Have you ever thought about who you’d call if you’re ever on a show like “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” and you get to the point where you need to make your one phone call? I feel like I’d probably call either my dad or my ex-husband. My dad’s one of the smartest guys I’ve ever known and my ex isn’t one of the smartest guys, but he has a huge collection of seemingly worthless trivia, which would serve a good use in the situation where I needed to know the random answer to something. I’m sure he would be delighted to know that I’d find him useful for something (haha). In the joke below, you’ll meet Mick, who needs help answering a question in the show. Luckily, his common-sense buddy knows the answer. Enjoy!
Mick, from Dublin , appeared on ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire’ and towards the end of the program had already won 500,000 euros.
“You’ve done very well so far,” said Chris Tarrant, the show’s presenter, “but for a million euros you’ve only got one life-line left, phone a friend. Everything is riding on this question. Will you go for it?”
“Sure,” said Mick. “I’ll have a go!”
“Which of the following birds does NOT build its own nest?:
a) Sparrow
b) Thrush
c) Magpie
d) Cuckoo
“I haven’t got a clue.” said Mick, “So I’ll use last lifeline and phone my friend Paddy back home in Dublin ..”
Mick called up his mate, and told him the circumstances and repeated the question to him.
“Fookin’ hell, Mick!” cried Paddy. “That’s simple it’s a cuckoo.”
“Are you sure?”
“I’m fookin’ sure.”
Mick hung up the phone and told Chris, “I’ll go with cuckoo as my answer.”
“Is that your final answer?” asked Chris.
“That it is.”
There was a long, long pause and then the presenter screamed, “Cuckoo is the correct answer! Mick, you’ve won 1 million euros!”
The next night, Mick went round to Paddy’s to buy him a drink.
“Tell me, Paddy? How in Heaven’s name did you know it was the Cuckoo that doesn’t build its own nest?”
“Because he lives in a fookin clock!”
