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Post by thechase on Aug 16, 2019 12:50:24 GMT -5
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Post by LexExpress on Aug 16, 2019 13:09:00 GMT -5
I've always been so interested in this case. I'm convinced the Major was innocent. Highly recommend the book Bad Show: The Quiz, The Cough, The Millionaire Major if anyone's interested.
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Aug 16, 2019 13:42:43 GMT -5
The real crime is the fact that his million dollar question was something I learned when I was 5. I knew the word googol long before Google was a thing. Jeopardy wouldn’t even let that one past the screening process
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Post by thechase on Aug 28, 2019 12:03:59 GMT -5
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Aug 28, 2019 13:47:40 GMT -5
I hope there’s a lot of emphasis on the bit when Whittock coughs and blatantly says “NO!” at the same time. It’s hilarious.
Glad to see Matthew Macfadyen starring in more stuff. He’s been under-appreciated for too long.
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Post by eJm on Aug 28, 2019 16:54:28 GMT -5
“Michael Sheen as Chris Tarrant” are words I never expected to read in any context.
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Post by karl100589 on Aug 29, 2019 10:56:13 GMT -5
“Michael Sheen as Chris Tarrant” are words I never expected to read in any context. Sheen's the go-to actor when it comes to playing British media figures. Tony Blair, David Frost, Kenneth Williams, Brian Clough and now this. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2019 11:13:41 GMT -5
The real crime is the fact that his million dollar question was something I learned when I was 5. I knew the word googol long before Google was a thing. Jeopardy wouldn’t even let that one past the screening process I can't remember if it was this one or another one where it was speculated that the final questions were easy on purpose because it was going up against "One Foot in the Grave" in a ratings battle and they wanted a win badly. Anyways, I guess for the curious, here's a video about the scandal in question. |
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Post by karl100589 on Aug 29, 2019 12:07:22 GMT -5
The real crime is the fact that his million dollar question was something I learned when I was 5. I knew the word googol long before Google was a thing. Jeopardy wouldn’t even let that one past the screening process I can't remember if it was this one or another one where it was speculated that the final questions were easy on purpose because it was going up against "One Foot in the Grave" in a ratings battle and they wanted a win badly. Anyways, I guess for the curious, here's a video about the scandal in question.
That was Judith Keppel's Millionaire run. Someone with distant relations to the royal family had a suspiciously large amount of questions about them.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Aug 29, 2019 12:15:59 GMT -5
The real crime is the fact that his million dollar question was something I learned when I was 5. I knew the word googol long before Google was a thing. Jeopardy wouldn’t even let that one past the screening process no clearly it's a Megatron. |
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Post by eJm on Aug 29, 2019 12:51:23 GMT -5
“Michael Sheen as Chris Tarrant” are words I never expected to read in any context. Sheen's the go-to actor when it comes to playing British media figures. Tony Blair, David Frost, Kenneth Williams, Brian Clough and now this. The Michael Sheen part makes sense. It’s the Chris Tarrant part that’s weirding me out. It’d be like seeing “David Tennant as Craig Ferguson”. |
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Post by thechase on Aug 29, 2019 13:07:48 GMT -5
Henry Caville as Gordon Burns in the story of the Krypton Factor
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Post by Jiren on Aug 29, 2019 22:30:37 GMT -5
There was a Tonight special on it
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Aug 29, 2019 22:47:48 GMT -5
The real crime is the fact that his million dollar question was something I learned when I was 5. I knew the word googol long before Google was a thing. Jeopardy wouldn’t even let that one past the screening process You may know it, as did I. But it’s not the sort of thing taught in schools here, nor is it the type of thing the average person here would know. It’s actually a perfect question for a million Pound question as all four answers fit the same kind of word, as in one that you’ve heard several times elsewhere but aren’t sure exactly what the true meaning is. It’s a question purely designed to make you take a gamble on it and build up the tension. And I have to say, although I knew the answer to million pound question, I would never have got there. The £125,000 question was who painted “The Ambassadors” which is in the National Gallery? I wouldn’t know it, wouldn’t have any friends who knew it and I wouldn’t have gambled what I’d already won on it. I did know the answer to the £250,000 question but not the £500,000 question. |
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Aug 29, 2019 22:50:22 GMT -5
Henry Caville as Gordon Burns in the story of the Krypton Factor I’m in. The Krypton Factor is second only to The Crystal Maze on my all-Time favourite UK game show list. |
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