What would the real Miss Universe pageant be like?
Let us say that the humans, with our era of technology plus 5 to 10 years, are contacted by an intergalactic alien union. They want us to join them, and we gladly do. As it is common when several countries with non-military purposes invade each other, they participate in competitions together. Let us say that there is a Miss Universe:
The QUESTION:
How would the evaluation process be like? In Miss Universe here, we value:
- Intelligence
- Shapes
- Oratory
- etc
What would a Miss Universe be asked? We have several species there, which we can assume that there are at least one species reptilian, one amphibious, and other types, each completely different from each other? What would the evaluation look like?
PS:
No intergalactic wars, no bitter rivalries, the judges aren't biased in any way, we are there, the candidate from our world is there. Only one candidate per species.
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Sir? Mr? Ma'am? Miss?
In a universe as large as ours (infinitely large, possibly) you're going to have a lot of species with more than two genders. So we can scrap the "Miss". I'm going to assume that there are two possibilities to solve this problem:
- Segregate by gender. Just make separate categories: Male, female, etc.
- Everyone together. The above only works if the species all generally have male and female gender. This may not be the case for all species. In that case, simply throw everyone together and hope for the best.
What would a miss Universe be asked?
Here are some (possibly humorous) suggestions:
- "How many languages do you speak?" [Insert question about correct usage of the progressive-future-past-intelligible-participle in the Kalingathrizan language.]
- "Are your familiar with the [obscure and likely insignificant] War? What lessons can we learn from it to apply to today's wars and other conflicts?"
- "Have you read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? Do you think it actively represents the social and economic issues in our universe today?"
- "Can you play $n$ instruments (where $n$ is the number of mouths of the being) at the same time?"
- "Do you think you are smarter than the average being (accounting for different brain sizes and complexities)?"
- "Is that a real [insert body part], or an implant? Is that normal in your species?"
- "If you could have world peace on one world, which one would it be?"
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