Posted on 10/24/2001 2:15:11 PM PDT by Xenalyte
Try to ignore the lights and the audience...focus on the job at hand.
If your makeup looks bad they will fix it, don't give it a thought.
Perhaps the best advice I can give you is: Have fun! It's a game show - not real life.
Now...got get 'em tiger!
-About "ask the audience": it is, in almost all cases, the first lifeline you should use. (Nothing drives me up the wall more than some idiot who uses a 50/50 on a $1000 question and then uses "ask the audience".) Once you get to about 16k-32k "ask the audience" becomes no more useful than flipping two coins (cuz the audience won't know the answer to harder questions and they will start to cancel each other out by ignorant guesswork) so don't be shy to use it up before then if you need to. Earlier poster was correct, trust the audience mostly on pop culture crap. Your initial goal should be to get to 32k having used only "ask the audience; people who do that are in good shape. (Of course, if you *need* to use one of the other lifelines to get there, go ahead....you gotta get to 32 one way or another.)
-About "phone a friend": when you are reading the Question and the Answers to him/her, DO NOT READ THE LETTERS. Your Friend does not care that Galileo is "answer B". Just read the four answers themselves. Or three or even only two, if you've already narrowed it down in your mind! (Why does no one do this?) I know it may sound silly but it always irks me that the idiots waste that valuable 30-second phone time saying the letters A, B, C, and D to their friend. I mean I have to think that saying "A, red, B, blue, C, green, D, white" takes TWICE AS LONG as just saying "red, blue, green, white". So why say the letters?
(Indeed, I don't even know why the freakin' letters exist on that show. Isn't saying the answer enough specification for Regis?)
Anyway, bottom line is your friend will, hopefully, already know the first four letters of the alphabet, so there's no need to waste time repeating them.
Oh, one addendum. After your friend gives you the answer, I'm not sure there's a need to ask him "how sure" he is. Almost all contestants do this. Then, the friend gives a percentage of some kind ("90%", "65%"). It is not clear what these percentages mean or whether they are grounded in any reality whatsoever. The Friends probably do more harm than good by giving these "percentages". Probably, a simple scale from "I don't know" to "Just a hunch" to "Pretty sure" to "almost certain" would suffice, and is the most precision which can be expected of your friend.
-Oh, one more thing about "ask the audience": You don't owe them anything. "Well, they were right before..." (for the previous contestant) is not a valid reason to trust them this time. "I'll go with the audience cuz they seem so nice" isn't either. Trust them if you think they are correct; ignore their input otherwise. I see people get knocked out early cuz they seem to trust the audience out of sheer loyalty or pity or whatever. Silly.
-earlier poster was also right that the 50/50 tends to narrow it down to the two answers the person already had in mind. May be just superstitious or psychological effect, but why tempt fate? Good idea to use 50/50 before jibber jabbering, if you're going to use it at all.
-Don't let Regis talk you into using a lifeline if you really weren't going to. He does that sometimes. The two useful lifelines (besides "ask the audience"), guard them jealously. Be intelligent and don't use them at all if they won't help. Even if Regis keeps asking you "how sure are you?". Frankly it's none of his business.
Smile and sit up straight are also two very good suggestions. Best of luck!
Take 'C'
WHAT?! Wrestling and Roller Derby are NOT fixed!
I actually saw a guy do this once when he used the "phone a friend" lifeline. I don't remember how he did, though. I thought it might be against the rules, but Regis was fully aware of what he was doing.
Just make sure your friend has a cable modem! - And use Google!
Exactly. The 50/50 is NOT randomly chosen by computer as they tell you. That is a lie. Use it carefully.
Good luck!
My office mate at work this summer was a writer for WW2BM? and the producer makes that decision before the question ever makes it to regis.
My office mate wrote the controversial question asking who was the youngest president inaugarated.
Have that friend standby with FOUR browsers opened to google.com
One browser for each answer they give you.
Example:, if they ask you a question like "What sport is refered to as a "sweet science?"
And they give you four answers to choose from which are: golf, pool, boxing, football
IF you are stuck, you can call up your friend with the four browsers waiting, he can put the words "sweet science" in all the browsers, PLUS, he can put into a browser, along with the words "sweet science", "pool", then in another browser he can put the word boxing, and in another browser he puts in the word golf, and so on. All he will have to do is click on the submit buttons of all the browsers and one of them will come up with the correct answer.
If he tries to do this with only one browser at a time, it will take too long to find the correct answer, IF he manages to find the correct answer. MUST have four browsers opened for this to work.
Good Luck!
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