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March 1

Who wants to be a millionaire

What would happen if the contestant got to the Million Pound question, but then someone from the audience shouted out one of the possible answers? Even if it was not the correct answer, it would surely effect the contestant decision. Would a new question be chosen, or is it not known what would happen? 90.212.183.217 (talk) 00:29, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

I find it funny that in Britain, there's a million pound question, yet in the US, there's a million dollar question (the USD is worth more than the pound). Yet another great reason to live in America :) . Anyway, as to your question, the producers would probably 1. kick that audience member out of the studio, 2. pick a new question for the player, and 3. definitely cut that part out of the show. flaminglawyer 00:44, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Errr - since when has the dollar been worth more than the pound? DuncanHill (talk) 00:48, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Indeed, it's yet another great reason not to live in America (as if you needed one! ;)). --Tango (talk) 01:10, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Flaminglawyer's claim is a textbook example of American exceptionalism. "We're the best, and don't let the facts get in the way!" Malcolm XIV (talk) 14:37, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Yeah. Way to represent there, fellow American... Seriously, in my lifetime, the British pound has always been worth more than the U.S. Dollar. In fact, for a sizable portion of the past several years, the Canadian Dollar has been woth more than the U.S. Dollar. And as to the OP's question, I would guess that a new question would be asked, and the problem would be edited out of the telecast. --Jayron32.talk.contribs 01:23, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Actually, the only time since the 1980s when the Canadian dollar was worth more than the US dollar was during the period September 2007 to July 2008, and for most of that period the two currencies were almost equal and were going back and forth as to which was higher. When Who Wants to be a Millionaire decided to have a small number of Canadian episodes in back in 2000, the top prize was $1,000,000 Canadian, which at the time was less than $700,000 US, but the effective value was similar since Canada does not charge income tax on game show winnings. --Anonymous, 01:58 UTC, March 1, 2009.

In Slumdog Millionaire, the Indian version of Millionaire gives 12 million rupees for the final prize. Who then was a gentleman? (talk) 21:45, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

According to our article, it was 20 million. According to Kaun Banega Crorepati, this is also the case in real life. Algebraist 09:23, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Just as an aside how gutted would you be if you knew the million pound question and someone invalidated it by blurting it out?? Duke Of Wessex (talk) 09:43, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Getting back to the question, something close to this scenario did once happen (or at least a court was convinced that it did). AndrewWTaylor (talk) 12:51, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Ingram was convicted of cheating, that's very different to someone in the audience shouting out the answer against his wishes. --Tango (talk) 13:30, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

I'm sure they would remove the rules violator and give you a new question. But if I knew the old question, I would probably kill the shouter if I didnt get the new one right. Livewireo (talk) 14:47, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Damn. I just re-ruined America's reputation. Oh well, at least America still has Queen, the best band of all time! flaminglawyer 00:16, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

(yes, that one was intentional) flaminglawyer 00:16, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

"Look what you made me" by Yung Berg

In the song Look what you made me from the album of the same name, are there meant to be hissing sounds in some parts of the song? I don't think there should but everytime I download the song it does so --212.120.245.203 (talk) 15:26, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Beethoven pianos

How many keys did pianos have in Beethoven's time? (The Piano article indicates the number was increasing in his lifetime.)

How many octaves did his piano concertos actually use? (I would like to know if there is somewhere to look up such information.)

Thank you. Wanderer57 (talk) 19:31, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Check out the entry on the Fortepiano I think it has what you're looking for. Wolfgangus (talk) 21:18, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Q.2. This is OR, and I've only looked at Concerto No. 5 (the "Emperor"), but it looks like both the extreme notes are F. The lowest F is three octaves below middle C. My score doesn't have bar numbers, but it's about 12/40 of the way through the first movement, judging from the page numbers. The highest F is 4 octaves above middle C, and there's a series of them at 19-21 bars before the end of the movement. That high F also occurs in the 3rd movement, at about 9/23 the way through the movement. Hope that helps. -- JackofOz (talk) 00:10, 2 March 2009 (UTC)