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post #31 of 41
3/24/07 at 9:12pm

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Yeah I couldn't believe that one either. I thought, finally we get to see how they go for the $1,000,000 prize. It was a first grade geography question too. What is funny is she named all 7 continents correctly, and still didn't catch Australia.

I guess we can keep saying how dumb she is, but she did walk away with $300,000. But man, how dumb.
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post #32 of 41
3/24/07 at 9:48pm

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I've missed exactly one question since this show started (current geological age of the earth - Cenozoic).

I can't believe how ignorant some of the contestants are on this show. Yes, it's very different when the cameras are pointed at you, but IMO the average Jeopardy contestant could walk away with a million bucks without breaking a sweat.
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post #33 of 41
3/25/07 at 6:51am

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Methinks thats why there is no sign-up for this show. I think they take the bottom 2% of people who take the Jeaopardy test.
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post #34 of 41
3/25/07 at 8:58am

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I seriously think they must test potential contestants and reject anyone scoring above a certain level. There's no other explanation for why every contestant hasn't won $1 million.

Beyond the fact that the questions are very simple, you have three opportunities to be 'saved' if you miss. That's 30% of the questions up to the $500,000 mark you wouldn't even have to know. I haven't watched every minute of the show but I haven't seen the 'helper' student miss yet. So those are just about 3 guaranteed saves out of the 10 questions.

I have to say I do find it excruciatingly boring to watch. If it weren't for my 6th grade son enjoying the show I wouldn't watch. They drag it out waaaaaay too much. If the questions were difficult it wouldn't be bad. But since they ask a question that you instantly know the answer to, it is so painful to wait through 5 minutes of banter for the not-so-suspenseful answer.
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post #35 of 41
3/25/07 at 1:50pm

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I have seen one of the girls miss a math problem.

This like mostly every new game show out there is meant for a DVR.
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post #36 of 41
3/26/07 at 11:32am

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Originally Posted by Roger_S
They had a real winner this past week, a blonde woman who had won $300,000 and then got stumped with...

What is the one continent that is also a country?

She started rattling off the names of the continents and finally decided to quit. When asked what her answer would've been if she'd had to answer, she replied "All of them?".
Is it just me, or do the producers (I would have said Jeff Foxworthy but I'm sure he's being told by the powers-that-be to make sure to emphasize certain things) "subtlely" try to pressure you into dropping out when the stakes get high? I mean, Jeff kept emphasizing to that blond lady over and over about what would happen if she got the question wrong, w/ $300K on the line...even though she had a save left? It's almost as if the higher-ups had realized that "Oh sh!t--she's gonna score $500K on a first-grade question!" and thus were figuring out how to "pressure" her into dropping out at $300K...

But back to the question--w/o trying to knock her intelligence, how was it that she knew the answer to the giant panda question (the answer to which was the name of a continent, IIRC...or was it the name of a country?)...but apparently did not know the answer to the question she dropped out on...which was also a continent-related one?
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post #37 of 41
3/26/07 at 12:31pm

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I was wondering why they would be pushing so hard to drop out when she had that one save left. To get all that way and to lose it on a 1st grader question, very odd. It did seem as if they really wanted her to quit. What I also found interesting was they never showed the answer the student had written down, either.

(and to just put it out there, I moved way to quick on that question and said it was Africa. I may have slowed down, but had I been in her position, I would have been wrong and hoping the student was there to "save" me)
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post #38 of 41
3/27/07 at 4:37pm

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The question of the giant panda was indeed what continent did it come from and it was a good thing...she did say Asia but she was thinking they were from Japan instead of China. Luckily, both are Asian countries.

Regarging the emphasis of maybe trying to get the contestant to think about quitting, I've noticed this recently also on NBC's Identity.
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post #39 of 41
6/19/09 at 6:03pm

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This was not renewed by Fox, but I see at wiki that it will be on MyNetworkTV. I think I get that in HD and I hope the show continues in that format. Just glad it will continue at all.
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post #40 of 41
6/24/09 at 5:22pm

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The show is actually entering syndication in September. Those are the episodes that MyNet will be airing (two eps - once a week). Not sure if the MyNet epsiodes will be new or repeats of the syndie episodes.

I doubt it'll be in HD. I don't think it was in HD on FOX, either. I think FOX aired it in SD widescreen, as they do with a lot of their unscripted shows.
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post #41 of 41
6/24/09 at 7:30pm

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It went HD this past season. Lyrics either did, too, or it might have always been. I don't even know that show's fate.
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