Once again, I'll use this thread to talk about Who Wants to be a Millionaire, while Jeopardy is still on hiatus. Last night, they had the CNN anchor pair of Jake Tapper and Kaitlan Collins as celebrity contestants. I thought this would be interesting, because A) they both seem smart, and B) perhaps they'd loosen-up.
It became evident that the pairing had the benefit of combining 2 generations; as Tapper is about 60, while Collins is maybe half that. So when a question about "The Love Boat" arose, Tapper was on it, while Collins didn't have a clue. And then later, Collins immediately knew the song "Hot to Go!" by Chappel Roan, while Tapper was of no help.
They stumbled a little with the $125,000 question, about a gold toilet art piece at the Guggenheim. But they used a lifeline and got through it. And then they got to the $250,000 question:
In my opinion, this is a flawed question. Because no person, other than Willy Wonka (as suggested by Collins) would possibly know this. There is no amount of intelligence, common sense, or reasoning that would lead a person to the correct answer; and no "expert" phone-a-friend who'd have any better idea than anyone else. After they used the 50-50 to narrow it down to "plug" or "pad", they called Abby Phillips, another CNN anchor, and she was also totally guessing. She guessed "pad" at the last second, and so they said "pad", and lost. It was "plug". There's really no logic to the answer; it's just what Hershey's calls it. The team dropped down to $32,000, and called it a day.
There was no way they could've known the answer, so they should've taken the $125,000 and quit! They went so far as to phone another CNN person, who clearly demonstrated that it wasn't a question with a "knowable" answer. They should have taken that as a sign to take the money (for charity) and run. I don't know what possessed them to guess.
Edit: Jake Tapper is 56, and Kaitlan Collins is 33. So they are definitely in the father/daughter realm.
