ON-LINE TRIVIA FANS TRY TO FOIL MCDONALD'S DISNEY GAME.Byline: Evan Ramstad Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Bet the Hamburglar wishes he had a computer. Over the past month, people hungry for the $1 million cash prize McDonald's was giving away in a Disney trivia contest used the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the to find answers to questions such as ``In the Lion King, where is young Simba first presented to his future subjects?'' (Answer: Pride Rock.) The effort probably cost McDonald's more cheeseburgers, Cokes Coke A trademark used for a soft drink. See Regional Note at tonic. coke 1 n. and apple pies than it expected to hand out. There's no way to know, though, because the company didn't keep track of how much food was given away and wasn't aware of the on-line answers, spokeswoman Julie Cleary said. The chain stopped giving out the game cards last week as scheduled. The contest's only $1 million prize winner, a Nebraska teen-ager, got the right answer about black-and-white Mickey Mouse Mickey Mouse Famous character of Walt Disney's animated cartoons. He was introduced in Steamboat Willie (1928), the first animated cartoon with sound. Mickey was created by Disney, who also provided his high-pitched voice, and was usually drawn by the studio's head animator, cartoons Many of the cartoons used in this database were obtained from The Cartoon Bank, Dobbs Ferry, NY, which has a huge selection of cartoons on every subject (visit www.cartoonbank.com). without using the Internet. (It turns out the card was a sure winner because all the scratch-off answers were correct.) Nonetheless, the discussion groups and Web sites devoted to the contest demonstrate how information can be pulled together quickly and shared on the Internet, possibly upsetting the balance of power connected to that information. |
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