Law Student Victor Bernardo, 28, has been one of Argentina's most persistent radio quiz contestants, but in two years of trying, he has won only minor prizes. Last week he hit the jackpot.
Bernardo survived all other contestants on Radio El Mundo's Today We Have an Examination, a quiz program sponsored by a big Buenos Aires confectioner. To the 6,250-peso ($695) question, "What is a lararium?" Bernardo answered correctly: "The niche in a Roman house where the domestic gods were worshiped."
Then the jackpot winner had the chance at another question he had long and longingly anticipated. What, asked the announcer,...
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