Tiebreakers

On Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, a tie occurs when two or more contestants post the exact same fastest time in Fastest Finger First. This is resolved by a tiebreaker where those contestants answer a second fastest finger question, repeating until one contestant gets the fastest time whether their opponent is wrong or not.

Famous tiebreakers
One of the most memorable tiebreakers in Millionaire history was June 2000, when Kim Hunt and Beth Rohr both posted a fastest time of 4.69 seconds. Hunt won the tiebreaker beating Rohr by 1.8 seconds and eventually became the fifth U.S. top prize winner. Around that same time Marga Lumbers won Australia's first WWTBAM tiebreaker beating out Trevor Ward and was the first woman in the show's history to win a tiebreaker. Hunt remains the only person to date to win a Fastest Finger play-off and also collect the top prize.

The first UK tiebreaker was on March 26, 2002 during a twins special when Andy & Steve Burton and Adam & Charlie both posted a time of 5.62 seconds. Andy & Steve won the tiebreaker and would walk away with £16,000. This has been repeated twice, most recently in 2006 with Mike Reeves winning against Gary Morewood. UK's second tiebreaker was in 2004.

Tiebreakers

 * Kim Hunt and Beth Rohr - June 18, 2000 (U.S.)
 * Trevor Ward and Marga Lumbers - 2000 (Australia)
 * Paul Pearson and Brett Beach - March 9, 2001 (U.S.) top prize: $2,060,000
 * Kevin Bacon and Jon Favreau - November 26, 2001 (U.S. Celebrity Edition)
 * Andy & Steve Burton and Adam and Charles - March 26, 2002 (UK)
 * Doug Ralls and Liz Simon - February 23, 2004 (Super Millionaire)
 * Steve Wilson and John Rimmer - October 16, 2004 (UK)
 * Gary Moreword and Mike Reeves - March 18, 2006 (UK)