Croatian Flag Color Question Stumps Contestant on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?"

A question about the Croatian flag's colors proved to be a stumbling block for contestant Ivana Pašalić on the popular quiz show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?"

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The question was: The Croatian flag contains red, white, blue, navy, yellow, and which other color? Green, purple, black, or pink?

The question posed was: "The Croatian flag contains red, white, blue, navy, yellow, and which other color?" The options were green, purple, black, or pink.

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Ivana assumed the correct answer might be green, but she wasn't sure, so she asked for the audience's help.

Uncertain of the answer, Pašalić turned to the audience for assistance. The audience's response was divided: 27% voted for green, 19% for purple, a significant 52% for black, and a mere 2% for pink. Trusting the majority, Pašalić selected black as her final answer, which turned out to be correct, securing her 5,000 euros.

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The audience gave 27 percent of the votes to answer A, 19 percent to answer B, a full 52 percent of the votes went to answer C, while only two percent voted for answer D.

Despite this success, Pašalić, a Croatian language and literature professor from Osijek, and fellow contestant Filip Galić, were ultimately stopped at the 12th question. Pašalić had previously risked a guess on a question about a work by Slovenian designer Saša Mächtig, while Galić had followed the audience's advice on a question about a self-portrait considered the most valuable painting lost in World War II, leading to their elimination.

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The contestant believed the audience and chose C: black as her final answer. It turned out to be the correct answer.