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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. |
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That's definitely not as hard as it used to be.
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Oh, if I had a pound for every time I'd heard that...
![]() 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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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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Trying to read quiz contestant's minds is futile.
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Yikes, that was a tortured connection ...............twists ?
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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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I thought the ageing aluminium foetus was a great question
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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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I thought the ageing aluminium foetus was a great question
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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.
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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I got the hosts of Game for laugh! None of the contestants did... I'm happy
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I got the hosts of Game for laugh! None of the contestants did... I'm happy
![]() Like when "Aleksandr Orlov" was on the Wall and they were thinking Russian novelists...
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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. 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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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...Bit disappointed we missed the american spellings though, we knew what it was but just couldn't spot the sequence. |
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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.
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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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 )Thanks for the welcome, I wanted to see what the people of digital spy thought of the Athenians
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I got the hosts of Game for laugh! None of the contestants did... I'm happy
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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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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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but in terms of sequence (which the Beadle question was) it dosent quite work. |
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Heh, when the first 'Kelly' appeared I immediately thought "Matthew", but then just blanked out after that!
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but in terms of sequence (which the Beadle question was) it dosent quite work. Try this one for size, 4th in the sequence please. Lee Lee Churchill ________ [ no googling ] |
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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 ] ![]() 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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I nearly did an entire wall. This is perhaps the biggest shock ever.
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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 ] Quote:
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 ![]() Not sure that it is really a sequence though rather than connection.
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