Questions pour un champion first aired in France in 1988, adapted from the British format Going for Gold, and became a fixture of early evening television on France 3. Julien Lepers hosted the show for nearly three decades, making its buzzers, timers and point sounds familiar to generations of viewers. The short scoring chime survived cast changes and set redesigns, and clips of the programme later spread widely online. Today the sound is reused far beyond the studio as a nostalgic shorthand for getting an answer right.