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Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (often informally called Millionaire) is an American television game show based on the format of the same-titled British program created by David Briggs, Steven Knight and Mike Whitehill and developed in the United States by Michael Davies.
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Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (sometimes called Millionaire) is an American quiz show based on the British show of the same name. One can win up to one million United States dollars ($1,000,000) on the show for answering fourteen (or fifteen in older versions) multiple choice trivia questions in a row.
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? has been credited with single-handedly reviving interest in, and breaking new ground for, the television game show. It revolutionised the look and feel of game shows with its unique lighting system, dramatic music cues, and futuristic set.
- Gameplay
- Audience Games
- Straddling
- Variations
- Primetime Specials
- Millionaires
- Special editions
- The List of Guest Hosts
- Club Millionaire
- Who Wants to Be A Millionaire - Play It!
The host asked up to 15 (later 14) questions. Each question has four possible answers (A, B, C & D). All the contestant has to do is to choose the one that is correct. The answer is not official until the contestant confirms it by saying "Final Answer" usually right after the host asks the famous question, “Is that your final answer?”If he/she is c...
Starting with the shuffle format in 2010, if time is running out at the end of an episode, in lieu of starting a new game, one of three audience games would be played: Who Wants to Be a Thousandaire? – (originally called "The $1,000 Question" from 2010 to 2013); A random audience member is given one chance to win $1,000 by answering the next questi...
Since its inception, games can straddle between questions. Meaning, after a contestant answers a question, the show would go to a commercial. If time runs out in the middle of the game, a horn would sound signaling the end of an episode. The contestant will then see the next question on the next show. Only twice in the show's history had the $1,000...
Fastest Finger Question
In the ABC prime-time shows, 10 contestants (minus the ones who already played) played a qualifying round called Fastest Finger for the right to play for $1,000,000. All questions required contestants to put four answers in the proper order, using the corresponding four buttons on a keypad. If a mistake was made, the player could hit the Delete button and re-enter the sequence, but once the OK button was hit, the answers were locked in. The contestant who gives the correct order in the fastes...
Special editions
Various special editions and tournaments have been conducted which feature celebrities playing the game and donating winnings to charities of their choice. During celebrity editions, contestants are allowed to receive help from their fellow contestants during the first ten questions. Additionally, other special weeks have been conducted featuring two or three family members or couples competing as a team, as well as both a Champions Edition (where former big winners returned and split their w...
Progressive Grand Prize Jackpot
By January 2001, no contestant had won $1 million on the prime time version in the 71 shows that aired over a period of five months. The top prize was then changed from a flat $1 million to an accumulating jackpot that increased by $10,000 for each successive show in which none of the contestants could answer all fifteen questions correctly. $710,000 was initially added to the jackpot for the previous 71 shows that produced no millionaire. On April 10, 2001, Kevin Olmstead answered the final...
Who Wants to Be a Super Millionaire
In 2004, Philbin returned to ABC for 12 episodes of a spin-off program titled Who Wants to Be a Super Millionairein which contestants could potentially win $10,000,000. The program aired five episodes during the week of February 22, 2004, and an additional seven episodes later that year in May. Contestants again answered a series of 15 multiple choice questions for higher dollar values.
10th Anniversary Special
To celebrate Millionaire's 10th anniversary, the show returned to ABC prime-time in August 2009, with Philbin hosting, for an 11-night event. The Academy Award-winning movie Slumdog Millionaireand the 2008 economic crisis helped boost the interest of the renewal of the game show. The episodes featured gameplay based on the current syndicated version (including the rule changes implemented in the 7th season of the syndicated version) but used the Fastest Finger round to select contestants. The...
20th Anniversary Special
On January 8, 2020 in the wake of its 20th Anniversary celebration it was announced that it would become a celebrity edition with limited-run episodes of specials with Jimmy Kimmel as its new host (and executive producer) along with being on its original network (ABC) to air it. According to the article, in this version, celebrity contestants can invite a guest with them such as a family member, a beloved teacher or a famed trivia expert to help them answer questions correctly. Additionally,...
Here are all of the contestants (so far) who have won the million dollars. When someone won the million dollars, confetti in a rainbow of colors, rained down in the studio.
Here are the past and present spin-offs and special editions of Millionaire: 1. Celebrity Edition 2. Champions Edition 3. Top of the Charts Edition 4. Zero Dollar Winner Edition 5. Family Edition 6. College Edition 7. Twins Edition 8. Couples Edition 9. Tax-Free Edition 10. Play to Play for Your Wedding Edition 11. Teacher Edition 12. Walk-In & Win...
From 2007 until 2011, when Vieira was concurrently working as a co-host of Today, guest hosts appeared on each season of the syndicated version. among them were the following: 1. Al Roker 2. Tom Bergeron 3. Tim Vincent 4. Dave Price 5. Billy Bush 6. Leeza Gibbons 7. Cat Deeley 8. Samantha Harris 9. Shaun Robinson 10. Steve Harvey 11. John Henson 12...
This was a loyalty program that allowed members to earn points for watching and shopping; members could redeem those points for rewards just like any other loyalty program. Viewers got a special code, which was really a question similar to those of the Hot Seat. This lasted from September 5-December 6, 2011, in Season 10. It is unknown what happene...
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire - Play It! was an attraction at Disney's Hollywood Studios (formerly Disney-MGM Studios) theme park at Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida from April 7, 2001, until August 19, 2006, and at Disney California Adventure Park in Anaheim, California from September 14, 2001, until August 20, 2004. The attraction its...
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: With Regis Philbin, John Carpenter, Meredith Vieira, Michael Shutterly. Contestants are chosen based on their ability to arrange 4 answers to a question in the correct order the fastest.
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire is known for employing strong and talented hosts starting with Regis Philbin who hosted the original U.S version of the show from 1999 until 2002. In 2002 the show was syndicated and the updated version was hosted by Meredith Vieira for a whopping 11 seasons from September 2002 until May 2013.
