Getting back to today's broadcast of Millionaire...the first contestant had as a $50,000 question the following:
Bobby Jindal is the first Indian-American governor of which state?
The choices, as I remember them, were Michigan, Mississippi, Kentucky and Louisiana. Now, who among us doesn't know this now? I was astonished that it was pegged at $50K. I might have written it as a $2,000 or $4,000 question, since he's been all over the news. The poor contestant Double Dipped, for first Michigan and then, I think, Kentucky. Which makes me think this episode was taped well before Jindal gave the response to President Obama's address to Congress, which means at least several months. Had he been as prominent when it was written as he is now, I doubt it would have been worth $50K to the show's writers.
So, the lesson to be learned from this is: Get our your World Almanac (the best one-volume quiz show resource around) and run down the list of state governors. And keep paying attention to the news. Jindal had been mentioned during the course of the campaign, with attention paid to the fact that he is of Indian (East Indian, I believe, not Native American) heritage. Quiz shows prefer the unusual: An Indian-American governor of Louisiana is unusual. A woman governor, an African-American governor, a governor with an unusual position on something, are all more likely to be used in a question than a middle-aged-white-male governor in the Midwest...(sorry, middle-aged-white-guys, that's just the way it is...) :)
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