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To be fair, Andy Warhol did do a Marilyn work - and the contestant could just have misheard...
Im assuming the answer's Marlon Brando, but I'm certainly not aware of him doing one featuring him. Not one of his better known ones. Does Tipping point have a time limit? I'd give the benefit of the doubt more in quizzes with a time limit as if you get flusters or have a mental block you're pretty stuffed. |
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That's Billy Bigelow
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Correct. And if his child had been a boy, he would have been another Billy!
"My boy Bill, I will see that he's named after me".
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On today's Pressure Pad repeat...
Q. Who in the 60's sang Pinball Wizard? A. Shakin' Stevens. |
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On today's Pressure Pad repeat...
Q. Who in the 60's sang Pinball Wizard? A. Shakin' Stevens. |
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Not really a stupid answer, just a wild guess.
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No that is a stupid answer...
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No that is a stupid answer...
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deleted - realised my reply was stupid.
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A stupid answer would be Florence Nightingale ... or perhaps Barbra Streisand!
I agree though that if you don't know the answer then saying a popstar as a throwaway answer is better than nothing. |
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Would you care to explain why, in your opinion, it's a stupid answer rather than an incorrect one?
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Right Pinball wizard was by the Who late 60s, Shakin Stevens mediocre pop singer, early 80s.
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If you don't know your pop music, you're unlikely to be any the wiser either way, to be fair.
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I give up, if you cant tell the difference between the Who and Shakin Stevens then theres no hope (sigh).
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Why is Streisand less of a wild guess than Stevens?
I agree though that if you don't know the answer then saying a popstar as a throwaway answer is better than nothing. Of course if you didn't know the song at all, then I see your point and Streisand wouldn't be a stupid answer, though I think still an unlikely one! |
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I give up, if you cant tell the difference between the Who and Shakin Stevens then theres no hope (sigh).
What if the only version you have heard of it is by Elton John when he sang it in the film version of Tommy? But you know that Elton sang it later than the sixties. So you assume you are looking for a contemporary of Elton John. Is it still a stupid answer? Given that Shaky first starterd performing as a Rock n Roll singer in the sixties - and his first album was released in 1970 - it's not too stupid an answer. |
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Pointless last night. Apparently, Nottingham is on the River Thames!
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Right Pinball wizard was by the Who late 60s, Shakin Stevens mediocre pop singer, early 80s.
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If you don't know your pop music, you're unlikely to be any the wiser either way, to be fair.
It's rather like the number of times you hear people amazed that someone does know who won the Cup Final in 1897 when most, like me, could not tell you who played in it this year, never mind who won. |
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Pointless last night. Apparently, Nottingham is on the River Thames!
![]() Was the question "What city stands on the River Thames"? I doubt it was, because there are loads. The furthest north being Oxford. But it might have been. If, however, London, Oxford, Windsor and Reading have gone, then I think many people would be struggling. Was the question "Name the river that flows through Nottingham"? More likely. And as an added incentive was the first letter of this river also displayed ("T")? If so, and depending where the contestant who gave the answer came from, I can understand why they said Thames rather than Trent. If they came from Northern England (further north than Yorkshire), Scotland or Ireland, so to them Nottingham is a city to the south of where they come from, and the Thames is definitely a river to the south of where they came from, then if they don't know the answer is Trent then Thames is a better answer than nothing at all. Pointless doesn't allow you to pass - you must give an answer of some kind. If the question was the last one on the board, and the contestant had absolutely no idea of any of the other answers, then it is a reasonable guess. Yes, it is wrong. But it isn't stupid. But then, GoCompareThis, most of the suggestions that you make to this thread aren't really stupid - they are just answers which people got wrong but which you knew the answer to. That's not the same thing at all. You've been told about this before, but it doesn't stop you coming along with another answer which you found easy, but for whatever reason the person answering didn't. I could call you stupid for not knowing the name of the first Iron Maiden single to get in the top ten. But I won't. It's just something that I know the answer to - and I'm presuming that you don't. That doesn't make you stupid. Suggesting, however, that anybody who gets an answer wrong on a quiz programme that you would have got right, does hint that you might be stupid though... |
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Depends what the question was.
Was the question "What city stands on the River Thames"? I doubt it was, because there are loads. The furthest north being Oxford. But it might have been. If, however, London, Oxford, Windsor and Reading have gone, then I think many people would be struggling. Was the question "Name the river that flows through Nottingham"? More likely. And as an added incentive was the first letter of this river also displayed ("T")? If so, and depending where the contestant who gave the answer came from, I can understand why they said Thames rather than Trent. If they came from Northern England (further north than Yorkshire), Scotland or Ireland, so to them Nottingham is a city to the south of where they come from, and the Thames is definitely a river to the south of where they came from, then if they don't know the answer is Trent then Thames is a better answer than nothing at all. Pointless doesn't allow you to pass - you must give an answer of some kind. If the question was the last one on the board, and the contestant had absolutely no idea of any of the other answers, then it is a reasonable guess. Yes, it is wrong. But it isn't stupid. But then, GoCompareThis, most of the suggestions that you make to this thread aren't really stupid - they are just answers which people got wrong but which you knew the answer to. That's not the same thing at all. You've been told about this before, but it doesn't stop you coming along with another answer which you found easy, but for whatever reason the person answering didn't. I could call you stupid for not knowing the name of the first Iron Maiden single to get in the top ten. But I won't. It's just something that I know the answer to - and I'm presuming that you don't. That doesn't make you stupid. Suggesting, however, that anybody who gets an answer wrong on a quiz programme that you would have got right, does hint that you might be stupid though... |
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Depends what the question was.
Was the question "What city stands on the River Thames"? I doubt it was, because there are loads. The furthest north being Oxford. But it might have been. If, however, London, Oxford, Windsor and Reading have gone, then I think many people would be struggling. Was the question "Name the river that flows through Nottingham"? More likely. And as an added incentive was the first letter of this river also displayed ("T")? If so, and depending where the contestant who gave the answer came from, I can understand why they said Thames rather than Trent. If they came from Northern England (further north than Yorkshire), Scotland or Ireland, so to them Nottingham is a city to the south of where they come from, and the Thames is definitely a river to the south of where they came from, then if they don't know the answer is Trent then Thames is a better answer than nothing at all. Pointless doesn't allow you to pass - you must give an answer of some kind. If the question was the last one on the board, and the contestant had absolutely no idea of any of the other answers, then it is a reasonable guess. Yes, it is wrong. But it isn't stupid. But then, GoCompareThis, most of the suggestions that you make to this thread aren't really stupid - they are just answers which people got wrong but which you knew the answer to. That's not the same thing at all. You've been told about this before, but it doesn't stop you coming along with another answer which you found easy, but for whatever reason the person answering didn't. I could call you stupid for not knowing the name of the first Iron Maiden single to get in the top ten. But I won't. It's just something that I know the answer to - and I'm presuming that you don't. That doesn't make you stupid. Suggesting, however, that anybody who gets an answer wrong on a quiz programme that you would have got right, does hint that you might be stupid though... |
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The thing here is that it is subjective. While I would debate the merits of this answer it is about when something might be considered common knowledge (or at least wrong answers should easily be ruled out). Your Iron Maiden example is not ideal as while a successful band they are not particularly mainstream. I looked it up and know the song but probably would have needed a few guesses to get it. If instead you were asked what was the name of the Sergeant who had a Lonely Hearts Club Band in the album by The Beatles you would expect most to get it. You would also perhaps think it stupid if they said e.g. Sergeant Wilson. There is a famous Sergeant Wilson (Dad's Army) and there will certainly be people who don't know the answer but you could also argue that it is so obvious that Wilson is at least a terrible answer. This can be even more extreme. Some people would say the UK has a King rather than a Queen or that they don't know what the letters stand for in U.S.A. It is down to the individual how obvious they think the answer is, or at least how obviously wrong the given answer.
I wouldn't have guessed at Nottingham because I know Nottingham is in the East Midlands and sits on the Trent - but I wouldn't have necessarily known it was Oxford either. Would have probably guessed at Oxford depending what other answers had gone before, but wouldn't have known for sure. Don't know whether that makes me stupid in GoCompareThis's eyes or not? But as I said before, you aren't allowed to pass on Pointless. You must give an answer of some kind. So, the contestant had to guess a city - presumably a University city given that it has a famous University library. Without knowing how old or young they were, whether they were in any way academic or not, and what their geographical knowledge was like - is Nottingham that much more of a stupid answer than (say) Cambridge, Bristol, Leicester, Derby, Birmingam? All university cities, all nearer to the River Thames than (say) Manchester. If the only things that the contestant knew about Nottingham was that it was a historic university city that was nearer to London than they were, and they had an inkling that it stood on a river whose name began with the letter T, is it really that stupid an attempt? |
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Depends what the question was.
In fact it wasn't so much stupid as showing a shocking ignorance of UK geography. |
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Right Pinball wizard was by the Who late 60s, Shakin Stevens mediocre pop singer, early 80s.
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His recording and performing career began in the late 1960s, although it was not until 1980 that he saw commercial success in his native land."
So even should you know the dates of the song and your guess, how would that make your guess stupid?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakin%27_Stevens Quote:
I give up, if you cant tell the difference between the Who and Shakin Stevens then theres no hope (sigh).
Np, it's simply an incorrect answer, not a stupid one. In the same way as, if I was asked who'd won last year's grand national ... actually, I couldn't even guess at that. |
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This thread is totally losing the plot.
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This thread is totally losing the plot.
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