Questions that are easier if it was given in another country

[wolf4537]

I've been watching several UK episodes and I've noticed that there have been several high end questions that, if they were on the American version, would've been worth A LOT less.

Two examples:



and ESPECIALLY:




Have there been any questions you guys have seen on international versions of Millionaire that you think would be a lot less in value if they were shown here in America?

[jadenmillionaire]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jSWKKtQ2_M

This question I believe is significant when Jeff Gross (Buyer of the Play it attraction's hotseat and $500k winner on the programme) is faced with this question for one million dollars about a tabby cat. Meredith Viera herself states that this question in the country ('Baghdad' which is the correct answer) would probally be only worth question one's $100. It is quite amusing to consider the relationships between versions across the pond/ and the world

[Logie Bear]

Obviously the Paddington Bear question that David Goodman saw to win a million, the Blonsky $1m question and the Pokemon $500k question are way too easy.

[FinalAnswer19]

Jeff Gross' million dollar question.

[kplewisvox]

Kim Hunt's MDQ would be valued considerably lower in South Africa, I imagine.

[Prizes]

Yeah, Pat Gibson's came to mind immediately.

What about Moe Cain's? Any of the Middle East countries, namely the (Final Answer or Fix It) جواب نهائي؟ or, نثبت؟ formats, put this probably in the lower half of the first tier, asking how many days are in the Islamic (aka Muslim or Hijri) Calendar. Granted, most of these countries use the Ottoman Calendar these days, for seasonal agricultural purposses, since its 1789 introduction, but the Islamic Calendar is still used for religious holiday denotation.

I could see David Fite's being easier with Wie wordt multimiljonair?, asking the first language Anne Frank's diary was first published in. In case you can't tell, that's Belgium's Millionaire, and they'd know it's Dutch!

I'd put it pretty high up, like 125K or 250K, but David Stewart's would be lower on Qui Veut Gagner des Millions; I think few more people would recognize Stendhal, namely his classic of The Red and the Black, and in part, Stendal Syndrome, so named from his book Naples and Florence: A Journey from Milan to Reggio.

Ai Là Triệu Phú would find Gary Gambino's to be a mid level question, asking the only person to decline the Nobel Peace Prize; that was Lê Ðức Thọ, who rejected it in 1973, since he felt the US and his (Vietnamese) governments weren't doing their jobs following the Paris Peace Accords, signed earlier that year, on January 27th, so named not because it involved Paris, but rather, the accords were signed in Paris' Hotel Majestic, now known as The Peninsula Paris. Thọ's position may have been rooted in the the solid basis that the US Senate failed to ratify it. Sure didn't stop Henry Kissinger though, who had a press conference in 1972 claiming "peace is at hand.", and accepting his end of Nobel Peace Prize! I'd go on about this, but talking about Thích Nhất Hạnh, who was exiled, would not be of relevance to this question, except in the broadest scopes and historical relevances.

Lyn Payne's is possibly easier, but not by much, asking about what country's delegate led to Khrushchev's shoe banging outburst in 1960. It was Lorenzo Sumulong, who was from the Philippines, who use the same title as the US/UK versions of BAM, rather unsurprisingly. I might move it down a question for that country, but that's it.

Last but not least, actually, a US celebrity, Rosie O'Donnell, who I think would have her MDQ has a upper second tier/lower third tier on Это ваш окончательный ответ? (This is Your Final Answer?), depending on budget, so probably third tier, given Russia doesn't like to spend that way on its shows, given they only reached a top prize of 3,000,000 рублей (rubles), or $63,257.79 USD, which was triple the original figure of 1,000,000 рублей (only $21,085.93 today). She was asked about Russian playwright Anton Chekhov's degree from the University of Moscow, and what it was in, which was medicine.

[kplewisvox]

Nov 26, 2014 20:04:12 GMT -5 Prizes said:

I could see David Fite's being easier with Wie wordt multimiljonair?, asking the first language Anne Frank's diary was first published in. In case you can't tell, that's Belgium's Millionaire, and they'd know it's Dutch!

Fite's MDQ was fascinating because the reason it was hard was because it was too easy. You read the question and you think (and Fite thought) "Well, I know it was WRITTEN in Dutch, but the question is asking for first PUBLISHED, so I'll rule that out." The diary could have been first published anywhere, but as it turns out, it was written AND first published in Dutch.

All that said, I'm not certain it would be that much easier to a contestant in Holland (which I assume is what you meant).

[Prizes]

My line of reasoning when I saw it when it originally aired was the same as Fite's, logically so, as you described our thought process so well.

What makes it makes it distinctive; hard enough to reason out, easy enough behind its actual cause when you hear the answer itself. When I wrote the list of million dollar questions, I couldn't find any others to use similar deductive skills, and almost backward reasoning. Like many questions of this era, though, in a more general sense, I think the writers really hit their stride with strong, creative, and just difficult enough questions here.

You assume correctly on my meaning, but something I should have specified, as I did with later examples: I'm inclined to think while it wouldn't be a cakewalk, like Cain's in Saudia Arabia, but it would be very slightly more known, given the domestic nature of the question, given the prevalence of domestic studies by many who go on quiz shows and/or are involved with trivia in some format. However, I would put it upper third tier, but I don't believe it to be a 15th question, for this reason; henceforth, just a touch simpler, which seemingly in turn falls under the rather large umbrella as qualifying as "easier", according to the original poster.

[lachlan]

There was a question in the Japanese version, worth ¥2,500,000, that asked where Mount Kilimanjaro was located
Question: In Africa, where is Mount Kilimanjaro located?
A: Cannot remember
B: Ephiopia
C: Tanzania
D: Kenya
The contestant chose B, unfortunately, however, if this was asked in basically any African country, this would probably be in the first 5 questions, maybe 6

[jadenmillionaire]

Prizes, I would have to agree with you that Lyn Payne's question would be considerably easier if you were native to either countries. Clearly most of us know that we would never know the facts of another country hence why the producers add them in for difficulty. Although it is unfortunate they are standard questions, However from a different place, your knowledge might be significantly lower!

[wolf4537]

this would DEFINITELY be a lower value if it was shown here in America.