Lisa Karahalios took so long solving one of her questions on “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” that she feared a producer might come out and demand that she provide her answer at once.

The 54-year-old former Lewiston woman will appear on the nationally syndicated game show the day after Christmas — and again Thursday.

Does the 1982 Lewiston High School graduate go all the way and win a million dollars? Does she risk it all on a bad answer and go home with nothing?

Karahalios isn’t saying, although she does reveal that most of her on-air time occurs in the first episode. It was during the filming of that episode that she spent so long laboring over a question, she feared a prod from the producers.

The episodes were filmed in September. The first will air at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday on WCSH 6.

Karahalios, an independent study teacher in Los Angeles, is no stranger to the game show circuit. In 2001, she came in second place in “Jeopardy,” scoring around $3,000. Before that, she was on “Debt,” with host Wink Martindale, on which she won about $7,400.

“Not bad,” she said, “for a B student from LHS.”

Karahalios said she comes back to Lewiston every summer to visit her friends and her 95-year-old uncle, John Karahalios.

Lisa Karahalios appears on the popular game show “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” (Photo Credit: Jacob Kepler-Disney/ABC Home Entertainment and TV Distribution)