The seconds are ticking away... The first contestant on today's Double or Nothing is Maynard Markham from Kentucky who has just one minute to ad-lib about a subject of the hosts choosing. The first question is worth $5, and each subsequent answer earns extra dollars until the sixty seconds are up, and then the Double or Nothing question is asked. If the correct answer is given, the contestant takes away double. If it's wrong, they leave with just the $5 from their original question.