If soneone gusses wrong on a question before $1000 do they make them say final answer?

Considering Meredith rarely lets any question $1,000 and below slide by without a confirmation nowadays, I'd say yes.

They make them say "Final Answer" on EVERY SINGLE QUESTION, no exception, by rule. They just edit out the ones at the top of a given game for time.

We tend not use the "Final Answer" bit here for the first tier, only on the exception the contestant is confident and CT is happy with their answer.

All mine were left in when I played, because of all the questions asked me that I got right, I didn't need the prompt. I was so sure of all those answers I volunteered "Final answer" on my own.

We're, sadly, a litigious society on this side of the pond. It's in the official game rules, so you bet yer ass they are going to make them say it for EVERY QUESTION, lest some wronged contestant get a wild hair up their ass to take the show to court.

This is the reason you don't hear the background music in the studio during the first five questions, because it makes it easier to edit out the final answers.

And when we attended tapings of the show, the silence in the studio during those five questions is deafening. The silence doesn't make it any easier for the contestant who might not be sure of an answer at that level.

It must not be much better in Italy, where the host asks for confirmation TWICE, the second time with his own catchphrase "shall we light it up?"

Also contestants here rarely "light it up" by their own initiative.

I like what India does. The contestant confides in the host that he has given his final answer, then the host vocally commands the computer to lock in the answer.