UK Millionaire: January 21
Iain Weaver
Denise Fowler thinks the Oscar Squad voted “Citizen Kane” flick of the
year, not “Rocky”. She still leaves with £32,000, though.
David Guest knows nothing about Sesame Street, but plenty about motor
racing. He doesn’t know his Nor(se)man from his France-is, a slip that
brings him crashing from £16,000 to £1000.
Like most of the US correspondents here, Sarah Guest knows nothing
about cricket. She can figure that it’s not the Order of the
Handkerchief, and scarpers with £16,000.
Vik Manek is the first person of Indian descent to make the money. Like
lightning, he rises up to £4000, but runs into a bronze wall. His Phone
a Friend goes quiet, and he’s taking a tin-y packet, £1000.
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
Season 6, Episode 6; January 21, 2000
Ladies, bus, bumpers. Chris is in a dark grey suit again, blue-grey
shirt, matching tie. With no-one in the hotseat, we’ll be doing FFF
after meeting tonight’s top ten. Three ladies, one pair of specs, no
visible minorities, no famous lyricists.
FFF: From the most, order these creatures according to the number of
legs.
A - Spider B - Rabbit
C - Parrot D - Grasshopper
A - 8 D - 6
B - 4 C - 2
Six correct answers, Mick Deery (7.17 seconds) the fastest. He’s
40something, blue denim shirt, black hair with a bald spot. He works in
sales administration in Tyseley, Birmingham; son Craig is in the
audience, his daughter wants tickets to see Westlife. Mick once won a
signed photo of the PG Tips chimps. With a million, Mick would go to
the Euro ‘00 finals, then holiday in Hawaii.
£100: Which of these would write a problem page in a newspaper?
B - Agony aunt.
£200: Big Ben is part of which London building?
A think.
A - Houses of Parliament.
He’s right. Was that a visible edit?
£300: Which of these words is a slang term for the nose?
C - Schnozzle.
£500: Which of these countries shares its name with a US state?
B - Georgia.
£1000: What is the name for individual leaves of grass, irises or
gladioli?
Audience..?
A - Shoots 6% B - Needles 2%
C - Twigs 1% D - Blades 90%
Slight laughter in the audience.
D - Blades is correct.
Audience is 1.000 (11/11), average of 71.909% correct.
£2000: Which department is in charge of issuing passports?
A - Home Office.
Not the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, though that threw me
momentarily.
£4000: In which cuisine are bagels a traditional food?
50/50 leaves
B - Jewish D - Scandinavian
He’s happy.
B - Jewish.
New York City, or general American, was never an option.
£8000: Which American Indian was the subject of a poem by Longfellow?
A pause.
Phone David, in Leicester.
A - Crazy Horse B - Pocohontas
C - Sitting Bull D - Hiawatha
“I think it’s Hiawatha, Mick... about 75, 80%”
He’s a good friend. He goes with it.
D - Hiawatha.
Is right.
£16,000: The crosses of how many saints make up the Union Jack?
A pause. He thinks he knows.
Ten more seconds. He’s taking the money.
He thinks it’s four, but will take the money.
It’s actually three - Andrew, George and Patrick. David doesn’t have a
cross to put on.
It’s the obvious place to take a break.
[cars over the net, mobile phones kill, free fries (mmm!), specs on
legs, a man who thinks he’s a clock, gambo-voiceover]
We almost had high drama on genial parlour game “Countdown” today, when
champion John Snaddon needed the final conundrum to score a record 90
points. In spite of a very good clue from the other contestant, the
word - AFFECTING - eluded him.
A FFF moment: From the earliest, order these singers of hits from when
they worked with George Michael
A - Lisa Stansfield B - Elton John
C - Andrew Ridgeley D - Aretha Franklin
C - 1982 D - 1987
D - 1991 A - 1993
Pass me the broom, I call shenanigans! George and Elton worked together
on Elton’s 1985 “Hearts on Fire” album, and Yog got joint billing on
the “Wrap Her Up” single that Christmas. Doesn’t Chris proof-read the
questions?
Jane Wicks (7.40) has the given answer. She’s about 30, wearing a red
top, light brown trousers. Red hair in a bun. She’s a dental hygienist
in Yeovil, best friend Emma is in the audience. With a million, she’d
start a small farm, but thinks this show is all a nightmare. The best
part of her job? Making people squirm. I’m rooting for the next
contestant already (:
£100: Who would be most likely to wear a tutu?
A - Ballerina
Footballer would be correct, if it’s David Beckham.
£200: What is the capital of Greece?
D - Athens.
Not Paris, Madrid or Rome.
£300: Which word refers to an MP who does not hold office in the
government or opposition?
C - Backbencher.
Not backscratcher.
“Water there if you want to rinse and spit.”
£500: Who is the nursery rhyme gardener?
B - Mary, Mary.
Not Little Bo Peep. She appears with her sheep on “Teletubbies.”
£1000: What does the letter A stand for in the hospital abbreviation
“A&E”?
D - Accident.
And Emergency. The thousand is safe.
£2000: What type of creature was Lulu, who famously disgraced herself
on “Blue Peter”?
A - Elephant.
She famously piddled on the studio floor, and trod on John Noakes’ foot.
£4000: What is the larva of the Cabbage White found in kitchen gardens?
50/50...
B - Wireworm D - Caterpillar.
She goes caterpillar, as they’re “generally white.”
D - Caterpillar.
It’s right, though they are actually bright green.
£8000: Which of these is not a traditional province of Ireland?
D - Grampian.
As all UK-TV ident lovers know, Grampian is in Scotland.
£16,000: Which of Shakespeare’s plays features the tragic Orphelia?
D - Hamlet.
Straight off, not at all confident, but correct.
“Will this nightmare never cease? Will this man stop lobbing bags of
money at me? Can I wake up and go back to being skint again?”
£32,000: Which group performed with Mariah Carey on the hit single “One
Sweet Day”?
Audience?
A - Boyz II Men 80% B - New Kids On The Block 11%
C - Color Me Badd 4% D - Hanson 5%
She goes with them.
A - Boyz II Men.
Someone should have read the US updates...
£32,000 is safe. Out comes the fifteenth cheque of the series.
Audience is 1.000 (12/12), average of 72.583% correct.
£64,000: Where in the body would you find a metatarsal bone?”
A - Hand B - Skull
C - Foot D - Spine
Jane will call Jeff, a dentist.
After confusing metatarsal and metacarpal: “Foot.”
She goes for it - there’s nothing to lose.
C - Foot.
William G Stewart says that even the guesses count. This one did. We
play on!
It’s a toe bone, apparently.
Out comes cheque 16.
“We laugh in the face of £64,000.”
£125,000: Which Bulgarian-born artist is famous for wrapping buildings
and landscapes in fabric?
A - Giotto B - Caravaggio
C - Goya D - Christo
She doesn’t have a clue, nor any knowledge of art at all. There’s one
Venetian, one Spaniard and one Italian in that lot.
D - Christo is the right answer.
Jane leaves with £64,000.
There’ll be more FFF action right now. No break?
FFF: Put these numbers in alphabetical order
A - Ten B - Nine
C - Eight D - Seven
C-B-D-A
Three correct, Steve Baldwin (8.07) the best. He’s young, 20something.
White t-shirt, black jeans. Blond hair, short. He got engaged to
Frances on New Year’s Eve; he’s a service engineer for a company that
makes speed detection equipment for the police. I’m rooting for the
next contestant already (:
£100: What does the abbreviation DIY stand for?
B - Do it yourself.
£200: The Moon is the natural satellite of which planet?
C - Earth.
There’s no catch.
£300: What name is given to a cocktail of vodka and orange juice?
B - Screwdriver.
Not spanner.
£500: What name is given to a young goat?
B - Kid.
£1000: Which metal is associated with a 25th wedding anniversary?
It’s a long time away for Steve... and a bit of a pause. Audience?
A - Platinum 2% B - Silver 94%
C - Gold 2% D - Steel 2%
He’ll run with the audience.
B - Silver.
Right, of course.
Audience is 1.000 (13/13), average of 74.231% correct.
A break *does* loom here.
Peter Lee, our semi-millionaire from Tuesday, was a joke on national
radio. You’ll recall that he didn’t win the million because he didn’t
know much about cricket. That has proven enough to make him captain of
the England side. Don’t all laugh at once.
[the circularity of money, holidays in a mansion, bananas, spuds]
£2000: How is the star sign Sagittarius also known?
A - The Water Carrier B - The Scales
C - The Fish D - The Archer
A very long thing. Peter’s trying to picture the signs. He thinks it’s
A, but goes 50/50.
A - The Water Carrier D - The Archer
He’ll phone a friend. Tough choice of which friend. Peter, in
Basingstoke.
“Ooh, erm, the Archer. Aquarius is the water carrier.”
D - The Archer.
He’s right, after all that.
“When you said water carrier, even in the dark there were looks of
horror.”
£4000: Which city is known as the “Granite City”?
A - Aberdeen B - Oxford
C - Cardiff D - Edinburgh
A long pause. He has an idea. He’s not 100%. He’s thinking Cardiff. Or
Edinburgh.
He wants to go Cardiff.
“It’s up to you.”
More thinking.
“You can walk with £2000. You’re guaranteed £1000.”
Edinburgh. Not sure at all.
“I’ve got this far...”
Final answer:
D - Edinburgh.
Aberdeen was the answer he was looking for.
For the fourth time tonight:
FFF: From the earliest, put these Dustin Hoffman films in chronological
order
A - The Graduate B - Rain Man
C - Tootsie D - Kramer vs Kramer
A-D-C-B - dates not given. Consult IMdb.
Alli Hamilton (8.21) seconds got it right. I sense slight asthma moment
for her. Orange dress, long blonde hair. Friend Lisa is in the
audience, partner and two children are at home. It’s Alli’s birthday -
around 33, I guess. She knew all of Jane’s answers, though they won’t
come up again.
£100: Which of these traditionally features on November 5th?
C - Fireworks.
Guy Fawkes night.
£200: Andy Warhol was a leading figure of which art movement?
D - Pop art.
Not Snap or Crackle art.
£300: How are the four players in a game of bridge identified?
Audience. You swine!
A - Matthew, Mark Luke, John 2%
B - North, South, East, West 91%
C - John, Paul, George, Ringo 1%
D - Baby, Posh, Scary, Sporty 6%
B - North, South, East, West
Is correct.
Audience is 1.000 (14/14), average of 75.429% correct.
£500: In which part of the United Kingdom is Loch Lomond?
“It could be Wales, they’re funny there.”
C - Scotland
Yippers.
£1000: What’s the name of Michael Jackson’s pop superstar sister?
C - Janet.
LaToya not an option.
Time expires! I think one of my old teachers might be appearing
tomorrow.
Saturday’s show is billed as 55 minutes on ITV, 60 minutes on ITV2.
ITV: 2000, ITV2: 2330. It’s also the last in this run.
The Series Scoreboard:
1) Peter Lee 500000
2) David Neale 250000
Margaret Whittaker 250000
4) Tony Birkby 64000
Mike Sackett 64000
* Jane Wicks 64000
7) Denise Fowler 32000
8) Sarah Black 16000
9) Jan Garner 8000
* Mick Deery 8000
11) David Guest 1000
Vik Manek 1000
* Steve Baldwin 1000
Total prize money: £1,259,000 from thirteen contestants.
Lines have now closed for this series. Summary of the rules on ITV
teletext p 375, full rules on ITV’s website www.itv.co.uk, or by
sending a stamped addressed envelope to Millionaire Rules, PO Box 4444,
London WC2E 9TA.
“Who Wants To Be A Millionaire”
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“Who Wants To Be A Millionaire Summary”
Written by: Iain Weaver
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Before you buy.
Curt Alliaume
writes:
>A FFF moment: From the earliest, order these singers of hits from when
>they worked with George Michael
>A - Lisa Stansfield B - Elton John
>C - Andrew Ridgeley D - Aretha Franklin
>
>C - 1982 D - 1987
>D - 1991 A - 1993
>
>Pass me the broom, I call shenanigans! George and Elton worked together
>on Elton’s 1985 “Hearts on Fire” album, and Yog got joint billing on
>the “Wrap Her Up” single that Christmas. Doesn’t Chris proof-read the
>questions?
Absolutely correct. If this happened in the USA, the contestants slighted
might get called back. Any idea if the same will occur in the UK?
-- Curt Alliaume
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