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WHO WANT TO BE A MILLIONAIRE?

TV game "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" appeared in the UK. Its premiere took place on September 4, 1998 on the ATV channel. The show was hosted by the famous English showman Chris Terent. The game very quickly became the most popular program on English television - already in the first months the ratings of “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” began to “overlap” the ratings of programs on the leading UK television channel BBC-1.

During the first year of the game's existence, a license for its production was acquired in 77 countries around the world; today, 100 countries already own a license for the production of this program. And the game is broadcast in 75 countries. Among them are Russia, the USA, India, Japan, Colombia, Venezuela, Malaysia, Australia, Greece, Poland, Ukraine, Georgia, Kazakhstan and many others. In some countries, such as Singapore, there are not one, but two versions of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, which air on different channels and in different languages.

On Russian television, the premiere of the program took place on October 1, 1999, on the NTV channel. It was called “Oh, Lucky!” It was hosted by Dmitry Dibrov.
Since February 2001, the program has been broadcast on the ORT channel. Now the Russian version English game called "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" and is led by Maxim Galkin.

MILLIONAIRE RECORDS

"Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" - the only foreign game whose production rights were purchased in Japan– and most of the millionaires (27) live there. There are 3-4 winners every year.
The second place in the number of winners is the USA (11 millionaires), Germany and Austria are in third (6).

Most big prize over the history of the show, participants in the American version of “Super Millionaire” were offered $10 million. True, the jackpot was never won (the maximum win was a million dollars). Also, the winners live well in England (a million pounds), in Ireland - a million euros (previously - a million pounds, which is also not small), Germany, Italy, France.

MY OWN GAME

TV quiz show "Jeopardy!" – international game, was originally created by Merv Griffin and aired from March 30, 1964 to September 7, 1975 on NBC; in 1978 it was renewed and aired (in new versions) on other channels and in different countries. Jeopardy! will begin its 24th season in September 2007.

IN Russian version The game show has been airing on the NTV channel under the name “Own Game” since January 1994. The permanent presenter is Pyotr Kuleshov.

The essence of the game is that three participants race to answer questions of varying costs, which depend on their complexity. If the answer is correct, points are added to the player’s account; if they are answered incorrectly, they are deducted. Until 2001, there were only three rounds (“Red”, “Blue” and “Own Game”), now there are 4. In the first, the cost of questions varies from 100 to 500 rubles, in the second - from 200 to 1000, and in the third - from 300 to 1500.

Only those players who have a positive amount in their account are allowed to the final round. Only one question is played in it, and all three participants are required to answer it. First they choose a topic, then they place their bets, after which the question itself is asked.

The topics of the questions mainly concern culture, history, literature, science, etc.

Just a few years ago, these people were unknown to anyone and led an ordinary lifestyle, but today, if not everyone, then very many residents, not only Russian Federation, but also the CIS countries and even neighboring countries. These people did not dream of wealth, they worked and earned money in order to support their family. Little did they know that one day their lives would change dramatically. Who are they - ordinary residents of our country who became real millionaires thanks to TV quiz"Who want to be a millionaire?". Did the winnings on the show become turning point in their lives? What has changed since then, and what is the fate of national heroes?

1999 Broadcast on the Russian national channel NTV popular show"Oh, lucky guy!" with permanent presenter Dmitry Dibrov. In 2001, the program was purchased by Channel One (formerly ORT - Public Russian Television) and changes the host - he becomes the still little-known young comedian Maxim Galkin. And already in the first episode of the television quiz on Channel One, Igor Sazeev from St. Petersburg becomes the winner and receives one million rubles as the main prize. To this day, skeptics claim that the management of Channel One decided to make this man the winner in order to attract even more viewers to this program on Channel One, since in the program “Oh, Lucky!” during the two years of its existence, no one won a million on NTV. However, be that as it may, Igor Sazeev played with dignity and received his winnings well deservedly.

Igor Sazeev is a man who was 39 years old at the time of winning and has six children. According to him, he was preparing not so much for the game itself, but for the qualifying round, which he was afraid of not passing. To do this, I studied the history of the Russian Federation, and also looked through a large number of reference books. His diligence and labors were not in vain - luck smiled on Igor. Just not for long. After receiving a prize of one million rubles, he was forced to pay three hundred and fifty thousand to the state treasury as a tax on the prize. The information that cash prizes from the program are not advertised and for Igor Sazeev the news about the need to pay a 35 percent tax came as a real shock.

As for the game itself, Igor Sazeev was confused only once - when he was asked a question regarding the work “Eugene Onegin”. In subsequent interviews, the man honestly admitted that this question took him by surprise, since many years had passed since he read Pushkin’s work. And he answered all other questions clearly and confidently, because he knew the correct answer. However, despite the fact that Igor Sazeev is the first winner of the game program who wants to become a millionaire and did not expect to become the owner of such a serious prize, he still expected that he would reach at least the tenth question, since he had a sufficient number knowledge in various fields of human activity.

Today, Igor Sazeev does not hide the fact that he was brought to the program by chance - during joint viewings of this television quiz, he often correctly answered questions to which other participants left the game or gave incorrect answers. The wife, seeing such abilities in her husband, advised him to go and take part himself and win a million rubles for the family. This is how Igor Sazeev ended up on the “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” program.

As mentioned above, many skeptics believe that Igor Sazeev’s victory on the television quiz is good PR for Channel One. However, the winner believes that he honestly won his million. He does not think that the questions he answered were too easy; they fully complied with the rules and regulations of the program and were divided into three blocks - humorous (easy), medium difficulty and questions increased complexity. It just so happened that for Igor the questions turned out to be convenient and nothing more.

According to psychologists, a serious test of a person’s moral “strength” is rapid and unexpected wealth or power. Igor Sazeev for one television program became richer by a million rubles. And, even despite the need to pay taxes, he became the owner of a huge amount of money. However, the winner of the TV quiz does not belong to the category of people who spend their winnings on various banquets in the first months, holiday events, and then they discover that there is no trace left of the winnings. After several years, Igor believes that he spent the money well and did not squander the winnings. He has a negative attitude towards those people who do not want to work, but prefer to receive money “just like that,” but at the same time he does not believe that winning such a serious intellectual program is a dishonest or undignified way to earn money.

Today Igor again dreams of taking part in the program. When asked that maybe this time it’s worth trying his luck abroad, the newly-made millionaire replies that, in his opinion, he won’t even be able to pass the qualifying round, since this will require answering questions regarding local specifics, history of the country in which he will play.

The second winner of the program, who managed to take away three million rubles, was Viktor Chudinovskikh, who took part in the program together with his wife.

Yuri's fate is similar to the fate of Igor Sazeev - Yuri was a talented boy from childhood, took part in all sorts of events that were held at school, participated in intellectual quizzes, and academic competitions. various subjects. In a word, Yuri Chudinovskikh had such knowledge that allowed him to study not in the usual general education high school, and in a special boarding school for gifted children. By coincidence, Igor Sazeev also graduated from the same secondary school. However, Yuri’s fate was not easy - despite the large number of diverse talents, it was difficult for the modest Chudinovskikh to find his place “under the sun”. He worked a lot and earned little. Until the moment he got on the program as a participant, the family saved on almost everything, but there was still not enough money. However, oddly enough, having got to the doubles game, the husband and wife made a mutual decision right in the studio - to take risks and go to the end.

Irina and Yuri Chudinovskikh are sociable people who have many friends. In order not to lose the opportunity to win the maximum amount of money, they put several of their intellectual acquaintances on the phones at once, one of whom was the director of a secondary school. secondary school, where Irina works. This person teaches history in high school and they planned to contact him if they came across a difficult history question during the program. However, fate decreed otherwise - the couple had doubts on a question related to astronomy. I had to call a specialist in this matter from Moscow. However, he was not able to answer this question, only at the last second one of his friends who participated in the “ brainstorming"I remembered that we're talking about about Venus, which has a gaseous shell and therefore is the hottest place. However, despite the fact that their friends helped the Chudinovsky couple win three million rubles, Yuri and Irina did not consider it necessary to thank them for this.

Today, Irina and Yuri Chudinovsky are called people who, in fact, became the prototypes of the heroes who took part in the filming of the Oscar-winning film “Slumdog Millionaire.” Besides the fact that Yuri and Irina for a long time moved from one city to another, wandered around, trying to find better life, even while participating in the program, childhood memories surfaced in Yuri’s memory. Yuri Chudinovskikh honestly admitted to reporters after his victory on the show that he did not know the exact answer to last question. However, despite this, at the very last moment, when he and Irina were about to take the money and leave the program, he remembered the childhood cartoon“Well, just wait,” and the answer was found.

After winning the program, the life of Yuri and Irina Chudinovsky changed in better side– after the program aired, Yuri was invited to work for a good position in a serious banking structure, where he works as a deputy general director until today.

However, the winning did not radically change the lives of these people from Kirov, since, according to Yuri, three million rubles is too little to change something radically - the money earned with their own minds on the program was spent too quickly.

Svetlana Yaroslavtseva is a person who managed to win three million rubles on her own. Unlike the couple Yuri and Irina Chudinovsky, she did not take part in the pairs program - she decided to rely on her own strengths and talents. She was born and lived in the city of Troitsk (Moscow region), unlike previous winners, Svetlana did not study at prestigious educational institutions, preferring self-education to study at Moscow universities.

Svetlana Yaroslavtseva answered the host’s fourteen questions with dignity and was just one step away from three million rubles, but the last – the fifteenth question – put her at a dead end. “Which writer was a page during the time of Catherine the Second?” Svetlana did not know the answer - this was evident from her facial expressions, gestures and serious excitement reflected on the face of the future millionaire. Despite the fact that she tried to remain unperturbed, the audience in the studio, and then the television viewers, noticed an internal struggle - to take 500 thousand rubles or go to the end. The choice was not easy. Svetlana Yaroslavtseva, who managed to save the hint until the end of the program, asked a question auditorium and it was the people who came to the program who helped her win three million rubles.

With the money she won, Svetlana Yaroslavtseva purchased a dacha near Troitsk, as well as a one-room apartment for her elderly mother. A few months after her victory, the woman fulfilled her old dream - to visit the Dead Sea, Netanya, Jerusalem, and Eilat.

She speaks of Maxim Galkin with a sparkle in her eyes, talking about his charisma and incredible charm. The only thing that really surprised her during the game was the look of a tired man, his eyes full of melancholy. However, to the surprise of Svetlana Yaroslavtseva, this was absolutely not visible on TV.

Today, yesterday's millionaires lead a normal lifestyle. They live among us and continue to work, study, achieve new heights and open horizons. Luck smiled on these people and gave them a lot of positive emotions, but today their life is practically no different from before - everything passes, money is spent, but the memory of such a gift of fate remains forever.

TV quiz show on Channel One " Who want to be a millionaire?“- an analogue of the game show on the British channel ITV1 “Who wants to be a millionaire?”.

History of the TV quiz show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? / Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

In Russia there is a TV quiz show " Who want to be a millionaire?" first started on the NTV channel under the name " Oh, lucky one!", the famous television journalist Dmitry Dibrov acted as the host.

Its current name is the game " Who want to be a millionaire?"received only in 2001 - along with a new "registration" on Channel One. From now on, "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" Popular comedian and showman Maxim Galkin begins hosting. In 2008, after his departure from Channel One, a survey of viewers was conducted regarding the candidacy of a new host of the show “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” - became one again Dmitry Dibrov. By the way, from the same year in the game “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” starts to sound new music, written by the composer Ramono Kovalo.

The Russian viewer is not alone in his love for this exciting game. Quiz “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” was invented by the Englishman David Briggs and implemented it together with presenter Chris Turrent, first on radio and then, in the fall of 1998, on television.

The success of the project was simply stunning: a year after its release, the show attracted an audience of 20 million. A year later, the lucky one finally showed up and won the first million (pounds sterling, of course). The show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" changed its name several times (“Double down,” “Mountain of Money”) until it acquired its current name, which has become famous in all corners of the planet.

Today in Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? play in 107 countries around the world. Many stars of show business, sports, and politics answered questions from the presenters. The money won, as a rule, was sent to charity.

Rules of the TV quiz Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? / Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

In order to become the owner of the coveted prize “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?”, the participant does not need to do anything supernatural - he must simply cope with 15 questions, choosing one of the four proposed answer options for each of them. If the attempt is successful, you can receive a certain amount of money and leave the game “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” or continue answering questions to increase your winnings. Each next question is more difficult than the previous one, but along with the complexity, of course, the amount of reward also increases. And for the first wrong answer, you will be eliminated from the game “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” The questions are divided into three difficulty levels: from 1st to 5th – funny questions, which will not be difficult to answer; from 6th to 10th – more complex questions of general topics; from 11th to 15th - the most difficult questions that require knowledge in certain areas.

If a player on the show “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” unable to cope with the issue alone, he can use hints.

Currently, the player is offered four hints:
“50:50” – the computer removes two incorrect answers;
“Help from a friend” – within 30 seconds the player can consult either a friend by phone or a viewer in the studio;
“Help from the audience” – each viewer in the studio votes for the correct answer, in his opinion, and the player is provided with voting statistics;
“Right to make a mistake” (introduced in 2010) – the player has the right to give two answer options if the first answer turns out to be incorrect, but only once per game. The use of a hint must be declared before giving an answer. Using this hint along with the 50:50 hint will give you a 100% pass rate on the question.

From October 21, 2006 to September 13, 2008, there was also a “Three Wise Men” hint - within 30 seconds, the player could consult with three famous personalities located in another room. IN special issues This hint was not used with “star” players. As of December 27, 2008, the hint was canceled.

From September 4, 2010, you can play in two ways: “classic” - the regular version of the game until September 4, 2010; “risky” – the player receives the hint “Right to make a mistake.” As a result, the player has 4 of them. However, there is only one fireproof amount, which the player sets himself.

Winners of the Russian version of the TV quiz show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? / Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

Won 1,000,000 rubles:
Irina and Yuri Chudinovskikh (broadcast date - January 18, 2003)
Igor Sazeev (broadcast date: March 12, 2001)
Won 3,000,000 rubles:
Svetlana Yaroslavtseva (broadcast date: February 19, 2006)
Timur Budaev (broadcast date: April 17, 2010).

Celebrity Wins and Losses on Game Show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? / Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

In 2011, a separate Ukrainian version of the TV show appeared - “Millionaire - Hot Seat”. The host is the famous Ukrainian showman Vladimir Zelensky. It is noteworthy that the program is released in an updated format, Hot Seat, which is not used in the Russian version.

Game "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" mentioned in seven feature films.

Broadcast of the show “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” on Saturdays at 17:50 on Channel One.