Friday, October 21, 2011

Question time

BuzzerBlog offers a few stills and five questions from ABC's new Million Dollar Mind Game. Host Vernon Kay follows the Russian original What? Where? When? by wearing snazzy evening dress.

Four of the five questions stumped me. But I nailed one immediately, thanks to the "2,400" clue. The query: "This song was written just over a century ago and concerns a young woman’s plea to her boyfriend. Today, it is sung by large groups of people over 2,400 times a year. What is the song?"

It's Take Me Out To The Ballgame, sung by the crowd during the seventh-inning stretch at some 2,400 major league games each year. But I really have no clue on what Barbie has had 108 times. I'm tempted to say breast implants, which would be rude.

Anyway, I can understand how the difficulty of the questions might have soured ABC on the quizzer. But they'll burn off the six episodes opposite football starting Sunday.

UPDATE: Now that I think about it, has Barbie had 108 different jobs? I know there's been Nurse Barbie and Astronaut Barbie and Fashion Model Barbie and...

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