On December 2, 2008, on the show 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?' the contestant used the Ask the Audience lifeline for an answer to the question, "Who was the inspiration for Amy Winehouse's debute album?" The answer chosen by the audience was incorrect. With four choices, was this the first time the audience proved incorrect?

zbeckabee

Philbin once said that the audience's answer is statistically 95% of the time correct. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_wants_to_be_a_millionaire#Lifelines Dec 02 08, 7:11 PM

queproblema

Now I'm talking about something of which I'm utterly unknowledgeable, but according to this, the show has an electronic system that should generate reliable statistics. The host would surely be aware of those statistics. Skim the technology, then scroll down to applications. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audience_response Dec 03 08, 2:29 AM

trinize

In shorting my Question it made it lose it's meaning, I will try to shorten it than reask the question about "Who wants to be a millionaire" Dec 03 08, 9:33 PM

McGruff

I think I "shortened" this by taking quotations out from around "Ask the Audience." It makes as much sense to me as it did the first time I read it. If you would like to rephrase it, post your revision here and I will change the entry. Dec 03 08, 10:58 PM

zbeckabee

I'm the guilty party -- The question was a bit long and I was attempting to shorten it. Regardless of details, the original question was asking if the Winehouse incident was the first time the audience had picked the wrong answer. I don't believe the original question was altered, even though I removed the four choices given the audience. I've re-tweaked it...hopefully, that will fix the problem. Dec 04 08, 8:14 AM