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Millionaire: Where would you place this question?
Adam Nedeff:
I would put it at about $32,000. Depending on a contestant's age, it might be a little tough, but considering how often you see or hear the phrase "the long weekend" invoked in stories about the assassination, it's pretty gettable.
parliboy:
--- Quote from: SuperMatch93 on April 29, 2023, 02:07:03 PM ---and some made the good point that it would vary based on the era of the show (lower on Meredith's, for instance).
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I think that brings to mind an activity that assists with this. Take all of the ladders from the different era and figure out where the difficulties line up, and make one larger ladder out of it.
Otm Shank:
--- Quote from: PYLdude on April 29, 2023, 03:06:47 PM ---I wouldn’t even put it on the board. It’s just too obscure to be worth it.
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The Kennedy assassination was a few years before I was born, but I knew immediately that this was a Thursday [editing my derp] Friday. First of all, it's not obscure to those who lived through it, just the same as those of us who remember 9/11 know that it was a Tuesday. (Maybe I'm assuming that is common knowledge, though.)
Part of my learning of the event was that it was a pall over the weekend, and the oft-told story of how the NFL forged ahead with its schedule, even though the games would not be televised due to unbroken continuous news coverage. I also specifically remember hearing the Oswald murder being on Day 3 and it was a Sunday.
Again, to draw in the NFL as the marker, one of the reasons I remember the Pearl Harbor attack was on a Sunday is that the military personnel in attendance for the Washington football team were paged to return to their command post. Weird that football factors into two events like that.
Beyond those three dates, I don't know if there is any other unscheduled national event that anyone would reasonably know the day of the week for.
tl;dr, I don't think the day of the week of the JFK assassination is an obscure question, but it might have a generational sliding scale of difficulty. (I also thought the president who appeared on Laugh-In was a slam dunk for a $1 million question, so maybe it's just the way my brain is wired.)
Denials:
--- Quote from: Otm Shank on April 29, 2023, 07:47:55 PM ---
--- Quote from: PYLdude on April 29, 2023, 03:06:47 PM ---I wouldn’t even put it on the board. It’s just too obscure to be worth it.
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The Kennedy assassination was a few years before I was born, but I knew immediately that this was a Thursday.
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...Except...it wasn't.
Otm Shank:
Right. I fell right into that trap of saying final answer on the initial instinct without working it through and verifying. Of course it was over the weekend, as I said, Oswald was shot on the 3rd day (Sunday) after the assassination on Friday.
Misremembered in the moment, but the point was that I heard the historical account framed around that set of days.
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