(Old Version) Who Wants to Be a Millionaire US Winners History

[@mariogames168]

Man, the great old times.

[@mariogames168]

Of one of the best game shows of all time right next to the price is right.

[@MRodriguez7467]

What surprises me is that Nancy is the ONLY female to win the million on the U.S. version of this show.

[@josephdale69]

What surprises me is that US female pilots account for leas than 10 percent of pilots but are involved in over 75 percent of accidents.

[@aleeshaaleeshaaleesha]

@@josephdale69 Relevance...?

[@josephdale69]

@@aleeshaaleeshaaleesha It’s one of those strange statistical anomalies.

[@kevingarth6682]

@@josephdale69 it's hard to look at most stats like they are factual. Especially when you look into how they compile them.

[@tylerallen949]

There were two million-dollar winners five days apart… on two separate occasions. For as long as this game has been in the US, that’s astounding.

[@tallmadgeinsanityanimation9005]

they were Kevin Olmstead (4/10/2001) and Bernie Cullen (4/15/2001).

[@kevstercronigekevincrone74]

Still get chills watching these, in a good way

[@GAME-SHOW-FAN]

2:25 HE JUST WON A MILLION DOLLAR!!!!!

[@steve-marsh]

Well done all, but I can't believe how much easier the US million dollar questions are compared to UK!!!

[@redx069]

Rip Regis

[@MakedonijaTexas]

Where is Paul Lasseter?

[@CastawayRJExtra]

This video only includes the official US million dollar winners.

[@occono3543]

Spin City is sort of forgotten about nowadays unfortunately. Good show, same creator as Scrubs. It was actually the first time I saw US millionaire. It was trippy to see they had the same music and design and everything except with this Regis guy I had no familiarity with instead of Chris Tarrant

[@williamgullod8063]

Tribute to all The WWTBAM Winners

[@jdg20042001]

Ike Barinholtz and his father Alan won $1 MILLION for their charity!!!!!! #WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire 📺💰💰💰💰💰💰🎉🎉🎉🎊🎊🎊👏

[@jaspie.72]

In my country's version (France), we have three top-prize winners : Frédéric, Louis and Marie Friedel and two others (Denis and Marguerite) saw the final question but they left before an answer 😃 The biggest fall happened in May 2008 when Nolwenn Leroy and Lambert Wilson lost 102 000 € for Abbé Pierre charities.

[@giacomoandria904]

In my country (Italy) we have 4 €1,000,000 winners: Francesca Cinelli, Davide Pavesi, Michela De Paoli and Enrico Remigio. Davide arrived to question 13 (€150,000) without using a lifeline. Michela did even better! I think she is the only contestant all around the world, excluding John Carpenter, to arrive to question 15 without using a lifeline.

[@francismoles9852]

And for Marguerite and Marie it was on few days in 2004

[@jaspie.72]

@@francismoles9852 Yes ! Marguerite appared on 11 August, Marie won on 27 August 2004, sixteen days later

[@johnsmith-brown-jones7844]

@2.25 "He just won a hundred dollars" - Did the moths get to the prize money already?! Joe Trela the unluckiest millionaire winner ever on that prize depreciation.🤣

[@NoahRonaldo22]

After Taxes They All Left With $69,420

[@exceptionary]

today marks the 13th anniversary of sam murray's actual win in tournament of 10

[@exceptionary]

today marks the 13th anniversary of sam murray's win

[@AlexMaxwell2000]

Wwtbam is coming back this summer

[@zachalderton2057]

14 MILLIONAIRES TOTAL

[@GAME-SHOW-FAN]

If I won $1 MILLION, I'd use it for a BIG shopping spree. This is what regis would say if he was still alive. You can go on that shopping spree cause YOU JUST WON $1,000,000!!!!!

[@fernlew8828]

Great love it

[@sd2go]

when david chang won his million, the loop music was stupid at the end

[@josephdale69]

After taxes, that’s about $500,000. Enough to get you a middle class home.

[@anthonybryant642]

Double dip is my favorite life line. And Congrats to the millionaires from Regis and Merideth.

[@RyuHaybausa]

Kevin Olmstead is still the highest winner in TV gameshow history, right?

[@JoeyFlyBoy]

Not really, Ken Jennings took that role

[@occono3543]

​@@JoeyFlyBoy He's still the highest winner for one day of filming. Ken and others won higher, but over the course of weeks or months, not in one day.

[@JoeyFlyBoy]

@@occono3543 point taken

[@Scottwilkie18]

I think I was really happy for Nancy to win when Meredith was the host because it was girl power

[@joewas2225]

I literally only got the aviation related questions right so only 2.

[@anthonyhagan6033]

20:56 outro

[@zacheryalderton826]

I could spend $ 2,180,000

[@zachalderton2057]

next year should have been on for 23 years

[@theeaskey]

Wait till they pay the $400.000 taxes

[@zachalderton2057]

I COULD SPEND $ 2,180,000

[@andrewwilliams2105]

Joe Trela is my personal favorite winner.

[@vcg5743]

HOW DID SHE KNOW SAM WAS IN THE AUDIENCE

[@CastawayRJExtra]

It was the Million Dollar Tournament of Ten. For the first nine weeks of the 2009-10 season, each episode saw contestants attempt to qualify for what was referred to as the "Tournament of Ten". Contestants were seeded based on how much money they had won, with the biggest winner ranked first and the lowest ranked tenth. Ties were broken based on how much time a contestant had banked when they had walked away from the game. The tournament began on the episode aired November 9, 2009, and playing in order from the lowest to the highest seed, tournament contestants played one at a time at the end of that episode and the next nine. The rules were exactly the same as they were for a normal million dollar question under the clock format introduced the season before, except here, the contestants had no lifelines at their disposal. Each contestant received a base time of 45 seconds. For each question they had answered before walking away, the contestants received any unused seconds that were left when they gave their answers. The accumulated total of those unused seconds was then added to the base time to give the contestants their final question time limit. Each contestant had the same decision facing them as before, which was whether to attempt to answer the question or walk away with their pre-tournament total intact. Attempting the question and answering incorrectly incurred the same penalty as in regular play, with a reduction of their pre-tournament winnings to $25,000. If the question was answered correctly, the player that did so became the tournament leader. If another player after him/her answered correctly, that player assumed the lead and the previous leader kept their pre-tournament winnings. The highest remaining seed to have attempted and correctly answered their question at the end of the tournament on November 20, 2009, would be declared the winner and become the syndicated series' third millionaire. The first contestant to attempt to answer the million dollar question was Sam Murray, the tournament's eighth-seeded qualifier. On November 11, Murray was asked approximately how many people had lived on Earth in its history and correctly guessed 100 billion. Murray was still atop the leaderboard entering the November 20 finale as he remained the only contestant to even attempt to answer his or her question. The only person who could defeat him was top seed and $250,000 winner Jehan Shamsid-Deen, who was asked a question regarding the Blorenge, cited as "a rare example of a word that rhymes with orange". Shamsid-Deen considered taking the risk, believing (correctly) that the name belonged to a mountain in Wales. However, she decided that the potential of losing $225,000 did not justify the risk and elected to walk away from the question, giving Murray the win and the million dollar prize.

[@cryptobeaver7457]

Why has nobody meme'd this woman's reaction? 5:14

[@neozep3]

Sam Murray won $1,000,000 2x. In Total: $2,000,000

[@retched]

He didn't win the million twice.

[@jasonkhangle]

Sam got first place in the tournament by answering the question correctly, every other person backed out so he got a million

[@occono3543]

No it was complicated but he only won 1m.

[@fernlew8828]

Rip

[@FakeExotic]

Wew

[@fernlew8828]

I could win a million

[@zacheryalderton9502]

I could too

[@planetx1595]

Nobody could win the million dollars after taxes

[@Tidybitz]

@@planetx1595 ... I'd heard that game shows and lottery winners in th US had to pay tax on their winnings but I wasn't 100% sure.

[@occono3543]

The US show did get harder (there's huge gaps here where the show was still airing but nobody won the million for many many years) But yes, at the time, it was a good idea to try and get on.

[@zacheryalderton9502]

I could spend $ 2,180,000

[@Lewis-f8y]

Buying luxury cars?