Patricia Heaton Fails at Math on Who Wants to Be A Millionaire

[SemiCharmedQuark]

Worth watching for Regis's face and the audience's pity-plause.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WybeLYArlXQ

The question was:

"If a euro is worth $1.50, five euros is worth what?"

a. thirty quarters
b. fifty dimes
c. seventy nickles
d. ninety pennies


She chose her husband as her lifeline "because he's European".

[mnhtnbb]

1. Having been a game show contestant I can tell you your mind

can go blank--all the lights, audience, the adrenaline--it's a strange environment
if you're not used to being able to focus.

Still--they give those contestants a lot of time to think about answers. Anybody
getting to the contestant level on that show ought to be able to convert money.

[Frank Cannon]

5. This woman was on a sitcom shot before a live audience for nine years

Although I understand your point, I think we can apply Occam's Razor to this and safely assume that she's just an idiot.

[mnhtnbb]

9. She was scripted. It's very different to be in a situation where you're

basically improvising--especially if the topic is something you never think about.

[rcrush]

2. How long do they get to answer?

I havent watched this show in awhile but dont they just sit there and wait for them to answer? I suck at math but give me as much time as I want and I could figure it out!

[astral]

3. Well, I'm no math whiz either, but. . .

that was just about enough to make me cry.

But I can see how "panic attack" can set in and the word "Euros" sent her mind into a catatonic state.

Sure, it coulda happened to meeeee . . ..

[TommyO]

4. A. Final Answer

I didn't have to use a calculator, or the right-wing twit's husband to figure that out.

[PVnRT]

6. The answer is A, but I wasn't under stress figuring it out

If the answers had just been dollar amounts, I could see laughing at her, but the answers are meant to be confusing.

[brendan120678]

7. True...it does require a little thinking...

First you have to figure out that 5 Euros would be $7.50, then think about which of the four coin combinations equals that amount.

[Ptah]

8. $1.50 = six quarters. 6 x 5 = 30.

[Iggo]

10. Eliminate the impossible. What's left is the answer.

Neither 5 bucks nor 90 cents is the correct answer, so chuck 'em.

20 nickels is a dollar, so 70 nickels is 3 and a half dollars. That ain't $7.50 either.

You don't even have to do the math on 30 quarters to know it's the only answer left.

[mvd]

11. I got this one without doing any writing down of figures

Glad to know some of my math knowledge is still in tact. :-)

[Parche]

12. she is a fukin righty anyway

i dont care for her....:grr: :hi: