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First top prize winner on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire John Carpenter (born December 24, 1967 [ 1 ] ) is an American game show contestant and Internal Revenue Service agent. He is the thirteenth highest-earning American game show contestant of all time .
Keppel was born at Wolverhampton, eldest of three children and only daughter of the Hon. Walter Arnold Crispian Keppel (1914–1996), DSC, and Aline Lucy (1918–2007), daughter of Brigadier-General John Harington, CB, CMG, of Chelmarsh Hall, Bridgnorth, Shropshire (son of Sir Richard Harington, 11th Baronet) and Lady Frances Aline, daughter of William Temple-Gore-Langton, 4th Earl Temple of ...
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, $1,000 [79] 5 Kevin Olmstead $2,205,901 Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, $2,180,000 [58] Olmstead's primary win occurred during the progressive jackpot shows on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire in 2001. Following this win, Olmstead held the record as the biggest winner in American television for over three years until ...
Carpenter was a 31-year-old IRS employee when he appeared on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire in November 1999 and became the first contestant to win the $1 million jackpot prize. At the time, he was ...
Early winners included OneRepublic, Tiesto and Olivia Rodrigo. Taylor Swift leads the pack with the most nominations (nine), including Artist of the Year, Song of the Year and Pop Artist of the Year.
Darva Conger (born September 21, 1965) is a former emergency department nurse who in 2000 was selected as the winner of the reality television show Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire?
We’ve seen contestants on game shows go wild over winning a convertible, a house full of furniture or a trip to Europe. All nice prizes, to be sure, but nothing compared to the serious cash that...
On 24 December 1999, Woodley won £1,000,000 on Chris Evans' television series TFI Friday, during the Someone's Going to be a Millionaire section of the show. This section was designed to guarantee a winner of £1,000,000 on British television for the first time (Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? did not have a £1,000,000 winner until Judith Keppel won on 20 November 2000).