Contestants could win anything from jewelry to GSN merchandise, or during month-long contests, a new car or a hot tub.

As a result, the category of " Most Contestants " was temporarily banned from the Guinness Book.

Contestants from the contest have appeared on Johnny Carson's The Tonight Show and the Late Show with David Letterman.

Contestants cannot be required to start a run from an off-center alleyway, but contestants are not allowed to enter the arena and " set " the horse.

Contestants from the same state have won the title of Miss America in consecutive years several times.

Contestants first chose a subject category ( such as " Boxing ", " Lincoln " or " Jazz ") from the Category Board.

Contestants for the Prix were assigned a theme from the literature of Classical Antiquity ; their individual identities were kept secret to avoid any scandal of favoritism.

Contestants launch themselves from the end of the pier ; a prize being awarded to the one who glides the furthest distance.

" Contestants answered a series of questions from those subjects to earn points.

Contestants were chosen from the studio audience and usually were married couples ; other pairs were engaged, dating, or were a familial relationship.

Contestants Bunny and Xy were axed from the program in controversial circumstances.

Contestants came from all over Wales, England, Scotland and Ireland to compete for chairs in music and poetry.

Contestants from other reality shows, like The Amazing Race, Survivor, American Idol, The Apprentice, and The Real World, played for a grand prize and other bonus prizes such as cars and vacations.

Contestants from the Air Force, the Army, the Marines, and the Navy competed.

Contestants from the 2008 contest, starting with the winner Dima Bilan appeared on the Italian show Carramba!

Contestants kept any money banked during a game, regardless of the outcome, making Bullseye one of the few Barry & Enright shows to allow losing contestants to keep winnings from the game.

Contestants wearing flippers jump into a swimming pool from a platform, the height of which is gradually raised.

Contestants have to fall to the floor as fast as possible from a standing position.

Contestants must jump from standing onto a table-like platform.

Contestants received marks out of ten from the four judges in three categories such as " presentation ", " content " and " star quality "-The " star quality " category was later replaced by " entertainment value ".

Contestants were selected from the crowd around MTV's Times Square office, and narrowed down via challenges testing the applicants ' music knowledge and personality.

Contestants must guess the title of the song the mismatched lyrics are from.

Contestants often wear sashes indicating where they are from in bikini contests, in similarity to the tradition in other beauty pageants.

Contestants are selected from regional, district, and state ISEF affiliated fairs.

MTV could only afford one square instead of nine, but otherwise the rules were unchanged: Contestants still had to get the X across, down, or diagonally.

Contestants often had to balance something with some part of their body, or race back and forth on the stage ( for example, releasing a balloon, running across the stage to do some task, and running back in time to catch the balloon before it floated too high ).

Contestants line up for a " best costume " competition at a Halloween party in the United States.

* Contestants competed for points, not dollars.

Contestants competed to find words on a grid that was similar to a word search puzzle that served as answers to questions asked by the host.

Contestants competed on the buzzers to win £ 10, £ 20, £ 40 (£ 30 in the last 2 series ), or tie the leader and match the leading player's score, depending on when the buzzer was pressed.

Contestants are required to evict one of their own on a regular basis ; in the earlier series of Big Brother, contestants were evicted every two weeks, however, as introduced in the UK version, evictions occurred once a week, all of the current series of Big Brother follow this format.

Contestants could win up to $ 32, 000 on the 1980s series ; the highest amount won was $ 29, 000.

* John and Edward Grimes, X Factor Contestants, series 6

Contestants were spotted $ 200 to start the round, and host Clark would read a series of rapid-fire questions.

Contestants on the winning team took turns entering the Fun House and tried to grab a series of red and green tags ( three tags per player per turn ) in each room in the Fun House.

Contestants were presented with a series of famous sports-related quotes.

Contestants from the series appeared as guests on Toronto 1's original programming, including Toronto Tonight, Toronto Today, and Last Call.

Contestants faced questions fired at them by a panel of four sports and entertainment celebrities for two minutes ; like Mastermind, there were two rounds of questions, however slightly different: The 1st round had each panelist's questions representing a different sports category pertaining to their area of expertise, and the 2nd round had no categories and the contestant couldn't control who asked the questions ; they were fired at random.

Contestants who score well will " break " out of preliminary rounds and continue to advance through octo / quarter / semi / final rounds if they continue to score well.

Contestants who successfully negotiated seven ( later four ) rounds of targets won a reasonable prize ; those who missed got a negligible prize.

Contestants are awarded points for every question answered correctly, and there are four rounds: the first and third consist of 15 toss-ups and the second and fourth contain 10 toss-ups with the potential for bonus questions on a correct toss-up response.