“Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?”: The pilot fades, Schwäbin is embarrassed when asked about Spätzle

Nice, this conventional series of episodes of “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” Right now, without any gambling craziness, semi-famous celebrities or the like. But also without an audience, which was banished from the stands due to the current situation.

At the moment, only the chaperones who replace the public prankster and the three millionaires Ronald Tenholte, Jan Stroh and Leon Windscheid, who take on the role of additional pranksters, sit down.

Mayday, mayday: violent turbulence and a great shock

Björn Freitag, a Bischofsheim flight captain, was the first candidate to start on Monday night. He started with confidence and quickly came up with this 2,000 euro question:

What is a verb?

A yellow

B: brown

C: green

D: red

“The only thing you can do is tan, or what do you mean, Mister Jauch?” Said Björn Freitag, who let Answer B enter like hell, with four other pranksters in the carry-on luggage. “What does brown mean?” Asked Jauch, who gave the example: “It is so green when the flowers of Spain bloom.”

Because of course answer C would have been correct. The captain crashed and landed at approximately 500 euros. “Very annoying. I think he was really on the hose,” said his brief comment.

Aachen motto: but 4,000 a wild card per round

Then research assistant Jan Ungermann wanted to know. The Aachen man also started well, then had to drop a joke round after round of the 4,000 euro question. In the 8,000-euro one, where millionaire Jan Stroh ran to his aid:

What did “lavieren” used to mean in the sailor’s language?

A: raise the candles

B: get drunk on rum

C: zigzag navigation

D: stranded

Answer B rather excluded Ungermann and zigzagging makes no sense, said the candidate, who was completely on the wrong ship, but had a millionaire in the Claw.

Because Jan Stroh explained, “To break through basically means break through. I tend to answer C,” says the neo-millionaire, who used it to take the Ungermann sink directly to the next round.

The candidate does not speak for the branches and leaves

After the telephone prankster helped him get € 16,000 and the father sitting in the audience in his role as a public prankster on the € 32,000 question knew that the banana in its wild form has numerous hard seeds, Günther Jauch’s son also received one for 64,000 Euro question asked. This was the following:

What neighboring town to the north of the Elbe merged with Dessau on July 1, 2007?

A: Oxlau

B: Rosslau

C: Geisslau

D: Ferckelau

“I think we can shorten that. I really don’t know at all. The risk of falling is really too high for me,” the dry powder candidate told Günther Jauch. The correct answer would have been Rosslau.

Student with gloomy unstable fairy tales

Günther Jauch was also able to greet Leon Szymanski, 25, from Frankfurt am Main in the middle on Monday night. And the political science and sociology student did a good job. The end was only with the seven little goats:

How does the wolf try to outwit the seven children in Grimm’s fairy tale?

A: soap and glue

B: glue and chalk

C: chalk and flour

D: flour and soap

The student knew that the chalk was part of the Wolf’s List, but he preferred to throw in the towel with the words “I’m out and I’ll take the 16,000 euros.” It was easy to get over not knowing the correct answer C.

Candidate puzzles viewers, Jauch and Windscheid

The fact that the night turned out to be quite entertaining, or let’s say more interesting, had to do mainly with the candidate Verena Essinger, who was now on duty. For the first time, Swabian-born Günther Jauch was surprised when he was supposed to answer this question for 1,000 euros:

According to Duden, is there not a single copy grammatically?

A: dumplings

B: Spaetzle

C: kibbles

D: noodles

Although Spätzle is known to be a native of Swabia, Essinger knew little to do with the question. The fact that her cousin, who acted as a prankster, was not only unable to help her, but then gave an incorrect answer D, made the matter even stranger.

Millionaire Leon helped and suggested that the candidate enter answer B. “If you say you would like a spaetzle, then you get a fried bird!” A puzzled Günther Jauch joked.

Amazingly ignorant daughter, resourceful father

“Verena Essinger started our show somewhat bulky,” said the moderator after the commercial break. The next question, too, Essinger, who was unfortunately still very nervous, really didn’t want to get going. On the contrary: the next question of 2,000 euros made it worse:

What is known as a slot machine in the United States?

A: meat grinder

B: concrete mixer

C: armed bandit

D: bicycle dynamo

“An armed bandit? Is that a gun?” Essinger initially wanted to know about his counterpart, to add: “I would take care of the bicycle dynamo.” Leon Windscheid dropped his head into his hands to secretly despair, while Günther Jauch was too stunned to say anything.

In any case, Essinger called her father, who strongly advised him to log on to answer C. “Are you sure?” The daughter wanted to know about him. “Relative! As sure as you are my daughter,” said the witty Mr. Papa.

In any case, thanks to the help of her old gentleman, Verena Essinger is now at 2,000 euros. She may return next Monday.

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