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    • Judith Keppel. Judith Keppel: The First Millionaire UK | Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Question: Which King was married to Eleanor of Aquitane? A – Henry I, B – Henry II, C – Richard I, D – Henry V (head to the bottom of the page for the answer).
    • David Edwards. David Edwards On How He Made Winning Look Easy | Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Question: If you planted the seeds of Quercus robur, what would grow?
    • Robert Brydges. Who Wants to Be a Millionaire UK 2001 Robert Brydges 3rd Millionaire. Question: Which scientific unit is named after an Italian nobleman? A – Pascal, B – Ohm, C – Volt, D – Hertz.
    • Pat Gibson. Pat Gibson On His Million Pound Win | Who Wants To Be a Millionaire? Question: Which of these is not one of the American Triple Crown horse races?
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    • Judith Keppel. Keppel was the first to win the show. Judith Keppel was the first contestant to win the top prize in November 2000, two years after the show's launch.
    • David Edwards. Edwards won in April 2001. Edwards was the second person to win, bagging the £1million just a few months after Keppel in April 2001. Read More.
    • Robert Brydges. Robert Brydges was a banker who lived in Holland Park at the time of his win. Brydges won the £1million only a few days after Ingram's appearance on the show in September 2001.
    • Pat Gibson. Gibson is now a noted quiz winner. Irish-born Gibson became the fourth winner of the show in April 2004, and his appearance was notable since he had two lifelines left when he reached the final question.
    • Judith Keppel
    • David Edwards
    • Robert Brydges
    • Pat Gibson
    • Ingram Wilcox
    • Donald Fear

    The hit quiz show began in 1998, but it was two years before someone won the top prize – and that person was former garden designer Judith Keppel, who walked away with the £1million on 20th November 2020 having apparently been "struggling for money" before her appearance on the show. Keppel has remained a familiar face to TV quiz enthusiasts ever s...

    It took only five months for a second millionaire on the show, with Welsh former physics teacher and 1990 Mastermind champion David Edwards answering all 15 questions correctly on 21st April 2001. Edwards used all three of his lifelines on one question – the £125,000 question – and used his son, who would later go on to win £125,000 himself on the ...

    The next contestant to win the prize was also in 2001, with Oxford-educated banker Robert Brydges becoming the third millionaire in the show's history. The win came at an eventful time for the show – just 11 days after the Coughing Major scandal, and Brydges had coincidentally been in the audience during Charles Ingram's appearance, reportedly one ...

    After Brydges' win, there was a gap of almost three years until the next millionaire, with Irish world-champion quiz player Pat Gibson eventually ending the drought on 24th April 2004. Gibson is something of a stalwart in the quiz show world, having also won Mastermind in 2005 and Radio 4's Brain of Britain in 2006. Like Edwards, Gibson competed in...

    Perhaps no name has been more prominent in Who Wants To Be A Millionaire history than Ingram - and on 23rd September 2006 civil servant Ingram Wilcox became the fifth winner of the top prize and the final millionaire of the original series. Wilcox had previously been a losing finalist on a whole host of quiz shows, including Mastermind, Fifteen to ...

    It was 14 years before another contestant became a millionaire – although it's worth noting the show had been off the air between 2014 and 2018. History and politics teacher Donald Fearbecame the first winner of Jeremy Clarkson's tenure as host earlier this year, walking away with the top prize on 11th September 2020. His win was all the more impre...

    • Judith Keppel. Garden designer Keppel, from Staffordshire, was the first person to win £1million on the show in 2000, when it was hosted by Chris Tarrant.
    • David Edwards. Former physics teacher Edwards won the prize a year later, in April 2001. He also continued on the game show path, competing in the Eggheads spin-off, Are You an Egghead?
    • Robert Brydges. Brydges also scooped the jackpot in 2001, just a few months later in September. The jackpot winner worked as a banker, lived in London and had studied at Oxford University.
    • Pat Gibson. It was not until 2004 that someone claimed the £1million prize again when Irish quiz champion Gibson answered all the questions correctly. Gibson, a national and international quizzing champion, has been in winning teams at the International Quizzing Association’s (IQA) World Quizzing Championships multiple times and is currently ranked the world’s number one quizzer on the World Quiz Rankings website.
  1. Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? is a British television quiz show, created by David Briggs, Steven Knight and Mike Whitehill for the ITV network. The programme's format has contestants answering multiple-choice questions based on general knowledge , winning a cash prize for each question they answer correctly, with the amount offered increasing ...

  2. Sep 11, 2020 · The Mensa Superbrain and past Mastermind winner devoted £1,000 to phoning the show after calculating how many times he would need to call to get on.

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