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#1 Post by Bob Juch » Mon Jun 30, 2008 7:16 am

Paul Paquet's weekly trivia email says:

WHO WANTS TO WIN $50,000?
• Nobody has won the million on WWTBAM since Nancy Christie did it in 2003. That's five years ago.
• It's tempting to blame this on a diminished contestant pool, but I
don't think that's it.
• I think the game is designed on purpose to make it extremely
unlikely another millionaire will emerge.
• Consider the questions that million-dollar contestants were
answering on prime time.
• Remember, Kevin Olmstead won his million because he knew Sikorsky was involved in helicopters.
• John Carpenter won because he knew that Nixon was on Laugh-In
• By contrast, questions at the $16,000 level, even the $8,000 level,
are considerably harder.
• A recent $16,000 question required you to know the definition of
"prolix."
• Now, there is nothing wrong with hard questions, but they belong at
the top of the chain, not the middle.
• I also think the redesign of the lifelines was also done to thwart
players.
• More on that next week.
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#2 Post by TheConfessor » Mon Jun 30, 2008 12:49 pm

I wonder why so many smart people habitually misspell Nancy's surname. It's really not that hard.
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Re: Hermillion shoutout

#3 Post by MarleysGh0st » Mon Jun 30, 2008 12:54 pm

Bob Juch wrote:Paul Paquet's weekly trivia email says:

WHO WANTS TO WIN $50,000?
• Nobody has won the million on WWTBAM since Nancy Christie did it in 2003. That's five years ago.
• It's tempting to blame this on a diminished contestant pool, but I
don't think that's it.
Could they be running out of WE/WEs? :roll:
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Re: Hermillion shoutout

#4 Post by NellyLunatic1980 » Mon Jun 30, 2008 1:32 pm

MarleysGh0st wrote:
Bob Juch wrote:Paul Paquet's weekly trivia email says:

WHO WANTS TO WIN $50,000?
• Nobody has won the million on WWTBAM since Nancy Christie did it in 2003. That's five years ago.
• It's tempting to blame this on a diminished contestant pool, but I
don't think that's it.
Could they be running out of WE/WEs? :roll:
Either that or they're running out of talk show guests.
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#5 Post by hermillion » Mon Jun 30, 2008 1:49 pm

TheConfessor wrote:I wonder why so many smart people habitually misspell Nancy's surname. It's really not that hard.
Thanks for the support, Ed. This has happened all my life, and after a while I get tired of correcting it. In fact, I've already pointed it out to Paul at least once before. Oh, well . . .
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#6 Post by mrkelley23 » Mon Jun 30, 2008 3:12 pm

Methinks Paul likeys him some bullets....
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#7 Post by PlacentiaSoccerMom » Mon Jun 30, 2008 4:39 pm

One of the teachers at Emma's elementary school has the surname Christie, with an "ie" but she will be getting married in July so her new last name will be Herman.

My OB, when I had Maddie, also had the last name Christie.

So far Nancy is the only person that I know whose last name is spelled with a "Y" rather than with an "ie."
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#8 Post by KillerTomato » Mon Jun 30, 2008 5:22 pm

hermillion wrote:
TheConfessor wrote:I wonder why so many smart people habitually misspell Nancy's surname. It's really not that hard.
Thanks for the support, Ed. This has happened all my life, and after a while I get tired of correcting it. In fact, I've already pointed it out to Paul at least once before. Oh, well . . .


You can probably blame the habitual misspellings on Dame Agatha Miller, Lady Mallowan.
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#9 Post by christie1111 » Mon Jun 30, 2008 8:08 pm

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:One of the teachers at Emma's elementary school has the surname Christie, with an "ie" but she will be getting married in July so her new last name will be Herman.

My OB, when I had Maddie, also had the last name Christie.

So far Nancy is the only person that I know whose last name is spelled with a "Y" rather than with an "ie."
That's cuz it is a nice way of spelling it!

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#10 Post by Snaxx » Mon Jun 30, 2008 8:52 pm

I've seen the misspelling at game show sites too, the more common spelling trap, like with "Jordan" Sparks.

One recently retired woman at my office spells her first name "Nanci." I'm sure she's had to underline and highlight the "I" a lot.




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#11 Post by TheConfessor » Mon Jun 30, 2008 11:58 pm

By the way, for those of you who enjoy Sploofus, you might want to check out Paul's site at www.triviahalloffame.com -- it has not just a question of the day, but a quiz of the day, with twelve questions. You get instant gratification of seeing your name on the leader list, regardless of how well you did. Then at the stroke of midnight, the scores are wiped out and another day's quiz begins. I've been playing regularly since the site was enhanced a few weeks ago.
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#12 Post by PlacentiaSoccerMom » Tue Jul 01, 2008 12:06 am

TheConfessor wrote:By the way, for those of you who enjoy Sploofus, you might want to check out Paul's site at www.triviahalloffame.com -- it has not just a question of the day, but a quiz of the day, with twelve questions. You get instant gratification of seeing your name on the leader list, regardless of how well you did. Then at the stroke of midnight, the scores are wiped out and another day's quiz begins. I've been playing regularly since the site was enhanced a few weeks ago.
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