The Chair

The Chair was a short lived game show on ABC where a contestant would sit in a chair inside a pit and answer questions.

Broadcast
ABC January-March 2002

Host
John McEnroe

Gameplay
The contestant would be seated in the chair in the pit and he/she looked up at a video screen. The contestant would start out with $5,000 and could go up to $250,000 by answering multiple choice questions. But the tricky part about the game is their heart rate, due to the fact that the pit has flames on the outside. If the heart rate goes up, money is deducted.

The question values and penalties for redlining are shown in the table below. There were also other rounds such as Stabalize & Heartstoppers.

Trivia

 * A spinoff of this show was aired on FOX known as The Chamber in 2008.


 * John McEnroe is a famous Tennis player

International Versions
Here is a list of other countries that had The Chair:


 * Arabia


 * Blugaria


 * France


 * Japan


 * Mexico


 * Netherlands


 * New Zealand


 * Russia


 * South Korea


 * Thailand


 * United Kingdom


 * Vietnam