Kevin Olmstead has won what is believed to be the biggest prize ever carted off by a game-show contestant, scarfing up $2.18 million Tuesday night on Who Wants To Be a Millionaire. Olmstead, who won $27,000 on Jeopardy back in 1994, was the first guy to reach the final question and not blink: Eight previous contestants opted to take the $500,000 rather than risk being bumped back to $32,000 for blowing the final answer. And Olmstead, an engineer, caught a break. Instead of being asked a pop-culture question -- which he feared -- they served him a creampuff: Who was the inventor of the helicopter? Who, as we all know, was Igor Sikorsky.
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Kevin Olmstead has won what is believed to be the biggest prize ever carted off by a game-show contestant, scarfing up $2.18 million Tuesday night on Who Wants To Be a Millionaire. Olmstead, who won $27,000 on Jeopardy back in 1994, was the first guy to reach the final question and not blink: Eight previous contestants opted to take the $500,000 rather than risk being bumped back to $32,000 for blowing the final answer. And Olmstead, an engineer, caught a break. Instead of being asked a pop-culture question -- which he feared -- they served him a creampuff: Who was the inventor of the helicopter? Who, as we all know, was Igor Sikorsky.
