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Title: 100 Grand--query for the enlightened
Post by: Blanquepage on April 01, 2005, 05:34:20 PM

I'm kind of fascinated by this show, so here are two rather obscure questions that I thought would be worth a shot at asking:

Does anyone know if any contestant came even close to winning the $100K on 100 Grand? Also, were women not eligible to participate?

--Jamie

Title: 100 Grand--query for the enlightened
Post by: uncamark on April 04, 2005, 04:19:17 PM

[quote name=\'Jimmy Fiono Coyne\' date=\'Apr 1 2005, 05:34 PM\']I'm kind of fascinated by this show, so here are two rather obscure questions that I thought would be worth a shot at asking:

Does anyone know if any contestant came even close to winning the $100K on 100 Grand? Also, were women not eligible to participate?

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IIRC from my very younger years, no one got close to the $100,000 before the plug got pulled.

And I assume there was no ban of women, it was just that per normal, their applicant pool was overwhelmingly male--and being a prime time show, that wasn't considered that big a problem back then.