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Zdeněk Jánský (48) from Chomutov stunned the Czech Republic in 2002 when he won 2.5 million crowns in the television competition TV Nova Want to be a millionaire. No one before him, or after him, won such a big win. Yesterday, Zdeněk Jánský from Chomutov won a record-breaking prize in the Nova television competition Do you want to be a millionaire?: two and a half million crowns. He was only two questions short of the highest reward of ten million. But he preferred to give up the penultimate question for five million. Unlike the previous ones, he did not immediately know the answer to the question about the Pet Shop Boys song. Not even two hints helped him in his decision: a friend on the phone and reducing the possible answers from four to two. The millionaire knew football, science fiction, mining and Gabon. After three years of broadcasting the competition program Millionaire on Nova TV, when its viewership did not reach three million, a contestant for more than two million appeared, Zdeněk Jánský from Chomutov. With his encyclopedic knowledge, he was able to reach the record limit of two and a half million crowns on Tuesday, when he correctly answered without help that Libreville is the capital of the Republic of Gabon. On Friday, he could have achieved an absolute win - ten million crowns, but in the end he gave up the first of the two remaining questions for five million. Nevertheless, with his overall win, he established a competition record that no one before him had achieved. In the beginning, even before answering the competition questions on Tuesday, Zdeněk Jánský admitted that he likes reading encyclopedias and books full of useful information. He only hesitated when asked about the Harry Potter children's book and asked the audience for help. He answered all the others without hesitation.