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Andrew Skarbek (game Show Contestant)
Andrew Skarbek (born 1967 or 1968) is an Australian game show player who became the first and only person to win the top prize of $1,000,000 on Australian TV game show ''Million Dollar Minute''. In a show record run of 23 nights, Skarbek defeated over 40 players, rejected over $150,000 in safe money and answered nearly 600 questions correctly to win the top prize on the episode aired on 27 March 2015. Including an additional $16,000 in safe money picked up throughout earlier rounds, Skarbek's win is the biggest cash prize ever awarded in the history of Australian TV at , beating the previous top prize offer of $1,000,000 previously awarded on ''Big Brother Australia ''Big Brother Australia'' (also known simply as ''Big Brother'') is an Australian reality show based on the international '' Big Brother'' format created by John de Mol. Following the premise of other versions of the format, the show feature ...'', twice on '' Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?'' and '' The Big Adve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Million Dollar Minute
''Million Dollar Minute'' is an Australian quiz show which aired on the Seven Network. It premiered on 16 September 2013. The show was originally hosted by Grant Denyer, and later by Simon Reeve, and aired at 5:30 pm on weeknights. The show was cancelled in September 2015 and was replaced by ''The Chase Australia'' in its timeslot. Repeats are currently shown on 7TWO in place of '' Home and Away's Early Years'' on Hiatus. History ''Million Dollar Minute'' was filmed at Global Television Studios in Melbourne in the same studio that was used for ''Deal or No Deal''. In November 2013 the original host, Grant Denyer, resigned for "family reasons" and was replaced by ''Weekend Sunrise'' sports presenter Simon Reeve for the 2014 series, with sound effects and themes also upgraded. It was announced on 30 August 2015 that the show would be axed after nearly two years, and replaced in its timeslot by ''The Chase Australia''. Gameplay The game is first played by three opposing contes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Brother Australia
''Big Brother Australia'' (also known simply as ''Big Brother'') is an Australian reality show based on the international '' Big Brother'' format created by John de Mol. Following the premise of other versions of the format, the show features a group of contestants, known as "housemates" who live together in a specially constructed house that is isolated from the outside world. The housemates are continuously monitored during their stay in the house by live television cameras as well as personal audio microphones. Throughout the course of the competition, housemates are evicted from the house - eliminated from the competition. The last remaining housemate wins the competition and is awarded a cash prize. ''Big Brother'' was produced from 2001 and ran for eight seasons and a Celebrity edition on Network Ten before the network cancelled it in July 2008 after experiencing audience erosion and controversy. Big Brother returned in 2012 on the Nine Network. Nine's iteration of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? (Australian Game Show)
''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?'' is an Australian television game show which would offer a maximum cash prize of $1,000,000 for answering 15 successive multiple-choice questions of increasing difficulty. The show was based on and follows the same general format of the original version of the show from the United Kingdom, and is part of the international ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?'' franchise. History ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?'' Debuted in Australia on 18 April 1999 on the Nine Network and was hosted by Eddie McGuire. Beginning with an eleven-question format starting at $1,000, this was later changed to 15 and offered a top prize of $1 million. In the 2007 revision of the show, the new maximum prize money on offer is $5 million; however, in the 2010 revision the top prize reverted to $1 million. The show ran in the Monday 8:30 pm time slot between 1999 and 2006 except for a brief two-week period in 2004 where a shortened half-hour edition was put up against Sev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Big Adventure
''The Big Adventure'' is an Australian reality television series that premiered on the Seven Network on 19 October 2014,The Big Adventure ''TV Tonight'', 17 October 2014 and is hosted by . Show details Set on a tropical island, a cast of twelve contestants competed for . A grid of 25 squares was set up, 12 of which contained keys. Contestants competed in a series of tasks for the right to dig for a key. Each episode one contestant would dig and one would (usually) be eliminated. In the last episode, four remaining contestants used their keys to open chests, one of which contained the prize money. The show premiered on Sunday, 19 October, at 6 ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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Year Of Birth Uncertain
A year or annus is the orbital period of a planetary body, for example, the Earth, moving in Earth's orbit, its orbit around the Sun. Due to the Earth's axial tilt, the course of a year sees the passing of the seasons, marked by change in weather, the hours of daylight, and, consequently, vegetation and soil fertility. In temperate and subpolar climate, subpolar regions around the planet, four seasons are generally recognized: spring (season), spring, summer, autumn and winter. In tropics, tropical and subtropics, subtropical regions, several geographical sectors do not present defined seasons; but in the tropics#Seasons and climate, seasonal tropics, the annual wet season, wet and dry seasons are recognized and tracked. A calendar year is an approximation of the number of days of the Earth's orbital period, as counted in a given calendar. The Gregorian calendar, or modern calendar, presents its calendar year to be either a common year of 365 days or a leap year of 366 days, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
