Who Wants To Be A FoG Millionaire?

[Trigger]

Waheyyy.. Nice one CJ! Had no idea myself but what you wrote gave me enough confidence to trust ya! I chose to phone you before anything had been even written on this thread apart from the question

[Leg End Reject]

I'm impressed with Barna, cee_jay and nothing still having 2 lifelines left!

[quickbeam]

8.33am:

Gotta answer this even if it's a guess. I'll never win by banking at €16K.

Q10.
A) Definitely not Irving Berlin. He wrote White Christmas. Rhapsody is more light classical I think.
B) I don't think it's Gershwin. Didn't he do Porgy & Bess? I don't think he did Rhapsody too.
C) Copeland, yeah, maybe him, mainly because I don't think it's the others.
D) Porter, no, like Berlin I think he did more "pop songs" (for the era) than classical.

I wish I remembered something else Copeland did so I could compare. I'm still leaning that way. It might just be Gershwin though at an outside chance.

11.17am:

When I wrote earlier I was about 75% Copeland and 25% Gershwin.

I'm now about 55% Copeland and 45% Gershwin.

Only thing is, if I go Gershwin and it ends up being Copeland I'll be a lot more annoyed at myself for not going with my initial gut than if it go Copeland and it ends up being Gershwin.

If this were real life I'd 100% take the money.

Arrrrrrrrrrrraghhhhh! What are you doing to me Kol?? What am I doing to myself?

11.26am:

Okay, I flipped a coin at it came up Gershwin. But I wasn't comfortable submitting that, so I decided on best of three, and flipped twice more and the next two came up Copeland.

The very fact that I didn't want to take the initial result and go for best of three instead, actually tells me more than the result itself. I'm going to go for C) Aaron Copeland, final answer.

After all that, it'll probably end up being Berlin or Porter, but if it is, then I have no regrets over not picking them as they were never in contention.

Now, must - resist - Googling - answer!!

Poor Kol receiving those PMs!

[Kol]

Well done everyone so far, nothing to lose tomorrow, though everything to gain.

I wouldn't know the answers to half of these questions if they weren't in front of me

See you in the morning

[Zaph]

8.33am:

Gotta answer this even if it's a guess.  I'll never win by banking at €16K.

Q10.
A) Definitely not Irving Berlin.  He wrote White Christmas.  Rhapsody is more light classical I think.
B) I don't think it's Gershwin.  Didn't he do Porgy & Bess?  I don't think he did Rhapsody too.
C) Copeland, yeah, maybe him, mainly because I don't think it's the others.
D) Porter, no, like Berlin I think he did more "pop songs" (for the era) than classical.

I wish I remembered something else Copeland did so I could compare.  I'm still leaning that way.  It might just be Gershwin though at an outside chance.

11.17am:

When I wrote earlier I was about 75% Copeland and 25% Gershwin.

I'm now about 55% Copeland and 45% Gershwin.

Only thing is, if I go Gershwin and it ends up being Copeland I'll be a lot more annoyed at myself for not going with my initial gut than if it go Copeland and it ends up being Gershwin.

If this were real life I'd 100% take the money.

Arrrrrrrrrrrraghhhhh!  What are you doing to me Kol??  What am I doing to myself?

11.26am:

Okay, I flipped a coin at it came up Gershwin.  But I wasn't comfortable submitting that, so I decided on best of three, and flipped twice more and the next two came up Copeland.

The very fact that I didn't want to take the initial result and go for best of three instead, actually tells me more than the result itself.  I'm going to go for C) Aaron Copeland, final answer.

After all that, it'll probably end up being Berlin or Porter, but if it is, then I have no regrets over not picking them as they were never in contention.

Now, must - resist - Googling - answer!!

Poor Kol receiving those PMs!

Fanfare for the Common Man is probably Copeland's best known work.  Emerson, Lake and Palmer did a version of it in the 70s.  The video was shot in the partially built Montreal Olympic stadium iirc.

[cee_jay]

Oh no, did you go for Irving Berlin? I narrowed it down to those 2 but knew I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas was Irving's famous song.

No, ruled out Berlin and Porter quickly.  I was 50/50 between Copeland and Gershwin.  Well, a little surer about Copeland, which is why I went with him in the end.  Ah well.  I didn't need that €16K anyway   I 100% would have taken the money if it was real life.

Waheyyy.. Nice one CJ! Had no idea myself but what you wrote gave me enough confidence to trust ya! I chose to phone you before anything had been even written on this thread apart from the question

I was between Gershwin and Copeland also. Berlin and Porter were more show tunes and Broadway so were ruled out. I thought the piece was kinda classical jazz, which kinda fitted with Gershwin, but didn't know Copeland to say for sure. Poor @Trigger got my ramblings on the above, but it helped me get my thoughts down in writing and come to a conclusion.

[Edser]

Apologies to my new friends if I'm wrong!

Thanks Leg End,

You were my Phone a Friend today, and certainly came through   

Unfortunately I'm now out of lifelines, so I assume I'll know the rest of the answers from now on 

[E.N.]

Berlin and Porter were more show tunes and Broadway so were ruled out. I thought the piece was kinda classical jazz, which kinda fitted with Gershwin, but didn't know Copeland to say for sure.

My logic too, and I almost gambled on Gershwin but bottled it. Thanks for the help @Leg End Reject

[Leg End Reject]

Berlin and Porter were more show tunes and Broadway so were ruled out. I thought the piece was kinda classical jazz, which kinda fitted with Gershwin, but didn't know Copeland to say for sure.

My logic too, and I almost gambled on Gershwin but bottled it. Thanks for the help @Leg End Reject

I'm just lucky because it seems I used flawed logic by narrowing it down to Berlin and Gershwin.

[E.N.]

My logic too, and I almost gambled on Gershwin but bottled it. Thanks for the help @Leg End Reject

I'm just lucky because it seems I used flawed logic by narrowing it down to Berlin and Gershwin. 

I'm never trusting you again

[Leg End Reject]

I'm just lucky because it seems I used flawed logic by narrowing it down to Berlin and Gershwin. 

I'm never trusting you again

Very wise!

[nothing]

I'm impressed with Barna, cee_jay and nothing still having 2 lifelines left!

I wouldn't say that situation will last much longer for me. Have gotten lucky a couple times!

[quickbeam]

Fanfare for the Common Man is probably Copeland's best known work.  Emerson, Lake and Palmer did a version of it in the 70s.  The video was shot in the partially built Montreal Olympic stadium iirc.

Ah thanks. I can't say I know that one, so it probably wouldn't have helped.

Unfortunately I'm now out of lifelines, so I assume I'll know the rest of the answers from now on 

I'm 100%* going to know at least the next two questions, now that I'm out of the fucking quiz!!!




*may be exaggerating here.

[Barna77]

I'm impressed with Barna, cee_jay and nothing still having 2 lifelines left!

I had to chuckle at today's question. 
A song I despise, so I was 100% sure of the answer....

[ShaneU]

T'Pau and George Gershwin can feck off

I'm usually good at music questions

[Wichita Lineman]

Typical. I had that spot on when I've already been eliminated. Mind you it was only a guess and i did submit it by PM to be part of the audience.

[Kol]

Welcome back, now we are getting to the serious money.

Let's play, Who wants to be a FoG millionaire?

[Kol]

   

[E.N.]

   

(yeah, I don't want to start work yet so I made that!)

[E.N.]

Answer in. No sure but death or glory, I refuse to use a lifeline while at 32k

[cee_jay]

Answer in. No sure but death or glory, I refuse to use a lifeline while at 32k

Same. One answer stood out to me instantly, so tried not to over think it and just submit.

[Leg End Reject]

I've asked the audience so I hope most of you know this!

[Kol]

Answers are in, and there has been a flurry of wrongs answers today.

[E.N.]

[quickbeam]

I was 50/50 between two answers. Sorry if I'm wrong and my answer skewed an Audience lifeline.

[E.N.]

I was 50/50 between two answers.  Sorry if I'm wrong and my answer skewed an Audience lifeline.

Me too. I'm not sorry for anyone else if I'm wrong though

[Leg End Reject]

I was 50/50 between two answers.  Sorry if I'm wrong and my answer skewed an Audience lifeline.

I was too, so I asked the audience. At least I can blame others if my answer was wrong!

[Kol]

   

   

[E.N.]

[Leg End Reject]

[Trigger]

Fuck that's a lot of people losing out.. Big majority in the audience!

[aaronjennings]

Oh well, at least I got to the €32k checkpoint

Now I don't have to think about whether to chicken out by taking the money and walking

[quickbeam]

What was the Audience breakdown?

[Kol]

Player	Amount	50/50	Phone a Friend	Ask the Audience
Barna	€64,000	x
CeeJay	€64,000	x
Edser	€32,000	x	x	x
LER	€32,000	x	x	x
Trigger	€32,000	x	x	x
Aaron	€32,000	x	x	x
E.N.	€32,000	x	x
Neowise	€32,000	x	x	x
nothing	€32,000	x	x
Zaph	€32,000	x		x
Declan	€1,000		x	x
QB	€1,000	x	x	x
Shane	€1,000	x	x	x
Wichey	€1,000

[Kol]

Ask the Audience
Which is the least populated US state?
A. Alabama 0%
B. Wyoming 25%
C. Delaware 8%
D. Montana 67%

Trig and LER answers not included as they asked the audience. 12 answers received for the audience.

[quickbeam]

Wow, tight at the top between Barna and Cee-Jay, same number of lifelines too.

[quickbeam]

My rationale was that Alabama was far too big. Delaware was high density but a small state so a potential candidate, but probably not. Which left Montana and Wyoming. I thought Montana was more mountainous (it's right there in the name) and would therefore have less population.

[Leg End Reject]

Fair play to Barna and cee_jay, may the odds be ever in your favour!

[nothing]

Feck! 50/50 got it to Wyoming and Delaware, and Delaware was my gut instinct. But I did think it was just in my head because Biden was there a few days ago. Ah well, 32k will get me a few nice treats!

[Leg End Reject]

I had it between Wyoming and Montana for no real logical reason, but thought it better to check and try to get to 64k before banking.