
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire is a game show that rewards participants with cash prizes for answering multiple choice questions correctly. The further they go, the more money they would win.
On 19 November 1999, John Carpenter, an Internal Revenue Service employee from Hamden, CT, made history by being the first $1 million dollar winner of the incredibly popular game show. Carpenter is not only the first winner but the only one to ever not have to use a lifeline to get the correct answer. His final question required him to identify Richard Nixon as the president who appeared on "Laugh In," at which point he finally used a lifeline to call his father. "I don't really need your help. I just wanted to let you know that I'm gonna win the million dollars."
We've turned this exciting episode into a quiz. Test your general knowledge by answering the exact questions he answered to win. See if you could've won that million dollars!
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Get PremiumWe Took Old Episode of Who Wants to Be Millionaire & Turned It into Quiz Questions
For $100: In the "Road Runner and Coyote" cartoons, what famous sound does the Road Runner make?

Beep! Beep!
Ping! Ping!
Vroom! Vroom!
Aooga! Aooga!
For $200: Where should choking victims place their hands to indicate to others that they need help?

On the knees
On the hips
Around the throat
Over the eyes
For $300: Which of these dance names is used to describe a fashionable dot?

Polka
Hora
Swing
Lambada
For $500: In what "language" would you say "ello-hay" to greet your friends?

Dog Latin
Bull Latin
Pig Latin
Duck Latin
For $1,000: What part of a chicken is commonly called the "drumstick"?

Wing
Gizzard
Breast
Leg
For $2,000: What is the only position on a football team that can be "sacked"?

Wide receiver
Tight end
Center
Quarterback
For $4,000: What god of love is often depicted as a chubby winged infant with a bow and arrow?

Zeus
Mercury
Cupid
Poseidon
For $8,000: What Steven Spielberg film climaxes at a place called Devil's Tower?

Raiders of the Lost Ark
E.T. The Extra Terrestrial
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Jurassic Park
For $16,000: In what U.S. town did the famous 1881 shoot-out at the O.K. Corral take place?

Laramie
Dodge City
Tombstone
El Paso
For $32,000: Which of the following months has no U.S. federal holiday?

February
September
November
August
For $64,000: What mythological beast is reborn from its own ashes?

Phoenix
Golem
Dragon
Minotaur
For $125,000: Who developed the first effective vaccine against polio?

Niels Bohr
Albert Sabin
Louis Pasteur
Jonas Salk
For $250,000: Which of the following is not a monotheistic religion?

Judaism
Islam
Christianity
Hinduism
For $500,000: What architect designed the glass pyramid in the courtyard of the Louvre?

Frank Gehry
I.M. Pei
Philip Johnson
Le Corbusier
Finally, for $1 Million: Which of these U.S. Presidents appeared on the television series "Laugh-In"?

Richard Nixon
Lyndon Johnson
Gerald Ford
Jimmy Carter
One Comment
Community Hero I would like my million dollars now.I would like to invest it in the booming stock market and make more money!!!!