Greatest prize money won on a television game/quiz programme

Greatest prize money won on a television game/quiz programme
Who
Arno Woesthoff
What
2,847,470 UK pound(s) sterling
Where
United Kingdom
When
02 August 2001

The greatest prize money won on a television game/quiz programme is ƒ10,000,000 Netherlands Guilder (£2,847,470, € 4,537,800, $4,155,719) and was achieved by Arno Woesthoff (Netherlands), during the television game Miljoenenjacht, which aired on 2 September 2001.

This was a special edition of the tv show, which is sponsored by the national lottery.