At the same time that TV3 offers us the very slow recipes of the kitchensat La 2 el To know and to win pick up a fast pace. This Friday, in the contest created by Sergi Schaaff, we witnessed the end of the program that made us want to applaud the contestants and wave to them from the sofa at home. Three women competed: Emma, a biochemist by profession, and two journalists, Leticia de Saragossa and Lydia de Viladecans. The latter was debuting as a participant. In the last tests, all three were excellent. Emma beamed with The mixed calculator: “69 + 27 + the faces of a die, times 6, minus the satellites of Mars, times 7”. Elisenda Roca gave her the data and Emma, without pause, mentally calculated it in eighteen seconds. The next test required an extraordinary level of literary knowledge. Is The part for the whole: in each edition questions are launched that also have a common link. Each clue must be discovered and the element that links them all together. Lydia was to reach and grind. Elisenda Roca read the first part of the game to him: “And carrying everything, even the staff, he beautifully ate the pilgrim.”“. He then read the second text to him: “And now, wind, blow until it bursts, since we have room to maneuver”. And finally, he provided her with the snippet of the third clue: “Let him who enters here abandon all hope.”. “Do these words ring any bells?” asked the incombustible Jordi Hurtado, referring to the last text. “Yes, they sound like the same to me.” Divine Comedy of Dante”. And the presenter raised the bar: “And what are the other clues doing here?”. He reminded him that the first clue had already been resolved that it was a fragment of Gargantua the Pantagruel by François Rabelais. Lydia then also worked out that the second clue was from The storm the William Shakespeare. “Well done, Lydia! Good boy! Good boy!” exclaimed Elisenda Roca. And the climax arrived: he guessed the riddle that linked the three texts: “It occurs to me that it may be a French illustrator who illustrated these three works, which is Gustave Doré, a 19th century illustrator who also illustrated the Quixoteo The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe”. He nailed it. To finish the competition, Leticia guessed, at high speed and with unprecedented concentration, all the definitions that Elisenda Roca was reading to her, guided by a table where the first three letters of each word appeared. It was impressive.
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A competition that stands out for the great speed of response, for the demands of the tests, which allows us to be fascinated by the knowledge and mental agility of the participants. To know and to win it has been on the air for twenty-seven years and remains at full capacity, fast-paced and up-to-date, at a very high level and, on top of that, with the ability to assemble a triplet of female participants, which is not easy in contests. On Friday we saw an example of what Sergi Schaaff liked: that television was able to entertain us, but that, at the same time, it appealed to the intelligence of those who go out and those who watch it.
Mònica Planas Callol is a journalist and television critic
2024-05-11 18:12:42
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