Okay, so it's not Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? but close enough. Here there's an equivalent where the tables are turned and they get to put questions to the regular host. For each question he can't answer, they get some money, if he answers one though, they're out of the running for the jackpot. Just like the regular format, he has some lifelines, including 50:50, ask a member of the audience, and phone someone's friend (a member of the audience's friends).

Check out how this pair manage to bend the rules and earn themselves a thousand euros into the bargain:

Erm - no idea what's going on. It's all in German!

Edited your post to fix the youtube link though

Cheers for the fix. (And politely begs to be allowed to edit his own posts again )

And basically the chappy being asked the questions is allowed to phone the friend of someone in the audience, but the guy they choose gives the host the phone number of his mate sitting next to him!

Apparently over here in the UK, your "Phone A Friend" is submitted early if you're in the final 10 trying to win a place on the main quiz.
(Not sure about other countries but over here you have to win the "Fastest Finger First" or whatever it's called round against 9 other people. And THEN you're in the main chair for the millionaire prize.)

I was told a while back that if you're one of the contestants friends for the "Phone a friend" lifeline then you have a person from the Celador company (who own the rights to Millionaire) sitting in the living room with you during a set time-frame.
They're basically there to make sure you're not infront of Google.

Maybe not true but it makes sense... kinda.

Aye that would make sense. I'd always assumed they recorded the shows some other night (they don't look particularly live, and the set seem to change pretty fast if it were).

The German version almost certainly doesn't have anyone checking, since I'm pretty sure they've called people in the past who have that I'm-actually-just-typing-it-into-Google distance in their voices and suddenly blurt out the answer with no reason to their madness. They also have a few variations on the lifelines, including being able to call a random number in any particular area. That's sometimes super-helpful if they get a question on, say, rivers in Oberbayern and can just call someone from round there.

Also for that "Five Against Jauch" version of the show, one of his lifelines is something like "30 seconds on Google." Just how harsh do they wanna make it on the contestants?