Who's Still Standing?

Who's Still Standing?
Genre	Game show
Created by	Lisa Shiloach-Uzrad Amit Stretiner
Presented by	Ben Bailey
Theme music composer	Jeff Lippencott David Mark T. Williams
Country of origin	Israel United States Singapore
Original language	English
No. of episodes	6
Production
Executive producers	Craig Plestis Tim Puntillo
Running time	approx. 40 minutes
Production company	Smart Dog Media/Armoza Formats
Original release
Network	NBC
Release	December 19, 2011 (2011-12-19) – present
Related
Russian Roulette

Who's Still Standing? Is the American adaptation of the Israeli game show Lauf al Hamiliyon, Template:He, which offers contestants the opportunity to win up to US$ 1 million while competing in head-to-head trivia battles. The show is hosted by Ben Bailey and aired on NBC.

Format

One player (the "Hero") attempts to defeat 10 competitors ("Strangers") in a series of trivia showdowns and win $1 million. The Hero stands at center stage, with the 10 Strangers standing around the perimeter and facing in toward the Hero. Each participant stands on a trapdoor. The Hero challenges each Stranger, one by one, in a head-to-head trivia battle. The host asks alternating questions, starting with the Stranger, with a series of partially filled-in blanks showing the words in the correct answer. The participant has 20 seconds to give the correct answer, starting from the moment the question appears. Multiple guesses are allowed, as long as the correct answer is given before time runs out.

The Hero is given three passes at the start of the game. Passing a question forces the Stranger to answer it, with a fresh 20-second countdown. Strangers may not pass; they must answer every question put to them.

Missing a question ends the challenge, and the trapdoor under that person's feet opens, dropping the participant through the stage and eliminating him or her from the game with no winnings. If the Hero drops, the victorious Stranger wins $10,000 ($25,000 in the eighth and ninth rounds, $50,000 in round ten). If the Stranger drops, the Hero wins an amount of money between $1,000 and $20,000, revealed on a screen at the Stranger's position once the challenge is over. The value of each Stranger is based on the difficulty that the Hero is expected to face in defeating him or her. In order from least to most difficult, a Stranger may be worth $1,000; $3,000; $10,000; $15,000; or $20,000.

Occasionally, a head-to-head round is introduced as a "Specialty Round," in which all the questions and answers have to do with one particular theme or word.

After five Strangers have dropped, the Hero is offered a chance to leave the game with all money won to that point, or stay in and try to win more. If the Hero decides to stay in, he or she receives one more pass and will have another chance to leave after each subsequent Stranger is dropped. Dropping eight, nine, or all 10 Strangers increases the Hero's winnings to $250,000, $500,000, or $1 million, respectively.

After the Hero exits the game, the remaining Strangers play a "Speed Round" among themselves. The host asks a question to each one in turn, with 10 seconds on the clock instead of 20. Each correct answer adds $2,000 to a jackpot, while a wrong answer drops the Stranger with no winnings. The last one left standing wins the entire jackpot.

There have been episodes where the entirety of the program consists of the Hero's head-to-head rounds against the Strangers, with the Hero leaving near the end of the program with Strangers remaining on their trapdoors. For such situations, a Speed Round is still played with the remaining Strangers, but the video is posted on the show's official Web site after such episodes air.

At one time, in around 2003, Channel U even hosted their own version of Who's Still Standing?. The gameplay is the same except that there is no "Hero" and in place of him is the host and this time, whoever "Stranger" fails to answer the question in time, he or she falls down the trapdoor (this time the doors' lights are blue instead of red) and if the "Stranger" answers the question in time, he or she will get to stay and answer more questions and whoever is still standing wins $1 million. At some times, all the "Strangers" fall down the trapdoor and the show ends in failure.

International Versions

Country	Title	Network	Host	Date aired
Israel	לעוף על המיליון Lauf al Hamiliyon	Channel 10	Yaron Brovinsky	December 20, 2010
Hungary	Maradj talpon!	m1	Takács Gábor	October 3, 2011
Spain	¡Ahora caigo!	Antena 3	Arturo Valls	July 6, 2011
United States	Who's Still Standing?	NBC	Ben Bailey	December 19, 2011
Singapore	谁是仍然站立？	Channel U	Unknown	2003?

See also

• Russian Roulette, another TV game show where trapdoors are a key element of contestant elimination.