A 15th question is something you rarely see in Russian “Millionaire”. Only 4 right answers were given to a question of this level. The last time we’ve seen the last question was in the beginning of 2011, but the contestant didn’t risk it and went away with 1.5 million Rubles.
Vladimir Efremov from Perm was in the hot seat this Saturday. He was feeling confident so played the “risk” version of the game and chose the 13th level, 800,000 Rubles, as his safe level. It wasn’t an easy job for him to reach the final level, but long logical thoughts helped him to pick a right answer every time. After gaining 1.5 million, he saw his last question: “What vegetable does the Fruili-Venezia Giuila province in Italy dedicate a festival to every three months?” (onion, beans, asparagus or artichoke). Unfortunately, the answer chosen by Vladimir — artichoke — was not a correct one. It seems as though if the safe level was set lower, Vladimir wouldn’t have risked answering the question. He does win 800,000 Rubles though, so well done to him!
Throughout the history of the show, only one person before Vladimir got the last question wrong. He lost 700,000 Rubles, whilst the first contestant, who gave her wrong answer in 2004, lost 468,000 Rubles (back then the sums were those of the classic Millionaire money tree).
