* Las Vegas, the 3rd race of the 2001 season, was noted for the fact that Mike Skinner, Earnhardt's teammate at Richard Childress Racing, took over Earnhardt's slot in the No Bull 5 million dollar eligibility for this race since Earnhardt had qualified for the No Bull 5 prize after his final victory in the 2000 Winston 500 at Talladega.

In 1997 he was awarded the Lemelson-MIT Prize of $ 500, 000, the world's largest single prize for invention and innovation, and the ACM Turing Award.

Side B of a Panathenaic Games | Panathenaic prize Panathenaic amphora | amphora, c. 500 BC.

A $ 500, 000 award accompanies the prize.

Regardless of whether or not locomotives were settled upon, a prize of £ 500 was offered to the winner of the trials.

It averaged ( achieving a top speed of ) hauling 13 tons, and was declared the winner of the £ 500 prize.

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 ).

The prize for the competition was $ 500 and a lot in the federal city.

Up to three winners are selected every quarter, each given a prize of $ 500.

The game ends when the contestant answers a question incorrectly, decides not to answer a question, or answers all questions correctly, thus usually letting the host rip the cheque for £ 500, 000 apart and winning the top prize of £ 1 million.

Three Peugeots were entered in the 1895 Paris-Bordeaux where they were beaten by Panhard's car ( despite an average speed of and taking the 31, 500 franc prize.

The Pixie won the £ 500 Abdulla Company prize for speed.

If a player did not win anything in the main game, $ 500 was given to them as a consolation prize.

In addition, players only played for half the money ; $ 500 was won for each of the first two games, with $ 1, 000 for the third and $ 2, 000 for all subsequent games and $ 250 was given as a consolation prize for failing to win a game.

For the remainder of the first season and for subsequent theme weeks, if the contestant didn't agree or disagree correctly they received an additional $ 2, 500 as a consolation prize.

In addition, champions started with nine keys for each attempt at winning a bonus prize regardless of how many times the prize had not been won, and the consolation prize reverted back to $ 500 for correct answers in the true-false round.

If the contestant hit a Whammy, the home player received a $ 500 consolation prize.

The total prize package for the award was increased to $ 50, 000, with $ 40, 000 presented to the winning author and $ 2, 500 each for the other four shortlisted nominees.

The winner receives $ 500, 000, making it the largest cash prize for invention in the U. S.

" The prize was $ 500, however the band won gas money and a trip to the Grand Ole Opry.

The top prize in the Bassmaster Classic is $ 500, 000.

Elmer Huge of La Porte, Indiana won a $ 1, 500 prize for his winning submission: " Edithton Beach ".

" The prize comes with a cash award of US $ 500, 000.

The show featured eight a cappella groups from the United States and Puerto Rico vying for the prize of $ 100, 000 and a recording contract with Epic Records / Sony Music.

The award includes a cash prize of € 5, 000 and a Bluetooth Qualification Program voucher ( QDID ) valued at up to US $ 10, 000.

The prize money awarded with the Booker Prize was originally £ 21, 000, and was subsequently raised to £ 50, 000 in 2002 under the sponsorship of the Man Group, making it one of the world's richest literary prizes.

Berger donated half of his £ 5, 000 prize to the British Black Panther movement, because they had a socialist and revolutionary perspective in agreement with his own.

It is one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems selected by the Clay Mathematics Institute to carry a US $ 1, 000, 000 prize for the first correct solution.

The annual $ 25, 000 prize is administered by the Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History and the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale.

This prime allowed GIMPS to win the $ 100, 000 prize from Electronic Frontier Foundation for discovering a prime with more than 10 million decimal digits.

" The prize was accompanied by a US $ 100, 000 award, which Pei used to create a scholarship for Chinese students to study architecture in the US, on the condition that they return to China to work.

In 1993, Polgár defeated former World Champion Boris Spassky ( pictured here in 1984 ) in an exhibition match winning the largest prize money up to that point of her career of $ 110, 000.

She won the match 5½ – 4½ and won the largest prize money to that point in her career of $ 110, 000.

Polgár won two, drew one and lost one and won $ 12, 000 in prize money.

Polgár finished clear first with 6½ – 2½, winning the $ 20, 000 first place prize money.

The JREF sponsors The One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge offering a prize of US $ 1, 000, 000 to eligible applicants who can demonstrate evidence of any paranormal, supernatural or occult power or event under test conditions agreed to by both parties.

The problem was considered so intractable that the British Parliament offered a prize of £ 20, 000 ( comparable to £ in modern currency ) for the solution.

A potential world record of was recorded by Iván Pedroso, with a " legal " wind reading also at Sestriere, but the jump was not validated because videotape revealed someone was standing in front of the wind gauge, invalidating the reading ( and costing Pedroso a Ferrari valued at $ 130, 000 -- the prize for breaking the record at that meet ).

In September 2008, mathematicians at UCLA participating in GIMPS won part of a $ 100, 000 prize from the Electronic Frontier Foundation for their discovery of a very nearly 13-million-digit Mersenne prime.

The total prize money for the 2011 race was A $ 6, 175, 000, plus trophies valued at $ 125, 000.

First prize: $ 2, 000

In 1985, Tom Newman, a Stanford graduate student, successfully reduced the first paragraph of A Tale of Two Cities by 1 / 25, 000, and collected the second Feynman prize.