Many TV viewers dream of creating it to Günther Jauch‘s guessing chair on “Who Desires to Be a Millionaire”. The quiz present with the pleasant presenter remains to be widespread even after a long time. It is all the more serious when the guessing spherical at Jauch actually goes fallacious – and the crash happens with a supposedly low query. That is what occurred to a candidate who failed at 8,000 euros – as a result of she relied on a joker!
The query in “Who Desires to Be a Millionaire” is a couple of collection of Royal Mail stamps from 2024
Beate Picone makes it to the guessing chair within the newest episode of “Who Desires to Be a Millionaire” on Monday. She simply will get previous the primary questions. However then, on the subject of 8,000 euros, a process comes alongside that makes the quiz candidate sweat rather a lot. Jauch desires to know from her which anniversary a collection of particular stamps with a complete of 15 motifs that the Royal Mail launched at the start of 2024 was devoted to. Would you may have recognized?
The reply choices for “Who Desires to Be a Millionaire”: A) 20 years of Take That, B) 30 years of the Spice Ladies, C) 40 years of U2 or D) 50 years of the Beatles. Most Germans in all probability have not held the corresponding stamps of their arms, in any case, Royal Mail is the postal firm in Nice Britain. That makes the query all of the harder – even for “Who Desires to Be a Millionaire” candidate Beate Picone. “I do know all of the bands,” she says. In any other case she does not know a lot about it and might’t reply the query. That is why the viewers joker must be used. The end result: 55 p.c of viewers consider it is in regards to the Beatles’ anniversary, 36 p.c select the Spice Ladies. “Not good,” says Günther Jauch, commenting on the end result.
Candidate Beate Picone stumbled in “Who Desires to Be a Millionaire” when requested a couple of stamp.Stefan Gregorowius/RTL
Query about stamp collection from 2024 leaves candidate in “Who Desires to Be a Millionaire” determined
Beate Picone can also be uncertain. She desires to make use of one other joker – and calls a phone joker. Can the vet assist her with this query? She reads out the query and the choice follows: “I might say it’s the Beatles.” She depends on each jokers and logs within the Beatles. However then the shock: each the viewers and the phone joker had been fallacious. The fiftieth anniversary means: The Beatles ought to have been based in 1974. “However they’ve been round since 1960,” explains Günther Jauch. “The Beatles broke up in 1970.”
The right reply would have been B – the Spice Ladies. Bitter, as a result of: Which means the candidate just isn’t solely thrown out of the sport, but in addition falls again to 500 euros. “I might have favored to proceed taking part in with you,” says Jauch. However she sees it in a relaxed method: “It is a good meal with the household – and I am leaving with greater than I got here with.” She will be able to definitely forgive the jokers… ■