Against The World

In 'Against The World' the contestant will answer ten sets of ten general knowledge questions, each question being worth £10'000, giving a maximum total prize money of £1'000'000. But there's a catch. In this program, the contestant doesn't compete against other contestants. The contestant competes against the world!

The program is broadcast live by a company that has a worldwide presence, such as the BBC, or the Discovery Network. There is only one contestant. He/She will compete for the £1'000'000 from say, a studio in Britain. The next week, the contestant could be from Canada, and he would compete from a studio in Canada. The location that the program broadcasts from changes each week, but there will be a studio audience in each of the participating countries, with the host country being fed through live via a large television screen in each of the participating countries studio. There will also be a number of online players, who get in on the action.

The first question is asked, and the contestant and the studio audiences, and the online players, get ten seconds to answer the question. The next ten questions are asked in a similar fashion. Once the ten questions have been answered, the contestant picks a studio audience, or the internet. The average percentage of correct answers for that studio/internet users is found. That percentage is then taken away from the total amount of money that the contestant won in that round. For example, the contestant got 7 questions right = £70'000. The audience in Australia had average of 68% correct. So the prize money for the contestant from that round is £70'000 - 68% = £22'400 prize money for that round. Each round, a country is 'frozen out', where the audience still competes, but their correct percentage is kept at 0%, so that the contestant can get the full amount that they won, if they choose carefully...

This continues for the full ten rounds, or until the contestant decides to give up and take the money.

If, by the end of the tenth round, the contestant has not won the milion, they may gamble it all for the million. They pick one question at random, again by picking a studio audience, and that question is asked to each studio audience, and to the internet players, but not to the contestant. If more than say, 60% of all the audiences and internet players get it correct, then the contestant gets the million. If not, then he goes away with nothing.

The contestant with the higest correct percentage will get a car, and compete the next week in their countries studio. The next five highest scores world wide will get a car, and the highest score in each audience will get £1'000.

And i know that the name sucks.