Hostess Anne Aston ( who appeared to struggle with mental arithmetic ) was on hand to read out the scores achieved by the contestants, and each month a " Maid of the Month ", usually a glamour model of the era, would demonstrate the prizes and announce the contestants.

However, after seeing the contestants struggle to answer relatively easy questions, Beauregard plots revenge on Burnbridge Waters.

* 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.

The contestants are required to do housework, and are set tasks by the producers of the show, who communicate with the housemates via the omnipresent authority figure known to them only as " Big Brother ".

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.

The news photo caption for this 1959 Venice, California event read: " Beatnik Beauties: Posing before a sample of beatnik art are contestants for the title of Miss Beatnik of 1959, which will be conferred Sept. 12 under sponsorship of the Venice Arts Committee.

She hopes that all will support the contestants from our own community by attending our Pageants and the State Pageant June 17 ; ;

Notable among these are: a scheme for use of State owned Electronic Media for broadcast / telecast by Political parties, checking criminalisation of politics, computerisation of electoral rolls, providing electors with Identity Cards, simplifying the procedure for maintenance of accounts and filling of the same by candidates and a variety of measures for strict compliance of Model Code of Conduct, for providing a level playing field to contestants during the elections.

At the State Competition, Amber wins the Minnesota American Teen Princess title by default after all the other contestants fall ill with seafood-related food poisoning.

During his time at Channel 9, starting in 1974, Rayner also hosted a Thursday night broadcast of The Illinois State Lottery's then-weekly drawings, which featured a top prize of $ 300, 000 (" Weekly Bonanza ") and a second prize of $ 50, 000 to a field of about a dozen contestants who had won a special lottery game over the preceding seven-day period.

If a qualified contestant is unable to participate in the State Contest, no alternate contestants will be placed into competition.

Boniface had to uphold the sacredness of the feudal contract at all costs, for it was only as suzerain of Sicily and of the Patrimony of Peter that he had any justification for his Italian wars, but in the English-Scottish-French triangle it was almost impossible for him to recognize the claims of any one of the contestants without seeming to invalidate those of the other two.

So escalation proceeds, ad infinitum or, more accurately, until the contestants begin dropping them on each other instead of on their respective proving grounds.

Not only were the contestants pleased with the Class, but it aroused the interest of all in attendance that day.

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.

Each series lasts for around three months, with 12 – 16 contestants entering the house.

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

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.

Throughout each day the program's producer, via the " Big Brother " voice, issues directives and commands to contestants.

* Since Big Brother 2, the UK series always opens with a twist which have included the public being able to choose the final housemate out of three possibilities ( Big Brother 2 ), the public voting for a housemate to leave during the first week and then the housemates choosing between the two housemates with the least number of votes ( Big Brother 3 ), First Night Nominations ( Big Brother 4 ), Suitcase Nominations ( Big Brother 5 ), Unlucky Housemate 13 ( Big Brother 6 ), Big Brother Hood ( Big Brother 7 ), an all-female House and the first inclusion of twins as contestants ( Big Brother 8 ), the first couple to enter as housemates and set a secret task to hide their real relationship ( Big Brother 9 ), all " housemates " really being " non-housemates " who had to earn their housemate status ( Big Brother 10 ), a mole entering the House with an " Impossible Task " ( Big Brother 11 ), Jackie Stallone entering a house containing her son's ex-wife ( Celebrity Big Brother 3 ), the entrance of a non-celebrity in a celebrity edition ( Celebrity Big Brother 4 ) and Jade Goody's family announced to be visiting.

Each episode of The Big Time will focus on a different vertical ( Baseball, Soccer, Cooking etc .…) and will feature contestants competing for a chance to live their dreams.

Charles introduced the show, enthusiastically announced the results of the battles and spoke to the contestants after the main events.

Charles provided the voice-over commentary for the UK version of the Japanese game show Takeshi's Castle, shown on Challenge and Ftn ( 2002 – 2004 ), in which contestants attempted to pass a series of near-impossible physical challenges, to reach the final showdown at the castle and win cash prizes.

He provided comedy insights into the contestants ' abilities, which were designed to appeal to adult audiences, as well as younger viewers.

Charles was a contestant in the Celebrity Poker Club tournament ( 2004 ) on Challenge, where he reached the semi-finals, and in the Channel 4 reality game show, The Games ( 2005 ), which documented the contestants ' intensive training regime and each live Olympic Games-style sporting event, in which he came fourth overall in the men's competition.

A dance competition is an organized event in which contestants perform dances before a judge or judges for awards, and in some cases, monetary prizes.

Another is the " Datsyuk Game " where a Datsyuk highlight reel is played on YouTube and contestants drink every time the word Datsyuk is mentioned.