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No-one's won the million on the UK version (which was first, nyah!). I am therefore left with two options.
1/ The US has much smarter contestants than the UK 2/ The US has far easier questions than the UK
After falling about laughing for a second, I've gone for option 2. Has anyone won the million on any other countries (is there an Australian or Canadian version?)
Still, interesting about the taxes. We don't have to pay taxes on winnings. So, out of a million, you'd only get $60,000? Hell, someone walks away with �50,000 over here, they've won considerably more than you... Hmm.
I do have to say, WWTBAM? is the absolute best TV show to have on in a pub. Everyone shouting away, then, suddenly, absolute silence, fevered whisperings, then shouts of "NOOOOO! You idiot, it's fucking A! A! It's A! B! I told her to go for B."
------------------ "Why do you want to spend time with a deer? They're so stupid, they get hypnotized by headlights!" - Guido Anchovy
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It'd be more like $600,000 US on the American one. Not $60,000, after taxes.
There was a really shitty Canadian one (it was two episodes) and I don't think anybody one. It should've been named "Who wants to win $8.50 US and a ball of pocket lint.
The prize was still $1,000,000, albeit in Canadian funds.
------------------ "...you know, Omega, there's a phrase you might want to look up. It goes something like "paranoid arrogant fuckwit who has more chance of ejaculating to the moon than he has of ever convincing a girl that he's a viable prospect for marriage." -PsyLiam, September 16, 2000 10:23 PM.
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Hmm. I missed a 0 off the end of all my figures. Some strange form of number dyslexia I'll wager. Oh well, it won't be important in Computer Sciences...
------------------ "Why do you want to spend time with a deer? They're so stupid, they get hypnotized by headlights!" - Guido Anchovy
"Woman is deprived of rights from lack of education, and the lack of education results from the absence of rights. We must not forget that the subjection of women is so complete, and dates from such distant ages, that we are often unwilling to recognize the gulf that separates them from us."
------------------ "...you know, Omega, there's a phrase you might want to look up. It goes something like "paranoid arrogant fuckwit who has more chance of ejaculating to the moon than he has of ever convincing a girl that he's a viable prospect for marriage." -PsyLiam, September 16, 2000 10:23 PM.
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But if he's got micro-turrets (which implies a micro-torpedo launcher), where are First's split-deflectors going to go?
Hang on...BAH! I tore reality again!
------------------ Remember December '59 The howling wind and the driving rain, Remember the gallant men who drowned On the lifeboat, Mona was her name.
Actually the guy who just recently was the first to get to $500,000 and also a chance on the Million (he actually took the money instead of gambling to get the million, he actually had the correct answer too...
He answered it for fun once he got his $500,000
the million dollar question was:
"Which of these four was the first to get two unshared nobel prizes"
a) Marie Curie b) Pavlov c) Linus Pauling d) Albert Schweitzer
I believe the US Million Dollar question was quite easy...
------------------ "I threw bitter tears at the ocean But all that came back was the tide..." 'I Will Not Forget You' Sarah McLachlan
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The Canadian version had a payout of $1 mil CDN, but CDN winnings aren't taxed, so it technically was a bigger prize than the US version.
------------------ "...I was just up in Canada, Toronto actually. You know, they really hate you guys [Americans] up there? The funny thing is, they think you hate them back, when in fact, you just couldn't be bothered to care. Now in Ireland, it's a different story. At least we had the common decency to wait until the English invaded before we started hating them. I guess the Canadians are hating you in advance..." -Irish Comic Ed Byrne on Canada-US relations
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