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Welcome back to Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, the best, most interactive, most intense quiz and game show in all of eRepublik! Last episode, AMD started his run for the million and made it all the way to 50,000 pence! We got klaxoned out before we could head the 100,000 pence question, but we've brought AMD back to finish out this game before we move on to a new contender. Remember that at the end of this series, we'll be bringing back our top players from throughout this new season for a chance at ten million pence - that's £100,000! Now let's welcome back AMD!

AS: This next question is for 100,000. Lights down, please! Audience, I need absolute silence - not a peep from you, even if you know it, especially if you know it. And no coughing! If you know, you know!

AMD : coughs

AS: hands AMD a glass of water, amused at our contestant's comic timing

AMD : Thank you.

AS: For a hundred thousand pence...



AS: 90 seconds to play. You still have that lifeline to stop the clock.

AMD : Texoma, final. I panicked.



AS: You hemmed and hawwed for a bit there... why Texoma?

AMD : I was trying to place them. I thought Ontario because Canada then realised that’s still in America. I know Michigan is huge. I think Texoma is a smaller one.

AS: I can tell you that the five Great Lakes are, in order from largest to smallest:

Superior
Huron
Michigan
Erie
and Ontario; you got the answer right!



AMD : Yes! LMAO, I almost said Huron!

AS: Lake Texoma is a reservoir in Tulsa, Oklahoma. You've got 1:25 left in your time bank. I'll alert you at 1 minute, 30 seconds, and 15 seconds remaining, but remember that because you're in risky mode, you need to either say "final answer" or walk away before the clock hits 0 or you'll lose 99,000 of the 100,000 pence you've won. You're about to play for a quarter million pence. Three away from the million. Are you ready?

AMD : I'm ready.

AS: For 250,000...



AMD : Ross, final answer.

AS: With a minute 1 to play...



AS: You've gone for Ronald Ross.

AMD : I was gonna say Laveran, but I guess that’s more accurate to be fair. And he wasn’t an answer.

AS: Who says knowledge doesn't pay off?



AS: You're now just two away from the million. You've only got a minute 1 to play, but you can stop the clock on either this question or the next one using your one remaining lifeline.

AMD : Squeaky bum times...

AS: So here's your state of play. You can walk at any time with the 250,000 pence you've already won. You can stop the clock and still walk if you wish to do so. If you give me a final answer here and it's right, you'll have won half a million pence. But if you lock in a final answer and it's wrong, or you run out of time, you'll drop 249,000 pence all the way back down to 1,000.

Risky mode is risky indeed. But now you're playing on that sweet sweet risky mode extra time, with that risky mode extra clock-stopper in tow, so I'd say you made the right call! Are you ready for question #9 of a possible 10, for half a million pence?

AMD : I'm ready.

AS: Lights down, and let's play! For 500,000...



AS: 45 seconds.

AS: 30 seconds.

AMD : Sumeria, final answer.

AS: With 18 seconds on the clock...



AMD : It was either that or Maya. But Maya was quite late.

AS: The Incans were not the first. Neither were the Aztecs. The first ancient society to develop writing was also home to the first recorded business complaint. "You put before my messenger ingots which were not good," wrote...

a Sumerian! You got the answer right!



AMD : Oh thank God. Thinking on it I think all three of the others were quite late on historically. I’m getting lucky with these history questions!

AS: That complaint tablet of one Ea-Nasir only dates back to the 1700s BC, but scholars say the Sumerians had figured out how to write stuff down all the way back in the 3400s BC. But it doesn't matter! You've won half a million pence! That's 5,000 quid - finally into better money than a day's work! Just one question stands between you and the jackpot.

AMD : I wish that was true IRL.

AS: Only on IRL game shows like ours, am I right? But I digress. The clock no longer matters, as you have one Stop the Clock lifeline left and one question to use it on. You'll play this final question untimed. But otherwise, you have no other lifelines remaining. It's just you, this question, its four possible answers, and a potential path to a million pence. You can walk at any time, take your 500,000 pence and run.

AMD : Let's do it. I've been lucky so far.

AS: Remember, if you give a wrong answer it's a very steep drop to 1,000 pence, so please do be careful! But here it comes, the final question, for one. million. pence.



AMD : Ooo. I bloody hate the French.

AS: Walk me through what's going through your head right now.

AMD : So I don’t pay attention to the French a lot. I know that’s a series of volumes and not just one novel, but French names all sound the same to me. Everyone is Jean, Paul, Pierre.

AS: So does anyone stick out to you, or do you think you're gonna walk?

AMD : I don’t know why, but Sartre and Proust are sticking out. Just because those are the two I recognise.

AS: You'd be risking 499,000 pence on this question. But you could win a million. It's your decision and yours alone; take your time.

AMD : Let’s think. Sartre would be older than Proust. I think there’s a brief crossover, so the question really is is the novel late or early 20th century? Ok. Proust died before WW2. I know that much. Was it already acknowledged before then? Sartre was a Marxist, and I don’t think the novel strikes me as a big Marxist piece.

Ok, I’m here to risk it all. Proust, final answer.



AS: It's not Camus, but you knew that. It's not Flaubert, but you knew that too.

So was it Sartre, or was it Proust? You spent quite a bit of time reasoning it out, taking full advantage of the question being untimed.

AMD : I had a bit of time to remember my Marxist history. I just hope I didn’t mix up the French names...



AS: You've done it!! You've won a million pence!

AMD : Vive la France!

AS: Which means you have earned an automatic spot in our end-of-season special, Super Millionaire!



AS: It's guaranteed that you'll play in a qualifier one more time at the end of this series, and could win up to 10 million pence - £100,000!

AMD : Thank you for the opportunity!

AS: In the meantime, take your winnings and go home, with our thanks for an incredibly played, incredibly exciting game!

Well look at that - our first top prize winner this season! But is it really the top prize when we'll be giving away up to 10 times that much money in our end-of-season tournament? AMD is now on our list of past players:

1. AMD; 1,000,000p; 10 correct answers; 0:18 in the time bank
2. Paul Tyndale; 1,000p; 6 correct answers; 1:28 in the time bank

At the end of this series, the top five players (first by money won, then by correct answers, then by time in the bank) will be invited back for a shot at ten million pence - that's £100,000!

So how do you get in the Hot Seat? Great question! Simply join our Who Wants to Be a Millionaire Discord (GSN Studios) by clicking on this link! We'll tape again on Monday, and we'll keep taping until we have five solid contenders to return for our end-of-season Super Millionaire special. Until next time, this is Archie Smith, saying goodnight from...