Celebrity Who Wants To Be A Millionaire

[grumpy01]

What was Prue Leith thinking about.She was asked which senior crew member survived the Titanic sinking.Given the four options she asked her nephew who didn’t but said he thought it wouldn’t be the Captain who survived.She then went,correctly,for 50/50 and lo and behold the Captain is given as one of the two alternatives left.If you’re going to have a guess happy days,she chose Captain Edward Smith.Come on,if you’re on £64,000 do you have a guess? However,if you have a guess do you go for the less likely option?I think it’s more likely £16,000 was the agreed sum for her charity.

[sanmac]

Many, many, years ago I was really interested in the story of the Titanic and read everything I came across involving it. If my memory is correct I believe that an officer named Lightoller is the correct answer...And no, I didn't Google it.

[-SharonA-]

I am more surprised the Kym Marsh didn't know what a souk was!!
And as for the antics of Ronni Ancona, don't get me started.

[elliemay1]

Has she never heard that the Captain goes down with his ship?

[THECORBYLOON]

I mind on seeing a documentary about the sinking and bills were sent to relatives of the deceased members of the band for the cost of their outfits.

[sanmac]

OK, now I have Googled it, and I was correct...How much money would I have won?

[grumpy01]

If all correct up to that point Sanmac £125,000

[sanmac]

Thanks, grumpy01, to me that's $217,441...That sounds much more:) Did you know that Captain Edward J. Smith was born in Hanley, Staffordshire?

[jno]

played by Kenneth More in A Night to Remember, sanmac.

[jno]

sorry, that was Lightoller not Smith. (Smith was Laurence Naismith.)

[bednobs]

i find your question quite hard to follow, but she thought the captain was the more likely option, which is why she said it?

[jno]

bednobs, I suppose she'd phoned a friend who said the captain was the least likely choice. A wasted lifeline in that case.

[sanmac]

"A Night To Remember" was a great move, much more realistic (as movies go) than the other one one that won all those Academy Awards!

[THECORBYLOON]

The nephew said the Captain was least likely and then the Captain was in the 50/50 so should have been eliminated.

[sanmac]

In my post at 2346, when I said "the other one", I meant "Titanic" released in 1997.

[jno]

I kinow what you meant! The Nazi one about the heroic German officer didn't win any Oscars at all.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036443/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_16

[THECORBYLOON]

I see that Lightoller appears to be a minor character in the German version.

[sanmac]

Jno, I just Googled "Movies about the Titanic" and was surprised at the list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_about_the_Titanic

[jno]

getting two of them made in 1912 was brisk work.

[mushroom25]

// Did you know that Captain Edward J. Smith was born in Hanley, Staffordshire? //

yes - and did you know his statue is in Beacon Park, Lichfield, because Hanley didn't want him?

[ToraToraTora]

jno: "played by Kenneth More in A Night to Remember, sanmac. " - and by bernard Hill in the james Cameron version.