It will be a few weeks before yesterday evening's edition of Pointless becomes available on the BBC web-site, but no doubt the ignorance on display will figure in tomorrow's Private Eye's Dumb Britain feature. Asked to name countries which participated in the 2018 Commonwealth Games, three contestants (one of each pair left in the round) volunteered "Kazakhstan", "Greece" and even "France".
What struck me was that the older members of each pair came up with excellent knowledgeable answers like "Vanuatu" and "St Kitts and Nevis". I would guess that the dividing line was around the age of 45. Britons younger than that would have been brought up when our membership of the European community had become well established and been educated after Mrs Thatcher had been an influence on the direction of the syllabus.
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