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One Thursday evening, I tuned my television set for channel 7 to watch Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Unbeknownst to me, someone I knew was on the show.

There he was, at $32,000 going for $64,000. After he won twice again, he was up to $250,000 and going for a half a million. The question Regis Philbin asked him was - "In the Sound of Music how many kids were there in the Von Trapp Family, six, seven, eight or nine?

If he answered correctly he would win $500,000. If he was wrong he would go back to $32,000. That was quite a difference. He called his phone-a-friend for help and his pal said he thought it was six, but he wasn't quite positive.

I screamed at the TV. Why didn't he ask me to be his phone-a-friend as I knew the answer? He flustered a bit and finally took the $250,000, which was the right move. Six was wrong! There were seven kids in the Von Trapp Family!


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