In the celebrity specials of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? the invited stars can actually only win. When things go badly and it ends at an early stage, they show sympathetic weaknesses. And if they go far, they have the respect of the audience on their side.
However, Anke Engelke probably doesn’t have too fond memories of her appearance on the Jauch show in 2020. The actress worked hard towards the million she longed for – but then she failed by the narrowest of margins and lost almost everything.
Anke Engelke had to ask this question in Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? answer
In June 2020, Engelke made her seventh World Cup appearance. She had promised to honor presenter Günther Jauch until she had pocketed the million. And it went well. Up to 125,000 euro question Engelke had come, the Hamburger Morgenpost reported at the time. The question was:
“What can’t go beyond XFD1048576?”
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Anke Engelke on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
Anke Engelke had two jokers, but only one was correct
During the pandemic, no audience was allowed in the WWM studio – so the audience joker was omitted. Instead, Engelke was able to ask three million-dollar winners for advice. Your expert Leon Windscheid guessed A, the solar system. Since the candidate had already excluded two answers herself (C and D), the only second option left was B, the Excel table. Your second helper, the telephone joker, guessed B.
But what was the correct answer?
The actress plummeted to the lowest winning level
Anke Engelke trusted the millionaire winner Leon Windscheid, took the solar system – and was wrong. The Excel table was correct and with it the answer of the telephone joker. An extremely bitter outcome. And it gets even worse.
Engelke played her round in risk mode. You remember: She really wanted to win the million. In this WWM variant, the candidate falls on the lowest possible amount back: 500 euros. And, according to presenter Günther Jauch, this had never happened before in the show’s celebrity special.
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