how about have them untie a knot with their toes while typing a letter blind folded while Alex Trebec throws jepardy questions at them and Christopher Walken zaps them with a tazer for each typo/wrong answer/30 seconds the knot isnt untied ALL AT THE SAME TIME!
that or take it out back and shoot it, ug that thing sucks.
The advancing contestants get to murder the losers, except for a certain few who are whisked away backstage. The winner gets to kill the runner-up, then play Here She Is, Miss America on the heads of the contestants who were spared, like Marvin Suggs and the Muppaphone on the old Muppet Show. Then, she decapitates them.
George Carlin once suggested that the losers have to keep coming back until they win.
Doubt that would actually help revive lagging viewership, but it certainly would make it more interesting.
Why not Queer Eye for the Straight Miss America? The costumes would have to be just fabbbbbulous.