Belarus in Double Jeopardy
According to Google Video, this is basically the only time Belarus was mentioned on any of the American TV channels (excluding C-Span) in the last several months:
- Where do we start? Oh, let’s try a “B” country for $400.
- What is Bhutan?
- Let’s try it for $800.
- What is Belarus?
- Let’s have “B” country for $1,200, please.
- What is Brunei?
- “B” country for $1,600, please.
- What is Brittany?
- No. Paul.
- What is Breton?
- No. Larry’s not gonna ring in?
- Correct response. What is Belgium?
- April, back to you. “B” country for $2,000, please. Didn’t cost you anything, and it might earn you a lot of money. You have more than 50% of Larry’s total, which, of course, means that you could catch him and pass him for first place…
- Let’s bet $3,000. All right, here comes the clue in a “B” country…
- What is Bolivia?
- Bolivia. Well done, young lady. Way to go — the lead, with $6,800.
Vaclav Havel was absolutely right when he said that: “Belarus today is in the same situation which was accurately described in a famous essay by Milan Kundera about Central European countries after World War Two: it appears as if Belarus does not exist, it is not present in Western political and cultural thinking.”
I quote from Vaclav Havel’s preface to a new book “Unknown Belarus” (Neznámé Bělorusko) that was published several days ago in Czech.
October 16th, 2005 at 1:06 am
True tho… its more rule than exception that any person I talk to has not even heard of the name before. Including the post office :( Every single time they ask me where it is and if its part of the EU. Pretty sure I’m the first ever person in that building to even mention the name. Or… thanks to mis-translation they punch in “Russia”… had that happen 3 times >_
October 16th, 2005 at 12:33 pm
wolny
2005-10-16 00:54 am UTC
“There was another mentioning. the Vitebsk explosions were on some NY channel.”
I’m only talking about search results from Google Video. As of this moment it only indexes 27 TV channels channels:
ABC (KGO) * NBC (KNTV) * CNN
ABC News Now * The Weather Channel * C-SPAN
KQED * Discovery Channel * C-SPAN2
KQED HD * Discovery Health * PBS
KQED Encore * The Learning Channel * HGTV
KQED Life * Travel Channel * Food Network
KQED Kids * Animal Planet * DIY
KQED World * Fox News * Fine Living
KRON * here!
October 20th, 2005 at 11:59 am
hm, could you please explain the rules? what does question “What is…” mean in game’s context?
October 20th, 2005 at 12:20 pm
Mir’ritil:
Double Jeopardy! is the second round of the television gameshow Jeopardy!, when all point values are doubled
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeopardy%21
Jeopardy! is a game of trivia, usually covering topics such as history, literature, and pop culture. During the game, the three competing contestants are given a clue in the form of an answer, to which they must give a response phrased as a question.
Ну, і там, відаць, на экране было нешта тыпу “найбліжэйшы сябра Расеі” або “усходнеславянская краіна каля Польшчы” альбо нешта такое. А ён адказаў: “Што такое Беларусь?” і атрымаў за гэта 800 даляраў. Заўсёды трэба адказваць у форме пытаньня. Інакш адказ не залічваецца.
October 26th, 2005 at 3:48 pm
thanks.
quite unusual form… I’m used to simple noun-form answers, like in Russian TV “Своя Игра”.
November 17th, 2005 at 4:35 pm
[…] It reminds me again about what Vaclav Havel recently said about West ignoring Belarus. […]
September 7th, 2006 at 5:40 pm
Are you there?
As always a good post :) .