Q 01/05

Which British network first aired Who Wants to Be a Millionaire in September 1998?

A) BBC One

B) Channel 4

C) Sky One

D) ITV

Answer · why

D) ITV

ITV: it launched the show as a nightly event, airing it on successive evenings.

Q 02/05

What working title did Who Wants to Be a Millionaire carry during its design phase?

A) Money Ladder

B) The Big Prize

C) Cash Mountain

D) Top of the Pile

Answer · why

C) Cash Mountain

Cash Mountain: once the show was a hit, a Sydney man claimed it copied a quiz format he had devised years earlier.

Q 03/05

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire takes its title from a Cole Porter song written for which 1956 musical film?

A) High Society

B) Anything Goes

C) Silk Stockings

D) Kiss Me Kate

Answer · why

A) High Society

High Society: Oscar voters mistakenly nominated the writers of a 1955 Bowery Boys comedy with the same title, who asked to be removed.

Q 04/05

Who presented the original British Who Wants to Be a Millionaire from 1998 to 2014?

A) Bruce Forsyth

B) Des Lynam

C) Chris Tarrant

D) Bradley Walsh

Answer · why

C) Chris Tarrant

Chris Tarrant: his decision to quit in October 2013 led the network to axe the show.

Q 05/05

Before Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, its creators devised games for the host's breakfast show on which radio station?

A) Radio 1

B) Virgin Radio

C) Capital FM

D) LBC

Answer · why

C) Capital FM

Capital FM: the TV show grew out of Double or Quits, a radio game in which a £1 stake doubled with every correct answer.