tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post4777932862647797682..comments2024-03-12T12:54:32.926-07:00Comments on Life After Mastermind: TV Watch - University ChallengeLondiniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07871325359167581176noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post-56697013705824815852010-01-27T07:50:44.080-08:002010-01-27T07:50:44.080-08:00Hi Maltina,
Another very thought provoking commen...Hi Maltina,<br /><br />Another very thought provoking comment, thank you. I think that generally your point about the narrowness of world questions, and science questions in quizzes is well made. This is purely my opinion, but I think that there is a tendency when making a pub quiz, for example, to ask mainly what is relatively easy or accessible, and I think that this is true to an extent of television quizzes as well. Its almost like there are unwritten guidelines about what is fair game to be asked in a quiz , and what is not. You end up asking the sort of thing that people expect to be asked, because at the end of the day you are making an entertainment. If you like, what is asked on a TV quiz is driven by public taste. It conforms to a particular agenda, rather than setting its own. To a significant section of the British public, Geography mostly is about capitals, and flags, and rulers, while History mostly is about wars, and kings and disasters and Literature is Shakespeare, Dan Brown and JK Rowling. I’m being flippant, but I’m sure that you understand what I am driving towards. <br /><br />Science is a special case on its own. In the “40 years of University Challenge” book it makes the point that good Science questions are the hardest ones to come up with. After all, you’re prevented from asking a lot of things by your need to have something with a short, definitive answer. There’s also often the need to use technical, or subject specific vocabulary in the question itself, which I’m afraid can act as a turn off to many viewers, and/or participants in a pub quiz.<br /><br />It also depends on the level at which you quiz. A pub quiz will tend to stick to the obvious with regards to ‘world questions’ and ‘science’. Partly this is for the simple reason that nobody wants to go to a quiz where they don’t know hardly any of the answers. However I don’t know if you know about the Grand Prix quiz circuit, but the range of questions you would be asked in a grand prix quiz is far broader, especially in the two areas that you highlight. Partly this is because there is a growing European circuit, with an annual European Championships. <br /><br />Thanks for the list – my favourite is still the German though !<br /><br />Regards<br /><br />DCLondiniushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07871325359167581176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post-47164247458684522702010-01-26T23:04:52.664-08:002010-01-26T23:04:52.664-08:00Common names for mobile phones
A helpful post - y...Common names for mobile phones<br /><br />A helpful post - your supplied answers saved me much googling, as I didn't watch the quiz.<br /><br />The 'handy' question raised one of my pet peeves about many quizzes: there aren't enough questions on the cultures of other countries. Britons are generally great travellers, but 'world questions' are an area of weakness in many quizzes; most such questions tend to be about geography, or perhaps rulers. For the record, I also think that there tends to be too few and too narrow a band of science questions.<br /><br />Anyway. I compiled a list of international slang names for mobile handsets. I knew a surprising number of these - a consequence of living in supremely cosmopolitan London. I've left out countries that only seem to use the obvious terms. Culturally, it is interesting that so many countries use the standard terms, cellphone, mobile etc, and have no term in local languages. I would expect it to be the same for 'laptop', but not for 'car'.<br /><br /><br />USA - cellphone<br /><br />Malaysia - handphone, handset<br /><br />SA - cell/cellphone<br /><br />Greece - kinito<br /><br />Australia - mobile<br /><br />Brasil - celular<br /><br />Algeria - portable<br /><br />Lithuania - telefas, mobilnikas, mobiliakas, ragelis<br /><br />Mexico, Argentina, Colombia - celular, cel<br /><br />Spain - móvil<br /><br />Netherlands - mobiel pron.'mobiil'<br /><br />Finland - kännykkä, puhelin (phone)<br /><br />Russia - mobilnik, sotoviy, sotyk<br /><br />Indonesia - hape, telepon, ponsel<br /><br />India - cell/mobile/phone varies<br /><br />Iran - hamrah, gooshi<br /><br />Israel - pelephone, nayad<br /><br />Egypt - mahmol<br /><br />Bulgaria - GSM<br /><br />Portugal - telemóve l <br /><br />Azerbaijan - Sotvi, bjjayin<br /><br />Poland - komórka<br /><br />Croatia - mobitelCling_peacheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14400427211512731834noreply@blogger.com