From a sociological and demographic perspective, the Big Brother franchise allows the opportunity for analysis of how people react when forced into close confinement with people who lie outside their comfort zone, since they may hold different opinions or ideals from other contestants, or simply belong to a different group of people than a contestant normally interacts with.

# Masters who have the absolute right to play in the World Championship Candidates Tournament, or any player who replaces an absent contestant and earns at least a 50 percent score.

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Groucho was the subject of an urban legend about a supposed response to a contestant who had nine children which supposedly brought down the house.

In the Hercules: The Legendary Journeys series, the contest is altered somewhat with Aphrodite and Athena entering but Artemis is the third goddess contestant instead of Hera ( offering the one who chooses her the chance to be renowned as a great warrior ).

* Jonbenet Ramsey ( 6 August 1990 – 25 December 1996 ) was a child beauty pageant contestant who was missing and found dead in her Boulder, Colorado home.

For example, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, a contestant on Survivor: The Australian Outback, later became a host on morning talk show The View ; and Kristin Cavallari, who appeared on Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County, has gone on to become a television host and actress.

* Spiral, a former Big Brother contestant, who wrote, performed and released a song about Finglas

His four children with Nancy are: Nancy Moore Thurmond ( 1971 – 1993 ), a beauty pageant contestant who was killed when a drunk driver hit her in Columbia, South Carolina ; James Strom Thurmond Jr. ( born 1972 ), who became U. S. Attorney for the District of South Carolina and is the current South Carolina 2nd Judicial Circuit Solicitor ; Juliana Gertrude ( Thurmond ) Whitmer ( born 1974 ), a married homemaker in Washington, DC ; and Paul Reynolds Thurmond ( born 1976 ), elected member of the Charleston County council.

Also, the rules of the Individual Immunity Necklace were changed so that a contestant who won the necklace in a challenge was able to give it to another contestant.

Other well-known Australian performers who also got their start as a contestant on the show include Asher Keddie, Alyce Platt, John Foreman, Maria Mercedes, Sylvie Paladino, Marty Fields and Michael Cormick.

A contestant who picked that panelist during the game won a bonus prize package if they correctly agreed or disagreed with the star.

Another episode included an April Fools ' prank played on Tom Bergeron in the show's fifth season, featuring E. E. Bell as an obnoxious contestant who kept pushing his overly emotional opponent until she broke down in tears, in addition to testing Bergeron's patience.

The contestant earned one point for each celebrity who wrote down the same answer ( or reasonably similar as determined by the judges ; for example, " rear end " matched " bottom " or a similar euphemism ) up to a maximum of six points for matching everyone.

In case of a tie score, the contestant who had not selected their own question in the previous round made the selection in the tie-breaker round.

Again, the only celebrities who played were those who did not match that contestant in previous rounds, and third round questions tended to be even more " definitive " in their responses.

The contestant who matched the most celebrities at the end of the game won the game and went on to play the Super Match, which consisted of the Audience Match and the Head-To-Head Match segments, for additional money.

A contestant who won money in the Audience Match then had the opportunity to win ten times that amount ( therefore, $ 5, 000, $ 2, 500 or $ 1, 000 ) by exactly matching another fill-in-the-blank response with one celebrity panelist.

Originally, the contestant chose the celebrity ; later, the celebrity who played this match was determined by the Star Wheel.

For the Head-To-Head Match the contestant picked a celebrity who revealed a hidden number ( 10, 20 or 30 ); that number was multiplied by the contestant's Audience Match winnings to determine the grand prize ($ 30, 000 being the top possible amount ).

There is no time limit to answer a question ; a contestant may ( and often does ) take as long as they need to ponder an answer.

Roger gets annoyed with the contestant beside him and after being asked by Clive Anderson to do a poem about changing a light bulb, he does it in the style of Muhammad Ali.

In March 2003, Jonsson was a contestant on the BBC's Comic Relief does Fame Academy.

Once both tiles are used, if the contestant still does not guess the word, he / she takes two more tiles and must place at least one letter.

Once a word is fully revealed, assuming that it does not result in a contestant winning the game, another word is played, building on a letter from the previous word.

In 2003 he appeared as a contestant on the Reality TV programme Comic Relief does Fame Academy and subsequently released an album, Kwame.

A third type of contestant is one who does not necessarily become famous because of the game show appearance, but finds fame later in life.

She also does it to follow in the footsteps of her idols, Diane Sawyer, and her mother, a former contestant.

Skids only count if the contestant does not fall over.

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She was a contestant in the 2003 BBC charity singing contest, Comic Relief does Fame Academy, in which she came fourth.

The raider does not meet or see any of the three singles ( any personal photographs of the contestant are removed from the room or covered with a smiley face sticker ) and chooses to go on a date with one of them based on the contents of their rooms.

The contestant views the questions but does not answer them yet.

If the contestant does not meet the prediction, he / she will get nothing at all.

Ross was the first contestant to be eliminated on 2003's Comic Relief does Fame Academy after his singing failed to impress voters.

As a celebrity contestant / participant on various television shows, Murray has appeared as Mark Knopfler on Celebrity Stars in Their Eyes in 2005, performed in Comic Relief does Fame Academy in 2007, competed in the Celebrity MasterChef in 2009, and been the Dictionary Corner guest on the Channel 4 game show Countdown.

The third contestant does not fall, and gets such a good score that the pressure is on for Patty.

Occasionally, the host gives the correct answer whether the contestant is able to answer the question correctly or not.

On answering the first question correctly, the contestant wins £ 100 ( in the UK – other countries vary the currency but have the same basic format ).

The game ends when the contestant answers a question incorrectly, decides not to answer a question, or answers all questions correctly, thus usually letting the host rip the cheque for £ 500, 000 apart and winning the top prize of £ 1 million.

If the match ended in a tie, one final question was played with the star of one contestant's choosing ; if the contestant can agree or disagree correctly, he / she won the match, otherwise the match went to the opponent.

For the remainder of the first season and for subsequent theme weeks, if the contestant didn't agree or disagree correctly they received an additional $ 2, 500 as a consolation prize.

Additionally, " Big Bank " spaces were added to the board in season two, which placed an accumulating jackpot to a contestant's bank when that contestant landed on the space and answered a question correctly.

The movie shows Jack Barry ( Christopher McDonald ) slightly recoiling when a contestant, James Snodgrass, answers correctly instead of incorrectly on a question on which he was supposed to take a dive.

The time each contestant has to answer as many questions correctly as possible was increased from 40 to 45 seconds for the 2010 version, and the tiebreak rule from 1991 returned.

The contestant with the highest score after two rounds would win a cash prize, and would have a chance to double those winnings by correctly answering the " Question of Great Significance ," as host Kenny Mayne called it, from a specialty category chosen by the winner ( usually a particular athlete or sports team from the past ).

After answering a question correctly, the contestant had the choice to " take " the prize for that question or " leave it " in favor of a chance at the next question.

As long as the contestant kept answering correctly, they could stay on the show until they had won $ 64, 000.

The contestant then guessed whether the next card in the row was higher or lower, and continued to do so as long as he or she guessed correctly.

If neither contestant had guessed all the cards in his or her row correctly, or if one had frozen his or her position, play continued with another toss-up question.

A contestant won the game and $ 500 by guessing the last card correctly or by an opponent calling the last card incorrectly.

Beginning on July 4, 1988, the winning contestant had to correctly predict one final audience poll question.

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If the contestant answered more questions correctly than Stein did, the contestant won all of the $ 5, 000 that Stein had put into the bank at the beginning of the show.

If Stein answered more questions correctly, the contestant kept only the money won in the first two rounds.

For each question answered correctly, the contestant is awarded one point.

Four of the cassettes also contained a bonus prize, which would be awarded to the contestant who correctly named the tune.

Seven tunes were played, and the contestant who correctly named the most tunes won the round and 10 points.

While one contestant tried to guess a tune, his / her opponent would remove bills as fast as possible from the first contestant's tree until that contestant guessed correctly or ran out of time.