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Old 15-12-2015, 16:27
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"The naval conflict the Battle of Jutland took place during which twentieth century conflict?"

"Pass."

Fair enough he might not have heard of it but you might as well guess the First or the Second World War. (It's the First.) This is Tipping Point, not Mastermind. It's not going to be the Korean War, or the Russo - Japanese War of 1905, is it?

People are often very quick to pass on quiz shows on eminently guessable questions.
Having just started here I'm not sure of the etiquette but just a quick follow up..do you know where Jutland is?

*before wiki became everyone's friend"
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Old 15-12-2015, 16:37
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Did anyone watch yesterdays? that young lady who made the final had amazing eyes kinda hypnotic.
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Old 15-12-2015, 16:42
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Having just started here I'm not sure of the etiquette but just a quick follow up..do you know where Jutland is?

*before wiki became everyone's friend"
Yes, I know where the Battle of Jutland was fought. It was off the coast of Denmark, and I knew that long before Wikipedia was invented. But you don't need to know where it was fought to be able to make a reasonable guess at which war it was fought in.
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Old 15-12-2015, 16:49
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Yes, I know where the Battle of Jutland was fought. It was off the coast of Denmark, and I knew that long before Wikipedia was invented. But you don't need to know where it was fought to be able to make a reasonable guess at which war it was fought in.
How do work that out?

The British Navy ruled the world for 200 years + Jutland may have been off the coast of Jamaica, or Rhode Island or Gibraltar.

I'll leave you to work out the years.
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Old 15-12-2015, 17:01
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How do work that out?

The British Navy ruled the world for 200 years + Jutland may have been off the coast of Jamaica, or Rhode Island or Gibraltar.

I'll leave you to work out the years.
I'm not really sure what point you're trying to make. The question asked on the programme was "in which 20th century conflict was the Battle of Jutland fought?" It wasn't asking where Jutland is. I was making the point that if it's the 20th century, by far the most likely answers to the question will be either the First or the Second World War. As I said, you don't have to know where it is to be able to make a reasonable guess at which war it was fought in.
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Old 15-12-2015, 17:03
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How do work that out?

The British Navy ruled the world for 200 years + Jutland may have been off the coast of Jamaica, or Rhode Island or Gibraltar.

I'll leave you to work out the years.
What are you on about?
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Old 15-12-2015, 18:39
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How do work that out?

The British Navy ruled the world for 200 years + Jutland may have been off the coast of Jamaica, or Rhode Island or Gibraltar.

I'll leave you to work out the years.
What the f#ck are you on about.....
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Old 16-12-2015, 11:13
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How do work that out?

The British Navy ruled the world for 200 years + Jutland may have been off the coast of Jamaica, or Rhode Island or Gibraltar.

I'll leave you to work out the years.
Others have made eloquent comments about your post, but just because you don't know where Jutland is doesn't preclude the fact that a lot of people do. But the main point was that it was a (guessable) 20th century conflict as another poster said.
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Old 16-12-2015, 12:38
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I'm not really sure what point you're trying to make. The question asked on the programme was "in which 20th century conflict was the Battle of Jutland fought?" It wasn't asking where Jutland is. I was making the point that if it's the 20th century, by far the most likely answers to the question will be either the First or the Second World War. As I said, you don't have to know where it is to be able to make a reasonable guess at which war it was fought in.
Absolutely, if you're going to guess then go for one of the world wars. You could justify a thought process of "Is Jutland one of the Falkland islands" - okay it isn't but at least it would have been a reasoned guess - (At an outside I would have respected them thinking it was a Vietnamese or Korean province.) - obviously way wrong but still better than passing because a pass says "I can not think of any wars that have happened".

There was a similar one a week or so ago where they asked something like Which political party was Grant Schapps in the Shadow Cabinet for and the lady's response was "I don't even know where to begin to guess, so pass" and I yelled "Just say the name of any political party, that's how you guess."
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Old 16-12-2015, 16:48
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How desperate does this guy look to win
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Old 16-12-2015, 16:56
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The prize is not enough the jump to 10k is not worth the risk, no one ever gambles they should make it 20k.

What do you think?
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Old 16-12-2015, 17:00
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I'm sure that was a repeat as I remember that guy talking about bringing his script to LA.
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Old 16-12-2015, 17:00
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The prize is not enough the jump to 10k is not worth the risk, no one ever gambles they should make it 20k.

What do you think?
A woman did, I think on monday and lost over £3000
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Old 17-12-2015, 11:45
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The prize is not enough the jump to 10k is not worth the risk, no one ever gambles they should make it 20k.

What do you think?
Quite a few contestants have gambled and won.
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Old 17-12-2015, 16:57
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Well done Rosemary for winning the £10K jackpot today, despite having many riders throughout the show.
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Old 17-12-2015, 17:00
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Some of these 3 point questions are really very easy. Easier than they need to be.

They just had a question: "In which decade did the Berlin wall fall?"

The choices were the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.

Given that this is supposed to be the "harder" category of question, and the wall fell in 1989, the choices should surely have been the 70s, 80s or 90s, to make it a bit harder. You'd have to be almost completely clueless about post war European history to think that the Berlin wall fell in the 1960s.

It didn't matter as she knew it was 1989 anyway.

She won the £10K today and deserved it, I think she got every question right in the jackpot round. Some of them guess their way to victory but she actually knew the answers.

if you get every question right in the jackpot round for three points that's eighteen counters into the machine. If you don't get it out with that many you can consider yourself a bit unlucky (or your timing's useless. ).
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Old 17-12-2015, 17:51
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That guy in his 30sec questions round answered (correctly) Napoleon Bonaparte but in a very odd way to the question "which leader gave his name to the Napoleonic Wars."

I think they had him re-do it after the fact. Perhaps he had originally answered "Bonaparte" and Ben had wrongly said it was wrong?
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Old 17-12-2015, 18:57
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Well done Rosemary for winning the £10K jackpot today, despite having many riders throughout the show.
I've no sympathy about the riders, all she had to do was drop the counter at the right time.
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Old 17-12-2015, 19:03
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I've no sympathy about the riders, all she had to do was drop the counter at the right time.
It's not all about the timing, sometimes the machine drops the counters quickly and sometimes they stick, that affects whether they go flat or not.
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Old 17-12-2015, 19:10
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I stupidly pressed the wrong button on my remote and missed the last 15 minutes. I take it the team won but how much and did the last guy get through as well?

Sorry I meant to post this on the chase thread!

I thought tonight's tipping point was a good one, quite close between Abby and Rosemary but Rosemary was the more knowledgable player and deserved her win.
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Old 18-12-2015, 16:07
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blimey bens jimper looked rude till they showed the whole jumper

have itv only got certain jumpers they give to employees

that ho ho ho jumper is everywhere .......
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Old 18-12-2015, 16:15
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Who's idea was it to invite Bobby George on to a quiz show in aid of charity?

Prior to the present Queen, who was the last Queen to rule Great Britain. Bobby's answer:- Elizabeth????

Needless to say he didn't survive the first round.

Mark Foster in the second round. The Sunday Times book the "Churchill Factor" was about which Prime Minister. His answer:- Margaret Thatcher.
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Old 18-12-2015, 16:23
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The Churchill Factor is a novel about which former Prime Minister?

Margaret Thatcher.
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Old 18-12-2015, 16:36
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Mark Foster didn't know or couldn't guess Bohemian Rhapsody?

Where the hell has he been for the last four decades?
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Old 18-12-2015, 16:37
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What a sad bunch these so called celebrities are proving to be. There's little general knowledge among the four of them.

Maybe they should have had "celebrities" from a different background other than sport as it's for charity.

It all depends on Tanni Grey Thompson in the final round now
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