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Is the wall supposed to have a unique solution? It didn't, this time. Although I suppose that that is a risk when you use the word "Smith".
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Is the wall supposed to have a unique solution? It didn't, this time. Although I suppose that that is a risk when you use the word "Smith".
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The TOTP question was more suited to an odd one out in HIGNFY with 3 miming when they shouldn't be and 1 not miming when they should. Victoria's silent chatting away just didn't happen as All About Eve just sat waiting for the music to start with an occasional 'what's happening' expression before picking the track up when they finally heard it. It was a very poor 'connection'.
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Were the music duos meant to be related ?
The White Stripes were husband and wife , I think. |
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The TOTP question was more suited to an odd one out in HIGNFY with 3 miming when they shouldn't be and 1 not miming when they should. Victoria's silent chatting away just didn't happen as All About Eve just sat waiting for the music to start with an occasional 'what's happening' expression before picking the track up when they finally heard it. It was a very poor 'connection'.
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Were the music duos meant to be related ?
The White Stripes were husband and wife , I think. (Mind you, it was a University Challenge question). |
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The TOTP question was more suited to an odd one out in HIGNFY with 3 miming when they shouldn't be and 1 not miming when they should. Victoria's silent chatting away just didn't happen as All About Eve just sat waiting for the music to start with an occasional 'what's happening' expression before picking the track up when they finally heard it. It was a very poor 'connection'.
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It would have been hard for Les Gray's vent dummy to sing live.
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It would, especially considering it only had a speaking part.
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Explain? The wall must have a unique solution otherwise it's unfair.
There may be many female novelists called Smith, but Zadie Smith is famous, and therefore an entirely reasonable answer. |
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The answers Smith and Wesley can be swapped between the categories "founders of Christian movements" (Joseph Smith, the answer given in the show, and John Wesley, founder of the Methodist church) and "female novelists" (Mary Wesley, the answer given in the show, and Zadie Smith.)
There may be many female novelists called Smith, but Zadie Smith is famous, and therefore an entirely reasonable answer. |
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I got five points on that!
(Mind you, it was a University Challenge question).
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The connection was 'miming on TOTP'. The clues were perpetrators of miming (in specific situations). The fourth perpetrator was 'nobody' which doesn't vary from the connection at all. Nobody was miming, is exactly the same as somebody was miming in the context. The connection is completely sound. Unless I mean soundless?
Given that miming was the norm on TOTP, just 'miming' isn't much of a connection. In the first three, people were deliberately subverting or mocking the miming culture by either miming things that they didn't do on the record or getting a dummy to do it. All About Eve was just a case of 'miming gone wrong'. |
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I think this thread has had a bit of a clean-up, and one of my posts on this has gone astray, but I found the connection to be a little off.
Given that miming was the norm on TOTP, just 'miming' isn't much of a connection. In the first three, people were deliberately subverting or mocking the miming culture by either miming things that they didn't do on the record or getting a dummy to do it. All About Eve was just a case of 'miming gone wrong'. |
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If I recall, the lead singer deliberately didn't sing/mime in protest as she couldn't hear the track properly. She made a conscious decision to sit there and do nothing to make a point.
They came back the week after to do it properly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1JIe8Zlvr4 It's a bit like Owen Paul on Pebble Mill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bXIL0DTJGo They must get told to not move if they can't hear any audio in a 'live' setting |
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Disappointing to hear it's being moved to Fridays, especially given that BBC NI tend to move Mastermind around the schedule already due to Ulster Rugby coverage.
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Disappointing to hear it's being moved to Fridays, especially given that BBC NI tend to move Mastermind around the schedule already due to Ulster Rugby coverage.
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Weird decision altogether when you have an identifiable clever clogs hour. And for Island Parish? How does that fit?
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Well if it ain't broke, the beeb will break it.
Seriously, though I like a weeknight treat, and this was it. I know I can record it and watch it whenever I like, but it doesn't feel the same. I'm still of an age where I like schedules. |
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I'm anticipating celebrity team captains next....
Seriously, though I like a weeknight treat, and this was it. I know I can record it and watch it whenever I like, but it doesn't feel the same. I'm still of an age where I like schedules. |
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What's all this about it being moved to Friday? What a terrible decision!
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VCM being generous again with the answer given for murder connection.
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VCM being generous again with the answer given for murder connection.
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It would have been ridiculously harsh not to allow it after they got as far as brothers and betrayals.
Were they were just looking for betrayal, they could have used Joseph, for example. Personally I believe "betrayal" to too gentle a word for murder. |
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Specifically, the connection was murder.
He they were just looking for betrayal, they could have used Joseph, for example. |
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