“Is that your final answer?”

Jenna Fracaro, who had already used her 50-50 lifeline to narrow her choices, said “Yes.”

“Who Wants to be a Millionaire” aired its “College Week” segment, beginning Monday, May 8, with one of Eastern’s own.

Fracaro worked as a lab assistant for Terry Hyder in Instructional Technology Center (ITC) for four years.

Hyder said she was a good, hard worker, who was outgoing and punctual. She was very helpful and had a cheerful attitude.

“She presented herself very well and represented Eastern very well,” said Hyder. “But that’s just Jenna!”

Brittany Osika, elementary education major and Fracaro’s co-worker at ITC for the last two years, said Fracaro was genuinely nice and never said anything bad about anyone.

“It was wonderful,” said Osika. “I was glad that it happened to a good person.”

Fracaro keeps busy with involvement in several organizations, including Colleges Against Cancer, Association for Childhood Education International and International Art Education Association while maintaining a 3.7 GPA.

“Jenna worked so hard,” said Jennifer Wayer, president of Colleges Against Cancer. “She was very involved and really dedicated.”

Fracaro, who recently earned a bachelor’s in elementary education with a concentration in art, traveled to Indiana to take a general test among hundreds of other people. A producer interviewed her after she received a successful score on the test and placed her in the contestant pool.

“Months went by and I forgot about it almost, but I received a call mid-November saying I would be flown to Florida for the taping,” said Fracaro.

The Joliet native took her sixth trip to Disney World to tape the show.

Fracaro sat in the “hot seat” and reached the $16,000 question:

“When spoken out loud, which of these Internet abbreviations has more syllables than the term it abbreviates? A) URL, B) HTTP, C) WWW, or D) HTML?”

Using a lifeline, Fracaro narrowed her choices to C and D, and then chose D as her final answer.

She received a check for $1,000.

“[The experience] very fun and definitely something I will never forget,” said Fracaro. “It was stressful at times and also very unbelievable to me that it was actually happening.”

A few other Eastern alumni have made their game show debuts including Gia Hyos and Butch Lockley.

Hyos, a 2005 graduate, appeared on “Wheel of Fortune”, which taped in July 2005 and aired that fall. She solved three puzzles and earned $9,200.

Lockley, of Olney, received his master’s in education administration in 1994. He outwitted, outplayed, and outlasted several to reach the top four, before becoming the thirteenth person voted out of “Survivor 6; Amazon.”