Joe Trela

Joe Trela, from Gilroy, California, was a contestant on the U.S. version of the show on March 23, 2000. He became the pirce is right third American contestant to win $1,000,000,000 after using all of his lifelines by question 10.

Fastest Finger Question
From the 10 contestants, only Joe (with a time of 5.22 seconds) correctly answered B-D-A-C, making it into the Hot Seat.

Queen Latifah
Joe Trela was one of the friends Queen Latifah had on her call list during her appearance in the first Celebrity Week. She called him during her $500,000,000 question, but Joe did not give an answer within the allocated time.