It's not just that he didn't know the answer, which would be bad enough, but he rejected the result of the audience vote, which was really stupid. Yes, audiences can be wrong, but not on an early question.
Definitely an idiot for not going with the audience, but it's also kinda sad that most people online didn't know, and also that a quarter of the studio audience didn't know. The daughter of an English teacher not immediately knowing is the real kicker.
I love when these people say "well I think its either this one or that one..." and THEN they usee the 50/50 lifeline. Well of course they're going to take away the two that the contestant wasn't thinking about. Never fails to amuse.
That Phone-a-Spouse was a train wreck. Hostess: You have 30 seconds. Contestant: Hi, Honey. I'm here at the Millionaire show. Got an English grammar type question here. Oh, by the way, while I have you on the phone, how are the kids? Did you pay the maid? Did she feed the dog? Uh-huh... how 'bout the cats? .... Wife: Adverbs or verbs... Adverbs or verbs... Adverbs or verbs...
The guy recording this handled that situation a lot better than I would. I'd be screaming the answer at the top of my lungs and throwing stuff at my TV set.
Exactly. EXACTLY. Sir/Ma'am, you have officially made the end of my day. I salute you for that. There is NO excuse why the man shouldn't have completely known the answer.
This was one of the harder $500 questions you'll see, so I wouldn't blame him using the audience on it. But why ask the audience if you trust them so little you'll ignore 75%, use your other 2 lifelines, then choose the 1 of 2 options they DIDN'T say? That's where the stupidity is in this, not in that he didn't know the answer.
+TheOpinionatedPerson - Exactly. At the $300 question, it can be assumed that the answer is widely known. Not a bad idea to trust the audience in such situations.
This truly isn't an easy question, hell I asked my English professor and she took a few seconds to think about it. She got it right but regardless, even an English Professor who based her life on English speech second guessed herself. This isn't an easy question, but the sheer fact the guy disregarded the audiences answer is beyond me.
It made me think for a bit also but I'm sure most of English speakers would get it right. Kinda surprised that more than a quarter of the audience got it wrong
Not one, but 2 audiences thought it was B, and he should have known that the 50/50 will leave the top 2 best answers, and he wasted 3 lifelines, and it was only a $500 question, and still left with nothing, how sad? To the narrator, Meredith sait it was a $500 question, not $300.
This is not so easy. I know exactly what the active and passive forms of sentences are, but I still needed a long time before I could answer this. I think this man was confusing indirect and direct speech with the active and passive voice.
nyalalam I guess what was stupid here, isnt because he give the bad answer. But because, despite the publics majorly choosing "B", he decide to actually put the answer than nobody ever did chose. Sorry for english, I'm self-learning myself.
I wonder if this was some rich guy who went on the show with no intention of winning the million, and instead just wanted to make himself out to be the dumbest WWTBAM contestant ever for the lulz. Which, if he did... bravo 👏
It all depends how much you want to understand the language. You learn the rules, then forget them...but you have a deeper understanding of the language for doing so. EXTREMELY important when writing, ensuring you use the correct words, correct spelling and correct grammar.
I agree with you he was a REAL dunce! I remember this girl on "Who's Smarter than a 5th Grader". She lost on the FIRST question! And then the guy in the next studio "Name that Tune" felt pity on her and invited her to his set in the next hour. She promptly missed the 1st one there too. Extremely embarrassing! Our American education system really sucks! Jay Leno on The Tonight Show proves it when he does the street interviews with our American morons. BTW I'm American too.
TBF to the guy "active voice" and "passive voice" was not how it was taught to me in school, buy I'm fully aware an adverb is something that describes an action like "run *slowly* ".
I might speak English, But even I don't understand the verbs, adverbs, nouns, etc etc. Im glad the genius behind the camera is so damn smart that he thinks the dude is an idiot.
To be fair, I didn't learn what active and passive voice was until I took LATIN my senior year of college. I blame the US educational system. Stop taking money out of schools!
I also thought it was adverbs. In retrospect, verbs makes sense. Sometimes people just forget things. Even things they have used less than a year ago. The way it was worded confused me. You can sit on your high horse and call me dumb. Thats fair.
Thinking that the answer might be adverbs was not this guy's main folly. His problem was that he thought that he knew better than 75% of the studio audience on a $300 question, his spouse was absolutely useless, and he burned through all three of his life lines on that one question, and he still got it wrong.
He's not stupid for not knowing the answer; he's stupid because he asked the audience that went 75%, used his other two lifelines, and still went with the other answer 😒
This is a $500 question flunk out with contestant Drew McCarsky from the October 3, 2005 episode of WWTBAM (in the U.S. Syndicated run's 4th season). Drew blows all his lifelines on question 4 about verbs & left empty-handed.
Didn't trust 75% of the audience on a very early question. Used up 3 lifelines. Wasted 4 sec of the 30 he had for phone a friend saying 'hi hon, this is an English, uh...type question". And had a dumb wife at the end, who thought she had all the time in the world and just kept repeating the answers! But that wasn't bad enough,.....her name was KAREN!!!
Wow,English isn't my first language,but I immediately knew the answer before the options appeared,also what's even more sad is that the crowd didn't vote 100% for verbs....
@gnredbull Did you take a high school english class? Verbs are either active (is are am etc.) or passive (was were etc.) active voice is seen as more present tense where passive is more past tense.
It's not about tense. Active: A boa constrictor is strangling me. Passive: I am being strangled by a boa constrictor. Both sentences are in the present tense.
I knew what all 4 were but I've never heard of active/passive voice in that context. Id have to have gone with the audience and I'd have guessed B anyway just because verbs are an action lol. Weirdly written questions can really throw you off even if you know what all the answers are by definition.
I love the fact that most people assume they know this answer. Most people in English-language based countries know how to speak English well-enough, however, only a small minority actually know the nuts-n-bolts, mechanics and would be able to teach somebody at school level. This guy really isn't unique and dumb, he actually represents the vast majority of people in the English-speaking world.
Umm, no. Neither nouns or adjectives are passive or active, it's the verb. College professors will always tell you NEVER to write your papers in the passive voice because there's usually an absence of a subject. Example: They were being blamed. That sentence is passive because we don't know who was doing the blaming. Passive construction usually uses forms of "to be," which is why the verb indicates either active or passive. Active voice example: The populace was blaming them.
True but you can still put the subject in a passively voiced sentence. Active Voice: "Marvin blamed me." Passive Voice: "I was blamed by Marvin." Same verb in the middle. Actively voiced sentence goes SVO. Passively voiced one goes OVS.
There is no fastest finger on the daytime syndicated version. You must pass through a vetting process to the very least, unfortunately, he fell through the cracks.
przetłumaczę pytanie na polski: która część mowy występuje zazwyczaj w stronie czynnej lub biernej? a)przysłówek b)czasownik c)rzeczownik d)przymiotnik
Oh typical millionaire gameshow. The contestant says he thinks it may be one of the wrong answers and the 50/50 option takes away the 2 answers he hasn't mentioned. Have people learned yet to not say "I think it may be this answer" yet?
They never rigged it on set, that was painstakingly demonstrated to regulators. How it worked originally was, the question writer guessed the most likely wrong answer, so they predetemined how to "rig" it, and adverbs is the obvious false lead. Because everyone like Norm McDonald accused it of being rigged on stage (it wasn't) they switched to a Random Number Generator that randomly removed two wrong answers later.
His gut didn’t tell him the answer was adverb, he clearly chose verb first since it was the easiest answer and in line with the show’s format. But his ego, fueled by serious fight-or-flight adrenaline, convinced him that the producers of the show were out to humiliate him on national television with a trick question at the $300 level and he was determined to beat them LOL at their own game LOL !!
Words cannot express my sympathy for this person, and to all those involved in his vast wealth of knowledge. Any verbs in there? Under stress ... we do strange things:-)
I have worked as a writing tutor and I now create training powerpoints for a pretty large company, some of which involve grammar and writing rules. I am constantly told to simplify my definitions and examples of proper grammar and writing rules/techniques because people do not understand basic concepts like "nouns" and "verbs." So this actually doesn't surprise me. There are many people out there that struggle with this sort of thing, and they do not deserve this sort of criticism.
This guy does however. Not only does he not understand the question; he doesn't even understand that he doesn't understand the question, so he uses completely faulty logic. He wastes time making small chit-chat during his phone-a-spouse, and he thinks that he knows better than 75% of the studio audience. He's a pompous fool.
Nearly a decade and a half later, still a classic video.
The vintage quality is perfect.
The original WWTBAM UK producers did a good job at designing the fonts and graphics to work well on VHS recordings.
It's not just that he didn't know the answer, which would be bad enough, but he rejected the result of the audience vote, which was really stupid. Yes, audiences can be wrong, but not on an early question.
Definitely an idiot for not going with the audience, but it's also kinda sad that most people online didn't know, and also that a quarter of the studio audience didn't know. The daughter of an English teacher not immediately knowing is the real kicker.
They were, unfortunately, when Steve Fayne was on!
@Steve27775
He used all of his lifelines on one question, and he still got it wrong.
3:22 LOL at Meredith trying not to laugh at him. Best part of this video
OMG! Even foreign 12 year old children would know this question.. He used freakin' 3 life lines and still got it wrong. -_-
Hi
Darwin Award he should get.
7 ways to hide a fart (ItsJerryAndHarry)
The music for the question just makes it more satisfying and funny lmaooo
Non-serious music with a dumbass making it intense lol
I skipped ahead, and each time I moved to a new spot, he was burning through yet another lifeline. Absolutely stunning.
The music in this show always creeped me out, it still does to this day.
Its butt clenching tense
Dude. I love your voice in the background! "Adverbs or verbs..DER!"
Lmao
Best one ever! I laughed so hard at the fact that he still chose A after that huge fiasco!
I love how he rolls his eyes like it's such a easy and stupid question.
"75% of the audience said c...or b!" lmao, love this guy!
Does anyone else remember those commercials "Verb-it's what you DO"?
you could even hear the audience laughing at him when he asked for the 50/50
"Adverbs or verbs" Started to sound like "Derdurderdur" xD I almost pissed myself laughing. 2:48
"Adverbs or verbs?" :D
I love when these people say "well I think its either this one or that one..." and THEN they usee the 50/50 lifeline. Well of course they're going to take away the two that the contestant wasn't thinking about. Never fails to amuse.
That Phone-a-Spouse was a train wreck.
Hostess: You have 30 seconds.
Contestant: Hi, Honey. I'm here at the Millionaire show. Got an English grammar type question here. Oh, by the way, while I have you on the phone, how are the kids? Did you pay the maid? Did she feed the dog? Uh-huh... how 'bout the cats? ....
Wife: Adverbs or verbs...
Adverbs or verbs...
Adverbs or verbs...
The guy recording this handled that situation a lot better than I would. I'd be screaming the answer at the top of my lungs and throwing stuff at my TV set.
I thought he ruined the video by talking over the audio trying to be all funny. It really pissed me off
Imagine if the entire audience trolls you and puts the wrong answer in, when it's the final question for 1,000,000 dollars.
This was actually funny, hahaha
If he was named Thomas he would have been Doubting Thomas.
"aww what a loser' made me lol
Exactly. EXACTLY. Sir/Ma'am, you have officially made the end of my day. I salute you for that. There is NO excuse why the man shouldn't have completely known the answer.
I don't think I would be able to stop from bursting into laughter, if I was the one asking the question.
'oh what a loser' LOL
This was one of the harder $500 questions you'll see, so I wouldn't blame him using the audience on it. But why ask the audience if you trust them so little you'll ignore 75%, use your other 2 lifelines, then choose the 1 of 2 options they DIDN'T say? That's where the stupidity is in this, not in that he didn't know the answer.
+TheOpinionatedPerson - Exactly. At the $300 question, it can be assumed that the answer is widely known. Not a bad idea to trust the audience in such situations.
The audience said it's b and he still uses other lifelines. Probably best to just go home
This truly isn't an easy question, hell I asked my English professor and she took a few seconds to think about it. She got it right but regardless, even an English Professor who based her life on English speech second guessed herself.
This isn't an easy question, but the sheer fact the guy disregarded the audiences answer is beyond me.
It made me think for a bit also but I'm sure most of English speakers would get it right. Kinda surprised that more than a quarter of the audience got it wrong
the commentary killed me. so deadpan it was perfect xp
Not one, but 2 audiences thought it was B, and he should have known that the 50/50 will leave the top 2 best answers, and he wasted 3 lifelines, and it was only a $500 question, and still left with nothing, how sad? To the narrator, Meredith sait it was a $500 question, not $300.
On average / statistically, the studio audience was much smarter than the AOL audience.
As someone with an English degree -- and as someone who took English in elementary school -- this is painful to watch.
***** Not sure what in their statement allows for you to say "Can't type for shit." Looks good to me.
poop
milkmanv1 Lol I am from Finland and 12 year olds know this basic stuff oh my god
Adverbs or verbs… Adverbs or verbs…
Adverbs or verbs???
Since he mentioned he was leaning towards adverbs, the 50/50 intentionally gave him the audience's choice and his choice.
They claim that it's randomly generated by a computer, but sometimes I gotta wonder.
🤔💭
0:33 Oliver Hardy reincarnation
Maybe he's trying to teach us something about game shows and humanity ...?
He looks drunk.
His wife sounds drunk.
When she said "your husbands on the phone for a 500 dollar question" she should have responded "500?!!! and your calling me already
This is not so easy. I know exactly what the active and passive forms of sentences are, but I still needed a long time before I could answer this. I think this man was confusing indirect and direct speech with the active and passive voice.
I got verb due to the fact it said active
nyalalam I guess what was stupid here, isnt because he give the bad answer. But because, despite the publics majorly choosing "B", he decide to actually put the answer than nobody ever did chose.
Sorry for english, I'm self-learning myself.
I picked B on my own but it took me a bit.
Bueller ? bueller ?
This video is so old
But still hilarious.
This was uploaded during the golden era of UA-cam.
An oldy, but goody.
Agree@@Trobtwillis
I wonder if this was some rich guy who went on the show with no intention of winning the million, and instead just wanted to make himself out to be the dumbest WWTBAM contestant ever for the lulz.
Which, if he did... bravo 👏
Nah, he was a Fisherman from Chatsworth, Georgia.
The guy commenting is a LEGEND!
"Durrr..."
It all depends how much you want to understand the language. You learn the rules, then forget them...but you have a deeper understanding of the language for doing so. EXTREMELY important when writing, ensuring you use the correct words, correct spelling and correct grammar.
Oh, wow. This is funnier than the Mexican guy who missed the $500 question, also after first using up all of his lifelines. Classic!
im glad we had a narrator to narrate everything we were seeing in the video
I agree with you he was a REAL dunce!
I remember this girl on "Who's Smarter than a 5th Grader". She lost on the FIRST question! And then the guy in the next studio "Name that Tune" felt pity on her and invited her to his set in the next hour. She promptly missed the 1st one there too. Extremely embarrassing!
Our American education system really sucks! Jay Leno on The Tonight Show proves it when he does the street interviews with our American morons.
BTW I'm American too.
TBF to the guy "active voice" and "passive voice" was not how it was taught to me in school, buy I'm fully aware an adverb is something that describes an action like "run *slowly* ".
So what? How would the adverb itself be active or passive? Dude used flawed logic.
If I met this this guy on the street i would utter the following: "Hey Mr. Adverbs"!
Imagine if this was the $100 question? Lol
It was a "HOT" day for a run💀
English was my worst subject and I immediately knew the answer
Math was my worst subject, English I was okay at…
I might speak English, But even I don't understand the verbs, adverbs, nouns, etc etc. Im glad the genius behind the camera is so damn smart that he thinks the dude is an idiot.
To be fair, I didn't learn what active and passive voice was until I took LATIN my senior year of college. I blame the US educational system. Stop taking money out of schools!
The guy in the back ground "what a loser" lmfao
I also thought it was adverbs. In retrospect, verbs makes sense. Sometimes people just forget things. Even things they have used less than a year ago. The way it was worded confused me. You can sit on your high horse and call me dumb. Thats fair.
Thinking that the answer might be adverbs was not this guy's main folly. His problem was that he thought that he knew better than 75% of the studio audience on a $300 question, his spouse was absolutely useless, and he burned through all three of his life lines on that one question, and he still got it wrong.
He's not stupid for not knowing the answer; he's stupid because he asked the audience that went 75%, used his other two lifelines, and still went with the other answer 😒
Don't you laugh at Vern!
He's doing his best, but the pressure of being on TV clouds his ability to think.
Nice suit though ...
This is a $500 question flunk out with contestant Drew McCarsky from the October 3, 2005 episode of WWTBAM (in the U.S. Syndicated run's 4th season). Drew blows all his lifelines on question 4 about verbs & left empty-handed.
The dude did everything wrong
1. Went against the audience
2. Said what he thought it was before using 50/50
3. Wasting time on phone a friend
Didn't trust 75% of the audience on a very early question. Used up 3 lifelines. Wasted 4 sec of the 30 he had for phone a friend saying 'hi hon, this is an English, uh...type question". And had a dumb wife at the end, who thought she had all the time in the world and just kept repeating the answers! But that wasn't bad enough,.....her name was KAREN!!!
I would never go on the show.
My God! OK, anyone who knows basic grammar should get this one, but he had a lot of help.
Wow,English isn't my first language,but I immediately knew the answer before the options appeared,also what's even more sad is that the crowd didn't vote 100% for verbs....
I thought it was nouns, but my second thought was verbs hahaaa
What I want to know is how the hell did this dude was able to survive the vetting process? This has to be the worst contestant in Millionaire history.
A couple of people got the first question wrong
@gnredbull Did you take a high school english class? Verbs are either active (is are am etc.) or passive (was were etc.) active voice is seen as more present tense where passive is more past tense.
It's not about tense.
Active: A boa constrictor is strangling me.
Passive: I am being strangled by a boa constrictor.
Both sentences are in the present tense.
I love it how the guy filming this towards the end he's like awww you idiot go with the audience next time. Lmao :D
"aww what a loser." lol good commentary AmReborn :p do more of these
This isn't even a potato camera.
This is a god damn strawberry
Active voice and passive voice imply an action.
The cat ate my fish. - active voice
My fish was eaten by the cat. -passive voice
Both have verbs.
I knew what all 4 were but I've never heard of active/passive voice in that context. Id have to have gone with the audience and I'd have guessed B anyway just because verbs are an action lol. Weirdly written questions can really throw you off even if you know what all the answers are by definition.
"Oh what a loser!!!" hahahahhahahahhaha
Weird how 50/50 always takes off the two that you KNOW it is not...
This made my English teacher cry.
I love the fact that most people assume they know this answer. Most people in English-language based countries know how to speak English well-enough, however, only a small minority actually know the nuts-n-bolts, mechanics and would be able to teach somebody at school level. This guy really isn't unique and dumb, he actually represents the vast majority of people in the English-speaking world.
Too busy munching on cheeseburgers instead of studying for his english exam
Umm, no. Neither nouns or adjectives are passive or active, it's the verb.
College professors will always tell you NEVER to write your papers in the passive voice because there's usually an absence of a subject. Example: They were being blamed. That sentence is passive because we don't know who was doing the blaming. Passive construction usually uses forms of "to be," which is why the verb indicates either active or passive. Active voice example: The populace was blaming them.
True but you can still put the subject in a passively voiced sentence.
Active Voice: "Marvin blamed me."
Passive Voice: "I was blamed by Marvin."
Same verb in the middle.
Actively voiced sentence goes SVO.
Passively voiced one goes OVS.
You, Sir/Ma'am, have just made my night complete.
I do not even have English as a first or even a second language, and I knew this.
Hey Uncle Vernon, that was Unforgivable.
Or the kid that thought surge protectors protected from sudden surges of "water flow" as opposed to "electrical current".....good point.
Me: It´s verbs.It´s verbs! It´s verbs!! IT´S A FU***** VERBS!!!!
Guy: It´s adverbs.
Me: *facepalm*
How could he answer the fastest finger question with its level of stupidity ??
There is no fastest finger on the daytime syndicated version. You must pass through a vetting process to the very least, unfortunately, he fell through the cracks.
Blackjack115 I see
I'm not even an native english speaker and I could easily answer that question
SIMPLE question, SIMPLE question and he wastes time and wastes his lifelines, and his mother didn't even know the SIMPLE answer? Unbelievable.
He was fighting the universe on that one.
Mans got balls...
But no brains.
That's actually REALLY sad that people wouldn't understand things that are taught in the 4th grade...
haha the cameraman's commentary was boss
Half the people who clicked this video probably couldn't answer the question themselves .. including me.
przetłumaczę pytanie na polski:
która część mowy występuje zazwyczaj w stronie czynnej lub biernej?
a)przysłówek
b)czasownik
c)rzeczownik
d)przymiotnik
Oh typical millionaire gameshow. The contestant says he thinks it may be one of the wrong answers and the 50/50 option takes away the 2 answers he hasn't mentioned. Have people learned yet to not say "I think it may be this answer" yet?
They never rigged it on set, that was painstakingly demonstrated to regulators. How it worked originally was, the question writer guessed the most likely wrong answer, so they predetemined how to "rig" it, and adverbs is the obvious false lead. Because everyone like Norm McDonald accused it of being rigged on stage (it wasn't) they switched to a Random Number Generator that randomly removed two wrong answers later.
Poor guy. He used all his lifelines on one question and still got it wrong.
His gut didn’t tell him the answer was adverb, he clearly chose verb first since it was the easiest answer and in line with the show’s format.
But his ego, fueled by serious fight-or-flight adrenaline, convinced him that the producers of the show were out to humiliate him on national television with a trick question at the $300 level and he was determined to beat them LOL at their own game LOL !!
Poor guy. Used all his lifelines on one question and still didn't get it right.
i don't know that either cause i didn't go to school in english, i learned by myself later in my life.
"this is a $300 question"
I didnt do too well on my math test and i feel like an idiot...then i watched this video and now i feel great
What lovely brand of toaster did you record this with?
Words cannot express my sympathy for this person, and to all those involved in his vast wealth of knowledge. Any verbs in there?
Under stress ... we do strange things:-)
I have worked as a writing tutor and I now create training powerpoints for a pretty large company, some of which involve grammar and writing rules. I am constantly told to simplify my definitions and examples of proper grammar and writing rules/techniques because people do not understand basic concepts like "nouns" and "verbs." So this actually doesn't surprise me. There are many people out there that struggle with this sort of thing, and they do not deserve this sort of criticism.
This guy does however. Not only does he not understand the question; he doesn't even understand that he doesn't understand the question, so he uses completely faulty logic. He wastes time making small chit-chat during his phone-a-spouse, and he thinks that he knows better than 75% of the studio audience. He's a pompous fool.
THANK YOU! The audience sometimes SUCKS at certain questions. Then you feel like an idiot NOT going along w/ your CORRECT answer.
He eats pizzas, double cheeseburgers in class and... sleep in class like a pig.