That's so adorable lol

lol

Are you serious? I'm laughing really hard right now

Well, If Bob House is part of your house Tell em ' Cousin Chad needs a loan

LOL. LOL. LOL

what's list my friend ?

Definitely! Kevin, on the other hand: when he won the million, he looked at Meredith as if to say: 'Have I actually? Oh, right.'

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I remember watching it live and not telling my dad or my stepmom what happened because they taped it...

That wasn’t a thing before that?

and the only life line he used too.

@@deadbonesbrook8950 He's god-tier status.

That was epic

I can't believe his Dad hung up on him.

@@dlowery51 i think his dad said "ok"

@FrenzyMedia - Your former place for craziness. 6:16

Thats actually exactly what I don't like in the US version

Yeah for real. Nowadays they sit around in suspense for 30 seconds just to say they're going to a commercial break, and when the show comes back on they sit around for another minute.

And he doesn't gush about the winner and show the audience the Million Dollar Cheque (granted, it wasn't tax-feee).

@@char1zard443 I guess the lack of suspense kills the vibe, but I would rather be told right away than risk the possibility of fainting from shock or breaking in tears

He was more worried about how to upgrade his wif

How's he so smart?

@@dragospahontu He graduated from Rutgers.

Man won without using a single lifeline 🤯

@@ekales_yea he just like hacker

The filmmaker?

Right out of Slumdog Millionaire… :)

She’s always been my favorite. Just the way she lights up and smiles gets me every time

Exactly! She closed her eyes and smiles when she sees dentist come up

Same with 10:17….the way he like budged…and you could tell his heart was racing!!! So amazing! So happy for them!

And he gets 2 Million, oh no. It's 1 million

I agree

lady at 17:24 has a similar but less obvious reaction when the correct answer is read to her

Dude was sitting bricks of gold at that point

His emotion is gold

Planet KC how?

You mean the insurance company did.

How????

@@johngonzalez6690 insurance

Actually they won, the show catapulted to be world known. Rating levels were astronomic.

Well.... could u have answered the questions right 18 years ago???

At that point it moved to syndication, lower budget.

@@CutterHistorical never know

@@CutterHistorical I mean, how far away is the Earth from the Sun should not be a million dollar question, way too many people could answer it.

I think they should let high school/college students write the million dollar questions. I think there will be no one getting them.

For real! I teared up for him.

She looked so happy and my bruh is overwhelmed. This is probably one of the greatest moments of his entire life my goodness.

Just the way he perks up while the question is being read. The real human emotions of a guy who (presumably) happens to be a huge nerd about the subject and can’t believe it’s about to pay off

How is John cocky? He was just being nice by telling his parents he won $1,000,000.

Rubycon99 agree on both accounts

I agree millionaire is way to hard now.

@@brandonbennett8368 Well, while I haven't watched the show in quite some time I think it's always been hard. Even if not, I don't believe any other game show offers anything close to a grand prize of a million dollars so I don't blame them lol. Well except for Wheel of Fortune, which makes it incredibly hard to even get the *CHANCE* to win a $Million. Even the show that requires the most intelligence, (or at least incredible memory/trivia skills) Jeopardy, can only gross you ~$30k per game (as long as your name isn't James Holzhauer anyway).

@@hylic2637 it wasn’t as hard as it go after Regis left now it’s back to old format with Jimmy

Facts

Meredith had 3 winners and Jimmy had 1. The other hosts had none.

Man just broke the phone a friend rules in a swag way

But it wasn't hard back then. The question at 11:40 is answered correct by 70% of the audience. That's not a difficult question.

This is an American show. What more do you expect?

I know a bit of political geography, and that Lesotho one was easy af (South Africa surrounds Lesotho)

Well, some of the questions are like those found on "Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?", that is, they're school knowledge that we tend to forget after a long period of time.

The show was much easier back then. They wanted to give away the money fairly often.

Kim's win was the first win I ever saw on TV

​@@bellabliss1860 When I first saw his run on TV, I thought he was going to walk away with $500,000. He sure made a gutsy move going for it, despite not being 100% confident.

And suddenly for no reason related to their new net worth the bitches kept coming

They did bring back the original format for primetime. But only 1 thing, still no $1,000,000 WINNERS (no millionaires) & no fastest finger round (missing these 2 things) & they changed their set like the U.K. Millionaire 20th anniversary revival. Jimmy Kimmel is the next (new) host.

@@huyliemtran9899 David Chang says hi

@@huyliemtran9899 WAIT. THE JIMMY KIMMEL?

DeadBones Brook LOL thats the best. Can literally hear him typing

It was actually a room full of people he's asking, specifically for the show Otherwise, he'd be verbally asking a computer, in the year 2000...

@@Aunini I believe that both text-to-speech software and broadband internet existed back then, making it very plausable

@@FIXTREME Text to speech existed, but it was much, much slower to recognise words than it is nowadays. Broadband was only starting to make headway in 2000 as well, and you'd have to be living in an urban area to have a possibility of it.

@@Aunini r/Whoosh

Because of them not being able to reuse questions and they're being International versions Who Wants To Be A Millionaire got ridiculous after 2010. Questions worth $1,000 in 2015 would have been worth half a million in 1999-2000.

Seriously. Who doesn’t know how far the Sun is from the Earth lol. Learned that in 3rd grade.

If this is the million dollar question, will you drop out? For an oblique section plane at an angle of 45° to the normal plane through a 2 force member with a cross sectional area of 0.0001 m², the maximum allowable normal stress is 150 MPa and the maximum allowable shearing stress is 75 MPa. What is the maximum value for the axial loading? A. 45 kN B. 30 kN C. 15 kN D. 7.5 kN

@@SamuelLee-gw6wr I'm getting somewhere close to 21k dude, the rough estimate of 15root(2).

@@HEYitzED Unfortunately this video cut out the part before where Dan said "If this was a $4000 question I'd tell you right now" And of course, the million dollar question is only the final piece of the puzzle. You have to get through the previous 14 to even get a glimpse

Facts. Maybe I'll host that particular game show.

@@arielgonzalez5296 you won't

@@acegambit777 Yeah, I will

@@arielgonzalez5296 yo I believe in you

@@sega64official thank u.

The thing is that the questions were super easy by today's standards, because American entertainment companies have a lot of money and won't have trouble paying the winners. In other countries especially, these questions are much harder.

Poland got only one winner.

Czech Republic only 2 people got 13th question correctly for 2.500.000 crowns, noone won the main prize (10.000.000 Kč)

@@Box0rz In other countries, you don't give 1M... Maximum in Portugal is 100.000€ and I bet taxes take 20% of that.

Celebrity chef David Chang now makes 14!

And talk about #6

THE OFFICE HAHA SHUT UP ABOUT THE SUN, SHUT UP ABOUT THE SUN!!! Thanks Gabe!

Num 4 is too easy

The Lesotho (#5) one is easy because I’m a history nerd

@@erezsolomon3838 How about this? Let S = {u, v, w} be linearly independent set. Then which of the following sets is NOT linearly independent? (A) {2u, 2v, 2w} (B) {u, u + v, u + v + w} (C) {u − v, v − w, w − u} (D) None of the above

I guess they got tired of losing money and stepped it up about 10 notches lol

They did, it came back to Primetime ABC in 2020 with Jimmy Kimmel after the syndicated series ended in 2019. It lasted two seasons, it's only been off American TV since 2022

You can hear it at around 5:45 as well

I even believe I heard a keyboard clacking but I could be wrong hahaha

@@bink9797 You did.

you were allowed to do it back then but later it was banned

LOL

One comment pointed out that after 2002 they needed harder questions. Plus not a lot of this info was obvious because you didn't have the internet at the point qwhere it is today. And Paddington was never a big thing here until the movie came out. I bet "what steel driving man beat a rock drilling machine in a race to make a train tunnel" would be worth more than £1k even tho most second graders here have heard at least some variation of the John Henry story

Thought the same thing. In Germany the million dollar questions are like "name all 3 billion human DNA strings by name". Never even stood a chance.

Regional differences matter.

Yet in the UK your million pound question about the triple crown horse races would've been a lower tier question here...

@@khaotix64 🤣 It's universally recognised that the US is among the most remedial nations in the world. For those within, it's covered up with propaganda by the powers to be

One time in Romania the host had someone walking off before he admitted he was joking and he got the answer right

Actually 11 years since it was won

John Carpenter - J.C. Jesus Christ - J.C. Ok so we just confirmed Jesus made another stop here on earth only to win a million dollars like a boss then fuck off. What a legend.

Aa Gg no he wasnt joseph was a carpenter

Jesus was raised by Joseph, and he very much worked as a carpenter.

Javier Belmer if jesus was a carpenter why didnt he magic the wood together?

I think you misinterpret the Bible. Magic is not the same as Miracles. Magic is an act of a human being, whereas a Miracle is an act of God. The story is written so that he was taught the value of hard work by his father, Joseph, as an apprentice.

Same with me. The other two are San Marino and the Vatican. Some people think Swaziland is, but no. It borders both South Africa AND Mozambique.

krookyj Yep 😉

@az929292 As a geography nerd, I would have won that as a kid, Lesotho is Landlocked inside South Africa… (🇱🇸) > 🇿🇦

That’s funny.

He didn’t have to read the question since he knew he was going to win $1,000,000.

Well the question was about US aircraft

@@Musicrecords10 Point? You think 69% of the audience were ex military personnel?

@@vaddix9980 It says non-military aircraft lol

@@Musicrecords10 lol it's two years ago

Just guessing because non-military started with N.

Goodman was the worst, literally asked for a Google search 😭😭

@@goj-bh1cm I haven’t seen him yet I’m watching it on KZfaq TV and I’m about to see Bob House’s win. I’ll get to David eventually. Did he really ask for a Google search? I heard that there was a contestant named Steve Perry whose friend tried to look up the answer but didn’t look it up in time and he won $500,000 instead of the million.

@@goj-bh1cm high-speed internet wasn't even a thing in the early 2000s, wtf are you on about?

Exactly how'd he get away with that?

@@robertwilliams5618 my understanding is that your phone-a-friend was in some hotel room paid for by the show, and it wasn't like you'd be monitored by some guard employed by the show to ensure you didn't cheat. one thing that's easy to forget was that this show was on in a time when the internet existed, but wasn't as dominant in day-to-day life. basically the late 90s to like the early/mid-2000s saying something like "just google it" would probably get a look of confusion from someone if they heard that, even though google did exist back then of course, if you were really tech-savvy back then, you'd know just how powerful and efficient search engines could be as gateways to knowledge. we all know this now, but i suspect the people running the game show didn't know that back in those days they eventually got rid of that lifeline i think because of phone-a-friends using search engines on their laptops more and more

@@samthenightowl5951 in our lovely dumbed down convict Australian version you can literally hear people typing and asking how to spell things as they look up the answer haha

@@GatherYeRosebudsWhileYeMay lol

i don't know about that, it sounded like at 8:15 he was with a group of people as you could hear him ask "anyone else" and just happened to be with someone that knew the answer. remember, dial up existed back then so there wasn't a whole lot of "looking up" in the year 2000.

The producers did it on purpose. They know the background of the contestants. Source: trust me bro