“..as long as you remember that the sun rises in the East and sets in the West..”
I recall some radio show - might have been a local broadcast. But they would have these stupid questions like the old Jay Leno “man on the street” thing.
I recall one where they would call folks probably with a prize reward or something) and ask them in which direction does the sun rise. Of course they threw away all the folks that answered “in the east”.
“Which direction? Well - to the right.”
“To the right?”
“Yeah. Well that’s out my front door. Out my back door it’s to the, huh, um that would be um - to the left.”
“Okay lets stick with the front door. So which direction does your front door face?”
“Well that’s straight ahead - to the FRONT!”
“No - I mean which direction on a map - like north or south or whatever?”
“Oh. Um - yeah, I don’t know.”
“You don’t know?”
“No - not off the top of my head. And I’m on my cell phone and not home anyway so I can’t check.”
“Okay - well thanks for playing. But we needed a map direction for the sunrise, so no prize. Sorry.”
“Okay - well call me again when you have an easier question. Thanks!”
They had LOTS of those types of answers - pretty unbelievable.
I wonder if I would have thought to say something like “It doesn’t rise at my house.” Then play along with them.
The obvious answer is up.