Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, or simply Millionaire, is a trivia game show in which contestants answer questions in an attempt to win one million dollars.
Millionaire, hosted by Meredith Vieira, features questions from various subjects. The questions always start off easy, but get harder as the show progresses. The first question is always something like 'Fill in the blank. Row row row your boat gently down the...' Surprisingly there have been three contestants in Millionaire history to leave with no money. That is pretty sad. It is also pretty rare that a person actually wins the million. I have only witnessed it once.
Recently, I watched an episode with a guest host filling in for Meredith. Cat Deely, host of So You Think You Can Dance, took over for Meredith and had an interesting effect on the contestants. She has a very heavy English accent, so after a while every single contestant would start to talk with an accent until they caught themselves. It was really funny. She filled in all week and every day if I listened really hard, I could hear them start talking in an English accent.
The show has made some major changes for this season. They have brought in a timer so that people don't sit there forever deciding which lifeline to use. They have also made some changes to the lifelines. Instead of fifty fifty, contestants are given what is called the 'double dip'. They can choose one answer, and if that answer is wrong they get to choose again. Even though it has almost the exact effect of the fifty fifty it's still handy.
Millionaire is on everyday at 5 p.m. on the WB network. To learn more about the contestants, the questions, and play an online game of Millionaire click HERE!
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