Overview
- The episode that aired on Monday, August 31 featured Katharina Heun using the Zusatzjoker on the €32,000 question and following the audience member’s wrong suggestion she fell from a secured €16,000 down to €500 when the correct answer was revealed.
- The €32,000 question asked where a newly elected pope is first led before a public appearance and the correct choice was B, the Kammer der Tränen, while the audience member recommended A, the Seufzerbrücke, which is in Venice and not in Vatican City.
- Other contestants on the show included David Kurbel, who walked away with €32,000 at the €64,000 threshold, and Hendrik Renninghoff and Axel Pante, who each left with €8,000 after exiting at the €16,000 question.
- The broadcast also drew attention for human-interest moments: Axel displayed preserved medical artifacts including his removed appendix and Günther Jauch discovered a loose cable strip in the contestant area after Tabea Gottstein said she had dislodged it; Gottstein finished on €500 and will return.
- The episode marked the quiz’s post-summer return and reached about 2.99 million viewers according to AGF SCOPE data, making it the highest‑rated primetime show that evening and underscoring the program’s continued mass appeal.