OK, one of the benefits of working at a newspaper is access to the Associated Press wire. So here is the AP story on Dave Goodman's big win. Allyson :) A 24-year-old millionaire on ABC's game show NEW YORK (AP) -- A 24-year-old graduate of the University of Michigan became the sixth -- and youngest -- million-dollar winner on ABC's "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" on Tuesday night. David Goodman, who lives in Olney, Md. and works for a Virginia consulting firm, accepted the check from Regis Philbin after successfully identifying Peru as the country where the children's book character Paddington Bear is from. Goodman raced through 14 questions without using any of his three lifelines -- then used them all on the last query. He immediately eliminated two wrong answers, and was left with the choice of Peru and Iceland. Goodman polled the audience, and more than half guessed Peru. That was his hunch, but he confirmed it by phoning a former Michigan classmate for help. Goodman was confident he could succeed on the show, saying he had done very well in recent months playing the "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" computer game at home. "I prepared for this show by basically reading everything I could get my hands on since I was three," he said. It was the second million-dollar winner in a week on the ABC show. The British show upon which "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" is based has never had a big winner in two years. Goodman rejected a suggestion that ABC was subtly encouraging winners to draw more attention to its show, overshadowed somewhat lately by CBS' hit reality series, "Survivor." Goodman said the questions he received happened to coincide with subject matters where he had an interest. "I don't think they were necessarily any easier," he said.
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