This was the first series of Milionerzy, the Polish version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. It was hosted by Hubert Urbański. This series used a different logo than the original one (see picture).
Biggest winners[]
250 000 zł Winners[]
Krzysztof Karwowski - Episode 106 (5th March 2000)
Jarosław Olejnicki - Episode 140 (5th May 2000)
125 000 zł Winners[]
Andrzej Zubala - Episode 10 (18th September 1999)
Bogdan Rzepka - Episode 13 (24th September 1999)
Barbara Płachta - Episode 46 (20th November 1999)
Katarzyna Niziałek - Episode 68 (31st December 1999)
Grażyna Tomaszewska - Episode 71 (3rd January 2000)
Maciej Kondratowicz - Episode 110 (12th March 2000)
Paweł Wasilewski - Episode 113 (18th March 2000)
Alfred Znamierowski - Episode 130 (16th April 2000)
Marzena Bralska - Episode 137 (29th April 2000)
Łukasz Kaźmierczak - Episode 138 (30th April 2000)
Ryszard Ćwirta - Episode 146 (14th May 2000)
Katarzyna Kreczmer - Episode 155 (29th May 2000)
Bogdan Wencel - Episode 169 (21st June 2000)
Bożena Pieczara - Episode 174 (28th June 2000)
Gameplay[]
Game's prizes[]
| Question No. |
Correct Answer Value |
Walk Away Value |
Miss Answer Value |
Amount Lost for a Wrong Answer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 100 zł | 0 zł | 0 zł | 0 zł |
| 2 | 200 zł | 100 zł | 100 zł | |
| 3 | 300 zł | 200 zł | 200 zł | |
| 4 | 500 zł | 300 zł | 300 zł | |
| 5 | 1000 zł | 500 zł | 500 zł | |
| 6 | 2000 zł | 1000 zł | 1000 zł | 0 zł |
| 7 | 4000 zł | 2000 zł | 1000 zł | |
| 8 | 8000 zł | 4000 zł | 3000 zł | |
| 9 | 16 000 zł | 8000 zł | 7000 zł | |
| 10 | 32 000 zł | 16 000 zł | 15 000 zł | |
| 11 | 64 000 zł | 32 000 zł | 32 000 zł | 0 zł |
| 12 | 125 000 zł | 64 000 zł | 32 000 zł | |
| 13 | 250 000 zł | 125 000 zł | 93 000 zł | |
| 14 | 500 000 zł | 250 000 zł | 218 000 zł | |
| 15 | 1 000 000 zł | 500 000 zł | 468 000 zł |
Lifelines[]
Broadcasting[]
| Broadcast date | Day of the week | Time | Show length
(with commercial breaks) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3rd September 1999 -
11th October 1999 |
Monday | 20:25 | 30/35 minutes |
| Friday | |||
| Saturday | 19:30 | 45/50 minutes | |
| Sunday | |||
| 15th October 1999 -
31st October 1999 |
Monday | 20:25 | 30 minutes |
| Friday | 50/55 minutes | ||
| Saturday | 19:30 | 45/50 minutes | |
| Sunday | 50/60 minutes | ||
| 1st November 1999 -
17th January 2000 |
Monday | 20:30 | 30 minutes |
| Friday | 45/50 minutes | ||
| Saturday | 19:30 | 50/55 minutes | |
| Sunday | |||
| 21st January 2000 -
29th May 2000 |
Monday | 20:30 | 50 minutes |
| Friday | |||
| Saturday | 19:30 | 50/55/60 minutes | |
| Sunday | |||
| 1st June 2000 -
28th June 2000 |
Monday | 20:30 | 50 minutes |
| Wednesday | |||
| Thursday | |||
| Saturday | 19:30 | 55 minutes | |
| Sunday | 60 minutes |
Episodes[]
1999[]
September[]
- Episode 1 (3rd September 1999)
Piotr Mach (4000 zł)[1] ?
- Episode 2 (4th September 1999)
- Episode 3 (5th September 1999)
Piotr Biernacki (32 000 zł - lost on 64 000 zł)
- Episode 4 (6th September 1999)
Jadwiga Kolasa (continued)
- Episode 5 (10th September 1999)[2]
Jadwiga Kolasa (1000 zł - lost on 32 000 zł) Aneta (0 zł)
- Episode 6 (11th September 1999)
- Episode 7 (12th September 1999)
- Episode 8 (13th September 1999)
- Episode 9 (17th September 1999)
Andrzej Zubala (125 000 zł, continued)
- Episode 10 (18th September 1999)
Andrzej Zubala (125 000 zł) ?
- Episode 11 (19th September 1999)
- Episode 12 (20th September 1999)[3]
? Bogdan Rzepka (continued, maximum 16 000 zł)
- Episode 13 (24th September 1999)[3]
Bogdan Rzepka (125 000 zł) ?
- Episode 14 (25th September 1999)
- Episode 15 (26th September 1999)
- Episode 16 (27th September 1999)
October[]
- Episode 17 (1st October 1999)
? Jadwiga (2000 zł, continued)
- Episode 18 (2nd October 1999) [4]
Jadwiga (?, 8000 zł question right) Hubert Kozikowski (?) Monika Sokołowska (?, 2000 zł question right) Arkadiusz Garkowienko (1000 zł - lost on 2000 zł)
- Episode 19 (3rd October 1999) [5]
? (32 000 zł) ? ?
- Episode 20 (4th October 1999)
? Ryszard Tulik (?)
- Episode 21 (8th October 1999)
- Episode 22 (9th October 1999) [6]
- Episode 23 (10th October 1999)
- Episode 24 (11th October 1999)
- Episode 25 (15th October 1999)
- Episode 26 (16th October 1999)
- Episode 27 (17th October 1999)
? (minimum 32 000 zł, 64 000 zł question right) [7]
- Episode 28 (18th October 1999)
Iwona (8000 zł) Artur (continued)
- Episode 29 (22nd October 1999)
- Episode 30 (23rd October 1999)
- Episode 31 (24th October 1999)
- Episode 32 (25th October 1999) [8]
Artur (8000 zł) ? (?)
- Episode 33 (29th October 1999)
- Episode 34 (30th October 1999)
- Episode 35 (31st October 1999) [9]
? (32 000 zł)
November[]
- Episode 36 (1st November 1999)
- Episode 37 (5th November 1999)
- Episode 38 (6th November 1999)
Anna (32 000 zł) [10]
- Episode 39 (7th November 1999)
- Episode 40 (8th November 1999)
- Episode 41 (12th November 1999)
- Episode 42 (13th November 1999)
? ? (0 zł) Krzysztof ? (0 zł - lost on 500 zł) Mirosław Pawliński (1000 zł, continued)
- Episode 43 (14th November 1999)
Mirosław Pawliński (1000 zł - lost on 4000 zł) Bogumił Gasek (minimum 32 000 zł)
- Episode 44 (15th November 1999)
- Episode 45 (19th November 1999)
Barbara Płachta (32 000 zł, continued)
- Episode 46 (20th November 1999)
Barbara Płachta (125 000 zł)
- Episode 47 (21st November 1999)
- Episode 48 (22nd November 1999)
- Episode 49 (26th November 1999)
- Episode 50 (27th November 1999)
? (1000 zł)
- Episode 51 (28th November 1999)
? (1000 zł) ? (1000 zł) Danuta Czubińska (16 000 zł)
- Episode 52 (29th November 1999)
December[]
- Episode 53 (3rd December 1999)
- Episode 54 (4th December 1999)
- Episode 55 (5th December 1999)
- Episode 56 (6th December 1999)
- Episode 57 (10th December 1999)
Dariusz Małachowski (16 000 zł)
- Episode 58 (11th December 1999)
- Episode 59 (12th December 1999)
- Episode 60 (13th December 1999)
- Episode 61 (17th December 1999)
- Episode 62 (18th December 1999)
- Episode 63 (19th December 1999)
- Episode 64 (20th December 1999)
Michał Lucjusz Kowalczyk (?)
- Episode 65 (25th December 1999)
- Episode 66 (26th December 1999)
Krzysztof Kuligowski (0 zł - lost on 300 zł) [11] Wirginia Ryzel (64 000 zł, continued)[12]
- Episode 67 (27th December 1999)
Wirginia Ryzel (64 000 zł) Katarzyna Niziałek (continued)
- Episode 68 (31st December 1999)
Katarzyna Niziałek (125 000 zł) ?
2000[]
January[]
- Episode 69 (1st January 2000)
- Episode 70 (2nd January 2000)
? Grażyna Tomaszewska (64 000 zł, continued)
- Episode 71 (3rd January 2000) [13]
Grażyna Tomaszewska (125 000 zł) ? (32 000 zł - lost on 64 000 zł) [14] Jacek Marcinkowski (2000 zł, continued)
- Episode 72 (7th January 2000)
Jacek Marcinkowski (32 000 zł - lost on 64 000 zł) Kamil Śmiałkowski (32 000 zł - lost on 64 000 zł) Bogdan Stróżyk (continued) [15]
- Episode 73 (8th January 2000)
Bogdan Stróżyk (1000 zł - lost on 16 000 zł) [16] ? (0 zł) [17]
- Episode 74 (9th January 2000)
- Episode 75 (10th January 2000)
Barbara Zapała (32 000 zł, continued)
- Episode 76 (14th January 2000)
Barbara Zapała (64 000 zł) [18]
- Episode 77 (15th January 2000)
Halina Szarek (0 zł - lost on 1000 zł) Bogdan Krupa (8000 zł) Dariusz Dąbrowski (?)
- Episode 78 (16th January 2000)
- Episode 79 (17th January 2000)
- Episode 80 (21st January 2000)
- Episode 81 (22nd January 2000)
Andrzej Szustkiewicz (16 000 zł)
- Episode 82 (23rd January 2000)
- Episode 83 (24th January 2000)
- Episode 84 (28th January 2000)
- Episode 85 (29th January 2000)
- Episode 86 (30th January 2000)
- Episode 87 (31st January 2000)
February[]
- Episode 88 (4th February 2000)
- Episode 89 (5th February 2000)
- Episode 90 (6th February 2000)
- Episode 91 (7th February 2000)
- Episode 92 (11th February 2000)
? (2000 zł, continued)
- Episode 93 (12th February 2000)
? (4000 zł) Jakub Karyś (8000 zł) Jerzy Klucz (0 zł - lost on 500 zł)
- Episode 94 (13th February 2000)
- Episode 95 (14th February 2000)
- Episode 96 (18th February 2000)
- Episode 97 (19th February 2000)
? (1000 zł)
- Episode 98 (20th February 2000)
- Episode 99 (21st February 2000)
- Episode 100 (25th February 2000)
- Episode 101 (26th February 2000)
- Episode 102 (27th February 2000)
- Episode 103 (28th February 2000)
Bogdan (continued) [19]
March[]
- Episode 104 (3rd March 2000)
Bogdan (?) Piotr (0 zł - lost on 100 zł) Jakub (32 000 zł - lost on 64 000 zł)
- Episode 105 (4th March 2000)
Lesław Pilarski (?) Krzysztof Karwowski (250 000 zł, continued)
- Episode 106 (5th March 2000) - audience: 6,51m[20]
Krzysztof Karwowski (250 000 zł) Tomasz Barzowski (1000 zł - lost on 8000 zł) Andrzej Strzelczyk (8000 zł)
- Episode 107 (6th March 2000)
- Episode 108 (10th March 2000)
- Episode 109 (11th March 2000)
Maciej Kondratowicz (64 000 zł, continued)
- Episode 110 (12th March 2000)
Maciej Kondratowicz (125 000 zł)
- Episode 111 (13th March 2000)
? (0 zł) Szymon Strąk (8000 zł, continued) [21]
- Episode 112 (17th March 2000)
Szymon Strąk (32 000 zł - lost on 64 000 zł) Jerzy Blinowski (?) Paweł Wasilewski (1000 zł, continued)
- Episode 113 (18th March 2000)
Paweł Wasilewski (125 000 zł) ?
- Episode 114 (19th March 2000)
? (0 zł) [22]
- Episode 115 (20th March 2000)
Sławomir Kobierski (4000 zł, continued)
- Episode 116 (24th March 2000)
Sławomir Kobierski (1000 zł - lost on 16 000 zł) Jacek Dębiński (1000 zł - lost on 2000 zł) Janina Borkowska (4000 zł) [23]
- Episode 117 (25th March 2000)
- Episode 118 (26th March 2000)
- Episode 119 (27th March 2000)
- Episode 120 (31st March 2000)
April[]
- Episode 121 (1st April 2000)
- Episode 122 (2nd April 2000)
- Episode 123 (3rd April 2000)
- Episode 124 (7th April 2000)
- Episode 125 (8th April 2000)
- Episode 126 (9th April 2000)
- Episode 127 (10th April 2000)
- Episode 128 (14th April 2000)
- Episode 129 (15th April 2000)
Piotr Kozak (1000 zł - lost on 32 000 zł) Alfred Znamierowski (32 000 zł, continued) [24]
- Episode 130 (16th April 2000)
Alfred Znamierowski (125 000 zł) ? (minimum 1000 zł, 16 000 zł question right)
- Episode 131 (17th April 2000)
? Rafał Kalinowski (64 000 zł, continued)
- Episode 132 (21st April 2000)
Rafał Kalinowski (32 000 zł or 64 000 zł) ?
- Episode 133 (22nd April 2000)
- Episode 134 (23rd April 2000)
- Episode 135 (24th April 2000)
- Episode 136 (28th April 2000)
Marzena Bralska (125 000 zł, continued)[25]
- Episode 137 (29th April 2000)
Marzena Bralska (125 000 zł)
- Episode 138 (30th April 2000)
Łukasz Kaźmierczak (125 000 zł)
May[]
- Episode 139 (1st May 2000)
Jarosław Olejnicki (continued)
- Episode 140 (5th May 2000)
Jarosław Olejnicki (250 000 zł)
- Episode 141 (6th May 2000)
- Episode 142 (7th May 2000)
? (16 000 zł) Stanisław Machelski (8000 zł, continued)
- Episode 143 (8th May 2000)
Stanisław Machelski (16 000 zł) ?
- Episode 144 (12th May 2000)
- Episode 145 (13th May 2000)
? Iza (1000 zł, continued)
- Episode 146 (14th May 2000)
Iza (minimum 1000 zł) Ryszard Ćwirta (125 000 zł)
- Episode 147 (15th May 2000)
- Episode 148 (19th May 2000)
? Krzysztof Jaskaniec (?)
- Episode 149 (20th May 2000)
- Episode 150 (21st May 2000)
- Episode 151 (22nd May 2000)
Bogumił Szmit (continued)
- Episode 152 (26th May 2000)
Bogumił Szmit (32 000 zł - lost on 250 000 zł)
- Episode 153 (27th May 2000)
- Episode 154 (28th May 2000)
- Episode 155 (29th May 2000)
Katarzyna Krenczmer (125 000 zł)
June[]
- Episode 156 (1st June 2000) [26]
? Adam Lubaszka (continued)
- Episode 157 (3rd June 2000)
Adam Lubaszka (32 000 zł - lost on 250 000 zł)
- Episode 158 (4th June 2000)
- Episode 159 (5th June 2000)
- Episode 160 (7th June 2000)
- Episode 161 (8th June 2000)
- Episode 162 (10th June 2000)
- Episode 163 (11th June 2000)
- Episode 164 (12th June 2000)
- Episode 165 (14th June 2000)
- Episode 166 (15th June 2000)
- Episode 167 (17th June 2000)
- Episode 168 (18th June 2000)
- Episode 169 (19th June 2000)
- Episode 170 (21st June 2000)
Bogdan Wencel (continued)
- Episode 171 (22nd June 2000)
Bogdan Wencel (125 000 zł)[27]
- Episode 172 (24th June 2000)
- Episode 173 (25th June 2000)
- Episode 174 (26th June 2000) [28]
? (32 000 zł) ? (2 000 zł ?) Bożena Pieczara (500 zł, continued)
- Episode 175 (28th June 2000)
Bożena Pieczara (125 000 zł) ?
Unknown date[]
- Episode ? (unknown Saturday, September 1999) [29]
? (minimum 1000 zł, 8000 zł question right) ? (minimum 1000 zł) ?
- Unknown episode (February-April 2000)
Waldemar (0 zł - lost on 200 zł) [30] Krzysztof (0 zł - lost on 500 zł) [30]
- Unknown episodes
Mirosław Woźniak (32 000 zł) [31] - unknown Saturday before November 1999 Przemysław (8000 zł) - March 2000 [32] Jarosław (1000 zł - lost on 32 000 zł) - March 2000 [33] Dariusz (1000 zł - lost on 2000 zł) [34] ? (minimum 32 000 zł, 64 000 zł question right) [24] - April 2000 ? (minimum 1000 zł, 8000 zł question right) [24] - April 2000 ? (64 000 zł, played in 2 episodes) - late June 2000 Zdzisław Ponomarew (64 000 zł, played in 2 episodes) - before November 1999 Waldemar Czeredzicki (minimum 32 000 zł) - September 1999 Janusz Kornecki (originally 1000 zł - lost on 32 000 zł, then 32 000 zł - lost on 64 000 zł) [35] Maria (minimum 32 000 zł, 64 000 zł question right) - ? Jerzy Walasek (64 000 zł) - ? Anna Pęska-Formela (1000 zł - lost on 4 000 zł) - ? Janusz (continued) - late May 2000 Grażyna Jedlińska (32 000 zł - lost on ? zł) - before February 2000 Piotr Gabryelewicz (32 000 zł - lost on ? zł) - before February 2000
Trivia questions[]
- Janusz Kornecki had a bad question on 32 000 zł:
| 32 000 zł (10 of 15) - Not timed | |
| Who invented the steam engine exploiting circular motion? 'Phone-A-Friend' lifeline used | |
| ⬥ A: James Watt | ⬥ B: Thomas Newcomen |
| ⬥ C: Charles Parsons | ⬥ D: Rudolf Diesel |
| Janusz called to Andrzej, who said it is A. James Watt. Janusz followed his answer, but correct answer was Charles Parsons. Later, after complaining to program's producers, his answer was recognized as correct. The player won a guaranteed 32 000 zł. |
- Iwona, who played in episode 28 used 2 lifeline on this question:
| 200 zł (2 of 15) - Not timed | |
| Which of these ingredients is not used in cooking of yeast-cake? '50:50' and 'Ask the Audience' lifelines used | |
| ⬥ A: fat | ⬥ B: flour |
| ⬥ C: yeast | ⬥ D: ammonia |
| Ask the Audience Results: A: 28% ⬥ B: 0% ⬥ C: 10% ⬥ D: 62% | |
| 10% of audience voted for "blank" answer C. |
- Jarosław in March 2000, had this 32 000 zł question: [33]
| 32 000 zł (10 of 15) - Not timed | |
| "Miu Miu" is a brand of which fashion house? 'Ask the Audience', 'Phone-A-Friend' and '50:50' lifelines used | |
| ⬥ A: Gucci | ⬥ B: Dolce & Gabbana |
| ⬥ C: Kenzo | ⬥ D: Prada |
| Ask the Audience Results: A: 19% ⬥ B: 28% ⬥ C: 53% ⬥ D: 0% | |
| Jarek called to his friend - Kasia, who thought about A or B.
100% of audience was wrong on this question. |
- Piotr from episode 104, left empty-handed after an incorrect answer to 100 zł question: [36]
| 100 zł (1 of 15) - Not timed | |
| How people in Poland state a person who is calm and shaky? | |
| ⬥ A: "ogień i woda" (fire and water) | ⬥ B: "słomiany ogień" (straw fire) |
| ⬥ C: "anielska woda" (angelic water) | ⬥ D: "cicha woda" (still water) |
- Przemysław, used Ask the Audience lifeline on this 16 000 zł question: [32]
| 16 000 zł (9 of 15) - Not timed | |
| How many beads have a rosary in Catholicism? 'Ask the Audience' lifeline used | |
| ⬥ A: 39 | ⬥ B: 59 |
| ⬥ C: 80 | ⬥ D: 100 |
| Ask the Audience Results: A: 78% ⬥ B: 13% ⬥ C: 2% ⬥ D: 7% | |
| Player thought about B, which was the correct answer, but walked away with 8000 zł. Again audience was wrong. |
- Krzysztof, used Ask the Audience lifeline on this 500 zł question: [30]
| 500 zł (4 of 15) - Not timed | |
| What was the name of main character of cartoon "Zaczarowany ołówek" ("Enchanted Pencil")? 'Ask the Audience' lifeline used | |
| ⬥ A: Jaś | ⬥ B: Piotruś |
| ⬥ C: Krzyś | ⬥ D: Lolek |
| Ask the Audience Results: A: 5% ⬥ B: 20% ⬥ C: 70% ⬥ D: 5% | |
- Dariusz, has this 2000 zł question: [34]
| 2000 zł (6 of 15) - Not timed | |
| Who is an author of Theory of relativity? '50:50' lifeline used | |
| ⬥ A: Isaac Newton | ⬥ B: Albert Einstein |
| ⬥ C: Niels Bohr | ⬥ D: James Maxwell |
Sources[]
- ↑ Comeback to the 90s. Question for 4000 zł and Phone-a-Friend lifeline
- ↑ Advert from 10th September
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Advert from September (probably 21st/22nd)
- ↑ Advert from 3rd October
- ↑ Advert from 4th October
- ↑ Advert from 9th October
- ↑ Post on google groups from 19th October 1999
- ↑ Advert from 27th October
- ↑ Advert from 1st November
- ↑ Post on google groups from 6th November 1999
- ↑ Post on google groups from 26th December 1999
- ↑ Advert from 27th December
- ↑ Advert from 4th January
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20031114121936/http://milionerzy.terramail.pl:80/krol_artur.htm
- ↑ Bogdan Stróżyk on FFF (7th January 2000)
- ↑ Question 9 (8th January 2000)
- ↑ Post on google groups from 8th January
- ↑ Episode from 15th January 2000
- ↑ Post on google groups from 3rd March 2000
- ↑ The end of the broadcast game show "Milionerzy"
- ↑ https://dziennikpolski24.pl/milioner-z-brzeska/ar/2055984
- ↑ Post on google groups from 20th March 2000
- ↑ Post on google groups from 24t March 2000
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 24.2 Advert from 23rd April
- ↑ Advert from 3rd May
- ↑ FFF win from Fenomen Milionerów
- ↑ Advert from 25th August 2000 (Series 2)
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20010310104446fw_/http://mariuszysko.fm.interia.pl:80/kulisy/bpieczara.html
- ↑ Advert
- ↑ 30.0 30.1 30.2 https://www.sadistic.pl/najlepsi-w-milionerach-vt190503.htm
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20000124105440/http://www.tvn.com.pl:80/zwymil.htm
- ↑ 32.0 32.1 PL WWTBAM 2000 - Audience goes wrong
- ↑ 33.0 33.1 Fragment of an episode
- ↑ 34.0 34.1 Milionerzy - Theory of relativity
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20011116141143/http://milionerzy.terramail.pl:80/art5.htm
- ↑ Still water - video in cda.pl
| Preceded by N/A |
Poland Series Series 1 |
Succeeded by Series 2 |