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Originally Posted by Madina
I would assume the people you choose as your phone a friend are sitting in a room somewhere near the studio with a phone line that goes direct to them.
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Since you're allowed upto 5 friends and there are something like 10 contestents (overall, not who necessarily play) per show, I doubt this is what happens. According to Wiki they phone your friends when you start playing and tell them to be ready.
Anyway, to answer the question I'd have to agree with the Tact / Mark consensus which is building up. Leshy also knows quite a lot too, Vermillion is an obvious choice and dda is old so presumably if alzheimers hasn't kicked in must know a lot of old useless crap. More generally I'd have someone who is competent in using Google (and who could type quietly to deal with Proteus point) which would be most of the regular users here (well, certainly most of the computerish people) but in particular the likes of Nodrog, Leshy, Gayle29UK, s|k, etc.
There are plenty of smart people here but their knowledge is either too specialised (computers, maths, the law, etc) or they would know very similar things to me anyway. I'm pretty sure if there was a "General Knowledge" based question on computers I'd have a good chance of getting it so having a bunch of people with Computer Science degrees waiting would be pretty useless.
I think there was a case where some guy just asked five professors from different disciplines at his local university. That seems like quite a good idea.