Joe Trela, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
Joe Trela was the 3rd ever person to win the top prize of $1,000,000 on the popular game show Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Joe had the audience nervous and on the edge of their seats, as he didn’t have any lifelines left by the time he got to that 15th and final question!
Joe was from Gilroy, California, and his computer knowledge enabled him to correctly answer the last question: “What insect shorted out the world’s first supercomputer and inspired the term “computer bug”? The answer was “moth.”