I made it a few minutes ago. Questions were:

Arrange these words in a 2007 TV movie in order: School, High, Two, Musical
Where are these on a guitar, top to bottom: Bridge, Sound hole, Headpiece, Neck
Place these amounts of change from low to high: 5 quarters, 20 nickels, 9 dimes, 99 prob-- er... pennies
Place these Civil War battles from where they took place, from the north: Shiloh, Manassas, Gettysburg, Tupelo (?)
Place these novels in geographical order of where they took place, starting with the Atlantic Ocean and moving east (Sorry, I don't remember the choices here, but the titles should clue you in if you get it.)

Weird. For some reason at lunch yesterday we were talking about bridges (people were comparing travel stories) and someone mentioned that the Chesapeake was the longest bridge/tunnel in the U.S. and second in the world.

Now that it's over, one of my biff questions was put these Jenny Craig spokespeople in order of pitching: Kirstie Alley, Queen Latifah, Valerie Bertinelli and one other I can't remember. To me, the funnier way to do that question would be to rank them in pounds regained.


--Mike

How does putting things in order quickly predict how good of a contestant one will be on the actual show?

Why not a series of multiple choice questions to qualify?

Congrats to those who qualified. Everyone may have to stop at the $1000 level to get as many people on as possible, though. :)

I've always wondered why it's not a combination of the two. Two fastest finger Q's (one hard, one difficult) and then one multiple choice Q in each of the three tiers.


--Mike

What's the difference between a hard Q and a difficult Q?

Also, I must be the most scatterbrained person ever, because I haven't even remembered to call in and try this once.

I'm not sure anyone was making that distinction, and anyone who did would just be assigning their own arbitrary distinction between two words that are, for all practical purposes, synonymous.

Oops, meant one easy and one difficult.

And an "oops" from me too, for not catching Mike's slip and not understanding what the fuss was about.

** Phylicia Rashad was the other name... missed that one too!

It doesn't. It took you nearly ten years to figure that out?

Because the producers don't want to?

Gave it a shot, and made it to question four. Once I heard "Arrange the following music tempos...", I knew I was on my way to Screwsville.

Two days ago, I made it to number 5 and was hoping for an easy (easy for me) question...nope, it was books and when they were published. I can't remember now what they were, but I knew it had to be a guess from me. I guessed wrong. And I also used Chad's suggestion. It helped tremendously with remembering what the four choices were.

Well, my one attempt at this failed at #2...mistakenly assumed that The Weather Channel has been around forever. Of course, I didn't do any better on the two channels that debuted after I was born (the question was to put cable TV channels in order of launch), and it's not like I ever watched any of the channels in question anyway, so I was pretty much doomed to fail on that one.

/Guess I'll have to do better at the Price contestant search on Sunday
//By which I mean 'not blow too much money at the casino they're holding it at'

I assume those who were expecting a call today didn't get one.

Count me out. There maybe the Pyramid...

Josh

I'm officially 0 for 10. Got to a Question 4 once, and tried to fabrics in order of their invention. Screwed up when I put microfiber first, before rayon, spandex, and polyester.

I'll be glad to whore myself be useful as a PAF if anyone here gets on.

--Charlie