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Sally Vander Veer, from Superior, CO, was a contestant on the seventh season of the syndicated U.S. version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? on September 8, 2008. She won $16,000 after walking away from her $25,000 question.

Sally was the first contestant on the U.S. clock format, which added "the dreaded clock" as a gameplay element on every question. According to Meredith Vieira, this made the game "faster, more exciting, and much more nerve-wracking than ever before".

Trivia

 * Sally was the first contestant of the clock format. She is the first contestant who ran out of time on a question on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? in the U.S. version.
 * Sally is the first contestant of the seventh season of the syndicated U.S. version of Millionaire who walked away with $16,000.
 * Sally's $1,000 question has been incorrectly categorized, but that doesn't make it a bad question. This may have been caused by a last-minute change.
 * Most of the tournament questions given to the ten contestants in the Million-Dollar Tournament of Ten do not follow the category of the would-have-been original million dollar question of the contestant.