Runtime: | 60 minutes including commercials |
Company: | Videovision Entertainment |
Creator: | Celador |
Presenter: | Jeremy Maggs |
Country: | South Africa |
Language: | English |
Network: | M-Net (1999–2001) SABC 3 (2001–2005) |
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? was 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 SABC 3. The program was shown on Wednesdays and Sundays. Earlier, the quiz was aired on M-Net, which also used their logo in the programme's logo. 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.
Question number | Question value | |
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(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 |
David Paterson was the only million rand winner, on 19 March 2000.[1] He was the first winner outside the United States.