Ben Affleck wins US$1mil on ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire’
Actor Ben Affleck and Jeopardy! champion Jamie Ding won the $1 million grand prize on the game show 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?'. The pair successfully answered the final question after using a lifeline to identify the first airplane flight.
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Ben Affleck and 31-time Jeopardy! champion Jamie Ding joined forces and together dominated on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?.
The duo claimed the US$1mil grand prize after they correctly answered the 15th and final question during Wednesday night’s episode of the long-running ABC game show. Ding and the Oscar-winner started off with just two questions left to answer, picking up where last week’s episode ended.
The US$500,000 question read: “What achievement occurred just two months after a New York Times article said it wouldn’t happen for ‘1 million to 10 million years?'”
Possible answers included splitting the atom, cloning a mammal, the first airplane flight, or the polio vaccine.
Ding quickly suggested the correct choice was option C, the first flight, and Affleck almost immediately agreed.
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