Wer wird Millionär? (English translation: Who will become a millionaire?) is a German game show based on the original British format of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. The show is hosted by Günther Jauch. The main goal of the game is to win €1 million (earlier 1 million DM) by answering 15 multiple-choice questions correctly. There are normally three lifelines - Fifty Fifty (fünfzig-fünfzig), Phone A Friend (Telefon) and Ask The Audience (Publikumsjoker), but if the contestant wants, a new lifeline called Zusatzjoker or Risikomodus (Additional joker or Risk mode) is added - if the contestant chooses to play the version with this lifeline, he can ask someone in the audience who believes that he/she knows the correct answer for a question, however if the contestant wants to play this variant, the second guaranteed sum (€16,000) isn't a guaranteed sum. Wer wird Millionär? is broadcast from 3 September 1999 to today. It is shown on the German TV station RTL on Mondays and Fridays at 20:15 (UTC+1). When a contestant gets the fifth question correct, he will leave with at least €500 (earlier 1,000 DM). When a contestant gets the tenth question correct, he will leave with at least €16,000(earlier 32,000 DM).
The game's prizes
In the second version of Wer wird Millionär? (the current series), there are fifteen questions and there are the prizes:
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- 1. question • €50
- 2. question • €100
- 3. question • €200
- 4. question • €300
- 5. question • €500 (guaranteed sum)
- 6. question • €1,000
- 7. question • €2,000
- 8. question • €4,000
- 9. question • €8,000
- 10. question • €16,000 (guaranteed sum or fourth "lifeline") will be selected before the beginning
- 11. question • €32,000
- 12. question • €64,000
- 13. question • €125,000
- 14. question • €500,000
- 15. question • €1,000,000
In the first version of Wer wird Millionär?, there were fifteen questions and these were the prizes:
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- 1. question • DM100 (€51)
- 2. question • DM200 (€102)
- 3. question • DM300 (€153)
- 4. question • DM500 (€255)
- 5. question • DM1,000 DM (€510) (guaranteed sum)
- 6. question • DM2,000 (€1020)
- 7. question • DM4,000 (€2040)
- 8. question • DM8,000 (€4080)
- 9. question • DM16,000 (€8160)
- 10. question • DM32,000 (€16,320) (guaranteed sum)
- 11. question • DM64,000 (€32,640)
- 12. question • DM125,000 (€63,911)
- 13. question • DM250,000 (€127,822)
- 14. question • DM500,000 (€255,644)
- 15. question • DM1,000,000 (€511,288)
Winners of the biggest prize
These are the questions with which people have won the biggest prize.
- Eckhard Freise (2 December 2000) - 1 million DM
| With whom did Edmund Hillary first reach the top of Mount Everest in 1953? |
| • A: Nasreddin Hodscha |
• B: Nursay Pimsorn |
| • C: Tenzing Norgay |
• D: Abrindranath Singh |
- Marlene Grabherr (20 May 2001) - 1 million DM
| Which of the Gibb brothers are twins? |
| • A: Robin and Barry |
• B: Maurice and Robin |
| • C: Barry and Maurice |
• D: Andy and Robin |
- Gerhard Krammer (18 October 2002) - €1 million
| Which writer, as an architeture graduate, built a pool of water in Zurich? |
| • A: Joseph Roth |
• B: Martin Walser |
| • C: Max Frisch |
• D: Friedrich Dürrenmatt |
- Dr. Maria Wienströer (29 March 2004) - €1 million
| Who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954 and Nobel Peace Prize in 1962? |
| • A: Linus Pauling |
• B: Otto Hahn |
| • C: Pearl S. Buck |
• D: Albert Schweitzer |
- Stefan Lang (9 October 2006) - €1 million
| Which element represents more than one half the weight of the human body? |
| • A: Carbon |
• B: Calcium |
| • C: Oxygen |
• D: Iron |
- Timur Hahn (8 January 2007) - €1 million
| Which sea was named after mythological king who drowned in this sea? |
| • A: Ionian Sea |
• B: Aegean Sea |
| • C: Adriatic Sea |
• D: Caspian Sea |
- Oliver Pocher (30 May 2008) (celebrity version) - €1 million
| The Nagel-Schreckenberg Model provides an explanation for the emergence of what? |
| • A: Desert |
• B: Traffic congestion |
| • C: Influenza |
• D: Stock market crash |
| What was the name of Franz Kafka's last companion, which he met in 1923, a year before his death? |
| • A: Dora Diamant |
• B: Sarah Saphir |
| • C: Rita Rubin |
• D: Olga Opal |
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