Are You Ready to Play Who Wants to Be A Millionaire!

[Shade]

Yup, the answer was Jimmy Carter right? because I didn't exactly do extensive research.

Your new Million dollar question is:

STQ1,000,000
Which of these famous composers was Ludwig van Beethoven’s teacher?
A. Johann Sebastian Bach
B. George Frideric Handel
C. Franz Schubert
D. Antonio Salieri

[TheCalvinator24]

Gotta step away from the computer for a few minutes.

BRB

[Shade]

50,000
What is the most abundant element in the human body?
A. Hydrogen
B. Carbon
C. Oxygen
D. Sodium

C. Oxygen

We may be carbon-based life forms, but we are mostly water.

That's correct only of you're talking about mass, not count.

That question was the only one I took from the show, all the others I made up myself. The Provence one

A variation of your $50K question was asked on 1/10/2003 to Andria Houghton. Courtesy of http://millifeline.homestead.com/transcripts011003.html

16000- What chemical element comprises about 65% of a human's mass?
A. Oxygen B. Carbon
C. Calcium D. Nitrogen.

Well I guess you two are just too smart for me.

[TheCalvinator24]

Yup, the answer was Jimmy Carter right? because I didn't exactly do extensive research.

Your new Million dollar question is:

STQ1,000,000
Which of these famous composers was Ludwig van Beethoven’s teacher?
A. Johann Sebastian Bach
B. George Frideric Handel
C. Franz Schubert
D. Antonio Salieri

50:50 please

[silvercamaro]

Yup, the answer was Jimmy Carter right? because I didn't exactly do extensive research.

Only two U.S. Presidents have won the Nobel Peace Prize. The other one was Woodrow Wilson. Time didn't start picking "of the year" winners until 1927.

[Shade]

As you wish.

1,000,000
Which of these famous composers was Ludwig van Beethoven’s teacher?
C. Franz Schubert
D. Antonio Salieri

[TheCalvinator24]

Yup, the answer was Jimmy Carter right? because I didn't exactly do extensive research.

Only two U.S. Presidents have won the Nobel Peace Prize. The other one was Woodrow Wilson. Time didn't start picking "of the year" winners until 1927.

I thought Teddy Roosevelt also won a Nobel Peace Prize.

A qucik Google confirms. 1906

[Shade]

Yup, the answer was Jimmy Carter right? because I didn't exactly do extensive research.

Only two U.S. Presidents have won the Nobel Peace Prize. The other one was Woodrow Wilson. Time didn't start picking "of the year" winners until 1927.

Yup, that's what I thought. What I looked at was the two lists seperatly, I could have missed something. although I doubted it.

Right and Teddy too, but he is also too early to be in Time

[takinover]

Psst, takinover.

After this guy in the hot seat makes the confetti fall down, let's go to that Starbucks on the corner. I want a cappucino and maybe a muffin.

Sure, that Starbucks will always be near and dear to me as it was one of the two places that I used to escape the rain on my tape date. I also had one the best pastries that I will ever have from there and would love to have another one, but can't find it in any Starbucks here.

Yet another typo by me.

I gotta go watch "The Ultimate Fighter".

Thanks for the game, shade.

[TheCalvinator24]

As you wish.

1,000,000
Which of these famous composers was Ludwig van Beethoven’s teacher?
C. Franz Schubert
D. Antonio Salieri

Trying to be tricksy, methinks.

We normally associate Salieri wit Mozart, but Schubert is too late to be Ludwig's teacher, I think, so I'm gonna risk 475,000 virtual dollars and go with . . .

D. Antonio Salieri

[Bob78164]

50,000
What is the most abundant element in the human body?
A. Hydrogen
B. Carbon
C. Oxygen
D. Sodium

Measured how? By mass, or number of atoms? --Bob

[silvercamaro]

I thought Teddy Roosevelt also won a Nobel Peace Prize.

A qucik Google confirms. 1906

Thanks. Obviously, I didn't look down the Nobel list far enough. I am convinced that some part of this will appear on a Jeopardy! test that will be given to me in the future.

[Shade]

*Confetti falls down and the audience goes wild*'

YOU ARE CORRECT!!!!

You win:

1 MILLION DOLLARS

[TheCalvinator24]

50,000
What is the most abundant element in the human body?
A. Hydrogen
B. Carbon
C. Oxygen
D. Sodium

Measured how? By mass, or number of atoms? --Bob

I'm assuming the answer by number of atoms would be Hydrogen, right?

[Bob Juch]

As you wish.

1,000,000
Which of these famous composers was Ludwig van Beethoven’s teacher?
C. Franz Schubert
D. Antonio Salieri

Trying to be tricksy, methinks.

We normally associate Salieri wit Mozart, but Schubert is too late to be Ludwig's teacher, I think, so I'm gonna risk 475,000 virtual dollars and go with . . .

D. Antonio Salieri

Please show a citation for this. AFAIK, Haydn was his teacher, Salieri was a friend, not a teacher.

[Shade]

50,000
What is the most abundant element in the human body?
A. Hydrogen
B. Carbon
C. Oxygen
D. Sodium

Measured how? By mass, or number of atoms? --Bob

By mass, I guess I should have said that.

[silvercamaro]

Audience applauds wildly.

takinover and silvercamaro plot their quick escape to beat the crowd to Starbucks.


It was fun to watch the game unfold in real time, Shade. Thanks. Congrats to our new virtual millionaire, Calvinator, too.

[TheCalvinator24]

*Confetti falls down and the audience goes wild*'

YOU ARE CORRECT!!!!

You win:

1 MILLION DOLLARS

Thanks for hosting.

If only I could have answered 15 questions correctly on the cold December day in 2000, I would have won $1,770,000. And Kevin Olmstead and Ed Toutant wouldn't be nearly as famous in the trivia world as they are.

Okay, Ed probably would be because of the circumstance of his run.

[Shade]

Bob Juch-- I don't see how that question could be wrong, I couldn't think of another question to write so I took it from a list of questions I took from WWTBAM itself. (about the Saleri question)

[Shade]

*Confetti falls down and the audience goes wild*'

YOU ARE CORRECT!!!!

You win:

1 MILLION DOLLARS

Thanks for hosting.

If only I could have answered 15 questions correctly on the cold December day in 2000, I would have won $1,770,000. And Kevin Olmstead and Ed Toutant wouldn't be nearly as famous in the trivia world as they are.

Okay, Ed probably would be because of the circumstance of his run.

I actually don't think I've seen Ed's episode. I saw Kevin Olmstead, I feel a little guilty saying this but...doesn't anyone else think it's unfair that with only one question he won more than twice any other contestant?

[Bob Juch]

*Confetti falls down and the audience goes wild*'

YOU ARE CORRECT!!!!

You win:

1 MILLION DOLLARS

Thanks for hosting.

If only I could have answered 15 questions correctly on the cold December day in 2000, I would have won $1,770,000. And Kevin Olmstead and Ed Toutant wouldn't be nearly as famous in the trivia world as they are.

Okay, Ed probably would be because of the circumstance of his run.

You preceded Ed, didn't you?

[TheCalvinator24]

Please show a citation for this. AFAIK, Haydn was his teacher, Salieri was a friend, not a teacher.

I know it's not the most trustworthy of sources, but according to WikiPedia:

"In 1792, Beethoven moved to Vienna , where he studied for a time with Joseph Haydn. He had wanted to study with Mozart, but Mozart had died the previous year. Beethoven received additional instruction from Johann Georg Albrechtsberger (Vienna's pre-eminent counterpoint instructor) and Antonio Salieri."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_van_Beethoven

I was guessing based on when I thought Schubert was around

[takinover]

Cal, for graciously assisting you with reaching the $25K level on your way to $1M, I would like to offer you the opportunity to make a tax-deductable contribution or tithe of 10% to my ministry. You will be blessed for perfoming such act.

[silvercamaro]

Bob Juch-- I don't see how that question could be wrong, I couldn't think of another question to write so I took it from a list of questions I took from WWTBAM itself. (about the Saleri question)

From Wikipedia, for what that's worth:

"Perhaps the most important relationship in Beethoven's early life, and certainly the most famous, was the young pianist's tutorship under the Austrian composer Joseph Haydn. Beethoven studied with a number of composers and teachers in the period 1792–1795, including Antonio Salieri and Johann Georg Albrechtsberger."

I would argue that Haydn was more important to Beethoven's early training, but Haydn wasn't among the choices.

[TheCalvinator24]

You preceded Ed, didn't you?

Yes. And had I made the run, the escalating Bonus would not have been there for either him or Olmstead to win.