VS Canadian Millionaire 9/13/2000
vicste...@mailexcite.com
night of CTV's version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. You are just
going to get the down and dirty results from me, I'll leave the Pamela
vs. Reege comparisons to others.
The show opens with some quick Millionaire moments from the US
version, and then Regis (with the Canadian flag on a big screen in the
background) sends us into the studio.
First, let's meet the 10 that will be trying for the million.
Stu Coward, Regina, SK
Andrew Heaman, Victoria, BC
Michelle Jones, Richmond Hill, ON
Francois Laramee, Verdun, QC
Angela Lemire, Windsor, ON
Don Miller, Regina, SK
Susan Neff, Kitchener, ON
Bill Shizas, Toronto, ON
Shannon Sullivan, St. John's, NF
Alan Vickers, Chateauguay, QC
And let's meet Pamela Wallin. For those that care about such things,
Pamela is clad in a red jacket and skirt, with the skirt cut a few
inches past the knee.
And here is the first Fastest Finger question.
"Put the folloing North American skiing destinations in geographical
order, starting in the west"
A) Aspen B) Sun Valley C) Whistler D) Mt. Tremblant
C,B,A and D is the order, and Bill Shizas, in 5.32 will be the first
contestant. Pamela gets an embrace from Bill, who is Grade 8 teacher
in Toronto. His brother John is with him. Let's play!
For $100: If someone is treated "fair and square", how have they been
dealt with?
A) Rudely B) Maliciously C) Honestly D) Like the Lizard Queen
C) Honestly.
For $200: Which of the following names is also a type of hairpin?
A) Johnny B) Susie C) Bobby D) Rambo
Bill's never worn one, but Bobby is his final correct answer.
For $300: What famous Canadian ran the first Marathon of Hope in 1980?
A) Guy Fawkes B) Terry Fox C) Redd Foxx D) The Road Runner
B) Terry Fox is worth $300.
For $500: On the children's TV show Sesame Street, where does Oscar
the Grouch live?
A) In a garbage can B) Under a rock C) With Big Bird D) In the
sewer
For 1,000: In the advertising what car company uses the slogan
"Drivers Wanted"?
A) Mazda B) BMW C) Nissan D) Volkswagen
Bill is going to poll the audience. 85% are selecting Volkswagen. Bill
goes with that seemingly certain majority.
85% of the audience was right! His thousand is safe. Pamela asks John
if he would have needed the lifeline. John didn't need it.
(Commercials. Wayne Gretzky for Tylenol)
For $2,000: What is the official colour of the letters on the NHL
logo?
A) Red B) Blue C) Orange D) Yellow
Bill never really focused on the colour of the logo. He's going to
phone a friend, his brother Tom. Clearnet PCS gets him on the line.
Tom needs a repeat, and will eventually give 80% certainty on orange.
Pamela really drags out the verification.
And
Tom
was
right!
For $4,000: Before it was changes to Whitehorse in 1953, what was the
capital of Yukon?
A) Yellowknife B) Dawson City C) Red Deer D) Beaver Creek
He knows A & C are wrong, and thinks that the Dawson Creek's relation
to the gold rush is the correct and final answer. He'll continue to
go for the gold!
For $8,000: The British TV soap opera "Coronation Street" is primarily
set in what town?
A) Weatherfield B) Blackpool C) Springville D) Springfield
He had a Coronation St. friend waiting, but with that lifeline gone,
he calls on the 50/50 lifeline. It leaves A) Weatherfield B)
Blackpool. He'll risk the money and guess Blackpool.
And
That
Guess
Was
.
.
.
.
.
.
Not a good guess. Of course, A) Weatherfield was the right answer.
Next fastest finger:
"Put these leaders in geoghraphical order of where they govern,
starting in Russia and going west."
A) Tony Blair B) Vladimir Putin C) Gerhard Schroder D) Fidel Castro
B,C,A and D is right. 8 or 9 right, and 4.46 is Francois Laramee's
winning time. He'll play after the commercial.
(Minute Maid, McDonald's, Arm & Hammer Dental Care gum)
Francois learned English at age 10, and became fluent thanks to Price
is Right and Monday Night Football. He is also taking his master's in
artifical intelligence. He is begging for no questions about nursery
rhymes. His wife Julie is with him.
For $100: According to the common expression, you will stay out of
trouble if you keep your what clean?
A) Nose B) Head C) Ear D) Small intestine
A) Nose.
For $200: On a household container, a skull and crossbones is a
standard symbol for what?
A) Flammable B) Radioactive C) Poison D) Ozzy Osborne was here
D) elicits a good laugh. C) is right, of course.
For $300: What vehicles do "The Snowbirds" use to perform their
precision maneuvers?
A) Trucks B) Jet Planes C) Tricycles D) Yugos
Francois had a friend try out for the Snowbirds. They are B) jet
planes .
For $500: The world's tallest free-standing structure the CN tower is
located in what city?
A) Victoria, BC B) Fogo, NF C) Ottawa, ON D) Toronto, ON
D) Toronto.
For $1,000: What family is described as "creepy and kooky" in their
TV theme song?
A) The Way-outs B) The Cleavers C) The Munsters
D) The Addams Family
He narrows it down to C and D. The 50/50 likely won't help, and he
doubts a friend would know it. %93 select D. Francois feels like a
complete idiot, but he'll make that his final answer.
Thank the audience, Francois, because they are right.
(ads for President's Choice and Special K, closed captioning thanks to
The Globe And Mail)
Francois' niece is learning English through WWTBAM. Her first English
phrase was "Let's Play".
For $2,000: The Minto Cup is a championship trophy in what sport?
A) Lacrosse B) Culing C) Hockey D) Tennis
A) Lacrosse.
For $4,000: Where are the headquarters for the stell company Dofasco?
A) Red Deer, AB. B) Saskatoon, SK. C) Hamilton, ON D) Moncton, NB
The only steel town there is C) Hamilton. It is Francois' answer and
he is right. Oskee Wee Wee! Oskee Wa Wa! Holy Mackinaw! Tigers! Eat
'em raw!
For $8,000: Who danced on her farewell tour with the National Ballet
of Canada in 1997?
A) Evelyn Hart B) Karen Kain C) Veronica Tennant D) Kimberly Glasco
B) Karen Kain.
For $16,000: What was written on the bottom of the pie thrown at Prime
Minister Chretien on August 16, 2000?
A) Pie a la mode B) Prime Minister Pie C) P.I.E. Mininster
D) Chretien Cream Pie
Francois enjoyed the pieing immensely, and C) is jumping out at him.
He makes it his final answer. She does the "would have been wrong"
Tarrant Special bit with Francois. But he went with his instinct.
His
Instinct
Was
.
.
.
.
.
RIGHT!
For $32,000: What is the name of the donut hsop hangout in Mike Myers'
1992 movie "Wayne's World"?
A) Stan Mikita's B) Tim Hortons C) Dunkin Donuts D) Krispy Kremes
Francois has seen this movie 5 times at least. He recalls it as Stan
Mikita's.
That's it!
(Commercials. Lysol. Royal Bank)
The money will be used towards the new house Francois is shopping for.
For $64,000: Which of the following was not the first name of one of
Canada's famous Dionne quintuplets?
A) Yvonne B) Annette C) Marie D) Chantale
Little hesitation in making D) his final answer. He has $64,000!
For $125,000: According to folklore, where would you find an Ogopogo?
A) Lake Champlain B) Tobin Lake C) Okanagan Lake D) Okefenokee
Swamp
He'll call fellow computer game designer Joshua.
"OUCH! To be honest, I really don't know". Even with the 50/50, it
would be a complete guess for Francois. He'll use the 50/50 for the
heck of it. C) Okanagan Lake D) Okefenokee Swamp. He would risk it if
he had an inkling, but he doesn't have an inkling. He'll walk.
Francois would have picked C). And C) would have been worth $125,000.
But 64K will help fund a house.
Was I the only one that was surprised when D) was left as an answer
with the 50/50?
(Commercials, CIBC Run for the Cure)
Let's get to the final
"Put the following famous women in order of their birth, starting the
earliest"
A) Marie Curie B) Margaret Thatcher C) Eva Peron D) Cleopatra
D,A,B and C. Shannon Sullivan in 4.56. He is 24-year old math major.
For $100: A dove primarily makes which of the following sounds?
A) Woof B) Coo C) Moo D) D'oh!
B) Coo
For $200: Accoring to a common expression, if you are old-fashioned
and resist change, you are what?
A) Stick in the eye B) Stick in the mud
C) Straight shooter D) Sticky fingered Sam
B) Stick in the mud.
For $300: Which of the following body parts can suffer from fallen
arches?
A) Instep of the foot B) Roof of the mouth
C) Bridge of the nose D) Eyebrows
A) Instep of the foot
For $500: The 1984 song "Sunglasses at Night" was made famous by which
Canadian singer?
A) Burton Cummings B) Gino Vanelli C) Corey Hart D) Dan Hill
C) Corey Hart. I think Dan Hill performing a cover of that song would
be strangely fascinating.
For $1000: Which of these Canadian bays regularly has some of the
highest tides in the world?
A) Burlington Bay B) Hudson Bay C) Ungava Bay D) Bay of Fundy
**AH-WOOO**
Curtis Arnold of Kananaskis, AB and Robert Nieslen of Pointe Claire,
QC will be joining the Group of 7 tomorrow night.
Night 2 will be on 23 hours from now, followed by the US version. See
you tomorrow night!
vicste...@mailexcite.com
Argh!
>For $1000: Which of these Canadian bays regularly has some of the
>highest tides in the world?
>A) Burlington Bay B) Hudson Bay C) Ungava Bay D) Bay of Fundy
The correct answer was Bay of Fundy, and that was the answer given by
the contestant before the:
>**AH-WOOO**
Peca Fan
>A big hearty hello to all Canucks and wannabe Canucks on the first
>night of CTV's version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. You are just
>going to get the down and dirty results from me, I'll leave the Pamela
>vs. Reege comparisons to others.
I'd love for some of the Americans here to weigh in on how the
difficulty of the stacks would be for them.
>For $16,000: What was written on the bottom of the pie thrown at Prime
>Minister Chretien on August 16, 2000?
>
>A) Pie a la mode B) Prime Minister Pie C) P.I.E. Mininster
>D) Chretien Cream Pie
>
>Francois enjoyed the pieing immensely, and C) is jumping out at him.
>He makes it his final answer. She does the "would have been wrong"
>Tarrant Special bit with Francois. But he went with his instinct.
Absolutely the worst moment in the show. She took like 3 minutes to
say he had the right answer, all for a measly $16,000 question. I
think she was starting to worry no one would get very high, and wanted
to use her Tarrant tension schtick at least once.
As for the correct answer, didn't the actual photo say PIE, and not
P.I.E? Anyone remember that? Was it supposed to be an acronym by the
thrower?
>For $125,000: According to folklore, where would you find an Ogopogo?
>
>A) Lake Champlain B) Tobin Lake C) Okanagan Lake D) Okefenokee
>Swamp
Man, this was an easy question. As a BC'er, I'd rank that as a sub
$1,000 question.
Wish I'd been picked. The only 2 questions that I didn't know outright
were the Coronation St and the Karen Kain one.
--
Peca Fan
"You can't live your life, in the baby seat
You've got to stand on your own,
Don't admit defeat" - Barenaked Ladies
Chris Oster
> were the Coronation St and the Karen Kain one.
>
You and me both. I'd still be going on that second stack. That idiot from
T.O. stole my spot!!
--Chris
Douglas T. Massey
Peca Fan <pec...@realaddress.thisis.not> writes:
> On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 01:13:57 GMT, vicste...@mailexcite.com
> (vicste...@mailexcite.com) wrote:
>
>>night of CTV's version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. You are just
>>going to get the down and dirty results from me, I'll leave the Pamela
>>vs. Reege comparisons to others.
>
> difficulty of the stacks would be for them.
Well, for me, the stacks would have been impossibly difficult.
I reach the $32K level four times out of five on the American version,
but would be lucky to make it to $1000 in the Canadian version.
I didn't know the first FF, as well as the $300, $2000, $4000,
and $8000 question (the one the contestant got wrong).
From the second contestant, I didn't know the $300, $2000, $4000,
$8000, $16,000, $64,000, or $125,000 question (125 was the last one
seen).
From the third contestant, I missed the only the FF, up to $1000.
Almost every question I missed dealt with Canada, of course. We
Americans don't know much about our northern neighbor. I live in
Vermont and might be a bit more knowledgeable about Quebec, but not
much. My guess is that 99.9% of Americans would be hopelessly
screwed on Canadian WWTBAM.
I've seen the questions from the original version in England and
reached the same conclusion. Local trivia is hopelessly difficult.
Doug
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jim_c...@my-deja.com
Peca Fan <pec...@realaddress.thisis.not> wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 01:13:57 GMT, vicste...@mailexcite.com
> (vicste...@mailexcite.com) wrote:
>
>
> were the Coronation St and the Karen Kain one.
The only question I would have had to use a lifeline on would have been
the steel mill question (my Mom, being from the Hamilton area, would
have been able to answer it).
The only other question I had a problem with was the NHL logo colour
question, and once I thought about the pucks used in games, it was
pretty easy.
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Before you buy.
ryan...@my-deja.com
successful on the US version then on the Canadian one 4 times out of 5
I think. Not that any questions are truly easy, but the Canadian
versions seemed to be that much more difficult.
Ryan
> Almost every question I missed dealt with Canada, of course. We
> Americans don't know much about our northern neighbor. I live in
> Vermont and might be a bit more knowledgeable about Quebec, but not
> much. My guess is that 99.9% of Americans would be hopelessly
> screwed on Canadian WWTBAM.
>
> I've seen the questions from the original version in England and
> reached the same conclusion. Local trivia is hopelessly difficult.
Brett A. Pasternack
> For $4,000: Where are the headquarters for the stell company Dofasco?
>
> A) Red Deer, AB. B) Saskatoon, SK. C) Hamilton, ON D) Moncton, NB
> The only steel town there is C) Hamilton. It is Francois' answer and
> he is right. Oskee Wee Wee! Oskee Wa Wa! Holy Mackinaw! Tigers! Eat
> 'em raw!
I must confess that this ignorant American spent several moments
wondering what the heck you wacky Canadians buy from a "stell company"
before I scrolled down on this one! B^)
> For $500: The 1984 song "Sunglasses at Night" was made famous by which
> Canadian singer?
>
> A) Burton Cummings B) Gino Vanelli C) Corey Hart D) Dan Hill
> C) Corey Hart. I think Dan Hill performing a cover of that song would
> be strangely fascinating.
Works for me!