The Index story I already wrote about introduced a new theme in the Hungarian online political activity. The case of Sztipkviz is another unorthodox campaign method. It is a simple quiz about economical facts and if you answer correctly a nice woman strips for you in a flash animation. According to the opening screen:
“ Hi! I’m Sylvia. I believe that most of the Hungarian men happily willing to learn the most important figures of our economy. What do you think, Am I right?”

When you do the quiz it is hard not to notice that all of the four questions are well chosen to talk only about statistical figures showing the advancement and good shape of the Hungarian economy, which is highly debated nowadays and I think is going to be one of the main themes of next year’s election campaigns (if not it is already).

Comments on blogs about this really special campaign:

Déli Riporter writes commenting a news article: “It is hard to believe the news that the government has nothing to do with sztripkviz.”

Egy Székely Budapesten writes:
“ Sztripkviz – the whole country is getting naked.
Yes indeed. Just to make sure it gets into everyone’s ears like liquefied hot vax: the economy of this country is so successful that we almost get naked because of it. Despite all of this, Sztripkviz is a good, well, more precisely a novel political advertisement.”

And Miles has I think a rather clever response too: he made his own flash animation quiz version, where he points to statistics which shows just the opposite of the great economical success and using a homeless as the model. It starts with the following screen:
“Hi! I’m Frankie. Sylvie is out of clothes so she is unable to ask the following further questions…”
[Henrik’s note don’t worry the homeless does not get naked, just takes the coat off.]

(The referenced blogs are in Hungarian)

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