I can imagine Kim Hunt hearing about the death of Regis Philbin four years ago. I liked how many contestants felt so honored and privileged meeting Regis despite being on the hot seat settling for million dollars. RIP Regis and thank you for your good ol’ millionaire hosting days.

Unlike the British version, the US version contestants have to pay tax on their winnings. In the British version, all cash prizes are tax free, you win £1 million, you keep that £1 million in full!

@ammarh.6742

2 ай бұрын

Except for Tax Free Edition in February 2001, but with help.

@michisvet2922

Ай бұрын

It's everywhere like that except for the USA

Wow has to be the easiest $250,000 question ever

@adamdobrowolski2510

Жыл бұрын

Agreed... and the million was arguably easier.

@terminat1

10 ай бұрын

@@adamdobrowolski2510 For people who live in Africa, yes. Other than that, no.

@danielhetue6968

4 ай бұрын

Agreed and I answered the $64,000 and $125,000 questions correctly

@Restorationshopyt

Ай бұрын

@adamdobrowolski2510 I educated-guessed the last question right from the comfort of my home with nothing on the line.. I do NOT know that I’d have been confident enough to go for it if I was on the show. So no, it absolutely was not easier. EVERYBODY in the educated world knows about Jupiter’s big red spot. Not everyone knows about a small country in Africa.

@jbohnoff

Ай бұрын

Should've been the $2,000 question.

Watching these knowing the guy wins is such a relief, i can't believe how nerve wracking it must be to accompany him during the most difficult questions.

The last question was super easy for us africans

@albert-nu3gn

4 ай бұрын

All questions are easy if you know the answer.

Smartest thing he did. NOT say which 2 answers he thought BEFORE using his 50/50 lifeline. Seen too many contestants “I think it’s between C & D. I’ll use my 50/50.” Then C & D are only answers left.

@mjpipkid

Жыл бұрын

@@spangello that's what they want you to think

@MrBowtie1982

Жыл бұрын

@Spangello not random at all. they take away the 2 answers that are least likely to be right.

@markl8893

Жыл бұрын

HE is right, it isnt a coincidence and i was on the show once, and in my heart i knew the answer was between A or C and i said outloud"i think its B or C and then used my 50/50 and it left B and C on there... like i knew they would. Then i picked C and won 125k. I even told Regis about it on break. wish it was shown.I got a real real laugh out out him. RIP Regis.

@mjpipkid

Жыл бұрын

@@markl8893 great story!!

@markl8893

Жыл бұрын

@@Acs2046 oh yes it was for sure it was rigged

For geography buffs that million dollar question was easy. But.... I probably would have made it on the show when I tried to qualify on the last question and was wrong. My question was put the following Hawaiian islands in order from the largest and the smallest. I got the first 2 right but not the last two. I was so sure I had it right but....darn it. They need to bring this back again with the same format. Regis was fantastic.

I loved watching this Winner because unlike the others I saw, he struggled a lot to get through it which made you really feel like he might lose

@occono3543

8 ай бұрын

Ed Toutant, Nancy Christy, Kevin Smith, Robert "Bob-o" Essig and David Chang were pretty close runs.

Dang, I switched the sizes between a viola and a violin... and yet I woulda gotten the Million Dollar Question before Regis could finish his sentence.

Crazy how Kim was one 100th of a second away from not winning $1,000,000

@manilowmaniak

Жыл бұрын

Huh? There is no time limit.

@Al.2

Жыл бұрын

@@manilowmaniak watch the beginning

@manilowmaniak

Жыл бұрын

@@Al.2 I did watch the beginning but your comment was vague. You meant the fastest finger portion and I thought you were referring to the actual show.

@Al.2

Жыл бұрын

@@manilowmaniak Yes, I should've made it clear that I meant the preliminary round. Sorry about that.

@bradendouglas6980

Жыл бұрын

@@manilowmaniak He was talking about the tie he had at the beginning, if he were 100th of a second slower in answering that question he never would have had the chance to win 1000000$

That $250k question was ridiculously easy Think the $1 million question was fairly easy too

@jj9487

Жыл бұрын

If you’re good at geography it was a very easy question.

@funshine817

5 ай бұрын

I had no clue with either. It is ONLY easy when you KNOW the answer. 😔😩 I knew it was Marni Nixon. Just depends on what one's specialty is. For me anything in the music, film, tv, entertainment world. 😉

That was a very very hard 500k question

I never knew Kim Hunt won his FF on a tie 😳

No Wonder Hes very good, He just win Instantly 💵🎉1 MILLION $🎉💵 Just Wow!

As a kid I used to enjoy flipping through random pages of atlases for no particular reason. I remember noticing Lesotho being totally within South Africa, so I would have gotten that question immediately..

So much unneeded drama on the final question. He obviously knew it was Lesotho the whole time. Even knew where it was landlocked.

29:36 winner!!

24:26 absolute amazing response

For people saying the million dollar question is easy, many people wouldn’t know that. If you know it it’s easy, no shit

@jeremyjenkinz

Жыл бұрын

The answer choices were also well-chosen with the exception of Mongolia. Should’ve been Liechtenstein or something

@chrispdo

Жыл бұрын

@@jeremyjenkinz I mean yes If you know the answer every quetion is easy. The thing is they picked a category which a fair amount of people would know the answer to. Knowing Lesotho being the only landlocked country surrounded by only one other country is far more known than who dubbed a 1964 movie. That's why it's not a hard 1mil quetion. For me this quetion is worth 250.000$

@Agirmetal

Жыл бұрын

No you can easily at least eliminate a few options like Mongolia and Luxemburg if you glanced at a world map as an ordinary person which increases your winning chance a lot

Kim didn't look too happy about that tie in the beginning

I loved Regis and his sense of humor. People would be too sensitive nowadays and likely offended.

Regis said to his mom that she was gonna be a millionaire before the game was even done. What an awkward slip up. I always liked Regis. Hilarious guy though.

I never heard of Lesotho.

God,that was easy. Trivial pursuit questions are harder. The producers know Geography is Americans Achilles heel.

For $250k.. "Which planet features the big red sp..." are you kidding me? Everyone should this.

29:29 The correct answer is…

Saving the audience lifeline on the $8K question was vital

@AZambri1

Жыл бұрын

That was a pretty easy question IMO. But then, I spent a lot of time in NYC clubs in the 90s and knew the scene before that as well. But the movie Studio 54 came out in 1998, so it should have been fresh in people's minds.

@Islam4Europeans

Жыл бұрын

@@AZambri1 That's what made WWTBAM different than other seemingly more difficult trivia shows like Win Ben Stein's Money. Even the best players have categories they're not good at, I've seen Ben Stein miss the easiest questions in the final round. In WWTBAM there's no room for error.

Some shocking moustaches amongst the contestants 😂

That million dollar question was so easy…

@danielhetue6968

4 ай бұрын

The $250,000 question was so damn easy

I answered all them questions correctly! Hell they were easy!

That $250,000 question should have been one of the first five questions

@funshine817

5 ай бұрын

What? No way! I had zero clue. Remember, if you KNOW the answer it is ALWAYS easy.

@Restorationshopyt

Ай бұрын

@funshine817 If you went to school at all through at least sixth grade science class or so, you should damn well have known the answer to that question.

24:26 - YOU JUST WON A HALF MILLION DOLLARS

I’m very good with geography and knew it was Lesotho 🇱🇸 immediately!

@elizabethcraig5825

8 ай бұрын

Only if I had a map of Africa in front of me.😮

I bet he got all kinds of calls from women after the show.

I would have failed in the fastest finger round. I've got arthritis.

dam that last question named all the countries except the ones I am familiar with.

I think the question here is... Was a million dollars enough to pay all that sudent debt?

@EneTheGene

Жыл бұрын

US moment :D

@johnking5174

Жыл бұрын

Unlike the British version, the US version contestants have to pay tax on their winnings. In the British version, all cash prizes are tax free, you win £1 million, you keep that £1 million in full!

It wouldve been much harder if the choice was either Bhutan or Nepal instead of Mongolia.. Mongolia is too big for being surrounded by one country..

Lesotho is the only landlocked country outside Europe which surrounded only by one country without coastline.

@ammarh.6742

2 ай бұрын

With Coastline : Monaco, Gambia, and Brunei.

Who else thought that Kim was the woman at the beginning?

The Marni Nixon one was simple for anyone into musicals but most people are not quite that nerd level lol. I am a musical theatre performer and it was painful watching him struggle because this is common knowledge to anyone super into musicals since Marni dubbed several leading ladies in the old musicals (West Side Story and King and I as well). It’s so rare when I am so confident of the final questions but this one I knew instantly lol

@codymccauley6953

Жыл бұрын

I felt the same way but about the last question! Spent the whole last summer memorizing every country’s name and location in the world so before the answers were unveiled I knew there were only like 4-5 possibilities in the whole world! Fun to know some of the more “challenging” questions when it caters specifically to your field of knowledge.

Well by elimination of an American actress/singer doing a British cockney, I'd naturally choose Marni

@HeatherSommers

Жыл бұрын

Marni was American! She was just the singer of choice to dub the leading ladies in the old musicals who couldn’t sing classic soprano well enough for the standards of the time, she did several

The million dollar question was way too easy. Then again, I am a geography nerd.

@occono3543

8 ай бұрын

I wouldn't consider myself one but yeah, it's basic map memory, Lesotho is the little circular country surrounded by South Africa. It's annoying watching these easy questions haha

That was an easy $250,000 question since I know some astronomy.

Cool

Who doesn’t know about Jupiter red spot?

@elizabethcraig5825

8 ай бұрын

Me until now.😂

I knew the answer for the 1m question

surprised by how gettable the million dollar question was! i only have an okay knowledge of geography and knew it right away. that said, i would've failed at the my fair lady question and one of the other ones.

That last question was easy, only took me ten seconds to deliberate. But I understand his pensiveness.

@keinKlarname

Жыл бұрын

I thought it's commonly known.

Shit the only countrys I've heard of those 4 is Mongolia and Luxembourg

Dude Regis makes things so awk. Haha it’s like he doesn’t know how to talk to people

What a hard $500k question.

@swordiexd

Жыл бұрын

For British WWTBAM standards, it would be 64,000 maximum. Same for the million dollar question, complete joke the American show

@ErikCB912

Жыл бұрын

@@swordiexd The same could be said of the British show. I watched a video of each British winner’s million pound question and there were 2 questions that would be at most $32,000 in the US. One was which political party did Theodore Roosevelt run as in the 1912 election. The other was even easier. The question asked which of the choices is not one of the triple crown horse races. That could easily be a $300-$1000 question in the US.

@EneTheGene

Жыл бұрын

@@ErikCB912 You have to remember that for British people a question about some other country's politician is going to be more difficult. It's like if the US show were to ask the political party of Neville Chamberlain.

@leroybrown7927

Жыл бұрын

@@EneTheGenethat’s exactly his point and why y’allre unable to judge us for what some would deem easy questions in their country but might not be in ours.

Honestly, if I wasted two lifelines on one question and I was not sure, I would just walk. $125k is a lot!

@masemoney666

Жыл бұрын

do you mean 250k? he sailed through the 125k

@wewhoareabouttodiesaluteyo9303

Жыл бұрын

@@masemoney666 Right.

5th millionaire

Most of those questions were pretty easy.

The part starting at about 8:26 is so funny. Now, this is a conservative Christian single man from the country who studied religion and he recognizes that the answer is Studio 54. He’s not sure of the name Steve Rubell and says “if you could tell me if he was like (tilts his head, pauses) well, anyway..” What were you tempted to say Kim, “Jewish”? “gay”?, “a criminal “? D.) “all of the above “? 😂I’m glad he stopped himself and I’m glad that he won the $.million 😊

12:10

What year was this episode from? 2001 I’m guessing?

@aaaruiddppin

Жыл бұрын

2000

@chaupin5

10 ай бұрын

​@@aaaruiddppinJuly 6, 2000!

How long was the water sitting there that the contestant drunk? O_O

There are no coughs 🎉

1:17 It’s A Tie!

@ErikFlores-mo3fs

Ай бұрын

Wow tie

Who makes their boy kim 🤦

Funn y how the questions got harder ane people got dumber.

@occono3543

8 ай бұрын

They switched to an auditions system instead of the phone game when they went to the syndicated version, which also had harder questions.

When it comes to rounding numbers 🔢 if the the number next to the 1 you're rounding is between 0-4 you go down but if the number next to the 1 you're rounding is between 5-9 you go up which is why 263 rounded to the nearest hundred is 300

"Well, I always thought he was a big shot" 🥹 he deserved all the applause! Amazing game!