Questions for a champion

Questions for a champion is a Jeu televised, diffused on the French chain France 3 since November 7th 1988, repeated on TV5, and presented by Julien Lepers. It is inspired by the play Britannique, and is licensed product of the company. Four candidates are concerned and must, at the time of three successive sleeves, to answer questions of general culture. The least powerful competitor is eliminated at the end from each handle and gaining it is the last continuing candidate.

Course of the play

First sleeve: the Last nine gaining points . The four candidates must answer before the others with series of questions paying from one to three points, according to the difficulty. Are qualified the three first to reach nine points.

Second handle: the Four after . Each candidate must first of all choose between the four questionnaires proposed. The first to be itself qualified thus has more choice. They then have 40 seconds to answer a maximum of consecutive questions. If they are mistaken or pass, they fall down to 0. The score, going from 0 to 4, represents the number of consecutive good answers. If a candidate succeeds in answering 4 consecutive questions, it does one “4 after”. The 2 candidates having obtained the most points are qualified for the Face-to-face discussion. In the event of equality, the candidates to be decided between must answer questions, and the first (or the two first if the three candidates are with equality) to arrive at two points gains.

Third handle: the Face-to-face discussion . He opposes the two candidates finalists. The presenter states the definition of a concept, a person, a place, etc the candidates must guess the object of the definition. The definition starts with difficult indices, then increasingly easy. The candidates can propose answers in turn, and the good answer is seen allotting between one and four points, according to the speed to which it was given. The first candidate to reach the twelve items (in the past nine) gains the part.

End of the play: the losers receive consolation prizes such as encyclopedias. Gaining receives 500 €, that it can decide to give concerned in order to increase its profits: 1.000 € for two victories, 2.000 € for three, 3.000 € for four and 4.000 € more the kitty for the five victories. If it succeeds in gaining five days of continuation, it gains the kitty, summons increasing daily and being able to reach several tens of thousands of euros.

To each time the kitty falls, the latter starts with 10.000 €. It increases by 300 € per day; at the time of the frankly, the kitty was of 50.000 FF and it increased by 2.000 FF per day.

Special programs

The best players of the quarter clash during an emission in baptized evening Masters of bronze . Best players of the year, during the Masters of money . The best over four years, the Masters of gold . These evenings are organized simultaneously with special programs where young people, students resulting from the French universities clash, candidates resulting from French-speaking countries and celebrities of the audiovisual landscape or entertainment world. Recently also exists, at the beginning of January, “special families” where the members of each family change with each handle if the preceding member qualified himself.

Special Juniors

  • 2004 - 2005 : Descartes college, Turns
  • 2005 - 2006 : Masséna college, Nice
  • 2006 - 2007 : College Charles-Baudelaire, Notch-Grevier
  • 2007 - 2008 : Jacques-Amyot college, Auxerre

Special Universities

  • 2006 - 2007 : Faculty of History, University Light - Lyon II

Special Universities

  • 1996 - 1997 : HEC
  • 1997 - 1998 : ESM Saint-Cyr military school
  • 1998 - 1999 : Polytechnic school
  • 1999 - 2000 : National school of the Magistrature
  • 2000 - 2001 : ENSAE
  • 2001 - 2002 : Bridges and Chaussées
  • 2002 - 2003 : Bridges and Chaussées
  • 2003 - 2004 : Bridges and Chaussées
  • 2004 - 2005 : SUPAERO
  • 2005 - 2006 : SUPAERO
  • 2006 - 2007 : Polytechnic school

Questions for a super champion

Since the September 10th 2006, Julien Lepers presents Questions for a super champion , Sunday emission weekly putting first of all at the catches, according to the usual unfolding of the daily program, four people, having already carried at least four times the emission Questions for a champion , the winner of this first phase facing in 21 points the “super champion” of the previous week. That which gains 5 emissions of continuation carries a kitty of 50.000 €.

Julien Lepers begins the final by pointing out the principle of the play, which finishes as follows: " Here is stake, here the jeu".

At September 2nd, 2007, the super kitty was gained only three times, that is to say on December 3rd, 2006, on July 15th, 2007 and on September 2nd, 2007.

An institution

In spite of its seniority, this play always knows important daily rates of audience. Many clubs of players were formed and remain active.

Several reasons explain that:

  • personality and the rate/rhythm printed by the organizer Julien Lepers;
  • the relative difficulty of the questions implies that the winner is generally cultivated the most and fastest, the play leaving little place to the chance.

The emission gave place has many parodies, most famous being that of the Inconnus, entitled Questions for dough . The organizer Julien Lepers was also caricatured with many recoveries, because in particular of mannerisms and its artificial methods judged to maintain suspense during the part. It remains that, in the spirit of the televiewers, it is absolutely indissociable play, and forms with him a true popular institution of French television. The play reached its 5000e emission on October 17th 2005.

Several Derivative products was launched, in particular a Board game and a Video game.

Clubs Questions for a champion

More than 100 clubs exist in France, Belgium and Switzerland. The coordinates of the clubs are available on the site of France 3.

Some clubs:

Anecdotes

  • Julien Lepers always carries a tie for the emission excluded for that diffused saturdays.
  • the Trophy gained by the candidates of these Masters, Venus with the book was carried out by the Sculpteur Henri Maillot.
  • celebrates It inlassablement candidate repeating throughout the questions: “Black Sea”
  • Alain Bouzigues was eliminated after use of a dictionary in Surprise on catch.
  • the play was victim of a mysterious imposture with a man who enters on the plate, Rémy Gaillard, webmaster of the site nimportequi.com

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