Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? | All Million Pound Questions

[@jeydoubleyew]

Whoever created the sound effects and music for this show is a genius. I get chills every time the "final answer" effect goes off on a million pound question.

[@DanTheStripe]

Keith and Matthew Strachan. I wholeheartedly agree. It's the greatest music in gameshow history. Damn shame it's not on Spotify.

[@samuelgiles7571]

@@DanTheStripe it’s on Spotify now

[@vcg5743]

There is non in the questions to £100-£1,000

[@lhingsantiago2692]

Sorry to disagree. The best game show sound is Jeopardy (Thinking melody). It is very catchy and fun.

[@MR-bq1cy]

No not really it’s boring

[@Mark64W]

My late father was only one step away from being on the show for the first UK million question . He knew every question but when it came to ' Which county cricket team plays at Chester le street ' for a million pounds he almost put his foot through the TV . He lived there most of his life !!

[@hakc97again]

He’s dead??!! This actually makes me a lot sadder than I thought I would be. May he rest in peace 😢

[@angryangelant9519]

Liar. He's still alive I'm his brother.

[@Mark64W]

@@angryangelant9519 Is that some sick joke at my sadly missed father ?

[@mukwoorusilverhair4283]

I can say the same thing. My father knew the answer to every question but he never had the courage to attend. This was an entertaining show. Too bad it's not on anymore, not in Hungary or Romania atleast.

[@hakc97again]

@@Mark64W when did he die? I remember he was talking to someone who asked me if I could help him get into contact with Chris about 2-3 years ago (I had just started on a radio station made of people who used to be on Capital FM with him)

[@thisissketchy9339]

Charles Ingram *Total Prize Money* -£ 115.000

[@andiramadhanh3781]

Why?

[@cricstar2087]

Andi Ramadhan Hadiputra because he cheated he went over every answer and somebody who he knew clever coughed in the audience search up who wants to be millionaire fraud

[@christino3852]

Cric star He conspired with his wife and another contestant and they were the ones who coughed. You didn’t ask I just... yeah.

[@brendanlanders1870]

didn't go jail

[@williamwilting]

The girl participated in Who Wants To Lose A Millionaire.

[@alanduncanson7322]

Its a true saying, they're only easy if you know the answer. Of all these million pound answers I actually knew three of them, yet watching the show when it used to be aired, there were times I would probably have to use a lifeline just to get up to a thousand ! What is simple for some can be difficult for others irrespective of how much money is involved.

[@bowjana8128]

Always think the fist few are harder than the last ones

[@PurplePinkRed]

So true! The hard part is answering 15 *consecutive* questions correctly. You may know the million pound answer, but it's no use if you don't know some of the 14 other answers along the way. That's what people forget. You may get lucky with your lifelines, and you might not. That's not taking into account monetary pressures and the pressure of being in a studio too, which can sway you as well. It's real money and real life.

[@ArthurHerman44]

Sometimes watching these I couldn't even answer the first or second question because they refer to a saying or something that I could not possibly know as a non-native english speaker.

[@ianmontgomery7534]

Sometimes it is knowing what isn't the answer. for instance I knew Ohm was a German so I would have been confident with Volt as an answer.

[@MindstormXL]

I knew the one from Charles Ingram because I read it in a book but ll the other I had no idea. I was like the phone a friend used on the Oberon question.

[@SteffLoui88]

Look at those audience members when Judith makes it, absolutely wonderful, all standing up to even show their appreciation. x

[@baz810]

🥱🥱🥱 she was already rich and could take the chance

[@tullochgorum6323]

@@baz810 Not really such a chance - I knew the answer and I'm neither a historian or a quizzer - she was a very famous lady...

[@Kira-no666]

@@tullochgorum6323 yes exactly what i am thinking, tis was really a one million question?

[@cameronturner1865]

@@Kira-no666 if you don’t know English history I could where it would be tough to get it under pressure. Pretty straight forward if you do though. I was sitting here going “nope” “yep” “that’s her son” “nope again”

[@mrcaboosevg6089]

@@baz810 A million pounds is a million pounds, to lose that would be a hell of a loss to anyone

[@Al-Hunt-acrylic-painter]

I used to work for Robert Bridges. I was his gardener at his home in Reading. Lovely man, a real gentleman. He did remarkably well, especially considering that he never watched TV. His kids used to read Shakespeare in the garden. I remember his family so well, even though it was over 20 years ago. He bought me and my manager a giant bottle of champagne each and a romeo and Juliet cigar after he won.

[@E1221-s7s]

Do you have any idea where he got all of his knowledge from? Like did he read a lot? Or did he just kinda know stuff?

[@Al-Hunt-acrylic-painter]

@user-sd4uj7yx5z he is a highly intelligent man. That's why he is a millionaire. He said that he knew nothing about TV soaps, etc, and he had to study them for months on the lead up to the show.

[@E1221-s7s]

@@Al-Hunt-acrylic-painterso he was able to learn most of the stuff in only a few months? Impressive

[@Al-Hunt-acrylic-painter]

@@E1221-s7s well, the TV stuff.

[@binladen34444]

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[@leuphoniemusic]

Somehow watching these guys succeed and win a lot of money brings such joy, even though I'm not winning it!

[@tonysuffolk]

That shows you're a nice human.

[@rebelraccoon9018]

Judith Keppel is a sweetheart.

[@nadirkhan2250]

Especially Major Inghram

[@Jbeats37]

lol. he was close tho haha@@nadirkhan2250

[@sm0g-810]

People who are the opposite of this are very insecure about their position in life and it hurts them to see others succeed.

[@BlueJimmie48Fan]

I love how you can hear the audience's raw reactions when they say they're going for it rather than silence in the US version 😂

[@Lee-wg7en]

audiences are cued (i.e. there is a huge sign they can all see that says things like 'quiet', 'silence', 'applause', 'laughter', 'free')

[@morbidsearch]

@@Lee-wg7en ,'cough'

[@electricfan3243]

@@morbidsearch Nice reference

[@matthewpotter1365]

The US version of all British TV shows are awful. Their version of the chase is super cringe

[@inaweoftheworld]

@@Lee-wg7en Free? Meaning what?

[@lafoonxiii5311]

Grew up watching Millionaire in the states, we had Regis Philbin. He was charismatic and a great host...but Chris Tarrant is the absolute GOAT. He plays the suspense perfectly, knows how to work together with the contestants, and looks genuinely happy for them when they win (and suitably commiserative when they lose).

[@coconyt3623]

Regis is the best TV host ever, may he RIP ;__; but Tarrant is absolutely up there too.

[@orinivanvrkas7409]

NGL, Regis is terrible in comparison.

[@martinwalters8009]

25:56 you have just won.... a trip to court and a very big fine

[@DaBoss69]

Correct I watched that documentary about that lol

[@FBarbarian]

the show must love it when that happens - they just aired 2 episodes without giving the guy any money, the scandal made the show more popular and they get to sue him for even more money, even if they knew he was cheating they waited for the episode to be aired before they "find out" officially

[@jesseparker1999]

No it was a faster finger contestant doing the coughing.

[@asmrfoodieuk7965]

How did he know which cough was what though? I hear one cough, then two coughs: three coughs. They are all different each time?

[@leonbanks5728]

They made a tv show on this scandal a couple of years ago starring Michael Sheen as Chris Tarrant. It’s called Quiz.

[@michaelfalkner1186]

For the record, the show's official site now does have a top-quality version of Ingram's question.

[@fredm.2699]

Every contestant is wary with the million dollar question, some seem defeated. The Cheater however takes his time, cracks jokes, repeats how he has no clue but chooses the option that he has never heard of - meanwhile someone won’t stop coughing when he glossses over the right answer. This was a great strategy!

[@AbsoIutelyJack]

I heard that story too.

[@kimbirch1202]

Not really, as they got caught cheating.

[@outsideconfidence12]

@@kimbirch1202the comment was sarcastic…

[@Gonken88]

He was one cool customer. Too bad they cheated him of his winnings because the techman coughed.

[@bigstar66]

Such an idiot for going all the way. He might have got away with it if he stopped at 125,000.

[@salano2]

the cheater got the easiest 1M question.... sad he had to cheat to win it.

[@PLASKETT7]

Oh he was as thick as shit, DarkBreloom. With 5 ´A´ levels, 2 Degrees and a membership of Mensa.

[@hhscadets0925]

To be fair, it's easy now because EVERYONE and their mother has heard of Google and probably heard where that name comes from. When Ingram's episode was recorded in 2001, Google wasn't as big as it was now so probably not as many people would've known was a googol was.

[@moriderschowitz5020]

it was easy as hell for me because megatron is a transformer villain, gigabite is known from computer storage, nano d googol was the only ones to choose between and even then nano is just a prefix in a part of so it was easy to figure out either way, but i guess it was much harder at the time they asked the question due to low access to such information

[@MrCguy24]

a mol is 1.022 x 10^26 atoms, a bit is computer storage, and megatron???/ lol

[@DokktorDeth]

I agree - I had to Google it

[@yourstruly256]

Wow! You can really see how different Charles Ingram is to the other big money contestants.

[@Luka23567]

“He went for Googol mainly because he never heard of it but he has heard of the other three.” 🤣 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@johnmartinez7440]

Weird, isn't it? Obviously hindsight is 20/20, but the way he was muttering and stalling for time felt exactly like something you'd do if you were lying or concealing something. The way he pretends to be convinced it was a nanomole, then changes his mind so quickly is priceless.

[@Cazzy666]

Funnily enough googol was the only one I genuinely knew the answer to at the time…I wouldn’t have known any of these!

[@Drenwickification]

@@Cazzy666 I think I would have thought it was a googel despite not having heard of it purely because a nano something is usually 10^-9 a mega is 10^6 and a giga is 10^9. It’s hilarious that he said he thought it was a nanomol which is like the farthest away from being right

[@Cazzy666]

@@Drenwickification I only knew because I read that the guys who started google meant to googol but spelled it wrong. Ingram was an idiot, nothing subtle about his ‘process of elimination’ 😅

[@jro786]

David Edwards was the most dramatic way of telling that he's won a million pounds

[@ShadowLinkxMaster]

Meanwhile Robert Brydges got the most casual way of getting it. 😂

[@jacksonirving4594]

I remember knowing the Chester le Street answer but struggled with the others.

[@kckcmctcrc]

I've never seen the UK version of this show. I love this host.

[@qasemrimawi568]

It's the original, actually.

[@billymatthews4150]

kckcmctcrc best

[@sarahwatkins4520]

We did fantastic to have 5 people win the £1 million. I still remember watching Judith Keppel's win on tv :)

[@billymatthews4150]

Betyer 2k2 are you Russian soviet

[@carrot7459]

Yeah shame he's not hosting the show anymore :(

[@yisheng3634]

All episodes of Judith Keppel, Robert Brydges, and Ingram Wilcox all winning £1 MILLION on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? were all shown without a commercial break.

[@brandonpowe4416]

That's why this show is so exciting because it was tense for these people to go for a Million Pounds, Million Dollars in the U.S.

[@AaronTheCrystalClod]

I think in the original airings, Judith Keppel and Ingram Wilcox’s games had the commercial break after they gave their final answers

[@hakc97again]

@@AaronTheCrystalClod Robert Brydges as well.

[@mooglerae32]

I love that everyone comes together in hoping that they are correct. I found myself biting my lip and clenching my fists just hoping Judith Keppel would be correct.

[@neiliusflavius]

It's always interesting what different people know - some of these I found easy and others I didn't have a clue about. The challenge is having got all the previous questions right to get to this point and then getting a question you know with enough confidence.

[@Nocturnalux]

I don’t know if this actually happens but I watched a Korean movie about a group of people trying to beat a quiz show and in there, the later questions were changed according to the contestant. As in, if a contestant reached the final questions having aced history and pop culture, the final question would be about something else like sports. This way, it was tailored so as to be harder to any particular contestant to win.

[@chantaliyah4890]

LOL I love how it says “Charles Ingram, the CHEATER” at 20:11

[@Luka23567]

🤣

[@Alanjelvis]

His cheque was cancelled. Why? Because he doesn’t deserve it!!!

[@Frawt]

His last question was so easy too, the fucking donkey.

[@toddaulner5393]

Bold. Somehow the plant in the audience knew. Maybe an earpiece?

[@andreaskoelsch8543]

Listen to the audience in his bit. He goes through all answers, and whenever he says the correct one (Googol), someone coughs. Edit: Never mind, my guy, I read your statement wrong.

[@MRenvoize]

Amazing that Judith Keppels £1m question involved 2 of her ancestors. That's how she knew the answer.

[@RAPIDFIREcsgo]

Damn feel bad for the guy who didn't say "Bull Moose". I knew the answer only because of ERB Roosevelt vs Churchill when he said "you can't stop the Bull Moose" or something along those lines.

[@alfieburns3979]

A bullet can't stop the bull moose. TR will give WC THE full deuce

[@christopherflowers6583]

"Whatever sh*t you throw at me, I'll just return to sender. I will battle to the end and I will never surrender!"

[@alfieburns3979]

DarkBreloom it is from epic rap battles of history. Churchill vs theodore roosevelt.

[@bridgetdoman1386]

I guessed Bull Moose as it sounded more appropriate to America than elephant, dog or frog.

[@franksilva4921]

He did the right thing though. If you don't know for sure it's not worth the risk

[@nonamenorman9410]

I love how nobody got it wrong. It makes me happy for them.

[@Marjopolo302]

They KNEW the answer. No way wud anyone risk 470,000 quid on a question.

[@cameraredeye3115]

@@Marjopolo302 Not unless they were certain of their answer...

[@Lava1964]

@@Marjopolo302 It has happened in various versions around the world, however.

[@ptm8375]

If you have the intelligence to get to 500k youre also certainly smart enough not to throw that away

[@kanyebreast6072]

@@Marjopolo302 There are people who have lost the 1 million question

[@mariaaloia9149]

Honestly I respect the people who walk away because they’re not pushing themselves and their luck.

[@anufajemisin4348]

Me too.

[@pwhite1960]

The guy who won the first 500 k is called Peter Lee. Peterlee coincidentally is a town in County Durham around 15 miles from Chester le street.

[@Mark64W]

That's pretty ironic ! Thanks for sharing .

[@MoviesNGames007uk]

very easy question for geography buffs

[@jackiwheeler6963]

That's really cool!

[@_JackTV]

It is indeed, I lived there for 13 years

[@babygirla6630]

It's so easy to see the cheater cheating! He says its nanomole and then changes to Googol when he hasn't even heard of it......someone who actually didn't know the answer would walk away with 500k

[@cyanmanta]

Wasn't all the coughing coming from his collaborator? The first cough happened after he said Googol, then it just kept going as long as he didn't say another answer.

[@RJR1787]

He was already a millionaire before the show. He got greedy and ended up doing jail time

[@PinarelloVelo]

When this was essential viewing for most households in the UK every night! Amazing throwback

[@tonywagner1626]

18:51 He should've said: "If you'd gone for grain, you'd just have won...32.000£ but you're a millionaire!"

[@BlueSwampyCraft]

Yessss omg

[@arielgonzalez5296]

He did not said that

[@jamesheath7601]

Would’ve been funny

[@planetx1595]

I actually liked what he said better

[@scottrobinson4611]

The thing that stands out the most is how supportive a host Chris Tarrant is, and how thoroughly proud he is if the contestants who reach this stage - no matter the end result. There are some gameshow hosts who are clearly acting - it's their job to help make the show feel more exciting. Not Chris though, it's obviously a natural passion for his job and the change it brings to the lives of some contestants.

[@sarahwatkins4520]

"Can I have another friend?" Lol that's what I'd say as well if I was on this show and got that far. Kudos to everyone who did well :)

[@someguy23475]

I knew the Roosevelt and Triple Crown question, but I’m an American. I can see how it would be very difficult in the UK. I knew the cheater’s question too, because we talked about it in school in the 90s.

[@ajk]

@@mediaproductions6679 I can see the racing question being a low level question here in US actually, pretty easy one if you know sports even a little over this way.

[@PointOfViewUk]

Yeah, it's similar to the Paddington bear question on US millionaire; most British folk, particularly older ones, know Paddington bear is from Peru.

[@Cultured_Ayato]

I am Czech so obviously I knew that question with Tomáš Masaryk, Elementary school children know that... I'm just glad he didn't blow it on that one

[@Jukka70]

I usually know none of the answers, ironically the cheater's million pound one I knew. I better, since I teach math. It's weird watching it now after seeing a documentary done on exposing him, because it's now so obvious he cheated. But that's due to just knowing what he did after the fact. I can see why they got suspicious of him the way he'd say, I think it's this, then all of the sudden switch to a different answer. On a different note, I loved it when Judith won, just the way it went. And I honestly have all the respect in the world for people that weren't sure and walked away at the 500,000. To me, that is so much money, how can you risk it on something you're not sure about. I knew the Oberon one too, but only because I just taught a little about planets to someone and we concentrated on Neptune and Uranus.

[@brontewcat]

Interestingly the only one of the Triple Crown races of which I am aware is the Kentucky Derby, so I think I may have gone for it

[@BlueSwampyCraft]

The British host is the best. He’s so funny? happy and enthusiastic. I love him

[@leonbanks5728]

Jeremy Clarkson does it now.

[@Erebos931]

The German host has already given the answer to innumerable female contestants. Though obviously not at a million Euros. He talks too much.

[@hansmahr8627]

@@Erebos931 With Günther Jauch (the German host), it's always clear if he likes a contestant or not. He rarely points towards the right answer but he often tries to stop people from making a mistake when he likes them. If he doesn't though he'll gladly log in the most idiotic answer to the 100€ question without even asking them if they're sure.

[@stigkrakpants3052]

he's Australian

[@leonbanks5728]

@@stigkrakpants3052 Who is?

[@gooj6682]

... YOU'VE JUST WON -468 THOUSAND POUNDS!

[@NicCageCDXX]

If anyone's curious, the Arlington Million is no longer run as a race, as the track that hosted it has closed.

[@Ikaftl]

If anyone's curious, the Arlington Million is now run at Colonial Downs, Virginia (as of 2023)

[@jasonwatson42069]

@@Ikaftl isn't it funny though, that an answer with the word million in it is the answer to the million pound question?

[@philipb4027]

Chris to Charles: I have no idea how you got it! Scotland Yard: We have some idea

[@Alanjelvis]

For Charles Ingram his cheque was cancelled. Why? Because he doesn’t deserve it!

[@Juvefan68]

Cheating scumbag

[@OfficialRyanFouracre]

​@@AlanjelvisNigga, you spammed the same comment, like, twice! We know and we all get it!

[@OfficialRyanFouracre]

​@@Alanjelvis Bruh, you spammed that same comment twice, or possibly more than twice! We know and we get it! We have all watched that documentry back in 2003. Stop looking for fucking attention, bruh!

[@jackiwheeler6963]

The more I see him the less believable he is

[@keithbentley6081]

It's crazy how obvious the cheating is by the final question, the producers were just making sure there was enough rope.

[@AmyDaisy69]

It's also the easiest final question out of them all! That cheating was so blatant, they got what they deserved in the end.

[@shajanjacob1576]

First he said nanomol,then was certain it was googol eventhough he never heard that word! And he and wife never looked up,and sad after loss. Price for cheating

[@MrRedrick94]

Hahaha, yes indeed. I was like: “oh, come on! I already knew that when I was twelve years old!”

[@Gizo02]

They planned to stop at 125k right? If they had done that, they probably would have got away with it (though I can’t remember how blatant the cheating was before that stage).

[@him050]

He goes from “it’s nanomole not googol, I have no idea what that word is.” To “it’s definitely googol.” The guy’s a tool.

[@Ben-hy6mp]

The fact that Ingram guy actually said I’m sure the rules don’t allow it when he was gonna turn around is just hilarious

[@Timothee_Chalamet_CMBYN]

He was the one who cheated to 1 million lol

[@rafafederer832]

He couldn’t be more obvious. Why didn’t the coughing man go on he knows everything

[@chiefcheeser]

@@rafafederer832 This is what I dont understand. That guy could have gone on and won legitimately. Crazy.

[@HutchIsOnYT]

@@rafafederer832it was a battle among a few potential contestants to get on. The coughing man ended up getting on in another episode. He went far but didnt win the million. And he was eventually caught as well.

[@WaterCrane]

@@HutchIsOnYT If I recall, Tecwen Whittock, the man with the convenient coughing problem, got his £4,000 question wrong.

[@Lavender_Cordle]

6:27 was easy; all of Uranus' moons are named after characters of Shakespeare. Oberon is from A Midsummer Night's Dream

[@Lavender_Cordle]

DarkBreloom I had a thing for astronomy as a kid LOL

[@drewg4323]

It's actually pronounced "ur-UH-nus"

[@DD-vc7fq]

If you don't know that information, it can't be easy. It's simple as that.

[@54Immortal]

Yup so is Titania

[@54Immortal]

What's Umbriel from then?

[@dtb4394]

I, can only try to imagine the tension, suspense and pressure of sitting in the hot seat. To go for the Million - pound question with no lifelines left takes some guts and self confidence.

[@thernfoster4360]

No it doesn't, they all knew the answer, it's not like they were taking a gamble

[@Marjopolo302]

Not if you know the answer.....

[@Ironman1o1]

Anyone half expect on ingram's question when Tarrant rips up the check he's going to tell him he's a cheating bastard, and to get the hell off his show?

[@caterinadelgalles8783]

Yup!

[@THISissockwormadness]

I’m a decent quizzer having watched a tonne of the Chase these days and I have to say, most of these questions I got right with an educated guess. When seeing older episodes, I somehow struggle more with the lower money questions!

[@D3MoNyX]

I dunno why I cough so much when I watch this show......

[@cally_44]

Now you do!

[@lisamc2716]

Infectious lol. Cough cough

[@Bob-ts2tu]

the two memorable ones for me are Judith (of course) and the chester-le-street one which i couldnt believe was so easy for a million, but as they say they are all easy if you know them !!

[@funkypigeondotcom7917]

Im actually so proud of myself i knew that one and the next one and ive not seen the whole video yet :) the million pound ones seem easier than others!

[@blindbookworm8019]

Hello American here, and I thought that the Eleanor of Aquitaine one was easy and the James the first one was easy. But I love reading about royalty as a side hobby :-)

[@Mark64W]

I've been saying for a while the Chester le Street question was easy , even if you don't follow cricket .

[@DanielSadjadian]

Cough cough you've just won 1 million pounds cough cough lol

[@wt8012]

So laughable... So obvious he was cheating.

[@ArmageddonAngel]

What? Are you saying he wasn't lucky 15 times?

[@DarkTempler1]

he cheated ands got caught lmao

[@sambee8982]

@@mrswozzle Judith Keppel is a genuine winner, whereby Charles Ingram cheated his way to the million.

[@mrswozzle]

Sam Bee no no no no..that was a money backhander/laundering/boomerang situation between Celador and a possibly unconscious patsy. Keppel is related to the royal family, worth millions (and did not need to win a million pounds) and her million dollar question was on royal history.

[@mrah2423]

The music still sends shivers down my spine

[@Mark64W]

The guy that wrote it is a friend of a friend . He made a million pounds from the brief composition , especially when it was used in Slumdog Millionaire .

[@jackiwheeler6963]

Me too! I wonder if he won an Emmy or something?

[@xenon8117]

“Sort of like how we got to Craig David.” It’s exactly how we got to Craig David.

[@stephenpeterson7514]

The one about Quercus was super easy for me, having studied Latin. It’s one of the few words ending in “us” that is feminine, so it’s taught as an exception to the rule.

[@Luka23567]

No way in a million years I would’ve known that answer.

[@stephenmatura1086]

I knew it through stamp collecting. The 1973 Tree issue was Quercus Robur

[@rijsmiddel8765]

I was fairly confident the answer was ‘Trees’ based on a skeletal cat named Quercus in Divinity: Original Sin 2. A squirrel resurrected the cat and named him Quercus, said squirrel is also searching for the ‘Great Acorn’ so linking the answer based on that wouldn’t be too much of a stretch.

[@DanTheStripe]

I personally love hearing about how different people know the answer. I didn't know it, and now I'll never forget it.

[@GaelFP]

@@stephenmatura1086 lol i knew the "masaryk being the first president of czechoslovakia" question because it was mentioned on a stamp made to his memory

[@anthonycole1684]

The difference between the deliberations of Ingram and all other contestants is HUGE no wonder the tv crew got their suspicion aroused.

[@markymark443]

He behaved equally as suspiciously if not more so on the half million pound question. Even his accomplice was trying to dissuade him from going any further and arousing further suspicion.

[@toddaulner5393]

Repeating the choices till he heard the cough.

[@cjgreen3836]

Judith was so calm....

[@toadynose89]

Only because she was already rich, she's part of the aristocracy. So it wouldn't be lifechanging money to her anyway.

[@emcutts2575]

@@toadynose89 she was actually struggling with money

[@jillosler9353]

@@toadynose89 Wrong! At the time she was struggling to pay her mortgage and risked losing her house. As for who her Ancestors were, Danny Dyer is a descendant of every English King from Edward III back to William the Conquerer. Think he's rich and posh???

[@planetx1595]

@@toadynose89 Just curious, are you related to Eleanor?

[@collinslfc]

I must admit, I am surprised the cricket question was the million pound question. Cricket has quite a large following and Chester-le-Street is quite a well known ground so anybody who knows about English cricket will know that.

[@Mark64W]

Hi . I totally agree with you . For that amount of money I have always thought the question should have been harder . Even if someone does not follow cricket , all they need to know is Chester le Street is in Co. Durham and they win a million pounds . As I've mentioned earlier my Dad was only one step away from being on the show and knew every answer . When it came to the Chester le Street question he nearly put his foot through the TV ! He lived there most of his life .

[@jcjohncurtis]

Durham only became a first class side in the 90s so probably fewer people would have known the answer at the time. I always remember his name was Peter Lee as Peterlee is a town in Durham ha

[@dudeLaurence]

@@Mark64W Only thing i know about Chester Le Street is that its where former England and MUFC skipper Bryan Robson is from, and if you've ever heard the man speak you know the answer already.

[@Mark64W]

@@dudeLaurence He certainly was , and worked for my Dad as a paper boy !

[@NorbertHajduNorb]

It's so nice to see people win :)

[@Let-Me-B]

except for the major fraud himself

[@jacobwright5469]

Who is known, as Charles Ingram

[@pradyot__]

Except if they don't live in your neighborhood

[@Grivian]

I got the biggest smile when Judith won

[@ullswater6]

I'm sure we all did, until we started watching her on Eggheads... and realised that she knows absolutely nothing, about anything.

[@falconeshield]

​@@ullswater6 Then how was she that lucky?

[@ullswater6]

@@falconeshield Just that the right questions came up for her... by coincidence. She was very lucky in that respect. She's now been on Eggheads for years, and she is nearly always the Egghead that gets knocked out - meaning we have to see a giant image of her every day on the background screen during the final round.

[@thefilmsett]

Why

[@thefilmsett]

She related to Royalty so knew it

[@mariaaloia9149]

I love it how you included the cheater 😂

[@georgexanthopoulos3003]

Omg the coughs were so blatantly obvious! Plus it was so weird the way he would suddenly change his answer to something that he had previously completely eliminated.

[@AbstractJJJ]

@@georgexanthopoulos3003 If I remember right, the footage is from the documentary where the audience is amplified a bit, but yeah you would think that the audience members around the ones coughing would catch on. And to be fair, the crew for the show were very suspicious of the coughing after 32k or something like that.

[@Jivvi]

@@AbstractJJJ That documentary aired here in Australia maybe ten years ago, in much better quality than that, and then they played the whole two episodes as they would have appeared on TV if they'd aired at the time. Not sure why the quality was so bad in the clip that was included here. And they weren't suspicious of the coughing before 32,000 because there wasn't any. Originally he had four devices strapped to him - one on each arm and one on each leg, and someone would press a button to make the correct one vibrate. The coughing, and the way he kept repeating back all the options to prompt it, was a hastily devised plan B because they were worried he'd get caught with the devices on him. They switched strategies between the two episodes.

[@AbstractJJJ]

​@@Jivvi I completely forgot about their initial scheme. I went back and watched some. So, it turns out that some of the crew saw him using his phone outside the studio shortly after recording and they're not allowed to bring phones so that plan fell apart after just the first 3 questions (I guess it was a commercial break? Not terribly clear when he'd have a chance to step out) I also forgot that he legitimately played 500£-4000£. And the new episode and the coughing was all the way back at 8000£. I did successfully remember 32k. Whittock didn't know the 32k answer and his wife decided to cough, but since she's always being recorded, that's when the crew started figuring it out. They didn't know about Whittock helping until after the 32k question. After they caught on to Whittock, they went back and found the 8k and 16k coughs. Last random thing. I did not know the "coughing episode" was 9/10/2001. Not sure why so much time had passed before he got to trial.

[@kristiandonchev2641]

And I was shocked that he got this question for One million! I thought the answer is well known by most people

[@kavicskulcsar4240]

26:10 the famous coughing cheater

[@kristenwrate8142]

Cheating scumbag.

[@kimkimpa5150]

We have this show in Sweden as well. Trouble is, 1 million Swedish crowns is just 100,000 British pounds. So our show is just a 10th as exciting as this. Basically, whenever someone wins a million, we're just sitting there in our couches just like that lady at 9:03 saying "yes, smashing..."

[@occono3543]

It's funny, but the highest converted jackpot of any WWTBAM ever, other than the Super and Rollover specials in the US, was in IRELAND, pre-euro. RTÉ has never been as well managed as Swedish TV like SVT, so how that got insured, I've never understood. (Punt > Sterling at the time.)

[@MautozTech]

Btw 1 million rubles is around $11k, funny too

[@tomekkaminski2677]

So funny that you are all rich in greater scope

[@0FFICERPROBLEM]

​@@tomekkaminski2677Not an insignificant amount of folks are earning six figures per year in £, €, $ nowadays too. "Who wants to watch: Who wants to be a six figureonaire?" Just doesn't have the same ring to it either ey.

[@andyjay9346]

Charles Ingram's question had more coughin' than a cemetery full of undertakers!

[@scttm79]

Maybe but he didn’t hear or use the coughin in anyway to get the answer and I honestly believe it was a genuine win and they were wrong what they did to him

[@lovelondon806]

@@scttm79 you’re so wrong. He didn’t have a clue. He never even heard of many of the answers he gave… still made for great television

[@scttm79]

@@lovelondon806 I am sure the fact that Dianne was yelling at him and people heard screaming in the dressing room after when they were alone proves he innocent as it only makes sense for her to be upset at him if he won the money fair and square and did a great job

[@ThePatriots010304]

He was clearly cheating, it's obvious. Every time googol was said there was coughing in the audience indicating it was the right answer. If you watched his entire run, he knew very little or didn't know the answers at all but somehow took "educated" guesses and got them right.

[@AJediSurvivor]

​@ThePatriots010304 and there were people around the audience coughing when he said the wrong answer, so...

[@Karl-bw8rp]

Pat Gibson was so bloody calm it's unbelievable.

[@michaeligoe3935]

Judith Keppel has star quality in abundance.

[@samsummer8382]

You need new stars

[@davidsmith7653]

She went on to be an Egghead professional quizzer on the tv show of the same name.

[@BuggatiWeryon]

Such a great upload, don't delete it please :) just in case you were planning to do it sooner or later! Thanks for your contribution!

[@donblosser8720]

As he called the cheater's wife down I was picturing the host saying, We've got two pair of handcuffs for the both of you. I've never appreciated cheaters; I'm glad they were caught. Almost poetic justice that they thought they got away with it only to have to give it back. Do game show cheaters ever have to do jail time?

[@Despond]

I know it's not Henry II*COUGH COUGH COUGH* no wait, I think it's Henry II!

[@ebojfmdboojoh4023]

Well to me that was the easiest question. I know quite a bit about the British Royal family. Henry 1st married Matilda, who was the daughter of the king of Scotland. Richard 1st married Berengaria of Navarre, who interestingly never actually set foot in England, and Henry 5th married Catherine of Valois. Apologies for showing off.

[@TheDash456]

@@ebojfmdboojoh4023 no need to apologize, you’re just showing us your knowledge on British Royalty.

[@qotda]

The woman's reaction at 5.00 is the most attractive and calm thing I have ever seen. I put my faith in her. When the asteroid comes. I will seek her guidance

[@gaynzz6841]

she is an aristocrat... no thanks

[@saladbreath607]

How did Ingram manage to get on The Weakest Link a few years later? You'd think no gameshow would have him.

[@moiracorrigan9922]

Judith keppel is related to the royal family that's how she knew the million pound question Good on her 👏👏👏👏👏

[@AngelTonchev]

I love how the host is happier than the contestants lol.

[@redrob6026]

Probably still in shock

[@christino3852]

I can’t believe this guy @10:00 made it that far but said “meese” instead of “moose”. I know he was really nervous but damn.

[@hendrikhardeman9832]

A person not being familiar with moose might assume that the plural of moose is meese in analogy with goose / geese.

[@georgemcconville849]

Plural of moose could be mice.

[@Gardener7]

If you eat too much chocolate Moose, it becomes chocolate Meese! 😂

[@markc8956]

We need to be fair to Steve (said contestant). Chris alludes to it more than once during Steve's run,but it wasn't his first rodeo with Millionaire,so to speak. He had a panic attack on his first time and left instead of taking his place amongst the FFF contestants to get into the hotseat. So in my book, he was INCREDIBLY brave and showed guts to make it the second time and nearly win the big one. Cut him some slack.

[@amberravine2232]

OMG!! I live in Australia, only guessed half of these right and still.. forever will never understand cricket, royalty, or spots of tea. These seemed so hard for me

[@PointOfViewUk]

I love how Robert Byrdges outright guessed the final question. Balls of steel, and probs a rich person to begin with.

[@PurplePinkRed]

Robert is my favourite. He was on the Major Fraud documentary dissing Charles in the most eloquent way. It was golden!

[@ebojfmdboojoh4023]

Yeah, a pretty easy question I thought though.

[@tr7198]

John Randall 6:19 Comedian writers of the questions. You bet your ass its Uranus

[@morbidsearch]

It was still an educated guess. Ohm is obviously German.

[@SteRDLK]

@@PurplePinkRed Yeah. he just happened to be backstage two whole weeks before winning the million, what a load of contrived nonsense

[@MohammadUmairAnsari]

That cough at Googol. It now looks like even dumber how Ingram was able to get away with it on the show until he was caught.

[@peorakef]

The Googol question wasnt near as easy in 2001, but the next one was. Pascal Ohm Hertz Italian?? Even if you didnt know Volta...

[@floyd8740]

Googol question was ridiculous It's OBVIOUSLY none of the others

[@floyd8740]

No, and that's why it was ridiculous. Put simply, if you did High-School Chemistry & Physics you would know it was none of the other three. Furthermore, the question is structurally flawed. It is analogous to asking "Which of these is a number? Thousand, Big, Kilobyte, milligram. The problem is not that the correct answer is easy. Very few people would know what a Googol was, even after hearing off google. The issue is that the other three options are so obviously wrong.

[@peorakef]

Again, today. Not in 2001. Do you know the state of computers in 2001?

[@floyd8740]

WTF has that got to do with anything? But to answer your question, yes I do. PC's had been well established for over a decade.

[@peorakef]

Not for most people. Fallacy of personal experience

[@thenarrator6846]

"Charles, you haven't been sure since question one." I swear this guy knew what was up

[@bluebear1985]

I used to love watching the American show at the height of its popularity. I had to watch that one considering Canada never really had its own version, save for two episodes that were actually produced on the US set in New York. I think it was on that version that someone won the top prize before any other version in the world did. Chris later showed the winning clip from that episode in a special retrospective show.

[@jonathanzylka2789]

"Hey dad... Hey I just wanted to tell you I'm going to win the million dollars."

[@sanjoybhattacharjee8261]

The Cheater made a joke of everything, he should have been kicked out after the very first coughing. But for the rest of the members in this rare list , kudos to all of them. Thanks for the posting.

[@james-vx7nv]

They would have not been able to prove the coughing was helping charles if it happened on just one or two questions. The fact that it happened on multiple questions was what gave it away. And the more questions Charles went for, the more evidence authorities/investigators had to work with. The documentary mentioned that if Charles had walked away at 125K he might have actually gotten away with it as investigators might have had insufficient evidence to work with. There was no coughing on the 16K question, and it was Diana, not Techwinn who coughed on the 32K question. The biggest red flag occurred on the 500K question...the "cough NO" thing. That being said I do not support cheating, and Charles was 100% cheating and Im glad he was caught. Based on how Diana reacted to losing on the 64K question you can tell that family really really wanted the big million and they were really determined. The phrase "Never give up" is a darn good phrase to live by but there is the odd scenario here and there where that is actually a bad thing, and Ingrams millionaire episode is one of them. Its important to know where to draw the line on the phrase "Never give up". That being said....he should not have attempted to cheat in the first place, end of story.

[@ianbentley7276]

hard to believe it's 20 years ago since this started

[@fruitlion8]

The butterfly one made me feel quite proud, because I instantly knew the answer. Most others, except the Googol one, not so much xD

[@yessi1585]

Crazy that I knew none of them apart from the Googol one haha

[@MasterathGaming]

The Googol question would be so simple these days as that's how Google got its name.

[@zawahernizamani517]

I knew Yuri Gagarin was the first man to space but had no idea who was the first man to been to space twice.

[@nealskydive]

Laurence Llewellyn Bowen and his missus had 2 shots at the jackpot. They originally answered the £1million incorrectly. It was worded in such a way that it seemed a trick question so ITV and Celador brought them back for another shot at it with a new question

[@hazelwalsh3269]

nealskydive Celebrity Version... They were ripped off!!!

[@Bravie2001]

And the answer to their second question is wrong as well! Gus Grissom wasn't the first man to go into space twice; it was Joseph Walker, who twice flew the X-15 above 100km, the internationally recognised boundary. True, he didn't go into orbit, but then neither did Grissom on his first flight.

[@TB-up4xi]

In fact the first question was not a trick question it was in fact un-answerable as the question itself made an incorrect assumption. The question was...... "Translated from the Latin, what is the motto of the United States? - The official motto of the United States is "In God we Trust" which is what Laurence answered - it is and remains the ONLY official motto ever recognized by an Act of Congress (in 1956) - it never had a Latin equivalent and therefore was never translated to or from Latin. The Answer provided by the show was "one out of many" a rough translation of E Pluribus Unum (literally.....from many, one). Whilst this is the motto on the Seal of the United States and on coin currency it was never an official "motto of the USA" although for want of any official alternative may have served as a de-facto motto until 1956. If he forced the issue in court her would certainly have succeeded. They gave the most correct answer possible given the error in the question.

[@DanTheStripe]

@@TB-up4xi Honestly it surprises me that the show would ever fail to vet a jackpot question like that. Surely someone would double check it?!

[@teo11300]

@@TB-up4xi were these questions for the couple on a charity edition of the show?

[@druidmeats]

Every guest and audience members from Clock Work Orange, it’s amazing. All the guests were fantastic.

[@alexwilliams5819]

Charles Ingram apparently repairs computers for a living now according to a newspaper article in 2015.

[@joshhodkinson9305]

Apparently he also sliced off three of his toes in 2010 in an automatic lawnmower accident.

[@TheMoonRover]

6:31 Oh, I would've had fun in that position. *Phones friend.* "To be honest, I don't actually need your help... because Mercury has no moons, Mars has Phobos and Deimos. The moons of Neptune are named after Greek/Roman sea gods, and the moons of Uranus are named after Shakespeare characters, including Titania and Oberon. Uranus, final answer." Also the cheater's question. "A nanomole is a specific quantity of particles in some substance. A gigabit is a unit of information. Megatron is a robot, and a Googol is a number 1 followed by 100 zeros." Scientific units: I would also have taken the 50:50, then immediately gone Volt (named after Volta), having ruled out Ohm.

[@JustSomeCanadianGuy]

The British $1,000,000 questions are WAY harder than the American ones. The American final questions are always so easy.

[@chemicalpoisons]

I knew the Bull Moose question because I had read about Roosevelt, the Volt because it's a bit of a giveaway, and I know the Henry II question because of Civilisation! 😂 The rest of them, though, no idea. And you can know them and still get doubts because the stakes are as high as they get.

[@tajmahal6533]

The "Volta" answer could be known by elimination. Pascal is a french name. Hertz and Ohm are obviously German sounding so the only one remaining is Volta.

[@9k49]

Yeah agreed. Volta does also sounds sort of french / swiss to me too for whatever reason but the other three are *clearly* not Italian

[@WilliamTaylor-vr8jx]

the one guy about to win a million dollars who said meese is my spirit animal

[@mathewdewsbury9456]

We all remember the first millionaire, Judith Keppel.

[@kenirving5240]

Are you sure she was the first? I thought there were a few before Judith.

[@samuelgiles7571]

She is also the only female UK top prize winner to date

[@morbidsearch]

@@kenirving5240 Can't tell if you're counting international versions or just telling a really bad joke

[@kenirving5240]

@@morbidsearch no, I wasn't joking, I honestly thought there was another winner before Judith.

[@arslan7108]

@@kenirving5240 Yep, John Carpenter. He was also the only one to win without any lifelines...

[@tb7667]

Its interesting when you know the topic, how easy the questions can be. The triple crown one is like a $1000 question for me as I follow horse racing. The rest I have absolutely no clue whatsoever. Although the googool one I could have made more sense of than the cheater and at least eliminated a couple of the answers.

[@sempre8135]

So true. The horse racing one for me i was like "now this is a dificult one, jesus" :D but i knew more than half of the other ones

[@GWOAT]

All Irishmen know their Horse Racing 🏇

[@paulusher1145]

The irony that the 1st guy called Peter Lee had a question about Durham!!

[@mikeriordan6940]

Judith didn't even break sweat, she was one cool woman

[@Geminiman019]

In Poland only 468,000 zł loser was 9-years old boy Filip Łapiński. That thing was happened at 2 June 2002. For him that loss was insignificant, because that prize was for charity. At 1-2 June 2002 were special Kids episodes of WWTBAM.

[@Geminiman019]

But he even had intact all three Lifelines. He used only fifty-fifty at 1,000,000 zł question and choose wrong answer. At the same episode next boy contestant Ziemowit Stefański guess correctly 13 questions without using any Lifeline. But in 500,000 zł question used fifty-fifty Lifeline, choose wrong answer and lost 218,000 zł. Total prize of both contestants was 64,000 zł which were for charity. Poland is different country than UK.

[@lroke2947]

I really like the handwriting on those cheques.

[@wt8012]

20:09 Ah, look... It's everyone's favourite!

[@wt8012]

Indeed.

[@sergioroman2920]

It's actually the least favourite.

[@Let-Me-B]

the major fraud, the cheetah himself :l

[@jordanstephens8836]

25:56 I no joke thought he was gonna rip the check and give him nothing because he made it so obvious for cheating when I first saw this

[@markymark443]

He can’t do that until it’s proven in a court of law. Suspicion alone is not enough to make that kind of decision. It was obvious upon investigating more closely when rewatching the tape.

[@Jennifer-cz2if]

That first clip was that really the question for a million pounds? That seemed way too easy!!

[@WilliamReginaldLucas]

All of these people are amazing, I can’t help but love the confidence David Edwards and Judith Keppel have when they instantly knew the answer to the million pound question. For decades quizshows top prize was a trophy of some sort, this show finally gave people like Edwards and Gibson who’d got to the finals of Mastermind the financial security they deserved for being human encyclopaedias!

[@WilliamLaidlaw-h8e]

You poor fool; winners are predetermined.

[@peroduanippa]

I remember knowing the Quercus Robur question as I speak Italian and Quercia is an Oak Tree.

[@PFrules]

Yeah. I knew this one. I used to work at nursery and remember it was a tree. If they had of put shrub instead of flower, that would have made it a bit trickier.

[@leeroy4980]

Annoyingly I knew the answer for the cheaters million pound question!! My maths teacher made me write it out as a number 10 times for not doing homework 😂😂. Imagine that story on the night !

[@pandapopchart4950]

It's always amused me that Peter Lee didn't guess Durham, yet there's a town in County Durham called Peterlee.

[@SirenPandaSabo]

I was quite young when I saw John Randall's One Million Question. Now that I see it as an adult, I know which two are wrong but I remember the right answer from watching it. I have retained that information ever since 🤣