Affleck told a
TV Insider reporter, "I’m literally here riding this guy’s coattails. I’m lucky to be here."
Literally???
Here is the history of El Colacho, "the baby jumping festival."
It's funny that 31-game Jeopardy winner Jamie Ding was grasping for straws on this. He chucked when the choice of "Babies" came up, and then he thought the answer was "Walking over hot coals", because he figured "El Colacho" meant "the fire" (it translates to "The Devil").
Ben Affleck knew the answer. Because last year, when Matt Damon correctly answered a question about eating grapes on New Year's Eve in some Spanish-speaking country, Affleck looked it up, and said he did research on Spanish customs.
During their run on Millionaire, there was an earlier question about a Billie Eilish song lyric, that was based on a quote from some historic philosopher. It was definitely a question that would've stumped 95% of contestants, but Jamie Ding knew it right away. So he got them to where they are now.
And in the previous round of the show, Larry David and his daughter had a question about things that were primarily supplied by India prior to the 18th century. Three of the choices were diamonds, cinnamon, and saffron (I forget the 4th, but it was obviously not it). They figured it was cinnamon or saffron (as did I), and called their lifeline - who was Jon Hamm - who said it was cinnamon. They guessed that, and were wrong. It was diamonds, which surprised just about everyone.