Chapter 184 - 184: Required Question-2

The question was so confusing that it made people think that since it was called Arabic numerals, it must have been invented by Arabs. The audience also talked about it, trying to say Arabs invented it, but they also thought that if it was the answer, it would be too simple to be a question.

Sophia wrote on the answer board: ancient Indians.

Time is up. Contestants stopped writing.

Clarence smiled and said, "If I were one of you, I'd say Arabs. What do you think, Louie?"

"Well, since the question was like that, it can't be Arabs, although I don't know the answer," said Louie.

"Well, please show your answer board."

All the contestants put out the boards in their hands at the same time.

Sure enough, two contestants wrote "Arabs," and others wrote different answers. Only one of the eight contestants, besides Sophia and Ada, wrote "ancient Indians."

"Let's take a look at the answer. It's…" Clarence said. "Ancient Indians! Congratulations, number one, number five and number seven! Louie's right. It's not Arabs. As for why it's called that, let's have a contestant to explain it."

His eyes swept over the contestants and fixed on Ada. "Ada, can you explain to us why the ancient Indians invented Arabic numerals but with such a name?"

Ada was stupefied, and it took awhile for her to react. She smiled, "I'm sorry, I just read it by chance. As for why... I don't remember. But it doesn't ask why does it?"

Clarence nodded. "Yeah… Then let's have Sophia to make an explanation."

Sophia thought he would call number five in order, but she didn't expect him to call her. She said, "Because there were many Arab businessmen at that time, Arabic numerals were improved by Arabs and introduced to Europe. Europeans thought Arabs had invented the numbers, so they called them Arabic numerals."

When hearing this, the audience understood. Several fans took the lead in applauding, and others applauded.

Although both of them gave the right answer, Ada only knew the answer but didn't know why. Everyone could tell who was more capable.

After a few more questions, everyone except Sophia and Ada made mistakes. At this point, the audience noticed Ada, the only contestant who could compete with Sophia.

By question eighteenth, Sophia and Ada still took the lead with full marks, and the one behind them was five points less than them.

The audience had thought it was a game without suspense, and suddenly there was a strong contestant like Ada, and everyone became nervous.

Speaking of which, Ada was really lucky. She could answer every question, but when asked how to explain it, she said that she did not study it so deeply.

In other words, she happened to know the answers to the questions. 

A lot of viewers wondered about her good luck.

"Question nineteenth is a physics problem. Here is the question: when water drops on two iron plates, one is a warm iron plate, the other is hot, which evaporates faster? Why?" said Clarence.

When the audience heard the question, they began a quiet discussion. Everyone felt that it must be the hot iron plate because its temperature was higher. Naturally, the water would evaporate faster.

However, according to the routine of the program group, the answer was often wrong, so everyone couldn't make up their minds.

Molly whispered, "Boss is not good at physics. This question was about her weakness. Even if she guessed correctly, she might not know why does she?"

Albert smiled, "Her weakness might be better than that of others."

"It's like you know her so well," said Molly.

Soon, contestants showed their answers.

Sophia's answer was the warm plate. Because water on a hot plate would quickly vaporize, and the steam would affect the transfer of heat between the water and the plate, slowing down the rate of evaporation.

As for Ada's answer, she only wrote "the warm plate" and didn't give out the specific reason.

Besides Sophia, two other contestants also got it right. They each got one point.

The audience began to get excited. The situation finally had a chance. Sophia took the lead. And her fans, in particular, were very excited.

Molly was puzzled. "That's weird. She got the answers. Why couldn't she give out the answer?"

Albert smiled, "She probably didn't remember it."

She got the answers, but she couldn't memorize them? Oh, god, she was stupid! Molly thought.

Ada was very upset. It was not that she did not remember the answer, but that the question she had received did not ask why, while this one asked the reason.

How could she know why? With so many questions, it was not easy for her to recite the answers.

One point behind made Ada a little nervous. She felt that Sophia was like a monster. There was nothing she didn't know. She made no mistake.

It was only one point short, but how could she get it back?

"Question twentieth is a maths problem. I think it is also a history problem. Here it is, who is the author of the Logarithmic Simplification?" Clarence said.

Many contestants were confused. This problem was not common. People who didn't study the major knew nothing about it.

Sophia was good at math, so it was not difficult for her.

She wrote two words: Dai Xu.

When contestants showed the answer boards, Clarence claimed, "Only number seven gives the right answer. One point for number seven."

Ada immediately protested, "My answer is also right."

"Check your answer carefully," warned Clarence.

When the audience first saw Ada's board, they thought she was right, but they were surprised to hear Clarence's announcement that Sophia was the only one to get it right. As Clarence reminded Ada, their eyes focused on her board.

The screen enlarged Ada's answer for everyone to see.

The audience then saw it clearly. It was Dai Xi.

Xu looked like Xi, but they were different. So, Ada's answer was wrong.

This mistake was too low. She just wrote the wrong word in such a game.

Ada blushed. It was not easy to memorize those things. She had never learned knowledge about this and misread the word. Unluckily, the computer happened to choose this question.. So, she was just out of luck.