. Is the answer

Spoiler

b?

Spoiler

YOU'VE WON A MILLION DOLLARS!

Sweet!!! So I should expect the check about a month or so after the airdate?

Sweet!!! So I should expect the check about a month or so after the airdate?[/quote]

There abouts, yes.

Phil Ken Sebbin wrote:

BackInTex wrote:

Phil Ken Sebbin wrote:
I am unfamiliar with the question so I had to break it down. Is the answer

Spoiler

b?

Spoiler

YOU'VE WON A MILLION DOLLARS!

Sweet!!! So I should expect the check about a month or so after the airdate?

I'm afraid someone's spilled celery tonic on the tape. There will be no airdate.

Bob Juch wrote:

Phil Ken Sebbin wrote:

BackInTex wrote:

Spoiler

YOU'VE WON A MILLION DOLLARS!

Sweet!!! So I should expect the check about a month or so after the airdate?

I'm afraid someone's spilled celery tonic on the tape. There will be no airdate.

Celery tonic? Who is producing these shows? The Wonderpets? (Inside joke for those with small kids.)

Phil Ken Sebbin wrote:

Bob Juch wrote:

Phil Ken Sebbin wrote:
Sweet!!! So I should expect the check about a month or so after the airdate?

I'm afraid someone's spilled celery tonic on the tape. There will be no airdate.

Celery tonic? Who is producing these shows? The Wonderpets? (Inside joke for those with small kids.)

This is sewious! The phone is ringing!

Phil Ken Sebbin wrote:

Bob Juch wrote:

Phil Ken Sebbin wrote:
Sweet!!! So I should expect the check about a month or so after the airdate?

I'm afraid someone's spilled celery tonic on the tape. There will be no airdate.

Celery tonic? Who is producing these shows? The Wonderpets? (Inside joke for those with small kids.)

Or grandkids, in my case. "What's gonna work? Teamwork!"

My question would be:

Where would you find the Canal of Nuck?
A. The Moon
B. The human body
C. Mars
D. Germany

Well, they can't all be science and math questions! So now that you can't have a PaF Googling, mine would be:

What is Agatha Christie's maiden name?

A: Mallowan
B: Miller
C: Westmacott
D: Lemon

Since she's famous enough everyone should know who she is and all the choices are associated with her in one way or another.

What Bored Buddy got the 115th and final ES portrait in his original series?

A. FlyBrick
B. mom2five
C. ShamelessWeasel
D. kroxquo



lb13

minimetoo26 wrote:Well, they can't all be science and math questions! So now that you can't have a PaF Googling, mine would be:

What is Agatha Christie's maiden name?

A: Mallowan
B: Miller
C: Westmacott
D: Lemon

Since she's famous enough everyone should know who she is and all the choices are associated with her in one way or another.

Now that's a good one! With the pi question, you either know it or you don't. With stuff like this, you think you have a chance to reason it out (even if you don't).

I don't know this one (and I'm actually interested enough to want to), but I did know Anne Rice's birth name......

FannytheBull wrote:

minimetoo26 wrote:Well, they can't all be science and math questions! So now that you can't have a PaF Googling, mine would be:

What is Agatha Christie's maiden name?

A: Mallowan
B: Miller
C: Westmacott
D: Lemon

Since she's famous enough everyone should know who she is and all the choices are associated with her in one way or another.

Now that's a good one! With the pi question, you either know it or you don't. With stuff like this, you think you have a chance to reason it out (even if you don't).

I don't know this one (and I'm actually interested enough to want to), but I did know Anne Rice's birth name......

I saw it quite by accident in the Library of Congress info on a collection I had and tried to Google it unsuccessfully for confirmation a few years ago. I had to know the answer to find the answer. Now it pops up easily, but the PaF is gone so the Google component is gone.

minimetoo26 wrote:

FannytheBull wrote:

minimetoo26 wrote:Well, they can't all be science and math questions! So now that you can't have a PaF Googling, mine would be:

What is Agatha Christie's maiden name?

A: Mallowan
B: Miller
C: Westmacott
D: Lemon

Since she's famous enough everyone should know who she is and all the choices are associated with her in one way or another.

Now that's a good one! With the pi question, you either know it or you don't. With stuff like this, you think you have a chance to reason it out (even if you don't).

I don't know this one (and I'm actually interested enough to want to), but I did know Anne Rice's birth name......

I saw it quite by accident in the Library of Congress info on a collection I had and tried to Google it unsuccessfully for confirmation a few years ago. I had to know the answer to find the answer. Now it pops up easily, but the PaF is gone so the Google component is gone.

And, in looking it up, (I haz a Google!!!1) I also learned her pen name. I didn't even know she had one.

So I have learned two things today and can spend the rest of it in ignorance......

FannytheBull wrote:

minimetoo26 wrote:Well, they can't all be science and math questions! So now that you can't have a PaF Googling, mine would be:

What is Agatha Christie's maiden name?

A: Mallowan
B: Miller
C: Westmacott
D: Lemon

Since she's famous enough everyone should know who she is and all the choices are associated with her in one way or another.

Now that's a good one! With the pi question, you either know it or you don't. With stuff like this, you think you have a chance to reason it out (even if you don't).

Okay, I'm clueless. Explain the reasoning, please.

FannytheBull wrote:

minimetoo26 wrote:

FannytheBull wrote:
Now that's a good one! With the pi question, you either know it or you don't. With stuff like this, you think you have a chance to reason it out (even if you don't).

I don't know this one (and I'm actually interested enough to want to), but I did know Anne Rice's birth name......

I saw it quite by accident in the Library of Congress info on a collection I had and tried to Google it unsuccessfully for confirmation a few years ago. I had to know the answer to find the answer. Now it pops up easily, but the PaF is gone so the Google component is gone.

And, in looking it up, (I haz a Google!!!1) I also learned her pen name. I didn't even know she had one.

So I have learned two things today and can spend the rest of it in ignorance......

Make sure you sprinkle that knowledge on me sometime, since I'm too lazy to look it up..........

lb13

MarleysGh0st wrote:

FannytheBull wrote:

minimetoo26 wrote:Well, they can't all be science and math questions! So now that you can't have a PaF Googling, mine would be:

What is Agatha Christie's maiden name?

A: Mallowan
B: Miller
C: Westmacott
D: Lemon

Since she's famous enough everyone should know who she is and all the choices are associated with her in one way or another.

Now that's a good one! With the pi question, you either know it or you don't. With stuff like this, you think you have a chance to reason it out (even if you don't).

Okay, I'm clueless. Explain the reasoning, please.

With the above example, you can think, 'hmmmm, Westmacott sounds familiar....' or 'surely if it was Mallowan I would remember that.....'

If you're asked pi to the tenth place, you either know it or you don't. Numbers are numbers, they don't 'sound right' or 'seem logical'.

littlebeast13 wrote:

FannytheBull wrote:

minimetoo26 wrote:
I saw it quite by accident in the Library of Congress info on a collection I had and tried to Google it unsuccessfully for confirmation a few years ago. I had to know the answer to find the answer. Now it pops up easily, but the PaF is gone so the Google component is gone.

And, in looking it up, (I haz a Google!!!1) I also learned her pen name. I didn't even know she had one.

So I have learned two things today and can spend the rest of it in ignorance......

Make sure you sprinkle that knowledge on me sometime, since I'm too lazy to look it up..........

lb13

I'm the most laziest, refuse to look up anything person here. If I can expend the energy necessary for a dozen key strokes and two clicks, so can you......