Darrin Despain

Darrin Despain, a biostatistician from San Diego, California, was a contestant on season 1 of the U.S. version of the show on November 14-15, 1999. He walked away with $32,000 after incorrectly answering his $64,000 question.

Fastest Finger Question
From the 9 remaining contestants, 4 got it right, but Darrin (with a time of 5.52 seconds) was the fastest to correctly answer C-D-B-A, making it into the Hot Seat.

Memorable moments

 * Between shows, Darrin met up with another contestant, $32,000 winner Tom Pajak. Feeling frisky, Darrin decided to play a trick on one of his phone correspondents. With Pajak playing the part of Regis, Despain called his friend Brian with the question, Who is the hottest chick from the office? Even better, a couple of the choices were listening in on the speakerphone!


 * Reege: And incidentally, just between us, who is the hottest chick in the office?


 * Darrin actually called Brian for a legitimate question moments later.