NEW YORK (AP) -- It took him nearly 15 minutes to get it right -- but it was worth it.

Joe Trela, a 25-year-old customer service representative for a computer company, on Thursday became the third contestant to win the top prize on ABC's hit game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire."The Cal Tech graduate was asked what insect shorted out an early supercomputer and inspired the term, "computer bug."

Trela's choices? A moth, roach, fly or Japanese beetle. He correctly identified the moth as the culprit.

"I was lucky, which I guess was good enough," he said.

Trela certainly wasn't pressured into rushing his way through the game. He took nearly 15 minutes -- although it was edited down for broadcast -- to identify which baseball player appeared in the most World Series games.

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"The producers were getting kind of cranky with me," he said.

By the time he had won $32,000, Trela had used all three of his lifelines. That meant he had to answer the big-money questions without help.

Trela, from Gilroy, Calif., is the youngest person to win the game.

Trela, who is a bachelor, hopes to landscape his mother's backyard with the money, and maybe visit a friend in England. He won't say whether he plans to quit his job but figures the money will give him the freedom to finish a science fiction screenplay he's been writing.

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