idolsfan
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Post by idolsfan on Mar 19, 2012 14:30:55 GMT -5
Hello, I have some questions about … the questions! Indeed, the questions are the most essential part of who wants to be a millionaire but we don't know that much about them so here are my questions about the questions: Does anyone know what the guidelines for the questions are (length, syntax, sample types of questions) What is the process of making and preparing the questions, I understood that there is a briefing between the producers, the host and lawyers before the show but I didn't understand a lot of things about it. I also read that there is a re-reading of the questions with the contestants after the show is aired. How does it work, what is the purpose of it? I also understood that the questions are stacked before the game. Does this mean that for each contestant the 15 (or 12) questions are ready to be asked and are decided before it starts. I thought that the computer took questions randomly in the computer just before they were asked. this leads me to my last question; What happens to the question that have not been asked if they are determined before the game. Are they recycled for future games, are they used for other purposes like the online game or the auditions or are they just threw out? As I already said in the presentation post, one of the things that fascinates me the most about millionaire is the behinds the scenes and those are the questions that titillate me. Thank you for answering my questions. Idolsfan P.S.: Sorry for using too many times the word question, 16 times is a quite big number ^^
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Post by kplewisvox on Mar 19, 2012 16:54:24 GMT -5
This will be a very interesting thread, I think.
I can tell you with relative certainty at least a couple things: Questions are indeed stacked in groups of 15 (or 12) prior to each contestant playing. Since the change to the Clock format and the subsequent Quick Mix format, it has to be done this way because categories are provided.
Due to categories being provided in the clock format, it's safe to say that unused questions were recycled during at least this time, since often the same few categories would show up at the top of the board. Can't say for sure if that was the case prior, but common sense would say that it was. After all, it was either that, or write thousands of Million Dollar Questions.
As for length and syntax of questions, that would vary from country to country. In the US, it was always posed as a question, never as a "Complete this phrase...", if that makes sense. In my observation, questions used in the US tended to be longer than other countries in an effort to make the question unequivocally clear what's being asked. Here are a couple examples.
Instead of asking... "At what English theater did Julie Andrews make her professional solo debut?" You might ask... "On October 22, 1947, Julie Andrews made her professional solo debut performing in the musical revue "Starlight Roof" at what English music venue?"
With the latter, there is absolutely no doubt what performance you're looking for, and no chance for a disputed answer.
I hope more people chime in on this thread!
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Post by wwtbamfan on Mar 19, 2012 20:38:23 GMT -5
Re-reading questions is most effective after a contestant gets an answer wrong on the show, because the main purpose of re-reading questions is to let the contestant know why they got a question wrong, etc. The contestant may have misunderstood what a question meant and may have gotten it wrong, so when it is time to re-read the questions, the Producers can explain the question to the Contestant.
Hope this helped!
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idolsfan
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Post by idolsfan on Mar 21, 2012 18:07:55 GMT -5
Thank you both of you for your answers. kplewisvox, you say that the non-askeded questions may be recycled as the categories are often the same but couldn't it make problem as the legal meeting between the host, the producer, the lawyers and the head-writer is about telling the host what are the questions (not the answers) so that he/she understands them (I re-watched the 10th anniversary backstage with regis). Indeed, there could be a leak of the topics of the questions even though it seems quite impossible, but there may be a risk it happens...
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Post by kplewisvox on Mar 21, 2012 19:10:15 GMT -5
That would be a question for someone with more insider knowledge than I have.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2012 5:18:52 GMT -5
I thought that the Shuffle Format has used the questions I think. For Example: This Contestant walk away with $100,000. And then A audience would try the same contestant's $250,000 question if the contestant never walk away for $1,000.
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