timl33
11-23-2003, 12:34 AM
Well, my year long quest is finally over, I made it into the Millionaire Hot Seat Saturday, Nov 22, 2003 at the Noon show. Funny way this happened.
I was there with my 13 year old brother, my cousin and my girlfriend. This is the very first time my brother and cousin have been to that game. The fast finger question comes up on Disney Musicals and I blow it completely. OTOH, my bro presses in a pre-determined guess pattern DBCA and winds up getting it right. When the scores are shown, his isn't up there until the #1 score flashes. It's his! So on his VERY FIRST try at the hotseat, he makes it in. Now of course, I'm very happy for him, but it just underscores my frustration at getting in the hotseat.
Anyways, he's exposed as a fast-finger guesser, and I'm betting not too many people give him a chance in the game, but he's actually pretty bright (smarter than I), and makes it through to 64,000 before losing on the 125,000 question. Of course I've been playing this whole time too. After 32,000 it was shown that I had the top score and after nailing the 64,000 and 125,000 questions correctly, I figured I had a good shot at the hot seat and I made it in! Finally after a year of trying, I'm in the hot seat.
I'm not terribly nervous as I have been on game shows before, but it's still good to get over the first question. I almost freeze a bit on the answer to the 1000 point question, but get the correct answer out before time runs out. I'm up to 4,000 and all lifelines intact when the buzzer sounds and I have to get carried on over to the next show. Well at the 1PM show, I get started well, answering 8,000 and 16,000 right away. The ask-the-audience helps me out with 32,000 and the 50/50 helps me out with the 64,000 question. I finally blow the 125,000 question, one that I'm sure many MousePadders would know. It was about the first project that Walt Disney Pictures produced (1923). I guessed Steamboat Willie, but it wasn't the right answer.
Oh well
I'll be back in December!
-Tim
I was there with my 13 year old brother, my cousin and my girlfriend. This is the very first time my brother and cousin have been to that game. The fast finger question comes up on Disney Musicals and I blow it completely. OTOH, my bro presses in a pre-determined guess pattern DBCA and winds up getting it right. When the scores are shown, his isn't up there until the #1 score flashes. It's his! So on his VERY FIRST try at the hotseat, he makes it in. Now of course, I'm very happy for him, but it just underscores my frustration at getting in the hotseat.
Anyways, he's exposed as a fast-finger guesser, and I'm betting not too many people give him a chance in the game, but he's actually pretty bright (smarter than I), and makes it through to 64,000 before losing on the 125,000 question. Of course I've been playing this whole time too. After 32,000 it was shown that I had the top score and after nailing the 64,000 and 125,000 questions correctly, I figured I had a good shot at the hot seat and I made it in! Finally after a year of trying, I'm in the hot seat.
I'm not terribly nervous as I have been on game shows before, but it's still good to get over the first question. I almost freeze a bit on the answer to the 1000 point question, but get the correct answer out before time runs out. I'm up to 4,000 and all lifelines intact when the buzzer sounds and I have to get carried on over to the next show. Well at the 1PM show, I get started well, answering 8,000 and 16,000 right away. The ask-the-audience helps me out with 32,000 and the 50/50 helps me out with the 64,000 question. I finally blow the 125,000 question, one that I'm sure many MousePadders would know. It was about the first project that Walt Disney Pictures produced (1923). I guessed Steamboat Willie, but it wasn't the right answer.
Oh well
I'll be back in December!
-Tim