Watching Millionaire, the $100 question was: Smokey the Bear and Woodsy Owl are representatives of what organization? (Or something like that.) Heart the D. option: Bureau of Self-Righteous Icons.
What was the answer? As I recall, Smokey the Bear is either a representative of the United States Forest Service, which is part of the Department of Agriculture, or the National Park Service, which is part of the Department of the Interior. Woodsy Owl, on the other hand, was dreamed up by the Environmental Protection Agency, which is an independent agency, not part of any Department.
So was the answer "the federal government?" If this wasn't a $100 so-easy-that-anyone-can-get-it question, I'd wonder if the answer might be The Advertising Council, the people who make up and place so many PSAs (public service announcements, not prostate specific antigens, the chemicals that often rise in people with prostate cancer). People working for the ad council dreamed up McGruff the Crime Dog and the slogans, "Friends don't let friends drive drunk" and "A mind is a terrible thing to waste."
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Date: 2006-01-16 02:51 am (UTC)What was the answer? As I recall, Smokey the Bear is either a representative of the United States Forest Service, which is part of the Department of Agriculture, or the National Park Service, which is part of the Department of the Interior. Woodsy Owl, on the other hand, was dreamed up by the Environmental Protection Agency, which is an independent agency, not part of any Department.
So was the answer "the federal government?" If this wasn't a $100 so-easy-that-anyone-can-get-it question, I'd wonder if the answer might be The Advertising Council, the people who make up and place so many PSAs (public service announcements, not prostate specific antigens, the chemicals that often rise in people with prostate cancer). People working for the ad council dreamed up McGruff the Crime Dog and the slogans, "Friends don't let friends drive drunk" and "A mind is a terrible thing to waste."
http://www.adcouncil.org/campaigns/