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Pointless, a word ending in "ant" answer, Stant, because he played for Brighton.
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If you mean contestants, I assume they went to school where people learn stuff like that.
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Funnily enough when I was at school we didnt learn about every historical thing of note that ever happened and I'm pretty sure I wasn't "taught" about JFK. I may have known who he was but I doubt I knew where he was assassinated. In fact I probably didn't know until some time in my adulthood when I developed an interest for this sort of thing.
So, indeed, it was not a stupid answer to have given. |
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I don't understand this
"My missus, Pope John Paul the second" ![]() ![]()
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Where did I say that New York was a stupid answer? I was responding to the post that suggested that younger people might not even know who JFK was, not whether they would necessarily know where he was assassinated.
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"New York" was just a wrong answer. A stupid answer would have been "Barnsley".
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That sounds a bit dubious. I wonder if during a break the old woman sneaked into Richard Osman's dressing room and took a look at the answers but remembered them in the wrong order. Then I guess she got caught by Richard but escaped with hilarious consequences? This sounds strangely familiar.
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Ah, I've not watched that one yet - what were the odds?!
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I don't understand this
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There was a question on a quiz show yesterday, might have been The Chase, where a contestant was asked which founding father of America invented the lightning rod.
(Real answer is Benjamin Franklin) The contestant answered with Emmett Brown. Emmett Brown being the scientist in the Back to the Future film series who wired up a cable to provide electricity from a lighting strike to power his time travelling car in Back to the Future 2. |
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They were asked for the first Pope to have two names, but failed to name John Paul The First and answered with John Paul The Second.
This is like asking what Loudon Wainwright III's grandfather was known as. Or father for that matter. |
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There was no such pope as John Paul The First or even John Paul I.
This is like asking what Loudon Wainwright III's grandfather was known as. Or father for that matter. |
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The first page of sites I found on a search say otherwise eg http://www.catholic.org/encyclopedia/view.php?id=9502
Anyway, this is all getting off the original point which was that giving JPII as an answer to that question didn't strictly make sense. |
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There was a question on a quiz show yesterday, might have been The Chase, where a contestant was asked which founding father of America invented the lightning rod.
(Real answer is Benjamin Franklin) The contestant answered with Emmett Brown. Emmett Brown being the scientist in the Back to the Future film series who wired up a cable to provide electricity from a lighting strike to power his time travelling car in Back to the Future 2. That's funny. Btw why did you say BttF 2 rather than the original film?Quote:
There was no such pope as John Paul The First or even John Paul I.
This is like asking what Loudon Wainwright III's grandfather was known as. Or father for that matter. |
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"New York" was just a wrong answer [for where JFK was assassinated]. A stupid answer would have been "Barnsley".
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Yes he was not known as JP1 at the time, |
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If it really takes all this amount of discussion (and searching the internet), I doubt if many of these could be deemed to be 'stupid' answers.
Besides, being in a TV studio with lights, cameras, audience etc etc all focused on you, I wouldn't criticise too many people for simply blurting out the first thing that came to mind! Would you call that stupid? I'm not sure that's very fair. |
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But that's still just a wrong place. "Bert Kwouk" would be stupid.
Bert Kwouk would have been a moronic answer. Just to help: Q. "Wayne Rooney plays for which football team": A. CORRECT - Manchester United WRONG - Liverpool STUPID - New England Patriots MORONIC - Bert Kwouk |
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To turn this JFK thing on its head - on Pointless a while ago there was a round about Historical Assassinations. One clue was "Assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas". The contestant answered "JR".
Now that qualifies as a stupid answer I think. But a very funny one
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There was a question on a quiz show yesterday, might have been The Chase, where a contestant was asked which founding father of America invented the lightning rod.
(Real answer is Benjamin Franklin) The contestant answered with Emmett Brown. Emmett Brown being the scientist in the Back to the Future film series who wired up a cable to provide electricity from a lighting strike to power his time travelling car in Back to the Future 2. |
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To turn this JFK thing on its head - on Pointless a while ago there was a round about Historical Assassinations. One clue was "Assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas". The contestant answered "JR".
Now that qualifies as a stupid answer I think. But a very funny one ![]() |
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Really? I think judging by everyone's reaction, when the woman said JR, I don't think it was set up to for JR to be said.
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There was no such pope as John Paul The First or even John Paul I.
This is like asking what Loudon Wainwright III's grandfather was known as. Or father for that matter. |
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Really? I think judging by everyone's reaction, when the woman said JR, I don't think it was set up to for JR to be said.
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Brilliant! Well I suppose if you don't know it's as good an answer as any to chuck out there, as there is a tiny bit of logic attached to it.
Of course in the "real" case Benjamin Franklin would have travelled back in time and invented the lightening rod but if you didn't know this then Emmett Brown is a better guess than a random name. |
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So why is there a Queen Elizabeth the 1st and Queen Elizabeth the 2nd ?
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