Anyone who competes barefoot at Jauch needs self-confidence. This quickly brings the candidate down: “I’m about to get hit.” Jauch is also concerned with his ascendant, a record goalscorer with eleven goals and wonderfully clueless nuns.
If a contestant goes bottomless on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (WWM), Günther Jauch has one main question. “I’m trying to see if you’ve at least had a pedicure before,” he greeted the barefoot candidate Martin Ott from Ludwigsburg on Monday evening. “I was, but they’re mostly washed,” the lecturer at a private educational institution reassured the moderator. “Then let’s see if you can raise 500 euros in one go,” said Jauch – and inadvertently anticipated the candidate’s fate.
It wasn’t necessarily clear that Ott would be the loser of the evening. He still had three of his four jokers when it came to the 8,000 euro round. Jauch wanted to know what the so-called accolades on the 7 and 0 keys of local Windows keyboards are: eye patches, ear plugs, nose clips, face masks? “I’m for ‘Akkolade’,” said Ott’s telephone joker, who was hopelessly overwhelmed by the question. Then unfortunately Jauch got in the way.
Barefoot candidate crashes at Jauch
The unsuspecting “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” candidate wanted to get one step closer to gaining knowledge with the 50:50 joker. The moderator was skeptical: “But does it help you?” Instead of drawing the helper in the audience as a last option, Ott plunged into ruin with two jokers available. “Mr. Jauch, I’ll probably be hit straight away if it’s wrong. But I’m gambling now, I’ll take earplugs,” announced the barefoot candidate. His girlfriend in the audience looked dumbfounded. Because she knew better.
Candidate Martin Ott looked like this above.
(Photo: RTL / Stefan Gregorowius)
“Accolades” (French: “hugs”) are the name of the curved brackets on the computer keyboard. Ott ended his appearance on “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” with only 500 euros. It would be enough for a pair of shoes, Jauch said goodbye. Overall, his candidates remained modest that evening. In contrast to Ott, overhang candidate Florian Bindl was not afraid to waste three jokers on one question if necessary. “That’s where it gets uncomfortable. I’m not a car freak,” admitted the 27-year-old newspaper editor without a driving license when it came to Carl Benz’s first car.
Did the first practical automobile with a gasoline engine have one cylinder, two horsepower, three bench seats or four spoked wheels? Bindl only narrowed down the options with the 50:50 joker and gave an additional joker the choice between cylinder and horsepower. The gentleman in the audience introduced himself as coming from the Paderborn district. “And you’re a qualified engineer,” Jauch speculated, but was himself surprised when the Joker replied: “Right.”
Luckily, the viewer had been able to see the original Benz in the Mercedes Museum and therefore knew: “A cylinder” was the answer he was looking for. “That went well, but of course it was a losing game,” commented Jauch on the 32,000 euro round – only to have Bindl’s telephone joker immediately tell him: He had “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” never looked at.
Nuns and Virgin at WWM
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“I know the show from the TV guides” – the retired German teacher was closer to “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” not yet come. Jauch went about it unpretentiously. He particularly enjoyed meeting nuns, he revealed: “Television is so close to mortal sin for them. And they can’t do anything with me at all. Those are always the most interesting conversations.”
Like his former student, the telephone joker had the correct assumption that the PISA study primarily surveyed students aged 15. But Bindl didn’t want to risk it and made short work of 32,000 euros for the sake of the following candidates. The editor wants to give part of the profits to his former host family in South Africa, who looked after him during a journalist exchange.
Isabell Odenthal then glided through the rounds, at least outwardly completely composed. No wonder: After 34 years as a nurse, the candidate from Gummersbach can no longer be bothered by much – this was also proven by her cheerful report about how far and how high bodily excretions can splash in a patient with flatulence.
Selina Beyer knows all about zodiac signs.
(Photo: RTL / Stefan Gregorowius)
Odenthal, who now works as a specialist nurse for hospital hygiene, had already shown strong nerves in the selection round. She simply guessed and ended up in the hot seat with luck and a record-breaking 1.53 seconds. The candidate was happy about 16,000 euros and may be putting some of the winnings into her upcoming wedding.
“The topic is over”
“Oh, sensitive little one,” Jauch then heard from Selina Beyer. The communications manager at Dekra likes to work with horoscopes and immediately commented on Jauch’s zodiac sign, Cancer. “We’ll check it out,” the direction promised when Beyer asked about Jauch’s ascendant. “It doesn’t say ‘He’ll kill his wife at some point’ or something like that?” Jauch made sure. The zodiac sign that rose on the eastern horizon at the time of his birth actually fit the picture, the “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” moderator’s colleagues also found.
“Virgin,” the director was quick to announce – and happily provided an interpretation. “Ascendant Virgo is a perfectionist who still APPEARS modest,” Jauch also read out the capital letters and decided: “The topic is over.” Beyer, who was allowed to take a photo with the singer after a Taylor Swift concert in Berlin in 2014, also went home with 16,000 euros.
An additional joker could help her ensure that eleven goals in 137 international football matches are enough for the title of record goalscorer in Andorra. In the end, Beyer didn’t know that the abbreviations BEV or PHEV refer to different types of electric cars. Frederike Bornhöft from Hamburg returns next Monday with the question for 8,000 euros.