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Old 24-08-2016, 09:04
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I though the quickfire round said much more about the contestant's general knowledge range and ability than the traditional multiple choice format.

By my personal benchmark of 6 - 7 correctly answered questions in each Mastermind general knowledge round, I thought the questions were pretty tough - I scored only 6 against Marianne's 10 or so - which tells me that just based upon that round, the question standard was pretty high, not too far shy of Mastermind; or of course I could just have had a tough day!

Anyone else think the quickfire round was reasonably difficult?
I think the standard is certainly harder than normal Egghead questions. I suppose they need to be tougher.
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Old 24-08-2016, 10:21
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What show was that?
This was the show I meant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hive_Minds

It's not really based on Boggle but I just remembered it had a grid of letters from which they had to find words. In this game they are actually finding quiz answers within the grid. I don't really remember much detail about it as I wasn't keen and only watched a couple of times.
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Old 24-08-2016, 10:41
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There are two separate leader boards, for ladies and gents.
So, they are not looking for the two best candidates. I am amazed they do not have separate heats for ethic minorities, disabled and LGBT.
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Old 24-08-2016, 10:43
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So, they are not looking for the two best candidates. I am amazed they do not have separate heats for ethic minorities, disabled and LGBT.
Well, since they're openly looking for a male and a female Egghead, how else are they going to do it?

It's two competitions running concurrently, one for the men and one for the women, with their own heats, quarters, semis and final.

Think of it like Wimbledon.
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Old 24-08-2016, 10:57
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So, they are not looking for the two best candidates. I am amazed they do not have separate heats for ethic minorities, disabled and LGBT.
Or vegans?
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Old 24-08-2016, 11:41
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She a Glastonbury dropout and a vegan, too whacky, no to her
Everyone who goes to Glastonbury is a 'dropout'?

A simple google will tell you she's a mathematical software developer with a PhD from LSE- hardly 'dropout' material.

I even wondered if she might be on the autistic spectrum.
So what?
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Old 24-08-2016, 13:24
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According to my tv screen guide - Make Me An Egghead goes on for 25 episodes! Surely the search could be done in two weeks - ten episodes? Seems a bit dragged out.
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Old 24-08-2016, 13:34
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According to my tv screen guide - Make Me An Egghead goes on for 25 episodes! Surely the search could be done in two weeks - ten episodes? Seems a bit dragged out.
It does. There are ten spaces on each leaderboard, so that's 20 episodes

Adding on 2 semi finals and a final for each sex comes to 26 episodes, so maybe the final is combined in an hour long special or something
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Old 24-08-2016, 13:35
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I might come back to the show in six weeks time!
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Old 24-08-2016, 14:01
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I though the quickfire round said much more about the contestant's general knowledge range and ability than the traditional multiple choice format.

By my personal benchmark of 6 - 7 correctly answered questions in each Mastermind general knowledge round, I thought the questions were pretty tough - I scored only 6 against Marianne's 10 or so - which tells me that just based upon that round, the question standard was pretty high, not too far shy of Mastermind; or of course I could just have had a tough day!

Anyone else think the quickfire round was reasonably difficult?
The female contestant from last Friday would have really struggled with the quick fire round
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Old 24-08-2016, 14:07
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I noticed hat woman wasn't keen on any eye contact.
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Old 24-08-2016, 14:08
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Has wacky hat woman been on Only Connect?
And Hive Minds.

I really dislike her 'whacky' persona and hope she doesn't win the competition!
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Old 24-08-2016, 14:09
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I noticed hat woman wasn't keen on any eye contact.
Maybe she was ashamed to be wearing that dumb hat.
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Old 24-08-2016, 14:16
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Maybe she was ashamed to be wearing that dumb hat.
Reminds me of the old show Blockbusters when they used to bring odd mascots with them.
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Old 24-08-2016, 17:01
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It does. There are ten spaces on each leaderboard, so that's 20 episodes

Adding on 2 semi finals and a final for each sex comes to 26 episodes, so maybe the final is combined in an hour long special or something
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/lat...6/dan-mcgolpin

According to this, there are 20 thirty minute episodes (so that's the heats) and 5 forty-five minute episodes (for the semis and the finals).
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Old 24-08-2016, 17:08
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And fat. Seems to be the criteria. The other guy was too slim.
Yeah I bulked up especially

Plus the camera adds 50 pounds
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Old 24-08-2016, 18:41
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One's never heard of St Clements and the other's never heard of Sachertorte.

I'm astonished
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Old 24-08-2016, 18:48
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One's never heard of St Clements and the other's never heard of Sachertorte.

I'm astonished
Terrible isn't it?

And one of them writes questions for University Challenge. Kids today eh?

I've taken quite the instant dislike to Ian
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Old 24-08-2016, 18:51
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Not sure I heard the food and drink question about the pastry mille feulle ? properly.

If it was mille feulle then the answer was not choux but puff pastry. If I heard the question properly? Anyone else notice this or tell me I misheard.
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Old 24-08-2016, 18:57
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Lol, not knowing Big Suze! Weak from Dave, doesn't know his royals (sure Dave, a royal with the first name Issy, haha).
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Old 24-08-2016, 18:58
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Wow 21. Brilliant score. That will be very hard to beat.
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Old 24-08-2016, 19:12
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The guy who won tonight was terrible for droning on and on and on instead of just giving the answer

They probably know that its the reasoning that will get them the gig, not just knowing the answers.......but it does make it a bit of an ordeal to watch !
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Old 24-08-2016, 19:20
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No surprise Ian Bayley won. He's got quite a pedigree:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Bayley

I think I preferred the old format of this show, when it was called 'Are You an Egghead?' - it was a straight knock-out format, with plenty more questions, none of this dithering around with a leaderboard and having 2 minutes to score as many points as possible.
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Old 24-08-2016, 20:45
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I noticed hat woman wasn't keen on any eye contact.
Maybe she thought she was still on Mastermind.
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Old 24-08-2016, 20:52
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If it's even possible, the guy that won today's show Ian seemed to be a more annoying version of CJ, had the same sort of mannerisms
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