The only son of a corrupt political Babu had a somewhat unique khwaish! To win in an episode of a renowned quiz show hosted by India’s greatest quizmaster, Mr.Prashnottar Das that was aired in the channel “Star ++” (an open source version of Star Plus, with added functionalities). The quiz was broadcasted every Sunday at 10:00 A.M owing to its incredibly high TRP value.
When the politician laid it out to the quizmaster sternly that he(Prashnottar Das, the quizmaster) had only two options to choose from, which were either to make his son win an episode of the quiz or to make his son win an episode of the quiz (yes, you read it right) , Mr.Das confirmed that it was a no big deal and he could swimmingly make it happen, err , fake it happen.
“Its not a mammoth problem Rathoreji. I’ll ask your son the easiest of the questions and also, I’ll make sure that other 2 participants face the toughest questions and your son ‘ll emerge the winner, no doubt.”
“ No that’s not feasible. My son doesn’t even know the ACB of general knowledge, so no matter what questions you ask, however easy they’ll be, he’ll fail to answer”.
“Oh , that’s ok still. I‘ll provide him the questions prior to the show , may be a week before that, and let him collect the answer and get prepared.”
“No Dasji, you are not getting me. Even if you give him the questions, he will not be able to fetch the answers, he doesn’t know how to.”
“Oh ok. In that case, I myself will provide him with the answers. That should suffice”.
“No no Dasji, even if you give him the answers, he cannot memorize the correct question-answer pair and will mess up the show entirely.”
“So what do you want me to do? We can’t literally fake it infront of an audience and other contestants”.
“What you are going to do is up to you, but my betwa must win.That’s it. All he knows about quizzes is that participants say pass when they don’t know the answer , ha ha ha and nothing else. Yes, its very true that he has almost zero general knowledge, zero common sense and negative reasoning skill. Yet, I don’t want to disappoint him, he must win. ”, he chuckles.
And the quiz started. There was almost a miracle there, the show proved to be a wholesome stunner as that son of the politician literally won that episode. While the questions asked to other two participants were something of the sort, ‘Who was the fourth president of Mozanbique?’, ‘Who won the bronze in 100 m running race in 1952 Asian games’, ‘Which is the 31st movie of Shilpa Shetty?’…et cetera, the questions asked by the quizmaster to the son of the babu were these.
1. In professional Ice Hockey, what do you call the movement of the puck from one player to another ?
2. What do you call that portion of a restaurant, which is traditionally a counter or an area separating kitchen and "front of house" where dishes are expedited and made ready for delivery to diners are placed by the kitchen for collection by wait staff ?
3. By what name would you call the personal safety device used by fire-fighters entering a hazardous environment ?
4. Which island is a former community on the southern shore of Newfoundland and Labrador, whose most settlers were resettled to the communities of Hermitage-Sandyville and Harbour Breton ?
5. What was the brand name formerly used by the Bank of Ireland for ATM cards ?
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For all of which, he confidently had answered, “PASS” ………, which was indeed the perfect legal impeccable answer ;)
(Answers are here for readers’ verification : Question 1 , Question 3, Question 4, Question 2,5 ).
