All the hype for Kya aap panchvi pass se tez hain? turned sour when the actual program got aired on Star Plus on 25th April, 2008. Before the program began, I had gone through the Youtube videos of the American version - Are you smarter than a 5th grader? hosted by Jeff Foxworthy. It was just superb. Right from the host to the kids, everything about it was perfect. The questions were indeed were from 5th grade or below. In fact the first question asked in KAPPSTH was tough enough to make thousands to change their channel. i fail to understand, how can a child from 2nd standard know - how many edges does a triangular prism has? I am sure many first year engineering students won't be able to figure it out. First of all, how many of them out there know the difference between a vertex, face, side or a edge. Very few indeed. It's unfair. Tomorrow they will cook up a question ( say Fermat's equation) and claim it's found in some fifth standard book. I expected some equal playing field. Any way, if the questions keep on getting tougher, then it will die a early death and then let's see who's say kya aap panchvi pass se tez hain? And the things are already getting awry for Star Plus.
