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.
"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.