Baak Maan Fu Yung was a 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...

 from Hong Kong

Hong Kong

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, based on the original British

United Kingdom

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 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's host was Kenneth Chan

Kenneth Chan

Kenneth Chan Kai-tai is a Hong Kong actor and television host for the Hong Kong-based Cable TV Hong Kong channel ....

. The main goal of the game

Game

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 was to win 1 million

Million

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 Hong Kong dollars by answering 15 multiple-choice question

Question

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s correctly. There were three lifelines: fifty-fifty, phone a friend and ask the audience. Baak Maan Fu Yung first aired on May 7, 2001. It was broadcast by Hong Kong's ATV

Asia Television Limited

Asia Television Limited is one of the two free-to-air television broadcasters in Hong Kong, the other being rival Television Broadcasts Limited . It launched in 1957 under the name Rediffusion Television as the first television station in Hong Kong...

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Money Tree

• 1. question • HK$1,000
• 2. question • HK$2,000
• 3. question • HK$3,000
• 4. question • HK$4,000
• 5. question • HK$8,000 (guaranteed sum)
• 6. question • HK$10,000
• 7. question • HK$20,000
• 8. question • HK$30,000
• 9. question • HK$40,000
• 10. question • HK$60,000 (guaranteed sum)
• 11. question • HK$80,000
• 12. question • HK$150,000
• 13. question • HK$250,000
• 14. question • HK$500,000
• 15. question • HK$1,000,000

Top Prize Winners

• Wong Jim
  Wong Jim
  James Wong Jim was a Cantopop lyricist and writer based primarily in Hong Kong. He was also a well known in Asia as a columnist, actor, film director, screenwriter and talk show hosts. He took part in creative directing positions within the entertainment industry in Hong Kong...
  
   (黃霑) and Fung Po Po (馮寶寶), July 2001 (celebrity edition)
• Stephen Chow
  Stephen Chow
  Stephen Chow Sing-Chi is a Hong Kong actor, comedian, screenwriter, film director and producer.- Professional career :Stephen Chow began as a temporary actor for TVB. He entered TVB in early 1980s, and was trained there, although he had few opportunities to appear in films. Chow graduated from...
  
   (周星馳) and Lee Man (李敏), August 2001 (celebrity edition)
• Chan Hon-cheung (陳漢翔), November 2, 2001

Top Prize Losers (People who answered the final question incorrectly)

• Ling Wing Kuen(凌永權) and Ling Shuk Ling(凌淑玲), November 9, 2001 (lost HK$440,000)