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Old 28-11-2015, 06:25
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I watched an old episode of fifteen to one on Challenge this morning

Q)/On the 28th May 1588, the Spanish Armada set sail from which port?

A) Tilbury

Fair enough not everyone would know Lisbon is the correct answer but Essex is a pretty bad guess!
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Old 28-11-2015, 09:36
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I'd have said Cadiz, so kudos to you.

Edit: Oh, no kudos after all. It sailed from A Coruņa in Spain according to Wikipedia. At least I got the right country . I think the clue was it was the Spanish Armada.
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Old 28-11-2015, 10:09
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Old 28-11-2015, 11:26
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This woman is the most ignorant about Geography that I've ever seen.

Listen to her ignorance, as she tries to think of where Budapest is the Capital of.

Even the little boy, who is there to help her, is laughing at how stupid she is:,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8pnec4Hxps

Plus - the show's presenter can't even pronounce the name of the Country properly.

NOtE -- She did win the $25,000 for that question. The little boy had got it right for her...
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Old 28-11-2015, 11:30
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I'd have said Cadiz, so kudos to you.

Edit: Oh, no kudos after all. It sailed from A Coruņa in Spain according to Wikipedia. At least I got the right country . I think the clue was it was the Spanish Armada.
Then Wikipedia must have been edited since I originally posted as that's where I got the answer from! (time to fess up, I would probably have answered Cadiz to &#128513but yes, there is rather large clue in the name The Spanish Armada
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Old 28-11-2015, 17:30
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This woman is the most ignorant about Geography that I've ever seen.

Listen to her ignorance, as she tries to think of where Budapest is the Capital of.

Even the little boy, who is there to help her, is laughing at how stupid she is:,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8pnec4Hxps

Plus - the show's presenter can't even pronounce the name of the Country properly.

NOtE -- She did win the $25,000 for that question. The little boy had got it right for her...
"This woman" being Kellie Pickler.
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Old 28-11-2015, 17:35
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Mary Ann Hobbs on Celebrity Mastermind just now.
'Which former member of the Beatles collaborated on Liverpool Oratorio with the American composer Carl Davids, first performed in 1991?'
'John Lennon?'

She is a DJ.
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Old 28-11-2015, 17:42
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Mary Ann Hobbs on Celebrity Mastermind just now.
'Which former member of the Beatles collaborated on Liverpool Oratorio with the American composer Carl Davids, first performed in 1991?'
'John Lennon?'

She is a DJ.
She's not a classical DJ though (nor, would I have thought, is her specialism in the Paul McCartney ballpark) - and it's a perfectly fair guess; just because it was first performed in 1991 doesn't mean it couldn't have been collaborated on many years earlier...
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Old 28-11-2015, 17:56
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Mary Ann Hobbs on Celebrity Mastermind just now.
'Which former member of the Beatles collaborated on Liverpool Oratorio with the American composer Carl Davids, first performed in 1991?'
'John Lennon?'

She is a DJ.
She didn't know Kylie Minogue sang I Should Be So Lucky either.
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Old 28-11-2015, 18:03
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Mary Ann Hobbs on Celebrity Mastermind just now.
'Which former member of the Beatles collaborated on Liverpool Oratorio with the American composer Carl Davids, first performed in 1991?'
'John Lennon?'

She is a DJ.
To be fair to Mary Ann, they were all pretty awful. How the hell can the BBC have the nerve to call this Celebrity Mastermind?
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Old 28-11-2015, 19:23
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To be fair to Mary Ann, they were all pretty awful. How the hell can the BBC have the nerve to call this Celebrity Mastermind?
True, the only one I had heard of was Johnny Ball. Pity he went into panic mode, fell apart and fluffed many questions that he almost certainly would have know the answer to.
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Old 28-11-2015, 20:32
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This woman is the most ignorant about Geography that I've ever seen.

Listen to her ignorance, as she tries to think of where Budapest is the Capital of.

Even the little boy, who is there to help her, is laughing at how stupid she is:,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8pnec4Hxps

Plus - the show's presenter can't even pronounce the name of the Country properly.

NOtE -- She did win the $25,000 for that question. The little boy had got it right for her...
I just actually said "oh my God"!!
Is she for real? I mean, I know I live in Europe but I know which countries are on which continent.
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Old 28-11-2015, 22:47
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True, the only one I had heard of was Johnny Ball. Pity he went into panic mode, fell apart and fluffed many questions that he almost certainly would have know the answer to.
Was he the old man? When I saw who was in it, I thought he was the only "celebrity" I'd heard of, but I was thinking of a singer with a similar name.

To win Mastermind with a score of 16 is just ridiculous.
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Old 29-11-2015, 11:27
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To win Mastermind with a score of 16 is just ridiculous.
They didn't win Mastermind, they won Celebrity Mastermind which requires a far far lower level of quizzing ability.

To win Mastermind you have to beat dozens of the best quizzers in the country, to win Celebrity Mastermind you only have to beat three other people who are not very good at quizzing.
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Old 29-11-2015, 15:51
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Johnny Ball is only 77, so not old.
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Old 29-11-2015, 15:56
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On Friday's Tipping Point one of the semi finalists was asked "What is a male elephant called?". She didn't know so passed it to the male semi finalist. His answer was "A Tudor".
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Old 29-11-2015, 16:08
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Private Eye has this week
What sport was Jocky Wilson best know for?
Tennis

Maybe the contestant had heard of Wilson racquets and thought he was someone from a bygone era.

This one was better
Football World Cup scorers
We all know a bit about football....We'll go for Gary Lineker, David Platt and Maradona - is he English?
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Old 29-11-2015, 16:22
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They didn't win Mastermind, they won Celebrity Mastermind which requires a far far lower level of quizzing ability.

To win Mastermind you have to beat dozens of the best quizzers in the country, to win Celebrity Mastermind you only have to beat three other people who are not very good at quizzing.
True, I hadn't allowed for that.

jsmith99
Johnny Ball is only 77, so not old.
Since I'm approaching his age, I'll happily settle for "middle aged". It seems he was on a children's programme in the late 70s/early 80s, which explains why I've never heard of him.

Private Eye has this week
What sport was Jocky Wilson best know for?
Tennis

Maybe the contestant had heard of Wilson racquets and thought he was someone from a bygone era.

This one was better
Football World Cup scorers
We all know a bit about football....We'll go for Gary Lineker, David Platt and Maradona - is he English?
So tennis was the wrong answer, but why was it a stupid one? Watching a quiz this week, one question was about a golf competition, and my answer was the davis cup. It turned out I was wrong.

And sorry, not everyone knows a bit about football. And I know absolutely nothing about world cup scorers. Isn't david platt a character in Corrie?
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Old 29-11-2015, 16:52
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So tennis was the wrong answer, but why was it a stupid one? Watching a quiz this week, one question was about a golf competition, and my answer was the davis cup. It turned out I was wrong.
I didn't think it was stupid for the reason I gave. (it's a funny answer if you do know who Jocky Wilson is).

And sorry, not everyone knows a bit about football. And I know absolutely nothing about world cup scorers. Isn't david platt a character in Corrie?
The point was they did claim to know about football !
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Old 29-11-2015, 17:05
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Private Eye has this week
What sport was Jocky Wilson best know for?
Tennis

Maybe the contestant had heard of Wilson racquets and thought he was someone from a bygone era.

This one was better
Football World Cup scorers
We all know a bit about football....We'll go for Gary Lineker, David Platt and Maradona - is he English?
Was the question English/England World Cup Scorers as you have not mentioned that English/England was in the question, you've only put 'Is He English?' after Maradona's name. Without knowing what the full question is how would we know that Maradona was a wrong or stupid answer?
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Old 29-11-2015, 17:17
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Was the question English/England World Cup Scorers as you have not mentioned that English/England was in the question, you've only put 'Is He English?' after Maradona's name. Without knowing what the full question is how would we know that Maradona was a wrong or stupid answer?
Sorry missed out a vital word - the subject was
Football World Cup Final Scorers
Although if someone claimed to know about football, I'd expect them to know Maradona is Argentinian.
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Old 29-11-2015, 17:38
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Sorry missed out a vital word - the subject was
Football World Cup Final Scorers
Although if someone claimed to know about football, I'd expect them to know Maradona is Argentinian.
So you're saying Argentina has never been in a World Cup Final? Or did you miss out another vital word?
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Old 29-11-2015, 22:23
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..................The point was they did claim to know about football !
I see , you mean that the whole line was a quote from a contestant? Sorry, I thought you were making a general comment.
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Old 29-11-2015, 23:13
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Sorry missed out a vital word - the subject was
Football World Cup Final Scorers
Although if someone claimed to know about football, I'd expect them to know Maradona is Argentinian.
What does Maradona being Argentine have to do with it? Was the question only english scorers? You didn't say that
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Old 29-11-2015, 23:20
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As a player who played in 2 World Cup Finals I would have said Diego Maradona was a reasonable guess for a World Cup Final goalscorer tbh
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