David Honea

David Hodnea, from Raleigh, North Carolina, was a contestant on season 1 of the U.S. version of the show on August 18th-19th, 29th, 1999. After originally winning only $32,000 due to a bad question, he was invited back to the show and then he would walk away with $125,000.

Fastest Finger Question
From the 10 contestants, 6 got it right, but David (with a time of 4.90 seconds) was the fastest to correctly answer D-C-A-B, making it into the Hot Seat.

David's Run to the Million
Originally, David was deemed to have given the wrong answer and would walk away with $32,000. However, after his run, he decided to ask the producers to recheck the question, and they found out that Lake Michigan is larger in volume than Lake Huron, but not in area, meaning that David's original answer was correct.

Therefore, the show reawarded him the $64,000 he should have won, and invited him to come back on August 29th, the last day of the show's original run, to continue his game starting from the $125,000 question (and with no lifelines, as he had used them up earlier in his original run).