History Awesome / WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCxPYrDjHhw The first million dollar winner of the Hot Seat variant.]] [[https://youtu.be/sZ4BseYU9UQ And the second.]]

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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCxPYrDjHhw The first million dollar winner of the Hot Seat variant.]]

* Lyn Payne reached the $1,000,000 question: "Khrushchev's famous 1960 "shoe-banging" outburst at the U.N. was in response to a delegate from what nation?" A. Australia B. The Netherlands C. The Philippines D. Turkey. She used her final lifeline, Ask the Audience, where 48% picked D, 29% picked B, 15% picked C and 8% picked A. She marinated on answering D until she concluded that the audience poll was too close for that answer. She walked with $500,000... and then discovers that the audience was ''wrong''. The correct answer is The Philippines.

* Armand Kachigian reached his $1,000,000 question ''right after Nancy Christy's victory'', thus allowing to see '''TWO''' final questions in the row. This achievement was repeated only on the 2020 revival of the US version - ''and nowhere else in the world'' - so far.

--> Kevin (Breathing heavily/excitedly): I know this! It was the Sikorsky Helicopter! So I'm going to make Sikorksy... my final answer!
--> Regis: '''HE JUST WON $2,180,000!'''

--> '''Regis:''' "From now on, this is all uncharted territory. No one has ever been here before... [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KipLJvh30g It's time to enter the next dimension]] [[https://youtu.be/rxmWibtHqvM?t=4m28s of this game."]]

* 9 January 1999: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOJ5mPwkchw Martin Skillings]], who became the first person ever in TV quiz show history to win £125,000, did so without even using any lifelines! To make this even more amazing, the next contestant after Martin is Ian Horswell who won ANOTHER £125,000!
* 13-14 November 1999: [[https://youtu.be/zjCRXcYNxUM Lance Jones]] uses all lifelines at the £2,000 question, but, answered the next fix questions correctly without them and won £64,000.

* [[https://youtu.be/nZbuozNZ6Lo 4 November 2000]]: contestant is going for £64,000 with all three lifelines intact. His question was, "What was the name of Woody Allen's 1998 film featuring Leonardo [=DiCaprio=]" A. Everybody Says I Love You, B. Deconstructing Henry, C. Celebrity, D. Sweet and Lowdown. He starts by using his Phone a Friend, who says "B", then uses 50:50, eliminating A and D.

* 26 February 2002: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BStcYLNde4Q Roger Walker]] uses all lifelines by the £16,000 question, but answers the next six questions correctly without them and wins £500,000!

* 11 July 2009: [[https://youtu.be/0TcMLvFIFP0 Chris Mapp]] uses all lifelines by the £5,000 question, but, answered the next fix questions correctly without them and won £150,000!

* Winning this version of ''Super Millionaire''. What makes this harder than other formats is that while the number of questions drop to 10, there are no [[CheckpointStarvation safe]] [[AllOrNothing havens]], and the last two questions, while being 50:50, disallows walking away. Only one person has won on ''Super''.

** '''Instead''': He ignores the audience and walks away with $100,000.

-->'''Jimmy:''' Boy, you're no Norm [=McDonald=]... and I'm no Regis, we all know that. ''God, I wish I was.'' But David Chang... ''your metallic testicles...'' '''''just won you a Million dollars for your charity.'''''

* May 2005: Jay Popover uses Phone-a-Friend to call his 11-year-old son for the correct response to "In math, what is the term for two angles that add up to 90 degrees?" His son barely squeezes in "I think it's complementary" before the 30 seconds are up. Jay decides to go with it ... and is correct.

* Lyn Payne reaches the $1,000,000 question: "Khrushchev's famous 1960 "shoe-banging" outburst at the U.N. was in response to a delegate from what nation?" A. Australia B. The Netherlands C. The Philippines D. Turkey. She uses her final lifeline, Ask the Audience, where 48% picks D, 29% picks B, 15% picks C and 8% picks A. She marinates on answering D until she concludes that the audience poll is too close for that answer. She walks with $500,000... and then discovers that the audience is ''wrong''. The correct answer is The Philippines.

--> '''Regis:''' "From now on, this is all uncharted territory. No one has ever been here before...[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KipLJvh30g It's time to enter the next dimension]] [[https://youtu.be/rxmWibtHqvM?t=4m28s of this game."]]

* On the occasional playing while the lifeline was available, the contestant's Phone-A-Friend would say the correct answer ''immediately'' after hearing the question. Without even hearing any of the choices. And sometimes even before the contestant even finished the question. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Apz5TWF0A8o An example from a UK celebrity edition.]]

--> Regis: HE JUST WON $2,180,000!

--> Kevin (Breathing heavily/excitedly): I know this! It was the [[spoiler:Sikorsky Helicopter!]] So I'm going to make [[spoiler:Sikorksy...]] my final answer!

* Kevin Olmstead, who won the biggest awarded top prize in US Millionaire history, with no lifelines on the final question: '''$2,180,000.'''

--> Meredith: "I'm so happy you trusted your gut!"

--> Nancy: "Let's take a shot and say B: Sydney Opera House...final answer."
--> Meredith: "Oh, Nancy...Oh, gosh... '''you're one away from a million dollars!'''

* 20 May 2014: Hot Seat may be one of the more controversial versions of Millionaire out there, but you have to be impressed with Alex Pellis' performance. After passing on the second question, he re-enters at the eighth question[[note]](Questions 1-4 and 6-9 are marked with money values, but due to the nature of the format, are really worth nothing. Only question 5, and questions 10-15 are worth actual money.)[[/note]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUAWQ3k-mVE and answers six questions correctly in a row WITH COMPLETELY NO IDEA ON ANY OF THE QUESTIONS to win $100,000.]]
* 14 September 2015: The previously mentioned "lucky six" was surpassed by Erin Lamkin, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFRfWvs2bWs who came in on the $2,500 question and went on to completely guess EIGHT questions in a row correctly for $250,000.]]

* Nancy Christy, who became the first (and so far, the only) woman to win the Million. To make it even more amazing, she ''went through the last 6 questions without any lifelines''!

* September 11th, 2020: Donald Fear becomes the very first person in Clarkson's time to win the Million. What's even more impressive is that the ONLY lifeline he used in the whole run was 50:50!
** What makes it even more awesome is that Donald was able to surpass his brother Davyth - who managed to win '''''twice as less''''' a year earlier!

* 15 & 19 February 2007: Prashant P. Mannur used all three lifelines (excluding the flip) in his Rs. 3,000 question, but reached all the way up to ₹6,40,000.

* 11 September 2020: Donald Fear becomes the very first person in Clarkson's time to win the million. What's even more impressive is that the ONLY lifeline he used in the whole run was 50:50!

* Not a lot of the audience (or his fellow Celebrity Edition contestants) expected Creator/NormMacDonald to be as good as he was, so imagine their surprise when he gets all the way to $500,000.
** And ''would'' have '''WON THE MILLION''' if Regis had just stayed out of the way.

* Armand Kachigian reached his $1,000,000 question ''right after Nancy Christy's victory'', thus allowing to see '''TWO''' final questions in the row. This never happened in all of Millionaire's other versions so far.

* Two celebrity contestants - Lauren Lapkus and Anderson Cooper - got to their $1,000,000 questions ''one after another'', achieving the same record set by Nancy Christy and Armand Kachigian years before.

* On May 12th, 2020, wheelchair-bound Andrew Townsley was able to win £500,000... and could've win the Million if he decided to go for his answer.

** '''However, It Turns Out''': The 84% that said "B"...'''''were wrong!!!'''''

* 6 September 1998: [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_D6aBLIyIh8&t=2m27s&feature=youtu.be Ross Jackson]] uses all lifelines by the £2,000 question, but, answered the next five questions correctly without them and won £64,000.
* 9 January 1999: [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vOJ5mPwkchw&feature=youtu.be Martin Skillings]], who became the first person ever in TV quiz show history to win £125,000, did so without even using any lifelines! To make this even more amazing, the next contestant after Martin is Ian Horswell who won ANOTHER £125,000!

* [[https://youtu.be/nZbuozNZ6Lo 4 November 2000]]: contestant is going for £64,000 with all three lifelines intact. His question was, "What was the name of Woody Allen's 1998 film featuring Leonardo[=DiCaprio=]" A. Everybody Says I Love You, B. Deconstructing Henry, C. Celebrity, D. Sweet and Lowdown. He starts by using his Phone a Friend, who says "B", then uses 50:50, eliminating A and D.

** '''Instead''': He was preferred that the answer would be C and goes with that.
** '''However, It Turns Out''': The friend and 73% that said "B"'''''...were wrong!'''''
* 26 February 2002: [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BStcYLNde4Q Roger Walker]] uses all lifelines by the £16,000 question, but, answered the next fix questions correctly without them and won £500,000!
* 29 March 2003: [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qaCYERhB_qs Isabel & James Morgan]] on the Mother's Day Special, uses all lifelines by the £4,000 question, but, answered the next six questions correctly without them and £250,000.
** They would’ve been seven questions and would’ve won £500,000, if they had with James's guess.
*** But, it was just a guess, so they wouldn’t want to risk losing £218,000.

* 16 & 23 September 2006: [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7dk9MPsH40s Ingram Wilcox]] who became the fifth and last person to win £1,000,000, went through the last five questions without any lifelines! That’s because the questions started off to be harder and later they became easy for Ingram.

* 17 October 2005: [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7YnI3MIQ3b8 The first million dollar winner.]]

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* Baseball player Tsuyoshi Shinjo was once on a celebrity edition, and prepared for the show by writing the letters A through D on four sides of a pencil. On the final question for ¥10,000,000, he rolled the pencil on his palm and it turned up C. He mulled it over, then rolled the pencil on the floor — and it turned up C ''again''. He went for it, locking in C and won.
* Winning this version of ''Super Millionaire''. What makes this harder than other formats is that while the number of questions drop to 10, there are no [[CheckpointStarvation safe]] [[AllOrNothing havens]], and the last two questions, while being 50:50, disallows walking away. Only one person has won on ''Super''.

[[folder:British Version]]
* 6 September 1998: [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_D6aBLIyIh8&t=2m27s&feature=youtu.be Ross Jackson]] uses all lifelines by the £2,000 question, but, answered the next five questions correctly without them and won £64,000.
* 9 January 1999: [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vOJ5mPwkchw&feature=youtu.be Martin Skillings]], who became the first person ever in TV quiz show history to win £125,000, did so without even using any lifelines! To make this even more amazing, the next contestant after Martin is Ian Horswell who won ANOTHER £125,000!
* 13-14 November 1999: [[https://youtu.be/zjCRXcYNxUM Lance Jones]] uses all lifelines at the £2,000 question, but, answered the next fix questions correctly without them and won £64,000.
* 17-19 January 2000: Only once before had someone winning £250,000 on 4th September 1999. Three contestants in a row won at least £250,000. First, [[https://youtu.be/zX9xS7oNXgA David Neale]], who first used at lifeline at the £16,000 question, but reached £250,000 with 2 lifelines left, but, used them both and still walked away with £250,000 and became the second person to do so. Unfortunately he would’ve won £500,000, if he had gone with his guess. Next, it was [[https://youtu.be/tcmnveCMYlI Peter Lee]], who first used at lifeline at the £4,000 question, but, reached to £125,000 with 2 lifelines left. He used both lifelines and went with the answer that Derik and Peter were leaning towards to and won ANOTHER £250,000!!! You may have thought he was going to walk away with £250,000 because he is now out of lifelines, but, he knew the answer to the question worth £500,000, and risks it, and became the first person to win £500,000!!! He now decides to walk away with £500,000 because the other questions he was about 90-95% sure, but, not the £1,000,000 question. Finally, [[https://youtu.be/Fuz1u2gnKuk Margaret Whittaker]], reached to £32,000 with all 3 lifelines left, she used Ask the Audience on the £64,000 question, 50:50 on £125,000, and Phone a Friend on £250,000, and thanks to her friend Ronda, Margaret just won £250,000! She delighted to take £250,000 and run and became the first woman to win £250,000, after only one woman (Sylvia Nixon in the Christmas Special) won £125,000. Two records in a row had been broken.
* [[https://youtu.be/nZbuozNZ6Lo 4 November 2000]]: contestant is going for £64,000 with all three lifelines intact. His question was, "What was the name of Woody Allen's 1998 film featuring Leonardo[=DiCaprio=]" A. Everybody Says I Love You, B. Deconstructing Henry, C. Celebrity, D. Sweet and Lowdown. He starts by using his Phone a Friend, who says "B", then uses 50:50, eliminating A and D.
** '''You'd Expect''': The contestant to trust his friend's confirmation and answer B, since his answer was still there.
** '''Instead''': He decides to ask the audience. 73% said B, the other 27% said C.
** '''You'd Then Expect''': For the contestant to finally choose "B" since all three of his lifelines steered toward that answer.
** '''Instead''': He was preferred that the answer would be C and goes with that.
** '''However, It Turns Out''': The friend and 73% that said "B"'''''...were wrong!'''''
* 26 February 2002: [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BStcYLNde4Q Roger Walker]] uses all lifelines by the £16,000 question, but, answered the next fix questions correctly without them and won £500,000!
* 29 March 2003: [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qaCYERhB_qs Isabel & James Morgan]] on the Mother's Day Special, uses all lifelines by the £4,000 question, but, answered the next six questions correctly without them and £250,000.
** They would’ve been seven questions and would’ve won £500,000, if they had with James's guess.
*** But, it was just a guess, so they wouldn’t want to risk losing £218,000.
* 24 April 2004: [[https://youtu.be/fWOQGZ0GpWI Pat Gibson]] who became the fourth person to win £1,000,000, became the only U.K. to keep two lifelines for the £1,000,000 question. He even knew the answer to the £1,000,000 question, even though he used the two remaining lifelines. He was calm through out the game, and brave (especially at the £32,000 question). He was the next contestant after [[https://youtu.be/uf6fl3XIDzU Bill Copland]] who went home with nothing.
* 16 & 23 September 2006: [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7dk9MPsH40s Ingram Wilcox]] who became the fifth and last person to win £1,000,000, went through the last five questions without any lifelines! That’s because the questions started off to be harder and later they became easy for Ingram.
* 11 July 2009: [[https://youtu.be/0TcMLvFIFP0 Chris Mapp]] uses all lifelines by the £5,000 question, but, answered the next fix questions correctly without them and won £150,000!
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* On the occasional playing while the lifeline was available, the contestant's Phone-A-Friend would say the correct answer ''immediately'' after hearing the question. Without even hearing any of the choices. And sometimes even before the contestant even finished the question.