A big fat FAIL

So, I'm watching who wants to be a millionaire while at work (wishful thinking I guess). So apparently this season features couples as contestants. Interesting.

Right now is a couple who looks like they spend more time on a tanning bed then in a library.

So there are some pretty easy questions being thrown their way. Then they get this:

"It hurts to get shot" was an entry in the no-nonsense diary of which president?

A. The Ford Diaries
B. The Regan Diaries
C. The Carter Diaries
D. The Nixon Diaries

So, to some, this may be considered hard. But to me, its simple with one eliminating factor: only one of these presidents got shot - Regan.

But these geniuses had their own agenda. They used the "ask the audience" lifeline, wasting it on a $2,000 question.

Two questions later, they get a really hard one (seriously), asking what a bridal trousseau was. Some of the choices were:

A. ?
B. Photos
C. Clothing
D. ?

I don't know diddly squat about bridal traditions, so I guessed the right answer. The couple chose to use not one, but two lifelines. All I could think of was "if only the kept that ask a audience, they would have been ok". They chose to "ask the expert" (who didn't know the answer) and "phone a friend" (one of the guy's drinking buddies who probably couldn't distinguish a "tool" from "tulle") and of course he had no idea. The answer turned out to be C. go figure.

So in the end, they lost the game, but went home with $25,000, so they really didn't lose per-se. I wish I could lose with 25 grand.