Luciano Huck has already confirmed several times that he will keep the painting “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” in the air until you manage to pay a participant the top prize. But a kind of curse thwarts the moderator’s plans. In less than two months, three knowitalls came up with the million dollar question and got the answer wrong.
This Sunday (3) it was the turn of 51yearold Luiz Pradines. The mechanical engineer, who previously worked at Embraer and currently lives in Paris, France, brought all his knowledge together during the game show. He was not content with answering every question; He gave a real lesson about the reasons behind his decisions.
Intelligently, he arrived at the final question with two means of help: the show’s audience and eliminating two incorrect alternatives among the four presented. Still, there was no luck.
Pradines addressed the following question: “Tsu Chu and Harpastum were sports that led to which of these sports?” The options were: a) swimming; b) football; c) judo; and d) fencing.
Since Tsu Chu sounded oriental, the engineer assumed that judo would be the obvious option. He also concluded that the Domingão audience would follow the same reasoning, which would not help him much. Therefore, he decided to eliminate two incorrect alternatives. To his surprise, the martial art that originated in Japan was among those wiped out. Football and fencing remained.
Convinced that he knew the origins of football well, Pradines chose fencing as his answer. Incorrect. Tsu Chu and Harpastum were some of the many practices that shaped Breton sport. See his reaction:
Three mistakes in two months
Pradines wasn’t the first contestant to answer the million dollar question incorrectly this year. On October 22, educator Luana Diniz made a mistake in the final question of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?”, a pop culture question that involved the feature film Avengers: Endgame (2019). At the time, Huck felt sorry for the participant and promised to give her daughter, who was just turning 15, a gift.
On November 5, computer scientist Arthur de Oliveira Abrantes chose to ignore the Domingão audience and was injured. He had to say which cities had been founded on April 21st the correct answer would be Brasília and Rome, but he bet on the Brazilian capital and Barcelona.