I’m an old guy, 74 next month, and I remember watching the episodes with Dan Blonsky in particular since he was playing the week of my 50th birthday (important only to me). I was recently divorced and living alone, although I was at a friend's house one night and the same person was at my place the night he won. Dan was such a confident player and now, almost 24 years later, I’d guess he still is. I loved Who Wants to be a Millionaire and watched it faithfully every night it was on.
@@Mark-wx6xr As the contestant himself said, all the answer choices revolve around the number 93 million. No you don't need to know the answer already.
@@Mark-wx6xr From the childhood we were all told the fact that light from the sun takes 8 minutes to reach the earth. The speed of light is also a well known thing 300.000 km per sec. It took me about half a minute to do the math and convert it into miles (i am from Europe) As a result i got 100 million miles which is close to correct answer
Indeed, why would someone know who was on the cover of a magazine issued almost 50 years ago? "Hollywoodland" is also one of those useless trivia things to know, nobody needs to know that (I did happen to know, by chance). But knowing at least approximately how far the earth is away from the sun is something every educated person should be capable of. It's not like the answers were 91 mio, 92 mio, 93 mio and 94 mio ...
@@n.b.380 The distance is actually called "astronomical unit" and it's not that hard to know it is roughly 150 mio km. That combined with knowing how many km there are in a mile immediately leads to the correct answer. 🙂
Great job! No hesitation in any of his answers! I still have the first issue of People magazine from 1974 with Mia Farrow on the cover! The last two questions were super easy to me!
I still remember the distance from a 4th grade musical I was in in 1960! These questions were a bit harder than the ones the first million dollar winner had, but they still were amazingly easy for a lot of money...
When I saw the million dollar question, I literally said to myself, "ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!? I know that answer!! 93 million miles! Where's my million bucks??" 😂
I haven't watched this programme in yrs, but here in the UK the host usually asks (especially with high amounts at stake) the contestant whether they want the amount divulged to the 'phone a friend'. Personally I always thought that was fair.
I live outside of the US, hence I don't know the pledge of allegiance, so wouldn't have even got to sit in the chair. We don't have pink slips here, I've never played cat's cradle or smoked a cigar, so even if I was in the chair, I would have blown my lifelines and possibly still not made it to the $1,000. But I knew Lassie was a collie ($300), cells in an amoeba ($500), WTC ($4k), Colombia ($16k), Hollywoodland ($32k), Switzerland (125k), Mia Farrow ($500k) and I still remember the distance between the earth and the sun from my schooldays in the 1960s. But would have flunked all the others, and therefore got nowhere. My point being that for me personally, the early questions were just as difficult (or easy, whichever way you look at it) as the later ones. Anyway, all kudos to Dan, he played the perfect game and I'm delighted for him, he seemed like a real down-to-earth kind of guy, and I bet he got his 'personal issues' sorted pretty darn quickly after the win !!
Never heard of cat's cradle either, that one, the comedians for 64k and the 250k one about Betty Ford (although I'd have guessed that one right, but no way I would have taken the risk) were typical questions that could only be asked in one specific country. No chance with those. But the more "international" ones were quite simple actually. Only the question about People magazine was really tough, but for half a million, completely fair.
I looked up this guy's name and found his web page and then emailed him 😂😂😂😂 I was going to ask him if he gave Jeff any money but decided against it 😂😂😂
Oh Danny boy, you are a millionaire. From glen to glen and down the mountainside. 😂 Dan Blonsky became the second person to win $1 MILLION on the us version of who wants to be a millionaire in 2000.
It is funny how the questions break down. I was 10 when I watched this the night it happened and I knew the answer. But I definitely didn't know who was on Laugh In lol
Dan Blonsky was on the shows on Jan. 16 & 18, 2000. 6:50 "Which NYC building was bombed by terrorists in 1993?" 19:00 "Which celebrity appeared on the first cover of People?" How do we know Jeff didn't just look it up online? Yes, they had internet back then 21:00 Actually the million dollar question is something any 4th graders would know.
I cant believe someone would say that about John Carpenter. He didnt have his parents there at the spot so he called them in a way that was allowed (its not like you could pick up your phone and call them).
I remember watching this episode live. The easiest million dollar question of all time. I was 9 when this episode aired and knew immediately. Almost rigged if you ask me.
He was already an accountant and my favourite winners and half-mil winners were the less well off ones (Kevin Smith, Justin the DMO, Bob-O) but I respect good game and good learning. He seems nice.
To quote the first "Millionaire"-Winner: "after the taxes, it's not change-your-life kind of money if you want to eat every day." Adjusted for Inflation the Million Dollar in 2000 would be worth around 1,7 Million Dollars now. As Winnings are considered Income and a yearly income of 1,7 Million will place you in the highest tax-bracket you will pay about 37-50% taxes, so you will be left with about 1,1 Million to 850.000 $. Sure, that is nothing to scoff at but you know.... You buy a nice house, you put something to the side for the future and that Million is gone fast.
@@RConnickJr That depends what you mean with the general term "people". Do you mean "world population"? To get an accurate assessment, you would have to adjust the winnings to the local PCI, as the show does in other Countries.
@@Marcel_Augustin The median lifetime earnings for the world's workers is a bit under two million dollars. Putting aside the fact that by definition that means a massive amount of people make significantly less than that, that means that even today getting one million dollars in a single lump sum would be a massive windfall. You aren't very good at this game.
This is the one million dollar question that I knew the answer with no hesitation. That stuck in my head in HS when I learned it. Easiest question ever!
Considering he put all the blame on this Law partner(if he was wrong) i hope he gave him 100k+ because without him he would have walked away on 250k and not won 1 million.
man, i would answer the question because i know the speed of light (who doesnt) and i knew it takes aproximmately 8 minutes to reach earth, i calculated 144M km and 1 mile is about 1.6 km so there was no other suitable answer
Guarantee you the original run of “Millionaire“ would’ve lasted longer (although 1999/2002 isn’t a bad run at all,) had ABC kept it on one night a week instead of getting greedy/overconfident and over exposing it.
I just hate the million dollar question, it's super easy if you were a 90s kid I guess that kept getting tought about the solar system and such, random questions earlier would've got me but the million dollar question was so easy
@@Trep3 Why should it been more difficult back then - Were they still measuring and not sure about the distance? I didn't know it by heart, and I use metric system - With 3 small & rounded calculations I have ended up at 90 millions. Close enough to give a call. Way too easy for the million-$-question.
It's kind of weird to ask a pretty subjective question at a million, with ZERO clarification about Earth's "generally accepted distance" or "Earth's average distance...". I guess it's made to be tough, but also opening the door for technicalities.
I only watched the very last bit so I assume there were some pretty hard questions, but how on Earth can that be a $1million question. I knew the answer to that when I was 6 years old.
Speed of light is 300million m/s (common knowledge) A mile is 1609m, approximate to 1500 for simple maths 300million÷1500 200,000miles per second 12 million miles per minute Light takes 8 minutes to reach the Earth from the sun. I heard many times the fact that if the sun disappeared right now it wokld take 8 minutes for us to find out
the actual distance in miles 186,282.4 miles per sec and its only 299792.458 metres close to 300k but not quite the time is 8 min 20 secfr 186,262.4 x 500 = 93141200 miles
@@vincenzofranchelli2201 but being almost 300 km or miles is a bit of a distance every second that is about how much off the round figures are for the extra seconds you ar twice the distance acorss the the US off. At thatspeeds in the tmie it takes you to sneeze you have gone 186Mi 300KM
considering how easy questions were back then ^^ and the questions suck in every country now. especially German questions are straight out of wonderland, even with a very good education and a physics degree + reading all day you wouldnt probably be able to do 32k without a joker.
why hurry the winners away so fast. At least an interview after and let them share their thoughts on the win and how what was going through his mind at the final question.
If time is remaining they want to get th next player in playing. At the end of the first episode they gave the names o the players for the next game after Jeff left. If they talked to jeff they would lose any chance t making money. he takes until te end of gsame none of those mention even get to play a fast finger question
As a resident of the UK, its interesting to know nothing of US culture and yet I do 'OK' at the UK version. I wonder if US residents watch the UK version and think the same?
This was refreshing to watch. The first guy to ever win the million was a bit of a douche, so it was cool to see the excitement and gratitude from Dan Blonsky (and his mom).
The most beautiful feeling in this world is to make your mom feel proud with such an unbelievable excitement.
This dude has balls of steel. Zero hesitation or overthinking
Just like sasha
That WTC question hits a lot different in a post 9-11 world
Hits hard like controlled demolition
That fact immediately reminded me of how I felt when I learned Oswald tried assassinating another politician 6 months before Kennedy.
YEA LIKE THE CIA BLOWING IT UP!
crazy right
@@surestrange yeah... That's been thouroghly debunked
I’m an old guy, 74 next month, and I remember watching the episodes with Dan Blonsky in particular since he was playing the week of my 50th birthday (important only to me). I was recently divorced and living alone, although I was at a friend's house one night and the same person was at my place the night he won. Dan was such a confident player and now, almost 24 years later, I’d guess he still is. I loved Who Wants to be a Millionaire and watched it faithfully every night it was on.
Dude's a lawyer. Confidence comes with that profession.
That 1m dollar question was easier than some of the earlier ones!
They're only easier if you know them. If you're a historian you'd know who ruled X in 1357. Ask who played X in Dynasty they'd be stumped.
@@Mark-wx6xr As the contestant himself said, all the answer choices revolve around the number 93 million. No you don't need to know the answer already.
@@Mark-wx6xr
From the childhood we were all told the fact that light from the sun takes 8 minutes to reach the earth.
The speed of light is also a well known thing 300.000 km per sec.
It took me about half a minute to do the math and convert it into miles (i am from Europe)
As a result i got 100 million miles which is close to correct answer
Indeed, why would someone know who was on the cover of a magazine issued almost 50 years ago? "Hollywoodland" is also one of those useless trivia things to know, nobody needs to know that (I did happen to know, by chance). But knowing at least approximately how far the earth is away from the sun is something every educated person should be capable of. It's not like the answers were 91 mio, 92 mio, 93 mio and 94 mio ...
@@n.b.380 The distance is actually called "astronomical unit" and it's not that hard to know it is roughly 150 mio km. That combined with knowing how many km there are in a mile immediately leads to the correct answer. 🙂
That $1,000,000 Question was so easy. 23 years ago
the fact that he had his mom hold on that check and didnt even look like he wanted to take it off her is amazing
This is the first time I've seen a successful phone a friend in any version of who wants to be a millionaire.
There's just something so likeable about this guy.
He smiles, he doesnt overthink, he answers at the speed of which we cant get bored of, ofcourse u will like him
I just hope that when the contestants win the 1 million that everyone around that they know personally don't start becoming overly obsessed with him
He's won one million dollars congratulations 💰🤑
I remember thinking, "you've got to be kidding me" when that million dollar question was revealed. That was way too easy.
Only easy if you know it
Fair play to the chap... congrats, he who dares wins.... Richard from UK
Good Haiku
@@KengaruZNot quite, his comment was 5 / 6 / 5, he’s missing a syllable. Damn.
I hope to see more full episodes of the old millionaire I miss these so much I hope to see the episodes in order from the each season
Great job! No hesitation in any of his answers! I still have the first issue of People magazine from 1974 with Mia Farrow on the cover! The last two questions were super easy to me!
Did we watch the same video? He hesitated quite often.
@Jen J Well maybe I didn't watch the whole video!
Proud mom 😍
Miss those days
The million dollar question was the easiest for me.
I learned that from The Jetsons. And they all said cartoons don’t teach kids anything
That was an easy question. You're right. Learned the Mia Farrow answer only a few months ago playing bar trivia.
I still remember the distance from a 4th grade musical I was in in 1960! These questions were a bit harder than the ones the first million dollar winner had, but they still were amazingly easy for a lot of money...
Same here. I learned it from an old Popeye episode. The things that stick in our brain as kids!
Nerd lol
his mother was ready to spend that check
4:12 Italian here, the other term is "scotta"
I wondered!
When I saw the million dollar question, I literally said to myself, "ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!? I know that answer!! 93 million miles! Where's my million bucks??" 😂
I recently looked him up and saw that he is currently an attorney
That million dollar question was too easy. I knew the answer before it even came up.
1/18/2000 Wow, classic stuff. I love it.❤️👍
I miss Regis Philbin.
@ZZCossack ZZ you don't need to be a downer about it. You don't got nothing nice to say then don't say it at all.
@ZZCossack ZZ yes I do have a life. I'm autistic
@ZZCossack ZZ Imagine being this butthurt over Orange Man
May he rest in piss
January 18th 2000 bring a lot of memories
Boy made his mama proud
I haven't watched this programme in yrs, but here in the UK the host usually asks (especially with high amounts at stake) the contestant whether they want the amount divulged to the 'phone a friend'. Personally I always thought that was fair.
Back when a million dollars had purchasing power. In 2022, a mil can get you a medium sized condo.
Not I’m at the edge of my seat knowing the outcome 🤣😂🤣 this show was good
I hope he give a good money tips to his friend over the phone , If was me at will give him at least 30.000 dollars
He's definitely owes Jeff some money!
Shut up about the sun! SHUT UP ABOUT THE SUN!
YES!
Who said that? Sounded familiar.
@@matthaddock1817 Gabe from office
@@suriyaelango703 Oh yeah! Him!
Easy now, skeleton man
I live outside of the US, hence I don't know the pledge of allegiance, so wouldn't have even got to sit in the chair. We don't have pink slips here, I've never played cat's cradle or smoked a cigar, so even if I was in the chair, I would have blown my lifelines and possibly still not made it to the $1,000. But I knew Lassie was a collie ($300), cells in an amoeba ($500), WTC ($4k), Colombia ($16k), Hollywoodland ($32k), Switzerland (125k), Mia Farrow ($500k) and I still remember the distance between the earth and the sun from my schooldays in the 1960s. But would have flunked all the others, and therefore got nowhere. My point being that for me personally, the early questions were just as difficult (or easy, whichever way you look at it) as the later ones. Anyway, all kudos to Dan, he played the perfect game and I'm delighted for him, he seemed like a real down-to-earth kind of guy, and I bet he got his 'personal issues' sorted pretty darn quickly after the win !!
Never heard of cat's cradle either, that one, the comedians for 64k and the 250k one about Betty Ford (although I'd have guessed that one right, but no way I would have taken the risk) were typical questions that could only be asked in one specific country. No chance with those. But the more "international" ones were quite simple actually. Only the question about People magazine was really tough, but for half a million, completely fair.
If you live in the UK you'd play the UK version with UK questions.
How does he not have any idea and then he just spontaneously forms a map in his head? Wow!
Lol 😂
Is it just me that I knew it, or that million dollar question was very easy 😀 P.S. Why this show isn't on anymore, such a nostalgia..
I don't know who's editing these videos but they should get a pink slip... 95% could be cut out of this so we could enjoy watching it.
I looked up this guy's name and found his web page and then emailed him 😂😂😂😂 I was going to ask him if he gave Jeff any money but decided against it 😂😂😂
Oh Danny boy, you are a millionaire. From glen to glen and down the mountainside. 😂 Dan Blonsky became the second person to win $1 MILLION on the us version of who wants to be a millionaire in 2000.
That $1,000,000 question was the easiest one.
Tough luck, Joel
I knew the answer to his final question way back in the 6th grade.
It is funny how the questions break down. I was 10 when I watched this the night it happened and I knew the answer. But I definitely didn't know who was on Laugh In lol
the US questions are much easier than the UK show's questions
Dan Blonsky was on the shows on Jan. 16 & 18, 2000. 6:50 "Which NYC building was bombed by terrorists in 1993?" 19:00 "Which celebrity appeared on the first cover of People?" How do we know Jeff didn't just look it up online? Yes, they had internet back then 21:00 Actually the million dollar question is something any 4th graders would know.
The last question was the easiest of them all.
He's more human (and a class act) than John Carpenter.
Thank you for sharing.
and why was john carpenter not "class" act ?
no need to compare the two :)
@@hekermen6969
It doesn't require rocket science to know why, right?
@@zeinabk1840
And it doesn't wrong to compare them, either.
I cant believe someone would say that about John Carpenter. He didnt have his parents there at the spot so he called them in a way that was allowed (its not like you could pick up your phone and call them).
Good times
paused the video to count the final answer lmao
Jeff was the MVP here
His mother was more excited over the win than he was
I hope he gave his friend $66k, 1/15th of $1M for answering that question.
I remember watching this episode live. The easiest million dollar question of all time. I was 9 when this episode aired and knew immediately.
Almost rigged if you ask me.
First winning contestant that was truly on his own.
He was already an accountant and my favourite winners and half-mil winners were the less well off ones (Kevin Smith, Justin the DMO, Bob-O) but I respect good game and good learning. He seems nice.
He was an attorney.
To be honest , John Carpanter has a lot more difficult questions.
John Carpenter's questions were easy peasy until about Question 12.
@@AZambri1 that religion question was easy as well...
Back when $1 million actually meant something
To quote the first "Millionaire"-Winner: "after the taxes, it's not change-your-life kind of money if you want to eat every day."
Adjusted for Inflation the Million Dollar in 2000 would be worth around 1,7 Million Dollars now. As Winnings are considered Income and a yearly income of 1,7 Million will place you in the highest tax-bracket you will pay about 37-50% taxes, so you will be left with about 1,1 Million to 850.000 $. Sure, that is nothing to scoff at but you know.... You buy a nice house, you put something to the side for the future and that Million is gone fast.
umm I'll still take it
It still means something. The overwhelmingly vast percentage of people will never make that much money in an entire lifetime of toil.
@@RConnickJr That depends what you mean with the general term "people". Do you mean "world population"? To get an accurate assessment, you would have to adjust the winnings to the local PCI, as the show does in other Countries.
@@Marcel_Augustin The median lifetime earnings for the world's workers is a bit under two million dollars. Putting aside the fact that by definition that means a massive amount of people make significantly less than that, that means that even today getting one million dollars in a single lump sum would be a massive windfall.
You aren't very good at this game.
What ?? THATS THE $1000000 question?!!!!!! Lol
Years went by, and then jason mraz wrote the song "93 million miles."
“ the moderator looks like WEDNESDAY from the American Gods “
-Eyes
22:35
*REGIS PHILBIN: You've just won a million dollars!* 😲
22:38
*REGIS PHILBIN: WOW! 😮*
*REGIS PHILBIN: Fabulous!* 😄
93 million, hundred percent, final answer.
This is the one million dollar question that I knew the answer with no hesitation. That stuck in my head in HS when I learned it. Easiest question ever!
Dan Blonsky from WPLG.
Larry Lamb 😂 funny name
The million dollar question was trivial.
Million dollar question should be more like $1000 tbh
world trade centre question in 2000!!!!
I wonder if they write checks for every amount.
I love 💕 u
22:50
*RYAN CHAR: YAY!!!* 😄👏
Wow
Considering he put all the blame on this Law partner(if he was wrong) i hope he gave him 100k+ because without him he would have walked away on 250k and not won 1 million.
No he would have gone down to 32k.
that last question was easy as hell for a million dollar question
That's why you must answer the other 14 questions first in order to get to th easiest one.
How can someone even know the cover of people magazine from 1974 ?!
SHUT UP ABOUT THE SUN! SHUT UP ABOUT THE SUN!!!
I knew the million answer in km which is about 150.000.000km, in miles I worked out around 93 millions.
man, i would answer the question because i know the speed of light (who doesnt) and i knew it takes aproximmately 8 minutes to reach earth, i calculated 144M km and 1 mile is about 1.6 km so there was no other suitable answer
It's actually about 91.4 million if I'm not mistaken, but yeah, it's close.
👏👏
Guarantee you the original run of “Millionaire“ would’ve lasted longer (although 1999/2002 isn’t a bad run at all,) had ABC kept it on one night a week instead of getting greedy/overconfident and over exposing it.
Seeing Chris Rock really "hits" different in 2023
Wonder if was easier to find a lady friend after winning
I watched him and John Carpenter played
Compared to the UK cheat Charles Ingram, they played totally differently
I just hate the million dollar question, it's super easy if you were a 90s kid I guess that kept getting tought about the solar system and such, random questions earlier would've got me but the million dollar question was so easy
That million dollar question was piss easy. A child could’ve told you that
He’s wrong its 93 million plus 222 miles.😅
back in 2000? im not so sure
Now now, be nice
@@Trep3 Why should it been more difficult back then - Were they still measuring and not sure about the distance?
I didn't know it by heart, and I use metric system - With 3 small & rounded calculations I have ended up at 90 millions. Close enough to give a call.
Way too easy for the million-$-question.
@@Ronin_666_ it wasn't exactly common knowledge, and it wasn't so easily available like it is today
The million question was simple
It's kind of weird to ask a pretty subjective question at a million, with ZERO clarification about Earth's "generally accepted distance" or "Earth's average distance...". I guess it's made to be tough, but also opening the door for technicalities.
I only watched the very last bit so I assume there were some pretty hard questions, but how on Earth can that be a $1million question. I knew the answer to that when I was 6 years old.
I think they make the questions easy, but people tend to mess up by overthinking them.
They want people to win.
I think the $500,000 question is normally the hardest. It’s normally harder the $1 million question
jeff crockett googled the hell out of that mia farrow question lol
wish i could google in less than 30 seconds
type who sang in my fair lady....doesnt take 30 seconds for most
In 1993 ! 😂
how much money did he give his mate Jeff???
How could anybody know who was on the first People magazine cover?
someone who hgas read every issue
Maybe someone who reads the damn thing?
It is a very good trivia question.
Someone who has Google lol. You can hear him typing.
Speed of light is 300million m/s (common knowledge)
A mile is 1609m, approximate to 1500 for simple maths
300million÷1500
200,000miles per second
12 million miles per minute
Light takes 8 minutes to reach the Earth from the sun. I heard many times the fact that if the sun disappeared right now it wokld take 8 minutes for us to find out
I did a very similar calculation - Ended up at 90 millions, close enough to "risk" the answer.
Way too easy for the million-$-question.
@@Ronin_666_ ye i forgot to write the last step, 96 million ofc 12*8, close enough to put 93m for 1 million
the actual distance in miles 186,282.4 miles per sec and its only 299792.458 metres close to 300k but not quite the time is 8 min 20 secfr 186,262.4 x 500 = 93141200 miles
@@0011peace well miles is actuqlly 1609.344m and we can add 100s more decimal places but that level of precision is not useful
@@vincenzofranchelli2201 but being almost 300 km or miles is a bit of a distance every second that is about how much off the round figures are for the extra seconds you ar twice the distance acorss the the US off. At thatspeeds in the tmie it takes you to sneeze you have gone 186Mi 300KM
Crap I would have said 39M
considering how easy questions were back then ^^ and the questions suck in every country now. especially German questions are straight out of wonderland, even with a very good education and a physics degree + reading all day you wouldnt probably be able to do 32k without a joker.
Did legitimately win the Million dollars? Considering American game shows get taxed
why hurry the winners away so fast. At least an interview after and let them share their thoughts on the win and how what was going through his mind at the final question.
Some sort of legal reasons, making sure they haven't cheated or something like that.
If time is remaining they want to get th next player in playing. At the end of the first episode they gave the names o the players for the next game after Jeff left. If they talked to jeff they would lose any chance t making money. he takes until te end of gsame none of those mention even get to play a fast finger question
You can tell the call a friend guy googled the answer. 19:26
As a resident of the UK, its interesting to know nothing of US culture and yet I do 'OK' at the UK version. I wonder if US residents watch the UK version and think the same?
last question is all wrong the distance is actually 91.404 million miles
It's approximate Einstein
This was refreshing to watch. The first guy to ever win the million was a bit of a douche, so it was cool to see the excitement and gratitude from Dan Blonsky (and his mom).
first question was bs most every body do not get a pink slip when fired
it used to be a thing and this was 2000. And. term for getting fird s gettimng a pink slip