Special Sub-Topic: Millionaire Game Show V Authored by: quizmiz Sub-topic of: Millionaire Style

$100: When both the little hand and the big hand on a clock are pointing straight up, what time is it?

12 o'clock.

$200: 'S' on a report card usually stands for what?

satisfactory.

$300: Absence makes the heart grow what?

fonder.

$500: When you're in a difficult situation, it is sometimes said that you're caught between a rock and what?

a hard place.

$1,000: 'Tripping the light fantastic' is a fancy way of saying what?

dancing. Congratulations! If you've answered all five questions correctly, you can't leave with less than $1,000. 'Tripping the light fantastic' is a line from John Milton's 17th century poem 'L'Allegro'. 'Come and trip it as you go on the light fantastic toe.' Trip in this sense meant 'dance' and fantastic meant 'marked by extravagant fancy'.

$2,000: What television company's logo is a circle with an eye in it?

CBS.

$4,000: What actor wrote 'The Remarkable Farkle McBride'? (Lifeline hint: 'Third Rock From The Sun' actor)

John Lithgow. Farkle is a music prodigy who plays many instruments but ends up finding the most satisfaction as a conductor. Lithgow, probably best known for his role on 'Third Rock From The Sun', graduated magna cum laude from Harvard.

$8,000: In golf, what is one under par called?

birdie. A bogie is one over par. An eagle is two under par. An albatross is three under par. It is also known as a double eagle and is very rare.

$16,000: In Greek mythology, who did the Sphinx learn her riddle from?

The Muses. The riddle went like this: What is that which has one voice and yet becomes four-footed and two-footed and three-footed? The answer: man - as a little child he is four-footed because he crawls; as an adult he is two-footed and as an old man he is three-footed, using a staff as his third foot.

$32,000: What cryptic message does the computer worm 'Code Red' leave behind after defacing government web sites?

Hacked by Chinese!. Congratulations! If you've answered all ten questions correctly, you can't leave with less than $32K.

$64,000: In Inuit, 'Kalaallit Nunaat' is the name of what place?

Greenland.

$125,000: Approximately how many babies were born in the post WWII years from 1946 to 1964, known as the 'baby boom generation?'

76 million. By contrast, births totaled about 50 million during the same length of time before the baby boom and about 66 million in the same period after it.

$250,000: Whose voice was the first one broadcast from space from the satellite Atlas on December 19, 1958?

Dwight Eisenhower. The satellite was managed by NASA, an agency established by Eisenhower earlier that year. His brief message extended to 'all mankind, America's wish for peace on earth and good will toward men everywhere'.

$500,000: What is the image in the center of the One World flag?

yin yang symbol. www.oneworldflag.org

$1,000,000: Where was the Baha'i Faith founded?

Iran. Congratulations! If you've answered all fifteen correctly, you've won a cool million. The Baha'i Faith was founded in 1863 in what is now Iran. Baha'is believe that the founders of all of the great religions (including Jesus, Moses, Buddha and Muhammad) were messengers sent by God to teach eternal moral truths and to reveal new social principles.