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.

Whilst chefs in such restaurants may need to tweak traditional recipes to suit contemporary tastebuds, emphasis of natural foods is still extant. The annual Indigenous Peoples Healthy Cuisine and Innovative Beverage Competition, partly sponsored by the Council of Indigenous Peoples and the Tourism Bureau provides prize money to contestants who creatively use traditional indigenous ingredients in healthy ways.

Despite arguments that realism cannot be achieved in reality shows because the outcomes may or may not have been scripted, Geoff King argues in his book, Spectacle of the Real: From Hollywood to Reality TV and Beyond that even though the contestants are in a fabricated setting and the situation has been set up for a certain outcome, as in real love shows such as The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, these contestants still harbor feelings that make their participation in the show real to them.

or any of the other TV trivia game shows, other than that many of the contestants may be the same.

A game of chance is a game whose outcome is strongly influenced by some randomizing device, and upon which contestants may or may not wager money or anything of monetary value.

However, a player may purchase as many contestants as they desire.

For example, contestants may have points taken off if they wear a flipper or hairpiece.

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

In addition, the final five or six contestants may have the opportunity to compete for a car.

* If a contestant becomes seriously injured or sick, the player, fellow contestants, the host, or even the crew filming the players may call in a medical team for help.

* Depending on which country the show takes place in, contestants may be barred from killing certain forms of plant or animal life.

Other contestants may simply choose to pose as their characters.

However, the Rainhill trials may be seen as a milestone event, as during the eight days it lasted there were considerable modifications carried out on the three main contestants in which Hackworth participated tirelessly and displayed absolute impartiality.

The questions may be set by the bar staff or landlord, taken from a quiz book, bought from a specialist trivia company, or be set by volunteers from amongst the contestants.

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 audience sees only the game-an important feature of all dating game shows is that the contestants have little or no previous knowledge of each other, and are exposed to each other only through the game, which may include viewing a photograph or at least knowing the basic criteria for participation ( typically participants are not already married ).

Class passing also figures into reality television programs such as Joe Millionaire: contestants are often immersed in displays of great material wealth, or may have to conceal their class status.

Many of them belong to actors, presenters and contestants who may have forgotten to turn them off or put them in silent mode.

* 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.

Hart's fellow contestants choose her as Miss Congeniality, and she starts a relationship with Matthews.

Many contestants choose to dress up in costumes.

In 1997 the organization decided to allow contestants to choose their own more revealing two-piece suits, bikinis, or traditional one-piece suits.

In 2001, he was one of 16 contestants from the first Spanish edition of ' Idol ' contest designed to choose the representative for the festival ' Eurovision ' of that year.

Game show host Monty Hall stated in a TV interview that his partner, Stefan Hatos, had always been experimenting with a game show based on The Lady, or the Tiger, in which contestants would win what was behind one of two doors that they could choose.

The name " Hawk-Dove " refers to a situation in which there is a competition for a shared resource and the contestants can choose either conciliation or conflict ; this terminology is most commonly used in biology and evolutionary game theory.

* Plant or Animalin which contestants would have to choose if a clip played for them was the sound a wild animal makes or an excerpt from the vocalizations of Robert Plant on a Led Zeppelin song.

Four single men were introduced to four single women, and either the women ( in the first episode ) or the men ( in the second episode ) got to choose their partner among the available contestants of the opposite sex.

Most contestants were standing up ; however, an opening in the rules enabled riders to choose their own board position, including supine.

The contestants built on their scores from the first round and were able to choose from two categories after each spin.

Like in the French version, contestants picked alternately, but the person to begin the round also got to choose which of the three stacks was used for the round.

The five contestants ( Melanie Amaro, Marcus Canty, Rachel Crow, Josh Krajcik, and Chris Rene ) only had twenty-four hours to choose another song that would get them to be in the final four.

A question is posed, and the studio contestants must choose which of the three " savants " gave the correct answer ( indicated in the first season on a trilon ).

During the commercial, the contestants each choose, in secret, 1 ) which " savant " they wish to pick, 2 ) whether they got the question right or wrong, and 3 ) the amount of their score that they wish to wager.

At the start of the game, three of the six contestants secretly choose one of the other three contestants as their teammates.

If two contestants choose the same contestant as a potential partner, the potential partner decides which team member he or she wants.

In 1997, Ferro participated in the " Accademia della Canzone di Sanremo ", a music contest created with the purpose to choose the contestants of the Sanremo Music Festival, but was eliminated during the first stage of the competition.

* If both contestants choose a Split ball, the jackpot is split equally between them.

* If both contestants choose Steal balls, they both get nothing.

In the end, the judges couldn't choose between the final four contestants and all four were chosen to be the anchors, even though one of the contestants was 16 and the age requirements were 18 and older.

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.

Erik Estrada has been chosen to be a contestant on the second season of the Spanish reality show of Univision, Mira Quien Baila, where 10 contestants are chosen to perform different styles of dancing and each Sunday one of them is eliminated.

Every episode features a different topic, from a dance track to a love ballad, that requires the contestants to write and perform lyrics from a multiple of genres, for a cash prize of $ 100, 000, a publishing deal with songwriting collective The Writing Camp, and a recording deal with RCA / Jive label.

The first round has contestants perform a freestyle dance before a panel of judges.

On June 25, 2004, Watkins and Thomas announced that they were pitching a reality television show where contestants would compete for a chance to record a single and perform in concert with the two of them.

The 1986 series consisted of the contestants competing in twos to perform first the Minnesota Manual Dexterity test ( moving differently-coloured cylinders from one side to the other ), then running over to perform the Fleischmann Flexibility Test and then the final test, which involved hitting the relevant button whenever a colour flashed up on the screen ( only one colour at a time in this case ).

She was the last of twelve contestants to perform that night, perched on a stool while wearing an embroidered white mini-dress.

* On 23 June 2009 the contestants on Big Brother 10 ( UK Channel 4 ) were given the task to perform The Volta, with the performance shown the following evening.

** Talent show, a live performance spectacle ( sometimes on TV ) where contestants perform acting, singing, dancing, acrobatics and other art forms

The contestants must then perform the routine in groups while observed by judges.

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.

At least ten of the contestants must perform in Swedish.

The contestants that will perform the twenty-eight qualifiers from the preselection are announced in late November.

Idol in Norway is unique in that contestants have been allowed to perform self composed songs since the first season in 2003.

The fifth season of Idol in Norway saw contestants able to perform with an instrument at any stage of the competition whereas other adaptations of Idol that have introduced live instrumentation only allow the concept at certain times during the show.

After the change Collyer would often rush contestants to perform the Jackpot quickly if they had just barely enough time in order to not have the Jackpot Clock at the beginning of the next episode.

The alts voted the contestants off by judging them on their ability to perform " trials " which were based loosely on the practices of each alt's lifestyle, and their behavior and attitude with the other guests.

From the start, most contestants preferred to answer the question wrong in order to perform the stunt.

The Theatre round is where a specially selected group of auditioners from all regional auditions converge ( always in the host city ) to perform in three sub stages: a chorus line in groups of 10 where free song choices are allowed, a trio ( or less commonly a duo or quartet ) where contestants must memorize a preselected song to perform and choreograph together, and finally a solo a cappella round where contestants sing a song of their own choice without musical backing in front of friends, family, judges & fellow contestants.