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Apparently, not me. I appeared on the College Edition of
ABC's "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" on December 21st, 2000 and I got
screwed by the audience. On my $8000 question, I polled the audience. 80% of them
said that the answer was B. I hesitated. I thought they were wrong and I was going
to use another lifeline, but then I looked at the 80% on the bar graph again and
I decided not to waste any more lifelines and to just go with B. I figured they must
have known something I didn't. My final answer was wrong, and I dropped down to $1000.
Only 8% of the audience had chosen the correct answer. It was the most wrong the
audience has ever been in the history of the show. Lucky me.
As it turns out, the question I missed had to do with computers,
so I really should have known the answer, but whatever. I didn't. Here's the question
that I missed.
What online magazine is owned by Microsoft?
A. Salon B. Wired C. Feed D. Slate
Upon polling the audience, these were the results:
A. 5% B. 80% C. 7% D. 8%
I had initially ruled out Salon and Wired. I thought it
was either Feed or Slate, and I knew Wired was probably the only one the audience
had ever heard of, but the 80% was just too much to ignore and the ignorance of the
masses led me astray. Thus, I am not a millionaire. So please, send me a dollar.
Seriously.
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