Who Wants to be a Millionaire Primetime (U.S.) Half Million Dollar Questions

Trivia

 * Jim Matthews, Steve Perry, Moe Cain, as well as Lyn Payne took away $500,000 each, using the Ask the Audience lifelines, which they saved for question 15.
 * Ken Basin lost $475,000, using the Ask the Audience, which he believed, he retained to question 15.
 * John Carpenter became the first person in the world to win the top prize.
 * He along with, David Goodman, and Steve Perry were the only ones to saves all 3 lifelines for the $1,000,000 question, Carpenter and Goodman won $1,000,000, Perry walked away with $500,000 (and after using all his lifelines, he still would’ve just lost $468,000 he had gone with his incline).
 * Also, Carpenter became the only person in the world to win the top prize without using any lifelines (excluding Phone a Friend because he told his father that he didn’t need his help and that he’s going to win a million dollars, which he did).
 * Kim Hunt who won $1,000,000 also won the show’s second tiebreaker, beating Beth Rohr.
 * Phil Gibbons won $500,000 with all lifelines used by question 8.
 * Kati Knudsen would’ve also done the same thing as Gibbons because she had the right answer, but instead she became the first woman to lose $218,000.
 * Joe Trela won $1,000,000 with all lifelines used by question 10.
 * Nancy Christy became the first woman in the U.S. to win the top prize, and did so with all lifelines used by question 9.
 * Coincidencely, the next contestant Armand Kachigian also reached to the top prize question, but this time he decides to walked away with $500,000.
 * Josina Reaves became the first contestant to see the $1,000,000 question since after 4 years, then two months later, Charles Esten saw the $1,000,000 question, but there’s no one else after him yet, who saw the $1,000,000 question, and hasn’t been for over 4 years, and a few contestants including Bill Matheny and Sojas Wagle, would’ve won $500,000, and Justin Peters had gambled for $500,000, but he gave an incorrect answer and lost $225,000. It’s unknown if the $1,000,000 question would been seen in Season 16 in 2018.
 * Jehan Shamsid-Deen became the only contestant to run out of time on both the $500,000 and $1,000,000 questions.