This is not much of a post - just a little question I'd been pondering ..
There was a Telugu TV game show hosted by film star Prakash Raj which ran for a few weeks. It is kind of a quiz show, with a bit of betting involved. There are two contestants and two celebrity guests. The contestant chooses a guest. Prakash Raj poses a question to the guest and gives two alternatives as answers. The guest picks one answer. All that the contestant has to do is to correctly point out if the guest's choice is right or not. It is an interesting game.
It struck me, after I watched about 3 episodes, that all the questions fell into two categories - films (particularly Telugu films) and Puranas. On the very few occasions (limited to the first two episodes) a question from any other topic was posed, the contestants confessed not knowing anything about it. So, I guess the producers of the show quickly came to their senses and restricted the questions to the above two topics.
Since then, I paid a bit of attention to what kind of questions were being asked on these game shows - 99% are film and film star related. And any time the question was from any other topic, inevitably, the contestant did not know the answer. That got me thinking ...
History - Geography - Current Events
What is the minimum knowledge we can expect a college educated Indian to have?
There was a Telugu TV game show hosted by film star Prakash Raj which ran for a few weeks. It is kind of a quiz show, with a bit of betting involved. There are two contestants and two celebrity guests. The contestant chooses a guest. Prakash Raj poses a question to the guest and gives two alternatives as answers. The guest picks one answer. All that the contestant has to do is to correctly point out if the guest's choice is right or not. It is an interesting game.
It struck me, after I watched about 3 episodes, that all the questions fell into two categories - films (particularly Telugu films) and Puranas. On the very few occasions (limited to the first two episodes) a question from any other topic was posed, the contestants confessed not knowing anything about it. So, I guess the producers of the show quickly came to their senses and restricted the questions to the above two topics.
Since then, I paid a bit of attention to what kind of questions were being asked on these game shows - 99% are film and film star related. And any time the question was from any other topic, inevitably, the contestant did not know the answer. That got me thinking ...
History - Geography - Current Events
What is the minimum knowledge we can expect a college educated Indian to have?
Comments
Just an interesting story with diff incidents,charecters and a moral of the story at the end, in both the cases
any way it is just an entertainment show.
Mauli, That's perhaps true.
May be that's the reason TOI and papers like TOI are a hit in India :)
Check this out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ckzsh9SpUAQ