GUESS WHAT???

During my school days, the time when DD-National was the only channel available for me to watch on T.V, there used to be a wonderful Quiz show conducted by Mr.Sidarth Basu. The best thing I remember about this quiz show is the buzzer round.

            In this buzzer round, the marks are awarded to the person who presses the buzzer first and gives the correct answer for the question. Obviously, the wrong answer carried some negative marks along with it. There was something which thrilled me very much in this round. Here is a hypothetical scene from this round:

Sidarth Basu : “Lets start the buzzer round. All contestants, please keep your hands on the buzzer”

All tensed faces would be eagerly waiting for the question because, the person who first press the buzzer would be eligible to answer the question.

Sidarth Basu : “First question. Indira Gandhi, who was the first prime minister of India…”

Riiiiinggggggggg!!!

Some one had already pressed the buzzer.

Sidarth Basu: “Yes. Answer please” .He would not utter any other word from that question and this contestant will have to answer it.

Contestant: “Satwant Singh”

Sidarth Basu: “Right Answer”

The school boy, that was me, who used to watch this thrilling scene on T.V was always amazed about one thing – “How do they used to guess the question?”

There could be n number of other questions, which would have suitably completed that question and correspondingly yielded n number of answers like : Jawahar Lal Nehru, 31^st October, Morarji Desai, Operation blue star etc…”

Damn! How the hell did that guy guess the question?

How did he anticipated that, the question is about the murderer of Indira Gandhi?

The reason I write this post is:

From that school kid to now, one of the most important thing my life has taught me is this – Keep Guessing the Questions. The complicated questions of life, which carries the most obvious answers along with it!

Always, Guess – “What???”