Re: CHAT: Vexillology and games (was: Re: Flag of England)

At 19:35 19/06/00 -0400, you wrote:
>
> It's gonna be called "Qui Veut Gagner des Millions" (pretty
>>stupid name I find) and the channel who got it makes a huge commercial
>>campaign about it (with images of the program in its different national
>>versions). I first want to see how it looks like and if it's not too
>>difficult maybe I'll try to attend it .....The only
>>difficulty is the first question to choose the candidate. I've never been
>>any good at speed questions.>
>        It would be interesting to see a European version, since the level
>of general education is supposed to be a bit higher there.  It is dismaying
>and depressing to witness the abysmal performance of some of the contestants
>in the US. (One woman didn't know the $100 question about "Simple Simon met
>a pie-man.....".
>Sort of like not knowing where the bridge is in, "Sur le pont, sur le
>pont....")
> Never mind the most elementary facts about world history, geography, art
>etc. They _do_ know 1) TV shows of the last 30 years 2) pop music of the
>same period 3) (men only) sports.  I confess, those categories would do me
>in quickly.
>
>Also, AGEIST and SEXIST.  Can't think of anyone clearly over, say, 55; and
>where they find those women is beyond me.
>
The only European version I know is the Dutch one, "Weekend Millionairs"
(not sure about the spelling) whose presentator is the inventor of the
game, a Dutch man whose name escapes me. The questions there are at a good
level of difficulty I think. And I don't think you can find ageism and
sexism there (well, that's a feature of the Dutch people, they don't
tolerate discrimination in any form), at least the people I saw there were
of any kind. :)

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