Ben Affleck wins $1m on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? - can you answer the questions he got right?
The Independent • • entertainment
Key Points:
- Ben Affleck and Jeopardy! champion Jamie Ding won the $1 million top prize on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, becoming the fifth winners since Jimmy Kimmel began hosting in 2020.
- Their win benefits the Eastern Congo Initiative, a charity co-founded by Affleck to support community organizations in the war-affected eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- The duo correctly answered a $500,000 question about the Wright brothers' first airplane flight, overcoming skepticism from a New York Times article.
- For the final $1 million question, they trusted host Jimmy Kimmel's advice to choose "Spaghetti & Meatball" as the turkey name never used in the White House Thanksgiving pardon tradition, securing their victory.
- Ding praised Affleck's decisiveness and Kimmel's reasoning as key factors in their successful gamble to go for the top prize rather than walk away.
