We’ll be covering the Tournament of Ten on Millionaire each day far after it’s finished airing and when ABC gives us the clear. Just be warned that further down we will reveal spoilers about if a contestant gets a right answer. We will not reveal who wins the million because, frankly, I don’t even know.
The first edition of Who Wants to be a Millionaire’s Tournament of Ten has completed. Contestant Alex Ortiz from Stamford Connecticut faced this question to be in the running for $1,000,000:
“Which First Lady was a ninth-generation descendant of Pocahontas?
A: Helen Taft, B: Edith Wilson, C: Bess Truman, D: Mamie Eisenhower.”
Alex did not want to risk her previous show’s winnings of $50,000 and potentially drop to $25,000 with a wrong answer. She decided to walk, and next up to bat for the top prize is the number nine seed. The correct answer was B, Edith Wilson.
As we said before, number nine seed Tony Westmoreland is up today. Tony is a mailman from Cambry, IN, and previously won $50,000 in his first appearance. We’ll see if he’ll be the frontrunner for the million dollars today. Here’s a short video with Tony, courtesy of the show.
We’ll have daily coverage of the Tournament of Ten, so stay tuned to Millionaire and here for coverage. Feel free to comment all you want about the show and the player. Go crazy with spoilers in comments. Be sure to check the comments each day for a little bonus for you all, actually. By the way, what did we think of the first celebrity question? I thought they did a really nice job incorporating it. It didn’t add a lot to the show but it didn’t eat up any extra time or distract. It worked just as well as it should have.
- “Millionaire”’s Tournament of Ten Day Three: Sam Murray
- Sam Murray or Jehan Shamsid-Deen. Who wins the “Millionaire” Tournament of Ten?
- “Millionaire” Tournament of Ten Day Five: Ralph Cambeis
- Sam Murray Qualifies for “Millionaire” Top Prize; Tournament of Ten Day Four Features Robin Schwartz
- “Millionaire”’s Tournament of Ten Begins Today; The Top Ten Are…
13 Responses
[youtube Im7mMfiNPSg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im7mMfiNPSg youtube]
Posted on November 10th, 2009 at 7:21 am
[youtube Im7mMfiNPSg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im7mMfiNPSg youtube]
Posted on November 10th, 2009 at 7:21 am
[youtube Im7mMfiNPSg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im7mMfiNPSg youtube]
Posted on November 10th, 2009 at 7:21 am
[youtube Im7mMfiNPSg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im7mMfiNPSg youtube]
Posted on November 10th, 2009 at 7:21 am
[youtube Im7mMfiNPSg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im7mMfiNPSg youtube]
Posted on November 10th, 2009 at 7:21 am
[youtube Im7mMfiNPSg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im7mMfiNPSg youtube]
Posted on November 10th, 2009 at 7:21 am
I thought Alex was smart to stop at $50K. I had no idea what the answer was there. We'll see what #9 Tony does later on today.
Posted on November 10th, 2009 at 10:09 am
Is it wrong for me to root for failure all around so that although Millionaire bragged that it will give away a $1,000,000 check, it lied through their teeth about it?
Posted on November 10th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
It was the right idea to stop. I wouldn't have guessed Edith Wilson, considering how much of a racist Woodrow Wilson was.
Posted on November 10th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
Millionaire wouldn't have had the ads guaranteeing a $1,000,000 winner had someone not won it. The show isn't stupid.
Posted on November 10th, 2009 at 10:52 pm
Well, didn't Deal or no Deal pretty much promise the same thing a couple of times and fail to deliver? Promising the audience that someone will win $1,000,000 for a few episodes and they didn't do it?
Posted on November 11th, 2009 at 4:25 am
That's just bad marketing right there. It's one thing to promote an exciting event. It's another to deceive the viewers. Even Millionaire was "called out" on such things last year. I Deal's case, it was overkill on the promotion machine that may've "killed" the show when they announced even during the Olympics that someone's gonna win "The Big One".
Posted on November 11th, 2009 at 10:04 am
Camby. He's from Camby, Indiana, not Cambry. A small thing, but if you'd ever been to Camby, you know it doesn't get a lot of mention or attention. Thus, I am here to say: Camby.
Posted on November 11th, 2009 at 6:42 pm
Add A Comment