News stories pop up now and then from local media about amateur game shows. But this one caught my eye because it could have made my long-ago trips to school a lot more fun. A parent in Stowe, Vermont named John Derienzo imitates Cash Cab by occasionally riding along on local school buses and tossing out trivia questions to grade-school kids. I don't know if he looks like Ben Bailey, but the grade-schoolers do get a shout-out to any middle and high-school kids on the bus.
Even the bus driver can answer if things get really tough. Except one bus driver doesn't like the pressure: "Once in a while he has a question that I don't know the answer to and that's when you go, please don't call on the bus driver that day," says one harried driver.
The kids don't get kicked out of the bus if they miss three questions. But they don't get any money, either. They do win some dinky prizes from the "quiz bag." Come to think of it, the adult version of Cash Cab also doesn't dole out many bucks. Is there something intrinsically cheap about game shows on wheels?
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