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Man's 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' lifeline call to dad is still thrilling 25 years later

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Man's 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' lifeline call to dad is still thrilling 25 years later .

Carpenter was a contestant on the very first season of the game show.

The show featured three "lifeline" options to help contestants with difficult questions, the most popular being able to "Phone-a-Friend" Carpenter had impressively not used a single lifeline for any of his questions.

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39

Informative language

32

Neutral language

3

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

31

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not offensive

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not hateful

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short-lived

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