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L-I-M-E-R-I-C-K
https://youtu.be/BYsgWhTjHRw?t=8m49s Here's one (I think on Pointless): Famous Russians 17-year-old 2004 Wimbledon champion Martina Navratilova ![]() There's also been some good ones on Two Tribes but can't remember them now. Mostly Geography related. |
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A couple more from The Weakest Link
Anne - The ecclesiastical detective who featured in stories by G K Chesterton was known as Father....? Contestant - Ted? Anne - Which London club was the start and finishing point of the journey in Jules Verne's novel Around The World in Eighty Days? Contestant - (after a pause to think)....Ronnie Scott's? Anne - The American author of The Secret History and The Little Friend is Donna Tartt or Kebab? Contestant - Kebab |
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Only saw this once and i may have got the names wrong but it was on 3-2-1
Ted Rogers asked "Who's the composer of Handels Water Music" The contestant answered "Chopin?" "No that's not right we'll have to pass it over" The next contestant answered "Beethoven?" |
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And a corker from University Challenge
What is the population density of the UK in persons per square kilometres? Three and a half |
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After she gave that JR answer her partner then said the French revolutionary stabbed in the bath was Joan Of Arc.
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Well, not knowing the area of the UK in square kilometres I couldn't hazard a guess. So what was the correct answer? The answer given sounds a bit low - but why a "corker"?
According to Wiki, the UK population density is 262km² Canada is roughly three and a half per km² |
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Someone on Decimate was asked what an angle between 90° and 180° is called.
Options were acute, obtuse or reflex. The person didn't know so he passed it back and the other players said reflex. How can you not know simple maths stuff from SCHOOL!? |
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L-I-M-E-R-I-C-K
https://youtu.be/BYsgWhTjHRw?t=8m49s Here's one (I think on Pointless): Famous Russians 17-year-old 2004 Wimbledon champion Martina Navratilova ![]() There's also been some good ones on Two Tribes but can't remember them now. Mostly Geography related. ![]()
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What kind of animal doesn't change its spots? Zebra
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going on but some of the guesses and then the reactions from the others were great.
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Someone on Decimate was asked what an angle between 90° and 180° is called.
Options were acute, obtuse or reflex. The person didn't know so he passed it back and the other players said reflex. How can you not know simple maths stuff from SCHOOL!? It's just a question of forgetting. Hell I'd forgotten what a reflex angle was until just now. It's not something I use in everyday life. |
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Although it wasn't an answer by a contestant playing the game, it was one of the usual suspects on Perfection who was asked to give her opinion on the contestant's 4 true/false questions & answers. One of the questions was as follows:
Q. A polar bear's main source of nutrition is penguins. Contestant's answer - False Usual suspect (imagine a very broad welsh accent): "Now I'm pretty sure that polar bears do like a bit of penguin in their diet, so I think that one's wrong". Some people say owt but their prayers on that show. |
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Who Wants to be a Millionaire.
Where there's muck there's a) brass b) tin c) copper d) zinc Contestant 'Tin' I mentioned this on another thread a few weeks ago, and amazingly one or two posters thought this question was difficult. It was for £1,000 and the contestant had already used all her lifelines, so went home with nothing. |
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Someone on Decimate was asked what an angle between 90° and 180° is called.
Options were acute, obtuse or reflex. The person didn't know so he passed it back and the other players said reflex. How can you not know simple maths stuff from SCHOOL!? Quote:
How is this a stupid answer?
It's just a question of forgetting. Hell I'd forgotten what a reflex angle was until just now. It's not something I use in everyday life. |
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But the frightening thing was that one of the contestants was a teacher. I think he was the one that supplied the answer. I fear for today's kids.
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Re. the 'obtuse' answer on decimate. I don't think the fella who got it wrong said he was a teacher but he did claim to have a degree in Maths.
I thought it was surprising that he didn't know what an obtuse angle was and astonishing for someone claiming to have a degree in Maths not to know it so I tried the question out on my 9 year old niece exactly as it had been asked on the show and she knew the answer. And she was 9 mind ! |
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ANNE ROBINSON: In science, of what is lobotomy the study?
CONTESTANT: Bottoms. |
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OFFS! That is just painful!Does she have to remember to breath? |
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Why? Was he a maths teacher? If not, how does that make you fear for today's kids?
However I may have confused him with someone else, seeing as another poster said he claimed to have a Maths degree. Even worse! |
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ANNE ROBINSON: In science, of what is lobotomy the study?
CONTESTANT: Bottoms. |
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It isn't the study of anything! It's the removal of something.
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Re. the 'obtuse' answer on decimate. I don't think the fella who got it wrong said he was a teacher but he did claim to have a degree in Maths.
I thought it was surprising that he didn't know what an obtuse angle was and astonishing for someone claiming to have a degree in Maths not to know it so I tried the question out on my 9 year old niece exactly as it had been asked on the show and she knew the answer. And she was 9 mind ! |
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It isn't the study of anything! It's the removal of something.
Bottoms |
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Don't forget the Nick Brown moment. It was some MPs question and it was a right answer AND Pointless. They then went on to win £12,500
![]() Best one I've seen lately was on the Chase. Bradley: "Xenon and what other element contain the letter 'X'?" Contestant: "Xylophone" |
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I remember when Richard & Judy used to do that phone-in quiz, one contestant was asked "What three things did the Wise Men bring as gifts for Jesus?" to which the viewer replied "Gold, Silver and Bronze"
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