QUIZ COMPETITION IN THE ERA OF MALAY FOLKLORE

QUIZ COMPETITION - The Grand Finale   -  The stake was indeed high - among the highest - while the bet was placed on the state and the treasury - where Winner takes all. Loser loses all. It's one kind of war too - weaponless and without armies participation - non involvement in physical and body injuries no bloodshed no damages and no destructions of properties and farmlands. It's war no doubt - in one way or other - but it's more on war of the power of intelligence between the two states, in order to gain superiority and supreme control over the loser state. That was such a high-risk competition but not so if compared to declaring war on one another. This competition was much of a leisure status, although it was more or less in a way or so like an act of conquering the other rival state. But the risk was also as good as going to the battlefield.
And even in those days of the 'dark ages' - yet they got the effort to provide scoring points on each event of the riddles followed by each result proclaimed via public view......as clearly displayed on the manually controlled scoreboard - for the spectators and the supporters to view.