However, after correctly answering the $100,000 question, the contestant earned two additional lifelines: Three Wise Men and Double Dip.
Depending on the format of the show, additional lifelines may become available after the contestant correctly answers the fifth or tenth question.
The group, which sells more than 22 million holidays a year in the UK, delayed its results last month as it revealed it had gone back to its lenders to ask for an additional £100 million lifeline.
Also Tuesday, senior government officials said the Treasury Department is planning to require taxpayer-supported banks seeking to free themselves from the government's grip to show that they can repay the lifelines without additional subsidies that have helped them survive the financial crisis.
A subset of ≈1500 participants also took part in LifeLines-DEEP: for these participants, additional biological materials were collected, including genome-wide genotyping and analysis of the gut microbiome composition.
For purposes of this study on the relation between RBC transfusion and DVT, one of the investigators (CK) retrospectively abstracted additional data on these patients from the medical record, Transfusion Medicine databases (LifeLine; Mediware Information Systems Inc., Lenexa, KS, USA), and Canadian Blood Services logs.
During the participant's second visit to the site, three additional tubes of blood were drawn by one of the LifeLines physicians' assistants.
With LifeLines DEEP, we are performing a pilot study of additional deep molecular measurements in 1500 individuals, using biomaterials from different domains that were all collected contemporaneously from fasting individuals.
The American International Group said on Thursday that it had repaid an additional $1.5 billion owed to the Treasury Department, further reducing the bailed-out insurer's government lifeline.
Prime minister Lucas Papademos had offered new austerity measures worth €3.3bn to secure the euro lifeline, but he was told the cash would not be forthcoming until savings of an additional €325m were identified.
