@@ShayCatIt didn't used to be that way. Originally, the first few questions were gimmes, so Regis wouldn't bother, he would just take the answer the person said since it was right. However, that guy that got the pie question wrong was the first time I saw him ask if it was his final answer, and that should have been the guy's clue to rethink it. But they probably changed policy to always ask for all questions after they started getting harder.
@@jleethompson2266I think they just edited that part out on the early questions. He still asked final answer it was just cut to move the episode quicker.
@@mick3765 What they're saying is, some of them were more common knowledge compared to the supposedly higher value questions. They aren't wrong, I remember someone winning for which religion was non-Abrahamic or something.
@@LocksVidIt really wasn't. Yes, it's easy for you and for me but just because it's part of yours and my general knowledge doesn't mean it's part of everyones and its an easy question in general. That clip with the pokemon question is not new, it was roughly 20 years ago, two decades old. Meaning, there's a good chance the man grew up before Pokemon exploded. It's an easy question for current adults like myself because I grew up watching it. If you've never seen Pokemon or LOTR, each answer sounds like random nonsense.
Well that’s the best way to go about it when you’re on the receiving end. Would you rather tell yourself “awww you should feel so sorry for yourself” or “well, I tried. Life goes on”
@@ryans413 I guess I’m with you but the guy recording was an ass, it may be a 300$ question but if you want to get more money you shouldn’t take unnecessary risks. I would’ve trusted the audience and then blamed them if they were wrong.
That's when you say "I'm thinking A" particularly when you know A is wrong, but trying to decide if it's really B or C. They'll keep A and either B or C.
Hardwood Hoop What’s funny is that an ordinary high school student like me knew the answer working there. Ivy Leaguers are just too pretentious and would learn a thing or two from working a bit.
I really don't understand this comment. How are ivy leaguers in anyway pretentious? Because they go into an ivy league school? Getting into an ivy league school is the definition of working MORE than just a bit. I'm not attacking you, I'm just curious as to what you mean. I really don't understand your logic.
The last guy has to be the dumbest person ever: 1. He used all 3 lifelines on the same question 2. 75% of the audience knew the answer 3. Still got it wrong I’m done
The question was confusing. He understood the concept of active v passive voice. I would have said active v passive voice is a matter of syntax. That the active voice is subject verb object, and the passive voice is object verb subject.
4. Thus, the question was one of the easiest ones. The audience gave him the right answer, three quarters can't be wrong on that childish question, but not for him)))
For anyone wondering, the first guy was thinking of this English nursery rhyme: "Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye. Four and twenty blackbirds Baked in a pie. When the pie was opened, The birds began to sing. Wasn't that a dainty dish To set before the king?"
I'll be honest I've no idea what that nursery rhyme on the first question was, I'm hoping it was a US rhyme and just never heard of it (I'm from Ireland)
@@mryan4452 I'm from the US and I've never heard it. It definitely originated in England, because it mentions pence. I only know about it because it's an example of the way English speakers used to say numbers ("four and twenty" instead of the modern "twenty four").
@@rzeka I actually meant the rhyme in the who wants to be a millionaire question. I googled it there, it is actually English rhyme so I've no excuse. Never heard of it, or the rhyme in your comment. First question in the show is supposed to be a ridiculously easy question, that isn't to me!
How is it a fail to walk away with a quarter million dollars? If he didn't know the answer, then I'd say that was smart not to guess. Being unfamiliar with fictitious characters does not make one stupid.
As a Pokemon enthusiast, I think it's a bit unfair to classify that as a 'failure'. First and foremost, Pokemon aside, the guy had made it to 250k, so definitely not a failure. But anyway, back in 1999 I wouldn't consider it to be such an "easy" question, especially to adults. Hell the guy even said he just learned recently what a 'Pokemon' is. Finally, walking away from a question you don't know when you're at 250k, is anything but 'stupid'.
Not necessarily. This was in 1999 which was before the first LotR was adapted into a movie. Before it was a commercialized franchise with any sort of merchandise. It was just a series of old classic fantasy novels that you'd have to be a fantasy literature enthusiast to be into. Or have read The Hobbit, which seemed more popular and heard of at the time. I had no idea who Frodo was at that time or *any* of the characters from that. I may have briefly heard of LotR in passing and that Tolkien fellow. Plus, after LotR FotR did come out (the movie), there existed a lot of "huge fans" who never touched the books. Finally, a number of Pokemon, *especially in Gen 1*, had names that were already real words or something else. Hypno? Electrode? Gloom?
I still don't know a fking thing about Pokémon. I do know, however, that UA-cam auto corrects the e and puts an accent on it so it must be something special.
Norm Macdonald said this exact same thing, and it happened to him. The two choices he was stuck on were the ones left after using the 50/50. ua-cam.com/video/ddVl8Gp2rWY/v-deo.htmlsi=RCbT56Hu0Pil_No8
It may seem like an easy question now but back in November 1999 when this was filmed it wasn't. In the US the Pokemon anime started airing in early September 1998 while the first games were released in late September 1998, and he said his son was too young to be involved with Pokemon. He can be forgiven for not knowing Frodo as the first movie that brought LOTR to the forefront of popular culture wasn't released until 2001 and not everyone cares to read the books for whatever reason (eg: they aren't really into reading books or prefers different genres/styles). So given the limited exposure of Pokemon and LOTR in popular culture at the time it's quite understandable why he didn't know the answer, and while he could have potentially guessed the answer based upon the style of names it obviously wasn't something he was confident in doing with $218,000 at stake and can't fault him for that and certainly wasn't a failure.
Joseph Smith And how would it be easy if you knew nothing about Pokemon? That's very easy considering the games and anime were released just a little over a year beforehand and his son was too young to be involved with it, hell even if his son was into Pokemon he could still very easily avoid it himself (despite me and some siblings growing up with Pokemon stuff my father would be lucky to know even 2 of them). So with a complete lack of Pokemon knowledge how would he know Frodo wasn't one of its characters (which by this wording would include NPCs)? Him being a LOTR character doesn't even really matter since this question is solely about Pokemon which for all he knew (assuming he even knew LOTR) may have used the name as well. And with the shows penchant on trick answers (which Frodo could have been being a character in another franchise) you would have be to utterly stupid to risk $218,000 on a mere guess.
Yeah better walk away than answering something fast without knowing (the title did say failures AND stupidity, so I guess he's just in the first category).
It is hard to refer to winning $250k as failure. And it is hard to call an adult stupid for not knowing Pokemon characters. But it was entertaining to watch, I will give it that.
@@adlet5416 ok man but its the first question and these are americans who are competing in a game show. I was lost between those answers, they are both beasts of burden, and if you don't know the origin of those animals, what are you gunna do? elephants are much less equipped for colder climates, and its not like elephants are outright native to europe.
The question was worded wrong. Hannibal didn't "use" elephants to cross the Alps. He brought them along for the ensuing battle after crossing the Alps, but they were a liability during the trip. Would have been much easier without them.
If I was ever at this show, I wouldn't say final answer half a second after the question is asked. Even it's an easy question, you just have to take your time. Geez
I remember that fellow who got that "Little Jack Horner" question wrong when it was first broadcast on TV. I remember thinking to myself, "How could he get such a wrong answer to such an easy question?" Then he says he was trying to think where he heard something like "Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie." He apparently confused "Little Jack Horner" with "Sing a Song of Sixpence," the opening line of which goes like this: "Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye, Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie, When the pie was opened, The birds began to sing, Wasn't that a dainty dish to set before the King?" The next verse is often left out when it's read to children, probably because it's a bit darker than the first verse, since it contains a reference to an act of violence against a servant to the King by one of the blackbirds: "The King was in the counting house, counting out his money, The Queen was in the parlor, eating bread and honey, The maid was in the garden, hanging out their clothes, Along came a blackbird, who snipped off her nose."
@@michaelpalmieri7335 I used to always sing both verses when I was in nursery (england) and was always confused and slightly disturbed at the last line
The male presenter seemed to push for a final answer when he knew the answer was wrong, in complete contrast to the UK presenter Tarrant who spent ages asking 'are you SURE?' The American presenter seems far more brutal, almost enjoying the dumb ones failing. 😂
The first guy, Brian Fodera (the little Jack Horner guy) later re-appeared on a “second chance” episode for zero dollar winners and walked away with $16,000 the second time around….so it wasn’t a total loss for him, at least.
First Last You guys aren't creeping up on anyone, your PISA test results are horrible. And your argument of "paying attention in school" is extremely invalid, since it's only taught in America. Or did you misunderstand the original statement Hitomi made?
+kcirtap zap I did know it. I'm not the best at nursery rhymes but my mom told me that nursery rhyme almost every day as a kid. Not sure why but yeah.......
LawdyGawd Exactly, blackbird was also the only one that made sense to me (I remember a tale that ended with someone cutting a pie and unleashing blackbirds inside). I guess it depends on your culture.
When this show first dropped, it was huge. It was on prime time every night and everyone was watching. People were even guessing what shirt and tie combo that Regis would wear. OG’s remember.
@@encycl07pedia-I’ve always found it weird when they have the obvious fakes like “What color was Walter White’s car in Breaking Bad? A) White B) Yellow C) Green D) 7”
@@Name-ru1kt That is correct! As the question was actually "In Breaking Bad, what was the diameter of the pizza that Walter White threw on top of a roof?" *the audience, which includes Jesse Pinkman, all clapping* "Yea, bitch!"
Yeah gotta love whoever came up with that question and his naughty sense of humour - Well Paris Hilton don't activate my ink sac not gonna lie - I have higher standards, MUCH MUCH higher :P
Even though the Pokemon question is piss easy for most of us, he made the right move. Now blowing all 3 lifelines on 1 question and still getting it wrong, thats a fail
I don’t think the pokemon one was dumb at all… he didn’t know Pokémon… there’s nothing wrong with with and he knew enough to know he didn’t know and walked away.
@@nobrainsnoheadache2434 this was 1999, a few years before the first Lord of the Rings movie. Before the Hollywood movies existed, knowing Frodo was relatively much more obscure than it is now. Pokemon was also brand new in USA at this time, so the likelihood of an adult knowing the monsters was low compared to now.
BoobArt maybe not hard but not necessarily known by everyone. The one about Denny 's could mess someone up who's never been there. Also I did not know the animal that was used to cross the alps. I could see how someone wouldn't get the pokemon one if they have never seen lord of the rings, plus he was at 250k, if I hadn't grown up in the 90s I would've walked too.
Sry but the Alp question was obvious as long as you know where the Alps are and what these animals are. There was legit no other possible answer except elephant. Well maybe you could have guessed Rhinoceri if u were an idiot.
I'm gonna give that guy who walked away from the Pokémon question credit. Yes, I absolutely knew the answer. While he didn't know, he admitted it and pushed his pride aside. We're also looking at it in hindsight. That episode was probably filmed more than 20 years ago
@@katedavies9578 and it was popularised even more so in 2001. Nowadays, even those who haven't seen lotr would be familiar with Frodo. Back then, I reckon people who hadn't read lotr wouldn't know Frodo.
@@zeus-kyurem6581 Lord of the Rings was one of the most popular books of the 20th century, the contestant just didn't know. For a long while if you wanted to read a fantasy novel there was only Lord of the Rings. It was absolutely well known and not obscure before the Peter Jackson films.
@@dstreetz91 there’s no logic there though because if he knew nothing about Pokemon then why would be risk all that money when there could also be a Pokémon named Frodo. Also Jigglypuff sounds ridiculous to an adult who has no knowledge of what was then considered to be a children’s game.
@@katedavies9578 Even if he knew about LOTR, that doesn't mean anything. As far as he knew, there could still be a pokemon named Frodo as well, it's not like the name is reserved for this one LOTR character. The fact is he knew nothing about Pokemon, so his only options were to go for a 50/50 shot or to walk away. IMO he chose the right option.
@@dollparts4918 while we spent those years watching pop culture, now he is prolly sha gging that "pop culture" every night in his massive mansion out in the suburbs as he helicopters to work the next morning..........
Regis was so rude to the guy when he said "it's too late, it's over". The guy was taking it quite well until that, but that line wiped the smile right off the contestant's face and you can see he was very quick to leave the stage, giving Regis a very cold handshake.
I know right used 3 lifelines on a £300 question and still got it wrong - probably the worst failure there's ever been on any of the want to be a millionaire shows across the entire planet.
I don't understand why you think the guy who didn't know the Pokemon answer is stupid. He won $250k, and I bet very few on his age knew the answer. It's easy for us to judge when we GREW up with pokemon, but come on. He didn't grow up with them.
Kenneth Pettersen he's old enough to know Fucking frodo. Stop trying to twist this is his favor. He won big but seriously 500,000 and who's the childrens cartoon character, jigglypuff or frodo? Wow.
Kenneth and Nexuis - I agree, it was a lot to risk and if you don't know it for sure it's tough sitting there risking most of it. YiFan Tey and others - Wow, you would risk over $200k on your "logic"? "Jigglypuff" sounds more like a children's character, it MUST be a pokemon then, let's risk $218k on it. FYI, Frodo is also a children's character, LOTR is meant for children. Even if you knew Frodo was in LOTR, what if it was a trick question and Frodo was ALSO a pokemon (just because it's a character in LOTR doesn't mean it can't be a pokemon) and as the penultimate question I wouldn't be surprised that it could be a trick question. Is that too much logic for you? "Would of" - brilliant, I guess it's no surprise that you can only read children's books.
Honestly, the Pokemon question may be easy to a lot of us, but that dude made a smart decision in walking away instead of risking the loss of his money. I'd have done the same if it were a question that I knew nothing about.
But how is possible you don't know Pokemon or Frodo??? I mean, were did you live in the past 20 years! They're everywhere c'mon! It's like I don't know who George Clooney is 🤷
@@danielepadova2507 This show was broadcasted in early 2000s when a lot of us were kids when pokemon was arounds. Adults back then do not know a thing about pokemon since that was not part of our childhood (their kids may watch it). Here in 2021, all the kids from the early 2000s know the pokemon question as they're adults now
@@PersianBrosPRP999 Not to mention that the Internet wasn't as widely available or vast as it is today, and it would have taken a lot more effort to learn about ANY subject.
His buddy didn't know either. Neither did I. I did well in English and reading classes all the way through college. Somehow, I either killed those brain cells in the 90's, or the terms "active voice " and "passive voice" were never brought up in school. I'm sure this show was the first time I'd seen them.
Mayorb Tbh I dont blame any of you who dont know... active and passive voice isnt emphasised as much in English as it is in other languages. Basically, its the difference between "I kicked the ball" (active) and "The ball was kicked by me" (passive). In English the passive is simply constructed by adding a part of the verb to be (e.g. am/is/was/will be etc), as opposed to other languages that form it in ways that make it entirely distinguishable from the active voice, and so it is those languages that use the two terms.
Yeah he was a straight asshole..like they didn’t know it was too late..already embarrassed himself and he had to make it even worse? I didn’t remember him being like that at all from when I used to watch as a kid
Despite being an English teacher, the last guy was infuriating on SOO many levels! -he correctly defined the terms, but proceeded to choose the illogical one -he went against the audience and the online poll like an idiot -he didn’t call his mother in law but instead called his useless wife -he had the audacity to roll his eyes as he said verbs as if he were sure it couldn’t be the answer -he wasted ALL 3 lifelines on a $300 question!! -his chin 😩
People who go onto this show and just say "Final Answer" immediately deserve everything they get. They give you time to think. I've never actually seen them rush someone for an answer.
@@ihonestlydontevenknow4359 That also was an experiment because the show was taking FOORRRRRREVVVVVVEEEEEERRRRRR! for one contestant. Got more contestants on the show. But ever since Regis left, WWTBAM went downhill and they even changed it again to a great format. NOT old-school but random dollar amounts (until the 250,000 level I think) so the contestants have no idea how much the question is worth until they answer. That really weeded out the stupid contestants quick! 😀
This concept has actually been a lecture in my UX design course for computer applications. The idea is that if you pop up a "Do you want to perform this action?" dialog every time, then the user will get so used to it, that they will learn to include the confirmation in the process without evaluating the question. For example, I know that every time I delete a file in Windows, I will also have to press enter to confirm this. The end result is that I always press enter right after delete, without any time to think about it. The example of the 2nd clip is the same. She "pressed her enter button" automatically before thinking about what she did.
how come Hannibal does not get credit for discovering the americas? oh wait, he ordered the llamas off a mail order catalog?.............. aha, ok..........
I mean, I was an adult when pokemon came out on gameboy and I knew about them just by being somewhat socially aware. If this was taped after pokemon go came out he really have no excuse, heh he.
RJ Bottlecap based off the way the tv was it obviously was not recorded after Pokémon go. plus some people that are really successful and really have been trained by parents to be not socially aware about things won't know much about Pokémon, and it was a smart decision to keep his $250k.
I agree. Sorry to sound smart, but seriously, it's a Gland Slam. Every new, causal or diehard Denny's fan knows that. Heck, I've _never_ eaten at Denny's and even I know that.
Oh right, I remember that nursery rhyme: Little Jack Horner sat in a corner, Eating his curds and whey, He called for his pipe and he called for his bowl, And for four-and-twenty blackbirds baked in a pie.
"Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye. Four and twenty blackbirds, Baked in a pie. When the pie was opened The birds began to sing Wasn't that a dainty dish, To set before the king. The king was in his counting house, Counting out his money; The queen was in the parlour, Eating bread and honey. The maid was in the garden, Hanging out the clothes, When down came a blackbird And pecked off her nose. And shortly after that, there came a little wren, As she sat upon a chair, and put it on again."
many of the questions are culturally specific to the USA, like the ones about Dennys, Sesame Street and states beginning with New. The double dip question was weird, Meredith probably should have clearly reminded the contestant that he couldn't walk away
@@theimortal1974 Nah, he said "I'm gonna call my wife Carey" at the end. Didn't understand what they said before, but maybe he said "she would ridicule me", or at least I heard something like that, so I guess that's why he didn't call his mother in law.
Brian Fodera on Millionaire was actually the first player to have the depressing graphic message "Total Prize Money: $0", which the message didn't exist for Robby Roseman.
How come sometimes the $500k question is something like "which obscure 16th century French shoemaker invented the alternative corkscrew that was used for only 2 years?" And other times it's "which of these is not a widely popular and well-known thing that even someone with minimal knowledge will likely know?"
@@blue_red_screen My bad, bro. Didn't mean to come off like that. It's just that it was *ridiculously* popular back then, probably even more so than during the Pokemon Go era.
@@wrongteous I mean, it was still big, but this was prior to the Internet being as mainstream, and anyone who didn't watch the anime or didn't play video games wouldn't know much.
He was not the first. Ways back, Jeremy Conklin and Sal Mecca used them all and still ended up with Bupkis and being two of the four people whose failures were clipped at the start of $0 winners edition, the other two being Karla Robinson and Chris Goldschmidt.
As someone who knows nothing about Pokemon and is a huge LOTR fan, I'd probably say to myself that this is too obvious for 500k and so maybe it's a trick question.
@@jamesxenophon9505 nah it's just that when this took place the lotr movies hadn't released yet, only the books and it had only been 1 year since Pokémon anime began, he can't be blamed for not knowing the answer.
Don't know why people think the Pokémon guy is stupid. I don't know Pokémon details or characters at all and as a guy in my 40s have no reason to. When I saw Frodo, I thought LOTR, but it's not unusual for new media to copy names from older media. If you weren't 100% sure, would you really gamble $218000 on it? I wouldn't.
i think its solvable if you know absolutely nothing about pokemon, all you need to know is its origin and how copyright works, and a little about lord of the rings. Pokemon comes from japan, but do the names sound japanese? no. that means they must have been renamed for american audience. if you know Frodo is from lord of the rings, that makes it highly unlikely its also a pokemon name.
These retarded guys didn't know the logic, it seems. That person is smart enough to reach that state (9th question), as we can see. That means he's probably a "knowledge bookworm". A kind of guy that likes to read books, that filled with knowledge about science and other stuff. It TOTALLY makes sense that he know less about fantasy books and game. Since he's less likely to be interested in them. The game maker even knows that fact and that's why he got a frickin Pokemon question as his 9th question. The kind of question that usually appears as the first question. Ask a total game nerds about who's Michael Jordan is, and I'm pretty sure he gets it wrong. Its not about how easy the question are, its about who's the person that going are to answer. He's giving up and gets the 250k, you know. He's smart enough to not take a risk and losing hundreds of dollars when fail. He knows what's good...
John Harts the 50/50 didn’t look computer generated. They purposely pick the 2 answers that sound like the right answer. Maybe it’s just me but it felt like that. For somebody that doesn’t watch Pokémon Jigglypuff may sound fake. And then the one choosing from llamas and Elephants. If Pikachu was still there he might have gotten it right too on the because of how popular it is.
Wow, the last guy I just do not understand, used up all three of his lifelines (including the most USELESS phone a friend), yet all evidence pointed to the right answer, and perhaps out of pure stubbornness or pigheadedness he decided "nah they're probably wrong", dude deserved to go home with nothing if he couldn't work that out!
Honestly I feel like the 50/50 lifeline taking away everything but adverbs and the right answer didn’t help I would’ve liked to see his reaction if adverbs went away
Dingle Barry - Well, considering that the question was about Ernie, not Bert... As for Cordon Bleu, it even has a dish named after it, Chicken Cordon Bleu. (Basically a chicken breast stuffed with ham and cheese, though there's a little more to it than just those.)
@@MarkyBoyTV It wasn't rude, because once you answer wrong, game over, it's game over, that's it, you're through, you're outta here, as Regis puts it in the WWTBAM 3rd Edition Playstation rules.
To be honest I said Ribbon, he chose Blackbird and thought to myself "what a dumbass lol". We were both wrong LMFAO! I honestly had some Mandela Effect. Could of sworn it was ribbon.
@@chrisfinch8637 He was just making a comment before he left the stage, that doesn't beckon being rude. He was taking his loss quite well, but look at that cold handshake, he was obviously offput by that rude comment.
Damn these bots. I mean, those things are obviously bots because something with a legit brain would know that pokemon is just shit that has no talent or effort going into it.
If ya cannot even get to the 1000 question without using a lifeline you just do not deserve to be on the show. Simple. Sometimes that 500 question is tricky. But what is the point if ya just dont know?? I guessed moulin rouge as well but I thought about it and went WAIT that is a musical and cordon blue is a chicken dish has to be cordon blu...........
But as a 74-year-old shouldn't you be familiar with The Lord of the Rings, or at least The Hobbit? I feel like they made it fair by having the right answer be something that's actually quite old.
@@anonimous2451 "What is the point if you just don't know?" Huh? A person doesn't know what the questions will be before they start. So they have no way of knowing if they'll know the answers. They have no possible way of anticipating every piece of trivia they might be asked for. Sometimes you get something that is genuinely really easy, sometimes you get something most people don't know. It has nothing to do with who "deserves" to be there.
If you’ve ever messed up an exam because of stress, this is actually quite the moral boost cuz no matter what, there’ll always be people who mess up even harder than you did
I don't think I'd get very far on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, but I definitely know I wouldn't blurt out the phrase "final answer" without thinking it over at _least_ five times aloud.
The one with the pokemon question is neither failures nor stupidity, he simply does not know about the damn game... He still get home with 250.000 $...
Angel Pecica I mean if you know who frodo is (which he definitely should know) then you can get the right answer even if you don't know a thing about Pokémon
Whenever the contestant uses the 50-50 option, I have noticed that more times than not the computer will leave the correct answer and the other incorrect answer that the contestant had verbally been leaning towards to begin with. That’s why it’s best not to think out loud when a contestant on this game because they will listen to what you are saying and rip you off if you choose the 50-50 option.
@@fredm.2699 A lot of people think llamas are just a form of camals. Which hanibal could have used. Id=f you think llamas = camal its easy to think that,
I mean, it's a very easy question, as Jigglypuff is also one of Pokemon's more famous creations and trademarks, but guess he never watched any. Oh well, better safe than sorry.
@@euphoriaggaminghd The games had been out for a few years at that point and the LOTR books were a thing... but admittedly it was a harder question then. If someone missed it now...
I have to say, sitting in the hot seat at Disney Studios even without being on National TV and without real money on the line, the lighting and the music and the studio audience all really increase stress levels and makes it extremely hard to concentrate and easy to make dumb mistakes.
I wouldn't call the Pokemon guy a failure or stupidity. He was smart enough to walk away and didn't make any ridiculous impulsive moves. I'm familiar with Pokemon because I grew up with it, but a middle-aged man like this who's kid is too young to know it - he did the right thing.
@@anonymousperson3023 You are thinking it the wrong way. The thing with audiance perk in early questions (aka "easy" questions for the *average* person) is that they'll always, and I mean ALWAYS be on point with answering right on - I repeat myself - *average* questions. So sure, if somehow 75 % of the ppl answering were wrong about that question, I'd of just not said anything but that is not the point here, mate. If that question was for 300 K, doubting the *average* persons in the audiance maybe would of been the move, but here, don't forget that it is supposed to be a "easy" question. Not saying that it is an easy question for everyone per se, but an easy question for most of ppl.
The guy who quit at 250,000. That's not a fail. Smart move. Why risk it if you're not confident and have so much to lose?
Frank Saney true
He apparently doesn't watch really popular movies either. Frodo was really a no brainer.
the kid probably wouldve never made it that far to answer such a question.
@@overthehilldill3626 maybe Frodo self identifies as a pokemon.
If it was me, jigglypuff would throw me off even though Frodo is actually pretty obvious lol
I just hate it when my owl squirts ink on me
Ethan Naper lol
XD
Ethan Naper especially while shitting
Ethan Naper take your owl to the vet 😂
Better than when paris hilton gets attacked by the paparazzi she squirts that ink everywhere
If Regis asks "Final answer?" On the first question, you definitely got it wrong.
I think they HAVE to ask final answer on all questions to lock it in tho lol
@@ShayCatIt didn't used to be that way. Originally, the first few questions were gimmes, so Regis wouldn't bother, he would just take the answer the person said since it was right. However, that guy that got the pie question wrong was the first time I saw him ask if it was his final answer, and that should have been the guy's clue to rethink it. But they probably changed policy to always ask for all questions after they started getting harder.
He definitely gave the guy a clue that his answer was wrong! 😂
@@jleethompson2266I think they just edited that part out on the early questions. He still asked final answer it was just cut to move the episode quicker.
My advice I give myself when I am about to watch this show is "walk away".
Some of the $100 questions were tougher than the $500,000 question...
Yeah it's actually crazy, like the Pokémon one was insanely easy
Any question is easy if you know the answer.
@@mick3765 What they're saying is, some of them were more common knowledge compared to the supposedly higher value questions. They aren't wrong, I remember someone winning for which religion was non-Abrahamic or something.
The episode could have been before the lotr movies came out
@@LocksVidIt really wasn't. Yes, it's easy for you and for me but just because it's part of yours and my general knowledge doesn't mean it's part of everyones and its an easy question in general. That clip with the pokemon question is not new, it was roughly 20 years ago, two decades old. Meaning, there's a good chance the man grew up before Pokemon exploded. It's an easy question for current adults like myself because I grew up watching it. If you've never seen Pokemon or LOTR, each answer sounds like random nonsense.
*contestant gets answer wrong*
Meredith: “awe, I’m so sorry”
Regis: “welp, you tried”
"burn your shirt"
Well that’s the best way to go about it when you’re on the receiving end. Would you rather tell yourself “awww you should feel so sorry for yourself” or “well, I tried. Life goes on”
@@ericksonobasuyi8096 *shorts
*aww
Ed Regis was a savage.
Not gonna lie. I didn’t know the answer to the first question about the nursery rhyme. I've never even heard of it, actually
Same, never heard of it
unDURYEAted I actually knew it because of Adventure Time. Lmao 😂
Plum.
i would've chosen plum because of the alliteration
I've never heard of it either but I figured it must have been plum because that could go into a pie...
That last guy not only used all his lifelines on a $300 question, he basically told the audience they’re dumbasses...and still got it wrong 😭😂
Serves him right...lol
Karma lol
I hate people like this they go on the show thinking they are smart and totally ignore the audience feedback and get totally embarrassed.
and he called another moron...amazing
@@ryans413 I guess I’m with you but the guy recording was an ass, it may be a 300$ question but if you want to get more money you shouldn’t take unnecessary risks. I would’ve trusted the audience and then blamed them if they were wrong.
Pro tip: NEVER say what answer you think it is THEN use your 50/50 . Theyre obviously gonna pick the right answer and what you think it is.
That's when you say "I'm thinking A" particularly when you know A is wrong, but trying to decide if it's really B or C. They'll keep A and either B or C.
The 50/50 removals were probably pre-determined.
@@vladimirhorowitz what i thought
@@vladimirhorowitz as in pre-determined, do you mean they already agreed if the contestant ponders a wrong answer to leave it up there?
@@vladimirhorowitz"probably" doesn't sound convincing
Unless you win $1 million, you can only go downhill coming on the show with a Harvard sweater on.
She got Slam Dunked
I know, I literally had to chuckle because she got exactly what her pretentiousness deserved.
she was a bitch
Hardwood Hoop What’s funny is that an ordinary high school student like me knew the answer working there. Ivy Leaguers are just too pretentious and would learn a thing or two from working a bit.
I really don't understand this comment. How are ivy leaguers in anyway pretentious? Because they go into an ivy league school? Getting into an ivy league school is the definition of working MORE than just a bit. I'm not attacking you, I'm just curious as to what you mean. I really don't understand your logic.
My owl laughed so hard at this that he activated his ink sack.
I'm so confused why she said that lol
My budgie started talking after five years after watching that programme
Oh my god you killed me! 😂😂😂❤️
LOL
And Paris Hilton soon joined it
The last guy has to be the dumbest person ever:
1. He used all 3 lifelines on the same question
2. 75% of the audience knew the answer
3. Still got it wrong
I’m done
It’s the aol crowd that did him in.
Adverbs or verbs. Adverbs or verbs? Adverbs or verbs. Adverbs or verbs. Adverbs final answer. Verbs.
The question was confusing. He understood the concept of active v passive voice. I would have said active v passive voice is a matter of syntax. That the active voice is subject verb object, and the passive voice is object verb subject.
4. Thus, the question was one of the easiest ones. The audience gave him the right answer, three quarters can't be wrong on that childish question, but not for him)))
@@brontewcat Well, that question gave me a syntax error.
For anyone wondering, the first guy was thinking of this English nursery rhyme:
"Sing a song of sixpence,
A pocket full of rye.
Four and twenty blackbirds
Baked in a pie.
When the pie was opened,
The birds began to sing.
Wasn't that a dainty dish
To set before the king?"
I'll be honest I've no idea what that nursery rhyme on the first question was, I'm hoping it was a US rhyme and just never heard of it (I'm from Ireland)
@@mryan4452 I'm from the US and I've never heard it. It definitely originated in England, because it mentions pence. I only know about it because it's an example of the way English speakers used to say numbers ("four and twenty" instead of the modern "twenty four").
@@rzeka I actually meant the rhyme in the who wants to be a millionaire question. I googled it there, it is actually English rhyme so I've no excuse. Never heard of it, or the rhyme in your comment. First question in the show is supposed to be a ridiculously easy question, that isn't to me!
@@mryan4452 Oh you meant the little john horner thing. I've never heard of that either.
@@rzeka It's "Jack" by the way. I blame my fellow Gen-Xers for not teaching their kids those rhymes we all learned.
How is it a fail to walk away with a quarter million dollars? If he didn't know the answer, then I'd say that was smart not to guess. Being unfamiliar with fictitious characters does not make one stupid.
Dhruv Erry And a one in two chance of losing $218,000.
"Pokémon and LoTR, are extremely well known" Not in 1999 when that took place though...
Stupid, no. Ill prepared and out of touch, very.
@Pinkaugust the Lord of the Rings movies hadn't come out when this show was recorded. LOTR characters where much more obscure before the movies.
Dhruv Erry doesn’t mean anything, it has nothing to do with intelligence, it’s just a game of chance, not his fault.
As a Pokemon enthusiast, I think it's a bit unfair to classify that as a 'failure'. First and foremost, Pokemon aside, the guy had made it to 250k, so definitely not a failure. But anyway, back in 1999 I wouldn't consider it to be such an "easy" question, especially to adults. Hell the guy even said he just learned recently what a 'Pokemon' is.
Finally, walking away from a question you don't know when you're at 250k, is anything but 'stupid'.
Dont think only from the pokemon angle. He should definitely have known who Frodo is.
Not necessarily. This was in 1999 which was before the first LotR was adapted into a movie. Before it was a commercialized franchise with any sort of merchandise. It was just a series of old classic fantasy novels that you'd have to be a fantasy literature enthusiast to be into. Or have read The Hobbit, which seemed more popular and heard of at the time.
I had no idea who Frodo was at that time or *any* of the characters from that. I may have briefly heard of LotR in passing and that Tolkien fellow.
Plus, after LotR FotR did come out (the movie), there existed a lot of "huge fans" who never touched the books.
Finally, a number of Pokemon, *especially in Gen 1*, had names that were already real words or something else. Hypno? Electrode? Gloom?
Agreed. Haha.
I still don't know a fking thing about Pokémon. I do know, however, that UA-cam auto corrects the e and puts an accent on it so it must be something special.
Zak6009 he also didn't know Lord of the rings...so I'd call that a fail
You will never convince me that the 50/50 lifeline isn't rigged. It ALWAYS removes the two that the contestant already knows are wrong.
Best not to mention poss answers out loud.
@@stevemccann4166 IKR, if you mention which one(s) you suspect are right, those are sure to be the ones not eliminated.
Which is why smart players just say "I'd like to use the 50/50" without saying what answers they think it might be
Well, at least he is 100% sure that 2 answers are wrong (and he is on a good track...) 😂
Norm Macdonald said this exact same thing, and it happened to him. The two choices he was stuck on were the ones left after using the 50/50.
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3:22 Much respect to the one audience member who answered pet rock.
It was Alan 😂😂
i loved that answer lol my pet rock
He was accurate!
U meant Plastic piggy I guess
He's got nerves of steel!
The pokemon question was a 500,000 dollar question? Wow
David Restrepo i guess games are meant for children at the time. Now the children have grown up
It may seem like an easy question now but back in November 1999 when this was filmed it wasn't. In the US the Pokemon anime started airing in early September 1998 while the first games were released in late September 1998, and he said his son was too young to be involved with Pokemon. He can be forgiven for not knowing Frodo as the first movie that brought LOTR to the forefront of popular culture wasn't released until 2001 and not everyone cares to read the books for whatever reason (eg: they aren't really into reading books or prefers different genres/styles). So given the limited exposure of Pokemon and LOTR in popular culture at the time it's quite understandable why he didn't know the answer, and while he could have potentially guessed the answer based upon the style of names it obviously wasn't something he was confident in doing with $218,000 at stake and can't fault him for that and certainly wasn't a failure.
Well, it would've helped if he knew LOTR at least. That wasn't so old to complain..
Joseph Smith And how would it be easy if you knew nothing about Pokemon? That's very easy considering the games and anime were released just a little over a year beforehand and his son was too young to be involved with it, hell even if his son was into Pokemon he could still very easily avoid it himself (despite me and some siblings growing up with Pokemon stuff my father would be lucky to know even 2 of them). So with a complete lack of Pokemon knowledge how would he know Frodo wasn't one of its characters (which by this wording would include NPCs)? Him being a LOTR character doesn't even really matter since this question is solely about Pokemon which for all he knew (assuming he even knew LOTR) may have used the name as well. And with the shows penchant on trick answers (which Frodo could have been being a character in another franchise) you would have be to utterly stupid to risk $218,000 on a mere guess.
You grew up with pokemon you fucking idiot.
That pokemon question looked so scary to me...
until the options popped up.
Mind you, nothing stupid about walking away if you don't know!
(Facepalm)
Yeah better walk away than answering something fast without knowing (the title did say failures AND stupidity, so I guess he's just in the first category).
It is hard to refer to winning $250k as failure. And it is hard to call an adult stupid for not knowing Pokemon characters. But it was entertaining to watch, I will give it that.
If they had given gen 3 onwards pokemon then it would have been extremely difficult but come on, man they're all gen 1!
I only watched one or two episodes of Pokémon when I was young and I got the answer right, they owe me $500,000 LOL XD
5:43 demonstrates just how incredible Hannibal's feat was. Even now, people have trouble believing that he took elephants over the Alps.
I would’ve guessed llamas too.
+1
Ok dude but the llamas habitat is in Sudamerica, and the alps are in Italy in europa...
@@adlet5416 ok man but its the first question and these are americans who are competing in a game show. I was lost between those answers, they are both beasts of burden, and if you don't know the origin of those animals, what are you gunna do? elephants are much less equipped for colder climates, and its not like elephants are outright native to europe.
@@helchin93 Agreed!
Hannibal riding llamas is hilarous😂
Llamas didn't even exist in the Old World before Columbus!
🎶Obama! Obama! Gimme a llama!🎼
The question was worded wrong. Hannibal didn't "use" elephants to cross the Alps. He brought them along for the ensuing battle after crossing the Alps, but they were a liability during the trip. Would have been much easier without them.
That would have made it easier maybe for him@@1drink2drink-ty4fj
Who's Hannibal
Frodo is my favorite pokemon.
Of course he is
Ezwyn Mine is Gandalf XD
No your all wrong. Golem is the best. MYYYYYYYYYY PREEEEEEEECCCCIIIIOOOOOUUUSSS
+shadowlinkbds A wild Gandalf appeared!
*Run
You couldn't pass!
Max Milton genwunner
If I was ever at this show, I wouldn't say final answer half a second after the question is asked. Even it's an easy question, you just have to take your time. Geez
Particularly on a show that isn't timed. (Regis)
John4titude check again
John4titude The harvard chick did that you idiot
Connor Bright easier said than done. There is so much pressure on them so sometimes they don’t think about stuff like that.
Hehdhchrydhd Duunhdjrjdjdj They’re timed but they have 30 seconds. Just process the question for like 10-20 seconds then say it
“Brian it’s too late it’s over”
*the audience laughs* 💀
F’ing brutal 😂
Ooh, the audience rubs it in.
I remember that fellow who got that "Little Jack Horner" question wrong when it was first broadcast on TV. I remember thinking to myself, "How could he get such a wrong answer to such an easy question?" Then he says he was trying to think where he heard something like "Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie." He apparently confused "Little Jack Horner" with "Sing a Song of Sixpence," the opening line of which goes like this:
"Sing a song of sixpence,
A pocket full of rye,
Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie,
When the pie was opened,
The birds began to sing,
Wasn't that a dainty dish to set before the King?"
The next verse is often left out when it's read to children, probably because it's a bit darker than the first verse, since it contains a reference to an act of violence against a servant to the King by one of the blackbirds:
"The King was in the counting house, counting out his money,
The Queen was in the parlor, eating bread and honey,
The maid was in the garden, hanging out their clothes,
Along came a blackbird, who snipped off her nose."
@@michaelpalmieri7335 I used to always sing both verses when I was in nursery (england) and was always confused and slightly disturbed at the last line
The male presenter seemed to push for a final answer when he knew the answer was wrong, in complete contrast to the UK presenter Tarrant who spent ages asking 'are you SURE?'
The American presenter seems far more brutal, almost enjoying the dumb ones failing. 😂
Yeah, I don't know why he didn't just let him speak. He just wanted to say his final words lol
The first guy, Brian Fodera (the little Jack Horner guy) later re-appeared on a “second chance” episode for zero dollar winners and walked away with $16,000 the second time around….so it wasn’t a total loss for him, at least.
Glad for him; that was a harder first question which threw in the tricky choice “blackbird” which was in another popular nursery rhyme.
@@dakotalovett2450 that's the thing, people who know it can point and laugh but even using deduction blackbird can sound correct
That’s so cute and kind they gave a second chance to 0$ winners! 🥺
Half of these options were too American for me to guess.
Heh
I'm American and I knew every answer. You need to pay attention in school. We're creeping up on your country in academics!
First Last And im not American. We dont learn this stuff here where I live. Thanks for being a dick though
First Last You guys aren't creeping up on anyone, your PISA test results are horrible. And your argument of "paying attention in school" is extremely invalid, since it's only taught in America. Or did you misunderstand the original statement Hitomi made?
The only country you're "creeping up on" according to the OECD is Lithuania
to be honest. I dont fucking know what the 1st question is in the first minute. Not everyone knows every nursery rhyme...
+kcirtap zap I did know it. I'm not the best at nursery rhymes but my mom told me that nursery rhyme almost every day as a kid. Not sure why but yeah.......
I did.
A Blackbird is a type of bird. and you wouldn't find a ribbon in a pie. So the only answer that would make sense is a plum.
Nursery rhymes often don't make sense. There is a children's song about blackbirds baked into pies so it's easy an mistake to make.
LawdyGawd
Exactly, blackbird was also the only one that made sense to me (I remember a tale that ended with someone cutting a pie and unleashing blackbirds inside). I guess it depends on your culture.
Total prize money: $0
Kinda depressing when you see it lmao
And hilarious at the same time
You Get Nothing!
You Lose!
Good Day, Sir!
Depressing? I’m laughing literally so hard
What does Imao mean?
I get the reference
When this show first dropped, it was huge. It was on prime time every night and everyone was watching. People were even guessing what shirt and tie combo that Regis would wear. OG’s remember.
It wasn't every night.
It was Sundays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays.
But it was amazing.
Anybody play the free online Who Wants To Be A Millionaire game?
@@robertsims3759-- Yes!! I totally remember that! 😃
I'm 43 and nobody I know watched the show back then.
@@albtckl you were sheltered
The guy who got the surge protectors question wrong it must have come as a bit of a shock.
I almost died laughing 😐
yep and his stupidity IQ surged 🤣
Wasn’t a bright spark.
Peoples stupidity never ceases to amaze me
LOVE IT
What I always find hilarious is the confident smirk the people have on their face when they give the worst answer possible.
I mean a lot of these folks didn't pick the obvious wrong answer (like Little Jill Horner). "Worst" is a bit hyperbolic.
😂😂😂😂😂
@@encycl07pedia-I’ve always found it weird when they have the obvious fakes like
“What color was Walter White’s car in Breaking Bad?
A) White
B) Yellow
C) Green
D) 7”
@@FetidafI’m going to have to go with d final answer
@@Name-ru1kt That is correct! As the question was actually "In Breaking Bad, what was the diameter of the pizza that Walter White threw on top of a roof?"
*the audience, which includes Jesse Pinkman, all clapping* "Yea, bitch!"
Hilarious how Paris Hilton was one of the options for an animal that activates a ink sac when attacked.😂
At least in the early years, they'd always put a goofy answer in D for the first question.
Paris Hilton is the wildest predator of all time
Stink sac
Paris Hilton is technically true as well
Yeah gotta love whoever came up with that question and his naughty sense of humour - Well Paris Hilton don't activate my ink sac not gonna lie - I have higher standards, MUCH MUCH higher :P
That Harvard University sweater the second contestants was wearing...."Harvard University.....We don't know this woman from a bar of soap" 😂😂😂😂
Even though the Pokemon question is piss easy for most of us, he made the right move. Now blowing all 3 lifelines on 1 question and still getting it wrong, thats a fail
Especially when it's only the third question.
I don’t think the pokemon one was dumb at all… he didn’t know Pokémon… there’s nothing wrong with with and he knew enough to know he didn’t know and walked away.
@@Fetidafwell you also have to realize he didn’t know who Frodo was…
@@ebeck01 bingo - two fails in one
@@nobrainsnoheadache2434 this was 1999, a few years before the first Lord of the Rings movie. Before the Hollywood movies existed, knowing Frodo was relatively much more obscure than it is now. Pokemon was also brand new in USA at this time, so the likelihood of an adult knowing the monsters was low compared to now.
I didn't know the first one either, but I guessed plum.
XxkanerulesxX Same.
The alliteration is a dead giveaway
XxkanerulesxX same
I would have guessed plum based on the context of the rhyme.
XxkanerulesxX saaamee
I imagine that if the 50-50 left elephants and chihuahuas, the guy still wouldn't have selected the right answer.
terminat1 I thought it was llamas too
llamas was actually a good answer
Except llamas are in south america and not europe/north africa.
GastonBoucher very true lol but at least llamas are mountainous creatures.
I don't think that the Alps are located in North Africa.
Lmao at the 7% trolling with the Pet Rock answer
😂😂
Some of those are just honest mistakes and some of the questions aren't actually that easy.
+Daniyal Shahrokhian Yeah, I'm not American either but I'd say they'd be obvious if we were.
And some of them are just plain retarded
BoobArt maybe not hard but not necessarily known by everyone. The one about Denny 's could mess someone up who's never been there. Also I did not know the animal that was used to cross the alps. I could see how someone wouldn't get the pokemon one if they have never seen lord of the rings, plus he was at 250k, if I hadn't grown up in the 90s I would've walked too.
The question with the states beginning with 'New' I wouldn't consider easy, especially under pressure in the hot seat.
Sry but the Alp question was obvious as long as you know where the Alps are and what these animals are. There was legit no other possible answer except elephant. Well maybe you could have guessed Rhinoceri if u were an idiot.
Most of these are the "think before you speak" scenarios
Agreed, especially the questions about Denny’s and the ink sac
Ya but adverbs or verbs was clearly thinking to the best his brain would allow
Yessir. A lot of the early fails, they know they ducked up after they say final answer
I didn’t know owls had ink sacks....
and those are always with the girl xD
I'm gonna give that guy who walked away from the Pokémon question credit. Yes, I absolutely knew the answer. While he didn't know, he admitted it and pushed his pride aside. We're also looking at it in hindsight. That episode was probably filmed more than 20 years ago
Pretty sure Tolkien wrote The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings more than twenty years ago.
@@katedavies9578 and it was popularised even more so in 2001. Nowadays, even those who haven't seen lotr would be familiar with Frodo. Back then, I reckon people who hadn't read lotr wouldn't know Frodo.
@@zeus-kyurem6581 Lord of the Rings was one of the most popular books of the 20th century, the contestant just didn't know. For a long while if you wanted to read a fantasy novel there was only Lord of the Rings. It was absolutely well known and not obscure before the Peter Jackson films.
@@dstreetz91 there’s no logic there though because if he knew nothing about Pokemon then why would be risk all that money when there could also be a Pokémon named Frodo. Also Jigglypuff sounds ridiculous to an adult who has no knowledge of what was then considered to be a children’s game.
@@katedavies9578 Even if he knew about LOTR, that doesn't mean anything. As far as he knew, there could still be a pokemon named Frodo as well, it's not like the name is reserved for this one LOTR character. The fact is he knew nothing about Pokemon, so his only options were to go for a 50/50 shot or to walk away. IMO he chose the right option.
"Good luck in your medical career."😂
good luck with those student loans
I reckon he has probably had his head stuck in books and studying his whole life, he knows nothing about pop culture or the world.
@@dollparts4918 while we spent those years watching pop culture, now he is prolly sha gging that "pop culture" every night in his massive mansion out in the suburbs as he helicopters to work the next morning..........
LOL at "Total winnings $0"
It's all automated.
They should give them a cheque for 0$ too
Tmpqtyu Tmpqty That's just wasting paper.
The Pixel Polygon souvenir?
Total winnings- $-100,000,000 for wasting our time.
(victory music plays)
Regis was so rude to the guy when he said "it's too late, it's over". The guy was taking it quite well until that, but that line wiped the smile right off the contestant's face and you can see he was very quick to leave the stage, giving Regis a very cold handshake.
No the guy said 'it's too late, it's over.' Not Regis.
@@musty9479 no he didnt
How can you mistake who said it? Lol. It was obviously Regis
BRUH ARE U GUYS DEATH WTF.
I don't blame him, I had no respect for the guy either by the end.
I'm gonna walk away final answer😂😂😂
Rajiv Jagoo 😂😂😂😂😂
kthxbai :P
Brutal
thats what he said
Rajiv Jagoo that was fucked up
That last person must be the stubborn arrogant bastard at home and at work, he'll insist that he's right no matter what others tell him 😂
I know right used 3 lifelines on a £300 question and still got it wrong - probably the worst failure there's ever been on any of the want to be a millionaire shows across the entire planet.
100%
I don't understand why you think the guy who didn't know the Pokemon answer is stupid. He won $250k, and I bet very few on his age knew the answer. It's easy for us to judge when we GREW up with pokemon, but come on. He didn't grow up with them.
Even then, he doesnt know frodo?
Kenneth Pettersen he's old enough to know Fucking frodo. Stop trying to twist this is his favor. He won big but seriously 500,000 and who's the childrens cartoon character, jigglypuff or frodo? Wow.
I'm 90 and I know all about the Lord of rings
I've met young people who haven't heard of Little Jack Horner. That was an easy one. We all learned that nursery rhyme in kindergarten.
Kenneth and Nexuis - I agree, it was a lot to risk and if you don't know it for sure it's tough sitting there risking most of it.
YiFan Tey and others - Wow, you would risk over $200k on your "logic"? "Jigglypuff" sounds more like a children's character, it MUST be a pokemon then, let's risk $218k on it. FYI, Frodo is also a children's character, LOTR is meant for children. Even if you knew Frodo was in LOTR, what if it was a trick question and Frodo was ALSO a pokemon (just because it's a character in LOTR doesn't mean it can't be a pokemon) and as the penultimate question I wouldn't be surprised that it could be a trick question. Is that too much logic for you? "Would of" - brilliant, I guess it's no surprise that you can only read children's books.
Honestly, the Pokemon question may be easy to a lot of us, but that dude made a smart decision in walking away instead of risking the loss of his money. I'd have done the same if it were a question that I knew nothing about.
But how is possible you don't know Pokemon or Frodo??? I mean, were did you live in the past 20 years! They're everywhere c'mon! It's like I don't know who George Clooney is 🤷
@@danielepadova2507 This show was broadcasted in early 2000s when a lot of us were kids when pokemon was arounds. Adults back then do not know a thing about pokemon since that was not part of our childhood (their kids may watch it). Here in 2021, all the kids from the early 2000s know the pokemon question as they're adults now
@@PersianBrosPRP999 Not to mention that the Internet wasn't as widely available or vast as it is today, and it would have taken a lot more effort to learn about ANY subject.
@@danielepadova2507 Idk what Frodo is and idk who George Clooney is. Just because it’s obvious for you doesn’t mean that everyone knows it.
I was gonna say. It's certainly not a fail to walk away with 250G's when you don't know the answer.
Imagine an ink shooting owl though 😂
china would've made them extinct
Sounds like a new Pokémon.
But what about Paris Hilton.. why she was in options
LOL
Like bruh it’s obvisouly a squid that women didn’t even think about it and rushed to the question like even my 5 year old brother can answer that shit
"oh well at least you have 200 dollars"
Another stupid moment ....the graphic guy confirms he had ZERO DOLLARS lol
Wow. That last one was just painful to watch.
Damn right it was!
His gut's a fuckin' moron!
His buddy didn't know either. Neither did I.
I did well in English and reading classes all the way through college. Somehow, I either killed those brain cells in the 90's, or the terms "active voice " and "passive voice" were never brought up in school. I'm sure this show was the first time I'd seen them.
Mayorb
Tbh I dont blame any of you who dont know... active and passive voice isnt emphasised as much in English as it is in other languages. Basically, its the difference between "I kicked the ball" (active) and "The ball was kicked by me" (passive). In English the passive is simply constructed by adding a part of the verb to be (e.g. am/is/was/will be etc), as opposed to other languages that form it in ways that make it entirely distinguishable from the active voice, and so it is those languages that use the two terms.
yes, literally painful for my eyes. the quality of that clip is terrible.
That last situation was brutal.
75% of audience was right....
I'd rather not think about it.
Now imagine him marking 79% of test answers wrong and holding back people smarter than him
@@Antractica Was that you??
Llama and elephant
"smarter than he."@@nobrainsnoheadache2434
"Bryan It's too late, it's over"
That was the most brutal line on TV history. Holy shit, Regis had no chill! Would have been less brutal if he'd said "go home you fucking LOSER".
It was so rude when he said that
Yeah he was a straight asshole..like they didn’t know it was too late..already embarrassed himself and he had to make it even worse? I didn’t remember him being like that at all from when I used to watch as a kid
Regis ain't playin'. I loved that moment, regardless! I miss him as host of this show.
That was so rude jeez
"Something about 420 blackbirds baked into a pie-"
" *You've lost your right to speak here. Begone from my sight. Never return to this place* "
This made me actually laugh 👏👏👏👏
You know if Hannibal used Llamas he probably would have defeated Rome
Yup, would have sent them alpac-ing.
Lol
Lol hahhhjah
I had no idea about Hannibal... Elephants really?
@@IMTooShort2C They've never forgot
At 3:30 that 7% that voted pet rock did it for the lols
Death Byte no shit.....
I genuinely thought it was pet rock. I didn't know.
3:26 actually
I genuinely didn't know the answer so I'd have voted for the most ridiculous one so he won't be misguided.
😂😂😂😂
When he said "I hope I didn't bias the audience by saying 'rubber ducky'," I hoped to god that he'd pick a different answer.
"4 and 20 blackbirds baked in a pie." It's not stupidity, it's another dainty dish to set before the king.
Despite being an English teacher, the last guy was infuriating on SOO many levels!
-he correctly defined the terms, but proceeded to choose the illogical one
-he went against the audience and the online poll like an idiot
-he didn’t call his mother in law but instead called his useless wife
-he had the audacity to roll his eyes as he said verbs as if he were sure it couldn’t be the answer
-he wasted ALL 3 lifelines on a $300 question!!
-his chin 😩
Lol not the chin 🤣
@@think_fool Jay Leno would be proud
As an English teacher the question was very poorly phrased - and whoever wrote it should learn how to ask a question properly.
@@JacquesduPlessis11 What exactly was wrong with it, looks fine to me but I'm no specialist
The fuck does his chin have to do with anything? Some women are evil, honestly.
I'd be more worried about Paris Hilton spraying ink at me
Me too, especially if it was from her ...oh never mind.
@@BaddaBigBoom 😂
@@Emily-cw7tjHahaha ;-)
People who go onto this show and just say "Final Answer" immediately deserve everything they get. They give you time to think. I've never actually seen them rush someone for an answer.
i mean they did have a clocked version where you were kinda rushed but yeah
@@ihonestlydontevenknow4359 That also was an experiment because the show was taking FOORRRRRREVVVVVVEEEEEERRRRRR! for one contestant. Got more contestants on the show. But ever since Regis left, WWTBAM went downhill and they even changed it again to a great format. NOT old-school but random dollar amounts (until the 250,000 level I think) so the contestants have no idea how much the question is worth until they answer. That really weeded out the stupid contestants quick! 😀
Ikr, it’s as if it might be scripted… oh wait
people might actually know the answer without a doubt, then no need to hesitate
This concept has actually been a lecture in my UX design course for computer applications. The idea is that if you pop up a "Do you want to perform this action?" dialog every time, then the user will get so used to it, that they will learn to include the confirmation in the process without evaluating the question. For example, I know that every time I delete a file in Windows, I will also have to press enter to confirm this. The end result is that I always press enter right after delete, without any time to think about it.
The example of the 2nd clip is the same. She "pressed her enter button" automatically before thinking about what she did.
Who could forget Hannibal and his vast army of battle llamas!
Where is that from?
how come Hannibal does not get credit for discovering the americas?
oh wait, he ordered the llamas off a mail order catalog?.............. aha, ok..........
That Pokemon question hurt.
I can't believe that was the 500k question!! So easy.
I mean, I was an adult when pokemon came out on gameboy and I knew about them just by being somewhat socially aware. If this was taped after pokemon go came out he really have no excuse, heh he.
@Nexuis while it's easy for kids who hasnt read the hobbit series? Seriously not knowing who frodo is is just sad.
RJ Bottlecap based off the way the tv was it obviously was not recorded after Pokémon go. plus some people that are really successful and really have been trained by parents to be not socially aware about things won't know much about Pokémon, and it was a smart decision to keep his $250k.
This guy is smart. Certainly doesnt deserve to be called stupid.
The Denny's question is the perfect example of why you take your time and read thoroughly.
I agree. Sorry to sound smart, but seriously, it's a Gland Slam. Every new, causal or diehard Denny's fan knows that. Heck, I've _never_ eaten at Denny's and even I know that.
@@Sonicrunner2010I have no idea what the hell a Denny's is
@@Sonicrunner2010 Ew, who wants to eat a Gland Slam?
@@ThatPancakeCat Its basically a huge breakfeast
@@Sonicrunner2010I think she knew it was grand slam too, but saw the “slam” dunk and immediately thought that right away
"Good luck on your medical career." Low blow, Regis.
Thats why I loved him.
How is that a low blow? It's not like you can live off 1Million. He would still need to work.
@@Borshigi of course you could if you’re not dumb
@@HistoryandReviews Yeah true but judging by the title and video he probably is dumb.
@@Borshigi what happened to the rest that won million dollars question
Oh right, I remember that nursery rhyme:
Little Jack Horner sat in a corner,
Eating his curds and whey,
He called for his pipe and he called for his bowl,
And for four-and-twenty blackbirds baked in a pie.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
LOL I love this. So many young folks are gonna be confused now. Hooray!
Pulling a black bird out of a pie would make it a Stephen King book, not a nursery rhyme.😂
"Sing a song of sixpence,
A pocket full of rye.
Four and twenty blackbirds,
Baked in a pie.
When the pie was opened
The birds began to sing
Wasn't that a dainty dish,
To set before the king.
The king was in his counting house,
Counting out his money;
The queen was in the parlour,
Eating bread and honey.
The maid was in the garden,
Hanging out the clothes,
When down came a blackbird
And pecked off her nose.
And shortly after that,
there came a little wren,
As she sat upon a chair,
and put it on again."
Honestly I never heard of that nursery rhyme in my entire life. There's too many obscure questions in game shows.
Or Edgar Allen Poe
Lots of nursery rhymes started as borderline horror stories lol
@@WanderingBat you mean that pie wasn't baked in the same oven as hansel und gretel?
Americans: laugh at supposedly easy second question
Me, British : Who is Denny?
You're not missing much frankly
I didn't even know what Dennys was until I saw it up on Google. It may be an american show but doesn't mean everyone outside america knows it
Dennys is a breakfast and lunch place. It used to be good.
Never heard of the place. I'll stick with Macca's pancakes & coffee for breaky.
many of the questions are culturally specific to the USA, like the ones about Dennys, Sesame Street and states beginning with New. The double dip question was weird, Meredith probably should have clearly reminded the contestant that he couldn't walk away
"You know my mother in law is an english teacher, so I'm going to go ahead and call the mailman on this one".
is that what he said? i couldn't understand anything that was being said other than the tv viewer.
@@theimortal1974 Nah, he said "I'm gonna call my wife Carey" at the end. Didn't understand what they said before, but maybe he said "she would ridicule me", or at least I heard something like that, so I guess that's why he didn't call his mother in law.
To be fair, you have to set up who you're going to call. It was already decided before the question was shown
@@kaynex1039 oh that's right. it's been so long since i've seen this show i forgot how it works.
The way Americans say I"M SOOOO SORRY you can immediately tell they are NOT sorry at all LOL
Or when anyone from any other country says it, derp
...wow
Right? I hated how the showmaster was so cold with the slam dunk
Why don’t you just mention the way the host says it and not imply that all Americans say that…that’s ridiculous and stupid.
"Brian, I'm sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssorry"
Brian Fodera on Millionaire was actually the first player to have the depressing graphic message "Total Prize Money: $0", which the message didn't exist for Robby Roseman.
HAHAHAHAHAHA
How come sometimes the $500k question is something like "which obscure 16th century French shoemaker invented the alternative corkscrew that was used for only 2 years?"
And other times it's "which of these is not a widely popular and well-known thing that even someone with minimal knowledge will likely know?"
Was pokemon that well known in 1999?
@@blue_red_screenBruh what are you talking about, Pokemon was at its peak popularity from 1998-2000.
@@wrongteous I asked a question 🙄
@@blue_red_screen My bad, bro. Didn't mean to come off like that. It's just that it was *ridiculously* popular back then, probably even more so than during the Pokemon Go era.
@@wrongteous I mean, it was still big, but this was prior to the Internet being as mainstream, and anyone who didn't watch the anime or didn't play video games wouldn't know much.
Really doing her dirty with the "TOTAL WINNINGS: $0"
That Hannibal question should not have been a
Yeah I was definitely leaning llamas too
That last guy had me laughing hard, used all 3 lifelines just to fail anyway
MJ lost to the Pistons 3 times then won 6 championships, its life.
@@DMalltheway how the fuck is that even relevant
On a 300 dollar question, btw
@@utsavghai5008 it is not
He was not the first. Ways back, Jeremy Conklin and Sal Mecca used them all and still ended up with Bupkis and being two of the four people whose failures were clipped at the start of $0 winners edition, the other two being Karla Robinson and Chris Goldschmidt.
"I'm gonna walk away. Final answer."
Time's Up
“Oh, I’m afraid you cannot walk away using double dip.”
This comment is perfect lol
WHOS that pokemon!?
It’s frodo!
As someone who knows nothing about Pokemon and is a huge LOTR fan, I'd probably say to myself that this is too obvious for 500k and so maybe it's a trick question.
@@jamesxenophon9505 nah it's just that when this took place the lotr movies hadn't released yet, only the books and it had only been 1 year since Pokémon anime began, he can't be blamed for not knowing the answer.
What’s with those women shouting the wrong answer with such confidence and realizing it was wrong exactly 0.01 seconds later? 🤣
Don't know why people think the Pokémon guy is stupid. I don't know Pokémon details or characters at all and as a guy in my 40s have no reason to. When I saw Frodo, I thought LOTR, but it's not unusual for new media to copy names from older media. If you weren't 100% sure, would you really gamble $218000 on it? I wouldn't.
John Harts Pokémon is fucking general culture, you can say what is a pokémon and what not for the name. And anyway FUCKING FRODO
buddy you are 4 months late
i think its solvable if you know absolutely nothing about pokemon, all you need to know is its origin and how copyright works, and a little about lord of the rings. Pokemon comes from japan, but do the names sound japanese? no. that means they must have been renamed for american audience. if you know Frodo is from lord of the rings, that makes it highly unlikely its also a pokemon name.
These retarded guys didn't know the logic, it seems.
That person is smart enough to reach that state (9th question), as we can see. That means he's probably a "knowledge bookworm". A kind of guy that likes to read books, that filled with knowledge about science and other stuff.
It TOTALLY makes sense that he know less about fantasy books and game. Since he's less likely to be interested in them.
The game maker even knows that fact and that's why he got a frickin Pokemon question as his 9th question. The kind of question that usually appears as the first question.
Ask a total game nerds about who's Michael Jordan is, and I'm pretty sure he gets it wrong.
Its not about how easy the question are, its about who's the person that going are to answer.
He's giving up and gets the 250k, you know. He's smart enough to not take a risk and losing hundreds of dollars when fail. He knows what's good...
John Harts the 50/50 didn’t look computer generated. They purposely pick the 2 answers that sound like the right answer. Maybe it’s just me but it felt like that. For somebody that doesn’t watch Pokémon Jigglypuff may sound fake. And then the one choosing from llamas and Elephants. If Pikachu was still there he might have gotten it right too on the because of how popular it is.
Wow, the last guy I just do not understand, used up all three of his lifelines (including the most USELESS phone a friend), yet all evidence pointed to the right answer, and perhaps out of pure stubbornness or pigheadedness he decided "nah they're probably wrong", dude deserved to go home with nothing if he couldn't work that out!
"adverbs or verbs?" "adverbs or verbs." "adverbs or verbs?"
Not just that, the stupid fucker says which two he's indecisive about and THEN does 50/50. What does he think is going to happen?
Someone should do a compilation of useless Phone-a-Friend calls.
Kevin Smith would’ve lost 468k if he’d listened to his phone a friend
Honestly I feel like the 50/50 lifeline taking away everything but adverbs and the right answer didn’t help I would’ve liked to see his reaction if adverbs went away
Never heard of Little Jack Horner.
It's a well known Rhyme in Britain
Little Jack Horner sat in a corner eating his Christmas Pie. He stuck in his thumb and pulled out a plum and said "what a good boy am I"
We all learned that nursery rhyme in kindergarten. What are they teaching in school today that nobody has heard of Little Jack Horner?
Must be a regional thing because I've never heard of Little Jack Horner either
Dingle Barry - Well, considering that the question was about Ernie, not Bert...
As for Cordon Bleu, it even has a dish named after it, Chicken Cordon Bleu. (Basically a chicken breast stuffed with ham and cheese, though there's a little more to it than just those.)
The fact that people used to go on this show knowing literally nothing is still funny.
Don't they have to answer questions as part of their audition?
"Brian, I'm ssssssssssory..."
Oh no you're not.
Yeah! Truer words were never spoken! After that rude sentence ‘Too late, it’s over’
@@MarkyBoyTV It wasn't rude, because once you answer wrong, game over, it's game over, that's it, you're through, you're outta here, as Regis puts it in the WWTBAM 3rd Edition Playstation rules.
To be honest I said Ribbon, he chose Blackbird and thought to myself "what a dumbass lol". We were both wrong LMFAO! I honestly had some Mandela Effect. Could of sworn it was ribbon.
@@chrisfinch8637 He was just making a comment before he left the stage, that doesn't beckon being rude. He was taking his loss quite well, but look at that cold handshake, he was obviously offput by that rude comment.
i feel bad for those who don't know pokémon. my rayquaza has never been stronger.
He had no childhood
Damn these bots. I mean, those things are obviously bots because something with a legit brain would know that pokemon is just shit that has no talent or effort going into it.
Nice try bot.
+HëKtik
ye. Pokémon ripped off Digimon
As a 74 year old I sometimes find the lower value topical questions the hardest.
I thought Pokémon was what the Lord of the rings did in the bedroom.
Only because people don't want to waste lifelines. With the lifelines, the audience usually knows these types of questions.
If ya cannot even get to the 1000 question without using a lifeline you just do not deserve to be on the show. Simple. Sometimes that 500 question is tricky. But what is the point if ya just dont know?? I guessed moulin rouge as well but I thought about it and went WAIT that is a musical and cordon blue is a chicken dish has to be cordon blu...........
But as a 74-year-old shouldn't you be familiar with The Lord of the Rings, or at least The Hobbit? I feel like they made it fair by having the right answer be something that's actually quite old.
@@anonimous2451 "What is the point if you just don't know?"
Huh? A person doesn't know what the questions will be before they start. So they have no way of knowing if they'll know the answers. They have no possible way of anticipating every piece of trivia they might be asked for. Sometimes you get something that is genuinely really easy, sometimes you get something most people don't know. It has nothing to do with who "deserves" to be there.
If you’ve ever messed up an exam because of stress, this is actually quite the moral boost cuz no matter what, there’ll always be people who mess up even harder than you did
"Yeah and good luck with your medical career" - that was just a pure insult to his intellect
I dony see any insult there sorry but you won a 0dollar
It wasn't an insult. The guy just froze and you could tell he was extremely nervous.
@@enriquejravenido3658 Well, it could be seen as a mockery
@@davidnavarro4821 OOOwoo wow american offended over everyfing wowowo
@@secundusytp4517 😐
Even Regis was like "are you sure C is your final answer?" Lol c'mon dude take the hint
"OWL!!"
lol
Thanks, now I'm trying to imagine Frodo as a Pokemon... 🤣
I don't think I'd get very far on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, but I definitely know I wouldn't blurt out the phrase "final answer" without thinking it over at _least_ five times aloud.
I agree. Even if I knew the answer 💯%, I’d still reread the question and 4 choices before “final answering”. 😊
The one with the pokemon question is neither failures nor stupidity, he simply does not know about the damn game... He still get home with 250.000 $...
Angel Pecica I mean if you know who frodo is (which he definitely should know) then you can get the right answer even if you don't know a thing about Pokémon
Fair enough, but maybe he thinks, on this amount of money, that it is a trick question, maybe exist indeed a pokemon named Frodo...
superpanda9810 This was before the movies came out, and let's face it until the movies came up almost nobody read the books
I think any moron besides him off the street would know Frodo isn’t a Pokémon...so shut your Trump supporting ass up..
superpanda9810 w tf is a frodo
5:28 “I’m not going out on the first question” then proceeds to go out anyway 😂
That’s what he gets for being so cocky
Whenever the contestant uses the 50-50 option, I have noticed that more times than not the computer will leave the correct answer and the other incorrect answer that the contestant had verbally been leaning towards to begin with. That’s why it’s best not to think out loud when a contestant on this game because they will listen to what you are saying and rip you off if you choose the 50-50 option.
Makes me laugh how confident they are saying their answer then regret it immediately 😂
I feel bad tho
That happens in real life
No they regret after hearing the audience's reactions when they give wrong answer
Dude thought Hannibal fought wars with llamas???
@@fredm.2699 A lot of people think llamas are just a form of camals. Which hanibal could have used. Id=f you think llamas = camal its easy to think that,
The host was so annoyed when the guy walked away with 250 grand
Terrible host imho
@@royalloyalty8248 Regis is an amazing host. RIP legend
I mean, it's a very easy question, as Jigglypuff is also one of Pokemon's more famous creations and trademarks, but guess he never watched any. Oh well, better safe than sorry.
@@swordzanderson5352 not an easy question for an adult who doesn't give a fuck about a kids cartoon show that only recently started airing
@@euphoriaggaminghd The games had been out for a few years at that point and the LOTR books were a thing... but admittedly it was a harder question then. If someone missed it now...
I have to say, sitting in the hot seat at Disney Studios even without being on National TV and without real money on the line, the lighting and the music and the studio audience all really increase stress levels and makes it extremely hard to concentrate and easy to make dumb mistakes.
Is the 50/50 the most useless lifeline? It _always_ leaves you with the two answers you were already wavering between.
nope, it's only because these clips are selected with a bias like that
Ya, it was always like that. Norm Madonald even called them on this when he was on.
Well even if they don't rig it, they just have to choose the two they expect someone to get hung up on.
@@parzingtheasianHard disagree. It happened way too frequently on the show to have been random chance.
you need to say you think it is an obviously fake one and then they might just give you the answer
I wouldn't call the Pokemon guy a failure or stupidity. He was smart enough to walk away and didn't make any ridiculous impulsive moves. I'm familiar with Pokemon because I grew up with it, but a middle-aged man like this who's kid is too young to know it - he did the right thing.
No, he didn't know pokemon because that was manyyyyyy years ago where pokemon were very known so it's understandable that he didn't know
The last guy is unbelieveble... How can someone be THAT stubborn ?...
Wdym? He wasnt that stubborn. He went against an audience poll. So what? If he had gotten it correct, youd be saying the opposite of this.
@@anonymousperson3023 You are thinking it the wrong way.
The thing with audiance perk in early questions (aka "easy" questions for the *average* person) is that they'll always, and I mean ALWAYS be on point with answering right on - I repeat myself - *average* questions.
So sure, if somehow 75 % of the ppl answering were wrong about that question, I'd of just not said anything but that is not the point here, mate. If that question was for 300 K, doubting the *average* persons in the audiance maybe would of been the move, but here, don't forget that it is supposed to be a "easy" question. Not saying that it is an easy question for everyone per se, but an easy question for most of ppl.
At the Moulin Rouge Culinary School, one learns to make the Slam Dunk Breakfast...served on a bed of Owl Ink Pasta.
Allen studied hard for math and science, and they hit him with popular culture questions brutal
What did he think they were going to ask? "What is the product formed when pentanol interacts with heptanoic acid under acidic conditions?"