Milionerzy
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Milionerzy is a Polish
Polish language
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 game show
Game show
A game show is a type of radio or television program in which members of the public, television personalities or celebrities, sometimes as part of a team, play a game which involves answering questions or solving puzzles usually for money and/or prizes...

 based on the original British format of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? is a television game show which offers large cash prizes for correctly answering a series of multiple-choice questions of increasing difficulty. The format is owned and licensed by Sony Pictures Television International. The maximum cash prize is one million pounds...

. The show is hosted by Hubert Urbański. The main goal of the game is to win 1 million polish zloty
Polish zloty
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 (€240,000) by answering twelve multiple-choice questions correctly. There are three or four lifelines - fifty fifty (pół na pół), ask the audience (pytanie do publiczności) and ask the expert (pytanie do eksperta), the experts were: Bartosz Węglarczyk, Michał Ogórek, Szymon Hołownia, Dorota Wellman and Jan Wróbel; in the previous season - Andrzej Fabianowski, Piotr Gąsowski
Piotr Gąsowski
Piotr Gąsowski is a Polish actor, comedian and presenter. He appeared in the television series Aby do świtu... in 1992.-References:...

 and Kazimiera Szczuka
Kazimiera Szczuka
Kazimiera Szczuka is a Polish literary historian, literary critic and television personality, known from the Polish edition of The Weakest Link....

. Earlier there was phone a friend [telefon do przyjaciela] instead of ask the expert [pytanie do eksperta]. Since March 2010, contestant can choose risk game. If the contestant wants risk game, a new lifeline called switch the question (zmiana pytania) is added - if the contestant chooses to play the version with this lifeline, the second guaranteed sum (40,000 zł) isn't a guaranteed sum. The first series of Milionerzy was broadcast from 3 September 1999 to 26 January 2003, and the second version has been broadcast since 19 January 2008. It is shown every Sunday at 6 p.m (CET
Central European Time
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 or CEST) on the Polish commercial television
Commercial Television
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 station TVN
TVN (Poland)
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. Executive producer of first series was Endemol
Endemol
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. Now executive producer of programme is Intergalactic. When a contestant gets the second question correct, he or she will leave with at least 1,000 zł. When a contestant gets the seventh question correct, he or she will leave with at least 40,000 zł.

The game's prizes

In the current version of Milionerzy, there are twelve questions:
  • 1. question • 500 zł
  • 2. question • 1,000 zł (guaranteed sum)
  • 3. question • 2,000 zł
  • 4. question • 5,000 zł
  • 5. question • 10,000 zł
  • 6. question • 20,000 zł
  • 7. question • 40,000 zł (guaranteed sum) (in risk mode it's not a guaranteed sum)
  • 8. question • 75,000 zł
  • 9. question • 125,000 zł
  • 10. question • 250,000 zł
  • 11. question • 500,000 zł
  • 12. question • 1,000,000 zł


In first version of Milionerzy, there were fifteen questions:
  • 1. question • 100 zł
  • 2. question • 200 zł
  • 3. question • 300 zł
  • 4. question • 500 zł
  • 5. question • 1,000 zł (guaranteed sum)
  • 6. question • 2,000 zł
  • 7. question • 4,000 zł
  • 8. question • 8,000 zł
  • 9. question • 16,000 zł
  • 10. question • 32,000 zł (guaranteed sum)
  • 11. question • 64,000 zł
  • 12. question • 125,000 zł
  • 13. question • 250,000 zł
  • 14. question • 500,000 zł
  • 15. question • 1,000,000 zł

Appearance and changes of appearance

From 1999 through 2003 we could see three changes of the studio stage design, some differ in stylistics. From 2008, after resumption we could see the fourth stage design and now, in 2010, the fifth one.

The first logo of Milionerzy from 1999 was very different to standard the model used in other editions of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. It was a violet rhombus on one of vertexes and rings stooding on themselves on background of "Milionerzy" caption. The second one, modelled on the traditional style, is round with green question mark
Question mark
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s. It was introduced with the changes of credits and scenography
Scenography
-Usage:Whilst also aligned with the professional practice of the scenographer, it is important to distinguish the individual elements that comprise the 'design' of a performance event from the term 'scenography' which is as an artistic perspective concerning the visual, experiential and spatial...

 in 2000. It is used also now, but in another colour scheme
Colour Scheme
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 (question marks are gold
Gold
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).

The first and second version of the opening credits were similar with people looking and aiming on Milionerzy logo. It was patterned on British credits of this time. From 2008, the opening credits of the programme feature an animation showing in sequence all prizes to one million zlotys - it is patterned on the newest British version.

In 2008 except for the opening credits, no big changes were made on graphics and sounds. The 2008 edition had refreshed graphics: the fields with questions and answers were navy-blue and blue (earlier black) and smaller than in first edition of Milionerzy, and the field with won prize was blue (earlier brown and navy-blue). Also some sound effects and music we could hear in the background
Background music
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 when player answers a question, changed.

In 2010 opening credits were changed, fields, where players' names are shown in Fastest Finger First are smaller, question fields and money tree are smaller, also fonts were changed. Also, there are no commercial break intros and outros.

Now, the show is recorded in Farat Film studio in Warsaw, 22, Notecka St. The first edition was recorded in the Warsaw
Warsaw
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-based WFDiF studio, 21, Chełmska St. from 1999 until 2001 in the TVP
Telewizja Polska
Telewizja Polska Spółka Akcyjna is Poland's public broadcasting corporation...

 studio on 17, Woronicza St until 2003. In 2008 and 2009 Milionerzy was recorded in the TVP
Telewizja Polska
Telewizja Polska Spółka Akcyjna is Poland's public broadcasting corporation...

 studio in Kraków
Kraków
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, 44, Nowohucka St.

Light effects during second edition (2008-today)

Scenography of the second edition (2008-today). Studio has these light effects:
Moment of the game Colors of elements of the studio
Floor Entrance and stairs Sitting places for audience Lamps above the studio
  • before the game
  • after giving the correct answer
  • when contestant leaves the studio
gold-yellow yellow blue-pink yellow
  • before Fastest Finger First
  • red powder blue violet-pink red
  • during Fastest Finger First
  • red pink violet-pink red
  • after ending Fastest Finger First
  • violet yellow blue-pink blue
  • when audience is polling
  • pink pink violet pink
  • in the questions for 500 and 1,000 zł
  • steel gray cyaneous blue violet-pink
  • in the questions for 2,000 to 40,000 zł
  • celeste blue blue cyaneous
  • in the question from 75,000 to 250,000 zł
  • blae blae black glum gold
  • in the questions for 500,000 and 1,000,000 zł
  • black celeste black glum gold
  • after giving the correct answer at the last question
  • gold gold black white

    Way to become a contestant

    1999–2003
    • Stage I – to become a contestant, you had to phone a special Telemedium number, then choose date of recording of the episode, then answer a question with four variants and tell your personal details. 100 people were drawn from those who answered correctly and told the same recording date and they went to the II stage.
    • Stage II – people, who were drawn, gave their telephone number, and a pollster called them in a 2-days time and asked questions, which didn't have answer variants. 20 people, who gave the most similar answers to the correct ones were going to the III stage.
    • Stage III – before the recording participants had to arrange answer variants in correct order. 12 people, who did it correctly went to the IV stage. They were 10 Fastest Finger First players and two reserves. Pollster phoned them to confirm that they participate.


    From 2008
    • Stage I – to become a contestant, you had to send a SMS with Milion text to a shown number, and then answer two questions with four answer variants sent by a SMS and to give your personal details. The first 100 people who registered, answered those 2 questions and gave their personal details, went to the second stage.
    • Stage II – agent of the producer of the program phoned those 100 people. The call is recorded, about what those people are informed at the beginning of the call. Potential participant has to say about him, his hobby, job etc. Next, he had to answer several general knowledge questions, which don't have variants. People chosen in the phone casting are informed about it in a 7-days time and invited to the studio.

    The highest prizes by episodes

    Legend: number of episode • broadcast date; took consideration to prizes of 40,000 zł or more

    2008

    1 • 19 I 2 • 20 I 3 • 26 I 4 • 27 I 5 • 2 II 6 • 3 II 7 • 9 II 8 • 10 II 9 • 16 II 10 • 17 II
    - 40,000 zł - 125,000 zł - 40,000 zł - 125,000 zł - -
    11 • 23 II 12 • 24 II 13 • 1 III 14 • 2 III 15 • 8 III 16 • 9 III 17 • 15 III 18 • 16 III 19 • 22 III 20 • 23 III
    - 75,000 zł 40,000 zł - 40,000 zł - 75,000 zł 40,000 zł 75,000 zł -
    21 • 24 III 22 • 29 III 23 • 30 III 24 • 5 IV 25 • 6 IV 26 • 12 IV 27 • 13 IV 28 • 19 IV 29 • 20 IV 30 • 26 IV
    40,000 zł 250,000 zł - 500,000 zł 40,000 zł - 40,000 zł - - -
    31 • 27 IV 32 • 3 V 33 • 4 V 34 • 10 V 35 • 11 V 36 • 17 V 37 • 18 V 38 • 24 V 39 • 25 V 40 • 31 V
    250,000 zł 40,000 zł
    40,000 zł
    - - - 125,000 zł 500,000 zł - - 40,000 zł
    41, 42 • 1 VI 43 • 7 VI 44 • 8 VI 45 • 14 VI 46 • 15 VI 47 • 21 VI 48 • 22 VI Holidays 49 • 6 IX 50 • 7 IX
    40,000 zł
    125,000 zł
    125,000 zł - - - 40,000 zł 75,000 zł 125,000 zł 250,000 zł
    51 • 13 IX 52 • 14 IX 53 • 20 IX 54 • 21 IX 55 • 27 IX 56 • 28 IX 57 • 4 X 58 • 5 X 59 • 11 X 60 • 12 X
    40,000 zł 40,000 zł - - 75,000 zł - - 40,000 zł - 40,000 zł
    61 • 18 X 62 • 19 X 63 • 25 X 64 • 26 X 65 • 1 XI 66 • 2 XI 67 • 8 XI 68 • 9 XI 69 • 15 XI 70 • 16 XI
    40,000 zł 40,000 zł
    40,000 zł
    125,000 zł - - 75,000 zł - - - 40,000 zł
    71 • 22 XI 72 • 23 XI 73 • 29 XI 74 • 30 XI 75, 76 • 6, 7 XII 77 • 13 XII 78 • 14 XII
    500,000 zł - - - 40,000 zł
    500,000 zł
    - -

    2009

    79 • 7 III 80 • 8 III 81 • 14 III 82 • 15 III 83 • 21 III 84 • 22 III 85 • 28 III 86 • 29 III 87 • 4 IV 88 • 5 IV
    - 75,000 zł 40,000 zł - 40,000 zł
    40,000 zł
    - 40,000 zł 125,000 zł - 40,000 zł
    89 • 11 IV 90 • 12 IV 91 • 18 IV 92 • 19 IV 93 • 25 IV 94 • 26 IV 95 • 2 V 96 • 3 V 97 • 9 V 98 • 10 V
    - - 40,000 zł 250,000 zł 500,000 zł 40,000 zł 40,000 zł
    40,000 zł
    - - 125,000 zł
    99 • 16 V 100 • 17 V 101 • 23 V 102 • 24 V 103 • 30 V 104 • 31 V Holidays 105 • 6 IX 106 • 13 IX 107 • 20 IX
    - 40,000 zł - 40,000 zł - 40,000 zł 40,000 zł 40,000 zł 125,000 zł
    108 • 27 IX 109 • 4 X 110 • 11 X 111 • 18 X 112 • 25 X 113 • 1 XI 114 • 8 XI 115 • 15 XI 116 • 22 XI 117 • 29 XI
    - - - 125,000 zł - 250,000 zł 75,000 zł - - -
    118 • 6 XII 119 • 13 XII 120, 121 • 25, 26 XII
    40,000 zł 40,000 zł 40,000 zł
    250,000 zł

    2010

    122 • 7 III 123 • 14 III 124 • 21 III 125 • 28 III 126 • 4 IV 11 IV 18 IV 127 • 25 IV 128 • 2 V 129 • 9 V
    75,000 zł 40,000 zł - 75,000 zł
    1,000,000 zł
    125,000 zł
    40,000 zł
    Cancelled 125,000 zł 250,000 zł 40,000 zł
    130 • 16 V 131 • 23 V 132 • 30 V 133 • 6 VI 134 • 13 VI 135 • 20 VI 136 • 27 VI Holidays 137 • 12 IX 138 • 19 IX
    40,000 zł
    125,000 zł
    40,000 zł 75,000 zł - - 250,000 zł - 40,000 zł 40,000 zł
    139 • 26 IX 140 • 3 X 141 • 10 X 142 • 17 X 143 • 24 X 144 • 31 X 145 • 7 XI 146 • 14 XI 147 • 21 XI 148 • 28 XI
    40,000 zł 40,000 zł 250,000 zł 40,000 zł 500,000 zł
    40,000 zł
    40,000 zł
    75,000 zł 125,000 zł 75,000 zł
    75,000 zł
    125,000 zł -
    149 • 5 XII 150, 151 • 12, 19 XII
    75,000 zł 500,000 zł
    40,000 zł

    1,000,000 zlotys winners

    1. Krzysztof Wójcik - March 28, 2010 (only contestant to win 1 million)

    500,000 zlotys winners

    1. Paulina Kowalczyk - April 5, 2008 (used 50:50 and Ask The Audience lifeline in the final question)
    2. Dagna Sieńko - May 18, 2008
    3. Rafał Tomański - November 22, 2008 (used 50:50 and Ask The Audience lifeline in the final question)
    4. Renata Dancewicz
      Renata Dancewicz
      Renata Dancewicz is a Polish actress and member of the The Polish Bridge Union. In 1988 she graduated from the 1st Mikołaj Kopernik High School in Lubin...

       & Piotr Adamczyk
      Piotr Adamczyk
      Piotr Adamczyk is a Polish actor.He portrayed Karol Wojtyła, who later became Pope John Paul II, in the movie Karol: A Man Who Became Pope and Karol: The Pope, The Man....

       - December 7, 2008 (Celebrity Edition, used 50:50 lifeline in the final question)
    5. Marzena Rogowska - April 25, 2009
    6. Katarzyna Zaręba - October 24, 2010
    7. Karolina Korwin-Piotrowska & Michał Piróg - December 19, 2010 (Celebrity Edition)

    Four players guessed the correct answer after resigning from playing.

    500,000 zlotys question wrong (lost 210,000 zlotys)

    1. Sławomir Kucharczyk - April 6, 2008
    2. Lidia Wołk-Karaczewska - March 14, 2009
    3. Dorota Śliwak - September 19, 2010

    250,000 zlotys winners

    1. Elżbieta Orłowska - March 29, 2008 (used Phone A Friend and Ask the Audience lifelines in 500,000 zlotys question)
    2. Dorota Kwiecińska - April 27, 2008
    3. Marek Kraśnicki - September 7, 2008 (used Phone A Friend lifeline in 500,000 zlotys question)
    4. Marcin Bobrowski - April 19, 2009
    5. Tomasz Radko - November 1, 2009
    6. Szymon Hołownia & Marcin Prokop (Celebrity Edition) - December 26, 2009
    7. Jakub Tomys - May 2, 2010
    8. Jędrzej Wiczkowski - June 20, 2010
    9. ? - October 10, 2010

    125,000 zlotys winners

    1. Elżbieta Sokołowska - January 27, 2008
    2. Paweł Staszyński - February 10, 2008
    3. Joanna Słowińska - May 17, 2008
    4. Ewa Drzyzga
      Ewa Drzyzga
      Ewa Drzyzga is a Polish journalist and TV presenter, who hosts talk-show Rozmowy w Toku on TVN.. , Gazeta.pl...

       & Szymon Majewski
      Szymon Majewski
      Szymon Majewski is a Polish journalist, showman, radio and television presenter and professional television and film actor.Graduate of Lyceum named after Edward Dembowski Szymon Majewski (born on June 1, 1967 in Warsaw) is a Polish journalist, showman, radio and television presenter and...

       - June 1, 2008 (Celebrity Edition)
    5. Małgorzata Czepek - June 7, 2008
    6. Waldemar Kazimierski - September 6, 2008
    7. Wojciech Przybyłowicz - October 25, 2008
    8. Weronika Bielacha - March 29, 2009
    9. Sławomir Chromik - May 10, 2009
    10. Jolanta Falcman - September 20, 2009
    11. Artur Szczęsny - October 18, 2009
    12. Sebastian Rzodkiewicz - April 4, 2010
    13. Łukasz Weber - April 25, 2010
    14. Kajetan Pawełczyk - May 16, 2010
    15. ? - November 7, 2010
    16. ? - November 21, 2010

    1,000,000 zlotys question wrong (lost 468,000 zlotys)

    1. Filip Łapiński - June 2, 2002 (special edition with participation of children, used 50:50 lifeline in the final question)

    500,000 zlotys winners

    1. Władysław Kostrzewski - October 21, 2000 (first contestant to walk away with 500,000 zlotys)
    2. Zbigniew Chrzanowski - May 21, 2001
    3. Jerzy Mirski - October 14, 2001

    All three player guessed the correct answer after resigning from playing.

    250,000 zlotys winners

    1. Krzysztof Karwowski- March 5, 2000
    2. Jarosław Olejnicki - May 5, 2000
    3. Marek Janowski - October 8, 2000
    4. Stanisław Pietrasiewicz - February 17, 2001
    5. Katarzyna Dobras - February 28, 2001
    6. Jerzy Zadrożny - March 12, 2001
    7. Tomasz Micorek - September 24, 2001
    8. Artur Wiśniewski - December 16, 2001
    9. Edyta Olszówka & Olaf Lubaszenko - December 25, 2001 (Celebrity Edition)
    10. Szczepan Gardecki - February 9, 2002
    11. Gogoł family - September 23, 2002 (Family Edition)
    12. Aleksandra Woźniak & Rafał Królikowski - December 25, 2002(Celebrity Edition)

    125,000 zlotys winners

    1. Andrzej Zubala - September 17, 1999
    2. Bogdan Rzepka - September 24, 1999
    3. Barbara Płachta - November 27, 1999
    4. Katarzyna Niziałek - December 31, 1999
    5. Grażyna Tomaszewska - January 3, 2000
    6. Maciej Kondratowicz - March 12, 2000
    7. Paweł Wasilewski - March 18, 2000
    8. Alfred Znamierowski - April 16, 2000
    9. Marzena Bralska - April 29, 2000
    10. Łukasz Kaźmierczak - April 30, 2000
    11. Ryszard Ćwirta - May 14, 2000
    12. Katarzyna Kreczmer - May 29, 2000
    13. Bogdan Wencel - June 21, 2000
    14. Bożena Pieczara June 28, 2000
    15. Grażyna Eysmont - September 2, 2000
    16. Edward Mierzwa - September 2, 2000
    17. Marek Pawlak - September 8, 2000
    18. Tadeusz Biały - September 9, 2000
    19. Piotr Kopczyński - September 30, 2000
    20. Tomasz Guzek - October 4, 2000
    21. Wojciech Chocianowski - November 25, 2000
    22. Marek Duszczyk - December 9, 2000
    23. Mariusz Jaszczuk - December 15, 2000
    24. Jan Mika - January 1, 2001
    25. Mieczysław Kulesza - January 14, 2001
    26. Marcin Grzelak - January 22, 2001
    27. Przemysław Radowicz - February 11, 2001
    28. Barbara ? & Mirosław ? - February 14, 2001
    29. Tadeusz Grabowski - March 11, 2001
    30. Tomasz Lipiński - March 19, 2001
    31. Mariusz Kowalski - April 7, 2001
    32. Arkadiusz Jadacki - April 14, 2001
    33. Marek Fotek - April 23, 2001
    34. Wiesław Czekaj - May 4, 2001
    35. Stojan Nedalkov - May 6, 2001
    36. Zbigniew Męcik - June 17, 2001
    37. Andrzej Łukaszczyk - June 30, 2001
    38. Monika Żuczkowska - October 22, 2001
    39. Jacek Branas - November 19, 2001
    40. Joanna Dymczyk - November 24, 2001
    41. Andrzej Kamiński - December 3, 2001
    42. Henryk Bronner - December 30, 2001
    43. Ewa Wota - January 6, 2002
    44. Maciej Krawczyński - January 13, 2002
    45. Henryk Czarny - February 3, 2002
    46. Piotr Bednarczyk - March 10, 2002
    47. Marek Piłat - March 16, 2002
    48. Katarzyna Skrzynecka & Maciej Kozłowski - April ?, 2002 (Celebrity Edition)
    49. Artur Barciś & Cezary Żak - April ?, 2002 (Celebrity Edition)
    50. Witold Myśliwiec - April 6, 2002
    51. Andrzej Wardyn - April 27, 2002
    52. Mirosław Monczyński - April 29, 2002
    53. Monika Brochacka & Piotr Borucki - June ?, 2002 (Big Brother Edition)
    54. Tomasz Derda - October 20, 2002
    55. Józef Mieluch - November 10, 2002
    56. Jerzy Pasternak - December 2, 2002
    57. Krzysztof Bendkowski - December 16, 2002
    58. Agnieszka Stachurska - January 26, 2003

    Statistics


    Winnings from 3 IX 1999 to 26 I 2003

    Winnings Amount Sum
    a0 zł ? ? zł
    b100 zł ? ? zł
    b200 zł ? ? zł
    b300 zł ? ? zł
    b500 zł ? ? zł
    c1,000 zł ? ? zł
    d2,000 zł ? ? zł
    e4,000 zł ? ? zł
    f8,000 zł ? ? zł
    g16,000 zł ? ? zł
    h32,000 zł ? ? zł
    i64,000 zł ? ? zł
    j125,000 zł 58 7,250,000 zł
    k250,000 zł 12 3,000,000 zł
    l500,000 zł 3 1,500,000 zł
    m1,000,000 zł 0 0 zł
    mSum ? ? zł

    Winnings from 19 I 2008

    Winnings Amount Sum
    a0 zł 30 0 zł
    b500 zł 0 0 zł
    c1,000 zł 163 163,000 zł
    d2,000 zł 0 0 zł
    e5,000 zł 9 45,000 zł
    f10,000 zł 23 230,000 zł
    g20,000 zł 34 680,000 zł
    h40,000 zł 54 2,160,000 zł
    i75,000 zł 14 1,050,000 zł
    j125,000 zł 15 1,875,000 zł
    k250,000 zł 9 2,500,000 zł
    l500,000 zł 6 3,000,000 zł
    m1,000,000 zł 1 1,000,000 zł
    mSum 358 12,453,000 zł


    Last update: November 14, 2010.

    Special episodes

    1999–2003
    • In February 2001, issued the first edition of a special game show. These were episodes of Valentine's Day, which was attended by couples in love.

    • Between 24 to 26 December 2001 issued a charitable Millionaire edition to celebrate Christmas. The participants were eight actors that played their game in the following pairs: Renata Dancewicz
      Renata Dancewicz
      Renata Dancewicz is a Polish actress and member of the The Polish Bridge Union. In 1988 she graduated from the 1st Mikołaj Kopernik High School in Lubin...

       & Paweł Wilczak, Edyta Olszówka & Olaf Lubaszenko
      Olaf Lubaszenko
      Olaf Lubaszenko is a Polish actor and movie director.- Dubbing :* Cziłała z Beverly Hills 2 as Delgado* Cziłała z Beverly Hills as Delgado...

      , Agnieszka Warchulska
      Agnieszka Warchulska
      - Filmography :*1996: Cwał*1997: Wojenna narzeczona*1997: Linia opóźniająca*1997: Sława i chwała*1998: Pierwszy milion*1998: Dług*1999-2001: Miasteczko*2002: Zaginiona*2003: Tak czy nie*2003: Sfora*2004: Wieża...

       & Zbigniew Zamachowski
      Zbigniew Zamachowski
      Zbigniew Zamachowski is a Polish actor.Zamachowski graduated the actor's faculty in "PWSFTViT" in Łódź. He began his acting career in 1981 and in 1989 had a co-starring role in Part Ten of director Krzysztof Kieślowski's film series, The Decalogue...

       and Małgorzata Kożuchowska & Maciej Stuhr
      Maciej Stuhr
      Maciej Stuhr is a Polish actor, comedian and impressionist, also a psychologist. He established the cabaret Po Żarcie.He is the son of Jerzy Stuhr....

      . The total amount won was the whole issue of 375,000 zlotys, which is devoted to the foundation TVN Nie jesteś sam.

    • The Easter
      Easter
      Easter is the central feast in the Christian liturgical year. According to the Canonical gospels, Jesus rose from the dead on the third day after his crucifixion. His resurrection is celebrated on Easter Day or Easter Sunday...

       episode of the show was broadcast on the turn of March and April 2002. Pairs of actors participated in the show: Artur Barciś
      Artur Barciś
      Artur Barciś is a Polish actor. He appeared in the television series Aby do świtu... in 1992. and Kieślowski's "Dekalog"-References:...

       with Cezary Żak, Katarzyna Skrzynecka
      Katarzyna Skrzynecka
      Katarzyna Skrzynecka is a Polish actress. She appeared in the comedy television series Bao-Bab, czyli zielono mi in 2003.-References:...

       with Maciej Kozłowski
      Maciej Kozłowski
      Maciej Kozlowski was a Polish actor, the graduate from the National Film School in Łódź. Mostly known from his roles in Kingsajz, Psy, Kiler, With Fire and Sword and Schindler's List and TV series M jak miłość. Defender in Polish Artists Football Team...

       and Anna Przybylska
      Anna Przybylska
      Anna Przybylska - popular Polish actress and model.She has a daughter Oliwia, born October 22, 2002 and son Szymon, born January 13, 2006 with her partner Polish footballer Jarosław Bieniuk. She is ranked high amongst the most beautiful Polish actresses and was chosen, in 2004, to be the Polish...

       with Robert Gonera
      Robert Gonera
      Robert Gonera is a Polish actor. He appeared in the television series Aby do świtu... in 1992. In 1999, he won a Polish Film Award Eagle for Best Actor for his performance as Adam Borecki in Dług. He was also a Second Unit Director or Assistant Director on Małżowina.-External links:...

      . All winnings summed up were 314,000 zlotys. The winnings were given to charity TVN Nie jesteś sam (You aren't alone).

    • On Children's Day
      Children's Day
      "Children Day", as an event, is celebrated on various days in many places around the world, in particular to honor children. Major global variants include a Universal Children's Day on November 20, by United Nations recommendation...

       there were two special episodes, were shown on 1 and 2 June 2002, the prizes were given to the TVN charity. The participants were children attending primary schools. The prizes were the same as in usual episodes, but the questions were easier. Amount of money won in those episode was 64,000 zlotys.

    • On June 29 and 30 there were special episodes where participants were people from Polish Big Brother
      Big Brother (Poland)
      Big Brother Poland is a television Series produced by Endemol. It has had a total of 5 seasons including one Celebrity Season.The First Season aired in 2001.-Nominations Table:Notes:...

      . Players were playing in pairs: Monika Sewioło with Piotr Gulczyński, Ilona Stachura with Arkadiusz Nowakowski, Monika Brochacka with Piotr Borucki, Agnieszka Frykowska with Łukasz Wiewiórski, Alicja Walczak with Sebastian Florek and Karolina Jakubik with Wojciech Glanc. Winnings were given to Nie jesteś sam charity.

    • Latest Special edition of the first version of Millionaire is shown at Christmas time in 2002. Attending were: Aleksandra Woźniak
      Aleksandra Wozniak
      Aleksandra Wozniak is a Canadian professional tennis player. She turned professional in November 2005. Wozniak achieved a career-best ranking of no. 21 on June 22, 2009, making her the fourth-highest ranked Canadian singles player of all time. She has won one WTA and eight ITF tournaments...

       & Rafał Królikowski, Grażyna Wolszczak
      Grazyna Wolszczak
      Grażyna Wolszczak is a Polish actress.Actor:*Na Wspólnej*Ja wam pokażę!*Wiedźmin*As-References:...

       & Andrzej Zieliński and Joanna Brodzik
      Joanna Brodzik
      Joanna Honorata Brodzik is a Polish actress. She is most famous for her roles in two soap operas: Magda M...

       & Paweł Wilczak.The total amount won was donated to the TVN foundation Nie jesteś sam.


    Also in 2002 TVN was broadcasting series of family episodes. Teams of three people were taking part, and all had to be related. Every team had its captain. The rules were the same as in normal episodes, but the captain decided about choosing an answer after consultations with the rest of family members. After winning 32,000 zlotys one person left the team and went to the audience, after winning 125,000 zlotys another person left and only one person had to answer last three questions. Najwyższa wygrana w tych wydaniach to 250 000 złotych.

    From 2008
    • In June 1, 2008 (Children's Day) episode celebrities of Polish television were playing for money to build a cancer prevention center. The first players were Piotr Gąsowski
      Piotr Gąsowski
      Piotr Gąsowski is a Polish actor, comedian and presenter. He appeared in the television series Aby do świtu... in 1992.-References:...

       and Katarzyna Skrzynecka
      Katarzyna Skrzynecka
      Katarzyna Skrzynecka is a Polish actress. She appeared in the comedy television series Bao-Bab, czyli zielono mi in 2003.-References:...

      , who won 40,000 zlotys, and the second players were Szymon Majewski
      Szymon Majewski
      Szymon Majewski is a Polish journalist, showman, radio and television presenter and professional television and film actor.Graduate of Lyceum named after Edward Dembowski Szymon Majewski (born on June 1, 1967 in Warsaw) is a Polish journalist, showman, radio and television presenter and...

       and Ewa Drzyzga
      Ewa Drzyzga
      Ewa Drzyzga is a Polish journalist and TV presenter, who hosts talk-show Rozmowy w Toku on TVN.. , Gazeta.pl...

      , who won 125,000 zlotys. Whole money won was given to the Nie jesteś sam charity.

    • Next episodes were broadcast on December 6 and 7, 2008. In the first episode, Kinga Rusin
      Kinga Rusin
      Kinga Rusin is a popular Polish TV journalist, producer and author of film documents and reports.She was born in Warsaw and graduated from Warsaw University, having matriculated in journalism and Italian studies. She began her career working for TVP , where, among other duties, she was a presenter...

       and Bartosz Węglarczyk won 40,000 zlotys, and in the second, Renata Dancewicz
      Renata Dancewicz
      Renata Dancewicz is a Polish actress and member of the The Polish Bridge Union. In 1988 she graduated from the 1st Mikołaj Kopernik High School in Lubin...

       and Piotr Adamczyk
      Piotr Adamczyk
      Piotr Adamczyk is a Polish actor.He portrayed Karol Wojtyła, who later became Pope John Paul II, in the movie Karol: A Man Who Became Pope and Karol: The Pope, The Man....

       won 500,000 zlotys. The winnings were given to Nie jesteś sam charity.

    • Next episodes were broadcast on December 25 and 26, 2009. On the first day, Julia Kamińska
      Julia Kaminska
      Julia Kamińska is a Polish film and television actress. Kaminska had a lead role in TVN's "BrzydUla", the Polish version of "Betty la fea".-Early life:...

       and Filip Bobek won 40,000 zlotys. On the second day, Marcin Prokop
      Marcin Prokop
      Marcin Prokop is a Polish journalist, television and radio personality, connected with TVN, TVN Turbo and Radio Zet. On TVN he currently presents morning show Dzień Dobry TVN in duo with Dorota Wellman, Poland's Got Talent in duo with Szymon Hołownia and game show Minute To Win It. On TVN Turbo he...

       and Szymon Hołownia won 250,000 zlotys. All of the winnings were given to Nie jesteś sam charity.

    • In 2010, special episodes were broadcast on December 12 and 19. In the first episode, Karolina Korwin-Piotrowska and Michał Piróg won 500,000 zlotys, and on the next episode (broadcasted on 19 December) - they didn't answer for the question for 1 million zl. Next contestants were Anita Werner
      Anita Werner
      Anita Werner is a Polish television journalist, connected with TVN. She is also a former actress.- Biography :She graduated I Lyceum in Łódź. Then, she studied cultural studies with speciality film theory at University of Łódź, graduating in 2001.- Actress :At the age of seventeen, she got the...

       and Grzegorz Kajdanowicz
      Grzegorz Kajdanowicz
      Grzegorz Kajdanowicz is a Polish journalist, reporter and presenter of television newscast The Facts broadcast on TVN.-Biography:...

       - they won 40,000 zlotys. Winnings were to given to Nie jesteś sam charity.

    Broadcasting

    Small season number Time of broadcast Days of the week Hours Length of episode Picture format
    1 September 1999–May 2000 Monday, Friday 20:30 30 minutes 4:3
    Saturday, Sunday 19:30 60 minutes
    June 2000 Monday, Thursday, Friday 20:30 30 minutes
    Saturday, Sunday 19:30 60 minutes
    2 September 2000–February 2001 Monday, Wednesday, Friday 20:30 60 minutes
    Saturday, Sunday 19:35
    February–June 2001 Monday, Friday 20:50
    Saturday, Sunday 19:35
    3 September 2001–May 2002 Monday 20:50 45 minutes
    Saturday, Sunday 19:35
    January–February, June 2002 Saturday, Sunday 20:00
    4 September–December 2002 Monday 21:20
    Sunday 20:00
    January 2003 Sunday 20:00
    5 January–June 2008 Saturday, Sunday 18:00 60 minutes 16:9
    6 September–December 2008
    7 March–June 2009
    8 September–December 2009 Sunday
    9 March–June 2010 16:9 HD
    10 September–December 2010

    Number of viewers

    The biggest number of viewers was on 5 March 2000, when a contestant won 250,000 zł as the first person in the show. The number of viewers of this episode was 6,510,000 people.

    Average number of viewers of the January 2008 - April 2008 episode was 3,500,000 viewers. First episode of 2008 series (19 January 2008) was watched by 3,500,000 viewers. The biggest number of viewers in 2008 series was on 5 April 2008, when the 1,000,000 zł question came up the first time in the 2008 series. The episode from 6 April 2008 in which contestant got the 500,000 zł question wrong was watched by 4,200,000 viewers.
    Year Number of viewers
    1999 2,870,000 viewers
    2000 3,050,000 viewers
    2001 2,900,000 viewers
    2002 2,250,000 viewers
    2003 2,330,000 viewers
    2008 (January–April) 3,450,000 viewers
    2008 (April–June) 3,250,000 viewers
    2008 (September–December) 2,970,000 viewers
    2009 (March–May) 2,800,000 viewers
    2009 (September–December) 2,433,000 viewers
    2010 (March–June) 2,120,000 viewers
    Average number of viewers 2,940,000 viewers

    Questions for million zlotys

    Legend:
    • V: answer removed by using "fifty fifty"
    • X: not chosen correct answer
    • Y: chosen incorrect answer
    • Z: chosen correct answer


    In Milionerzy, twelve questions for one million zlotys appeared. Ten times the player resigned, and two times player answered the question. Once, in special edition with participation of children, the player answered the question incorrectly and once players answered and won 1 million zlotys. Here are the questions:
    • Władysław Kostrzewski - 21 October 2000
      What country did Conan the Barbarian
      Conan the Barbarian
      Conan the Barbarian is a fictional sword and sorcery hero that originated in pulp fiction magazines and has since been adapted to books, comics, several films , television programs, video games, roleplaying games and other media...

       come from ?
      • A: from Rivia
      Geralt of Rivia
      Geralt of Rivia is a fictional character and protagonist of The Witcher series by Polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski, as well as its adaptations.-Fictional biography:...

      • B: from Mordor
      Mordor
      In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional universe of Middle-earth, Mordor or Morhdorh was the dwelling place of Sauron, in the southeast of northwestern Middle-earth to the East of Anduin, the great river. Orodruin, a volcano in Mordor, was the destination of the Fellowship of the Ring in the quest to...

      • C: from Oz
      Land of Oz
      Oz is a fantasy region containing four lands under the rule of one monarch.It was first introduced in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, one of many fantasy countries that he created for his books. It achieved a popularity that none of his other works attained, and after four years, he...

      • D: from Cimmeria
      Cimmeria (Conan)
      Cimmeria is a fictional land of barbarians in antediluvian earth and the homeland of Conan the Barbarian in the works of Robert E. Howard.-Fictional history:...

    • Zbigniew Chrzanowski - 21 May 2001
      As in song by Kabaret Starszych Panów, repellent goon will get a double-barreled shotgun, will go out and...:
      • A: fast-fast! • B: bang, bang!
      • C: from two pipes • D: shoot into bottom

    • Jerzy Mirski - 14 October 2001
      Comics "child" of drawer Bob Kane is:
      • A: Superman
      Superman
      Superman is a fictional comic book superhero appearing in publications by DC Comics, widely considered to be an American cultural icon. Created by American writer Jerry Siegel and Canadian-born American artist Joe Shuster in 1932 while both were living in Cleveland, Ohio, and sold to Detective...

      • B: Batman
      Batman
      Batman is a fictional character created by the artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger. A comic book superhero, Batman first appeared in Detective Comics #27 , and since then has appeared primarily in publications by DC Comics...

      • C: Spider-Man
      Spider-Man
      Spider-Man is a fictional Marvel Comics superhero. The character was created by writer-editor Stan Lee and writer-artist Steve Ditko. He first appeared in Amazing Fantasy #15...

      • D: Captain America
      Captain America
      Captain America is a fictional character, a superhero that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in Captain America Comics #1 , from Marvel Comics' 1940s predecessor, Timely Comics, and was created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby...


    • Filip Łapiński - 1 June 2002 (special edition with participation of children)
      Which of these animals is not a fish:
      • A: nase
      Nase
      The Common Nase is a potamodromous fish found in the basins of the Meuse, Rhine and Danube rivers. It is often simply called "the nase", but that can refer to any species of its genus Chondrostoma. Another local name is sneep....

      • B: blue bream
      • C: rudd
      Rudd
      The common rudd Scardinius erythropthalmus is a bentho-pelagic freshwater fish, widely spread in Europe and middle Asia, around the basins of the North, Baltic, Black, Caspian and Aral seas.-Artificially introduced:...

      • D: European Roller
      European Roller
      The European Roller, Coracias garrulus, is the only member of the roller family of birds to breed in Europe. Its overall range extends into the Middle East and Central Asia and Morocco....


    • Paulina Kowalczyk - 5 April 2008
      Who is the master of the same arms that Artemis
      Artemis
      Artemis was one of the most widely venerated of the Ancient Greek deities. Her Roman equivalent is Diana. Some scholars believe that the name and indeed the goddess herself was originally pre-Greek. Homer refers to her as Artemis Agrotera, Potnia Theron: "Artemis of the wildland, Mistress of Animals"...

       specialises?
      • A: Zorro
      Zorro
      Zorro is a fictional character created in 1919 by New York-based pulp writer Johnston McCulley. The character has been featured in numerous books, films, television series, and other media....

      • B: Legolas
      Legolas
      Legolas is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, featured in The Lord of the Rings. He is an Elf of the Woodland Realm and one of nine members of the Fellowship of the Ring.- Literature :...

      • C: Don Quixote • D: Longinus Podbipięta
      Longinus Podbipieta
      Longinus Podbipięta is a fictional character in the novel With Fire and Sword written by Henryk Sienkiewicz. He is a Lithuanian and his coat of arms is called "Zerwikaptur". He had vowed to remain chaste until he cut off three heads with one blow of his huge sword , like his ancestor did at the...


    • Dagna Sieńko - 18 May 2008
      Who of these actors was born in the same year in which Lumiere brothers patented cinematograph?
      • A: Rudolph Valentino
      Rudolph Valentino
      Rudolph Valentino was an Italian actor, and early pop icon. A sex symbol of the 1920s, Valentino was known as the "Latin Lover". He starred in several well-known silent films including The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Sheik, Blood and Sand, The Eagle and Son of the Sheik...

      • B: Humphrey Bogart
      Humphrey Bogart
      Humphrey DeForest Bogart was an American actor. He is widely regarded as a cultural icon.The American Film Institute ranked Bogart as the greatest male star in the history of American cinema....

      • C: Charlie Chaplin
      Charlie Chaplin
      Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era. He became the most famous film star in the world before the end of World War I...

      • D: Fred Astaire
      Fred Astaire
      Fred Astaire was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of 76 years, during which he made 31 musical films. He was named the fifth Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute...


    • Rafał Tomański - 22 November 2008
      Pro Archia Poeta turned into history as one of the brightest orations by:
      • A: Isocrates
      Isocrates
      Isocrates , an ancient Greek rhetorician, was one of the ten Attic orators. In his time, he was probably the most influential rhetorician in Greece and made many contributions to rhetoric and education through his teaching and written works....

      • B: Cicero
      Cicero
      Marcus Tullius Cicero , was a Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and Roman constitutionalist. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the equestrian order, and is widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists.He introduced the Romans to the chief...

      • C: Demosthenes
      Demosthenes
      Demosthenes was a prominent Greek statesman and orator of ancient Athens. His orations constitute a significant expression of contemporary Athenian intellectual prowess and provide an insight into the politics and culture of ancient Greece during the 4th century BC. Demosthenes learned rhetoric by...

      • D: Quintilian
      Quintilian
      Marcus Fabius Quintilianus was a Roman rhetorician from Hispania, widely referred to in medieval schools of rhetoric and in Renaissance writing...


    • Renata Dancewicz
      Renata Dancewicz
      Renata Dancewicz is a Polish actress and member of the The Polish Bridge Union. In 1988 she graduated from the 1st Mikołaj Kopernik High School in Lubin...

       and Piotr Adamczyk
      Piotr Adamczyk
      Piotr Adamczyk is a Polish actor.He portrayed Karol Wojtyła, who later became Pope John Paul II, in the movie Karol: A Man Who Became Pope and Karol: The Pope, The Man....

       - 7 December 2008 (Celebrity Edition)
      Who was the painter in the court of King Philip IV of Spain
      Philip IV of Spain
      Philip IV was King of Spain between 1621 and 1665, sovereign of the Spanish Netherlands, and King of Portugal until 1640...

      ?
      • A: Marcello Bacciarelli
      Marcello Bacciarelli
      Marcello Bacciarelli was an Italian painter of the late-baroque and Neoclassic periods.He studied in Rome under Marco Benefial. In 1750 he was called to Dresden, Saxony, where he was employed by Elected King Augustus III of Poland; after whose death he went to Vienna, and thence to Warsaw...

      • B: Jan van Eyck
      Jan van Eyck
      Jan van Eyck was a Flemish painter active in Bruges and considered one of the best Northern European painters of the 15th century....

      • C: Diego Velasquez
      Diego Velázquez
      Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez was a Spanish painter who was the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV. He was an individualistic artist of the contemporary Baroque period, important as a portrait artist...

      • D: Jacques-Louis David
      Jacques-Louis David
      Jacques-Louis David was an influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era...


    • Marzena Rogowska - 25 April 2009
      Maraschino
      Maraschino
      Maraschino .The liqueur's distinctive flavor comes from the Marasca cherries, and the crushed cherry pits lend an almond-like flavor to Maraschino...

       liqueur is made of Marasca, which is type of what?
      • A: Cherry
      Cherry
      The cherry is the fruit of many plants of the genus Prunus, and is a fleshy stone fruit. The cherry fruits of commerce are usually obtained from a limited number of species, including especially cultivars of the wild cherry, Prunus avium....

      • B: Apple
      Apple
      The apple is the pomaceous fruit of the apple tree, species Malus domestica in the rose family . It is one of the most widely cultivated tree fruits, and the most widely known of the many members of genus Malus that are used by humans. Apple grow on small, deciduous trees that blossom in the spring...

      • C: Fig
      Common fig
      The Common fig is a deciduous tree growing to heights of up to 6 m in the genus Ficus from the family Moraceae known as Common fig tree. It is a temperate species native to the Middle East.-Description:...

      • D: Pear
      Pear
      The pear is any of several tree species of genus Pyrus and also the name of the pomaceous fruit of these trees. Several species of pear are valued by humans for their edible fruit, but the fruit of other species is small, hard, and astringent....


    • Krzysztof Wójcik - 28 March 2010
      Czesław Mozil is famous for playing on what instrument?
      • A: Cornet
      Cornet
      The cornet is a brass instrument very similar to the trumpet, distinguished by its conical bore, compact shape, and mellower tone quality. The most common cornet is a transposing instrument in B. It is not related to the renaissance and early baroque cornett or cornetto.-History:The cornet was...

      • B: Accordion
      Accordion
      The accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist....

      • C: Djembe
      Djembe
      A djembe also known as jembe, jenbe, djbobimbe, jymbe, yembe, or jimbay, or sanbanyi in Susu; is a skin-covered drum meant played with bare hands....

      • D: Xylophone
      Xylophone
      The xylophone is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets...


    • Katarzyna Zaręba - 24 October 2010
      Which of these Juliusz Słowacki's poems are written in prose?
      • A: "Godzina Myśli" • B: "W Szwajcarii"
      • C: "Anhelii" • D: "Arab"
    • Michał Piróg and Karolina Korwin-Piotrowska - 19 December 2010 (Celebrity Edition)
      Doesn't have dorsal fin...
      • A: Basking shark • B: Common thresher
      • C: Killer whale • D: Bowhead whale
      Bowhead Whale
      The bowhead whale is a baleen whale of the right whale family Balaenidae in suborder Mysticeti. A stocky dark-colored whale without a dorsal fin, it can grow to in length. This thick-bodied species can weigh to , second only to the blue whale, although the bowhead's maximum length is less than...


    Records and faux pas

    • During the Fastest Finger portion in the second season, all contestants correctly answered the question, which was "Put these Australian towns in the alphabetical order". It is rare to see all contestants get the correct order.
    • There has been an occasion similar to the American version where the audience unanimously voted on a single answer when asked for help via the Ask the Audience lifeline. The question, worth 40,000 złoty, was: "A small, golden gramophone is given away at what awards ceremony?" The correct answer was "Grammy."
    • The furthest a player has ever gone without using a lifeline was 125,000 złoty. The player went on to win 500,000 złoty.See the Questions for million zlotys and The highest prizes by episodes for more information
    • In Milionerzy there was three times a situation, when a player lost because of laxily said question and then he was restored to play. The first player made a mistake in the question for 32,000 zł: "Who invented the steam engine
      Steam engine
      A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid.Steam engines are external combustion engines, where the working fluid is separate from the combustion products. Non-combustion heat sources such as solar power, nuclear power or geothermal energy may be...

      ?". He answered "James Watt
      James Watt
      James Watt, FRS, FRSE was a Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer whose improvements to the Newcomen steam engine were fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain and the rest of the world.While working as an instrument maker at the...

      ", but the correct answer was Charles Algernon Parsons
      Charles Algernon Parsons
      Sir Charles Algernon Parsons OM KCB FRS was an Anglo-Irish engineer, best known for his invention of the steam turbine. He worked as an engineer on dynamo and turbine design, and power generation, with great influence on the naval and electrical engineering fields...

      . After a complaint to programme's producer, his answer was recognized as correct. The player won a guaranteed 32,000 zł, but he answered incorrectly in the next question for 64,000 zł. The second player made a mistake in the question for 500 zł: "How many cuts are on kaiser rolls?" He answered: "4" (the correct answer was "5") and he won nothing. After recognizing his answer, he answered incorrectly in the question for 1000 zł and he left the studio without nothing for the second time. Third on the question about the author of the picture "The Luncheon on the Grass
      The Luncheon on the Grass
      Le déjeuner sur l'herbe – originally titled Le Bain – is a large oil on canvas painting by Édouard Manet created in 1862 and 1863. The painting depicts the juxtaposition of a female nude and a scantily dressed female bather on a picnic with two fully dressed men in a rural setting...

      " answered Claude Monet
      Claude Monet
      Claude Monet was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. . Retrieved 6 January 2007...

      , but the correct answer was Édouard Manet
      Édouard Manet
      Édouard Manet was a French painter. One of the first 19th-century artists to approach modern-life subjects, he was a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism....

      . But Monet also painted a less known picture with the same title, so the player was allowed to continue playing.
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