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would you have known which dictator died in bed?

Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin or Saddam Hussein?

No

Choice of two - Mussolini or Stalin

Rose, Of those it must have been Stalin, not sure how or where he died, but Mussolini was publicly hanged. Hitler died in his bunker, and Saddam Hussein was dragged out of a hole and later hanged.

Tec.

Well I knew about Hitler and Hussein but did not have a clue on the other two

They put a large part of their money on Hitler and lost it, I was just a bit amazed...but then they were a lot younger than me lol.

Can't watch any programme that relates to gambling. Before I met my now hubby I had had to walk away from my first boyfriend who I loved a lot. The more I got to know him, the scarier I realised my life would be. One day we were supposed to be getting married, the next he wouldn't talk about marriage and was gambling or planning some new money-making get rich quick idea. Then he would talk about the wedding again. I realised if we ever did get married everything would have to be in my name or he would gamble it away. D didn't want to work hard for the riches he dreamed of. My daugher will tell you that when she wanted to go into an arcade and have a look when we were on holiday I would get very upset. I couldn't even cope with her having a go on those 2p machines. xJ

Never watched the programme - but it must have been Stalin.
I only know this because of a story on radio 4 - written by Stalin's daughter, about her life!

I'd have narrowed it down to Mussolini and Stalin.

I've noticed that the average age of the contestants on Million Pound drop seems to be around 20 yrs old. Not many years to garner a huge general knowledge to be fair....I wonder if that's done deliberately lol x

Off the cuff no. However given the choices, knew Mussolini/Hitler and Saddam so that would have left Stalin.

Jillian, I can understand where your fear of gambling is coming from but perhaps it is time to address the problem. The million pound drop is a quiz program with just a different format to every other quiz program.

Every contestant in every quiz program is gambling, hopefully on a chance of winning. Instead of thinking about the gambling focus on the challenge of learning a new fact. I didn't know that Stalin died in his own bed but now others have given the explanation I will remember.

One fact I took the trouble to learn on a quiz program about two years ago is that Haiku is a Japanese three-line poem of 17 syllables. At the time I thought what a rubbish question and who the h*** would know a fact like that. It must have been on three quiz programs since then, including' In it to win it' on Saturday night when the contestant thought the poem was from New Zealand.....and lost his place.-jl

I think all the quiz programmes on tv have a prize usually money. I watch and partake... Surprising what you do learn and can come up in another show.
I like to think it is keeping my brain ticking over!

I think I read this just this morning .Stalin ?

Hi Janet, Thanks but I don't need a shrink. ;-) :-D :-D

If others want to gamble that is up to them. It doesn't frighten me. I cringe at seeing people knocked down because they don't know when to take what they have rather than reach for a bit more. But this, it would seem, is good television but it's not for me as part of the small amount of television watching I do.

What I saw in that amusement arcade was a lot of young people shovelling loads of money into the machines. I should have been more clear about upset; for upset read concerned l that coming from a family where some relatives have clearly addictive personalities, my daughter might easily become one of them. D was thirty years ago and I'm long over him but I have seen the damage that addiction can do.

But as I can't expect her to accept all the lessons I have learned in life, once she was a year or so older, she had her purse one day and went off to the arcade. A couple of days later she wanted to buy herself something and thought she must have lost her money somewhere. Then the penny (so to speak) dropped and I saw the realisation on her face. She didn't realise that she had used it all. She had just kept going .Of course I bought her what she wanted. No point in rubbing it in as she felt bad anyway. Since then we have saved some 2p's here and there and she takes a few dozen into the arcade during her holiday. When it's gone, it's gone and she's had the experience but is able to walk away.

I watched Fifteen-To-One many years ago after work if I could and was with a friend and her mother at their house one afternoon when the question 'By what name is the Mitsubishi A6M better known'? Seriously impressed them by answering Japanese Zero. I've always been known as a minefield of totally useless and frequently obscure information.

I'm with Chris for keeping the old brain ticking over.