"Who wants to be a millionaire?" Joker: Father's mistake costs daughter 63,500 euros

Created: 05/01/2023 18:48

By: Lukas Einkammerer

In "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" Candidate Anna has to answer a legal question.

She consults her father, who is a lawyer, about this.

But this fails miserably as a telephone joker.

Hürth – Since 1999, “Who wants to be a millionaire?” has helped many clever guessers to great wealth.

Of course, Günther Jauch (66) does not hand over the check with the dizzying amount of millions to everyone.

Anyone who takes a seat in the iconic black chair has to face the show master's complicated questions and deliver answer after answer without missteps - until it literally rains confetti at the end.

Lawyer as a telephone joker: "Who wants to be a millionaire?" Candidate Anna gets help from her father

One wrong step and it's all over: That's the risk in "Who wants to be a millionaire?".

At the moment, the temptation to play to the bitter end should be even greater than usual - because in the "3 million euro week" the winner will be showered with triple the prize money.

Anna Öhlrich-Faustmann doesn't want to miss out on this either: Whether it's pop culture or nutrition, the doctor can come up with an impressive general knowledge and gradually provides the right answers - until it's the turn of the law subject.

The dream of big money fades away: "Who wants to be a millionaire?" Candidate Anna trusts her father as a telephone joker when it comes to a legal question - and loses all her money.

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For 64,000 euros it's about the "rights of the soil" and the "rights of the blood" - two terms with which she can not do anything.

Fortunately, her father Frank, who is available as a telephone joker, is a lawyer by profession: "I've never heard him talk about it," explains Anna Quizmaster Günther Jauch, but still decides to consult her old man.

The possible answers are "citizenship", "inheritance law", "self-defense" and "income tax" - someone with his expertise will surely solve the riddle in no time.

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Not only in this country has "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" been a real ratings hit for years, the TV show originally from Great Britain (there: "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?") has also developed into a real mass phenomenon internationally.

The quiz show has been licensed in over 100 countries worldwide, including Albania, Austria, Belgium, Turkey, the Netherlands, Italy, Vietnam, Poland, Portugal and Switzerland.

The program sequence, the optics and the music are often almost identical.

"Would you have liked to have been in the final": "Who wants to be a millionaire?" Candidate loses 63,500 euros

"Does that mean something to you?" Anna reads the all-important law question to her father, trembling, and promptly gets an answer: "Yes, inheritance law, 75 percent."

With such a conviction, the legal scholar can hardly be wrong - that's what he thinks The sympathetic Düsseldorf native also agrees: "If my father says that, it's right," she explains confidently. 

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"Now that's a shame.

It stays at 500 euros," explains Günther Jauch to the dejected candidate, "we would have liked to have had you in the final." Particularly annoying for Anna: your original assumption that the two technical terms have something to do with citizenship would even have been correct.

But if you don't risk anything, you don't gain anything - that's the way it is with "Who wants to be a millionaire?"

In the latest episode of the quiz show, however, a "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" candidate had to go to the toilet in the middle of the show.