Hot seat

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The term hot seat or hotseat can refer to

• Hot seat is a slang term for the electric chair.
• Hot Seat was a syndicated U.S. politically-orientated television talk show that began in the early 1980s, hosted by conservative commentator Wally George.
• Hotseat is a computer game multiplayer mode, where there is one operator seat on which all users take consecutive turns.
• Hot seat is the name of the chair on which the player sits in the television game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?.
• "Being on the hot seat" is an expression for a high-pressure situation in which a great deal of attention and scrutiny is focused on a person or organization.
• Hot seat is an instructional strategy employed by teachers. It encourages students to take the role of a character from history or a work of literature and engage in discussion through a series of questions with others in the class who have assumed different roles. See: http://literature.wikispaces.com/The+Hotseat