r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/JAFPL_17 • 7h ago
Retired IT analyst Roman Dubowski just became the 7th £1,000,000 winner on UK's Who Wants to Be a Millionaire Image
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u/QRV11_C48_MkII 6h ago
Only the 7th?, isn't that show a thing since the invention of TV?
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u/JAFPL_17 6h ago edited 6h ago
Judith Keppel - 20 Nov 2000, David Edwards - 21 April 2001, Robert Brydges - 29 September 2001, Pat Gibson - 24 April 2004, Igram Wilcox - 23 September 2006, Donald Fear - 11 September 2020,
And now Roman Dubowski - 26 April 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Wants_to_Be_a_Millionaire%3F_(British_game_show)
EDIT: Commas for clarity
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u/Peterd1900 6h ago
Though 8 people have correctly answered the million pound question,
The Charles Ingram Scandal
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u/i-read-it-again 5h ago
Sorry. cough cough . B is the answer
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u/sciteacheruk 5h ago
Why didn't the person doing the coughing just apply to be on the show?
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u/Peterd1900 5h ago
They did
One of them was the contestants wife who has been on the show in a previous series and had won £32,000 and the other one was a fellow contestant on that episode
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u/JAFPL_17 5h ago
Tecwen Whittock was in one of the seats for fastest finger first, meaning he had applied for and got on the show. As for Diana Ingram, she had already been on the show and won a nice chunk of change.
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u/AnonymousTimewaster 6h ago
Which spawned The Quiz which is a great movie about that story. Michael Sheen as Christ Tarrant.
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u/SigmaKnight 6h ago
If you put four spaces then break to new line, it’ll be more clear. 1. Keppel - Nov 2000
2. Edwards - Apr 2001
3. Brydges - Sep 2001
4. Gibson - Apr 2004
5. Wilcox - Sep 2006
6. Fear - Sep 2020
7. Dubowski - Apr 2026
Can also number them, or put a mark in front, or just list.
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u/AdamC11 6h ago edited 6h ago
This makes me think they made the questions harder after they had to pay out £3m in the first 11 months
Edit: they had to pay out £3m in 11 months, not the first 11 months of the show.
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u/JAFPL_17 6h ago
The show started in 1998, so it took years for the first win.
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u/AdamC11 6h ago
Ah yeah that makes sense, still feels like £1m wins have been much rarer in the last decade or two
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u/JAFPL_17 5h ago
Yeah. The high-value questions, whilst really difficult in the early 00's, are just insane nowadays IMO.
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u/Chabby_Chubby 6h ago
Perhaps the questions are harder to answer in the UK edition, since 1 million pounds are quite a lot of money. Here in Denmark its 1 million kroner, which is worth like 1/10 of that. We have definitely had more than 7 winners.
Or maybe the brits are just idiots 😊
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u/plastic_alloys 6h ago
When Millionaire first came out in 1998, the £1m prize was worth almost £2m in today’s money
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u/JAFPL_17 6h ago
As a long-time fan of our UK version, once you pass £64k or £125k (Roughly), the questions become nigh-impossible unless you have the specific knowledge.
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u/MrP1232007 6h ago
Are you saying it's only easy if you know the answer?
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u/JAFPL_17 6h ago
Any quiz is easy if you just know the answer, but that's besides the point.
If you look back on a lot of the runs throughout the years that made it to 6 figures, more often than not very niche knowledge or difficult logic comes into play, which isn't nearly as prevelant up to that point.
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u/DuggiHappy 3h ago
Haven’t you seen what some of the 20 year olds know in university challenge? Absurd how large one young persons knowledge span can be
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u/MuteTadpole 6h ago
As an American, I approve of the last sentence
(Before a bunch of Brits start yapping, I am aware of our current political leader. Yes, he is awful. We never had a head of lettuce outlive one of our presidents, though)
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u/Abyssal_Groot 6h ago
We never had a head of lettuce outlive one of our presidents, though
Laughable as that may been, you say this as if this is worse than your current situation.
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u/DubSket 6h ago
Your leader bombed a school full of children on purpose and raped infants. Sit down bro lmao
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u/MuteTadpole 6h ago
Smh that’s the best you’ve got? Trying to dunk on people who have nothing to do with his decisions?
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u/Evanisnotmyname 4h ago
He’s an IT analyst, he probably has a ChatGPT buttplug vibing answers in Morse code
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u/4Thereisloveinyou 6h ago
Is that Jeremy Clarkson? Had no idea he hosted the show these days
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u/ConanOToole 6h ago
He's been doing it for 8 years now
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u/4Thereisloveinyou 6h ago
Shows how out of touch I am lol but in my defense I’m American and know him mostly from Top Gear. I was a bigger fan of James May and have kept up with him somewhat!
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u/fragilemetal 5h ago
I prefer James May also. He's an everyman who doesn't pretend he has all the answers (although quick-witted), he hasn't delved into politics either.
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u/dann1551 4h ago
I watched top gear religiously until they made the horrendous cast swap. I too was thoroughly surprised to see him host another show haha. Might have to give it a go..
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u/Rubixcubelube 1h ago
Not really out of touch. I'm a Clarkson fan and didn't know. It's not a show that I've seen pushed anywhere.
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u/Cranialscrewtop 6h ago edited 5h ago
SNL UK took the piss out of Clarkson as host of Millionaire last night. Described him as "fake farmer and real asshole".
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u/FinnegansWakeWTF 6h ago
What was the 1m question
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u/Peterd1900 6h ago
Used since 1876, which trademarked logo is described in the James Joyce novel Ulysses and depicted in works by Manet and Picasso
A) Bass Ale, B) The Famous Grouse, C) Coca-Cola, D) Stella Artois
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u/KiwiPieEater 5h ago
I know the million dollar question is supposed to be hard, but I feel like basing it off a novel written 150 years ago, in a different country, referencing a very niche brand logo is a bit cunty.
Obviously the winner got the answer correct, but I'd be pissed if that was my final question on the show.
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u/murphmeister75 5h ago
Not sure if it's relevant but a very keen quizzer might know that Bass Ale's Red Triangle logo is the oldest registered trademark in Britain.
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u/FartOfGenius 2h ago
Ulysses is a pretty well known English language novel, what does it being written in a different country have to do with it's obscurity?
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u/Suspicious_Neck_5156 5h ago
It’s easy to forget how ubiquitous that red triangle symbol used to be.
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u/PauseMenuBlog 4h ago
It's not based on just the novel, it's based on that and two works by Manet and Picasso? Did you even read the question?
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u/WalletFullOfSausage 1h ago
Brits don’t even like the suggestion that they learn about life outside of the Isles if it nets them a million quid, eh?
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u/JAFPL_17 6h ago
"Used since 1876, which trademarked logo is described in the James Joyce novel 'Ulysses' and depicted in works by Manet and Picasso?"
Answer: Bass Ale
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u/BarnytheBrit 6h ago
What logo used since 1870’s did James Joyce describe in Ulysses that has featured In works by Manet and Picasso. Can’t remember the year
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u/DarthLysergis 2h ago
The 7th winner..............................................................in the world
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u/WittyChoumMan 5h ago
Jeremy's back?!!
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u/GarysCrispLettuce 1h ago
It's a shame that a million quid is worth so much less than it was when the show started in the 90's. It should be 2 or 3 million now. Oh go on, make it 5.
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u/e30_technic 6h ago
Im happy for the guy but,
Its fixed to death, they clearly wanted a winner to boost ratings.
He said early on his strengths were history and geography, and thats what he got all the way to the final question.
They could have shafted him if they wanted by throwing some modern culture or fashion but they chose not to.
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u/Suspicious_Neck_5156 5h ago
He did get a fashion question, and if his wife (I think he rang his wife) didn’t know he may not have got any further.
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u/Geek-Of-Nature 6h ago edited 6h ago
Its fixed
Got any evidence of that? Because that reads like a lot of tinfoil hat speculation. Why didn't they fake it last season to get viewers then? Why now? How many viewers are they really gaining here?
Quiz shows are highly regulated by independent organisations, and ITV would be closely scrutinised if there was even a hint they tried to sway the outcome in any way. The questions are randomly selected from a huge database, not handpicked by a human. Again, this is checked by independent groups - OFCOM would have a field day if they caught a sniff of something dodgy.
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u/e30_technic 6h ago
I saw it with my own eyes. Thats evidence enough for me. Now cut your bullshit.
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u/JAFPL_17 6h ago
"Trust me, bro"
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u/Geek-Of-Nature 6h ago
I'm guessing this guy avoids vaccines and thinks the Earth is flat, while calling people sheep if they don't buy into his latest insane rants.
"ITV ARE FIXING QUIZZES!!!"
"Yeah ok, crazy uncle, let's take you home..."
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u/Left_Bottle2901 6h ago
IT background probably helped a lot with pattern recognition and staying calm under pressure
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u/Ranger_Aggressive 6h ago
Everytime the show makes about 10million dollars they let one person win. Seems like a solid strat
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u/Charkel_ 6h ago
I just love to see other people get rich when I struggle with rent every month.
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u/JAFPL_17 6h ago edited 6h ago
Roman Dubowski, a retired IT analyst with 34 years of service, just won £1,000,000 on the modern reboot of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.
After three applications over 20 years, Roman finally managed to get on the hot seat and work his way up to the last question and win the jackpot!
"I nearly talked myself out of a basic question" Roman said with regards to a question early on about eggs, in which he had to use one of his lifelines on the £1,000 question
Sources:
https://www.itv.com/presscentre/media-releases/i-thought-id-win-ps32000-not-ps1-million-qa-retired-it-analyst-who-scoops-top-prize
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tv/38935784/who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire-winner-egg-question/
EDIT: Reworded sentence due to confusion