I got the Harry Potter one for five points. My first ever five pointer
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Originally Posted by codeblue:
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It was another game dominated by missing vowels, they should tweak it. It's somewhat unfair!”
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It was another game dominated by missing vowels, they should tweak it. It's somewhat unfair!”
Surely you get every single missing vowel question right? I do. Easy peasy. I've never got one wrong yet.
Originally Posted by Baz_James:
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By definition it's the least unfair part of the whole show because both teams have the same opportunity to answer the same question. The walls were totally unbalanced tonight with one stinker and one really quite easy. The opening rounds depend entirely on luck as to which questions you get.”
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By definition it's the least unfair part of the whole show because both teams have the same opportunity to answer the same question. The walls were totally unbalanced tonight with one stinker and one really quite easy. The opening rounds depend entirely on luck as to which questions you get.”
Totally agree the second wall was so easy we got them all. The first wall was hard.
Originally Posted by Baz_James:
“ By definition it's the least unfair part of the whole show because both teams have the same opportunity to answer the same question. The walls were totally unbalanced tonight with one stinker and one really quite easy. The opening rounds depend entirely on luck as to which questions you get.”
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By definition it's the least unfair part of the whole show because both teams have the same opportunity to answer the same question. The walls were totally unbalanced tonight with one stinker and one really quite easy. The opening rounds depend entirely on luck as to which questions you get.”
It was odd because Victoria Coren Mitchell made a comment about the second wall also being difficult. But I was glad the way the result went, did not like the losing team.
Originally Posted by Paul_DNAP:
“It was my question, so I am the adjudicator, and it isn't. Nil points, offer to the other team for a bonus.
If "it fits any sequence" is valid then the questions are massively easier on the first clue then the second as you could make any answer fit.”
“It was my question, so I am the adjudicator, and it isn't. Nil points, offer to the other team for a bonus.
If "it fits any sequence" is valid then the questions are massively easier on the first clue then the second as you could make any answer fit.”
Not what I wrote.
Originally Posted by codeblue:
“Some good questions for five this evening.
Pirates
Chamber of Stone
.2
Plymouth argyle
Pirates was the classic word within a word sequence
Chamber of stone was an easy one for Harry Potter fans, the team knew it for 5
.2 was straightforward once you read it as a fraction
Plymouth argyle was a good one, the only fact I knew about them is that they play in green, so it was definitely kit colours. The tricky thing was the colour sequence. Green sits in the middle of the classic primary school rainbow, and I don't know kits that are indigo or violet.
Yellow was always Norwich, orange Blackpool and I gave Manchester United in red as my answer for 5.
It was another game dominated by missing vowels, they should tweak it. It's somewhat unfair!”
“Some good questions for five this evening.
Pirates
Chamber of Stone
.2
Plymouth argyle
Pirates was the classic word within a word sequence
Chamber of stone was an easy one for Harry Potter fans, the team knew it for 5
.2 was straightforward once you read it as a fraction
Plymouth argyle was a good one, the only fact I knew about them is that they play in green, so it was definitely kit colours. The tricky thing was the colour sequence. Green sits in the middle of the classic primary school rainbow, and I don't know kits that are indigo or violet.
Yellow was always Norwich, orange Blackpool and I gave Manchester United in red as my answer for 5.
It was another game dominated by missing vowels, they should tweak it. It's somewhat unfair!”
Did you not get the "months in 4 years cycle"? That was the easiest.
I have kept an open mind about your claims and others' counter claims, but I really don't believe you got 5 points by saying "A" based on a photo from Pirates of the Caribbean.
Also, the football kits question was incorrect, Blackpool's colours are well known as tangerine not orange, so again to claim 5 points on that sounds extremely dubious.
Originally Posted by Baz_James:
“ By definition it's the least unfair part of the whole show because both teams have the same opportunity to answer the same question. The walls were totally unbalanced tonight with one stinker and one really quite easy. The opening rounds depend entirely on luck as to which questions you get.”
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By definition it's the least unfair part of the whole show because both teams have the same opportunity to answer the same question. The walls were totally unbalanced tonight with one stinker and one really quite easy. The opening rounds depend entirely on luck as to which questions you get.”
Yes, but it has too much weight in comparison to the other rounds and is much easier. Much better if half a point for a correct answer.
The first wall was quite easy, smartphones and U2 songs were pretty obvious. Surprised you found the second one a stinker when the team got 10 points.
Originally Posted by Boz_Lowdownl:
“Yes, but it has too much weight in comparison to the other rounds and is much easier. Much better if half a point for a correct answer.
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“Yes, but it has too much weight in comparison to the other rounds and is much easier. Much better if half a point for a correct answer.
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Agree. They have to work so hard for a point or two in earlier rounds that it should be almost impossible to win from 7 points behind going into the last round.
Winning team member tonight sitting on the right hand end (as we look at them) was Tom Cappleman. I recognised him from winning a recent Countdown series. So i googled him and he also appeared on University Challenge in 2012 representing New College Oxford.
what was the dot above the 3 for in the fractions question ?
, unless there's a fly on my tv screen
codeblue, a woman who knows the strips of english 2nd division football teams ?
why could the 4th colour not be violet ? although one would struggle to find a team that played in that colour for their home strip.
, unless there's a fly on my tv screen
codeblue, a woman who knows the strips of english 2nd division football teams ?
why could the 4th colour not be violet ? although one would struggle to find a team that played in that colour for their home strip.
Originally Posted by Boz_Lowdownl:
“Did you not get the "months in 4 years cycle"? That was the easiest.
I have kept an open mind about your claims and others' counter claims, but I really don't believe you got 5 points by saying "A" based on a photo from Pirates of the Caribbean.
Also, the football kits question was incorrect, Blackpool's colours are well known as tangerine not orange, so again to claim 5 points on that sounds extremely dubious.”
“Did you not get the "months in 4 years cycle"? That was the easiest.
I have kept an open mind about your claims and others' counter claims, but I really don't believe you got 5 points by saying "A" based on a photo from Pirates of the Caribbean.
Also, the football kits question was incorrect, Blackpool's colours are well known as tangerine not orange, so again to claim 5 points on that sounds extremely dubious.”
IF she got five points, it was before the Blackpool kit came up.
Originally Posted by Hercule Parrow:
“what was the dot above the 3 for in the fractions question ?
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“what was the dot above the 3 for in the fractions question ?
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I take it means .3 recurring as .3 is not exactly a third.
Originally Posted by carnoch04:
“I take it means .3 recurring as .3 is not exactly a third.”
“I take it means .3 recurring as .3 is not exactly a third.”
ah, yes, many thanks.
Originally Posted by Hercule Parrow:
“what was the dot above the 3 for in the fractions question ?
, unless there's a fly on my tv screen
codeblue, a woman who knows the strips of english 2nd division football teams ?
why could the 4th colour not be violet ? although one would struggle to find a team that played in that colour for their home strip.”
“what was the dot above the 3 for in the fractions question ?
, unless there's a fly on my tv screen
codeblue, a woman who knows the strips of english 2nd division football teams ?
why could the 4th colour not be violet ? although one would struggle to find a team that played in that colour for their home strip.”
The dot means recurring in mathematics, 1/3 in decimal is really .3333333333 never ending.
And yes, i do know the strips of english football teams. I follow football, and am always posting in the football treads here too!
Originally Posted by Boz_Lowdownl:
“Did you not get the "months in 4 years cycle"? That was the easiest.
I have kept an open mind about your claims and others' counter claims, but I really don't believe you got 5 points by saying "A" based on a photo from Pirates of the Caribbean.
Also, the football kits question was incorrect, Blackpool's colours are well known as tangerine not orange, so again to claim 5 points on that sounds extremely dubious.”
“Did you not get the "months in 4 years cycle"? That was the easiest.
I have kept an open mind about your claims and others' counter claims, but I really don't believe you got 5 points by saying "A" based on a photo from Pirates of the Caribbean.
Also, the football kits question was incorrect, Blackpool's colours are well known as tangerine not orange, so again to claim 5 points on that sounds extremely dubious.”
The years question:
I didnt get it for 5, but i knew it was related to dates. I was actually kicking myself for not getting it on the first clue but i'm glad you did as it proves its not impossible.
The sequences round regularly has a "word" question, where you take away a letter to make other words.
The first clue was clearly "pirates" it could be nothing else. Once you have that base, and know you will "always find an irate pirate", its a clear word clue - pirates, irate, rat add A. I have a "quiz mug" at home with the words "you will always find "a rat" in separate" etc on it!
I absolutely 100% said "manchester united in red" as my 5 point answer, and predicted norwich and blackpool as the other clues. I follow football quite closely.
Any question, sequence, odd one out, connection is easy if you know about the subject. I really get annoyed when someone crows "That one was easy!" - because they know the subject.
I now nothing about U2 or any other band/singer so never get those. Nor do I get anything historical or to do with football. I do know science, textiles, maths and a whole lot of other stuff so they're easy for me, but wouldn't be for everyone.
I did get the fractions straight away and know what the dot over the 3 means, although I've always seen it with the number repeated with dots over both, so 33 with a dot over each.
Got nothing on the first wall, but solved the second.
I now nothing about U2 or any other band/singer so never get those. Nor do I get anything historical or to do with football. I do know science, textiles, maths and a whole lot of other stuff so they're easy for me, but wouldn't be for everyone.
I did get the fractions straight away and know what the dot over the 3 means, although I've always seen it with the number repeated with dots over both, so 33 with a dot over each.
Got nothing on the first wall, but solved the second.
Originally Posted by Janet43:
“Any question, sequence, odd one out, connection is easy if you know about the subject. I really get annoyed when someone crows "That one was easy!" - because they know the subject.
I now nothing about U2 or any other band/singer so never get those. Nor do I get anything historical or to do with football. I do know science, textiles, maths and a whole lot of other stuff so they're easy for me, but wouldn't be for everyone.
I did get the fractions straight away and know what the dot over the 3 means, although I've always seen it with the number repeated with dots over both, so 33 with a dot over each.
Got nothing on the first wall, but solved the second.”
“Any question, sequence, odd one out, connection is easy if you know about the subject. I really get annoyed when someone crows "That one was easy!" - because they know the subject.
I now nothing about U2 or any other band/singer so never get those. Nor do I get anything historical or to do with football. I do know science, textiles, maths and a whole lot of other stuff so they're easy for me, but wouldn't be for everyone.
I did get the fractions straight away and know what the dot over the 3 means, although I've always seen it with the number repeated with dots over both, so 33 with a dot over each.
Got nothing on the first wall, but solved the second.”
I agree with this post.
If you know scrabble, harry potter, football kits etc you can get 5 points using your general knowledge. However the interesting questions are where you do not need general knowledge to solve it.
.2 was one of the best questions for a while because of this, as was the date question and "pirates"
Originally Posted by Janet43:
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I did get the fractions straight away and know what the dot over the 3 means, although I've always seen it with the number repeated with dots over both, so 33 with a dot over each.”
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I did get the fractions straight away and know what the dot over the 3 means, although I've always seen it with the number repeated with dots over both, so 33 with a dot over each.”
Two or more dots to signify recurrence on a decimal is when that sequence recurs, such as 1/99 = 0.0101010101... which would be represented as .01 with a dot over each digit.
Originally Posted by Boz_Lowdownl:
“Also, the football kits question was incorrect, Blackpool's colours are well known as tangerine not orange, so again to claim 5 points on that sounds extremely dubious.”
“Also, the football kits question was incorrect, Blackpool's colours are well known as tangerine not orange, so again to claim 5 points on that sounds extremely dubious.”
Now that is stretching pedantry to new limits
(Edit: I just checked to make sure, and tangerine as a colour name does not exist in either the Pantone or HTML lists.)
Originally Posted by JeffG1:
“Now that is stretching pedantry to new limits
(Edit: I just checked to make sure, and tangerine as a colour name does not exist in either the Pantone or HTML lists.)”
“Now that is stretching pedantry to new limits
(Edit: I just checked to make sure, and tangerine as a colour name does not exist in either the Pantone or HTML lists.)”
Pantone 15-1247 Tangerine
Pantone 17-1463 Tangerine Tango (colour of the year 2012 !)
Originally Posted by Paul_DNAP:
“Pantone 15-1247 Tangerine
Pantone 17-1463 Tangerine Tango (colour of the year 2012 !)”
“Pantone 15-1247 Tangerine
Pantone 17-1463 Tangerine Tango (colour of the year 2012 !)”
I stand corrected. It wasn't in the first list I looked at. However, I'm sure I wouldn't be able to tell the difference without the two side by side, and then I wouldn't know which was which.
Originally Posted by JeffG1:
“I stand corrected. It wasn't in the first list I looked at. However, I'm sure I wouldn't be able to tell the difference without the two side by side, and then I wouldn't know which was which.”
“I stand corrected. It wasn't in the first list I looked at. However, I'm sure I wouldn't be able to tell the difference without the two side by side, and then I wouldn't know which was which.”
I suppose it would only become truly important if you were a printer or if you were in charge of dyeing the new Blackpool kit. The tangerine tango is a towards the red edge of what you'd consider to be orange (or the yellower end of red) whereas the Tangerine is much closer to the shade of orange that you would expect to adorn the fruit of the same name.
I had to make a peach coloured paper, and it was difficult as a tiny bit extra red and it ends up looking like salmon.
Very proud of myself - got my first ever 5 pointer for Dido. I only knew this because I ended up emailing Dido Harding (CEO of TalkTalk) to try and resolve an issue my Mum was having with her emails. We'd spent literally hours trying to sort it out and getting nowhere - however, my email to Dido was passed to someone who was able to get her email up and running again, after a fortnight of frustration.
I also got the .2, .25 sequence for 3 points, but I thought that was pretty straightforward.
I also got the .2, .25 sequence for 3 points, but I thought that was pretty straightforward.
I actually got a 5 for the months in the 4 year cycle. When I say I got a 5, I guessed the correct answer from the first clue. Would I have said it if I was on the show before the second clue came up? I doubt it very much. Would definitely have got it after the second in the studio.
This is what makes me doubt CodeBlue's claims. Not that she can get the right answer but there is simply not time to work out a correct answer AND rule out any other answers. Take for instance the Pirates picture round. To claim an A in 4th place after one picture in that time scale is ridiculous. I guess if you have knowledge of Gilbert & Sullivan operas and the order they first appeared, and able to rule that out as well as ruling out any other Pirate connection (Biggles book titles?, Disney franchises?, order of death penalty abolition? to name just a few that came to me immediately). Chances are none of them might involve Pirates at the start or end of a sequence but there just isn't time to rule them all out before clue 2 appears.
The football kit one led me astray. Plymouth followed by Norwich, sequence was obvious, next Newcastle then Plymouth again (most Southerly, Easterly, Northerly, Westerly teams in England).
I knew green and yellow where their colours, the rainbow sequence just never came to me - although I have to agree with posts above, Blackpool's kit has always been known as tangerine, never orange.
This is what makes me doubt CodeBlue's claims. Not that she can get the right answer but there is simply not time to work out a correct answer AND rule out any other answers. Take for instance the Pirates picture round. To claim an A in 4th place after one picture in that time scale is ridiculous. I guess if you have knowledge of Gilbert & Sullivan operas and the order they first appeared, and able to rule that out as well as ruling out any other Pirate connection (Biggles book titles?, Disney franchises?, order of death penalty abolition? to name just a few that came to me immediately). Chances are none of them might involve Pirates at the start or end of a sequence but there just isn't time to rule them all out before clue 2 appears.
The football kit one led me astray. Plymouth followed by Norwich, sequence was obvious, next Newcastle then Plymouth again (most Southerly, Easterly, Northerly, Westerly teams in England).
I knew green and yellow where their colours, the rainbow sequence just never came to me - although I have to agree with posts above, Blackpool's kit has always been known as tangerine, never orange.
Is no one going to comment on:
TEAM They're all amusement park rides
VCM: A little bit more, please
TEAM gives an answer that is now unquestionably wrong - They're all at Alton Towers
VCM: We'll give you that ...
As for getting .2 after just one clue, I'm not so sure. Even when you had 2 and .25 up, it seemed like a 'too easy for O question....
TEAM They're all amusement park rides
VCM: A little bit more, please
TEAM gives an answer that is now unquestionably wrong - They're all at Alton Towers
VCM: We'll give you that ...
As for getting .2 after just one clue, I'm not so sure. Even when you had 2 and .25 up, it seemed like a 'too easy for O question....
Originally Posted by Janet43:
“Any question, sequence, odd one out, connection is easy if you know about the subject. I really get annoyed when someone crows "That one was easy!" - because they know the subject.
I now nothing about U2 or any other band/singer so never get those. Nor do I get anything historical or to do with football. I do know science, textiles, maths and a whole lot of other stuff so they're easy for me, but wouldn't be for everyone.
I did get the fractions straight away and know what the dot over the 3 means, although I've always seen it with the number repeated with dots over both, so 33 with a dot over each.
Got nothing on the first wall, but solved the second.”
“Any question, sequence, odd one out, connection is easy if you know about the subject. I really get annoyed when someone crows "That one was easy!" - because they know the subject.
I now nothing about U2 or any other band/singer so never get those. Nor do I get anything historical or to do with football. I do know science, textiles, maths and a whole lot of other stuff so they're easy for me, but wouldn't be for everyone.
I did get the fractions straight away and know what the dot over the 3 means, although I've always seen it with the number repeated with dots over both, so 33 with a dot over each.
Got nothing on the first wall, but solved the second.”
I agree with much of the above.
A number of people have suggested the second wall was easier than the first, but I found the first wall easier as I picked out there were U2 songs and US football teams on it. I may have eventually got the Star Trek films on the second wall, but they didn't stand out as clear as the songs and football teams on the previous wall. There was nothing else on the second wall I would have picked up.
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