Honestly if you are from the Uk, which im guessing you are not most of these are pretty easy. Ive seen the people who have bombed out on the USA version and because im from the Uk they seemed impossible such as there was a question about 'Dennys' which ive never heard of and something about a surge protector for the very first question
@@TheCandoRailfan I am in England and for all i know i may be the only English person who hasn't heard of a surge protector (of course having seen the question some time ago i now know) I suspect its an American term. Here in my house we have a circuit breaker and that's the term i understand, if theres a spike in electricity it simply 'trips' a switch and turns everything in a particular room off. Ive never had use to buy an SP and if youve never had to buy one the chances are you havnt heard of it.
The thing about Chris Tarrant is that if you listen and watch carefully, he subtly will try to make the contestant think twice about their answer if he thinks they’re about to give the wrong answer. Usually with the questions under £1000, if their answer is right Chris/the computer accepts their answer straight away
Yeah I've just noticed that especially when the the man got question wrong about Jane Austen. Novel tbf I didn't know the answer to that but when Chris said are you sure I knew the answer would be wrong .
Good lord, the UK game is brutal. You get those kinds of questions inside the first five, and the US one hands out questions like what is a Pokemon for half a million? Damn.
The problem non elite stsndard contestants who appeared on the show looking just to win a few thousand is the general assumption that all of the first 5 questions were easy (the continuous music before ￡1000) that when a tricky one comes up (depending on who got through fsstest finger first. Any elite level contstants sail through to the ￡1000 easy) they took a random guess if they didn't know the answer to try to save a lifeline for later to not be considerd stupid for using a lifeline "on an easy question" to get to the￡1000 by millions watching even though a lot of those millions probably didn't know the answer and/or one of the other 5 questions. "Oh, how did he not know that" even though it was not an easy quedtion. I doubt anywhere near almost all of those watching saying that knew the answer to the Jane Austen question.
I didn't understand the question and when the answers came up I was absolutely lost. I guessed right, but I was thinking primates are human and only we can be bishops...
From a sociology perspective, it’s interesting that the guests on the US version tend to act more like they’re in a hurry than the ones on the UK version. Everyone on the UK version waits for Chris to prompt them towards saying “final answer” before they say anything, whilst on the US version there’s contestants that jump straight to saying “final answer” instead of giving themselves that one extra chance to verify their answers.
Having read accounts of contestants on the show though, the US version is edited, and they regularly can ask the producer / runner to stop the show or pause. What therefore can be only 10 to 25 seconds on screen may have been a minute or two. In contrast the UK version only pauses at fixed points where an advert break will show (a hangover from when the very early episodes were live).
its the US pressure they put on themselves to be assertive, to not lose face. Its taught in them from grade school. Dont be a loser, hide your weaknesses with confidence, noise and bravado, take control. Whereas Brits love "ummm" to start a sentence, hesitation, but the extra time thinking generally gets better results.
The weather question was poorly worded in my opinion. The options weren't very fair... I thought it was front myself. What a stupid, nasty question that was!
@@missaleromanum5614I think you’d normally get kinder questions at this stage but now and then you get one that looks out of place. I would expect the Primate one to be for maybe £2000 for example.
The sad thing is, normally with these easy questions, if you pick the correct answer first time, the host locks it in and tells you you're right immediately. However, if your answer is wrong they will wait and make sure you lock it in like a normal question. It's a second chance. Might be different if you're generally struggling on the early questions. And if people think it's stupid to use a lifeline on the first 5 questions, one old guy on the UK version used ask the audience on the 5th question and later went on to win a million. Ingrid Wilcox I think his name was?
After Jeremy Clarkson became host, the sound for when a contestant misses a question worth anywhere from £100-£1000 was discontinued and was replaced by the one normally used for when a contestant misses a question worth either £2,000 or £64,000.
I know this comment is quite old, but I did want to point out that there was a woman named Kristin Castle, she got up to the NZ$500,000 question, but she walked away with $250,000 - apparently that was a record win for New Zealand television 😄
I knew all of these but watched an episode on Challenge last week and the 500 pound question was about Coronation Street. I'd have gone home empty handed. All depends on what you know.
You say that, but the 5th millionaire in the UK version, Ingram Wilcox, used a lifeline on his £1,000 question, and then proceeded to make it all the way.
The second month that has 30 days question was easy but the other questions were quite hard considering they are among the first 5 questions. Sometimes contestants get piss easy first questions. I guess it's the luck of the draw
Haven't watched the show for years, but I remember the first questions leading up to the £1000 mark were normally quite easy - hence why I think they ended up changing the format to limit the number of questions early before the first milestone. To be fair, I got all these right, but they were harder than I remember pre-£1000 questions normally being. And I agree, the 30-day/month question was easy. Even if it's not almost instantly apparent, you should be able to work it out easily enough, especially if there's no time limit.
FFS ... these were simple especially if you are into quizzes with the possible exception of the one about the prevailing weather which was poorly worded and open to misinterpretation.
First clip: I can remember watching this when it was aired in late 98 (I think): what made it worse is that the film “Emma”, based on the Jane Austen book and starring Gwyneth Paltrow,, had recently been released in the cinemas. So even if you weren’t that knowledgeable about Jane Austen, most people knew answer because of the recent film. That’s what made it really shocking
I guess the lesson is, if you don't know the answer even in the earlier questions, is to use your lifelines instead of just guessing and making yourself look a right twonk. God only knows how any of these won the 'fastest finger first' round! They must have entered a random order immediately and hoped for the best!
Why would a guy know something like that? I assumed the same thing the guy did, and would have been wrong too. I just assumed that she must be the author of Jane Eyre having heard both names. It turns out that was a different woman around the same time. I would say the question deliberately set up to cause someone to fail, which seems fairly unethical to me, since other people get no truck questions like that for the whole playthrough.
For those who are confused, the word primate has roots from the Latin "prima" meaning "first, precedence, or chief" hence the chief or archbishop. In the animal kingdom, it is believed that primates are the “highest” order of mammals/animals.
Can't say for her other questions because they aren't shown here but I agree on the question she got wrong. I've never watched any of those shows so I had no idea either. All I knew was that it wasn't Cagney and Lacey because I knew they were women. So I'd have to guess at the other three.
The months question I got and the bishop/primate (after thinking about it for a few minutes) and the Frank Carson one (but only because I know who Frank Carson is). The rest of them would have caught me. I would have guessed Starsky and Hutch but the questions pre 1000 are meant to be obvious.
Yeah seems like he drops hints to people about to give a wrong answer to an easy question kind of often. The US hosts have never done that, they're always completely neutral in their expressions.
To be fair, apart from 1 or 2 these questions were pretty difficult for the first 5 questions. I swear sometimes the show used to make some contestants' starts deliberately difficult so viewers could have the occasional laugh at someone failing.
I only knew the bishop/primate one because I read a sci-fi book recently where they were talking about the "Grand Primate" or something similar, and I thought "Wtf is that?" and looked it up. That seems quite obscure to me, but perhaps to an older UK generation it's quite common knowledge.
Its hard to say. We are 20 years removed from these questions being asked in places, so its entirely appropriate that some of these that are entirely culturally appropriate for the time but baring the date question, the rest of them weren't things I would personally expect anyone to know.
I would have guessed Glib as well because Taciturn is word I've never used before. I thought glib meant succinct so to me that would have been close enough to go with it. Booted off stage. I don't think I could handle the pressure of that show.
The ones up to a thousand are supposed to be questions that anyone would reasonably know. I would say the months one falls into that category but the others were all more like £2000 questions.
I remember seeing the 3rd one on a repeat episode on Challenge. She obviously wasn’t the finest contestant on the show but I didn’t know many of her questions. Poor love ☹️
It amazes me how contestants like these manage to get selected when Chris Tarrant asks all the waiting hopefuls to put four things in the correct order.
I guess they immediately enter ABCD in random order as quick as possible and hope for the best! I wouldn't mind betting that this tactic often pays off because there's a 1 in 24 chance you'll hit the right order and you'll almost certainly win on speed if you enter them fast enough.
@@davidspear9790 Seems absolutely ridiculous though. Having to pay to do the phone game (Quiz showed it bankrupting Diana Ingram's brother) and then getting on and mashing the buttons for a 1 in 24 chance at FFF instead of being able to answer it legitimately?
@@MrCmon113sorry for the VERY late reply but if you’re british and a girl you automatically know jane austen’s books, even if you’ve never read them. seriously, we’re just born with that knowledge 😂
Starsky and Hutch + Veteran comedian were pretty cruel for someone under a certain age. Taciturn and Primate are pretty easy when you consider how silly the other options are. Generally the difficulty curve with UK millionaire wasn't that steep, the vast range of question topics was such that the lifelines are vital even from the beginning of the game.
Starsky and Hutch was the only one I had even heard of (as a Frenchman) and usually for the first questions it's always the absolutely super obvious world-famous answer (if the others even exist)
Some of them would doubtless be easy to people of a certain age/generation, but basically a complete guess to a younger generation. Funny how that works in this game show.
Some of these people you really feel bad for. These questions are tricky. As for the US show, we’ve had answers like owls shooting ink, surge protectors protecting from water flow, the classic expression “That’s the last stick”, and the oil company “Mainesoil”.
It’s stupidly written, honestly makes no sense unless there is some weird Church of England explanation for it lol, and I don’t think that was the idea.
Im a big quizzer. Ive never heard of primate to describe something in Christianity. Tbf tho. Christianity isnt exactly a common thing these days where I live.
6:23. Imagine the late Richard Dawson laughing at this...... Damn. Guess he forgot April also had thirty days and its the first month with that many days......
Honestly, I got most of them right out of "logic" or guesses. Would have I been able to pull it off with the stress of being on national TV? Probably not without using a lifeline
These are quite difficult first questions. Maybe it's just that I'm not British, but I can't help feeling like those who get "What colour is an orange?" as their first one get a fairer start😁
man, I forgot that they genuinely had Chris pretending to talk to a computer in this show. Voice control might’ve just about existed when some of these episodes aired but it would never have been THAT good.
Surprised Chris didn't mention the lifelines earlier on the last one there. To have all three, admit to being unsure and still guessing is awful awful play mind.
I can honestly admit that I didn't know most of these myself, ive always said that some of the 6-10 questions I find easier than the first five most times haha
Just leaving a comment (and a like) to say thanks for the compilation. I couldn't make it to the end because watching their disappointment was too much for a Happy Friday afternoon hehe.
Honestly i'm not british but these questions are hard for pre £1000 questions compared to US or Danish version of WWTBAM, honestly I didn't know a lot of them
Let me assure you any reasonably educated Brit knows the answers. The losers here were either too tense in the high stakes environment or thick as sh*t.
Amazing fact about bill Copland it was toward the end of the show so thr next guy up was really lucky to get the chance and he ended up winning a million
In Rồng vàng, the Vietnamese version of Millionaire. There are so many on the first five questions wrong. We have the money as 2003 follows: 250, 550, 900, 1300. The host of the star film: Ván bài lật ngửa, Chánh Tín think that the wrong answer will minus. The score that contestant have. The president of Rồng vàng is souvenir, and the contestant next time will have calm, more questions.
I'm sure when I saw this years ago the under £1k questions were always laughably easy to the point you couldn't get it wrong. A few of those questions I had no idea... bad luck getting them so early. I also misread the weather question and thought it was talking about a weather front not the climate itself haha
Looks like a hug that transitioned into an awkward cheak kiss at the wrong angle. But at first it looked like he just plonked one right on the mouth. Very inocent and normal stuff but of course now some people would make a massive issue about it.
He used to kiss the women a lot and also tuck his head behind their necks for a split second. I cant stand the geezer. Hes always been too free with how he behaves.
I remember Emma North, she was absolutely useless, didn't know what a parable was and used all her lifelines before the £1000 question, having said that though the question she got wrong wasn't particularly easy unless you've seen the show.
The weather question was a bit misleading, especially as there's a weather front which can be said to be local when it occurs and is a vita too tricky at the one thousand level.
@@BCJ1985 my definition of prevailing (and the dictionary one) would be: existing at a particular time/current, which would match a front. I'd have gone for that. The wording could have been better.
You've waited 10 years. You applied countless times and now you've been accepted. You're actually going to be on *_Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?_* You breeze through the qualifying question and now it's you and the host. _"Here's your first question for £100. How far away is the Moon to the Earth? Is it A, 250,000 miles. B, 250 miles. C, 25 miles or D, 2,500,000 miles?"_ That's easy you know the answer. You're on your way to becoming rich. You shout out, _"It's D. 2,500,000 miles. And that's my final answer. D.........."_
Woah woah woah I swear to god that the guy that had the months question when he was muttering the days of the months to himself he said "April 31st" 5:45
To be fair, some questions are so obscure like that question in the first clip. But then you got a guy answering "front" after using a lifeline and you know he just straight up shouldn't be there.
Yeah, I couldn't find Sun_e_'s comment.
shit, middle east version of ''''Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? '' never ever losing the 2 first questions, the host helps you
@@kinuux It's the British version
@@_iamjva the original version
u forgot to include others who also lost.....
on ps1
Glib? Really? How do these people even get on this show?!
US first question: "what color ryhmes with the word 'mellow'?
UK first question: "what is the 253rd digit of pi?"
Honestly if you are from the Uk, which im guessing you are not most of these are pretty easy. Ive seen the people who have bombed out on the USA version and because im from the Uk they seemed impossible such as there was a question about 'Dennys' which ive never heard of and something about a surge protector for the very first question
I'm English and alot of them was hard
@@jameswest4692 yup, the questions are clearly culturally influenced
@@jameswest4692 how do you not know what a surge protector is?
@@TheCandoRailfan I am in England and for all i know i may be the only English person who hasn't heard of a surge protector (of course having seen the question some time ago i now know)
I suspect its an American term. Here in my house we have a circuit breaker and that's the term i understand, if theres a spike in electricity it simply 'trips' a switch and turns everything in a particular room off. Ive never had use to buy an SP and if youve never had to buy one the chances are you havnt heard of it.
The thing about Chris Tarrant is that if you listen and watch carefully, he subtly will try to make the contestant think twice about their answer if he thinks they’re about to give the wrong answer. Usually with the questions under £1000, if their answer is right Chris/the computer accepts their answer straight away
Yeah I've just noticed that especially when the the man got question wrong about Jane Austen. Novel tbf I didn't know the answer to that but when Chris said are you sure I knew the answer would be wrong .
Acer Ace just noticed this your totally right😂👍
@albert fish the answer only shows on Chris's screen after the final answer has been locked in, therefore he can't give any help or hint.
@@eoinjoseph6081 He may just know the answer though
Yeah he’s a good guy
Good lord, the UK game is brutal. You get those kinds of questions inside the first five, and the US one hands out questions like what is a Pokemon for half a million? Damn.
Yeah, the stats show, too. The US version had quite a few more millionaires, whereas in the UK version there's only been five.
For what it’s worth, £1,000,000 is more than $1,000,000.
Yeah. £1 = $1.28, so £1,000,000 = $1,275,600.
Doesn't make "Which of these isn't a Pokemon" worth £392,181, though.
Was that actually a question? And one of the last ones, too?
"give him a big hand....Dave goes away with absolutely nothing" LOL
it's for getting in and playing
LMFAO
😂😂😂
The problem non elite stsndard contestants who appeared on the show looking just to win a few thousand is the general assumption that all of the first 5 questions were easy (the continuous music before ￡1000) that when a tricky one comes up (depending on who got through fsstest finger first. Any elite level contstants sail through to the ￡1000 easy) they took a random guess if they didn't know the answer to try to save a lifeline for later to not be considerd stupid for using a lifeline "on an easy question" to get to the￡1000 by millions watching even though a lot of those millions probably didn't know the answer and/or one of the other 5 questions.
"Oh, how did he not know that" even though it was not an easy quedtion. I doubt anywhere near almost all of those watching saying that knew the answer to the Jane Austen question.
The woman with the bishop question. Her husband was in the audience having a heart attack. 😂😂
😂😂😂
There were few others also where the audience members thought: what are you thinking.
I didn't understand the question and when the answers came up I was absolutely lost.
I guessed right, but I was thinking primates are human and only we can be bishops...
He surely filed for divorce after this..
Swear I heard a cough after carnivore too
Tbh I didn’t know 75% of these answers lol
Same
John Young I was surprised that some of them just went for a random answer, although they still would have had life lines available...
I got half of them
John Young how the fuck
@@someone3187 Many want to save them for later.
chris genuinely wants contestants to win some money, he looks devastated in those clips.
Chris always had wired looks on his face to make contestants to think twice about their answer and wanted everyone to win at least £1000
It's human nature to ignore those hints...
Hard to tell he's devastated when he always has a smarmy smirk on his face.
Was she waiting for a cough from the audience? 2:43
#charlesingram
2:53 someone actually coughed at the primate and that was the correct answer...
I think she was trying to pull the same thing but she just didn't hear them
@@jussi2544 LMAO
Nah go to 4:00 instead of coughing dudes too busy jacking rip lol.
give him a big hand Dave goes away with absolutely NOTHING! audience claps...SAVAGE!
I love the host in the UK. He's so much more vicious than in the US. "You've been a total failure."
LAdwv7495 well we have the most vicious chef in the world in Gordon Ramsey
MRR 19 What’s the most vicious chef in the world doing in Gordon Ramsey?
No he punched a guy since there was no meat on offer
@@MythicSuns jeez lmfao 🤣
Bibcay I think they were talking about Chris Tarrant, not Clarkson lmao
Michelle: “I think its Marsupial”
Michelle’s partner: 😬
And one daren't imagine what he was thinking!
Poor bloke... was absolutely horrified. Maybe he should have coughed?
I bet the bloke who didn’t know that June has 30 days has a fairly embarrassed ex wife too.
@@templeacoustic-ukto be fair he knew that June had 30 days, he just thought that September was the 2nd one.
His face was absolutely priceless. It wasn't that easy a question but the fact that she went for the joke answer was pretty funny.
Everyone: She goes away with nothing
Chris : She goes away with absolutely nothing
🤣🤣🤣
I wonder how many of them drove off the road afterwards
She just goes away.....
More than half of these people going away with nothing were men.
I would never have gotten the bishop question.
@@markbeattie1553 good lord.
@@markbeattie1553 Exactly same thought.
I got it right, primate was the obvious one
you need to read the Elenium by David Eddings :)
Guessed primate but never heard of it either.
From a sociology perspective, it’s interesting that the guests on the US version tend to act more like they’re in a hurry than the ones on the UK version. Everyone on the UK version waits for Chris to prompt them towards saying “final answer” before they say anything, whilst on the US version there’s contestants that jump straight to saying “final answer” instead of giving themselves that one extra chance to verify their answers.
I was a big part of the theatrics of the show back then. Chris torturing people by putting doubt in their minds.
Having read accounts of contestants on the show though, the US version is edited, and they regularly can ask the producer / runner to stop the show or pause. What therefore can be only 10 to 25 seconds on screen may have been a minute or two. In contrast the UK version only pauses at fixed points where an advert break will show (a hangover from when the very early episodes were live).
@@Luic1987None of the early episodes were live. They were recorded a day or two ahead.
isn't there a time limit or something on the american one that we don't have here??
its the US pressure they put on themselves to be assertive, to not lose face. Its taught in them from grade school. Dont be a loser, hide your weaknesses with confidence, noise and bravado, take control. Whereas Brits love "ummm" to start a sentence, hesitation, but the extra time thinking generally gets better results.
How do you get the climate question wrong?
Ask that guy.
Pressure probably. Or maybe just the way it was worded was confusing to him. Poor chap.
He was obviously thinking about 'Weather Front' without properly thinking the question through.
The weather question was poorly worded in my opinion. The options weren't very fair... I thought it was front myself.
What a stupid, nasty question that was!
@@connorwatson7823 I agree mate. Dodgy question that I'd have been well pissed off.
Some of these questions are ridiculously hard for £1000.
Not really
@@missaleromanum5614I think you’d normally get kinder questions at this stage but now and then you get one that looks out of place. I would expect the Primate one to be for maybe £2000 for example.
Love how he rubs it in their face absolutely nothing
Welcome to Europe we don't need that fake smile
"I hope you enjoyed it in a funny sort of way." "No." The realest!
This is what happens when you think that April has 31 days, instead of 30 days.
The sad thing is, normally with these easy questions, if you pick the correct answer first time, the host locks it in and tells you you're right immediately.
However, if your answer is wrong they will wait and make sure you lock it in like a normal question. It's a second chance. Might be different if you're generally struggling on the early questions.
And if people think it's stupid to use a lifeline on the first 5 questions, one old guy on the UK version used ask the audience on the 5th question and later went on to win a million. Ingrid Wilcox I think his name was?
Ingram Wilcox (no relation to Charles Ingram)
@@rabd9881 I’ve never heard of Charles Ingram.
*Coughs*
Yep it’s Charles Ingram
@@P1r4n clever girl😉
@@P1r4n haha, brilliant!
@@P1r4n never heard of googol either?
These are actually pretty tough questions for the level they are at
Some of these are the million pound question in the US 🤣🤣🤣
They're incredibly easy.
Er... not really
You’re kidding, they are embarrassingly easy. Just logic alone should have got them the answers.
@@oo0Spyder0oo google helped you
Us questions: what is the first letter of the alphabet?
Uk questions: Who was king Henry’s 17th cousin?
and your alphabet choices are
a:c b:d
c:a d:b
Hardly you’re just a numpty
the cousin was B i think. No, A...shoot.
After Jeremy Clarkson became host, the sound for when a contestant misses a question worth anywhere from £100-£1000 was discontinued and was replaced by the one normally used for when a contestant misses a question worth either £2,000 or £64,000.
it still doesn’t make sense to change something like that
the Australian reboot kept it
$100 question in America: “How do you spell FBI?”
$100 question in England: “What was the circumference of Michelangelo’s neck in centimeters?”
yes because the climate one was sooooo hard
“I hope you enjoyed it in a funny sort of way”
“No” loooooooooooool
You should see the short lived New Zealand edition. Questions were so hard not one contestant got past $16,000
They may have well called it "who wants to be a $16,000-aire"
So Kristin Castle didn't win $250,000?? ua-cam.com/video/iO-QiX7Vagw/v-deo.html
No wonder why that show got the can. Good news is that if you live in New Zealand, you're eligible to play the Australian verison.
I know this comment is quite old, but I did want to point out that there was a woman named Kristin Castle, she got up to the NZ$500,000 question, but she walked away with $250,000 - apparently that was a record win for New Zealand television 😄
u cant have wealthy Kiwis, theyd escape wearing a mask and all those lock downs.
I knew all of these but watched an episode on Challenge last week and the 500 pound question was about Coronation Street. I'd have gone home empty handed. All depends on what you know.
That's why lifelines are there, to help during struggles.
@@mediaproductions6679 you don't waste your lifelines before 2 thousand. No chance for the million then.
You say that, but the 5th millionaire in the UK version, Ingram Wilcox, used a lifeline on his £1,000 question, and then proceeded to make it all the way.
Questions about TV shows shouldn't show up until around 8,000.
@@mediaproductions6679 CORONATION STREET ? I KNOW SOD ALL ABOUT SOAPS, BUT THE AUDIENCE MOST CERTAINLY WOULD. YOU DON'T WASTE 50/50 ON THAT CRAP.
The second month that has 30 days question was easy but the other questions were quite hard considering they are among the first 5 questions. Sometimes contestants get piss easy first questions. I guess it's the luck of the draw
"Taciturn" ? "Primate against marsupial, rodent, carnivore' ? "Starsky and hutch" ? " LMAO.
Haven't watched the show for years, but I remember the first questions leading up to the £1000 mark were normally quite easy - hence why I think they ended up changing the format to limit the number of questions early before the first milestone.
To be fair, I got all these right, but they were harder than I remember pre-£1000 questions normally being.
And I agree, the 30-day/month question was easy. Even if it's not almost instantly apparent, you should be able to work it out easily enough, especially if there's no time limit.
2nd question was piss-easy. Especially after 50/50 lifeline.
FFS ... these were simple especially if you are into quizzes with the possible exception of the one about the prevailing weather which was poorly worded and open to misinterpretation.
@@firsargentum5920 Wrong, you muppet
First clip: I can remember watching this when it was aired in late 98 (I think): what made it worse is that the film “Emma”, based on the Jane Austen book and starring Gwyneth Paltrow,, had recently been released in the cinemas. So even if you weren’t that knowledgeable about Jane Austen, most people knew answer because of the recent film. That’s what made it really shocking
I guess the lesson is, if you don't know the answer even in the earlier questions, is to use your lifelines instead of just guessing and making yourself look a right twonk. God only knows how any of these won the 'fastest finger first' round! They must have entered a random order immediately and hoped for the best!
Why would a guy know something like that? I assumed the same thing the guy did, and would have been wrong too. I just assumed that she must be the author of Jane Eyre having heard both names. It turns out that was a different woman around the same time.
I would say the question deliberately set up to cause someone to fail, which seems fairly unethical to me, since other people get no truck questions like that for the whole playthrough.
For those who are confused, the word primate has roots from the Latin "prima" meaning "first, precedence, or chief" hence the chief or archbishop. In the animal kingdom, it is believed that primates are the “highest” order of mammals/animals.
The lady at 7.02 from what I remember used 3 lifelines and still went home with nothing but her questions were insanely difficult for stater ones.
fucking rip. press F to pay respects.
Can't say for her other questions because they aren't shown here but I agree on the question she got wrong. I've never watched any of those shows so I had no idea either. All I knew was that it wasn't Cagney and Lacey because I knew they were women. So I'd have to guess at the other three.
Must admit I knew this one only because I've seen Starsky And Hutch. But most off them admittedly are hard as.
She used 2 lifelines on the 500 question which is just a word definition question
Those questions are bloody hard wtf, I would have gotten most of them wrong.
ralphhill yeah youre like 3 years old look at your picture if you were like 10 you would get like 80% of them
Lmao chubby boi your like 3
The months question I got and the bishop/primate (after thinking about it for a few minutes) and the Frank Carson one (but only because I know who Frank Carson is). The rest of them would have caught me. I would have guessed Starsky and Hutch but the questions pre 1000 are meant to be obvious.
I hope you are either joking or under 3 years old.
@@mliam0709 I'm French and I have all the answer, only don't know for Frank Carson and Emma title but because I'm French, it's stupid question as fuck
Cant believe he answered september chris even gave him a clue when he said second month when he decided september at first
Some people just won't be swayed from what they initially think.
Yeah seems like he drops hints to people about to give a wrong answer to an easy question kind of often. The US hosts have never done that, they're always completely neutral in their expressions.
@@joshuaneal7552 I mean, you do wanna see people win.
Guy: "September"
Chris: "The SECOND month of the calendar to have 30 days"
Guy: I can't possibly be wrong.
That was such an easy question! A 7 year old could get that one right
To be fair, apart from 1 or 2 these questions were pretty difficult for the first 5 questions. I swear sometimes the show used to make some contestants' starts deliberately difficult so viewers could have the occasional laugh at someone failing.
I only knew the bishop/primate one because I read a sci-fi book recently where they were talking about the "Grand Primate" or something similar, and I thought "Wtf is that?" and looked it up. That seems quite obscure to me, but perhaps to an older UK generation it's quite common knowledge.
Its hard to say. We are 20 years removed from these questions being asked in places, so its entirely appropriate that some of these that are entirely culturally appropriate for the time but baring the date question, the rest of them weren't things I would personally expect anyone to know.
These am 16/32grand questions lol
@@johnmartinez7440 you don't know your months of the year?
I would have guessed Glib as well because Taciturn is word I've never used before. I thought glib meant succinct so to me that would have been close enough to go with it.
Booted off stage. I don't think I could handle the pressure of that show.
The ones up to a thousand are supposed to be questions that anyone would reasonably know.
I would say the months one falls into that category but the others were all more like £2000 questions.
They were all insanely easy.
The tv cops one i can see being difficult for people.
totally agree, my thoughts exactly.
I would've needed the audience on the months one. I can never remember which have 30 days and which have 31
@@jez9999 look up knuckle method. You won't have to remember ever again.
I feel like Tarrant was trying to coach the contestants to the right answer......
I'm amazed we haven't had one yet under Jeremy Clarkson as of 2020
It has now happened as of 2021
@@davidfearis7335 which episode?
@@AnishGaming655 A Celebrity Special with Harry Redknapp
We did tonight in 2022
@@davidfearis7335 that’s right… he thought Bruce Willis played Rambo 😂😂😂
You wouldn’t want to go away with nothing with Jeremy Clarkson hosting.
Unless you’re Harry Redknapp
@@hakc97again that comment aged well didn’t it 🤣
"Dave goes away with absolutely nothing"
- Crowd goes wild
I remember seeing the 3rd one on a repeat episode on Challenge. She obviously wasn’t the finest contestant on the show but I didn’t know many of her questions. Poor love ☹️
It amazes me how contestants like these manage to get selected when Chris Tarrant asks all the waiting hopefuls to put four things in the correct order.
I guess they immediately enter ABCD in random order as quick as possible and hope for the best! I wouldn't mind betting that this tactic often pays off because there's a 1 in 24 chance you'll hit the right order and you'll almost certainly win on speed if you enter them fast enough.
@@davidspear9790 Seems absolutely ridiculous though. Having to pay to do the phone game (Quiz showed it bankrupting Diana Ingram's brother) and then getting on and mashing the buttons for a 1 in 24 chance at FFF instead of being able to answer it legitimately?
Lol that Jane Austen question the host is like “you serious dude?” When he answered
He basically told him it was wrong
@@gw437 Jane Eyre was boring as FUCK
Are those well known? Don't know any book titles of that author.
@@MrCmon113 classical English literature. Stick to Marvel comics, thickie.
@@MrCmon113sorry for the VERY late reply but if you’re british and a girl you automatically know jane austen’s books, even if you’ve never read them. seriously, we’re just born with that knowledge 😂
Starsky and Hutch + Veteran comedian were pretty cruel for someone under a certain age. Taciturn and Primate are pretty easy when you consider how silly the other options are. Generally the difficulty curve with UK millionaire wasn't that steep, the vast range of question topics was such that the lifelines are vital even from the beginning of the game.
Starsky and Hutch was the only one I had even heard of (as a Frenchman) and usually for the first questions it's always the absolutely super obvious world-famous answer (if the others even exist)
To be fair, the Starsky and Hutch one probably would be difficult to anyone under the age of 40
That's the only one I knew.
only got it becasuse i think the others were female
Some of them would doubtless be easy to people of a certain age/generation, but basically a complete guess to a younger generation. Funny how that works in this game show.
How is this hard? I did it based on process of elimination because I didn't think the others were real characters.
I’m 23 and even I knew this. The names of Starsky & hutch is pretty iconic. They stood out like a needle in a haystack as the obvious answer
Some of these people you really feel bad for. These questions are tricky. As for the US show, we’ve had answers like owls shooting ink, surge protectors protecting from water flow, the classic expression “That’s the last stick”, and the oil company “Mainesoil”.
Most of them questions were easy
I just saw that clip! Why would you have electrical appliances being mixed with water flow? Of course it's electrical current!
The one I had sympathy for was the ridiculous IKEA question involving buzzfeed and it was a timed question as well.
'Give her a big hand she still goes away--'
'...with nothing'
Yikes.
I feel truly sorry for that first contestant.
That question would have thrown me off as well
That mammal/bishop question was actually really tricky I thought.
It’s stupidly written, honestly makes no sense unless there is some weird Church of England explanation for it lol, and I don’t think that was the idea.
It's obviously primate.
@@robokill387 Alright Einstein, calm down.
@@robokill387 You're thinking in terms of what links an animal and a human, and you're correct, but that wasn't the question, so it threw people off.
I had no idea either
"30 days has September, April, June and November", that's how remember them months
Or just use your knuckles, first moth is January, it’s a bump so 31, next is february so short, March is a knuckle again and so forth
@@eleanorrigby7914 wtf
@@WakaWaka2468 lmao
@@WakaWaka2468 thats how people remember it
You could hear him continuously saying "April is 31" so he was making that mistake.
The marsupial one was completely and utterly unbelievable. At least she 'was sure it can't be rodent, or carnivore'!!
I feel like the problem there was the phrasing of the question. It made no sense to me
@@pauldog Yup, I thought it was a word play of some sort. First part of the word a mammal and second part of the word a bishop lol
I felt so sorry for her I wouldn't have got the primate question either to be honset
Im a big quizzer. Ive never heard of primate to describe something in Christianity.
Tbf tho. Christianity isnt exactly a common thing these days where I live.
@@Me-ui1zy Where are you, the Caliphate? 😄
I knew that answer but even if I didn't surely one could deduce it from the options available.
I'd have got most of those wrong too. Brutal questions so early in the game.
I wouldn't be bragging of your ignorance
@@markylon It's called "telling the truth" Mark. Not 'bragging'.
@@DrunkChimp What I mean is, if I was that ignorant, I wouldn't be making a song and dance about it.
@@markylon Posting a short comment on a youtube video is "making a song and dance" about something? Ok Mark. You seem completely rational.
@@DrunkChimp You're telling everyone how thick you are. Some things are best left unspoken.
31 days in April is what he thought. How could you fail miserably on a question like that ?
Pressure
because his mom said he was born on 31 April, and thats why he wouldnt get birthdays. He believed it until this show.
0:17 when Chris is subtly repeatedly asking you ‘are you sure you want to do this?!?!’ For gods sake change your answer!!!!!!🤣🤣🤣
I loved the confident way the first bloke just repeats the name of the author.
yeah, i thought the answer was Steve Austin tbf.
Funny how Chris goes "Fuck, I can't believe you've done this" before it was a vine or meme or whatever the fuck it is.
6:23. Imagine the late Richard Dawson laughing at this......
Damn.
Guess he forgot April also had thirty days and its the first month with that many days......
Honestly, I got most of them right out of "logic" or guesses. Would have I been able to pull it off with the stress of being on national TV? Probably not without using a lifeline
In all fairness, they were rotten questions for that stage of the game, however there's no excuses for getting the months of the year question wrong.
Archbishop of Canterbury and Marsupial of all England 😂
i can pouch for that
These are quite difficult first questions. Maybe it's just that I'm not British, but I can't help feeling like those who get "What colour is an orange?" as their first one get a fairer start😁
Nothing to do with being British these are General Knowledge questions, not country specific.
@@markylonThey’re really not. At all.
The first one should be super easy , a sort of warm up.
yellow!
@@markyloneven the question about David soul? If you are not british you dont know who it is
man, I forgot that they genuinely had Chris pretending to talk to a computer in this show. Voice control might’ve just about existed when some of these episodes aired but it would never have been THAT good.
Well, before computers were objects, they were women hired to crunch numbers all day!
Won absolutely nothing more times than I can count on the video game/ app versions. Easiest question of the lot my arse
Sometimes general knowledge questions stump people more than a specific area of knowledge.
If no one knows the answer, it's not general knowledge, its obscure knowledge.
@Sad Englishman I would say a question that is widely known, like what colour is an orange, is general knowledge.
The Cando Railfan Good luck getting someone to give you £1000 for knowing what colour an orange is
My point is, the first 5 questions should be fair and easy. What colour an orange is would probably be question 1.
Surprised Chris didn't mention the lifelines earlier on the last one there. To have all three, admit to being unsure and still guessing is awful awful play mind.
The wording of these questions is just awful
How?
@@MikesRecordBox, in "the wording of these questions", the subject is "the wording", which is singular, so "is just" is correct.
How?
No the wording is fine
1:24 The guy who picked "Front" will be sitting in the back lol
That last contestant was a man of few words; one could say he was glib.
I can honestly admit that I didn't know most of these myself, ive always said that some of the 6-10 questions I find easier than the first five most times haha
what in the world was that bishop question asking? I can't make sense of it.
"Primate" is a rank of bishop. It's just another meaning for the same word.
that question about the months with 30 days reminds me of Jim Carrey in dumb and dumber he said 30 days has september THE REST I DONT REMEMBER!
That Husband from the Bishop question was still clapping in a ragefully way in the car on the way home..
His own fault for marrying a woman, who has no idea of latin.
"And you go away with absolutely nothing!" That kills me every time 😂😂😂
“He goes away with *absolutely* nothing!”
Me: is it really necessary to say “absolutely” there? 🤣
Just leaving a comment (and a like) to say thanks for the compilation. I couldn't make it to the end because watching their disappointment was too much for a Happy Friday afternoon hehe.
Honestly i'm not british but these questions are hard for pre £1000 questions compared to US or Danish version of WWTBAM, honestly I didn't know a lot of them
Let me assure you any reasonably educated Brit knows the answers. The losers here were either too tense in the high stakes environment or thick as sh*t.
Love how Chris tries to talk them out of going for the answer when he knows they're wrong
Amazing fact about bill Copland it was toward the end of the show so thr next guy up was really lucky to get the chance and he ended up winning a million
In Rồng vàng, the Vietnamese version of Millionaire. There are so many on the first five questions wrong. We have the money as 2003 follows: 250, 550, 900, 1300. The host of the star film: Ván bài lật ngửa, Chánh Tín think that the wrong answer will minus. The score that contestant have. The president of Rồng vàng is souvenir, and the contestant next time will have calm, more questions.
Darn...I am from the United States, and some of these I legit did not know, though some I got on a guess. But, I won't lie. This was brutal
Well most Americans are as dumb as you. I wouldn't be bragging about your ignorance.
Chris Tarrant: Oh no, I'm so, so sorry.
Jeremy Clarkson: You've absolutely humiliated yourself.
Massive respect to the host…he really has respect for the contestants instead of just sending them out…how sweet.
I'm sure when I saw this years ago the under £1k questions were always laughably easy to the point you couldn't get it wrong. A few of those questions I had no idea... bad luck getting them so early.
I also misread the weather question and thought it was talking about a weather front not the climate itself haha
"Give her a big hand, she goes away with nothing !" Kick 'em while they're down, eh, Chris ! >:D
But you had a great day out 😉
The Marsupial one was hilarious ... The Marsupial Of Kent 😜🤣
When the guy said "June 31st" under his breath I knew he was doomed lol.😂
The Primate and bishop question haha, her husband was pulling his hair out.. and the chick behind him at 3:44 trying not to laugh 💀
11:41-11:44, "Dave, You Had Three Lifelines!!" Chris Tarrant's Reaction Is Priceless, LOL.
Chris is more disappointed than dave
wait.. at 4:44 did he kiss her
Oh shit, yeah. I don't know. Looks like it.
He did that a lot. Just look at Judith Keppel run.
Different times...
Looks like a hug that transitioned into an awkward cheak kiss at the wrong angle. But at first it looked like he just plonked one right on the mouth. Very inocent and normal stuff but of course now some people would make a massive issue about it.
He used to kiss the women a lot and also tuck his head behind their necks for a split second. I cant stand the geezer. Hes always been too free with how he behaves.
The question about the Bishop is a hard question for a grand to be fair
I remember Emma North, she was absolutely useless, didn't know what a parable was and used all her lifelines before the £1000 question, having said that though the question she got wrong wasn't particularly easy unless you've seen the show.
3:37 Her husband clearly thought it was Marsupial also.
MY NAME IS JANE I WROTE A BOOK CALLED JANE
4:40 If Chris did that today his career would be over
The weather question was a bit misleading, especially as there's a weather front which can be said to be local when it occurs and is a vita too tricky at the one thousand level.
Fronts are very temporary. The key to the question is the word prevailing.
@@BCJ1985 Agreed. Just thought there was enough to confuse and a bit too tricky for a grand.
@@pizzaboy4463 It maybe should have been the 2k question I guess.
BCJ1985 totally disagree with that but far too easy for the 4K question. Where is a 3k question when you need one?
@@BCJ1985 my definition of prevailing (and the dictionary one) would be: existing at a particular time/current, which would match a front. I'd have gone for that. The wording could have been better.
*cough cough*
*B final answer*
*oh no ....*
*Charles u just lost everything*
*Trollled* 😂
You've waited 10 years.
You applied countless times and now you've been accepted.
You're actually going to be on *_Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?_*
You breeze through the qualifying question and now it's you and the host.
_"Here's your first question for £100. How far away is the Moon to the Earth? Is it A, 250,000 miles. B, 250 miles. C, 25 miles or D, 2,500,000 miles?"_
That's easy you know the answer. You're on your way to becoming rich.
You shout out, _"It's D. 2,500,000 miles. And that's my final answer. D.........."_
The early questions are meant to be easy, so people, being people, will tend to be over confident and lock in their answer too early.
I clicked on 'read more' hoping to see the answer.......
@@johno4521 It was 250,000. 8-))...
Woah woah woah I swear to god that the guy that had the months question when he was muttering the days of the months to himself he said "April 31st" 5:45
The girl who had the David Soul question, I love the horror on her friends face when says she thinks it’s A!! 🤣🤣🤣 7:39
To be fair, some questions are so obscure like that question in the first clip. But then you got a guy answering "front" after using a lifeline and you know he just straight up shouldn't be there.
i met this guy in England a few years later at a climate change rally. His sign said "Front Change".
I wonder if the UK version did “second chances for £0 winners”
No they didnt
Why would they? Nobody else would have done.
I love watching these because it makes me feel like a genius.