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Uruguay is in South America so they can hardly qualify for the UEFA Euro 2016.
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The clue is in "Euro".
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A newspaper headline of the time said "Pope dies again"
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Pointless Celebs today
Question was to name countries beginning with A, T, L or S. Mark Lawrenson came up with Alaska!
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So why is there a Queen Elizabeth the 1st and Queen Elizabeth the 2nd ?
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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".
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On this titles thing it seems that King James VI of Scotland was actually called King James the first when he became King of England (and other places). That is he was known as "the first" right away. So that is an unusual exception to the norm.
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When the present Queen ascended the throne and became Elizabeth 2nd, the Scots complained because Elizabeth 1st had nor been Queen of Scotland. Churchill decided the matter by decreeing that in future the sovereign would be know by the highest number.
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Interesting. Does that mean that if there is another James he will be King James VIII (8th)?
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When the present Queen ascended the throne and became Elizabeth 2nd, the Scots complained because Elizabeth 1st had nor been Queen of Scotland. Churchill decided the matter by decreeing that in future the sovereign would be know by the highest number. Quote:
Just to clarify, you're not Scottish at all are you?
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Borderline. Either a slip of the tongue or a reasonable stab at an answer by somebody who didn't watch the programme but was aware there was some sort of attempted murder plot.
If they genuinely thought the question meant the TV show Dallas then it's even more stupid. |
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Round was famous Rogers Q: scored for Cameroon in the 1994 World Cup Finals Contestant answers Roger Federer |
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Pointless
Round was famous Rogers Q: scored for Cameroon in the 1994 World Cup Finals Contestant answers Roger Federer |
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Again, not a stupid answer. Just someone who is ignorant about sport, by the sound of it!
I for instance recently learnt (from a quiz programme) that Harry Styles is from One Direction however previously to that I had heard the name and if the question was "who is the lead singer of Cold Play?" I may have answered "Harry Styles" because I knew he had something to do with pop music. That's not stupidity it's ignorance of modern pop music and it's better to have a guess with a known name than make up one. |
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Not borderline, it's stupid on multiple levels. The question was about historical assassinations, and Dallas (the TV show) is fictional. So it wasn't a reasonable stab at an answer. I don't see how JR can be a slip of the tongue for JFK either.
If they genuinely thought the question meant the TV show Dallas then it's even more stupid. |
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Again, not a stupid answer. Just someone who is ignorant about sport, by the sound of it!
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Round was famous Rogers Q: scored for Cameroon in the 1994 World Cup Finals Contestant answers Roger Federer On the face of it, it is stupid but she said she could think of only one Roger and that was Federer and just randomly picked one of them. She knew her answer was WRONG. |
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It was a stupid answer as the contestant knew it was wrong (i.e. that Federer was a tennis player rather than a footballer) but she said it anyway as he was the only Roger she could think of.
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Pointless
Round was famous Rogers Q: scored for Cameroon in the 1994 World Cup Finals Contestant answers Roger Federer |
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I have no interest in football or other sports so no idea what team Federer plays for
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Not borderline, it's stupid on multiple levels. The question was about historical assassinations, and Dallas (the TV show) is fictional. So it wasn't a reasonable stab at an answer. I don't see how JR can be a slip of the tongue for JFK either.
If they genuinely thought the question meant the TV show Dallas then it's even more stupid. |
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I don't agree with that logic. I wouldn't assume the topic of historical assassinations only refers to non-fictional people. I'd interpret historical as noteworthy, the latter including the assassinations/attempted assassinations of both JR and JFK.
Was he a character in the tv show. Come on now
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........but wasn't there an African footballer with a similar name who the contetsant could have been thinking of?
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The clue is in the Question....Lee Harvey Oswald....
Was he a character in the tv show. Come on now ![]() |
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Yes, but you're not to know that if you have no knowledge of the TV show (beyond something about a character called JR having once been shot). Nor is the name LHO going to mean anything else to you if you never learned about JFK at school...
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I have no interest in football or other sports so no idea what team Federer plays for but wasn't there an African footballer with a similar name who the contetsant could have been thinking of?
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Does the fact that someone plays tennis mean that they can't also play football?
Wasn't there a famous cricketer who also played in a professional football team? |
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