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.
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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.”
6 Responses
When he used his double dip, he didn’t guess B first. He went with C initially, so he didn’t technically need his double dip.
Posted on February 24th, 2009 at 10:35 am
As Matt said, he did NOT do both answers on that Double Dip, he did guess Wolf Blitzer originally.
Posted on February 24th, 2009 at 10:41 am
Bummer, $250k walk.
Posted on February 24th, 2009 at 1:33 pm
All of those answers seem logical…if I was to sit and work it out and take a guess (without money on the line!), I’d go with B. I have a theory and it makes sense to me, so I’ll pick that. As for the $250K question…DAMN, I knew it was Wolf Blitzer, I’ve seen the clip a hundred times. I gotta get on this show!
Posted on February 25th, 2009 at 12:56 am
Way to go cuz. Proud of you. Haven’t seen you and Diane in a few years.
I’ve been home in NC since Thanksgiving, will be going back to Cinci the end of March for a few months. Maybe I’ll get to see y’all at the family reunion this year.
Congrats!
Your oldest cousin — Ruth
Posted on February 26th, 2009 at 10:17 pm
Congratulations Roger ! I was hoping you would make the “big time”, and you did. Great wisdom too.
Posted on February 27th, 2009 at 1:15 am
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