Mike Chearney

Mike Chearney, from Baltimore, MD, was a contestant who appeared on the U.S. version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? on January 9-10, 2019, and left with $5,000 after missing the $30,000 question.

Mike's Run to the Million (Partial)[]

$500 (1 of 14) - Not Timed
According to Brides magazine’s most recent American Wedding Study, 36% of grooms choose to wear a suit on their wedding day, while 54% wear what?
⬥ A: Bermuda shorts	⬥ B: Overalls
⬥ C: Tuxedo	⬥ D: Naughty nurse costume

$1,000 (2 of 14) - Not Timed
Due to some of Earth’s mass moving closer to its axis, making it spin faster, what world-rocking 2010 event may have shortened the length of a day by 1.26 microseconds?
⬥ A: The Chilean earthquake	⬥ B: The ScarJo/Ryan Reynolds divorce
⬥ C: The launch of Instagram	⬥ D: Lady Gaga wearing that meat dress

$2,000 (3 of 14) - Not Timed
“Position your liquid assets in your oral cavity” is another way of expressing the suggestion contained in which common idiom?
⬥ A: Don’t count your chickens until they hatch	⬥ B: Look before you leap
⬥ C: Go back to the drawing board	⬥ D: Put your money where your mouth is

$3,000 (4 of 14) - Not Timed
Arguably the best in the world at the beginning of WWII, which country’s air force was known as the Luftwaffe?
⬥ A: Japan	⬥ B: Germany
⬥ C: Italy	⬥ D: France

$5,000 (5 of 14) - Not Timed
The orange has not cornered the market on being orange. In nature, which of these other fruits is also typically orange? "Ask the Audience" lifeline used
⬥ A: Kumquat	⬥ B: Pomegranate
⬥ C: Guava	⬥ D: Boysenberry
Ask the Audience Results: A: 79% ⬥ B: 3% ⬥ C: 17% ⬥ D: 1%

Mike feels like a kumquat is orange. He asked the audience.

$7,000 (6 of 14) - Not Timed
Expanding on the original’s theme, “Out of the Maze” is the 2018 posthumously published sequel to what 1998 self-help classic by Spencer Johnson?
⬥ A: The Secret	⬥ B: The Garden Within
⬥ C: Who Moved My Cheese?	⬥ D: Blink

$10,000 (7 of 14) - Not Timed
As he approached 50 in 2017, what band’s lead singer who’s usually known by the first name Billy released an album as William Patrick Corgan?
⬥ A: Smashing Pumpkins	⬥ B: Nine Inch Nails
⬥ C: Weezer	⬥ D: Rage Against the Machine

$20,000 (8 of 14) - Not Timed
Perhaps a bit too delicious, what dish was partly responsible for making its namesake ingredient extinct in 1914?
⬥ A: Mourning dove soup	⬥ B: Turkey vulture stew
⬥ C: Roast Arctic tern	⬥ D: Passenger pigeon pie

The klaxon called time and Mike would return tomorrow with $20,000 and two lifelines left.

Sources[]

Mike Chearney's Run to the Million (Day 1)