Who Wants To Be A Millionaire Question

You know how contestants will call someone for help on a question? I
was watchng this eveniing whwn a contestant called to ask her friend
who was the person who first landed in Australia in 1770 and coined the
word "Kangsroo." The options were #1. Magellan #2. Vasca De Gama #3.
James Cook and #4/ Sir Frances Drake. The friend didn't have the
slghtest idea, She hemmed and hawed for 30 seconds and then gave up. I
had the answer in seconds, I simply goog;ed the words "Australia 1770."
The friends who get called know thy might get called, they're standing
by on their phones. THey aren't taken by surprised, why aren't they at

BillBo...

Actually they don't get called, the ring is phony, they are already on the phone
waiting.

their computers to web-search the answer?

BillBo...

She switched the question and got an easy $8000 question.

Boffman...

So why aren't they at their computers doing a web-search to get the correct
answer?

BillBo...

Dumb? Some people can't web-search.
I remember one guy had 3 friends on three computers but still ended up with a
$1000.