User:Vince Jan Torres

Displayed below is the page format that I plan to use on contestant pages that I will create and/or edit (I'll do this for season 7 of the U.S. syndicated version onwards, including the 10th anniversary celebration). Having a consistent format in contestant pages promotes consistency in this wiki, something that needs improvement. In less than a few days, I'll transfer this to the actual contestant page of Sally Vander Veer.
 * On the actual contestant page, amounts of remaining time are shown. This is a good additional piece of info, but I don't think it is relevant enough to be displayed on the contestant page.
 * Certain things that are irrelevant to the run but are otherwise noteworthy are written in small italic font. This includes any answer that the contestant would have guessed on his/her game-ending question.
 * As seen below, there should be no small text (e.g. "Ask the Audience" lifeline used) on the question box of the new question template. Any such relevant information should be on the footer box of the new question template instead.
 * The first wrong Double Dip answers are now in gray; I intend to not put a first wrong answer indicator and just put a regular wrong answer indicator in the event that the contestant fails to give a second Double Dip answer, which is the case with these contestants.
 * Noticing that there was only one season of the U.S. primetime version, not including the 10th Anniversary Celebration, I plan to drop the "Season 1" identifier from such categories, instead using the term "Primetime".
 * "10th Anniversary Celebration" will be used on the 2009 primetime special.
 * Examples of categories that I intend to use in categorizing the pages are listed below. Moreover, I'll also add a contestant's page on any other categories that apply to the contestant.
 * $1,000,000 winners from the U.S. primetime version
 * $16,000 winners from Season 7 (U.S. syndication)
 * U.S. contestants from Ohio (Super Millionaire)
 * U.S. contestants from California (10th Anniversary Celebration)

Please message me if you strongly disagree with any of these changes, if you have a suggestion, etc.

Sally Vander Veer, from Superior, CO, was a contestant on the seventh season of the U.S. syndicated version of the show on September 8, 2008. She is the first ever contestant to face the clock format of the game, winning $16,000 after walking away from her $25,000 question.

Sally's Run To The Million
'' Before the $1,000 question was shown, it was initially revealed that its category is "Vegetables". In later parts of the run, whenever the topic list is shown, it now correctly labels the $1,000 question with the category "Vocabulary". ''

The expert, Bill Nye "The Science Guy", was "pretty sure" but "not certain" that the answer is B.

The contestant's Phone-A-Friend, her sister Sharon, said that she doesn't know the answer.

'' The contestant would have answered correctly had she gone for it. ''

Trivia

 * Sally was the first contestant of the clock format, which debuted on the seventh season of the U.S. syndicated version.
 * Sally's $1,000 question is one of the rare cases in which a question has been incorrectly categorized. It appears that either an error or change of question resulted to this.
 * This is also the case with the tournament questions of several of the contestants in the Million-Dollar Tournament of Ten; most of the tournament questions do not follow the category of the would-have-been million dollar question of the contestant on his/her main run.