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

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.

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

There she advised young women contestants who were picking men hidden by masks.

Abdul's contestants were all eliminated from the competition, her final act Lakoda Rayne were eliminated by the public vote on week five of the Live Shows.

If these tournament rounds were held in one competition, up to 512 contestants would participate in the tournament, which is difficult to believe for a single contest.

The contestants ' desires were placed in sealed envelopes prior to the tournament.

The Amazing Race 19 used the detectives of The Adventures of Tintin as a challenge to find out that the contestants were going to Panama City.

A few months later, the contestants were cut down to seven, as well as the time from 45 minutes to 30, however, the prize money remained the same ( with a money tree of £ 50 -£ 100 -£ 250 -£ 1, 000 -£ 1, 750 -£ 2, 500 ; the seventh round being a double round for £ 10, 000 ).

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

The Groucho Marx-hosted game show, You Bet Your Life, was primarily composed of Marx ' prescripted comebacks to what was most often candid interviews of the contestants, although some contestants were well-known actors ( usually playing for charity ).

The TV show Expedition Robinson, created by TV producer Charlie Parsons, which first aired in 1997 in Sweden ( and was later produced in a large number of other countries as Survivor ), added to the Nummer 28 / Real World template the idea of competition and elimination, in which cast members / contestants battled against each other and were removed from the show until only one winner remained.

; Job search: In this category, the competition revolves around a skill that contestants were pre-screened for.

The owner of UFC declared that the final match of the first season of Ultimate Fighter was so good, both contestants were offered a contract, and in addition, many non-winning " TUF Alumni " have prospered in the UFC.

During the second season of Hell's Kitchen, it was speculated that the customers eating meals prepared by the contestants were in fact paid actors.

A literary competition was held at Stanford University in 1985, in which the contestants were invited to make Chomsky's sentence meaningful using not more than 100 words of prose or 14 lines of verse.

The Elfstedentocht of 1963 became known as " The hell of ' 63 " when only 69 of the 10, 000 contestants were able to finish the race, due to the extremely low temperatures ,-18 ° C, and a harsh eastern wind.

This was the first season where the contestants were not given any initial supplies, such as food, water, or matches.

The sixteen contestants were divided into two tribes preselected before the game began, Rotu and Maraamu.

However, once they got to shore, the contestants were shocked to realize they were given no food, this being the first time in Survivor history.

Additionally, contestants were able to win " by default " if an opponent made a mistake while attempting to block.

** During the 2005 season the tribes were initially divided up by age into " Old " and " Young ", with the old contestants being forty and older and the young contestants being under the age of thirty.

** During the 2005 season the contestants were divided up into tribes based on where they were from within Denmark.

** During the 2009 season the tribes were initially divided into " Smart " and " Dumb " based on the results of an IQ test the contestants took prior to the start of the competition.

** During the 1999 season the contestants were initially divided into four tribes.

The season began with the contestants divided into tribes split by gender for the first time.

This led the contestants to assume that the tribes would be divided by gender, for the first time.

Two contestants faced a nine-space game board, divided into three rows of three boxes.

The contestants were originally divided into two " corporations " by gender.

In the first season of the show the contestants were initially divided into two houses depending on which country they came from but following the first eviction the houses were joined but contestants were still divided into two teams.

The five male and five female contestants once again are divided by gender.

The " Little Big Star " competition is divided into two " divisions ;" the Little Division for contestants ages 6 to 9 years old and the Big Division with contestants ages 10 to 13 years old.

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

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.

), the action takes place in an enclosed TV studio over a short period of time ; however, they have higher production values, more dramatic background music, and higher stakes than traditional shows ( done either through putting contestants into physical danger or offering large cash prizes ).

When producer Henry Winkler gave Bergeron the notice that the episode was to air on April Fools ' Day ( April 1 ), the " game " ended, and the two " contestants " got to keep the money they earned, and the normal game straddled into the next day's episode ( with that day's bonus round played as usual ).

It was said that the game was an incorporation of 21st-Century elements into the classic game as well as an added feature that people from along the streets would be able to participate for matching with contestants and celebrities in Street Smarts-style.

Among other things, Spinn split the contestants into two competing teams ( the green team and the orange team, both wearing appropriately-coloured T-shirts ) and also heavily involved a rotating stage that provided scenery and props for the various improvised skits.

It was called The Summertime Car Show and Sound Off Competition, which at its height drew upwards of 300 contestants and continued into the 1990s.

Google " novels " and " length " and you will find tables of word counts, separating out novels from novellas, even from the esoteric and still shorter " novelette " — as though prose works were dog show contestants, needing to be entered into proper categories.

In Gabon, the contestants unanimously decided to throw a hidden immunity idol into the sea.

The concept of Exile Island was also explored in the first season of Survivor South Africa, when eliminated contestants were exiled to " Dead Man's Island " and later given a chance to come back into the game.

** During the 2010 season the contestants took part in a challenge that would ultimately divide them into " Masters " and " Slaves " within their own tribes ( one tribe was composed of male masters and female slaves while the other was composed of female masters and male slaves ).

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.

On March 15, 2010 The Bachelorette creator Mike Fleiss appeared on 20 / 20 to confess that he develops the show's contestants into characters that will cater to his audience's tastes and that they " need fair share of villains every season.

: VARIATION 1: The contestants are split into two groups and taken on a tour.

: VARIATION 2: The contestants are split into two groups and must solve the same set of riddles.

This alternated with a test in which the contestants had to walk a balance beam to the first challenge-placing coloured wooden blocks into frames either side of them, swinging from side to side in doing so ( this was known as the Fleischmann Flexibility Tests ).