Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (South African game show)

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
Created byCelador
Presented byJeremy Maggs
Country of originSouth Africa
Original languageEnglish
Production
Running time60 minutes including commercials
Production companyVideovision Entertainment
Original release
NetworkM-Net, SABC 3
Release7 November 1999 (1999-11-07) –
2005 (2005)

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? is a South African game show hosted by Jeremy Maggs and based on the original British format of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. The goal of the game was to win one million rand by answering fifteen multiple choice questions correctly. Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? was shown on the South African TV station M-Net, which also used their logo in the programme's logo. The program was shown on Wednesdays and Sundays. Six series of the show were made. There was a project to make another version of the quiz show in Afrikaans, which launched on 27 October 2021 as Wie Word 'n Miljoenêr? airing on KykNET.

Payout structure

Question number Question value
(Yellow zones are the guaranteed levels)
1 R100
2 R200
3 R300
4 R500
5 R1,000
6 R2,000
7 R4,000
8 R8,000
9 R16,000
10 R32,000
11 R64,000
12 R125,000
13 R250,000
14 R500,000
15 R1,000,000

Top prize winners

David Paterson was the only million rand winner, on 19 March 2000.[1] He was the first winner outside the United States.

R1,000,000 (15 of 15) – no time limit
Which famous musical star was known as Baby Frances Gumm early in her career?
⬥ A: Ginger Rogers ⬥ B: Deanna Durbin
⬥ C: Doris Day ⬥ D: Judy Garland
Paterson's one million rand question

References

  1. ^ "PE brainbox becomes TV millionaire". Archived from the original on 6 June 2011.