Well I suppose if you guess all the details they are looking for then they can't deny you the points.

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.

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?

Too right. Half the time the contestants won't even know what's in their own mind!

Yikes, that was a tortured connection ...............twists ?

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?

I thought the ageing aluminium foetus was a great question

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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

Heh, when the first 'Kelly' appeared I immediately thought "Matthew", but then just blanked out after that!

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.

Similarly, Kelly and Kennedy rang a little bell but I never really watched the programme so not loud enough to link to the programme.

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

I nearly did an entire wall. This is perhaps the biggest shock ever.

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.