Amidst the pressure to win the crown and the hustle-bustle of the days spent preparing for it, there are bound to be some mess-ups. Here are some of the most hilarious and rather shocking answers that pageant contestants gave.
Some of them will make you say "W*F?!"
1) The Face of Hawaii! Nadine Tanega, Miss Hawaii America 1992
Question: "Why are you proud to be an American?"
Answer: "We are truly the land of the great. From the rocky shores of ... Hawaii...to the beautiful sandy beaches of ... Hawaii ... America is our home."
Question: "Do you think that your career prospects would be affected if affirmative action were dismantled?
Answer: "I think that affirmative action is important in your career, and I think that they work together, um, I believe that if you stand strong on what you believe, that you should use that in all aspects of your life including your career. I know that I do."
3) Dead or Alive? Miss India Priyanka Chopra at Miss World 2000
Question: "Who do you think is the most successful woman living today and why?"
Answer: "There are a lot of people I admire, but one of the most admirable people is Mother Teresa, who has been so compassionate, considerate and kind."
4) "Being Beautiful is Natural" What? Jeanie Anderson, Miss Philippines 2001
Question: "If you could be beautiful and not so smart, or brilliant and not so beautiful, what would you be and why?"
Answer: "Well, I'd rather choose to be beautiful, um because, to be beautiful it's natural. But being smart you can learn...you can learn, um a lot of things...a lot of things from the experience...you can learn from a lot of things being smart."
5) I'm a real human being with real emotions! Miss Serbia Sanja Papic at Miss Universe 2003
Question: "If you could be either water or fire, which would you be and why?"
Answer: "Well, I'm a human being and I don't know how it is to be fire or water, and from that reason I really don't have answer on this question because I'm a human being, I'm a girl, who has an emotion, and fire and water don't."
Question: "Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can't locate the U.S. on a world map. Why do you think this is?"
Answer: "I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some . . . people out there in our nation don't have maps and, uh, I believe that our, uh, education like such as in South Africa and, uh, the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and, I believe that they should, our education over HERE in the U.S. should help the U.S., uh, or, uh, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future, for our children".
7) Confidently Clueless! Miss Arizona Alicia-Monique Blanco at Miss USA 2009
Question: "Should the United States have universal healthcare as a right of citizenship?"
Answer: "I think this is an issue of integrity regardless of which end of the political spectrum that I stand on. I was raised in a family to know right from wrong and politics, whether or not you fall in the middle, the left or the right, it's an issue of integrity, no matter what your opinion is, and I say that with the utmost conviction."
8) Confucius invented confusion: Giosue Cozzarelli at Miss Panama 2009
Question: "Explain the following quote by Confucius: 'Learning without thought is labour lost'"
Answer: "Good evening Panama!" "Confucius was one of whom invented confusion, and that's why, eh...one of the most ancient, he was one of the Chinese. Japanese who was one of the most ancient. Thank you"
Question: "If you could make a new law, what would it be? And explain why."
Answer: "I think that any leys (read laws) there are in Constitution or in life, are already made. I think that we should have, uh, a straight way to go in our similar, or, eh, in our lives as is this. For example, I'm a surfer, and I think that the best wave that I can take is the wave that I wait for it. So please do our only, eh, law that we can do. Thank you, Vegas!"
Laws are apparently a natural phenomenon that we must ride like the waves.
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