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Old 20-08-2015, 20:39
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Not always. There have been a few occasions where the team have taken a wild guess and got the correct answer.

I'm sure one of those where where they had a color name written in a different colour.
Well I suppose if you guess all the details they are looking for then they can't deny you the points.
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Old 21-08-2015, 09:26
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That's definitely not as hard as it used to be.
Oh, if I had a pound for every time I'd heard that...
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Old 21-08-2015, 10:15
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Oh, if I had a pound for every time I'd heard that...
Probably said about every quiz programme.

I have not listened to Round Britain Quiz recently but it always struck me that the questions could be very hard but the chairman would then give so many clues that it was almost impossible to not get the answer.
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Old 21-08-2015, 12:00
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Perhaps there's also an element of the contestant/audience getting better at answering the questions? Wasn't that the big argument against the fad of "brain training" games, they didn't make you more intelligent in general, but you simply got better at doing that particular game through practice?
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Old 21-08-2015, 12:29
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Trying to read quiz contestant's minds is futile.
Too right. Half the time the contestants won't even know what's in their own mind!
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Old 24-08-2015, 20:43
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Yikes, that was a tortured connection ...............twists ?
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Old 24-08-2015, 20:59
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Bit of bad scheduling having Ned on tonight, one of the currently recurring contestants on Hive Minds. These quiz shows are supposed to spread out multiple appearances. And are they all that short of contestants?
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Old 24-08-2015, 21:52
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I thought the ageing aluminium foetus was a great question
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Old 24-08-2015, 21:57
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Yay, I got 1. Edinburgh. No clue it was banknotes though, but got it on the second clue.

The London Underground error codes was pretty, well, London-centric. I only got it cos I used to commute in the late 80's and recognised the term "zone" as being Travelcard related and with the numbers, I took a punt at it being Oyster error codes.

Speaking of punts, the Road Tripper said one of his hobbies was punting. I presume he meant on a river, and not a candid admission of regular prostitute patronage.
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Old 24-08-2015, 22:01
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I thought the ageing aluminium foetus was a great question
I guessed it was Americanised spellings but couldn't figure out the sequence to get the answer. Though I will take issue with VCM's description that the Americans drop the vowel. They don't drop the vowel in Aluminium, we add in the extra i.
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Old 24-08-2015, 23:05
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I guessed it was Americanised spellings but couldn't figure out the sequence to get the answer. Though I will take issue with VCM's description that the Americans drop the vowel. They don't drop the vowel in Aluminium, we add in the extra i.
I forgot that OC was on tonight. Too much wine
Good point about the spelling of aluminium. Being discovered or developed by the Americans, i always assumed their pronunciation was the more accurate one. I hadn't realised (no Z, thank you spellchecker) that we had added an i.
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Old 24-08-2015, 23:38
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I got the hosts of Game for laugh! None of the contestants did... I'm happy
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Old 24-08-2015, 23:41
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I got the hosts of Game for laugh! None of the contestants did... I'm happy
I did too. I love it when there's a relentlessly "downmarket" question like that and the contestants try to overthink it and make it something highbrow Like when "Aleksandr Orlov" was on the Wall and they were thinking Russian novelists...
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Old 24-08-2015, 23:49
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I forgot that OC was on tonight. Too much wine
Good point about the spelling of aluminium. Being discovered or developed by the Americans, i always assumed their pronunciation was the more accurate one. I hadn't realised (no Z, thank you spellchecker) that we had added an i.
Discovered by the Americans?

Humphrey Davy (British) identified its existence.

H.C. Oersted (Danish) was the first to produce aluminium.

Henri Sainte-Claire Deville (Frog) developed a process to make it in limited quantities.

The method used for commercial smelting was developed independently by an American and another Frog.
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Old 24-08-2015, 23:58
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I did too. I love it when there's a relentlessly "downmarket" question like that and the contestants try to overthink it and make it something highbrow Like when "Aleksandr Orlov" was on the Wall and they were thinking Russian novelists...
It wasn't that we overthought it was just that none of our team had ever seen the show. Makes it a lot harder to get! With 3 hours and unlimited guesses we'd have still not got that one.

Bit disappointed we missed the american spellings though, we knew what it was but just couldn't spot the sequence.
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Old 25-08-2015, 00:37
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It wasn't that we overthought it was just that none of our team had ever seen the show. Makes it a lot harder to get! With 3 hours and unlimited guesses we'd have still not got that one.
Oh, sure, didn't mean any offence I know it's all too easy to be a smartarse sat on my sofa at home!

(Welcome to DS by the way )
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Old 25-08-2015, 00:46
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Oh, sure, didn't mean any offence I know it's all too easy to be a smartarse sat on my sofa at home!

(Welcome to DS by the way )
Heh don't worry I know you didn't. Turns out I was 5 when Game for a Laugh finished so I don't feel bad for not having watched it.

Thanks for the welcome, I wanted to see what the people of digital spy thought of the Athenians
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Old 25-08-2015, 07:48
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I got the hosts of Game for laugh! None of the contestants did... I'm happy
Heh, when the first 'Kelly' appeared I immediately thought "Matthew", but then just blanked out after that!
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Old 25-08-2015, 07:59
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Sorry we didn't watch Saturday ITV plebfodder like GFAL.

If the connection had been Rodd - Hann - Philbin , I would have got it
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Old 25-08-2015, 08:42
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Sorry we didn't watch Saturday ITV plebfodder like GFAL.

If the connection had been Rodd - Hann - Philbin , I would have got it
Spoiler
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but in terms of sequence (which the Beadle question was) it dosent quite work.
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Old 25-08-2015, 08:59
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Heh, when the first 'Kelly' appeared I immediately thought "Matthew", but then just blanked out after that!
Similarly, Kelly and Kennedy rang a little bell but I never really watched the programme so not loud enough to link to the programme.
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Old 25-08-2015, 09:08
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Spoiler
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but in terms of sequence (which the Beadle question was) it dosent quite work.
Yes, tricky to find another TV show with four presenters, two with identical surnames.

Try this one for size, 4th in the sequence please.

Lee Lee Churchill ________

[ no googling ]
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Old 25-08-2015, 10:33
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Yes, tricky to find another TV show with four presenters, two with identical surnames.

Try this one for size, 4th in the sequence please.

Lee Lee Churchill ________

[ no googling ]
I'll have to admit defeat with that one

and I wouldnt know where to start a google search without a reference; for some reason I am thinking sports or similar but no idea why
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Old 25-08-2015, 10:44
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I nearly did an entire wall. This is perhaps the biggest shock ever.
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Old 25-08-2015, 10:50
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Yes, tricky to find another TV show with four presenters, two with identical surnames.

Try this one for size, 4th in the sequence please.

Lee Lee Churchill ________

[ no googling ]
I'll have to admit defeat with that one

and I wouldnt know where to start a google search without a reference; for some reason I am thinking sports or similar but no idea why
Unless I am mistaken it would take you a decade to get it!

Not sure that it is really a sequence though rather than connection.
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