Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (Magisteria)

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? is a Magisterian game show that is based on the British format of Who Wants to be a Millionaire?. The main goal of the game is to win 2 million Magisterian dollars by answering 15 multiple-choice questions correctly. There are 3 default lifelines: 50:50 (fifty-fifty), Phone-A-Friend, and Ask the Audience, with an additional lifeline Double Dip (only for the high risk money tree)

Gameplay
At its core, the game is a quiz competition in which the goal is to correctly answer a series of fifteen consecutive multiple-choice questions. The questions are of increasing difficulty. Each question is worth a specific amount of money; the amounts are not cumulative. If at any time the contestant gives a wrong answer, the game is over and the contestant's winnings are reduced to $0 for tier-one questions, $10,000 for tier-two questions, and $75,000 for tier-three questions. However, the contestant may choose to stop playing after being presented with a question, allowing them to keep all the money they have won to that point.

They then have to answer fifteen multiple-choice questions correctly to move up the money tree. They can walk away at any time, and they have four "lifelines" to assist them:


 * 50:50: The computer removes two random incorrect answers, leaving the correct answer and one incorrect answer.
 * Phone-A-Friend: The contestant calls one of their friends from their predetermined list. They are given 30 seconds to discuss the question.
 * Ask the Audience: The members of the audience are polled using a keypad with buttons labelled from A to D. They press the button corresponding to the answer they think is the correct one. The percentage of the answers are shown onscreen and on the monitors.
 * Double Dip (High risk only): The contestant is given two chances to answer a question. If the first answer is incorrect, they cannot walk away and must give a second answer.

Over the course of the show's run, the format of Millionaire was changed in a number of aspects, mainly relating to the setup of questions used in the game, along with minor tweaks and changes in other aspects:


 * In the seventh season (2006), the Fastest Finger round was removed until it made it's return in the ninteenth season in 2018
 * Between the eleventh season and the sixteenth season, the questions 15 to 12. Unlike its British counterpart, the first three questions were simply removed. The high risk format was also used in this format.

Top prize winners
The Magisterian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? takes the first place for the most top prize winners in the franchise's history, with 49.

List

 * 1) Wardell Hanson - 10 November 2000
 * 2) Finn Wescott - 22 December 2000
 * 3) Carmen Eldred - 29 December 2000
 * 4) Anthelme Ledford - 26 January 2001
 * 5) René Paris - 9 February 2001
 * 6) Albert Burnham - 16 March 2001
 * 7) Regina Patrickson - 30 March 2001
 * 8) Charlton Aston - 6 April 2001
 * 9) Félicien Hatheway - 20 April 2001
 * 10) Sunny Harlan - 25 May 2001
 * 11) Patton Garey - 31 August 2001
 * 12) Ermintrude Pitts - 30 November 2001
 * 13) Ken Hopson - 28 December 2001
 * 14) Antonin Dubois - 4 January 2002
 * 15) Thelma Fabron - 22 February 2002
 * 16) Remington Rake - 31 May 2002
 * 17) Miranda Thomson - 20 September 2002
 * 18) Darin Sourd - 25 October 2002
 * 19) Trevelyan Huxtable - 27 December 2002
 * 20) Palmer Petit - 3 January 2003
 * 21) Ghyslain Descoteaux - 31 January 2003
 * 22) Elwin Twist - 14 February 2003
 * 23) Raleigh Tatton - 16 May 2003
 * 24) Hailie Ayers - 13 June 2003
 * 25) Joseph Scriven - 12 March 2004
 * 26) Roselyn Cross - 11 March 2005
 * 27) Pierce Walters - 30 December 2005
 * 28) Justina Martel - 10 March 2006
 * 29) Magalie Roux - 28 July 2006
 * 30) Ed Bowman & Élisabeth Soucy-Bowman - 16 February 2007
 * 31) Bertrand North - 9 March 2007
 * 32) Averie Giroux - 29 February 2008
 * 33) Driscoll Hartley - 27 February 2009
 * 34) Ely Daniel - 25 December 2009
 * 35) Jarrod Harvey - 31 December 2010
 * 36) Olivia Arrington - 11 March 2011
 * 37) Fulbert Alvey - 24 February 2012
 * 38) Chelsey Wheatley - 26 October 2012
 * 39) Orville François - 22 February 2013
 * 40) Marshal Eustache - 27 December 2013
 * 41) Raquel Hayley - 29 August 2014
 * 42) David Skeates - 25 December 2015
 * 43) Deforrest Rigby - 23 September 2016
 * 44) Rosalyn Bunker - 22 December 2017
 * 45) Malcolm Sauvage - 30 November 2018
 * 46) Eric Janvier - 25 January 2019
 * 47) Christiana Kitchen - 31 May 2019
 * 48) Ford Hatheway - 25 December 2020
 * 49) Coretta Boyce - 24 December 2021

Out of all the 49 top prize winners so far, Ghyslain Descoteaux is the only celebrity winner in the history of the show.