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Ultimatum (game show)
Ultimatum is a Canadian French language television game show, broadcast from 2001 to 2004 on the TVA network. The show, produced in Montreal, Quebec was hosted by Yvan Ponton. Its visual style and lighting were largely inspired by the success of the British/American game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. The game featured two rounds of trivia in 12 categories, with the final round being the titular ultimatum.
The game was played with five contestants, who would stay on the show for a full week. The first "controller" was a randomly chosen player on Monday, and the winner of the previous game on other days of that week.
Twelve categories were available, each with three questions (five in Season 1). They were as follows: News, Animals, Arts, Film and Television, Amazing, True Stories, Geography, Languages, Music, Québec, Science and Technology, Sports and Recreation. Once all questions of a category were exhausted, it was removed for the rest of the round.
On each turn, the controller picked a category. A four-way multiple choice question of that category was then read and the controller could either answer it themselves or redirect it to another contestant using the Piège.
If the contestant answered a question correctly, they became the new controller and the outgoing controller lost a "life". If the contestant answered incorrectly, they lost a life and the controller retained control. Each contestant began the game with three lives, and if they were reduced to zero, were eliminated from the game.
Each player also had access to a number of "tools" to encourage strategic play. Each tool could be invoked only once by each player over the course of the game. They were:
When any of these tools was invoked, or if the contestant had no tools left to use, the host would declare a question to be an "ultimatum", with more dramatic lighting and more tense background music was played. The affected player would have 10 seconds of thinking time, after which they must immediately respond.
After all contestants but one had been eliminated, the remaining contestant was declared the winner of CA$1,000 (CA$500 in Season 3) and went on to play the bonus round against their opponents.
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Ultimatum (game show)
Ultimatum is a Canadian French language television game show, broadcast from 2001 to 2004 on the TVA network. The show, produced in Montreal, Quebec was hosted by Yvan Ponton. Its visual style and lighting were largely inspired by the success of the British/American game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. The game featured two rounds of trivia in 12 categories, with the final round being the titular ultimatum.
The game was played with five contestants, who would stay on the show for a full week. The first "controller" was a randomly chosen player on Monday, and the winner of the previous game on other days of that week.
Twelve categories were available, each with three questions (five in Season 1). They were as follows: News, Animals, Arts, Film and Television, Amazing, True Stories, Geography, Languages, Music, Québec, Science and Technology, Sports and Recreation. Once all questions of a category were exhausted, it was removed for the rest of the round.
On each turn, the controller picked a category. A four-way multiple choice question of that category was then read and the controller could either answer it themselves or redirect it to another contestant using the Piège.
If the contestant answered a question correctly, they became the new controller and the outgoing controller lost a "life". If the contestant answered incorrectly, they lost a life and the controller retained control. Each contestant began the game with three lives, and if they were reduced to zero, were eliminated from the game.
Each player also had access to a number of "tools" to encourage strategic play. Each tool could be invoked only once by each player over the course of the game. They were:
When any of these tools was invoked, or if the contestant had no tools left to use, the host would declare a question to be an "ultimatum", with more dramatic lighting and more tense background music was played. The affected player would have 10 seconds of thinking time, after which they must immediately respond.
After all contestants but one had been eliminated, the remaining contestant was declared the winner of CA$1,000 (CA$500 in Season 3) and went on to play the bonus round against their opponents.