Phil Gibbons

Phil Gibbons, a salesman for an internet company from Santa Monica, California, was a contestant on season 1 of the US version of the show on August 13th & 15th, 2000. He walked away with $500,000.

Fastest Finger Question
From the 6 remaining contestants, 2 got it right, but Phil (with a time of 8.24 seconds) was the fastest to correctly answer C-A-B-D, making it into the Hot Seat.

Trivia

 * Phil managed to correctly answer 6 questions without having access to any of his lifelines, even resorting to pure guesses at some moments.
 * He is the only contestant in the history of the show to see a million dollar question without having access to a lifeline after the eight question.