Contestants would win a new car as a consolation prize if they had reached the $ 8, 000 question.

Contestants who became champions of the Tyne would often challenge the corresponding champions of the River Thames, and the race would be arranged to take place on one of the two rivers.

Contestants would be given ninety seconds to answer five general knowledge questions asked by Davidson.

Contestants who chose this option were often invited to take an unofficial spin to see if the Devil would have come up next.

Contestants drew numbers to determine who spun the wheels first — and, in the $ 1, 000, 000 tournament, also which game of each round the contestant would play ( odd numbers spin first, even second ).

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

Contestants would have to do the traditional Bop It tasks, but as an added challenge, " Stomp it " and " Chomp it " were made.

Contestants would sing and their performance would be assessed by judges present at the show itself, and also by the public.

Contestants ( two in the Serling era, three in the Ludden era, and four in the Armstrong and Boardman eras ) would guess which star was telling the true story.

Contestants who failed to reach 101 were then invited to " come and have a look at what you could have won ", by Jim.

# Reward Challenge: Contestants compete to win a prize, first as teams and then as individuals after the teams are dissolved.

Contestants then secretly chose the question they wanted to face using buttons on their podiums.

Contestants could then try again, or pass and move on to the next headline.

Contestants will be aware of their scores, but not others ', and may resubmit to improve their scores.

Contestants must be under the age of 20 and must not be registered at any tertiary institution.

Contestants may not wear head pieces, or points will be taken off or the contestants may be disqualified.

* Contestants deciding to quit the contest for any reason not health-or other-emergency-related may or may not be called back for the final jury, pending the producers ' decision.

Contestants must be 18 and older to compete for the car.

Contestants present their cosplay, and often to be judged for an award, the cosplay must be self-made.

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 take turns specifying whether the next letter will be a vowel or a consonant.

Contestants with charistmatic personalities, such as the singer / songwriter pro-cheerleader Nina " Diva ", were heavily encouraged to follow all of the producer driven directives.

Contestants are given a polygraph test administered by a polygraph expert in a pre-screening session answering over 50 questions.

* Contestants must abide by U. S. law as well as local law.

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 are often addressed by their surnames, in reference to University Challenge.

Contestants who used such calculators were often called " Curta-crankers " by those who were limited to paper and pencil, or who used computers linked to the car's wheels.

Contestants travel to and within multiple countries in a variety of transportation modes, including airplanes, hot-air balloons, helicopters, trucks, bicycles, taxicabs, car, jeepneys, trains, buses, boats, and by foot.

Contestants were introduced by the announcer, and prizes and gifts were presented by the other assistants.

Contestants may take turns dancing or posing before the audience, with the outcome decided either by crowd reaction or by the opinions of judges.

Contestants won points by pressing the correct button quickly ; at the 1, 000 and 32, 000-point levels the game was paused briefly to show the top ten scores.

Contestants answered questions based on categories that were determined randomly by a mechanism resembling a slot machine.

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 signal that they have obtained the target number by saying le compte est bon.

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.

If the ineligible contestant is found to have won a One Bid, the contestants on Contestants ' Row at the time the ineligible contestant was playing and did not win a One Bid are entitled to return to the show, per game show regulations, as their appearance was compromised by an ineligible contestant, pursuant to all game show regulations.

Contestants regularly adapted their voting strategies as a group in order to try to avoid being " discharged " by the recruit they chose to dismiss.

Contestants have at their disposal a copy of the Bluebook and a packet of source materials provided by the review.

Contestants now only played for prizes obtained by hitting the seven bumpers.

Contestants removed numbers from the board based on the value of the roll of the dice, either all by itself or in combinations.

Contestants wore the dashio shari ( national dress of women in Bangladesh ). Miss Bangladesh pageant was held for the time being, after the divisional result came out. And in 1998 amid protests by Islamic groups over the attire of the contestants.