Measurement with a wink

The Smartest Person is a popular Dutch television quiz show in which three contestants receive a few seconds to answer trivia questions. In one of the rounds, to answer the question, contestants must hit certain key words, for example, 'Apartheid', 'Prison', 'Nobel Peace Prize' and 'South Africa' for the question 'What do you know about Nelson Mandela?' Contestants who mention one of these key words, regardless of context, hear a rewarding 'ting!' and receive 20 extra seconds. The most efficient strategy to win is to mention the four key words without a linking sentence; answering with a complete and cogent sentence costs precious seconds. In fact, contestants can win even when they get the context wrong, for example: 'Nelson Mandela is an Italian actor starring in a film about the Apartheid (ting!). He recently spent a night in Prison (ting!) after he egged the house of a Nobel Peace Prize...

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