Subject: Re: Nabokov on "Who Wants to be a Millionaire"
From: Jay Livingston <[email-masked]>
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 10:17:48 -0500

I rarely watch the show now, but some time ago, one of the questions
asked what Lolita's real name was.  I do not remember the choices,
except that Dolores was one of them, but they were all plausible (this
was a fairly high denomination question, as I recall).  I don't remember
whether the contestant guessed right, guessed wrong, or walked.  But all
the while I was imagining myself in the "hot seat" appearing to give the
question much thought and finally saying, "Well, Regis, these names all
sound possible, but I think that on the dotted line . . . ."

And that's my final answer.

Jay Livingston