Last time on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, what American comedian suggested that his
epitaph read, I'd rather be in Philadelphia.
I doubt the person said he would be over my self until I get under.
It's up to $15,000.
Can I ask you a question again?
No, no, all your lifelines are gone unfortunately.
I think the answer is E.
You've got it right.
That is the best insight.
Matt Phillips, the only one.
Now, join us from New York for night 50 of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.
Thank you.
Thank you very much everybody.
Hello again everybody.
Welcome to another night of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.
Now, we had a great game going here the other night.
Jack Leshner from New York City sang for his money, you may recall that.
Walked away with $125,000.
And then young Bowen Tarrant, a high school math teacher and former world spinball champion
from Swampscott, Massachusetts rang up $32,000.
A big night.
But right now, the news is spreading all over Washington D.C. and Capitol Hill that Matt Phillips,
a California congressman's press secretary, is returning to our hot seat.
And welcome back, Matt.
Nice to have you here.
Thank you.
Matt's 26, he's single and he works for a California congressman, as I said.
Now, do you think the whole team is watching from maybe his office?
I don't think they're at the office, but they're watching.
Good.
That's great.
And let me ask you, do you do what Michael J. Fox does for the mayor here at New York
City and in Spin City?
Oralex, right?
Well, there's a deputy, I guess he's a deputy mayor.
There's a chief of staff.
I'm the press secretary.
Well, it's sort of along the same lines.
Well, let me ask you, are there any cattle lock lives in your life?
There are a couple that come close, I guess, that you see every once in a while.
But, you know, there are some similarities, there's some differences.
I don't want to get myself in trouble.
He handled it just like a politician.
Incidentally, do you have any political ambitions?
No, I just enjoy working on the Hill and I'll just see what comes along.
You're a history major from the University of Virginia, which probably could help you
here tonight.
I hope so.
All right, Matt, you've won $2,000.
You're nine questions away from winning the one million.
Once you reach the $32,000 level, you're guaranteed to leave here with at least that much money.
You've got two lifelines left to help.
50-50 with the computer will take away two of the wrong answers, leaving the correct
answer and one wrong answer.
Finally, you can phone a friend, where our friends at AT&T will help you call anyone
anywhere in America to see if they can help you out.
If you're ready, Matt, shall we start?
To the audience, shall we do it?
Come on, let's go.
Let's play Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.
All right, here we go.
You've won $2,000.
We're going for $4,000 and this is what it looks like.
What rock band shares its name with a famous spy plane?
R.E.M. Jefferson Airplane, Aerosmith, U2.
One of my favorites, you too, final answer.
Final answer, yes indeed, you're right.
You've won $4,000.
Eight questions away from $1 million and here it is for $8,000.
What comic strip is centered around African-American city kids adjusting to life in Suburbia?
Jumpstart, Agnes, the Boondocks, Life in Hell.
I think the author of this strip is from the Washington area.
I think it's Boondocks.
Final answer, yes.
You're right, you've won $8,000.
Okay, so quickly we're going for $16,000.
Still two lifelines in tact.
Here it is.
What was the name of Ross' pet monkey on the TV series Friends?
Pepe, Marcel, Pierre, Melvin.
I remember the episode where he had Marcel as his monkey being final answer.
Final answer, Marcel.
Marcel, you're right again for $16,000.
Matt Phillips, feeling pretty good.
It's easier the second night you're here, isn't it?
It's different.
I'm trying to remember more from last night, from the time before.
Okay, so here you are, six questions away from $1 million, $32,000 and this is it.
During his tour of duty in Vietnam, Vice President Al Gore was the witch of the following.
Journalist, cook, paramedic, chaplain.
You can imagine the comments on my friends back in Washington, they're making right now.
I'll bet.
He was a journalist, final answer.
Final answer, journalist, yes, he was a journalist.
You're right, $32,000.
He's on a roll.
He's going for $64,000.
He's five away from a million.
We'll be right back.
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It's the first ever Two Guys and a Girl bachelor auction.
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See you Wednesday on ABC.
Matt Phillips is our man of the hot seat ride,
congressional press secretary.
Nice to see you again, Matt.
And your dad.
Hi, Jack, how you doing?
Fine, Reggie. How are you?
What do you do, Jack?
I'm a trucker.
Trucker, all right, good.
Around the East Coast?
Pretty much in the Northeast.
Good for you.
All right, now, Matt, be nice if you went all the way to the Million,
but then you're gonna wish you had some legislation in the hopper.
Eliminating federal tax on game show.
There you go, pal.
Too bad my boss isn't on the Ways and Means Committee,
because I get on a fast track.
That's what we need to get done, right?
All right, fine, you're doing just terrific here.
You're $132,000, you're going to $64,000.
Let's play. Here we go.
Here it is, the $64,000 in the Religion of the Dead.
In the Religion of Islam, what is a hajj?
A pilgrimage to Mecca?
An evening prayer?
Or rural mosque?
A prayer mat?
Prayer, rural mosque, prayer mat.
Inclination is that it's a pilgrimage to Mecca.
A pilgrimage to lifeline.
Evening prayer, rural mosque, prayer mat.
A hajj to Mecca.
I wonder who said A, pilgrimage to Mecca?
That's a guess.
There's something telling me I've heard it before.
All right, so A is your final answer.
Yes, sir.
Boy, you got it at the Religion of the Dead.
Whoo!
You keep in touch with that something,
you'll be all right tonight.
All right, you're $164,000.
Should you miss anything, you'll be reduced to $32,000.
The price of a prayer mat comes for $125,000.
What company's longtime mascot is officially known as Bivendum?
Parker Brothers?
FAO Schwartz?
Michelin?
Birdseye?
I have no idea.
Bivendum.
I don't know if Bivendum is a swart,
there's a teddy bear or something like that.
Michelin, I always thought it was just a Michelin man.
Bivendum.
Can I speculate about the lifelines before committing to using them?
Oh, sure.
If I use 50-50, then the phone of friends,
I'll choose between two.
If they don't know it, then that might not help a whole lot.
I'll go ahead and use the phone of friends.
Who do you want to call?
Why don't you call your conscience?
He's busy voting, I'm sure.
I'll call Mark.
And Mark is?
A friend of mine from college.
Alright, fine, let's call Mark.
AT&T will get Mark on the line, see if he can help.
Hello?
Hello, Mark?
Yeah.
Hi, Regis Filberner from ABC who wants to be a millionaire.
Hi, how are you?
Good, fine, how are you doing?
I'm doing okay.
I'm here with Matt Phillips, he needs a little help right now.
Let's see what I can do.
Alright, I know you can't see it, but he's already won 64,000, going for 125,000.
Okay.
So when he comes on the line, he'll read you the question and four possible answers,
and one of them is the correct answer, okay?
Yes, sir.
Alright, Matt, it's all yours, you've got 30 seconds and they start right now.
What company's longtime mascot is officially known as the Bendum, Parker Brothers, FAO Schwartz,
Michelin, or Birdseye?
The Bendum?
The Bendum, B-I-B-E-N-B-U-M.
B-I-B-E-N-B-U-M.
Could you read them again?
Parker Brothers, FAO Schwartz, Michelin, Birdseye.
Four seconds.
I feel they're going to be Birdseye or Parker Brothers, I'm not sure.
I think 50-50, please.
Absolutely.
Computer, please take away two of the wrong answers from that, leaving one wrong answer
and the correct answer.
Well, Michelin, I think that's just a Michelin man.
I'll take a chance on D.
You're going to lose 32,000 if you don't have it.
So I have 32,000?
That's right, dude.
You're absolutely right, you still have 32,000.
You're going for it, your final answer is D.
Birdseye, darn it, it's Michelin.
Well, all right, so we leave here with 32,000, which is a nice piece of change.
Madison, nice meeting you, nice having you here.
That old B-Bendum, who would have thought it, huh?
Good luck, pal.
Right in that way.
Oh, my gosh.
That was a tough one.
Tough luck for poor old Matt, but that really was a tough question.
But I do hear there's a very good restaurant called B-Bendum in the old Michelin building in London.
Not that that's going to help Matt.
But right now we've got 10 new contestants ready to go.
Who are they tonight?
Let's find out.
And they are Michael Hunter, Greenville, New York, Tim Aaron, Dauphin, California,
Jim Gilligan, West Lafayette, Indiana, Janet McGilligot, Lynn, Massachusetts, Lydia Padoff, Minneapolis, Minnesota,
Bob Wicken, Granada Hills, California, Mark Griswold, New Orleans, Louisiana,
Judy Segué, West Bloomfield, Michigan, Ken O'Brien, Los Angeles, California, John Marsh, Oakland, California.
All right, contestants, congratulations on getting this far.
Now, here's how it works.
In a moment, a question and four answers will appear on your screens.
The one who puts those answers in the correct order in the fastest time will be our next player.
Audience, we need complete silence here.
Thank you very much.
Here comes the question.
Put the following U.S. national parks in order going from west to east.
Yosemite, Shenandoah, Hawaii volcanoes, Yellowstone.
Okay, everybody, time's up.
Let's see the answer in the correct order starting in the west.
Hawaii volcanoes, Yosemite, Yellowstone, Shenandoah.
That's the correct order.
Who did it in the fastest time?
And the winner is Jim Gilligan.
There you go.
All right, stand by now.
He's going to play.
He's going for a million.
We'll be right back.
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So it's Jim Gilligan in the hot seat right now, formerly from New York City,
graduated from Queens College, taught high school here, moved on to Purdue University,
where he's going through some graduate studies. With an eye toward what degree?
A Ph.D. in American Literature.
Good for you. That's terrific. And I see you brought a friend with you from another graduate student, Dwight?
Yes, my buddy Dwight. He's in the statistics department.
I love your matching beard. You're cute. Really, really attractive.
Thank you.
So you came back to New York unexpectedly, huh?
Yes. I said it would be a great chance to just come home, even for a weekend.
Sure. Big night in New York last night?
Yep. We literally rubbed elbows with Valerie Harper at the Carnegie Deli.
Not bad elbows.
And then we saw Cabaret last night.
Really? Did you say anything? Did you pay Rhoda?
No, no. She was busy filming but we figured, what the heck?
She's a great lady.
Yeah, she seemed like she was.
And you had a good show last night, so you're back home.
All right, Jim, good luck to you. You know about the rules, right? You know about the lifeline.
50-50. Ask the audience, phone a friend. It's all here, so if you're ready, Jim Gilligan, let's do it for Purdue.
Let's play a once to be a millionaire.
We begin with the $100 question. Here it is.
What two terminals are on a standard automobile battery?
Mom and pop, positive and negative, acid and base, good and evil.
Well, it's kind of ironic because a week ago Wednesday I went to start my car and my three-year battery lasted only two years and nine months.
And I needed to buy a new one, so it's B, positive and negative.
You're right. You won $100, Jim.
Okay, you got the battery. Let's get the rest of the car, okay? For $200, what part of your heart is said to be warm if something profoundly affects you?
Cockles, ventricles, valves, hips.
A, cockles.
Yes, it's the cockles. You're right. For $200.
Here it is now for $300.
What beverage do nutritional experts widely recommend drinking six to eight glasses of a day?
Tea, milk, water, tea.
Water.
Yeah, it's water. You got it right. $300.
Here it is now for $500. According to the classic book, the Velveteen Rabbit, how does a child's love affect a toy?
It makes the toy pretty. It makes the toy glow. It makes the toy large. It makes the toy real.
I think I'm going to have to ask the audience for help on this one.
All right, fine. Sure, we can go to the audience. We need a little help here for Jim on your keypad using A, B, C or D. Please vote now.
Well, there you go, 88%. Overwhelming with this crowd.
Okay.
They say it makes the toy real. What do you think?
I think they're right. I'm glad I have so many readers in the audience. I'm going to go with the audience's answer.
And your final answer is D.
Yes, it is.
And it's the right answer. Thank you very much, Tony.
Thank you.
Too bad you had to burn a lifeline that early, but you got to stay in the game, too.
Here it is for $1,000, Jim. What product is the Radio Flyer Company famous for manufacturing?
Rock band t-shirts, red wagons, weather balloons, stereo systems. Radio Flyer.
The red wagon. He says red wagon. He's right for $1,000.
We're going for $2,000. Here it is. Which of the following is an Olympic sport? Roller hockey, lacrosse, rugby, beach volleyball.
So many new Olympic sports.
Beach volleyball.
Yes.
An educated one.
All right. Final answer?
Yes.
You got it for beach volleyball. You're right. $2,000.
All right. You're doing good here. Nine away from a million. Here's the $4,000 question.
In which state did voters participate in the first presidential caucus of 2000? New Hampshire, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan?
I know the New Hampshire primary was earlier this week. We haven't voted yet in Indiana.
And Michigan hasn't even been in the news. I think my friend Holly would be kind of annoyed at me if I got this wrong.
So my answer is C, Iowa.
C, Iowa. Final answer.
Final answer.
It's Iowa. You got $4,000.
All right. So he's going for $8,000. Let's see how he does. Come on back. He's got two lifelines left.
Is Wendy's Cheddar Lovers Bacon Cheeseburger fit for lawyers?
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What did he say?
I expect she can give it a go.
Charles would enjoy it.
Definitely. Come and try Wendy's Cheddar Lovers Bacon Cheeseburger.
Yeah.
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