[quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' date=\'Jan 12 2004, 08:23 AM\']
IIRC, there have been a couple of times extremely long contestant final answer times were edited down. Correct me if I'm in error.
There was also the ABC version from July 30, 2000, where a lady contestant blows the $500,000 question and falls back to $32,000. Her three questions on that show took over 20 minutes to answer, but there was a report that she took over 50 minutes just on one of those questions, so a lot was edited out.
I'd have hated to be in the audience during that. [/quote]
Kati Knudsen was her name.
Ooh, the heartbreak. She had it right the first time, then changed it at the last possible moment. I would've just taken the money.
In addition, to respond to the "Much Later," and "Much Much Later" post, that player was Minda Lopez, and she went back down to $1,000 after missing that $8,000 question.