Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? – The anniversary for the 1,500. Show: The most legendary moments of the quiz show

Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? – The anniversary for the 1,500. broadcast
The quiz show’s most legendary moments

Günther Jauch looks at 1,500 programs “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” back.

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Günther Jauch is celebrating a “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” Anniversary show this Thursday. What was particularly remembered from 1,500 programs?

Günther Jauch (64) will be on Thursday, June 3 (8:15 p.m. on RTL, too via TVNow), the big anniversary show of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” to celebrate. The quizmaster goes into the show unsuspectingly and knows neither the candidates who are playing for the highest profit with a special game variant, nor the reviews that go into the “WWM” story since 1999. These legendary moments could be there.

The millionaires

The candidates who left the quiz show as millionaires have provided special highlights in the show so far. On December 2, 2000, Prof. Eckhard Freise (76) was the very first candidate to correctly answer the million dollar question. Since then he has been returning regularly to “WWM” as a telephone joker. Freise also excelled as a quiz show expert and was already in “Der Super Champion”, “Quizduell” or “Who knows that?” to see.

Leon Windscheid (32) was able to correctly answer the million dollar question in December 2015. Today he works as a psychologist, author, scientist, speaker and young entrepreneur. Among other things, he wrote the book “Hey brains !: Why we tick the way we tick”. Shortly after his victory, he invested his million in the event ship MS Günther, among other things. Moderator Günther Jauch was the godfather.

The millionaires who also went down in history include café owner Ralf Schnoor, who in 2010 used his telephone joker to answer the millionaire question, even though he didn’t need it. In 2014 Thorsten Fischer was the first candidate to choose the abbreviation to the million and immediately after the 10th question (16,000 euros) he played the million question, which he answered without a joker. Nadja Sidikjar won a total of 1,538,450 euros in the jackpot special in November 2015.

The celebrities

Stars were also able to look forward to the million in the show’s celebrity special, which they then donated to a charitable cause. In May 2008, comedian Oliver Pocher (43) answered the last question correctly. In the same year, Thomas Gottschalk (71) also cheered. The only female “WWM” celebrity millionaire to date is Barbara Schöneberger (47). At the end of 2011, she guessed correctly.

But not only the millionaires among the stars left a lasting impression. “Hape Kerkeling [56] as Horst Schlämmer, who immediately boarded my moderation chair and made me a candidate, “remembers Günther Jauch of a special celebrity guest in the anniversary interview with RTL. In the end, there were 500,000 euros in Schlämmer’s winning account. Kerkeling was there twice as himself: in 2002 he earned 500,000 euros, in 2009 it was 125,000 euros.

Comedian Michael Kessler (53) took place in 2012 as Günther Jauch’s doppelganger opposite the RTL veteran. The Jauchduo, who also swapped roles, even wore the same suit. Kessler also went home with 500,000 euros. One of the most dramatic celebrity crashes was “The Lion’s Den” star Judith Williams (49) in November 2018. It fell back to 500 euros on the 500,000 euro question.

Special candidate appearances

“There are so many whose lives have changed after the show. For example, the young Aaron Troschke [31], who went from bread seller to well-known influencer after the show, “said Jauch in an RTL interview, looking back on the” Normalo “candidates who shaped” WWM “. In September 2012 Troschke played for a million and over three shows won 125,000 euros. With his sympathetic and entertaining manner, he won the hearts of the audience by storm. He took part in “Celebrity Big Brother” and won the reality show in August 2014. The YouTuber now has his own personality show on Joyn.

Bastian Bielendorfer (37) won thanks to “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” probably the most famous “teacher child” in Germany and a bestselling author. In October 2010 he took part in the quiz show and went home with 32,000 euros. “These few minutes of quiz show really changed my entire life. Before that, I was a waiter student and then suddenly I was a book author,” he once described his unusual career in an interview with spot on news. After the broadcast had been broadcast, a publisher contacted him and published his work “Teacher’s Child – Lifelong Pausenhof” in October 2011. More books and TV appearances followed.

Candidates who answered one question or another or even went wrong, also ensured legendary moments. The 20-year-old fashion design student Tanja Fuß failed at Günther Jauch’s first question in 2015 after just 45 seconds. In 2001 Tamas Golya had to use the 50:50 joker and the telephone joker for the fourth question in order to complete a proverb: “Shut up, …?” A: Fed up, B: dead monkey (correct), C: oven off, D: hands off. “In the end he won 64,000 DM.

Niklas Bayer-Eynck only supposedly made a mistake. It fell from 125,000 euros to 1,000 in 2021, even though the 31-year-old logged in the correct answer. RTL gave him a second chance, the candidate only landed at 1,000 euros.

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