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

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.

Payout structure

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

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.

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: PE brainbox becomes TV millionaire. https://web.archive.org/web/20110606143724/http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/pe-brainbox-becomes-tv-millionaire-1.32072. 6 June 2011. dead .