Overview
- On the penultimate night of the 3‑Million‑Euro‑Week, four teachers qualified for the final: Johannes Vorspohl and Jan Patrick Meister at €32,000, plus Kilian Sasse and Ellen Zaghami at €16,000.
- Contestant Anna‑Lena Spanier lost her place in the final after trusting a telephone joker who was "very sure" but wrong on the €32,000 question, dropping to €500.
- The decisive question asked which pair are grandfathers of a boy named Ronin born on September 17, 2024, with the correct answer being Kurt Cobain and Tony Hawk.
- Vorspohl’s gameplay was overshadowed by a running studio exchange over his garden hedge species, which production later confirmed he had identified correctly.
- Jauch acknowledged his error with a self‑deprecating remark, turning the hedge back‑and‑forth into a humorous postscript to Vorspohl’s €32,000 finish.