Slumdog Millionaire pg 1-102

Summary
Prologue
"I have been arrested. For winning a quiz show (Swarup 1). Ram Mohammad Thomas is the boy who won the quiz show, and was interrogated by an inspector named Godbole. Ram is just a waiter at a restaurant, who never went to school or read a newspaper. The commissioner started to ask questions just like another game show but Ram didn't understand the answer to the questions. Ram told him he just knew the answers and got lucky. Later on, they started to torture Ram until suddenly, a lawyer named Smita Shah came in and compromised with Godbole. Smita brought Ram back to her house and asked him how he won, where Ram told Smita it was through understanding his entire life.


1,000 Rupees
Salim was his best friend. He is crazy about Hindi films that stars with an actor, Armaan Ali. Salim is obsessed with him that he got pictures all over his wall. Ram and Salim would watch movies together about Armaan. One day, Salim saw Armaan Ali as he was entering a hotel.
The first question was, "Which blockbusting film in which Armaan Ali starred with Priya Kapoor for the very first time?" Ram answered, D. Betrayal.


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As a young boy, he was left on the cold winter night of December 25 in a large bin near Church of St. Mary. St. Mary ran an orphanage where Ram was put up for adoption. Ram was then adopted by Mrs. and Mr. Thomas and named Ram, Joseph. Since the family was religious, they decided not to name him Joseph because they didn't know if he was Christian. They were suggested his name should be Ram, one of their favorite gods. Ram would be used to going to church. Ram saw the altar and above it was a large crucifix of Christ and the letters I N R I.
Prem Kumar, the host of the quiz show, whispered that he would change the next question because he felt sorry that Ram should get at least a little money. Prem Kumar changed the question to "What is the sequence of letters normally inscribed on a cross? Ram answered B. I N R I.

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Ram and Salim lived in a poor neighborhood. They lived next to a friend called Gudiya, where her father is an astronomer, where he studies the planets and stars. One day, Guydiya found a cat and wanted to name it. The father said, since he was the smallest in the family, they would call it Pluto.
Question three on the quiz show was, "Which is the smallest planet in our solar system?" Ram answered, A. Pluto.

Quote
"After all, a quiz show is not so much a test of knowledge as a test of memory" (Swarup 18).

Reaction
As Ram told Smita about how he won the quiz show, Smita told the show was a test of memory. Ram's memories were displayed throughout his life, where he decides to tell her memories to Smita. Coincidentally, all the questions that were asked on the game show matched Ram's experiences.