HERE are two things that don’t happen often in life.

You don’t often win six figures of money, and you are probably just as unlikely to have Jeremy Clarkson describing you as extremely memorable.

But for Conor Kim, a legal assistant living in Warrington, that was his experience on ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire?’, ITV’s quiz show in which Conor featured on Saturday's episode on July 24.

His comeback from using lifelines in the first two questions was simply stunning.

Conor, from Westminster, responded the fastest with the correct answers on the order of the royal houses of Britain for when they ruled, starting with the earliest. He was one of three to get it right, as he nailed the answers in 3.24 seconds.

He then called on Jeremy's help navigate a question about the Rolling Stones: Which Keith found fame as a member of the Rolling Stones? 

The answers were Keith Urban, Keith Richards, Keith Chegwin, Keith Lemon.

Not knowing whether it was Keith Richards or Keith Chegwin, he was forced to ask the host for help, which greatly amused Clarkson and the studio crew.

He then followed that by using his 50-50 after not knowing the old fashioned way of saying ‘going to the toilet’ – which was spending a penny.

It didn’t look too promising.

 

Conor picked up momentum though with a correct answer about a cravat, an item of clothing that goes around the neck.

As Conor was born in Ireland, he was well versed to answer which day in the Chicago River is dyed green for, as that was St Patrick’s day.

He couldn’t believe his luck when he eased through a vowels question for £1,000, which was now the minimum he could come away with.

Conor followed that up with a £2,000 mandolin answer for being the most similar to a guitar through having strings. £4,000 was then secured with a department of work and pensions question which he answered correctly and Conor was on a roll.

He soon made that eight grand, as his experience watching with the girlfriend helped him to get a First Dates question right.

Conor called upon John, a schoolmate, to help with finding out which English cricketer was the first to take 600 Test wickets. John was unsure but leaning towards the incorrect Ben Stokes. He then called Callum who was sure it was James Anderson, and he was right to take him to £16,000.

At this point, he had no lifelines left and put his safety net at £32,000. Celebrations ensued when he got Beck’s as the right answer when asked upon which beer bottle’s label features a key.

Conor then got a free hit at £64,000 and after changing his mind on an educated guess, he chose squawk as the aviation code which means a four-digit transponder code assigned to an aircraft for identification.

Jeremy, who has presented the quiz since 2018, said that if you would have told him 10 or 15 minutes ago that Conor would be on the question for a quarter of a million pound, he would have said ‘I don’t think so’.

The figures doubled again to six figures. Conor opted for Mali as the country that has a large section covered by the Sahara Desert and was now on £125,000.

And despite very nearly going for the quarter of one million-pound question, Conor took the money.

He will be thanking his lucky stars too, as he would have chosen iodine as the most reactive of all the chemical elements, and fluorine was the right answer.

And from using two lifelines in the first two questions, the Warrington resident came out with £125,000.

Jeremy told Conor that he had been extremely memorable and he was absolutely delighted that he could win the sum – maybe using lifelines early doors is a new tactic.