Roger Storm Goes for $500,000 Tuesday on “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?”

It’s a very exciting episode of Who Wants to be a Millionaire? tomorrow.  If you watched today (Monday, February 23rd) you met Roger Storm, a 59-year-old Digital Learning Network Coordinator at the NASA Glenn Research Center and a father of eight.  The former Jeopardy! champion worked his way up to $250,000 and he will be going for $500,000 at the start of tomorrow’s show (Tuesday, February 24th).

Roger used his final three lifelines to get to the $250,000.  The question was “Al Gore’s famous and oft-ridiculed quote “I took the initiative in creating the Internet” was made in 1999 to what journalist? A: Barbara Walters, B: Larry King, C: Wolf Blitzer, D: Matt Lauer.”  Not knowing, he first used Ask the Expert, with Ashleigh Banfield of TruTV.  She believed it was C but wasn’t too confident.  Next he used Ask the Audience; they believed the answer was B.  He finally used his Double Dip lifeline to select both answers.  Roger first chose B, which was incorrect; afterwhich he chose C which won him $250,000.  Will he be the first $1,000,000 winner in nearly seven years and a thousand episodes?  Watch tomorrow to find out.

Want to know the $500,000 question?  Check under the break for the question and see if you can work it out.  WARNING: READ THE COMMENTS AND BREAK AT YOUR OWN RISK.  THEY WILL CONTAIN SPOILERS FROM OTHERS WHO HAVE SEEN THE SHOW.

Photo courtesy of Valleycrest Productions Ltd.

For $500,000 – Category, ‘Air Supply’ – “In 1902, Willis Carrier became the father of modern air conditioning when he developed a humidity controller for use where? A: Bakery, B: Cigarette factory, C: Burlesque theater, D: Printing shop.”