John Carpenter (game show contestant), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

John Carpenter (game show contestant)

American millionaire on the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire

Date of Birth: 24-Dec-1967

Place of Birth: Hamden, Connecticut, United States

Profession: game show contestant

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

John Carpenter (born c.
1968) is an American game show contestant and IRS agent.
He is the tenth highest-earning American game show contestant of all time.
Carpenter is best known for becoming the first top prize winner on the United States version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.
He held the record for the largest single win in United States game show history, until it was broken by Rahim Oberholtzer who won $1.12 million on another U.S.
quiz show, Twenty One.
Carpenter was also the first top prize winner among all international versions of the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? series. On the November 19, 1999 episode of Millionaire, Carpenter proceeded to advance to the million-dollar question without using any lifelines.
He then used his Phone-A-Friend to call his father not for help, but rather to tell him he was going to win the game.
Carpenter answered the question correctly and became the show's first millionaire.
His win gave him national recognition and led to multiple talk show appearances, as well as reappearances on Millionaire itself.