Man sa yarbah al malyoon
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Man sa yarbah al malyoon (من سيربح المليون) is name of game show
Game show
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s broadcast in Arab world and Arab Maghreb countries.

Arab world

From 2000 to 2003, show called من سيربح المليون was broadcast on MBC1 (English
English language
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 translation
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: Who will win the million?, transliteration
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: Man sa yarbah al-malyoon). Its host was George Kurdahi
George Kurdahi
George Kurdahi is a Lebanese television presenter of Palestinian descent. Kurdahi hails from the city of Acre in Palestine....

. The biggest prize was 1 million Saudi riyals. It was originally filmed and produced in London
London
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, a local Arab audience being flown in each time. Now the show is filmed in Beirut
Beirut
Beirut is the capital and largest city of Lebanon, with a population ranging from 1 million to more than 2 million . Located on a peninsula at the midpoint of Lebanon's Mediterranean coastline, it serves as the country's largest and main seaport, and also forms the Beirut Metropolitan...

,earlier, it was filmed in London
London
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, Paris
Paris
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 and Cairo
Cairo
Cairo , is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Arab world and Africa, and the 16th largest metropolitan area in the world. Nicknamed "The City of a Thousand Minarets" for its preponderance of Islamic architecture, Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life...

.The show retransmited in Lebanon
Lebanon
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 by LBC
Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation
The Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation , widely known as LBC, is the first private television station in Lebanon. It went global in 1996 when it launched its satellite channel LBC Al-Fadha'iya Al-Lubnaniya covering the Arab World. It now has several channels covering Europe, America, Australia, and...

  and Egyptian channel 1. Between 2005-2007, the show aired under the name Man sa yarbah 2 malyoon
Man sa yarbah 2 malyoon
من سيربح 2 مليون was an Middle Eastern and North African game show based on the original British format of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. The show was hosted by George Kurdahi...

.

In 2010 the show returns again under the old name. The main goal of the game is to win 1.000.000 SR by answering 12 multiple-choice questions correctly and George Kurdahi will the host.

In this season there will be 4 lifelines: fifty fifty, phone a friend, ask the audience and ask the expert. The contestant chooses your guaranteed sum and the channel eliminated the Fastest Finger round; contestants immediately take the hot seat.

2010 game's prizes

  • 1. question • 500 SR
  • 2. question • 1,000 SR
  • 3. question • 2,000 SR
  • 4. question • 5,000 SR
  • 5. question • 10,000 SR
  • 6. question • 20,000 SR
  • 7. question • 40,000 SR
  • 8. question • 80,000 SR
  • 9. question • 150,000 SR
  • 10. question • 250,000 SR
  • 11. question • 500,000 SR
  • 12. question1,000,000 SR

2000-2004 game's prizes

  • 1. question • 100 SR
  • 2. question • 200 SR
  • 3. question • 300 SR
  • 4. question • 500 SR
  • 5. question1,000 SR (guaranteed sum)
  • 6. question • 2,000 SR
  • 7. question • 4,000 SR
  • 8. question • 8,000 SR
  • 9. question • 16,000 SR
  • 10. question32,000 SR (guaranteed sum)
  • 11. question • 64,000 SR
  • 12. question • 125,000 SR
  • 13. question • 250,000 SR
  • 14. question • 500,000 SR
  • 15. question1,000,000 SR

Winners

  • Khaled al Mulla (خالد الملا), doctor from United Arab Emirates
    United Arab Emirates
    The United Arab Emirates, abbreviated as the UAE, or shortened to "the Emirates", is a state situated in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia on the Persian Gulf, bordering Oman, and Saudi Arabia, and sharing sea borders with Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and Iran.The UAE is a...

    , November 21, 2001
  • Mohammad Tannirah (محمد تنيرة), student of pharmacy from Gaza Strip
    Gaza Strip
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    , March 15, 2002
  • Sidi Ahmad weld Aala(سيدي أحمد ولد أعلى), journalist from Mauritania
    Mauritania
    Mauritania is a country in the Maghreb and West Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean in the west, by Western Sahara in the north, by Algeria in the northeast, by Mali in the east and southeast, and by Senegal in the southwest...

    , January 2, 2003
  • Mohammad Hamzeh (محمد حمزة) from Syria
    Syria
    Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest....

    , March 23, 2010

Maghreb countries

من سيربح المليون (English
English language
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 translation
Translation
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: Who will win a million?, transliteration
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: Man sa yarbah al malyoon) is a game show broadcast in Arabian countries of North Africa, Algeria
Algeria
Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...

, Tunisia
Tunisia
Tunisia , officially the Tunisian RepublicThe long name of Tunisia in other languages used in the country is: , is the northernmost country in Africa. It is a Maghreb country and is bordered by Algeria to the west, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Its area...

 and Morocco
Morocco
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, based on the original British
Great Britain
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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
Game show
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 is hosted by the Moroccan actor Rachid El Ouali. The main goal of the game
Game
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 is to win €500.000 by answering 15 multiple-choice question
Question
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s correctly. من سيربح المليون is broadcast from August 22, 2009 to September 3, 2010. It is shown on TV station Nessma TV
Nessma TV
Nessma TV is a commercial TV channel, that has a range covering Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria Libya and Mauritania. Mediaset owns 25% of it. All programs broadcast on this channel have subtitles in French or Maghrebi Arabic. It broadcasts such programs like Maghreb version of Who Wants to Be a...

. The value obtained by each contestant is paid in local currency of his country (Moroccan dirham
Moroccan dirham
The dirham is the currency of Morocco. The plural form is pronounced darahim, although in French and English "dirhams" is commonly used. Its ISO 4217 code is "MAD". It is subdivided into 100 santimat . The dirham is issued by the Bank Al-Maghrib, the central bank of Morocco...

, Algerian dinar
Algerian dinar
The dinar is the currency of Algeria and it is subdivided into 100 santeem .-History:The dinar was introduced on 1 April 1964, replacing the Algerian new franc at par.-Coins:...

 or Tunisian dinar
Tunisian dinar
The dinar is the currency of Tunisia. It is subdivided into 1000 milim or millimes . The abbreviation DT is often used in Tunisia, although writing "dinar" after the amount is also acceptable ; the abbreviation TD is also mentioned in a few places, but is less frequently used, given the common use...

).

Game's prizes

  • 1. question • €25
  • 2. question • €50
  • 3. question • €125
  • 4. question • €250
  • 5. question€500 (guaranteed sum)
  • 6. question • €1,000
  • 7. question • €2,000
  • 8. question • €4,000
  • 9. question • €8,000
  • 10. question€10,000 (guaranteed sum)
  • 11. question • €20,000
  • 12. question • €50,000
  • 13. question • €100,000
  • 14. question • €200,000
  • 15. question€500,000

See also

  • Fatwa about the show
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