New Who Wants to Be a Millionaire - Random Trivia Answers

• A1) A) Air conditioner. Contestant Ellene Weber of Minneapolis, Minnesota had to Ask the Audience here, probably because the pressure of the 15-second timer got to her. Ninety-five percent of the audience set her straight.
• A2) D) The Love Guru. Chopra claimed the critics were bashing the movie based on only its 150-second trailer, but he is rather biased by having a cameo appearance in the film.
• A3) B) Javier Bardem. The Spaniard was named Best Supporting Actor for his role as Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men.
• A4) B) The Lone Ranger. The Lone Ranger television series used Gioachino Rossini's music as its theme song.
• A5) D) Sudan. Weber crashed out on this question after her Phone a Friend dad Lloyd waveringly claimed he was 100% sure it was Somalia.
• A6) C) 1926. "Sesquicentennial" means every 150 years.
• A7) B) Justice Alito. The four justices are John Paul Stevens, Samuel Alito, David Souter, and Stephen Breyer.
• A8) A) Professional fighter. Mixed martial artist Kimbo Slice, born as Kevin Ferguson, is won his first three professional MMA fights, but was dropped in a mere 14 seconds by last-minute substitute Seth Petruzelli on October 4, 2008.
• A9) C) New York Jets. The New York audience only barely favored the correct answer with 37% of the votes, but stand-up comic Lawrence Thomas trusted their local knowledge.
• A10) B) Clam. Californian Lawrence Thomas relied on his Ask the Expert lifeline, but Bill Nye (the Science Guy) was only able to incorrectly guess Sausage.
• A11) B) Minneapolis, MN. Contestant Eric Cunningham from Brooklyn, New York, used his Ask the Expert lifeline to poll Nye, who gave a 50% to 90% confidence rating to what turned out to be the correct answer.
• A12) C) John Milton. Cunningham decided to bail here instead of guessing.