For the first time since 2020, we finally have a new winner of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?.
Roman Dubowski absolutely smashed it out of the park last night (26 April) when he correctly answered the final 15th question.
That makes the retired IT analyst only the seventh person to win the £1 million jackpot on the UK version of the game show since 2000.
And the Manchester-born bloke has big plans for his mega winnings, hoping to buy a new house and travel to places like New Zealand and South America.
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After the ‘unreal’ experience of winning the ITV game show, hosted by Jeremy Clarkson, Dubowski had to ‘have a cup of tea’ afterwards to let things settle in.
He put on a pretty impressive display too, as after getting through all the others, as soon as he heard the final Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? question, he thought to himself ‘I think I know this’ straight away.
The 15 questions that led to Dubowski winning the show
1. For £100: The planet Saturn famously has seven what?
Options: Rings / Necklaces / Bracelets / Anklets
2. For £200: At which of these locations is ice hockey traditionally played?
Options: Rink / Range / Court / Field
3. For £300: If you respond to an opponent's attack with the same method, you are said to 'fight.....' what?
Options: Fire with fire / Smoke with smoke / Embers with embers / Cinders with cinders
4. For £500: What is the name of the famous mansion in Memphis that was Elvis Presley's home from 1957 to 1977?
Options: Paisley Park / Graceland / The Troubadour / Dollywood
5. For £1,000: What is mixed with vinegar, mustard and oil to make a basic mayonnaise?
Options: Plain flour / Salted butter / Egg yolk / Double cream
6. For £2,000: In the Harry Potter books, which term is used to describe a non-magic person?
Options: Muggle / Moomin / Munchkin / Minion
7. For £4,000: Which if these fashion retailers was founded in Japan?
Options: Zara / Uniqlo / Urban Outfitters / FatFace
8. For £8,000: Which of these major historic events took place in the middle of the 14th century?
Options: English Civil War / Norman Conquest / Black Death / War of the Roses
9. For £16,000: Which of these sea creatures is NOT classed as cartilaginous?
Options: Shark / Ray / Dolphin / Skate
10. For £32,000: Which word refers to a metal that can be stretched out in to a thin wire without breaking?
Options: Sonorous / Conductive / Ductile / Lustrous
11. For £64,000: Which of these plays is part of the 20th century theatrical movement known as the Theatre of the Absurd?
Options: Death of a Salesman / The Glass Menagerie / The Seagull / Waiting for Godot
12. For £125,000: The Rhône river begins its journey in which mountain range?
Options: Alps / Apennines / Carpathians / Pyrenees
13. For £250,000: Which of these figures from Greek mythology is NOT known for slaying a monster?
Options: Theseus / Persius / Adonis / Bellerophon
14. For £500,000: Presented in 1901, the first Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for the discovery of what?
Options: Wireless telegraphy / X-rays / Cosmic radiation / Quantum mechanics
15. For £1,000,000: Used since 1876, which trademarked logo is described in the James Joyce novel Ulysess and depicted in works by Manet and Picasso?
Options: Bass Ale / The Famous Grouse / Coca-Cola / Stella Artois
Dubowski on his big win
Describing the all-important final question, the winner said: “When it came up… I thought, I think I know this straight away.”
Dubowski, who does quizzing as a hobby, explained he had seen the Manet painting – called A Bar at the Folies-Bergere – at The Courtauld Gallery in London.
The bloke said he could 'distinctly' remember seeing a red triangle on the painting, which 'has always been the symbol of Bass beer'.
He ended up using the 50/50 lifeline (having only used one other lifeline) to answer the question and said that when the answers were narrowed down to Coca-Cola and Bass Ale, he thought 'well I may as well go for it' and got it right with Bass Ale..
Dubowski explained that Clarkson had given him some 'very good' advice about using the 50/50 lifeline which had 'stayed with me throughout the show'.
The host apparently told him that the lifeline should be used when you have got an 'inkling' that one or two of the answers are correct.
Asked to describe how he felt when he answered that final question correctly, he said: “It felt unreal… it didn’t feel like the real world, almost, this isn’t where I expected to be. It didn’t sink in until later.”
And after winning, he said: “I did sort of go home quietly, to be honest, I didn’t get drunk – I had to have a cup of tea.
“I think it was just sitting in a quiet room and letting it all sink in, and thinking about what happened in the previous 24 hours.”
Answers
1. Rings
2. Rink
3. Fire with fire
4. Graceland
5. Egg yolk
6. Muggle
7. Uniqlo
8. Black Death
9. Dolphin
10. Ductile
11. Waiting for Godot
12. Alps
13. Adonis
14. X-rays
15. Bass Ale.
Topics: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Jeremy Clarkson, ITV, TV and Film
Jess Battison