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Quote of the day: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gerald Britton)
Thu Mar 9 12:48:11 2000
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 12:47:45 -0500
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SOCIAL STUDIES
A daily miscellany of information by Michael Kesterton
Cultural differences
The hit U.S. television show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? was
invented in Britain for the ITV network, where it was also very
popular. The two shows' questions are different:
American version:
"How many full bags of wool are there in Baa Baa Black Sheep?"
"Which condiment is also known as a Latin dance: mustard,
mayonnaise, relish or salsa?"
British version:
"What is the title of the third part of T. S. Eliot's The Waste
Land?"
"What is the SI unit of magnetic flux density?"
- from the Globe and Mail, Thursday, February 24, 2000
Submitted by: Terry Labach
Feb. 28, 2000
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