) I guess the next on will be Poland then...
Post by supermillionaire on Nov 13, 2017 14:04:17 GMT -5
I just watched a replay of Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen and his wife Jackie playing on a celebrity edition of the UK version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, and I saw that they got the £1 million question wrong; however it turned out to be a flawed question, since it turned out to be ambiguous. Their flawed £1 million question was:
Translated from the Latin, what is the motto of the United States?
A: In God we trust
B: One out of many
C: All as one
D: Striving together
The Bowens chose A: In God we trust as their final answer, but the intended correct answer was actually B: One out of many, and they wound up losing £468,000. It turned out that the question was flawed, because, although "One out of many" is derived from the Latin E pluribus unum, since the 1950s, the U.S. has also used "In God we trust" as a motto; the problem is, it wasn't taken from any Latin translation, and as a result, the Bowens lost £468,000. But since the question writers have always taken pride in saying that there are no trick questions, they decided to let the Bowens play another £1 million question. They decided not to risk it this time and walked away with £500,000. This amount is the highest amount that any celebrity couple has achieved on any celebrity edition of the UK version of the show. The £468,000 that they originally lost was also the greatest loss ever seen on the show, and no other contestant in its entire 15 and a half-year run has ever lost £468,000; the most money ever lost on the show was £218,000, which occurred only twice in its entire history.
But I noticed something else that was pretty interesting: when the correct answer to their original £1 million question was revealed, they played the £500,000 lose cue instead of the £1 million one (the one that played when Ken Basin missed his $1 million question at the 2009 10th anniversary celebration). Recently, I found a video uploaded to YouTube of the Bowens getting their £1 million question wrong, edited to include the proper £1 million lose cue. Below are two videos: the first is the original, unedited video, with the £500,000 lose cue, and then the edited version, which replaces the £500,000 lose cue with the £1 million lose cue.
