“Millionaire”’s Tournament of Ten Day Two: Tony Westmoreland

We’ll be covering the Tournament of Ten on Millionaire each day far after it’s finished airing and when ABC gives us the clear.  Just be warned that further down we will reveal spoilers about if a contestant gets a right answer.  We will not reveal who wins the million because, frankly, I don’t even know.

The first edition of Who Wants to be a Millionaire’s Tournament of Ten has completed.  Contestant Alex Ortiz from Stamford Connecticut faced this question to be in the running for $1,000,000:

“Which First Lady was a ninth-generation descendant of Pocahontas?
A: Helen Taft, B: Edith Wilson, C: Bess Truman, D: Mamie Eisenhower.”

Alex did not want to risk her previous show’s winnings of $50,000 and potentially drop to $25,000 with a wrong answer.  She decided to walk, and next up to bat for the top prize is the number nine seed.  The correct answer was B, Edith Wilson.

As we said before, number nine seed Tony Westmoreland is up today.  Tony is a mailman from Cambry, IN, and previously won $50,000 in his first appearance.  We’ll see if he’ll be the frontrunner for the million dollars today.  Here’s a short video with Tony, courtesy of the show.

We’ll have daily coverage of the Tournament of Ten, so stay tuned to Millionaire and here for coverage.  Feel free to comment all you want about the show and the player.  Go crazy with spoilers in comments.  Be sure to check the comments each day for a little bonus for you all, actually.  By the way, what did we think of the first celebrity question?  I thought they did a really nice job incorporating it.  It didn’t add a lot to the show but it didn’t eat up any extra time or distract.  It worked just as well as it should have.