Someone else said --
"I've only been
impressed by three answers through the whole run of WWTBAM:
the two stupid answers for the $100 question,
"Llamas" and "Blackbirds," and "Albino Luciani," which I
thought to be the answer to hardest question by far, but
was only worth $500,000."
Hmm. I don't watch
this show that often, although due to the advance
notice given here in the club I tuned in for Mr.
Goodman's triumph. Well done, I say. So in sheer ignorance
I ask, what exactly was the question about Albino
Luciani? He was Pope John Paul I, right? Well that does
not seem to me to be as hard as Paddington Bear for a
million. But then again it also doesn't seem to me to be
as hard as knowing who Lilith really was, for a
significantly lesser amount. So that brings the argument full
circle.
Would anyone be interested in having an
economic discussion of the value of WWTBAM, or is this
thread just about tapped out? It seems that one of the
quietest and most lucrative ways the TV networks have
earned revenue in the past has been by reselling old
programming as reruns. I w