El Milyoner, also Al Milionair or Al Millionaire (Arabic: المليونير) was the Egyptian version based on the original British Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. Aired from July 20 to May 15, 2013, on Al-Hayat (Al Hayah) Al Hayat 2 and Mehwar TV channels as the clock format. Hosted by George Kurdahi. Top prize was 1,000,000 Egyptian pounds.
The show was broadcast under the clock format: 30 seconds are given to give an answer from the 1st to the 5th question, 45 seconds from the 6th to the 10th question. After question 10 there is no clock.
1, 2, 3, 4 are used in the answer options instead of A, B, C, D.
Lifelines[]
In show 4 main lifelines are used:
- 50:50 (حذف إجابتين)
- Phone-A-Friend (اتصال بصديق)
- Ask the Audience (مساعدة الجمهور)
- Switch the Question (تغيير السؤال) (after 10th question)
Seasons[]
In total, 61 episodes aired.
Money Tree[]
| Question No. |
Correct Answer Value |
Walk Away Value |
Miss Answer Value |
Amount Lost for a Wrong Answer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 1 000 000 | 500 000 | 32 000 | 468 000 |
| 14 | 500 000 | 250 000 | 218 000 | |
| 13 | 250 000 | 125 000 | 93 000 | |
| 12 | 125 000 | 64 000 | 32 000 | |
| 11 | 64 000 | 32 000 | 0 | |
| 10 | 32 000 | 16 000 | 1000 | 15 000 |
| 9 | 16 000 | 8000 | 7000 | |
| 8 | 8000 | 4000 | 3000 | |
| 7 | 4000 | 2000 | 1000 | |
| 6 | 2000 | 1000 | 0 | |
| 5 | 1000 | 500 | 0 | 500 |
| 4 | 500 | 300 | 300 | |
| 3 | 300 | 200 | 200 | |
| 2 | 200 | 100 | 100 | |
| 1 | 100 | 0 | 0 |
Winners[]
The biggest winners[]
- Bassem Samir - 125,000 (July 23, 2012)
- Mostafa El-Sayed - 125,000 (July 26, 2012)
- Dr. Ahmed Radwan - 64,000 (July 28, 2012)
- Dr. Mahmoud Hassan - 125,000 (July 31, 2012)
- Mohamed Salah - 64,000 (August 8, 2012)
- Nasr and Shwikar - 64,000 (August 19, 2012)
- Mohamed El-Sherbiny and Heba - 64,000 (August 22, 2012)
- Dr. Muhammad Sharif - 64,000 (September 14, 2012)
- Nabil Fouad - 64,000 (October 4, 2012)
- Mahmoud - 64,000 (October 12, 2012)
- Nermin Ismail - 64,000 (October 12, 2012)
- Kareem Sharif - 125,000 (October 18, 2012)
- Salah Tawfik - 64,000 (October 19, 2012)
- Mohamed Abdel Rahman and Manal - 64,000 (October 26, 2012)
- Haitham Saded - 64,000 (2012)
- Majed Farouk - 64,000 (2012)
- Haitham Ahmad - 250,000 (April 25, 2013)
- Melak Kamel - 64,000 (May 1, 2013)
4 000 Egyptian pounds winners[]
- Samah Fathi - 4 000 (August 1, 2012)
- Mohamed Habib - 4 000 (August 13, 2012)
- Iman Sayed Ahmed - 4 000 (September 7, 2012)
- Ibrahim Al-Masry - 4 000 (2012)
- Mohamed Fawzy - 4 000 (May 15, 2013)
0 Egyptian pounds winners[]
- Muhammad Qasim (July 31, 2012) (4th question wrong)
- Muhannad Diab (2012) (5th question wrong)
Trivia[]
- The Egyptian version was filmed in the Egyptian Media Production City (EMPC).
- Haitham Ahmad is contestant only in Egyptian version to reach the penultimate question and took the biggest money (250,000 EGP).
Sources[]
- About the ban on the "Millionaire" quiz in Egypt in 2001
- Full episodes
- Wikipedia page (in Arabic)
- About start of filming (in Arabic)
- Abour premiere (in Arabic)