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Man Gets Million Dollar Question Wrong On "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" - Video
Freedom's Lighthouse ^ | August 26, 2009 | Michael

Posted on 08/26/2009 10:21:41 AM PDT by Federalist Patriot

Here is video of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" contestant Ken Basin getting the million dollar question wrong. He could have walked away with $500,000 but he took a chance and only walked away with $25,000. (Watch Video)

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TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: greedy; millionaire; nonmillionaire; ohwell
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To: savedbygrace

Ya know what, I think I was thinking of Nestle’s Quick. I can admit I was wrong. I really thought it came out in the 90s because I remember drinking it then, then it wasn’t popular anymore. My mistake, either way, the guy should have taken the 500,000 grand and ran home with it


21 posted on 08/26/2009 10:42:02 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Federalist Patriot

The guy never would have even gotten to the million dollar question if he wasn’t a risk taker. My guess also was Yoo-hoo, since I remember drinking it in the 60s (and the commercials with Yogi Berra) and it just seems more like an LBJ beverage than Fresca, which I always think of as more a girly drink (though not as much as its diet soda partner Tab). That being said, I would not have gone for it without have more than just a guess to go on.


22 posted on 08/26/2009 10:42:13 AM PDT by drjimmy
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Yoohoo took a big jump in general availability and popularity in the late 80s, and again in the 90s, so you weren’t entirely out there.


23 posted on 08/26/2009 10:44:12 AM PDT by discostu (When I'm walking a dark road I am a man who walks alone)
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To: Sarah Barracuda
Yoo Hoo was NOT made when LBJ was President. I remember drinking that stuff, it came out in the late 90s.

Wrong. Corp. Radar O'Reilly drank YooHoo all the time in Korea in the late '50s.

24 posted on 08/26/2009 10:44:26 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: CharlieOK1
The question;

For ordering his favorite beverages on demand, LBJ had four buttons installed in the Oval Office labeled “coffee,” “tea,” “Coke,” and what?

The four choices were;

A:Fresca B: V8

C:Yoo-hoo D: A&W

25 posted on 08/26/2009 10:45:34 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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To: ShadowAce; Sarah Barracuda

My parents drank Yoo-Hoo as children in the 1950s and early 1960s.


26 posted on 08/26/2009 10:46:03 AM PDT by Clemenza (Remember our Korean War Veterans)
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To: ShadowAce
I always thought Radar drank Grape Nehi.
27 posted on 08/26/2009 10:47:56 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Absolutely. He was too smart by half.

BTW, Nestle introduced Ready-to-Drink Quik Chocolate Milk in 1984, so you’re much closer with that one. Nestle Quick Chocolate Powder goes back to the late ‘40s.


28 posted on 08/26/2009 10:48:56 AM PDT by savedbygrace (You are only leading if someone follows. Otherwise, you just wandered off... [Smokin' Joe])
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To: library user

Lawyer, huh? Maybe he can sue for being asked questions he couldn’t answer, example: “Why is the beach so close to the ocean?”


29 posted on 08/26/2009 10:49:09 AM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: brownsfan

Chocolate Soldier?


30 posted on 08/26/2009 10:51:00 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ted Kennedy, you are NO J.F.K. Wrong on abortion. Wrong on taxes.)
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To: drjimmy

Well I remember drinking root beer a lot in the 1970s in Texas.

Hard to say what anyone’s tastes would be.

Would’ve been harder if there’d been Lone Star or Pearl on that list.


31 posted on 08/26/2009 10:52:47 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ted Kennedy, you are NO J.F.K. Wrong on abortion. Wrong on taxes.)
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To: Federalist Patriot
How 'bout a Fresca!


32 posted on 08/26/2009 10:52:57 AM PDT by DryFly
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To: drjimmy

Fresca would’ve been for the secretarial pool.


33 posted on 08/26/2009 10:53:05 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ted Kennedy, you are NO J.F.K. Wrong on abortion. Wrong on taxes.)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

What is the answer, please?


34 posted on 08/26/2009 10:54:59 AM PDT by jaydubya2
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

That was his preferred drink.
I think I remember an episode or so ... where he drank Yoo-Hoo.


35 posted on 08/26/2009 10:56:06 AM PDT by Jeffrey_D. (veritas odium parit)
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To: CharlieOK1
Spoiler Alert!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For those behind firewalls the contestant chose C: Yoo-hoo. The correct answer was A: Fresca.

36 posted on 08/26/2009 10:56:14 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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To: Dr. Ursus

“I guess your not a baseball fan? They should have traded
him for a case of Yoo Hoo.”

Please refrain from giving the Pittsburgh Pirates any more ideas.


37 posted on 08/26/2009 10:59:46 AM PDT by edh (I need a better tagline)
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To: jaydubya2

The answer was Fresca. I thought Yoo Hoo was a dumb answer, as LBJ didn’t seem like the type to guzzle a chocolate kiddie drink. Not sure I’d have got it right either, though. I’d have probably guessed V8.


38 posted on 08/26/2009 11:09:54 AM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: Federalist Patriot

He still ended up with way more than he deserved.


39 posted on 08/26/2009 11:13:12 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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To: Sarah Barracuda
"Ya know what, I think I was thinking of Nestle’s Quick."

I'm 64 and don't remember a time when Nestle's Quick chocolate wasn't around. But I do remember that the strawberry flavor came out in the 60s.

40 posted on 08/26/2009 11:18:50 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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