500 Questions

Prepare for an all-new game show event where the smartest people in the country try to achieve the seemingly impossible task of answering 500 of the most difficult general knowledge questions ever devised. There’s only one simple rule: never get three wrong in a row—or you’re gone. No saves, no helps, no multiple choice, 500 Questions will keep you on the edge of your seat to see if any of these geniuses can do it.

Reality

500 Questions

Reality

Created By: Mike DarnellMark Burnett
First Aired on: May 20, 2015
Popularity: 4.8872: 2 votes
Networks: (US)
Production: Warner Horizon Television (US)United Artists Media Group (US)MGM Television (US)
Status: Returning Series: In Production

Seasons & episodes

Total 2 seasons, 12 episodes

Season 1

Each contestant first answers ten rounds of 50 questions each. The first season consists of seven episodes. The average runtime is an hour. CNN journalist Richard Quest hosted the premiering season while Good Morning America weekend co-anchor and Nightline anchor Dan Harris hosted the show's second season. The American broadcast went on to spawn three international versions.

Aired 10 years ago

7 Episodes

Episode 1Night 1 min
An attorney and a neuroscientist face off in this intense test of knowledge, where the toughest question of all is, can either of them answer 500 questions.
Episode 2Night 2 min
It’s night two on the toughest game ever devised. Two geniuses continue to face off on the road to 500 questions, and the pressure begins to mount.
Episode 3Night 3 min
As the reigning genius continues his journey to answering 500 questions, the challenger continues to try and knock their opponent off.
Episode 4Night 4 min
It’s night four, and the questions are not getting any easier. Will the reigning genius continue on the road to 500 questions, or will they succumb to the pressure.
Episode 5Night 5 min
More than halfway down the road to 500 questions and the geniuses continue to face off in the toughest game ever devised. It’s night five on “500 Questions.”