"Is That Your Final Answer?"
The Millionaire franchise's catchphrase is "Is that your final answer?" (more commonly said by some versions' hosts as "Final answer?" or simply "Final?"), a question derived from a rule requirement that the players must clearly indicate their choices before being made official (since the nature of the game allows the player to think aloud about the options before committing to an answer). As a side effect, once a final answer has been given, it cannot be changed. Many parodies of the game show capitalized on this phrase.
Players can prevent the host from asking this question by themselves stating "final answer" or some variant.
Another hallmark of the show is using dramatic pauses before the host acknowledges whether or not the answer was correct. Occasionally, on some versions, if it is time to go for a commercial break, the host will take the final answer but not announce if it is correct until after the break.
Country | Host | Host question | Translated |
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Arab Maghreb | Rachid El Ouali | اللي ليها ليها؟ Elli leeha leeha? |
What did happen to happen? |
Arab World | George Kurdahi | جواب نهائي؟ Jawab Niha'yi |
Final Answer? |
Maysaa Maghrebi | نثبت الإجابة؟ Nthabet el Ijaba? |
Fix the Answer? | |
Argentina | Julian Welch | Respuesta Final? | Final Answer? |
Australia | Eddie McGuire | Lock it in? | |
Belgium | Walter Grootaers | Is dit je definitieve antwoord? | Is this your definitive answer? |
Alain Simons | C'est votre dernier mot? | Is that your final word? | |
Bulgaria | Niki Kunchev | Стани Богат | Become a Millionaire |
Chile | Don Francisco, Sergio Lagos | ¿Respuesta definitiva? | Definitive Answer? |
Colombia | Paulo Laserna Phillips | ¿Última palabra? | Final word? |
Costa Rica | Ignacio Santos | ¿Respuesta definitiva? | Definitive Answer? |
Ecuador | Alfonso Espinosa de los Monteros | ¿Última palabra? | Final word? |
Estéfani Espín | |||
Finland | Ville Klinga | Lukitaanko vastaus? | Shall we lock the answer? |
France | Jean-Pierre Foucault | C'est votre dernier mot? | Is that your final word? |
Germany | Günter Jauch | Definitiv? | Definitely? |
Israel | Yoram Arbel | ?סופי Sofi? |
Finally? |
India | Amitabh Bachchan | Lock kiya jaye? | Lock it? |
Shah Rukh Khan | Freeze kare? | Freeze it? | |
Prakash Raj | Lock panallama? | Can it be locked? | |
Suresh Gopi | Lock cheyyam? | Let's lock? | |
Puneet Rajkumar | Lock maadoda? | Can it be locked? | |
Italy | Gerry Scotti | L'accendiamo? | Shall we light it up? |
Malaysia | Jalaluddin Hassan | Jawapan Muktamad? | Final Answer |
Mexico | Pablo Latapí | ¿Decision absoluta? | Absolute decision? |
New Zealand | Mike Hosking | Lock it in? | |
Panama | Atenogenes Rodriguez | ¿Respuesta definitiva? | Definitive Answer? |
Poland | Hubert Urbański | Ostatecznie?, Definitywnie? | Finally? Definitely? |
Portugal | Jorge Gabriel | Quer que bloqueie? | Shall I lock? |
Russia | Maksim Galkin | Это Ваш окончательный ответ? Eto vash okonchatelʹnyy otvet? |
Is that your final answer? |
Dmitry Dibrov | |||
Spain | Carlos Sobera | ¿La marcamos? | Shall we mark it? |
Turkey | Kenan Işık | Son kararınız mı? | Your final decision? |
Venezuela | Eladio Lárez | ¿Respuesta definitiva? | Definitive Answer? |
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Famous quotes containing the words final answer? and/or final:
“Ill give you my answer calmly and sensibly, my final answer. My final answer is finally no. The answer is no! Absolutely and finally no! Finally and positively no! No! No! No! N - O!”
—Abraham Polonsky (b. 1910)
“Man, her last work, who seemed so fair,
Such splendid purpose in his eyes,
Who rolled the psalm to wintry skies,
Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer,
Who trusted God was love indeed
And love Creations final law
Though Nature, red in tooth and claw
With ravine, shrieked against his creed”
—Alfred Tennyson (18091892)