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''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?'' was an Australian television game show which would offer a maximum cash prize of $1,000,000 for answering 15 successive multiple-choice questions of increasing difficulty as a team. The show was originally based on and follows the same general format of the original version of the show from the United Kingdom, and is part of the international ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?'' franchise. == History == ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?'' debuted in Australia on 18 April 1999 on the Nine Network and was hosted by Eddie McGuire. Beginning with an eleven question format starting at $1,000, this was later changed to 15 and offered a top prize of $1 million. However, in the 2007 revision of the show, the new maximum prize money on offer is $5 million, however in the 2009 revision the top prize reverted to $1 million. The show ran in the Monday 8:30 pm time slot between 1999 and 2006 except for a brief two-week period in 2004 where a shortened half hour edition was put up against Seven's ''Deal or No Deal'' in the 5:30 pm time slot leading into the 6:00 pm evening news. This incarnation turned out to be a ratings failure, and it lasted for only one week. This was the very first country to have a fastest finger round where two people answered the fastest at the same time. As a result, another question was asked but neither of them got it right, so another question was asked. The fastest finger later on, instead of giving out one answer, two answers had to be given out to avoid any random guessing from happening. Later still, the contestants playing the fastest finger had to rank the four options in the correct order (as per the question), to avoid people winning Fastest Finger on a guess. In the first few seasons, some questions often had a joke answer for the D choice (as with the US version of the show), for example, the question "The 80s band with the hit song 'Relax' was Frankie goes to ..... where?" had Collingwood offered as a D joke (this being a reference to Eddie McGuire being president of the Collingwood Football Club). As well, the Fastest Finger First segment from 1999 until 2003 required the ten contestants to give a correct answer as quickly as possible before reverting to the international standard of rules in 2004 where contestants had to order the four options in a row. The 11 March 2002 episode of ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?'' scored a national audience of 1.51 million, just under 200,000 more than what ''The Weakest Link: The Mole Special'' achieved on the same night. In April 2003, a British episode in which Charles Ingram cheated all the way to the top prize was aired on the Nine Network, featuring Ingram's run in its entirety, and watched by over two million Australians.〔(Aussies tune in to cheat ), ''The Age'', 22 April 2003〕 At the time, the Australian version did not yet have a top prize winner. In 2001, an episode featuring ''Survivor'' winner Richard Hatch incorrectly answering his fourth question (see below) was also shown in the United States. On 9 February 2006, it was announced that McGuire would become the new CEO of the Nine Network, filling a vacancy created by the departure of David Gyngell in May 2005. As a result of this, McGuire had to sacrifice his on-air commitments. However, unlike ''The AFL Footy Show'' where McGuire was replaced with Garry Lyon and James Brayshaw, the network could not find a suitable replacement. The final episode aired on 3 April 2006. The last contestant was Mr. Tony Egan of Wagga Wagga, NSW, who won $32,000. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (Australian game show)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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