Here's a fun story for you: UK gameshow The Chase recently featured a trivia question on Japanese history. A contestant was asked: "The term 'kamikaze' or 'divine wind' comes from the typhoon that saved Japan from invasion in 1281 by which ruler?"
Three answers were presented: Tamburlaine, Ivan the Terrible, or Kublai Khan. A potentially tricky question if you don't know much about Japan. The contestant went with Kublai Khan.
Fortunately, the contestant was confident in his answer thanks to Ghost of Tsushima — the PlayStation 4 exclusive that takes place during the initial Mongol invasion of Japan. He tells host Bradley Walsh that he had "just played a game on PlayStation where the Mongols invade Japan", referencing Sucker Punch's open world epic. Very educational!
Here's a clip from the episode, courtesy of @Kazniaz on Twitter:
Lovely stuff, although we don't quite know how well the contestant fared overall. If you happen to be a big fan of The Chase, perhaps you can let us know in the comments section below.
[source twitter.com]
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Lol that's cool, I hope we don't have to wait long for ps5 ghost 2, there's 2 mongol invasion afterall
What a difficult question for 'general knowledge'
Bradley Walsh for Fortnite
Hahahah. Love it!
I watched it earlier, he ended up getting caught by the chaser in the final round with 17 seconds left for 16,000 between three of them 😔
Fanny Chmelar.
If Bradley is still playing video games at 60, there's hope for me despite what the girlfriend says
When I was in school many years ago, we had a weekly trivia game, and one question my teacher was certain no one would get right, I managed to get right "Where did windmills originate?" and while I didn't know the answer with 100% certainly, I had been playing Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves and the third chapter was set in Holland where you had to climb and utilize the Windmills for the grand heist at the end of the chapter, so I gave Holland as the answer, turns out I was correct much to the shock of myself and my teacher (I wasn't exactly considered the smart one in my class either), she was doubly shocked when I told her I got the answer from a video game, which was funny because she was adamantly against video games.
To be fair, even if I had never played Ghost, I would have guessed it was the Mongels and not Europeans that invaded Japan at that time.
This is amazing!
Haha yea I was watching it earlier, I would have gotten that one too, and when the guy said he had been playing the playstation thought he had it. Unfortunately they didn't win at the end, but I do love the chase watch it pretty much everyday, pick so much up from it, was playing a quiz with my brother and his partner few weeks ago and was answering loads of questions and they were saying how did you know that, just said I watch loads of quiz shows and pick stuff up lol.
@Jackpaza0508 He was just doing a joke as he had watched toy story 4 days ago and thought it was sad lol, then after the guy said about GoT he was just said as a joke I did that a few days ago lol.
@ApostateMage if you know you know
I was a contestant on the chase once and had a question about Lara Croft! True story! (I got it right btw)
You must have big rats if you need Hattori Hanzo’s steel.
See us in the UK know where it’s at game and game show wise 😂
@Coltaine22 no Europeans were mentioned in the question and in terms of geography all three rules, if you don't know Japan's history, could have been invaders. The hint was in the question - year 1281. Both Timur (a.k.a. Tamburlaine) and Ivan the Terible were not even born then.
Cool! I like quiz shows in general, usually you can take an educated stab when there are multiple answers and do pretty darn well, but I love it when questions related to games or alternative music come up. I remember they had a question about a Funeral for a Friend album turn up on the Weakest Link which was obscure and the contestant obviously couldn't get it, where as they probably would have been able to get it about some trite pop album that out at the time and for me it's the vice versa xD
Is Tamburlaine an alternative version of Tamerlane/Timur, because I've never heard of it.
Anyway, this is why I love video games/fiction in general. They're such a good way to make people aware of history, and encourage them to learn more.
@ThroughTheIris56 It's a play about a character loosely based on the historical figure - it's a bit of a giveaway that that answer wasn't the right one if you knew that.
@Matroska Aha fairs. I read a book about Timur about a year ago, so I was trying to think why I had never heard that name before, or whether it was just a massive typo.
@TeapotBuddha Nope! I was in the final chase and got caught with about 30 seconds to go!
Thank you for sharing my tweet! Made my day bro 🔥
@deathaxe was that on Don't Forget your Toothbrush?
It shouldve been which culture invaded korea in 1944? The mong- i mean japan... lol
Yeah, because the other two answers sound like a leader invading Japan. I think a 90% of 5th graders would have got that correct.
@JustPlainLoco Sorry to break it to you but everyone knows windmills originated in Holland but since you didn't know I'm glad a game gave you that information when your school failed to.
@Specstar - Not sure what school would have thought it necessary to teach kids the origins of windmills...
@MatthewJP Process of elimination. Khan makes the most sense even if you don't know the answer.
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