The producers themselves, who asked the question “Which Great Lake after Superior has the largest area?
” The correct answer (which the contestant chose) was Lake Huron, but they said it was Lake Michigan, which is the second-largest by volume. Not helping matters was that the question was ambiguous and didn’t say “surface area”, meaning there was no right answer. The player later returned to continue from that point. • One episode had a $200 question of “Which of these types of cheese is often sold in pre-grated “shaker” canisters?” Maybe this contestant had never eaten Italian food in his life, but the audience decided to give him a chance. Upon using Ask The Audience, Meredith was very shocked to find out that 100% had given the correct answer of Parmesan. The contestant wasn’t really an idiot, unless he decided to disregard the entire audience and choose another answer instead. (He went with them.) • May 20, 2005: During one of the show’s occasional “Walk In and Win” weeks where contestants are randomly selected from the studio audience without any audition (itself possibly a stupid
