'Celebrity Millionaire' - First US Edition Quiz

Answer: Florence

The first lifeline he used was Phone-a-Friend, but his wife Tea Leonie was of no assistance. He then used 50-50, which removed the incorrect options of Siena and Venice. He progressed as far as question 14, when he incorrectly chose the movie whose last line was given.

As a result, his charity (The East Harlem Schools At Exodus House) won $32,000 instead of $250,000 which they would have received had the 'X-Files' star passed on the question.

Answer: The Thin Man

When this show went to air, Kathie Lee was appearing on 'Live! With Regis and Kathie Lee' as co-host with Regis Philbin, the man asking the millionaire questions. He put on an exaggerated show of surprise when she was the fastest to place the four films in the correct order, which was 'The Thin Man', 'Marathon Man', 'Rain Man', Bicentennial Man'. Kathie Lee went on to win $32,000 for her charity, Cassidy's Place.

Answer: The Curtain

The audience went for The Globe (54%), not surprising given its significance in Shakespeare's productions, but wrong. The correct answer received the fewest votes, so the audience was singularly unhelpful! This was the $64,000 question, so 'SNL' alumnus Dana Carvey ended up earning $32,000 for his charity, Hollygrove.

Answer: Harvey Milk

This defense was used by Dan White, who assassinated both Harvey Milk and San Francisco Mayor George Moscone in November 1978. At trial, White's lawyers argued that he was suffering from depression to an extent which made him incapable of the premeditation required for a first-degree murder conviction. One of the pieces of evidence mentioned was that his diet had changed from healthy one to one that was high in sugar and fats, notably the consumption of large numbers of Twinkies. He was convicted of manslaughter.

Back to the show. Vanessa Williams answered this question correctly (after using first 50-50 and then Ask-the-Audience lifelines), but came a cropper on the next one when neither she nor her Phone-a-Friend lifeline knew that the Khyber Pass connects Pakistan and Afghanistan. She ended up winning $32,000 for the Dance & Education Fund.

Answer: Ol' Man River

In order, 'Ol' Man River' was first heard in the 1927 musical 'Showboat' (although the version performed by Paul Robeson in the 1936 film adaptation is what made it a classic); 'Oklahoma!' was the title song of that musical, premiering in 1943; 'Gee, Officer Krupke' comes from 'West Side Story', which debuted on Broadway in 1957; 'Music of the Night' comes from the 1986 musical 'The Phantom of the Opera'. Drew Carey placed them in order faster than any of the other five contestants.

He raised $500,000 for the Ohio Library Foundation, after deciding not to risk it on the final question - which was just as well, as he would have been wrong!

Answer: Medicine

She banked the $500,000 (which went to the For All Kids Foundation) by identifying Napoleon as the person to whom Beethoven originally planned to dedicate his third symphony, known as the 'Eroica'. He changed his mind, either because he was disenchanted by Bonaparte's declaring himself emperor, or because he was worried about losing noble patrons, and the first published score had an Italian title which translates into English as 'Heroic Symphony, Composed to celebrate the memory of a great man' - sufficiently vague to avoid upsetting anyone.

Answer: Abraham Lincoln

It sort of makes you doubt the value of the audience help when 1% voted for each of the two names which had already been eliminated, Benjamin Franklin and Teddy Roosevelt. Carl Sandburg won two Pulitzers for his poetry, and one for the Lincoln biography, which was originally published in six volumes, with the final ones appearing in 1939. Fortunately, 79% of the audience either knew or guessed the answer.

The celebrity chef did not know the name of the first woman to command a space shuttle mission (Eileen Collins), so walked away with $125,000 for St. Michael's Special School.

Answer: Legs of a compass

After Joe Trela, a previous million dollar winner, could not provide an answer in time, the second lifeline removed the options of Bow and arrow and Sides of a house. Donne is describing the two souls as being separate, yet permanently interconnected, so that the actions of each affect the other, as the point of a compass which is placed at the centre of the circle guides the other leg as it marks out the path. Does anybody still use compasses to draw arcs?

Queen Latifah had Diamond Record as the new award the RIAA created in 1999, awarded for the sale of over 10 million copies. That earned $250,000 for The Lancelot H. Owens Scholarship Foundation.

Answer: Monocle

Lance Bass, whose celebrity status stems from his membership of the boy band NSYNC, was playing for the Childs Children Foundation. He won the Fastest Finger competition to make it into the Hot Seat by correctly identifying the order in which four groups had their first top 40 hit.

It took him 5.65 seconds to place James Brown, Sugarhill Gang, Salt-N-Pepa and Smashing Pumpkins into the correct order. His segment was aired on his birthday, 4 May.

Answer: The African Queen

In order, the films were 'The African Queen' (1951), 'The French Connection' (1971), 'Chinatown' (1974) and 'Good Morning, Vietnam' (1987). All excellent films, in different ways, that you should see if you haven't.

Ray Romano may not have had the fastest finger, but he made a good run to raise $125,000 for the New York Police Department Chapter DARE. He walked away from the $250,000 question, because he was not sure enough that the capital of the country Georgia was Tbilisi - it was and is.