Tara Goodman, an educational researcher from Tallahassee, Florida, was a contestant who appeared on the U.S. version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? on September 19-21, 2000. She won $32,000 after missing her $64,000 question.
Put these actors in chronological order by their feature film debut, starting with the most recent.
⬥ A: John Travolta
⬥ B: Leonardo DiCaprio
⬥ C: Johnny Depp
⬥ D: Freddie Prinze, Jr.
Out of 9 remaining contestants, 5 contestants got it right, but Tara (with a time of 4.02 seconds) was the fastest to correctly answer D-B-C-A, making it to the hot seat.
Tara's Run to the Million[]
$100 (1 of 15) - Not Timed
According to an old adage, what kind of news "is good news"?
⬥ A: Five o'clock news
⬥ B: Daily news
⬥ C: No news
⬥ D: "You're in the will"
$200 (2 of 15) - Not Timed
Which of these is a slang term for a curse or spell that brings bad luck?
⬥ A: Slammy
⬥ B: Clammy
⬥ C: Whammy
⬥ D: Vegas wedding
$300 (3 of 15) - Not Timed
Three books by the same author that deal with a related theme are known as what?
⬥ A: Tribune
⬥ B: Trilogy
⬥ C: Triple play
⬥ D: Snoozefest
$500 (4 of 15) - Not Timed
By definition, which of these words means "a small village"?
⬥ A: Othello
⬥ B: Macbeth
⬥ C: Titus
⬥ D: Hamlet
$1,000 (5 of 15) - Not Timed
When you hear "T minus 20 seconds" at a NASA shuttle launch, what does the "T" stand for?
⬥ A: Time of liftoff
⬥ B: Trajectory
⬥ C: Tension
⬥ D: Thrust
$2,000 (6 of 15) - Not Timed
In 1943, Chicago's Pizzeria Uno helped introduce what type of pizza to America? 'Ask the Audience' lifeline used
What Bill Murray movie featured the classic line "He slimed me"?
⬥ A: Rushmore
⬥ B: Ghostbusters
⬥ C: Groundhog Day
⬥ D: Scrooged
$8,000 (8 of 15) - Not Timed
What kind of animal is an ibex? '50:50' and 'Phone-a-Friend' lifelines used
⬥ A: Goat
⬥ B: Bird
⬥ C: Cat
⬥ D: Deer
Tara first used the 50:50 lifeline, leaving A and B. She was thinking it's not B, but she wasn't sure, so she called Steve, a programmer viewer. Steve surely said that it's a goat. She went with Steve and won $8,000.
The klaxon then called time and Tara would return on $8,000 with no lifelines left.
$16,000 (9 of 15) - Not Timed
Newly elected President of Mexico Vicente Fox Quesada is a former executive of what company?
⬥ A: IBM
⬥ B: General Motors
⬥ C: Coca-Cola
⬥ D: AT&T
$32,000 (10 of 15) - Not Timed
What game show host played a science teacher in the television series "The Wonder Years"?
⬥ A: Alex Trebek
⬥ B: Richard Dawson
⬥ C: Pat Sajak
⬥ D: Ben Stein
$64,000 (11 of 15) - Not Timed
Which of the following U.S. states has never had a governor with the last name Rockefeller?
