Is it not just so exasperating when you know the answer to a radio show, yet can never get through to the line, but those who did get through do not know the answer in the first place?
I was tuning in to the Gold Breakfast Show yesterday (Tuesday actually) morning. The deejay was giving away prizes for the person who could name three Shakespeare tragedies. I was feeling excited as that is the type of question specially made for me!
However, I tried calling in again and again, but to no avail. And the deejay kept picking up calls from those who could not answer the question fully. The callers stated "Romeo and Juliet", but gave wrong answers to the other two.
Some said "Merchant Of Venice" (a comedy), some "Midsummer Night's Dream" (a comedy too), and some even said "David Copperfield", of a totally different era. The deejay said "David Copperfield" is a Dicken's play!
Well, not a play actually, but a novel. Anyway, after five callers, the competition was closed, and all got consolation prizes for participating. I was so disappointed! I could have answered that in a breath!
Shakespeare wrote thirteen tragedies - "Titus Andronicus", "Romeo and Juliet", "Julius Caesar", "Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark", "Troilus And Cressida", "Othello, The Moor Of Venice", "Macbeth", "King Lear", "Antony And Cleopatra", "Coriolanus", "Timon Of Athens", "Pericles, Prince Of Tyre" and "Cymbeline" (listed in chronological order). Just pick any three of these and one could be a winner!
Times like these I wish those who are not confident of answering correctly should refrain from calling in and wasting the airtime, and let those who really know the answer get through the line.
I was tuning in to the Gold Breakfast Show yesterday (Tuesday actually) morning. The deejay was giving away prizes for the person who could name three Shakespeare tragedies. I was feeling excited as that is the type of question specially made for me!
However, I tried calling in again and again, but to no avail. And the deejay kept picking up calls from those who could not answer the question fully. The callers stated "Romeo and Juliet", but gave wrong answers to the other two.
Some said "Merchant Of Venice" (a comedy), some "Midsummer Night's Dream" (a comedy too), and some even said "David Copperfield", of a totally different era. The deejay said "David Copperfield" is a Dicken's play!
Well, not a play actually, but a novel. Anyway, after five callers, the competition was closed, and all got consolation prizes for participating. I was so disappointed! I could have answered that in a breath!
Shakespeare wrote thirteen tragedies - "Titus Andronicus", "Romeo and Juliet", "Julius Caesar", "Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark", "Troilus And Cressida", "Othello, The Moor Of Venice", "Macbeth", "King Lear", "Antony And Cleopatra", "Coriolanus", "Timon Of Athens", "Pericles, Prince Of Tyre" and "Cymbeline" (listed in chronological order). Just pick any three of these and one could be a winner!
Times like these I wish those who are not confident of answering correctly should refrain from calling in and wasting the airtime, and let those who really know the answer get through the line.
2 comments:
I remember seeing and enjoying a production of Titus Andronicus (certainly my favourite, even if it is considered his worst).
I also enjoyed Orson Welles' version of Othello (even if the technical production is a bit choppy).
and that is the real tragedy of radio airheads... =)
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