Fox game-show contestants lose $800K — despite having right answer

[RamboLiberal]

Fox game show’s $800,000 screwup

Two contestants who lost $800,000 on a wrong answer Monday on the premiere of the Fox-TV game show “Million Dollar Money Drop” have been invited back after an Internet uproar prompted the network to admit their answer was correct.

Asked which went on sale to the public first — the Macintosh computer, Sony Walkman portable audiocassette player or Post-It notes — Gabe Okoye, 25, and his girlfriend Brittany May, 23, went with Post-It notes.

Sorry, they were told, wrong answer.

Well, it turns out it was Fox that was wrong: Post-It notes were first sold in four cities under a different brand name in 1977, while Sony put the Walkman on the market in 1979.

http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/3023771-418/fox-game-800000-contestants-lose.html

[babylonsister]

1. Bwhahaha! They're so used to lying, they got caught in their own web! nt

[Tunkamerica]

4. really? the producers and writers of this game show which was bought by fox

lie so much that they purposefully gave the wrong answer (which is somehow in their web) and then, to make matters worse, admitted their mistake and invited the couple back for another chance to win a million dollars?

[Angry Dragon]

2. They should just demand the $800,000

and not go back on

[aikoaiko]

3. So when were post-it notes first sold as Post-It notes?

:shrug:

[cbdo2007]

7. Not until 1981. The producers are right. Contestants lose.

[Raine]

5. I saw that show that night

I thought it was stupid. No real knowledge was required basically just lucky or unlucky guesses won it or lost it. :silly:

[hayu_lol]

6. The name Post It notes is undoubtedly copywrited...

another name would be essentially a different product. Look alike doesn't count.