Joe Kelleher

Joe Kelleher, an antesthesiologist from San Diego, California, was a contestant on season 1 of the US version of the show on July 23rd, 2000. He walked away with $500,000.

Fastest Finger Question
From the 9 starting contestants, 7 got it right, but Joe (with a time of 4.75 seconds) was the fastest to correctly answer C-D-B-A, making it into the Hot Seat.

Trivia

 * For an unknown reason, this episode started with only 9 Fastest Finger contestants.