Maailman ympäri ("Around the world") is a Finnish quiz show shown on YLE TV1 from 2000 to 2004.
[1][2] The show was hosted by Finnish TV presenter Simo Frangén and had a geography theme.
In turn, each contestant picked an empty square and Frangén asked him/her a true-or-false question about that particular aspect of his/her chosen country.
In round three, Frangén also randomly selected one country from each continent, but this time did not reveal their names.
Frangén began at the bottom of the stack, asking a multiple-choice question with three choices about the country.
If the contestant chose the one-shot option, the time limit was abandoned, and Frangén asked a multiple-choice question with two choices about the Asian country.
Getting the "one-shot" question wrong or exceeding the time limit earned him/her a second prize of a week-end trip to a randomly selected European country.
Some of the running gags included: The show was accompanied by a lottery game with the same name in co-operation with Veikkaus.
Actor Mikko Kivinen [fi] sometimes stood in for Simo Frangén when he was on his summer holiday.