We've actually covered this farther down the comment stream. Coccy- does mean round...in Latin. In Greek it means crazy. The word literally translates as "cloud crazy". I was trying all my etymology tricks (Latin in high school), but I couldn't get there. In retrospect, if I had sounded it out, I might have gotten to "nebula" and from there to "cloud". Oh, well. Monday morning quarterbacking. I was happy without the money, the $100,000 paid for my wedding and honeymoon and other bills.
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@@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 There are many conflicting bible verses. I was referencing 1 John 2:2. “He is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.”
half like 4 interviews or tv shows there's that one guy in the comments that say they know the person if we were to believe all of them we wouldn't be human
@@dmitch344 In February 2009, I performed in my first community play, which was a romantic comedy called "Almost, Maine". Jeff played two characters in that production, those being Jimmy and Dave, and I played Phil, and sadly I did not see Jeff after that until 2012 when he returned to perform in Rocky Horror in October of that year. Jeff played Riff Raff in that show, and I was one of the phantoms. I have not seen him since then, but I did enjoy working with him on the shows we worked on together. I accept your apology for unjustly calling me a liar.
I was guessing A, but I wasn't really sure. Just looking at the word "nephelococcygia" & the answer choices, A just seemed more likely then the other ones, but going for that much money on just that reaction is not smart, even if you would've been right.
no it is not. should i list the reasons why? well i dont see why not... The Original Format -Is not timed -Goes 32,000; 64,000; instead of 25,000; 50;000 -Is hosted by Regis Philbin -Has different color on the question monitor. -Aired on ABC and still reruns on GSN. -Still had phone a friend ...Should i continue?
He has acted on stage before, not sure if he still does or not. I have been in two shows with him, the first of which was my first community theater show.
I figured it out, although I wasn't that confident (I wouldn't have risked it). In German "Nebel" means fog, which sounds suspiciously similar to the prefix of that word - and as it turns out it comes exactly from that.
If I were there I would've probably taken the elimination route, taking out B and C (breaking glass with the voice is practically impossible without directed amplification, and sleeping with eyes open isn't a practice anyone should try to do). Then I'd probably walk away. The only etymology I knew was that the "-ygia" suffix generally refers to a land or place. I was reasoning this out and thinking of the coccyx, which just confused me further.
I broke it down the same way that he did. And I couldn’t get away from thinking kidney 😰 But I was thinking cocci as in bacteria so my mind thought it would have to do with infected kidney or something of that nature.
They sort of repeated this question on yesterday's show when they asked what "nephology" was. I could tell the contestant didn't regularly watch Millionaire because if he did, he would have remembered this.
A is the only answer that makes sens if you had to guess. It can't be B because no one "practices" sleeping with your eyes open its a disorder. And C and D are more of hobbies where as A is also a hobby but one that you have to kind of "study" looking at cloud and is more open to interpretation
I like this qustion. I didnt know the answer before this video but I could rule out B and C off the bat. A and D seemed out of the blue when paired with B and C.
Jeff Birt and Keilani Goggins' both had exact same bank time, but why was Keilani #2 and Jeff #3? Was it because....Keilani was like a few tenths faster???
I was leaning A) or C), mostly because I could find nothing in the word that made me think water or sleep/eyes. Easy to sit here on the internet 12 years after the video was posted and take a stab at a guess, though.
It was either A or B because they both pertained to utilizing the eyes, but the 'ne' hinted that it would be the clouds. Sometimes on the million dollar question, you think such an obvious giveaway would make it a trick question, though.
When I first saw the answers my first instincts said "A" after I looked it up i realized I was right. Similar to the guy, I think we should all learn to trust our instincts. I'm sure they are there for a reason.
this is cool. i never have to watch the show anymore. but i would have guessed that answer the only problem with that is i would have never got to the question had i been on the show.
@PlutoTheSecond If there was a tie like that, they look at how quickly they each answered the last question of their original game. Whoever was faster ranked first. If that was also a tie, they looked at the 2nd to last question and so on until it was settled.
I thought of the word "Neptune," and it being cloudy but I wasn't sure... I said "A, final answer" but I did not win the million dollars... oh well. I can dream
If Keilani had the same amount of banked time as Jeff and the same amount of money, how come she was placed ahead of Jeff? What did she do better than Jeff?
I guessed A because “coccus” means round/spherical and seeing coccy made me think of that and I thought clouds are round so it’s the only one that kind of makes sense. I was stoked when I guessed right haha
@jbintheville awhh , nooo not yet but when we were in class she told me all about it , im suppose to hang out with Lorraine this week i think shes going to show me congrats :D & i heard it was beautiful in all .
I new it was A, i thought about the shapes of bacteria, and i know one was coccus (round) so thus finding shapes of clouds is the only logical answer. Good this I'm only in high school though.
@Cresey87 Lol, are you suggesting I didn't attempt to do that? Watch the video, I do just that....the problem was that I was too focused on Latin roots rather than Greek. And, I did know the answer, just not well enough to gamble $75,000 on it.
@PokeCardMan As with my comment to sausage, you are arriving at the right answer (at home, with no clock ticking, and without risking $75,000) with the wrong information. "Round" has nothing to do with the answer. Yes, it roughly translates as "finding shapes in clouds", and yes, round is a shape, but the literal translation is "cloud-crazy", not "cloud-round". I had the slightest inkling it was A, but I didn't know from where it was coming. Turns out I read "The Birds" my junior year.
I was thinking A because Nephelo is like Nephalim (from Diablo 3) meaning fallen angel. Coccyx is referred to its shape like a duck's bill and gia I didn't know. So my line of reasoning was finding shapes in heaven. Other lines of thought would've been ducks swim and sleeping with your eyes open is kinda demonic so for sure A was the best.
@sausuge2 Actually, I have a bachelor's degree in biology. The info you are supplying here has nothing to do with the question I was asked. How are you getting from "round" to "cloud-crazy", which is the literal translation?
Because these people are smart enough to make it to the end so they’re smart enough to know the Million dollar question, but not confident enough to answer
We've actually covered this farther down the comment stream. Coccy- does mean round...in Latin. In Greek it means crazy. The word literally translates as "cloud crazy". I was trying all my etymology tricks (Latin in high school), but I couldn't get there. In retrospect, if I had sounded it out, I might have gotten to "nebula" and from there to "cloud". Oh, well. Monday morning quarterbacking. I was happy without the money, the $100,000 paid for my wedding and honeymoon and other bills.
Smart to walk.. I took Latin and Etymology in h.s. but,it doesn’t always help!
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@@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 There are many conflicting bible verses. I was referencing 1 John 2:2. “He is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.”
Neph for some reason made me think instantly of clouds
then coccygia threw you off...coccyx... wth tailbone has to do with clouds...
Nephos is an ancient greek root meaning cloud
I thought C tbh
Same!
Neph for me reminds me of the word "nephilim", the word for human-angel hybrid beings.
I know him personally! Great guy, and I wish I could say I've spent more time with him than I have.
No u dont
Pinned by kikacz I have been in two plays with Jeff. I accept your apology for unjustly calling me a liar.
@@Afasyy fuck u beech
half like 4 interviews or tv shows there's that one guy in the comments that say they know the person if we were to believe all of them we wouldn't be human
@@dmitch344 In February 2009, I performed in my first community play, which was a romantic comedy called "Almost, Maine". Jeff played two characters in that production, those being Jimmy and Dave, and I played Phil, and sadly I did not see Jeff after that until 2012 when he returned to perform in Rocky Horror in October of that year. Jeff played Riff Raff in that show, and I was one of the phantoms. I have not seen him since then, but I did enjoy working with him on the shows we worked on together. I accept your apology for unjustly calling me a liar.
I was guessing A, but I wasn't really sure. Just looking at the word "nephelococcygia" & the answer choices, A just seemed more likely then the other ones, but going for that much money on just that reaction is not smart, even if you would've been right.
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I actually read the play that this word came from-Aristophanes' "The Birds". This is one of my favorite "million-dollar words."
Goddammit! Every million dollar video question I've seen I always seem to guess the right answers. I could of been a millionaire so many times!
Bluemoon me too!!
Except you've got 14 questions to go through first. Can you handle THAT?
@@cameraredeye3115 not 14. This guy answered only 12.
That was ONLY for a $100,000. Not the Big one
It pains a lot when after quitting we come to know that our guess was correct
Why is the million dollar almost always A...
Musicrecords10 Well, maybe he thought would get the answer correctly, but didnt go for it.
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I keep seeing the thumbnail for the video and always think "when was Ryan Styles on Millionaire?"
He Actually Lives In My Hometown I'm Surprised
this guy looks like an old Tony Romo.
no it is not. should i list the reasons why? well i dont see why not...
The Original Format
-Is not timed
-Goes 32,000; 64,000; instead of 25,000; 50;000
-Is hosted by Regis Philbin
-Has different color on the question monitor.
-Aired on ABC and still reruns on GSN.
-Still had phone a friend
...Should i continue?
@4:01 it also doesn’t help him out at all when you keep mentioning it
this guy looks like an actor...cant name him
his name is jeff birt
He has acted on stage before, not sure if he still does or not. I have been in two shows with him, the first of which was my first community theater show.
Reminds me of David Duchovny
@skygrottian The play is entitled "The Birds", not "Clouds".
I figured it out, although I wasn't that confident (I wouldn't have risked it). In German "Nebel" means fog, which sounds suspiciously similar to the prefix of that word - and as it turns out it comes exactly from that.
If I were there I would've probably taken the elimination route, taking out B and C (breaking glass with the voice is practically impossible without directed amplification, and sleeping with eyes open isn't a practice anyone should try to do). Then I'd probably walk away.
The only etymology I knew was that the "-ygia" suffix generally refers to a land or place. I was reasoning this out and thinking of the coccyx, which just confused me further.
I really like meredith! Isnt she so pretty?
I didn't know what nephel meant but I figured nephelim are like angels and angels come from the sky so I would have said A.
How come whenever a contestant walks they were always "leaning" towards the right answer.
My chief fire instructor for fairdale high school 2020
I broke it down the same way that he did. And I couldn’t get away from thinking kidney 😰
But I was thinking cocci as in bacteria so my mind thought it would have to do with infected kidney or something of that nature.
My guess was A strictly based on how the question is formed. "The practice of", like one is experimenting with and doing it on purpose.
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All I could think of was nephilim, those who from the sky came.
Yes. There's another play called Clouds, also by Aristophanes.
I guessed it immediately but then I know Greek
Interestingly, the question is only one line long.
im in his class right now and he told me to look at on youtube he teaches fire science he retired from the louisville fire dept. last year
This, kids, is why you study your Greek roots.
is B and C even possible?
Very much so
C yes, i've seen people do it
They sort of repeated this question on yesterday's show when they asked what "nephology" was. I could tell the contestant didn't regularly watch Millionaire because if he did, he would have remembered this.
A is the only answer that makes sens if you had to guess. It can't be B because no one "practices" sleeping with your eyes open its a disorder. And C and D are more of hobbies where as A is also a hobby but one that you have to kind of "study" looking at cloud and is more open to interpretation
ok who the fuck comes up with these questions?
I like this qustion. I didnt know the answer before this video but I could rule out B and C off the bat. A and D seemed out of the blue when paired with B and C.
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Jeff Birt and Keilani Goggins' both had exact same bank time, but why was Keilani #2 and Jeff #3? Was it because....Keilani was like a few tenths faster???
this is a million dollar question? man i knew tha answer before the choices even came up! that shoulda been me! lol
I was leaning A) or C), mostly because I could find nothing in the word that made me think water or sleep/eyes. Easy to sit here on the internet 12 years after the video was posted and take a stab at a guess, though.
It was either A or B because they both pertained to utilizing the eyes, but the 'ne' hinted that it would be the clouds. Sometimes on the million dollar question, you think such an obvious giveaway would make it a trick question, though.
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I also originally thought of kidneys with neph, but alas
Didn’t seem like it could be B or D, but I didn’t know past that…
I have heard of nephelos in the meaning of weak, not strong person, but didn't know it meant cloud.
Me and this guy thought similarly.....i also thought of the "nephron" straight away.
Wow, that's like , what 5 people in a row guessing right but not going for it?
This is one of those words where, unless you mastered the Greek Language, You wouldn't have a fighting chance at getting this one right.
Greek speaker here, and for some reason A would be my pick. Oh well...
When I first saw the answers my first instincts said "A" after I looked it up i realized I was right. Similar to the guy, I think we should all learn to trust our instincts. I'm sure they are there for a reason.
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this is cool. i never have to watch the show anymore. but i would have guessed that answer the only problem with that is i would have never got to the question had i been on the show.
ong thats my teacher.. and i see you brittney and brandon
@PlutoTheSecond If there was a tie like that, they look at how quickly they each answered the last question of their original game. Whoever was faster ranked first. If that was also a tie, they looked at the 2nd to last question and so on until it was settled.
@mecha03 Was there any official rule about the situation if two people happened to answer all of their questions in the same number of seconds?
Wikipedia doesn't even know this word.
It is spelled out in Greek on the "Cloud cuckoo land" page as of today.
Well... It doesn't say "original", it says old and that's actually true.
@DarkSignal59 that's because people are usually stoned when they spend a long time looking at clouds :)
@dizbem3 Hey, have you seen the wedding pictures? Lorraine and her Mom looked so beautiful! -Jeff
I thought of the word "Neptune," and it being cloudy but I wasn't sure... I said "A, final answer" but I did not win the million dollars... oh well. I can dream
thank
they have a term for finding shapes is clouds?and it's THAT complicated?wow someone must've been stoned when the word was invented
If Keilani had the same amount of banked time as Jeff and the same amount of money, how come she was placed ahead of Jeff? What did she do better than Jeff?
Maybe she was a fraction of a second faster.
look brandon dont hate on our teacher!!! yes he teachs fire not clouds but even his students kne this!!! lol wat they tought us they must not tought u
The girl @ 3:41 was like duhh
He means its not an original word, its a word because they put the roots together correctly but other than that its not a practical one.
@mecha03 OK. Thanks.
I guessed A because “coccus” means round/spherical and seeing coccy made me think of that and I thought clouds are round so it’s the only one that kind of makes sense. I was stoked when I guessed right haha
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@jbintheville awhh , nooo not yet but when we were in class she told me all about it , im suppose to hang out with Lorraine this week i think shes going to show me congrats :D & i heard it was beautiful in all .
Nephelococcygia:
Cloud-cuckoo-land
I new it was A, i thought about the shapes of bacteria, and i know one was coccus (round) so thus finding shapes of clouds is the only logical answer. Good this I'm only in high school though.
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thats my bestfriends stepdad
Samantha Solano i dont fucking care.
KaraR ffs man you’ve replied to a comment 10 years ago
The presenter is a very good looking women
nephos....
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oh well.
There is this misleading 'oco' which makes me think of eyes. I think I'd have gone for answer B and lost it all.
lol i got it right upon guessing
Huh? Why take 100k when you could have a 1/4 chance at 1mm?
Because he'd only get 25k then if he got it wrong, I think. This tournament was complicated.
2:47 he said it!
this is not the original format...
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Me: A, final answer.
$1,000,000 you won!
@Cresey87 Lol, are you suggesting I didn't attempt to do that? Watch the video, I do just that....the problem was that I was too focused on Latin roots rather than Greek. And, I did know the answer, just not well enough to gamble $75,000 on it.
lol i see you too .
A, It's A!
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@Rawentron yes. Yes it is.
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hahahahah my teacher is stupid it he did not win 1,000,000 dollars
alec u cant whoop me so it dont matter
Nephelokokkygia is Cloud Cuckoo Land
@nlafavore
The word comes from an Ancient Greek play called Clouds by Aristophanes.
touche
@PokeCardMan As with my comment to sausage, you are arriving at the right answer (at home, with no clock ticking, and without risking $75,000) with the wrong information. "Round" has nothing to do with the answer. Yes, it roughly translates as "finding shapes in clouds", and yes, round is a shape, but the literal translation is "cloud-crazy", not "cloud-round". I had the slightest inkling it was A, but I didn't know from where it was coming. Turns out I read "The Birds" my junior year.
I was thinking A because Nephelo is like Nephalim (from Diablo 3) meaning fallen angel. Coccyx is referred to its shape like a duck's bill and gia I didn't know. So my line of reasoning was finding shapes in heaven.
Other lines of thought would've been ducks swim and sleeping with your eyes open is kinda demonic so for sure A was the best.
@Two7Clips haha ur right i probly wouldn't of made it to the million dollar question in the first place lol but still that was too easy!
its A indeed
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@sausuge2 Actually, I have a bachelor's degree in biology. The info you are supplying here has nothing to do with the question I was asked. How are you getting from "round" to "cloud-crazy", which is the literal translation?
Etymology ftw. I know that -cocco (y)- means "round". But that's all I knew.
wow im here before the 1000th like…
this question is a joke right??
Learn some Latin and Greek, people. It’s more helpful than you think.
@sunnygrace57 makes sense ^^
sure.. wait till i see u at kool tomorrow.. lol jk
Isn’t there a doctor called a “Nephrologist “?
i am in grade 6 and i know this!
Good for you! Are you in grade 15 now?
bye
Regis Philbin, Alex Trebek months later, and then went Larry King, now goes Norm MacDonald.
i see your brittney
How come whenever a contestant walks they were always "leaning" towards the right answer.
Because these people are smart enough to make it to the end so they’re smart enough to know the Million dollar question, but not confident enough to answer
@@masonvevo. and yet they somehow always know what the answer was but never choose to go for it. I don't buy it
Regis Philbin playing mind games to Norm MacDonald on the $1,000,000 question.