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6 unusual facts about "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?"


Cleverdicks

He had a big score in the first round but lost to Rob Hannah (from Eggheads, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and other shows).

Love Connection

For many years it was third behind Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! for longest lasting game show in syndication, but since has been surpassed by Family Feud and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.

Paulo Laserna Phillips

Since 2000 Laserna is the presenter of the Colombian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.

Sony Music Studios

The complex hosted the first US version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire for ABC in 1999 (on a one-day delay), before the current syndicated version and occasional specials moved to ABC-owned studios further north on the West Side of Manhattan.

Thom McKee

The wins and consecutive days records were broken by 100% contestant Ian Lygo in 1998, while the winnings record was broken by Michael Shutterly during the original 15-night run of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire in 1999, where he won $500,000.

He faced John Carpenter of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire fame in a first-round matchup, but lost.


¿Quién quiere ser millonario?

¿Quién quiere ser millonario? is the title of several Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? franchise game shows in Spanish-speaking countries.

Andy Walmsley

Later, he moved into television set design, developing the set for Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, So You Think You Can Dance, and America's Got Talent.

Anna Ryder Richardson

She appeared alongside fellow I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! contestant and eventual winner, Christopher Biggins, on a Celebrity Version of the ITV show Who wants to be a Millionaire?, which aired on 1 January 2008, in which Anna and Christopher shared a £50,000 prize for their chosen charities.

Ellis Watson

Prior to this, Ellis spent three years as the CEO of Celador, where he was largely responsible for the spread of the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? format, spanning some 100 countries.

Fame For 15

People covered include Donato Dalyrmple, the fisherman who rescued Elián González, Scott O'Grady, Jim Morris, Darva Conger, John Wayne Bobbitt, Ellie Nesler, Divine Brown, Tommie Smith, George Holliday, the man who filmed the Rodney King video, and Who Wants to be a Millionaire winner John Carpenter.

Frame story

This approach is also demonstrated in the 2008 film Slumdog Millionaire (adapted from the 2005 novel Q & A), about a poor street kid Jamal coming close to winning Kaun Banega Crorepati (the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?) and then being suspected of cheating.

Googol

Googol is notable for being the subject of the £1 million question in the infamous episode of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, when contestant Charles Ingram cheated his way through the show by getting help from his wife, who was in the audience, and fellow contestant Tecwen Whittock.

Icelolly.com

Icelolly.com are regular contributors of holiday prizes to a number of prime time TV shows including Deal or No Deal, All Star Family Fortunes, All Star Mr & Mrs, Peter Andre’s Bad Boyfriend Club, Red and Black, Ant & Decs Takeaway, Keith Lemon’s Lemonaid and Who Wants to be a Millionaire.

John Grochowski

He also had a moment in the limelight as a game show contestant, winning $125,000 in July 2000 on ABC's Who Wants to Be a Millionaire with Regis Philbin.

KLFY-TV

KLFY airs syndicated programs, including Live! with Kelly and Michael, Dr. Phil, Judge Judy, Who Wants to be a Millionaire, Entertainment Tonight and The Insider.

KMCI-TV

Syndicated programming on this station includes The Simpsons, That '70s Show, The King of Queens, Family Guy, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? and How I Met Your Mother.

KNVN

KNVN airs all NBC-produced and most syndicated shows in HD, such as Live! with Kelly and Michael, Anderson, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Jeopardy!, Wheel of Fortune, NUMB3RS, The New Adventures of Old Christine, and Without a Trace.

KNWA-TV

Syndicated programming on KNWA includes Anderson, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, Entertainment Tonight, Judge Judy, The People's Court, and The Doctors.

KOHD

Syndicated programming on KOHD includes: Inside Edition, The Insider, Entertainment Tonight, and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.

Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen

In January 2006, Llewelyn-Bowen and his wife Jackie were offered a place on the Valentine's Day celebrity couples edition of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? They appeared on the show managing to reach the £1 million question, before answering it incorrectly and dropping down to £32,000 (a loss of £468,000).

Lucy Pargeter

In the summer of 2011, she appeared on a celebrity edition of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, with on-screen son Aaron (Danny Miller).

Ludia

The company works with the owners of game show properties such as FremantleMedia, Sony, CBS, BBC Worldwide, Mark Burnett Productions and Disney to create video games based on game shows such as The Price Is Right, Family Feud/Family Fortunes, Press Your Luck, Pyramid, Hollywood Squares, Hole In The Wall, Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?, The Weakest Link and Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.

Millionaire

Millionaire is also a common nickname of the international quiz show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, first hosted in the UK by Chris Tarrant, and later in the U.S. by Regis Philbin and Meredith Vieira.

Richard Easter

Richard Easter is a British writer who has written scripts for many mainstream TV shows, including Top of the Pops 2, You've Been Framed, EastEnders, Coronation Street and Who Wants to be a Millionaire?

Tsui Po-ko

In October 2001, Tsui and his wife appeared together in a couples version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? on ATV and won HK$60,000, and they claimed they would donate some of the money to charity.

UWink

Games included "challenge games" such as "Zillionaire" (a trivia game similar to "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?") as well as multi-player games such as Pong-style games that groups could play away from their tables while they were awaiting their orders.

Valleycrest Productions

It went on to earn even greater success as the production company and copyright holder of several American game shows of the late 1990s and 2000s, which included Win Ben Stein's Money on Comedy Central, and more famously, the American versions of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and the spin-off program Who Wants to Be a Super Millionaire.

WCSH

Syndicated programming on WCSH includes: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, The Doctors, Katie and Inside Edition.

William Keppel, 7th Earl of Albemarle

He is also the great-great-grandfather of the current Earl, Lord Rufus Keppel, 10th Earl of Albemarle and of Her Royal Highness Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, and the modern-day television celebrity and Who Wants to be a Millionaire? champion Judith Keppel.

Winnebago language

So far, he’s worked up a language quiz game based on the show "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?} and has been using Facebook and YouTube videos to get young people engaged. "The world is moving so fast with technology, and our youth are the ones who are going to carry the language on,” he said.

WKOW

Programming on WKOW includes the ABC lineup, local news, and syndicated programming including The Dr. Oz Show, Ellen, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Live! with Kelly and Michael and The Doctors.

WMBF-TV

Syndicated programming on WMBF includes: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, Family Feud, Access Hollywood, and The Doctors.


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AJ Faigin

Allen asked him to immediately fly to Toronto for a midnight meeting with USFL money-men at the home of multi-millionaire and league creative guru John Bassett.

Andrew Freedman Home

During the Panic of 1907, Andrew Freedman, a self-made millionaire, came to the realization that he almost lost his entire fortune.

Ayer's Cliff, Quebec

In the 1930s, the well-known American multi-millionaire sportsman Foxhall P. Keene maintained a seasonal residence at Ayer's Cliff, where he died in 1941.

Azharuddin

Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, (born 1998), Indian child actor in the film Slumdog Millionaire

Baron Revelstoke

Married Maude Lorillard of New York, daughter of the tobacco millionaire, Pierre Lorillard IV.

Belly 2: Millionaire Boyz Club

Belly 2: Millionaire Boyz Club is a 2006 film and the direct-to-video sequel starring The Game and Shari Headley, directed by Cess Silvera.

Christian Kautz

Son of a Swiss multi-millionaire, his career started with Mercedes-Benz as a junior driver in 1936, then as an Auto Union junior driver in 1938, starting in three Grands Prix.

Coins of Lundy

In 1969 Jack Hayward, a British millionaire, purchased the island for £150,000 and gave it to the British people.

Dave Jenks

In 2003, with the release of The Millionaire Real Estate Agent, co-authored by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan, Jenks became a best-selling author when the book spent time on BusinessWeek's best-seller list.

Dead Mine

Warren Price (Les Loveday), the son of a millionaire, with his partner, Japan scientists Rie (Miki Mizuno), Price's girlfriend Su-Ling (Carmen Soo) is on a mission to explore a bunker military relics of Japan's army on the island of Una-Una, Gulf of Tomini, Sulawesi.

Ersel Hickey

Hickey also wrote songs for other artists, including "The Millionaire" for Jackie Wilson, "A Little Bird Told Me So" for LaVern Baker, and "Don't Let the Rain Come Down", which was a US top ten hit for the Serendipity Singers.

Fear Is the Key

The protagonist, Talbot, was played by Barry Newman, and the millionaire's daughter Sarah Ruthven by Suzy Kendall.

Fels

Joseph Fels (1853–1914), American soap manufacturer, millionaire, and philanthropist

Helmut Reichmann

Professor Dr. Helmut Reichmann (* 1941; † March 10, 1992) was a German glider pilot, thrice Gliding World Champion and co-founder, with millionaire Barron Hilton, of the Barron Hilton Cup.

Hermann V. von Holst

In the period 1904-1906, von Holst created summer countryside estate architecture in the White Mountains of New Hampshire for socially prominent and wealthy clients, including Pittsburgh glassmaking millionaire George A. Macbeth and International Harvester partner John Glessner, whose Chicago Glessner House was designed by Henry Hobson Richardson.

History of Christianity in Mizoram

A British millionaire Robert Arthington had a strong premillennialist view that the sooner Christianity is spread in the world, the sooner would be the Second Coming of Jesus.

Hot seat

Millionaire Hot Seat, the 2009 relaunch of the Australian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?.

Indian Agricultural Research Institute

Phipps was a family friend of Lady Curzon, who was the daughter of American millionaire and wife of Lord Curzon, the Viceroy of India.

Jay Papasan

Papasan became a bestselling author in 2003 with the release of The Millionaire Real Estate Agent, coauthored by Gary W. Keller and Dave Jenks.

KF Tirana Presidents

The most successful president in history is considered to be the Egyptian millionaire Metwally El Sayed who was president of the club during the period 1999-2004.

Leanza Cornett

She has also served as a host for several television shows, including Entertainment Tonight (1994–1995), New Attitudes (1998), and Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire? (2000), and made television guest appearances in television series such as Melrose Place, The Tick, and Fear Factor.

Mark Victor Hansen

In 2005 he co-wrote, along with Robert Allen, the book "Cracking the Millionaire Code" in which he highlights several self-made millionaires such as Bob Circosta, Michael Dell, Bill Gates, Alexander Graham Bell, Oprah Winfrey, and others, using them as examples of how to build wealth.

Matching funds

For example, Dr. Booker T. Washington, a famous African-American educator, had a long-time friendship with millionaire industrialist Henry Huttleston Rogers who provided him with substantial amounts of money to be applied for the betterment and education of black Americans in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Millionaire Playboy

Park Avenue Logger, also known as Millionaire Playboy, a 1937 American film directed by David Howard

Naftali Bennett

The company was sold in 2005 to RSA Security for $145,000,000, making Bennett a multi-millionaire in the process.

Nellie Walker

In 1902, reclusive Colorado Springs millionaire W. S. Stratton died and someone there realized that Walker was in town and asked her to make a death mask, which she did.

On the Up

Tony Carpenter is a self-made millionaire who turned his South London minicab firm into a successful chauffeur-driven car service.

Origaudio

OrigAudio was featured on the second season of ABC's show Shark Tank where they were offered an investment from millionaire Robert Herjavec.

Philip Woodfield

Woodfield and Steele also represented the British Government at that meeting, along with William Whitelaw, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, and Paul Channon, a millionaire Guinness heir and minister of state at the Northern Ireland Office; the IRA was again represented by Adams and Ó Conaill, along with Seán MacStiofáin, the leader of the delegation, Séamus Twomey, Martin McGuinness, Ivor Bell, and Myles Shevlin, a solicitor.

Phule's Company

The book follows the comedic events as Willard J. Phule, the rich son of a millionaire arms manufacturer, reforms a group of misfits in the Space Legion, a fictional organization similar to the French Foreign Legion, into an "elite fighting force".

Pierce, Butler and Pierce Manufacturing Company

William K. Pierce, 64, "formerly a millionaire," committed suicide by shooting himself through the head on April 5, 1915, in Washington, D.C., at the home of Major Charles P. Lynch, his brother-in-law, after the Syracuse manufacturing company "had lost a fortune in few years."

Robert Seaman

Robert Livingston Seaman (1822 – March 11, 1904) was an American millionaire industrialist who was the husband of investigative journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochran (better known as Nellie Bly), whom he married in 1895 in Chicago.

Rolando Masferrer

In December, 1960, the Miami Herald, reported that Masferrer was leading a small group of fifty three people who were polishing their killing skills at a ranch owned by multi-millionaire Howard Hughes.

Rowan Alexander

Following Gretna's take over by multi-millionaire Brooks Mileson, Alexander steered the club to the Scottish Third Division title in 2005 with a record-breaking 98 points.

Samuel McIntire

The chair was one of a set of eight chairs originally purchased by Elias Hasket Derby, Salem's wealthiest merchant and thought to be America's first millionaire, and his wife, Elizabeth Crowninshield.

Sarah Webb Gosling

She married multi-millionaire Adam Gosling, a son of the former car park tycoon Sir Donald Gosling in 2009.

Simon Murphy

Simon J. Murphy, Sr. (1820–1910), millionaire lumberman in Maine, Detroit, and Humboldt County in Northern California

Steve Knight

Steven Knight (born 1959), British writer and co-creator of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?.

Stonor Park

In 1989, it was used as the home of millionaire Victor Hazell (Robbie Coltrane) in the film version of the Roald Dahl book Danny, the Champion of the World.

Susquehanna Boom

Men like James H. Perkins, Peter Herdic, and Mahlon Fisher became millionaires while many of the men who actually worked in the river struggled to survive on the wages paid to them by the lumber barons.

The Affairs of Susan

The next beau is Mike Ward (Don DeFore), an industrialist Millionaire, whom he met when making a deal with the producer.

The Gigli Concert

The Gigli Concert deals with seven days in the relationship between Dynamatologist JPW King, a quack self-help therapist living in Dublin but born and brought up in England, and the mysterious Irishman, a construction millionaire who asks King to teach him how to sing like the Italian opera singer Beniamino Gigli.

The National Crittenton Foundation

The National Crittenton Foundation's roots are in the social movement created by New York evangelist and millionaire Charles Nelson Crittenton, who founded the Florence Crittenton Night Mission in 1883 in New York City.

Vera-Ellen

Her second husband, from 1954 to their 1966 divorce, was millionaire Victor Rothschild of the Rothschild family.

Victoria Montgomery

The play, a work by Frederic Townsend Martin, showed scenes from a private car, the RMS Olympic, a millionaire's residence on Fifth Avenue, and a Mexican mine with an operative cage.

West Branch Susquehanna River

Men like James H. Perkins, Peter Herdic, and Mahlon Fisher became millionaires while many of the men who actually worked in the river struggled to survive on the wages paid to them by the lumber barons.