The contestants in this economic struggle are the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee ( AWOC ) of the AFL-CIO and the agricultural employers of the State.

* On the British game show Countdown, contestants are given 30 seconds to make the longest word from nine random letters.

* On the British game show BrainTeaser, contestants are shown a word broken into randomly arranged segments and must announce the whole word.

Although each country has made its own adaptations and changes to the format, the contestants are confined to a specially designed house where their every action is recorded by cameras and microphones at all times and they are not permitted to make any contact with the outside world.

In all the countries that have produced Big Brother, they have referred to the contestants as " housemates "; however in the American version of the format they are referred to as " houseguests ".

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.

This is taken to the extent that contestants are forbidden from discussing nominations or voting strategy altogether.

The Big Brother contestants are isolated within the house.

In the more recent series of the franchise, special instances have occurred whereby contestants are allowed to view televised events which are usually as a reward for winning a task.

Despite the fact that the housemates are generally isolated, on some occasions some contestants are allowed to exit the house as part of tasks.

Canadian contestants are generally allowed to participate on American game shows, and there have been at least two Canadian game show hosts, Jim Perry and Alex Trebek, that have gone on to long careers hosting American series.

At the awarding ceremony, contestants are awarded medals depending on their relative total score.

The top 50 % of the contestants are awarded medals, such that the relative number of gold: silver: bronze: no medal is approximately 1: 2: 3: 6 ( thus 1 / 12 of the contestants get a gold medal ).

* 1997 – In Nigeria, more than 100 people are killed at an attack aimed at the contestants of the Miss World contest.

This introduction style set a precedent, and today both Super Bowl contestants are introduced as a team.

The rules are often deliberately written with subtle loopholes that contestants are somewhat encouraged to find and abuse.

While the contestants work as a team when answering questions, they are at this point encouraged to be ruthless with one another.

* November 22 – In Nigeria, more than 100 are killed at an attack aimed at the Miss World contestants.

Furthermore, as the contestants did not have heavy leather gloves and wristwraps to protect their hands, a certain amount of restraint was required when striking the head.

( In the very first series of the British version and until the end of the 2003 season in the Australian version, Fastest Finger First required the contestants to answer one multiple choice question correctly as quickly as possible.

U. S. contestants were later required to pass a more conventional game show qualifying test at contestant auditions.

In 2008's contest " Race to Zero ", contestants submitted a version of given malware which was required to be undetectable by all of the antivirus engines in each round.

Also in 1993, Tarrant hosted Lose A Million, in which contestants started off with a million pounds and were required to lose it by aiming to incorrectly answer a set of questions.

Instead of each family member going up to answer a question, only one person on each team was required and the two contestants participated in all three questions.

In 1987, the Response round in the initial heats was a combination of a race between the contestants using double-odometer bicycles, and a video wall which would display random numbers of coloured blocks ; the contestants were required to press one of four coloured buttons corresponding to the highest number of blocks of any one colour being displayed.

The first heat in each group required the contestants to land Concorde, the second heat required the contestants to land a Red Arrow, and the third heat required them to land a Boeing 737.

The group finals required the contestants to land the Sea King on an aircraft carrier.

The 1992 and 1993 grand finals required the contestants to land a real plane.

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.

It is required that the arena is " worked " after twelve contestants have run and before slack.

Until at least 1940, contestants were required to complete a biological questionnaire tracing their ancestry.

Before 1997, the contestants were required to wear identical, somewhat dated, one-piece suits.

Norheim made a splash when he introduced this publicly at a 1868 ski jump meet, where the contestants were required to ski up the hill, down to the jump and then jump, and marked on all phases.

A handful of earth taken from the disputed piece of land is put between the contestants and they are required to touch it with their swords, each swearing that their claim is lawful.

When a pageant is conducted, contestants are typically required to perform a solo routine, model their costumes, introduce themselves to the audience, give a short speech, be interviewed, or some combination of these.

In order to win the final cash prize, all the contestants have to do is survive periodic evictions and be the last one standing.

Within the code size limit of only a few kilobytes, contestants have managed to do impressively complicated things — a 2004 winner turned out an operating system.

The city entertains contestants in the Lancaster International Youth Games, a multi-sport ' Olympic ' style event, featuring competitors from Lancaster's twin towns: Rendsburg ( Germany ), Perpignan ( France ), Viana do Castelo ( Portugal ), Aalborg ( Denmark ), Almere ( Netherlands ), Lublin ( Poland ) and Växjö ( Sweden ).

Often, semi-glitz pageants do not permit the contestants to be artificially tanned.

A 20-year old man was arrested, and the attack was thought to have something to do with her performance on Celebrity Big Brother where nearly 50, 000 complaints were received about her and two other female contestants ' apparent racist bullying toward Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty.

Megan Parris confesses that not only is the show scripted, but that producers " bully " contestants into saying specific things to the camera that the contestants do not want to say.

Panelists may compete with each other, such as on The News Quiz ; facilitate play by guest contestants, such as on Match Game / Blankety Blank ; or do both, such as on Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me!

The contestants would then attempt to do the same, and a score would be given by the professional.

In the final episode of each day, the contestants were allowed to do a " hand jive " during the end credits, therefore only appearing on each Friday's episode.

Most contestants are so lazy and dumb, they do not win, much to Tina's annoyance.

The Birmingham area has had more than its fair share of American Idol contestants do well, including second season winner Ruben Studdard, fourth season runner-up Bo Bice, and fifth season winner Taylor Hicks.

Three contestants sitting in lounge chairs would select one of nine channels on a big-screen television that stood behind Ober, with each channel representing a subject having to do with pop culture.

Since Season 8, Power of Immunity winner was also given a bad side, where that housemate, besides protecting someone from elimination, must " punish " one or more contestants, obliging them to do an unpleasing task or forbidding them to go to the party.

The Royal Rumble differs from the classical Battle Royal as the thirty contestants do not enter the ring at the same time but instead are assigned entry numbers, usually via a lottery, although they can win guaranteed, desirable spots via a number of other means, the most common being winning a match.

Vote splitting also can occur in situations that do not involve strategic nomination, such as talent contests ( such as American Idol ) where earlier rounds of voting determine the current contestants.

Competitors from the same school usually do not compete against each other in preliminary rounds ( although this situation can occur if a school enrolls numerous contestants in an event or parcipitation in a tournament is low ), and competitors should not know what schools their opponents are from, as codes are randomly assigned to each school at the beginning of the tournament.

Bob and Ray would do their typical routines, and then play the normal game of having a celebrity panel try to guess the contestants ' famous names.

The first seven contestants had trouble even getting the second cup stacked, but the eighth contestant to try the stunt on March 25, 1956 ( the show's sixth " birthday " show ) kept the balloon very close to the ground and at points held it on the ground ( although Collyer warned him several times not to do so ) and bounced the balloon as he grabbed the next cup.

In most international versions of the game show Duel, if two contestants do not cover the correct answer to a regular question when the duel is in process, the duel goes to a sudden death question called a " Shootout ".

If both contestants get the answer correct, the contestant who covered fewer choices wins, but if both contestants do not cover the correct answer to the shootout question, they are both eliminated ( that happens automatically if both contestants are wrong during the duel in international versions that do not have sudden death ).