The 10 Best Game Show Moments of the Decade

4. Greed steals Who Wants to be a Millionaire's "Richest Game Show Contestant Ever" Status

Following Who Wants to Be a Millionaire's meteoric ascent on ABC, several knockoffs appeared on competing networks. While NBC's Twenty-One and CBS's Winning Lines died instantaneously (but not before Twenty-One also served up a couple multimillion dollar winners), Fox's Greed gave us a grand-champion moment with unforgettable contestant Curtis Warren. Looking like Phil Spector's stockbroker brother-in-law, Warren answered one easy question about movie adaptations that garnered him a million. For futher Warren viewing, please see this clip from the Jim Perry version of Sale of the Century where the man won $50,000.

3. Brad Rutter wins Jeopardy!'s Ultimate Tournament of Champions, becoming the highest-earning game show contestant in history.

Jeopardy! brought back its brightest players with 2005's mammoth, multi-month Ultimate Tournament of Champions, where two surviving veterans went on to play feared champion Ken Jennings for $2 million. In a three-episode run, Brad Rutter, Ken Jennings, and Jerome Vered competed for the prize, and Rutter trounced his competition soundly. In Rutter's 20+ episodes of Jeopardy!, he has never lost a single game. It should be noted that, thanks to an appearance on Are You Smarter Than a Fifth-Grader?, Jennings has gone on to reclaim the title of biggest game show earner ever.

2. The Price is Right's perfect bid

This moment's nonchalance makes it surreal. After what was reportedly a 45-minute dispute among producers who needed to make sure cheating hadn't occurred, host Drew Carey revealed that contestant Terry had, in fact, guessed the exact price of his prize showcase: $23,743. Too incredible to be true? Carey's monotone delivery seems to indicate that he was either skeptical or tired of waiting to finish the episode. At any rate, Terry won both showcases.

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