Since foreigners were in short supply, each member of our family patiently went through several rounds of the set questions.
The particular set questions, submitted by social media and the event's organizers, disproportionately addressed issues where the candidates' views are alike.
"They have to be subjects that we can set questions on that are interesting and engaging to the viewers," said Kelly.
Here, users create a little avatar called a Mii, then connect with friends, answering and sharing simple set questions about each other's lives.
The 24 most academically competitive universities in the UK, known as the Russell Group, will be allowed to set questions and the content of the syllabus.
And every now and then, when someone on the set questions a technical aspect of a spy's actions, he said, Mr. Weisberg pulls an imaginary C.I.A. card out of his pocket.
The memorandum includes a list of set questions -- about the interviewees' activities in the United States, familiarity with terrorist groups and experience with weapons -- and requests written reports on each conversation.
Mr. Gwilym Aubrey, head of the training system, says that in 1929 there was such a shortage of telephone operators they had to take anything they could get; girls who hadn't been through the fourth grade and they had to teach them set questions and answers, because nothing else was safe.
But when half a million pupils from around the world were set questions like these, some countries, just like some pupils, did very well and some very badly.The tests were set for the largest-ever piece of international education research, the Third International Maths and Science Study (TIMSS).
The interviews and audio reflections were transcribed, coded and thematically analysed both deductively (set questions) and inductively (based on the literature themes) in NVivo 10 for Windows.
After the study had been completed, each reporter was asked a series of set questions from a questionnaire in separate interviews.
