Potpourri for the Millionaires
by Andy Moseley - reprinted with permission from the April 2000 Mariners' Log
That's right, I'm back with another great dose of trivia. However, I had a horrible time trying to come up with a theme for this month's trivia. Sure, I could go with Easter or APril Fool's Day, but I tried and just couldn't come up with 15 quality questions. Since this is a Who Wants to Be a Millionaire ripoff in the first place, I just decided I would go yet another Millionaire route and just use a potpourri of questions -- no specific theme, just random questions that challenge the feeble mind like mine. Some are really easy, some are challenging, and I have a feeling there is one that you will never bea ble to get. As usual, I'm following the standard Millionaire guidelines: 15 questions with increasing dollar amounts and difficulty, except I don't have money to give you or that wonderful music before each question. Easy enough? That's what you think...
$100: I've got to start you off with the easy question to make you feel good about yourself before I totally stump you later on. Which of the following talk shows is no longer on the air?
A) The Chevy Chase Show
B) The Martin Short Show
C) The Rosie O'Donnell Show
D) The Jerry Springer Show
$200: Let's see if you've paid attention to past Mariners' Logs in 1999-2000. Who has BJ not interviewed for the Log?
A) Michael Jordan
B) Dennis Rodman
C) Mark McGwire
D) Steffi Graf
$300: Have you paid attention at all on campus? No, that's not the question! What is the name of the student handbook?
A) The Green and Gold
B) Mariners' Handbook
C) CGCC Handbook
D) We have a student handbook? (Duh!)
$500: OK, I'm being way too kind; enough of the easy stuff. What can you not win in the 2000 McDonald's Monopoly contest?
A) A 2000 Prowler
B) $5
C) $1,000,000
D) A Disney vacation
$1,000: Which celebrity has not appeared in one of those cool "Got Milk?" advertisements?
A) President Clinton
B) Neve Campbell
C) Vice President Al Gore
D) Senator Bob Dole
$2,000: How many of his 70 record-setting home runs did Mark McGwire hit off of an Atlanta Braves pitcher in 1998?
A) Two
B) Eight
C) Six
D) Seven
$4,000: Who portrays Earl in the controversial video for the Dixie Chicks' "Goodbye Earl," a song about a wife poisoning her abusive husband's black-eyed peas?
A) Garth Brooks
B) Chris Gaines
C) Dennis Franz
D) Jimmy Smits
$8,000: Which is not a soft drink, past or present?
A) Clear Pepsi
B) New Coke
C) Splode
D) Pepsi One
$16,000: Big money now! (I know, it's not as if you're getting it, but let's at least pretend to take this seriously!) What does the "X" in the upstart XFL football league stand for?
A) Xtreme
B) Xciting
C) Xhilarating
D) Nothing
$32,000: Cindy Jackson has had the most plastic surgeries ever -- 27 operations over nine years. How much did it all cost?
A) $99,600
B) $69,900
C) $96,900
D) $66,000
$64,000: What is the name of the world's most sophisticated toilet, firstr sold in 1997 in Japan?
A) The John
B) The Toto
C) The Toilet Simulator
D) The Washlet Zoe
$125,000: What is the highest-grossing animated film in history?
A) Disney's Tarzan
B) Disney's Jungle Book
C) Disney's Lion King
D) Disney's Snow White
$250,000: What stinker of a movie had the biggest loss, coming in at around $189 million in the red?
A) Cutthroat Island
B) Waterworld
C) BASEketball
D) Rich and Famous
$500,000: What television broadcast had the biggest audience ever, an estimated 2.5 billion viewers?
A) Super Bowl I
B) Princess Diana's funeral
C) Prince Charles and Diana's wedding
D) The final episode of Seinfeld
$1,000,000: I told you there would be one impossible question and this is it. After all, I won't have another trivia article out until the October 2000 Log! I've got to do something to make you want to come back in October. Here's the question. If I (me, Andy: I warned you this would be impossible) were to be stranded on a deserted island with only me, Neve Campbell, food, a CD player, and three compact discs, which of the following CDs would I not bring with me?
A) Before These Crowded Streets - Dave Matthews Band
B) Fly - Dixie Chicks
C) Millennium '80s New Wave Party - various artists
D) Pure Funk - various artists
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Now, head on over here and see how well you did.
