Fings wot 30-somethings 'ave 'eard of and 20-somethings 'aven't.

[philmophlegm]

This is based on a wide-ranging discussion at work over the last two days. The 20-somethings concerned are university-educated* professionals.


The Basque Country
Real tennis
Lord Mountbatten
Any British prime minister before Margaret Thatcher, with the exception of Winston Churchill
Any US president before Bill Clinton, with the exception of FDR
Eric Clapton
Carlos Santana
Laurence Olivier
Alec Guinness
John Gielgud
Kim Basinger



* Or at least they went to university. God** knows what they were educated in if they've never heard of Alec Guinness.
** AKA the sixth entry on this list of course.

Comments

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

If you watched the quiz Pointless you would be amazed by the ordinary, everyday knowledge that people who are either at University or are University graduates (they claim) or who are teachers do not know. I mean, I carefully avoid pop music made any later than 1975, but at least I've heard of some Madonna and Coldplay hits...

There were a couple of youngish English teachers on last season who provoke comments on the Points of View messageboard about their astonishing ignorance of their own subject. I mean, it's not as if Pointless was difficult and you are given choices in the first two rounds.