Who Wants To Be a Cognitive Neuroscientist Millionaire?

ThePolynomial writes "Last night Ogi Ogas, a cognitive neuroscientist and Homeland Security Fellow, became the first person to face the million-dollar question on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? in three years. He now has a first-person narrative on seedmagazine.com where he describes using techniques from cognitive science to think of answers on the show." From the article: "I used priming on my $16,000 question: 'This past spring, which country first published inflammatory cartoons of the prophet Mohammed?' I did not know the answer. But I did know I had a long conversation with my friend Gena about the cartoons. So I chatted with Meredith about Gena. I tried to remember where we discussed the cartoons and the way Gena flutters his hands. As I pictured how he rolls his eyes to express disdain, Gena's remark popped into my mind: 'What else would you expect from Denmark?'"

Dun dun dundun da da da daaa!

[Stanistani]

D. William

Dammit, Dammit, Dammit!

Re: wow

[Anonymous Coward]

That show is still on the air, dam i though that show was cancled some 3 years ago

They were just playing the home game at Regis' place.

Horrible Article

[onion2k]

It's a shame. What could have been a fascinating treatment of neuroscience for laypeople, and how it applies to a quizshow, has been written like "the time I went on telly by Ogi Ogas aged 7 and 3/4".

Did better than this guy...

[nmb3000]

Not else everyone did so well... [glumbert.com]

Just pre-guess random answers

[caluml]

Just pre-guess random answers.
a,b,a,a,d,c,b,a,c,b,d,b,d,c,b - did I win? It's only a 1 in 4^15 chance (is my maths working?). Hmm. That's a billion. Might take a while to do it. But brute-forcing it will work.