On August 16, 1999, Who
Wants To Be A Millionaire debuts on ABC. The Show is an immediate hit,
with ratings soaring to 30 million viewers a night. Many memorable
moments happened those first few nights, including Michael Shutterly's
$500,000 win, Doug Van Gundy's dramatic $250,000 win, Tom Coletta's "I'm
a fat man Regis, my heart can't take it" response, Hillary Daw's joyful
$16,000 win, Doug Foster, John McClain, David Honea, and Norman Payne
agonizing over their $32,000 questions, and finally, David Honea's
return due to a bad question having him win $125,000.
wwtbam2001.tripod.com
announces Millionaire Contestant of the Year
Posted: 12-30-01 | News |
The
year of 2001 has certainly been a very lively one in New York City. The
September 11th attacks were a horrible disaster for the Big Apple, but
there were some positive highlights about New York in 2001, too -
"Millionaire" made some big winners, 2 of them broke the record of the
former game show champ, David Legler. Wwtbam2001.tripod.com picked Kevin Olmstead for the
"Millionaire Contestant of the Year" because he was a great player. He
broke the television winning record by winning $2,180,000, which was when
"Millionaire" was doing the bonus game, where every show the total jackpot
increased $10,000. Olmstead broke a long, 9 month streak of no million
dollar winners, and it was a glorious victory. Kevin is a trivia king - he
played trivia in high school, college, and now does it in his free time,
coaching students in college. He was a five day champion on "Jeopardy!" in
1994, and now has won $2,180,000 - a very nice piece of cash, and he is
officially the Game show King and our "Millionaire Player of the Year."
For
2nd place, there wasn't any dilemma on who Wwtbam2001.tripod.com would choose.
Wwtbam2001.tripod.com choice was
definitely Ed Toutant, who won not $1 Million, but $1,860,000. For those
of you who didn't hear what happened, let me explain. In January 2001, Ed
Toutant went out going for $16,000. However, "Millionaire" decided to
throw out one of the questions he was asked, due to a flaw. Ed started
with a new $16,000 question. Since he was playing when their bonus game
was in effect, he was playing for $1,860,000.
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The
year of 2001 has certainly been a very lively one in New York City. The
September 11th attacks were a horrible disaster for the Big Apple, but
there were some positive highlights about New York in 2001, too -
"Millionaire" made some big winners, 2 of them broke the record of the
former game show champ, David Legler. Wwtbam2001.tripod.com picked Kevin Olmstead for the
"Millionaire Contestant of the Year" because he was a great player. He
broke the television winning record by winning $2,180,000, which was when
"Millionaire" was doing the bonus game, where every show the total jackpot
increased $10,000. Olmstead broke a long, 9 month streak of no million
dollar winners, and it was a glorious victory. Kevin is a trivia king - he
played trivia in high school, college, and now does it in his free time,
coaching students in college. He was a five day champion on "Jeopardy!" in
1994, and now has won $2,180,000 - a very nice piece of cash, and he is
officially the Game show King and our "Millionaire Player of the Year."
For
2nd place, there wasn't any dilemma on who Wwtbam2001.tripod.com would choose.
Wwtbam2001.tripod.com choice was
definitely Ed Toutant, who won not $1 Million, but $1,860,000. For those
of you who didn't hear what happened, let me explain. In January 2001, Ed
Toutant went out going for $16,000. However, "Millionaire" decided to
throw out one of the questions he was asked, due to a flaw. Ed started
with a new $16,000 question. Since he was playing when their bonus game
was in effect, he was playing for $1,860,000.