9 Most Dumb Answers Given By Beauty Queens! Priyanka Chopra included - Page 3

Originally posted by: KifPaulholic

it won't work

Originally posted by: .khoobsurat.

Not only is she articulate...but what I loved about Lara's answers was that she wasn't pretentious.

Originally posted by: blue-ice

Nothing beats Ms South Carolina...I had it almost memorized because it was played over and over and over on CNN...😆

Priyanka just messed up...I think she missed LIVING...otherwise her answer was not stupid...

Ms. Chopra, the planet's new Miss World, is an 18-year-old who, before the competition, said she aspired to be a clinical psychologist ''to understand why people turn demented.'' Afterward, she allowed that her true calling might be movie stardom.

On the night of Nov. 30, she walked flawlessly down the ramp in her peach strapless gown. But at crunch time, she made a slight flub when five finalists -- including Miss Kazakhstan, Miss Italy, Miss Turkey and Miss Uruguay -- were each challenged with a weighty question that called for introspection: ''Who do you consider to be the most successful woman living today and why?''

Ms. Chopra, who had been groomed for months by a team of tutors, beauticians and fashion designers, seemed to switch to auto pilot. She named Mother Teresa, dead since 1997: ''I admire her from the bottom of my heart for being so passionate and kind -- to give up her life to put smiles on people's faces.''

For some, the slip-up was a telltale sign of societal rot. ''We Indians send out some bimbo and she returns with the prize, and we act like we've conquered the world,'' scoffed the writer Khushwant Singh, an avowed lecher not usually so mocking of bimbo-osity. ''This one is singularly stupid. She didn't even know whether Mother Teresa is alive or dead.''

Many news accounts dwelled on the faux pas. An editorial in The Hindustan Times said that ''perhaps Ms. Chopra had taken the convent school line about the Holy Ghost a little too seriously.''

The new Miss World was also given bad marks in demographic study, having said India is home to two billion people, which is twice the correct number.

Other accounts were far more forgiving, concluding that Ms. Chopra's poise and charm were so extraordinary that the judges simply chose to overlook her mistake.

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/13/world/india-beauty-superpower-is-becoming-jaded.html

Press seems to have asked her questions related to this later also - http://indiatoday.in/story/miss-world-priyanka-chopra-shows-her-talent-to-journos/1/233468.html