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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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FFS Tanni. sort out your timing!!
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After six gimmee questions Tanni had 18 counters but with terrible late releasing of the counters she got many riders and didn't even get the jackpot counter over the top shelf.
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Under £5,000 from 4 contestants
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The Churchill Factor is a novel about which former Prime Minister?
Margaret Thatcher. ![]() |
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It's barely believable. I'm always amazed how little 'celebrities' know outside of their immediate and very limited sphere of interest.
There's another bunch of thicko on The Chase now
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Started watching on +1. Don't normally watch this. Are the questions always this dumbed down or is it just for Text Santa?
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I wonder how the producers put the celeb specials together. Are the celebs given any sort of preliminary general knowledge test to find out how much (or possibly how little) they know?
I didn't watch it today but it sounds by what I'm reading on here that this lot weren't that hot. I wonder if the celebs give any thought to the fact that appearing on shows like this might show up their general knowledge as, shall we say, less than stellar. I remember Barry from Eastenders was pretty good on The Chase a while ago but a lot of them seem to have very poor general knowledge. Celeb specials are all the rage these days. Look at Family Fortunes and Mr and Mrs - they don't even do "civilian" versions of them now, it's only celeb ones. |
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Started watching on +1. Don't normally watch this. Are the questions always this dumbed down or is it just for Text Santa?
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Questions on Tipping Point are really easy anyway, it's just the done thing to claim 'dumbing down'.
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Questions on Tipping Point are really easy anyway, it's just the done thing to claim 'dumbing down'.
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I was at a dinner yesterday, and a question from a cracker (which was meant to be serious) was worthy of Tipping Point: "What language do most people in Germany speak?"
Also, it doesn't say 'What is the native language of most people in Germany?', so you never know, there might be more than one answer, if loads of them have a second language. |
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Questions on Tipping Point are really easy anyway, it's just the done thing to claim 'dumbing down'.
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Wrong thread.
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The contestant, Dan, didn't deserve to reach the final round given his pathetic performance in the semi final. He didn't even know a male bovine animal was a Bull, or a wise bird is the Owl.. I was willing Dee to win but once again she was the cause of her own downfall dropping too late and getting riders. She deserved to win the money on her general knowledge.
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The contestant, Dan, didn't deserve to reach the final round given his pathetic performance in the semi final. He didn't even know a male bovine animal was a Bull, or a wise bird is the Owl.. I was willing Dee to win but once again she was the cause of her own downfall dropping too late and getting riders. She deserved to win the money on her general knowledge.
Shows it was not brains that got him to the final. He definatley did not deserve to be in the final
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Didn't he get a x2 counter in the first round which normally means no one else stands a chance to get in the lead?
Shows it was not brains that got him to the final. He definatley did not deserve to be in the final ![]() |
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Yes he did, he got £400 X 2 in the first round. Dee could have caught him in the semi final if she hadn't had the riders(she only has herself to blame for that). I don't recall Dan answering a question correctly in that round. Dee was only £100 short of his total, I think!
The 2 x counter should be taken away imo. |
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Yeah, it's pretty ridiculous really. Many times it's ruined any pretence of a contest and often guaranteed a safe passage to the final for whoever gets it along with a bunch of regular counters in the first round.
Other players always used to have a chance of clawing back a lead. Not these days, if someone randomly gets the early mega money. |
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Good point on the X2 counter, it often ruins an episode.
What would improve the show would be bumping up the top prize to £20k |
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Just a couple of thoughts on show improvement
1. Make the questions less puerile 2.Make it clear to me what the difference is between a 1 chip question and a 3 chip question...I really dont get it. If you dont know a subject then all questions are difficult 3. If the player has more than one chip, let them play two or three at once 4. Get rid of the bloody awful sound effects My opinion obviously |
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One explanation for some of the questions:
I think there is some kind of "Product Placement" going on in this show as regards the questions. It's very unusual in any quiz show to have questions where the answer is the name of a modern branded product, but this keeps happening in the first round and it really jars. |
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One explanation for some of the questions:
I think there is some kind of "Product Placement" going on in this show as regards the questions. It's very unusual in any quiz show to have questions where the answer is the name of a modern branded product, but this keeps happening in the first round and it really jars. There are strict rules on product placement in UK television shows. You can look these up on the Ofcom website. If a UK TV show has been paid to include a product this must be disclosed to the viewer by the "P" logo. This must be shown at the beginning, the end and at any ad break. I don't think that appears on Tipping Point, although I could be wrong. This would not include the mystery prizes such as spa breaks, wine tasting days and so on, which will probably be provided free by those companies in return for them being mentioned on the programme, but will not involve any payment to the TV company. I think the more likely explanation is simply that Tipping Point is not a very highbrow quiz, so they're just more likely to ask questions about modern consumer products and advertising slogans than say, classical composers. |
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People still buzzing in early today in the first round with wrong answers and giving away counters needlessly.
"The "Rachel" haircut was popularized by..." "Jennifer Aniston." "Full question was..popularized by Jennifer Aniston in which TV show?" About the only time buzzing in early is of any advantage is the first question, and maybe the second, when you can pass it. After that it hardly matters. Yet they keep throwing away counters by buzzing in early before they've heard the full question. You would have thought the people that go on this would have worked this out by now,but it seems not. |
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Staggeringly bad performance from Katy in the individual round.
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