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Frankly it's been "Answers which are stupid because I knew them and the contestant didn't" for about the last 20 pages...
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A stupid question is something like 'Which team won the English premier league this season?' Answer 'sausage' is STUPID, the answer of 'Real Madrid' could count as stupid because obviously they are not ENGLISH, But then plenty of foreign teams appear in sporting tournaments they shouldn't. Like Israel in the EUROPEAN qualifiers for tournaments
So Real Madrid is stupid but not totally ridiculous, But on here people would go crazy if someone said 'Leeds utd' Because they aren't even in the premier league (Not something the average non footy fan would know), And that is where the thread is going wrong in my opinion |
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A stupid question is something like 'Which team won the English premier league this season?' Answer 'sausage' is STUPID, the answer of 'Real Madrid' could count as stupid because obviously they are not ENGLISH, But then plenty of foreign teams appear in sporting tournaments they shouldn't. Like Israel in the EUROPEAN qualifiers for tournaments
So Real Madrid is stupid but not totally ridiculous, But on here people would go crazy if someone said 'Leeds utd' Because they aren't even in the premier league (Not something the average non footy fan would know), And that is where the thread is going wrong in my opinion Then there is the level of knowledge about the subject that you point out. Is Leeds a stupid answer? If you don't follow football then it could be regarded as a half decent guess. Here's something I would class as being stupid. Ed Milliband was giving a pre-election speech somewhere (might have been Norwich). A reporter asked a couple of girls (late teens/early twenties) if they knew who he was? They said they didn't. The reporter then informed them that he was campaigning to be the Prime Minister. Their reply "What? The Prime Minister of Norwich?" Not a quiz question but I just thought I'd post about it
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How's this for a daft question from a TV interviewer.
I was doing a show on Granada and got asked about a new book. I told them I had been receiving sightings of UFOs made by members of the public to a scientist that I knew at Jodrell Bank. Why would anyone report a UFO to a bank? was the mystified response from the Granada TV reporter. |
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How's this for a daft question from a TV interviewer.
I was doing a show on Granada and got asked about a new book. I told them I had been receiving sightings of UFOs made by members of the public to a scientist that I knew at Jodrell Bank. Why would anyone report a UFO to a bank? was the mystified response from the Granada TV reporter.
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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... Quote:
The question was a list of clues to towns on the Thames. The person giving the Nottingham answer thought that the Bodleian Library and another well known landmark that I've forgotten were in Nottingham, so it was a rather stupid answer in that the landmarks mentioned were not in Nottingham and neither is Nottingham anywhere near the Thames.
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Yes I would agree here. But I think Sgt Peppers being a Beatles album is probably more widespread knowledge than the Bodleiean Library being in Oxford. I only went to Oxford for the first time last year - I might have struggled to have got that answer right prior to me visiting Oxford.
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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Blimey, and that was from a reporter?! Don't suppose you can name names, can you?
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How's this for a daft question from a TV interviewer.
I was doing a show on Granada and got asked about a new book. I told them I had been receiving sightings of UFOs made by members of the public to a scientist that I knew at Jodrell Bank. Why would anyone report a UFO to a bank? was the mystified response from the Granada TV reporter. "Where are you going to look?" asked Humphreys. "All we know is it was buried in a pauper's grave near London". "Why on earth would anybody bury a porpoise?", was Humphrey's perplexed reply.
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A stupid question is something like 'Which team won the English premier league this season?' Answer 'sausage' is STUPID, the answer of 'Real Madrid' could count as stupid because obviously they are not ENGLISH, But then plenty of foreign teams appear in sporting tournaments they shouldn't. Like Israel in the EUROPEAN qualifiers for tournaments
So Real Madrid is stupid but not totally ridiculous, But on here people would go crazy if someone said 'Leeds utd' Because they aren't even in the premier league (Not something the average non footy fan would know), And that is where the thread is going wrong in my opinion |
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If you didn't see the programme, why are you writing a novel to make a pointless guess as to why Nottingham might or might not be a stupid answer?
In fact it wasn't so much stupid as showing a shocking ignorance of UK geography. |
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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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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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That would be a trick question, as it isn't played until next week.
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People who choose HIstory as a question category, and then to every question say :
"This was before my time". |
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People who choose HIstory as a question category, and then to every question say :
"This was before my time". |
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That would be a trick question, as it isn't played until next week.
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As I wrote I have no idea when it was played or who played.
Assuming this to be the FA Cup Final, of course, as the League, or Capital One, Cup Final has been played, but conventionally when the words "Cup Final" are used on their own they refer to the former. |
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That could be construed as a sexist answer.
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That would be a trick question, as it isn't played until next week.
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That could be construed as a sexist answer.
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Eh? How?
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Tipping Point just now:
Q: "Which European capital city hosted the 2004 Olympic games?" A: "Beijing" |
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Sorry if that was too subtle for you. The women's FA Cup Final was being played the following day. My comment was, in fact, a joke.
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Fifteen to One today.
Contestant asked the name of the ship on display on the Thames named after the city here it was built.....HMS.... Answer : Sheffield Correct answer is Belfast. Have fun trying to work out how they would build a warship at a landlocked City a very long way from the sea - tow it down the M 62 perhaps? |
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Fifteen to One today.
Contestant asked the name of the ship on display on the Thames named after the city here it was built.....HMS.... Answer : Sheffield Correct answer is Belfast. Have fun trying to work out how they would build a warship at a landlocked City a very long way from the sea - tow it down the M 62 perhaps? |
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There was a HMS Sheffield. It was sunk during the Falklands War. A ship doesn't always have to be built in the city it is named after .
As in building a ship in Sheffield has one or two drawbacks if you look at any map. |
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