Jeroen van Tets, a sports and leisure manager specialising in building facilities, from Hilversum, was a contestant who appeared on the Dutch version of the show on June 2, 2001.
He walked away with NLG 32,000 after becoming the first person in the Netherlands to incorrectly answer the NLG 500,000 question, thus losing NLG 218,000. This was the most amount of money ever lost during the pre-Euro years of the show.
The record for the highest amount lost would be broken two-and-a-half years later by Menno de Ruijter.
Which line runs from a vertex of a triangle to the center of the line opposite?
⬥ A: Fault line
⬥ B: Hyperbola
⬥ C: Hypotenuse
⬥ D: Median
NLG 500,000 (14 of 15) - Not Timed
Which comical opera by Verdi from 1893 is based on a character from Shakespeare? 'Phone-a-Friend' lifeline used
⬥ A: Falstaff
⬥ B: Otello
⬥ C: Macbeth
⬥ D: Don Carlos
Unsure of the answer, Jeroen played a trump card - one of his Phone-a-Friends knew a lot about music, so he contacted Miep van Kleef in Arnhem. She confidently suggested B: Othello, which Jeroen decided to validate as his answer. However, he dropped NLG 218,000 through his misguided certainty - the correct answer was A: Falstaff.
QUESTION NOTE: Othello was a Shakespeare tragedy, while Falstaff appeared as a character in the comedy The Merry Wives of Windsor.
