Comments on: The Weekend Links

By: Lance

Lance — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:40:29 +0000

I ran the Millionaire questions, but then again, I’m a former Jeopardy! champ, so….

By: Geoff in MO

Geoff in MO — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:40:11 +0000

Re: Millionaire: Got to the $1M question, but bombed it. Here it is: Who wrote “Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be”? A. W.H. Auden; B. Robert Browning; C. John Donne; D. William Wordsworth

I guessed D, which was wrong. Google taught me that it was B. So close!!

By: TBV

TBV — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:29:03 +0000

There are no “real life” haunted places. I’m sure Women’s Day thinks there are, but I expect more from the Floss.

By: Christine

Christine — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 22:53:12 +0000

i won the online game-the final two questions were about the technique used on the mona lisa (sfmuato) and the name of vitruvian man. thanks, high school art history!

By: Tom in GA

Tom in GA — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 06:47:38 +0000

I was able to draw the US from memory at 10… my mom actually liked to show it off – which after a while got to be embaressing. Even as recently as a year ago, before she retired from teaching, she asked me to “perform” for her class (mind you I am 33 now). :-)

By: Daniel Wilson

Daniel Wilson — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:32:41 +0000

I too tried out for Millionaire back in 2003. I wound up acing the 30-question test, but for some strange unfathomable reason I wasn’t chosen to be a contestant…

By: emmie c

emmie c — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 21:05:43 +0000

I tried out for Millionairre a couple of years ago after a taping…totally rocked the test, got to interview with some producers….and then got a letter in the mail saying I wasnt chosen. They were kind enough to send me a free t-shirt though…

By: Sara in AL

Sara in AL — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 20:00:57 +0000

Real life haunted places, Bobby Mackey’s music world-I read in an Uncke John’s Bathroom Reader that someone has actually sued them over a ghost “punching and kicking” him in the restroom. It was dropped b/c you really can’t get a ghost to testify in court.

By: Michigan Mom

Michigan Mom — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 18:02:09 +0000

Re: Animated movies

I must be the only person on earth who thinks that Toy Story 2 was one of the worst movies ever. I’d rather be stabbed through the eye than have to sit through that again. And I loved the original!

P.S. Is there a Mental Floss post in which readers are asked “Is there any movie everyone else seems to love, but which you can’t stand?” If not, I’d love to see that question posed to the readers.

By: Sarah in CA

Sarah in CA — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 17:08:33 +0000

“Frankly, I do not know what this is, but if anyone can figure it out, let me know!”

If you click on Disclamat it tells you exactly what it is.