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Of: Sophie Tanha
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As a hint for a question on the popular Swedish Radio P4 quiz show “Call and let’s play ”Riga introduced itself as the capital of Estonia.
Many of the show’s roughly 1.6 million listeners quickly realized the mistake, and host Pernilla Månsson Colt spoke live.
– Talk about collective brain liberation in a whole editorial office! she says of the mistake.
Swedish radio’s P4 music and quiz show “Call and we’ll play” typically attracts an average of 1.6 million listeners on Saturdays.
Many are the Swedes who knock on the lock in the hope of reaching the host for an on-air chat, a chance to wish for a song, and hopefully also answer a question correctly and thus win a gift card.
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Pernilla Månsson Colt.
On Saturday morning, it was pilot Kristoffer’s turn to communicate with host Pernilla Månsson Colt, who joked that she was going to get a really tough question.
And of course he got it: because the question was completely incorrectly worded, it was almost impossible to answer correctly, which many listeners reacted to on social media.
Riga – in Estonia?
The question was under the heading: Gender in Estonia. To that end, a song was heard from the new debut album by a Swedish pop group. If Kristoffer could correctly answer the name of the pop group, of which Kö in Estonia was a clue, the gift card would be his.
– Riga, in Estonia? Kristoffer asks Pernilla Månsson Colt.
– Yes … then I must say Estonia then, he supposed.
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Riga, not the capital of Estonia.
Photo: Galyna Andrushko
Tallinn is the capital of Estonia.
Pernilla Månsson Colt responds that, well, as Kristoffer said, Riga is the capital of Estonia.
– Then a queue in Riga becomes Estrad, so that was the Estrad we were looking for! He says happily.
Now it wouldn’t be many minutes before some of the show’s millions of listeners would react to Sveriges Radio’s geographic error. Several had time to tweet before the song Kristoffer wanted finished.
“There is no corner, Riga is no capital of Estonia, ”writes a listener seconds after the bug aired.
Riga is the capital of Latvia and not Estonia, which the query editors quickly realized after hanging up on Kristoffer. He called again.
– Kristoffer, this is so embarrassing, you know. Talk about putting salt on my wounds, oh! We gave you the wrong clue! Says Pernilla Månsson Colt and continues:
– When the song started, the producer and I looked at each other and said, name? What happened there? Sorry, Kristoffer! She says.
He also thanks all the listeners who quickly reached out and corrected P4.
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