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MTsurugi
Since: May, 2011
UltramarineAlizarin
Since: Jan, 2001

This is a dubbed anime I saw on TV maybe 2-4 years ago. I can't remember what channel it was on, but the visual quality of the show tells me it had to have been produced sometime after 2000.
The scene I saw was a teen/young adult male on a game show that risked the lives of its contestants. I don't mean like what is described in the Deadly Game trope — it seemed pretty similar to Who Wants To Be A Millionaire with the dim environment and single hot-seat gameplay, just that the stakes were much higher for some reason I'm not aware of.
In any case, it's a trivia game show (or at least that stage of the game show was a trivia game), and the scene was framed like watching an actual game show, with the character centered facing the camera and images overlaid in the corners to show information to the home audience. Whenever the character was unable to answer a question correctly, the answer appeared in a window in one of the upper corners (I think these were actually not translated). The only question I can remember being asked is (paraphrasing) "At what temperature is water the most dense?" and I think the answer that was shown is 4 (degrees Celsius, presumably). The character performs rather mediocre at this game and gradually becomes more stressed, even yelling out "I don't know!" in response to a question at one point.
Anyone have any idea what I might have been watching?
Edited by UltramarineAlizarin