TOP PRIZE: 1 crore, or 10 million rupees (about $218,000)ġ. India TITLE: Kaun Banega Crorepati (Who Wants to Be a Crorepati?) What kind of animal is Rikki-Tikki-Tavi in the Rudyard Kipling story? Where were Chaucer's pilgrims going when they took turns telling stories?Ĥ. In Victorian times, what was a "penny-farthing"?ģ. Starting with the earliest, put these four Archbishops of Canterbury in order.Ģ. TOP PRIZE: 1 million pounds ($1.5 million)ġ. But just how common is common knowledge? Here's your chance to see whether you, too, could be a crorepati, a multi-miljonair, a miljonaariksi, a milliardario. That scornful pleasure, too, is spreadingĪround the globe.
So far, the format remains the same, withĬontestants facing questions worth escalating amounts of money.Īt least half the fun for the show's American fans is kvetching about how easy the questions are, and how, if they were on the show, they'd win that million dollars, easy. Has turned into a global subculture, with 27 licensed versions being broadcast in 29 countries.ĭozens more countries have already bought franchise rights from the show's British creator, Celador Productions, and there are, of course, at least a few unlicensed knockoffs. The simple game show they started in September 1998 has replicated like bacteria in warm agar. Around the World, What It Takes to Be a Millionaire
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