NAQT's Chief Financial Officer Kevin Olmstead won $2,180,000 on an episode of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? that aired on Tuesday, April 10, 2001, setting the worldwide record for winnings on a game show. The amount was greater than the usual $1,000,000 prize due to a bonus that had been accumulating since the last Top Prize winner. Curiously, Kevin had been the advisor of that most recent winner, Dave Goodman, while Dave played quiz bowl at the University of Michigan.

Olmstead got into the "Hot Seat" by answering the following "Fastest Finger" question:

• Put these authors in order by birth, starting with the earliest:
• A. Stephen Crane
• B. Joyce Carol Oates
• C. Louis L'Amour
• D. Terry McMillan
• answer: A-C-B-D

The questions that Olmstead answered en route to the big prize were:

• $100: Signs in video stores say "Please Be Kind", and do what? answer: rewind
• $200: What do you do to hail a cab? answer: raise arm
• $300: Dams are used to contain which of the following? answer: water
• $500: Which of these words is pronounced with a hard 'g'? answer: go
• $1,000: An igloo is traditionally built in what shape? answer: dome
• $2,000: By definition, the study of sound is called what? answer: acoustics
• $4,000: In the TV sitcom "Alice," where does the title character work? answer: diner
• $8,000: Who settled and became the first governor of the Utah Territory? answer: Brigham Young (used "ask audience" lifeline)
• $16,000: Halifax is the capital of what Canadian province? answer: Nova Scotia
• $32,000: What comic strip character has the same first name as its creator? answer: Cathy
• $64,000: Which of the following trees is not considered a conifer? answer: beech (used "50/50" lifeline)
• $125,000: In the 1950s and 1960s, Quincy Jones directed orchestras for which of these crooners? answer: Frank Sinatra
• $250,000: What writer collaborated with photographer Walker Evans on the 1941 book "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men"? answer: James Agee (used "call a friend" lifeline; called NAQT's Chief Editor Eric Hillemann)
• $500,000: The Earth's circumference at the equator is approximately how many miles? answer: 24,900
• $2,180,000: Who is credited with inventing the first mass-produced helicopter? answer: Igor Sikorsky