The miner Arthur Abrantes managed to reach the highest value in the table this Sunday the 5th with the question of R$ 1 million Who wants to become a millionaire?from Sunday with Huck, from TV Globo. Despite his wrong answer, he left the program with the acclaim of the public and a prize money of R$300,000.
The final question was which of the cities offered were founded on April 21st. While the audience bet that Brasília and Rome were the correct answer, Arthur believed that it was Brasília and Barcelona. In the end, the public was right.
“The bravest, craziest, most brilliant guy I’ve ever met,” said the presenter Luciano Huck, after the elimination of Abrantes, who was born in Paracatu, in the interior of Minas Gerais, and has a degree in computer science from Harvard University in the United States. “You are the Brazil that makes me proud.”
Arthur Abrantes from Minas Gerais was the second contestant to reach the R$1 million question in the show “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” on Domingão com Huck. Photo: Reproduction/TV Globo
This was the second time a contestant reached the final stage of the attraction. The first time was in December 2021.
At that time, 41yearold professor Rafael Cunha gave up the game after explaining that he had no answer to the origin of the name “Bluetooth,” which came from the Danish King Harald Blatand. He became the program’s record holder, winning R$500,000, the attraction’s second highest prize.
The new season of the show “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” started on the 22nd. “I promised that unless I paid R$1 million for the correct answer to the million dollar question, I wouldn’t do it.” “Give up “, said presenter Luciano Huck when announcing the new episodes.