Who Wants to be a Millionaire 3/1/2001 $2 MILLION JACKPOT!

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  • @elijahmoses5675
    @elijahmoses5675 6 років тому +31

    WWTBAMclassics do you have the next episode after this?

    • @WWTBAMclassics
      @WWTBAMclassics  6 років тому +5

      I do not

    • @lawandorder888
      @lawandorder888 6 років тому +3

      i can tell you that Peter Kiplinger wins only $32,000 after answering his $64,000 question incorrectly.

    • @josephscafetta6544
      @josephscafetta6544 6 років тому +4

      @@lawandorder888 Really, what was the $64k question?

    • @lawandorder888
      @lawandorder888 6 років тому +3

      Joseph Scafetta All I know that he got answer wrong it was Magi

    • @EricAKATheBelgianGuy
      @EricAKATheBelgianGuy 6 років тому +8

      @@josephscafetta6544
      In the 1951 Giancarlo Meotti opera "Amal and the Night Visitors," who are the night visitors?
      A. Magi (right answer)
      B. Witches
      C. Ghosts (Peter's answer)
      D. Soldiers

  • @m_jay5
    @m_jay5 2 роки тому +67

    Regis made this show! - There's nothing like the classic format of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire! I loved this game show all through my childhood!

    • @occono3543
      @occono3543 Рік тому

      The original UK show has come back with Chris Tarrant and the US show has come back with Jimmy Kimmel.

    • @antiantiderivative
      @antiantiderivative 6 місяців тому

      @@occono3543It’s Jeremy Clarkson for the UK version

    • @occono3543
      @occono3543 6 місяців тому

      @@antiantiderivative That's what I meant to say, had a brainfart

  • @markymark443
    @markymark443 10 місяців тому +16

    Thank God he didn’t go for that question. $468000 would’ve been an absolutely devastating loss (I think it only ever happened once and it was on the more recent version when Regis returned for the anniversary version or something, the guy was so cocky too).
    RIP Regis, you are very missed. Definitely my favourite host this show ever had. His charisma always brought the entertainment just as much as the game itself.

    • @Mr.NoName1972
      @Mr.NoName1972 9 місяців тому

      Was that the contestant who was attending Law school and had the Lyndon B Johnson question on his favorite drink installed in the Oval Office?

    • @markymark443
      @markymark443 7 місяців тому

      @@Mr.NoName1972 That was Ken Basin in the 10th anniversary special edition in 2009, pretty sure he was the last contestant of the anniversary special. Sad that we didn't get to see it finish with a top prize winner (it was also the very last episode Regis ever hosted).
      It reminds me of when Norm Macdonald (RIP) was the last contestant of the celebrity edition in 2000 and he had the right answer but ended up taking the $500k so the celeb edition didn't get to finish with the first ever celebrity million dollar winner.

    • @markymark443
      @markymark443 7 місяців тому

      Also I'm now realizing how lucky Gary is that the $2000 question asked for the character after http, and not after the colon, because he said it was a backslash when it is in fact a forward slash. He would have gotten that one wrong (unless it was different back in 2001, I was too young to remember for sure). How different everything may have turned out because of that.

  • @Ashfold_Eberesche
    @Ashfold_Eberesche 2 роки тому +25

    Man I get UNREASONABLY frustrated whenever the phone-a-friend doesn't manage to give an answer in time. I'd honestly be so angry at whoever that was if it were me up there. Like it's one thing to say "I don't have a clue", that's like "Okay, well, neither so that's fair" but just getting BEEP BEEP BEEP while waiting for an answer just be so frustrating.

    • @occono3543
      @occono3543 Рік тому +5

      Try doing it in real life. There's a wiki for WWTBAM with every question ever, try it with a friend and see how you do 😅

  • @MouseQueen86
    @MouseQueen86 3 роки тому +29

    Been 2 years since we lost Regis… and I’m still binge watching these Millionaire reruns! Thanks again also always! @WWTBAMclassics

  • @rajeshrivankar6949
    @rajeshrivankar6949 3 роки тому +21

    What an escape to 500,000winner,just a coolest guy like his voice,wish his boss had had an idea...
    The guy who lost at ask d audience truly had a tough question, such technical terms shouldn't be asked ..

  • @dylanrichards8414
    @dylanrichards8414 4 роки тому +40

    One of the people who invented the V Chip said it was intended to stand for Viewer Control. Though a representative that supposedly coined the term said it stood for violence so that was a very sloppy question. Depending on the source both are said to be correct.

    • @occono3543
      @occono3543 Рік тому

      They brought back a bunch of people who were given faulty questions. He should have sent in a letter, Ed Toutant sent in a polite letter asking for a check on the question and got an invite back, he went on to win 1860000 after first leaving with 1000.
      It's past the statute of limitations on game show callbacks now though

    • @markymark443
      @markymark443 10 місяців тому +1

      That’s probably why the majority of the audience picked the answer that the show deemed to be a wrong one.

  • @Luka23567
    @Luka23567 2 роки тому +10

    That was a perfect 2 million dollar question

  • @richardhernandez4490
    @richardhernandez4490 2 роки тому +7

    That jackpot question was a head scratcher. I had no idea on this one.

  • @TheRyanMan2194
    @TheRyanMan2194 Рік тому +4

    15:58 Oh, no, no, no.
    It’s always held in Louisville.
    31:00 He just won a half
    million dollars!

  • @monamedley6666
    @monamedley6666 3 роки тому +12

    Regis couldn't even breakdown the audiences response to V-chip correctly lol

  • @Djkm23
    @Djkm23 6 років тому +9

    Thanks for uploading this.

  • @thienngthe116
    @thienngthe116 6 місяців тому +3

    Ask any Vietnamese and you'd know the final question, but I really do not expect anyone foreign, ever, to know the correct answer, especially it was decades before 2001 and there had been so many Nobel winners from so many fields. He made a good call.

  • @cheezeman6
    @cheezeman6 2 роки тому +13

    The sports writer lost on an easy question about sports lol

    • @JiuJitsuM4
      @JiuJitsuM4 7 місяців тому +1

      I knew it was an “L” city. Probably just had a moment of cognitive dissonance. It’s funny that they put Lexington before Louisville on the list.

    • @Eric-qv2rz
      @Eric-qv2rz Місяць тому

      What a goof😂😂

  • @rogerscottcathey
    @rogerscottcathey 4 роки тому +9

    Sartre refused the literature prize saying he didnt want to be "institutionalised."

  • @s.vektor
    @s.vektor 2 роки тому +4

    20:25 it's colon and two *forward slashes*
    Not backward slashes, as he said.
    He was right about colon tho

  • @deedeeen
    @deedeeen 5 років тому +44

    When I know the correct answer to that $2 mil. question. He declined the prize because Vietnam was NOT in peace at that time.

    • @tachalorah
      @tachalorah 2 роки тому +14

      The other reason is that Kissinger also won the prize. He simply didn't like the fact that one of those who convinced the US to keep its troops in Vietnam to massacre civilians was also awarded.

    • @deedeeen
      @deedeeen 2 роки тому +5

      @@tachalorah tru

  • @thisissketchy9339
    @thisissketchy9339 5 років тому +25

    The guy that won $500000 acts like a flippin robot. Dude is so nervous he froze

    • @Frankie-O
      @Frankie-O 2 роки тому +2

      Black Panther was told not to freeze, but he did anyway. lol!

  • @robbyosborne9708
    @robbyosborne9708 3 роки тому +13

    Gary Gambino was a great contestant. He's a smart guy.

    • @MarmaladeSally
      @MarmaladeSally 3 роки тому +4

      Ok.

    • @Gulag00
      @Gulag00 3 роки тому +2

      Ok

    • @lawandorder888
      @lawandorder888 3 роки тому +1

      Except for the last question, I thought he can go all the way and break the drought of no millionaire.

    • @robbyosborne9708
      @robbyosborne9708 Рік тому +3

      ​@@lawandorder888 Well, he didn't know it. And that doesn't mean he didn't play good. And, $500,000 is life-changing money.

    • @lawandorder888
      @lawandorder888 9 місяців тому +1

      @@robbyosborne9708I agree, $500,000 is a life changing money.

  • @Flesketryne
    @Flesketryne 7 місяців тому +1

    I may not be an American but Regis was the heart and soul of this show. Can't watch anything made after he quit, it feels wrong.

  • @chrislove5651
    @chrislove5651 4 роки тому +25

    That V Chip question was chickenshit. I always felt so bad for contestants who left prematurely because of dumb questions like that. He seemed like a smart guy who would have gone into the deeper rounds.
    I just know, with my luck, if I ever got in the hot seat that would probably happen to me lol

    • @TheUltimateRare
      @TheUltimateRare 3 роки тому +5

      yeah there's some tricky questions in their list of questions. some are just Horrible LUL

    • @noahfessenden6478
      @noahfessenden6478 2 роки тому +5

      The way I see it, had they gotten rid of the "viewer control" answer and replaced it with something else, the answer would've at least had been doable rather than two correct answers, with one being "more correct."

    • @Computerman859
      @Computerman859 Рік тому +5

      To me, as written this was a bad question. As aired, the contestant who had that question could have returned at a later time like several other contestants did; however if he selected B or C, the game would have been over for him anyway. Two people provided separate opinions on what the V stands for. Ed Markey thinks it means violence; Tim Collins (someone who helped with inventing the VCHIP) says the V meant viewer control.

    • @occono3543
      @occono3543 Рік тому +2

      WWTBAM did bring back a bunch of people who were given faulty questions, it was all polite and professional. Ed Toutant came back after the rollover but with his rollover jackpot per his contract, and he managed to win it, so they ended up giving out two rollover jackpots of 4 million combined.
      Too late now, but someone should have sent in a letter for the V chip guy, it got other contestants back on the show with a polite apology and invite back.

  • @elijahmoses5675
    @elijahmoses5675 6 років тому +6

    Is that Eric Oberhand on the "Last time on Who Wants To Be a Millionaire" segment? I saw his run on Sashinator0's channel.

  • @gianmarcotassa1992
    @gianmarcotassa1992 5 років тому +3

    In 5:50 the $8.000 question sound change with the $4.000 question sound!!!

    • @Computerman859
      @Computerman859 Рік тому

      As well as Final Answer SFX (the one that was also used for question 12)

    • @jackiwheeler6963
      @jackiwheeler6963 7 місяців тому

      I didn't notice. Will have to rewind it

  • @dabin88
    @dabin88 2 роки тому +3

    Working from home back when it wasn't a thing haha

  • @chandlerb6728
    @chandlerb6728 5 років тому +9

    15:53 Think before answering.

    • @sobored9317
      @sobored9317 4 роки тому

      He was so confident lmfao

    • @Frankie-O
      @Frankie-O 2 роки тому

      Major sports.

    • @TheRyanMan2194
      @TheRyanMan2194 2 роки тому +1

      Well, actually Keeneland held in Lexington
      and Kentucky Derby in Louisville.

  • @justinm.1
    @justinm.1 6 місяців тому +1

    I love how they put the zero's for 2 Million instead of using the word "Million" like they did with the regular top prize lol

  • @dakotareeves3939
    @dakotareeves3939 5 років тому +5

    On this March 1, 2001 episode of the U.S. Millionaire program on ABC, the top prize reaches the $2 million mark.

  • @alexwells9948
    @alexwells9948 4 місяці тому

    Gary walked away with $500,000 which is pretty good

  • @alexwells9948
    @alexwells9948 4 місяці тому

    This last question is very hard, Le Duc Tho was the only Nobel Peace Prize winner to decline the prize

  • @nguyenhuuliem2453
    @nguyenhuuliem2453 3 роки тому +5

    37:58 Le Duc Tho

  • @tranmanhuc6235
    @tranmanhuc6235 3 роки тому +6

    so this was the episode that would award $2M after the hiatus of Greed...

  • @matthewbush2371
    @matthewbush2371 4 місяці тому

    Regis u are god of who's want be a millionaire 😍😍 RIP REGIS 🙏🙏🙏♥️♥️♥️

  • @zeaferjones1404
    @zeaferjones1404 3 роки тому +11

    I got the question wrong and it was literally right in front of me.

  • @redcomic619
    @redcomic619 5 років тому +7

    Never heard of a violence chip before in my life. Wtf?

    • @seikibrian8641
      @seikibrian8641 5 років тому +2

      It was an early form of "parental control." Owners could set their televisions to not play certain programs that the ratings authorities deemed too violent.

    • @KanjoosLahookvinhaakvinhookvin
      @KanjoosLahookvinhaakvinhookvin 4 роки тому +2

      I knew V-chip, and I had a strong hunch that Viewer-control'd be wrong, but it was a really tricky question.

    • @TheUltimateRare
      @TheUltimateRare 3 роки тому +3

      @@KanjoosLahookvinhaakvinhookvin it's both Violent and viewer-control. it has 2 answers.

    • @justkeepswimming8892
      @justkeepswimming8892 4 місяці тому +1

      Shouldve watched the south park movie😂

  • @pattypark8548
    @pattypark8548 2 місяці тому

    The answer is falcon, which is different than a hawk. 😊

  • @davidbennett5894
    @davidbennett5894 5 років тому +12

    Le Duc Tho is the only person of the Nobel Peace Prize to decline the prize.

    • @namquang6969
      @namquang6969 3 роки тому +6

      I know this because he is Vietnamese and I am Vietnamese

    • @matthaddock1817
      @matthaddock1817 3 роки тому +2

      And there was a war going on in 1973, as Regis said.

    • @AnonymaxUK
      @AnonymaxUK 6 місяців тому +1

      Kissinger was offered it for the same reason, and he accepted.

  • @josephscafetta6544
    @josephscafetta6544 6 років тому +2

    Have you managed to upload the 11/9/2000 episode of Millionaire in High Quality?

    • @WWTBAMclassics
      @WWTBAMclassics  6 років тому +2

      I still don't have it. Remember, if I haven't uploaded a show, there's a good chance I don't have it since I've uploaded almost everything, if not everything I've taped. Most of my shows left on tape are syndicated

    • @elijahmoses5675
      @elijahmoses5675 6 років тому +1

      You can watch the 11/9/2000 episode on VHSgoodiesWA's channel.

    • @justkeepswimming8892
      @justkeepswimming8892 4 місяці тому

      ​@@elijahmoses5675whats it about?

  • @ChiSportsNut18
    @ChiSportsNut18 3 роки тому +2

    What do they mean when they say "I came here with nothing"? Did they lose all their 💰 before coming on the show?

    • @WWTBAMclassics
      @WWTBAMclassics  3 роки тому +7

      As in no matter what they win, they'll leave with more than they came with

  • @billybill3807
    @billybill3807 4 роки тому +4

    wowthe diffuculty of lowlimits questions for TOM wow unreal and blows the easy one the city of kentucky derby

  • @kerrytaylor491
    @kerrytaylor491 2 роки тому +1

    Do I remember correctly that the progressive jackpot version of Millionaire was marketed as “Who Wants to be a Mega Millionaire?”

    • @occono3543
      @occono3543 Рік тому +1

      Maybe? Not to be confused with Super Millionaire though.

  • @sandeepzemase7124
    @sandeepzemase7124 Рік тому +1

    I found of this show, always I saw that time

  • @jeffboettcher2531
    @jeffboettcher2531 Рік тому +2

    I was THISCLOSE to playing for that, one phone call away from getting on the show!

    • @jackiwheeler6963
      @jackiwheeler6963 7 місяців тому

      Exciting!

    • @jeffboettcher2531
      @jeffboettcher2531 7 місяців тому +1

      @@jackiwheeler6963 Well, not when you have to helplessly sit and watch said jackpot go to someone else!! But relatives' behavior during that span was even more reprehensible!

    • @jackiwheeler6963
      @jackiwheeler6963 7 місяців тому

      I'm sorry.

    • @occono3543
      @occono3543 6 місяців тому +1

      What do you mean, that you didn't call in? That's just the first step

    • @jeffboettcher2531
      @jeffboettcher2531 6 місяців тому

      @@occono3543 What I meant by "THISCLOSE" was, I didn't receive the final call to fly to New York to actually appear on the show. And got nowhere near that point on the 'flow chart' again!
      That opportunity was once in a lifetime, the odds of me ever going on a national TV game show now are slim to none! 😐😑

  • @ChiSportsNut18
    @ChiSportsNut18 3 роки тому +4

    His boss could've looked up the answer.

    • @ThePeterDislikeShow
      @ThePeterDislikeShow 3 роки тому +1

      probably didn't want him to quit his job.

    • @k.h.1587
      @k.h.1587 2 роки тому +2

      Internet wasn't that fast back then

  • @rogerscottcathey
    @rogerscottcathey 2 роки тому +2

    Why ask a chemist about international affairs? Not wise to ask a "boss" anyway.

  • @respectdawildo_danjones508
    @respectdawildo_danjones508 2 роки тому +5

    33:46 wait wait, you’d pick calling your boss?? Really? If he gives you the right answer you win, your telling him off the next morning and quitting I’d never do that lol

  • @TheEaglehaslanded733
    @TheEaglehaslanded733 2 роки тому +4

    I googled the final answer.👍

  • @imafreakinninja12
    @imafreakinninja12 5 місяців тому

    Go ahead and accept the prize. It's not like Nobel Prizes actually mean anything. I mean, Paul Kreugman has a Nobel Prize in Economics.

  • @kriseley4974
    @kriseley4974 2 місяці тому

    ❤❤❤

  • @flyingchimp12
    @flyingchimp12 2 місяці тому

    That million dollar question was actually quite easy I assume. He only declined it 8 years before so anyone in their 30s who closely follows the news should've had that one stick with them. His name and country is so distinct if you knew it was asian country it would be too easy.

  • @billybill3807
    @billybill3807 4 роки тому

    some times these questions are so easy even in upper high cash like 32,000 and then bam an ungodly question that only a person with knowledge in that catergory can answer something like WHO was the 3rd king of england ?

    • @TheUltimateRare
      @TheUltimateRare 3 роки тому +1

      that's the point. not only do they force lifeline uses, they are making it very challenging to win 1 million.

  • @jairomy
    @jairomy 2 роки тому +3

    Damn that 2nd guy was beyond bad. 3 lifelines in first 5 questions. Works in sports and goes on to fail a sports question. I am not American and even I knew the answer smh.

    • @wintercame
      @wintercame Рік тому

      And I know nothing of sports but I know where the Derby is held.

  • @andrewflores7359
    @andrewflores7359 6 років тому

    any millionaire episodes from 2000?

  • @josephscafetta6544
    @josephscafetta6544 6 років тому +1

    Any more from March 2001, please?

  • @Spittin_Sax
    @Spittin_Sax 2 роки тому +2

    Lolol cmon nobody laughed at that Toyota joke?

  • @judyeverist646
    @judyeverist646 Рік тому +1

    I think he's wearing a toupee

  • @billybill3807
    @billybill3807 4 роки тому +1

    LOL Gary last name GAMBINO and show is aired in NYC great win $500,000 about $150,000 goes to taxes so YOU got a large Bank of $350,000 if investedto get higet yield you can quit your job

    • @LiberatorGalore
      @LiberatorGalore 4 роки тому

      Actually after taxes he will see $456,250

    • @ChiSportsNut18
      @ChiSportsNut18 3 роки тому +1

      @@LiberatorGalore I thought taxes were 40%. He's only seeing $300k.

    • @ThePeterDislikeShow
      @ThePeterDislikeShow 3 роки тому

      ​@@ChiSportsNut18 This was just after the Bush tax cuts. Good timing to get on the show!

  • @craigkasiske7032
    @craigkasiske7032 10 місяців тому +1

    R and B paper 😅

  • @MarmaladeSally
    @MarmaladeSally 3 роки тому +1

    One dork after the next lol.

  • @Pablo_____D1abl0
    @Pablo_____D1abl0 3 роки тому +1

    Shouldn’t have wasted the 50/50.

    • @Frankie-O
      @Frankie-O 3 роки тому +1

      Sal Mecca never should've wasted all his lifelines on the first 5 questions.

  • @ThePeterDislikeShow
    @ThePeterDislikeShow 4 роки тому +3

    Who the fuck sings about bills?

  • @1cx7r23
    @1cx7r23 3 роки тому +1

    How does the audience know what they're guessing they have no screen... drives me bananas

    • @occono3543
      @occono3543 Рік тому

      They can see the question and answers on monitors above them

    • @1cx7r23
      @1cx7r23 Рік тому

      @@occono3543 oh ok

    • @Brandon-hg7ic
      @Brandon-hg7ic Рік тому

      Are you okay? 🤣

    • @1cx7r23
      @1cx7r23 Рік тому

      @@Brandon-hg7ic ffa got

    • @jackiwheeler6963
      @jackiwheeler6963 7 місяців тому

      I love game shows

  • @tristankelly4059
    @tristankelly4059 Рік тому +2

    6:18 16:01 38:10

  • @lcaceci43
    @lcaceci43 9 місяців тому +1

    WWTBAM! the dumming down of America!

    • @occono3543
      @occono3543 6 місяців тому +1

      How was this the dumbing down of America?

  • @marshalljimduncan
    @marshalljimduncan Рік тому +1

    No one ever won the million...

    • @fable9159
      @fable9159 Рік тому +1

      13 people won it what are you talking about? Google it.

    • @marshalljimduncan
      @marshalljimduncan Рік тому

      @@fable9159 It's not tragic to die doing what you love

    • @occono3543
      @occono3543 Рік тому

      ​@@fable9159UA-cam comments lay the road to madness

  • @arlobennett8504
    @arlobennett8504 2 роки тому +1

    Regis isn't very good at this.