| Solve one of the 6 unsolved Clay Institute's million dollar Millenium Problems |
$1,000,000. Only one of the original 7 has been solved. However, the solver declined the reward. |
| Find one of the fugitives from CIA's Most Wanted List |
$1,000,000, on at least a few |
| Find or submit a valid tip for FBI's Most Wanted Terrorists program |
Ranges from $1,000,000 to $5,000,000 |
| Find or submit a valid tip for Rewards For Justice program |
$10,000,000 for many, as of Sept 2022 |
| Find a security bug in Apple's products in the category of "Network attack without user interaction" |
$1,000,000, if it's on "Zero-click kernel code execution with persistence and kernel PAC bypass" |
| Find a security bug in Android related to Pixel Titan M security model |
$1,000,000 |
| Win a Nobel Prize |
$1,100,000 as of 2021, but varies around a million dollar |
| Win the Turing Award, which now carries a cash prize of a million dollars |
$1,000,000 |
| Win the Nomura Art Award for your best work "of major cultural significance" |
$1,000,000 |
| Become at least a runner-up in any of the Tennis Grandslams |
Around ~$1,300,000. US Open,
Wimbledon,
Australian Open,
French Open
|
| Win any of the active X Prize Contests. |
Ranges from $100M to $5M |
| Hutter Prize: Losslessly compress the 1GB file enwik9 |
Theoritically, over $1,000,000 as described here |
| Egg-Tech Prize: Develop a technology that can accurately and rapidly determine a chick's sex as early as possible in the egg production process |
Upto $6,000,000 |
| Win the Millenium Technology Prize for innovations for a better life. |
~$1,000,000 |
| A single poem can win you over a million dollar if you win in "Million's Poet" |
~$1,300,000 |
| Win the GoPro Million Dollar Challenge. Essentially, "capture something cinematically captivating from GoPro" |
$1,000,000 |
| [Missed Opportunity]: Showcase your paranormal abilities in One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge
|
$1,000,000. Unfortunately, this was discontinued in 2015, but hey, keep an eye out |
| [Missed Opportunity]: PETA offered a million dollars to the first participant who made in-vitro commercially viable chicken meat! |
$1,000,000 |