26Sale Of The Century
One contestant on the Australian TV quiz show "Sale of the Century", answered only one question correctly in one episode and still won.
27. Ice Cube produced and created a game show named ‘Black. White.’, which premiered in 2006 and ran for just one season. In it, a white family was applied black face and a black family was applied white face and they would 'trade experiences.'
28. There was a British game show named '3-2-1' which was notorious for the unconventional prizes it awarded to its winners. One couple won a brand new metal dustbin and another one won a St. Bernard and a year's supply of brandy. The show ran from 1978 to 1988.
29. A Japanese game show once made contestants play "Binocular Soccer". Each player had a pair of Binoculars strapped to their face.
30. In 1988, a contestant on the game show "Super Password" won the highest jackpot in the history of the show at the time ($55,000), only to be arrested shortly after due to a viewer of the show revealing that the contestant was a wanted fraudster in Alaska, Indiana, and California.
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31Schlag den Raab
There was a German TV show named 'Schlag den Raab' where you competed against the show’s host in all kinds of games (everything from sports, quizzes, fun stuff, etc.). The price was set at €500,000 for each show and the host won the game, it all went into a jackpot. The show ran from 2006 to 2015.
32. There was a TV show piloted in Germany where twelve contestants donated their sperm to a lab where doctors observed their seed race towards an egg. The winner of 'The Sperm Race' got a Porsche.
33. The reason the game show 'Fear Factor' was canceled was that they had a challenge where the contestants drank donkey semen. It wasn’t even the final test to win the grand prize.
34. In the reality show "I Want to Marry Harry," the contestants were brainwashed into believing that the guy, they were dating on the show was Prince Harry. They even sent the contestants a fake "therapist" to convince them he was real.
35. Destination MIR was a game show where the winner would have won a trip to space and a stay on the Russian MIR Space Station. CBS signed a $20 million deal with the private company MirCorp that had leased the Mir space station from the Russian government. It was canceled when the space station was destroyed.
