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A fact from Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (Australian game show) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 26 October 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that during the first six years of the Australian edition of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? nobody won the top prize of one million dollars?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/October.

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Below is some info taken off imdb about special and celebrity editions of the program which need to be incorporated into the article.

Celebrity versions

Celebrity All in the Family 18 February 2002

Ben Dark ...  Himself 
Tottie Goldsmith ...  Herself 
Sophie Monk ...  Herself 
Jessica Napier ...  Herself 
Marshall Napier ...  Himself 
Ben Williams ...  Himself

Celebrity Best Friends 22 November 2004

Scott Cam ...  Himself 
David Hickey ...  Himself 
Derryn Hinch ...  Himself 
Tim Melrose ...  Himself 
Matt Parkinson ...  Himself 
Peter Rowsthorn ...  Himself 
Guy Sebastian ...  Himself 
Zali Steggall ...  Herself 
Jacki Weaver ...  Herself 
Matt Welsh ...  Himself

Celebrity Roulette 7 February 2005 and 14 February 2005 Celebrities are partnered with former contestants from the show as they try to win the one million dollar prize for their charity.

Martine Alpins ...  Herself 
Christopher Fare ...  Himself 
Pauline Hanson ...  Herself 
Alicia Molik ...  Herself 
Trevor Sauer ...  Himself (as Dr. Trevor Sauer) 
Shane Warne ...  Himself

Champions Challenge 14 March 2005

Shane Kelly ...  Himself 
Tamsyn Lewis ...  Herself 
Katie Mactier ...  Herself 
Steve Monaghetti ...  Himself 
Chantelle Newbery ...  Herself 
Robert Newbery ...  Himself 
Eloise Southby ...  Herself (as Eloise Southby-Halbish) 
Petria Thomas ...  Herself

Mummy Wants to Be a Millionaire 21 November 2005

Odd Couples Special 21 February 2005 Five couples compete for the opportunity to play for the one million dollar prize. After each Fastest Finger First question, the names of the four other partners of the opposite sex are placed in a hat and one is drawn at random to accompany the successful contestant in the hot seat.

Summer Heroes 13 February 2006 Five teams of two people each, representing the police force, fire service, ambulance service, State Emergency Service and lifeguards, compete for the opportunity to win up to one million dollars for their nominated charities.

This episode introduces a new rule for Phone-A-Friends that forbids them from using a computer search engine or conversing with other people when attempting to obtain the answer to the question asked by the contestant

The Block II Special 12 July 2004 The four couples from the second series of The Block compete in teams of two to win the one million dollar prize for their nominated charity.

The Entertainers 28 April 2003

Nick Giannopoulos ...  Himself 
Barry Humphries ...  Dame Edna 
Ian 'Molly' Meldrum ...  Himself

Question

Can anyone remember what the value the question was worth on last week's episode (22 October - the series return) when the first contestant got the question wrong and walked away with $1000? He asked the audience and the majority of them gave him the wrong answer. Thanks -- Ianblair23 (talk) 20:58, 30 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Question

Hey! Is Eddie McGuire still hosting this show? I am asking cause I saw some news that Eddie farewells hosting "Millionaire". Kubek15^{(Sign!) (Contribs) (UBX)} 10:07, 11 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

- No. That was in 2006. Eddie McGuire is still hosting the Australian version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire.--70.240.215.204 (talk) 22:29, 16 December 2008 (UTC)Chris[reply]

Top Prize

Currently the first paragraph reads as follows:

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? is an Australian television game show which currently offers a maximum prize of $5,000,000 for correctly answering 16 successive multiple-choice questions of increasing difficulty. The show is based on and follows the same general format of the original version of the show from the United Kingdom, and is now part of the international Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? franchise.

I propose it is changed to the following due to Hot Seat:

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? is an Australian television game show which currently offers a maximum prize of $1,000,000 for correctly answering 15 successive multiple-choice questions of increasing difficulty as a team. The show was originally based on and follows the same general format of the original version of the show from the United Kingdom, but is now based off the Italian version of the show and is now part of the international Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? franchise.

Any ideas? -- Sk8er5000 (talk) 05:07, 28 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Since nobody has objected, I will change the paragraph. -- Sk8er5000 (talk) 05:08, 11 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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