Former volleyball player César Augusto lost R$270,000 after getting one of the questions wrong on Domingão’s Quem Quer Ser Um Milionário. After getting the question worth R$300,000 right, he let part of the prize slip away because he didn’t know what was the inspiration behind the pay phone – public telephone protectors designed by Chinese-Brazilian designer Chu Ming Silveira (1941-1997).

The gaucho surprised Luciano Huck not only with luck, but also with your general knowledge. He, for example, was 100% sure which special object was furthest from Earth’s orbit – the Voyager 1 probe.

He even went through questions about Polish-French chemist Marie Curie (1867-1934), who discovered radioactivity; and on the reunification of Italy.

The question worth R$500,000 was about one of the pieces of urban furniture best known to Brazilians. “What inspired architect Chu Ming Silveira to create the design of the telephone protector, the iconic pay phone, made in 1971?”, he said.

The alternatives were:

• Peanut, wrongly chosen by Caesar;
• Soccer ball;
• Sugarloaf Mountain;
• Eggshell, which was the correct option;

After having spent all his aid, César Augusto chose to take risks to get to the million dollar question:

This was the same when I stopped playing. A team from Santa Catarina hired me, I had a future in volleyball, but I chose to study. The study opened many doors in my life. I have a feeling it’s peanuts. If I stop, maybe it would be César who would have gone to play volleyball. You wouldn’t know what you got in college. But I want to know what’s behind the word peanut.

Unfortunately, the participant made a mistake and had to leave the program. Globo with just R$30 thousand. He was comforted by Huck, who praised him for his persistence and intelligence.