Of course.

No, that one really does fulfill all of the qualifications of the thread title

I can't see how anyone can argue with this one, regardless of time pressure.

Good job!

Oh wait. Celtic supporters are sometimes called Tims and the team has an Irish connection. Irish Buck is a drink. U2 are an Irish band. So that is Tim-Buck-2.

Also the Irish don't take sh*t so are not incontinent, hence continent.

Oh well nice try.

One today on that Fern Britton antiques based game show. Shakespeare (due to the old county name of where he was from) was known as, The Bard of?"
Answer - "Bard of Yorkshire"

The Chase just now:

Q. "What letter would indicate a cold tap in Berlin?"

A. "Green"

Maybe they were thinking of Tipperary

Is Ireland a continent.?

It's a long way from Timbuktu.

To be fair it's an odd question. The Chase don't tend to do trick questions, but if I was asked that, with them specifying Berlin, I'd assume it was something different from the usual blue... I guess the answer was blue and that's why it was "stupid"?

Think you need to carefully re-read the question.

Well, excuse me. I'm the stupid one

In any case, it's what you call a mishearing, which is easy enough under time pressure...

(And even though I speak German, I still might not get it )

Sorry, wasn't intended to be an insult.

Yes, a mishearing was my first thought.

I thought Avon was a river, not a county! There was once a county of Avon, but that didnt exist until 1974 and was nowhere near Stratford.

Possibly because the full name of the town in which he was born, and is buried, is Stratford-upon-Avon?

Did the question actually say "county", rather than, say," town".

Not just "a river" . There are many different Avons, which is hardly surprising since it just means "river" (Welsh afon).

Wikipedia lists around 17: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Avon

Probably not, unless the question deviser was very ill-informed!

On a Pointless repeat yesterday, the round was "Famous Williams"
Q: Playwrite who wrote Hamlet
A: William Tell

One from Family Feud the other day (well, 2013, but on Challenge the other day):
Name something you do while driving that starts with S...
after repeating the first player's answer, the second player went with 'Sleep'. Asleep at the wheel much?

Yesterdays Tipping Point. Where the female contestant's question what was the Cold War border post between East and West Berlin.

She answered Checkpoint Ally . Close but no cigar.

Tipping Point today:

Who was the biblical figure that was crucified at Calvary?

Joan of Arc!

There was one on Tipping Point a while back, I can't remember the exact question but it was something like which African country such and such. The answer given was Europe!

while driving to the midlands some years ago, my friends and i were listening to a radio quiz by a well-known dj of the area. he asked the following;

DJ what was hitler's first name

CONTESTANT (after much deliberation) she replied - was it ''herr''

we had to pull over for fear of crashing

I recall that also on Radio Merseyside's 'Hold Your Plums' quiz on the 80s/90s. There are some real classics on there. They did do tapes, Cds and a video over the years.

Didn't hear full question but Tipping point just now:


'In [YEAR], [NAME] was named president of which European country?'

A: Africa!

No words

😅😅😅

I thought everyone knew it was Heil