Subject: Re: Salinger could make you rich
From: jason varsoke (jjv@caesun.msd.ray.com)
Date: Mon Mar 20 2000 - 08:26:05 EST
On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Sean Draine wrote:
>
> On last night's episode of that corny game show, "Who Want's to Be a
> Millionaire?", the $500,000 question was:
>
> J.D. Salinger's novel, "Catcher in the Rye", takes place over a period of
> how many days?
> a) 365
> b) 7
> c) 21
> d) *
hmm, seems a difficult question to answer. Considering the narration of
the story has location in the story (namely the psychologist's couch) it
can also be considered to have time. You could say that it all takes
place over one session, though a pretty long session. Or it could take
place over one year or more. Yes, yes, I know this is being nit-picky
but I just think it's strange when game shows ask questions that demand a
certain interpretation to be answered correctly.
For example, long did the story "Occurance at [I forgot] Bridge]" take
place over? The entire story is a flash back while they guy is being
hanged. The correct answer seems to be under a minute.
I hope the contenstant got the right answer though.
-j
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