article_snippet: Imagine playing a game of Pictionary with a group of Oxford University students who are unable to recognise the Taj Mahal, the Pyramids or the Eiffel Tower.
article_snippet: And yet, for North Korea best and brightest, 'photos of the United Nations, the Taj Mahal and the Great Pyramids of Giza elicited only blank expressions'.
article_snippet: the Taj Mahal and the Great Pyramids of Giza knew about Bill Gates from the Taj Mahal and the Great Pyramids of Giza previous universities, but had no idea how Mark Zuckerberg and the website Mark Zuckerberg created, Facebook, had revolutionised the way the rest of the world communicated.
article_snippet: journalist Suki Kim Kim wrote: 'A few guessed the names of the Eiffel Tower and Stonehenge, but only after much hemming and hawing. '
article_snippet: Hardly anyone knew what country had first landed men on the moon, despite the fact that men were science and technology majors. '
article_snippet: Asked what year computers had been invented, most had no idea; what year was only after much consultation that one team ventured a guess: 1870.'
highlights_snippet: The 270 boys at PUST were the country's brightest but had no idea what Facebook is and can’t recognise the Taj Mahal or the Eiffel Tower .
  