1Gabriel Iglesias
Gabriel Iglesias was a contestant on the 4th season of reality TV series Last Comic Standing in 2006. He was disqualified for having used a smuggled BlackBerry to communicate with family and friends, which violated the rules of the show.
2Michael
In the 1970's Family Feud host, Tony Barber accidentally asked a male contestant named Michael if he had a boyfriend. To save face he re-asked the question this time asking if he had a girlfriend. The male contestant said "No...I'm gay", leading to a roar of laughter and applause.
3Arthur Chu
Arthur Chu, a Jeopardy! contestant won 11 games by picking a new category after every correct answer to throw off his opponents.
4Melanie Williams
“Moment of Truth” was a show that required contestants to truthfully answer personal questions with a polygraph attached. A contestant named Melanie Williams won the $500,000 grand prize with the final question asking if she felt her polygamist father had sexual relations as an adult with a minor. She believed he had. The episode never aired.
5Pointless
There is BBC game show called Pointless which is similar to Family Feud, but with a twist: contestants have to guess the least common answers to often obscure questions, in surveys of 100 people. Points are awarded according to survey numbers, and contestants with the lowest number of points win.
6Game of Death
There was a fake French reality show named Game of Death in the style of the Milgram experiment, which made real and unwitting contestants shock someone on TV. 80% of them kept shocking the person (who was just an actor), even after he cried out for them to stop. 60% shocked him until he appeared to die.
7Candy show
There is a Japanese game show where something in a room is made out of candy and the contestants have to guess which item is candy.
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8Idiot Quest
There was a pilot filmed for a show called Idiot Quest, where you won points by giving the wrong answer to general-knowledge questions - but the contestants were hooked up to lie detectors to make sure they really didn't know the answer. It never aired.
9Lertlak Panchanawaporn
On the Thai version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?", a contestant's screen (Lertlak Panchanawaporn) was fed the presenter's information, with every correct answer. The contestant won the million, however it was later revoked and she was able to play again, winning only 25,000 baht. (approx. US$800)
10Michael Larson
A 1984 contestant (Michael Larson) on the game show "Press My Luck" used his stop-motion VCR to memorize the patterns used on the game board. He won $110,237 in cash and prizes, at the time the largest one-day total ever won on a game show.
