Million pound lose cue

The million pound lose cue is among the scariest of the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? music cues. It will be played should a particular contestant get the final question wrong, and lose a lot of money (usually 468,000 units of the local currency). The sound is a heavily edited version of the last few seconds of the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? theme song, made to sound like something from a horror movie. Despite many countries switching to the new formats and retiring most of the old Strachan musical scores, this frightening tune has unfortunately been kept.

Since contestants are usually careful enough to not get the last question wrong and lose their money, the cue is rarely heard.

The cue is featured on the UK version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: The Album" as the 61st track and has also been included in the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire video games.

Another scary and least popular sound on the show is the klaxon.

Plays

 * Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? 10th Anniversary Primetime Celebration (one time)
 * Lotto Weekend Miljonairs (one time)
 * Millionaire Hot Seat (six times)
 * Kto khochet stat' millionerom? (two times)
 * Kaun Banega Crorepati (three times (two failures, two times of one failure because of the Double Dip lifeline))
 * Vil du bli millionær? (one time)
 * Wer wird Millionär? (one time)
 * Milionerzy (one time)
 * Poios thelei na ginei ekatommyriouchos (one time)
 * Hvem vil være millionær? (one time)
 * Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Nigeria (one time)
 * Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Phillipines (one time)
 * Quiz $ Millionaire (four times)
 * Tko želi biti milijunaš? (one time)
 * Baak Maan Fu Yung (one time)
 * Stani Bogat (one time)

Trivia

 * It, along with the klaxon, is among the most unpopular and frightening of the Millionaire musical themes.
 * The only time it was heard in the U.S. version was when Ken Basin missed his million dollar question during the 10th Anniversary Primetime Celebration.
 * Thankfully, despite it being originally made in the United Kingdom, it was never played on Chris Tarrant's programme as when the Llewellyn Bowens missed their (flawed) final question, it was instead replaced by the £16,000/£500,000 lose music. It is however included in PAL versions of the video games.