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Old 23-09-2016, 07:03
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On Pointless today.


Q. "Name one of the greatest guitarists of all time ? "

A. " Lenny Hendrix ? "










( thanks to a local dj for that one. )
Is that really a stupid answer? They've just got 2 names mixed up.
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Old 23-09-2016, 09:50
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I saw recently, might have been The Chase, but can't guarantee... 'spurs is the nickname of which football team?'

'West Ham'
Wrong and stupid as Spurs and West Ham are such well known clubs
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Old 23-09-2016, 10:06
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Wrong and stupid as Spurs and West Ham are such well known clubs
Only well known to football fans perhaps!
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Old 23-09-2016, 10:43
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Is that really a stupid answer? They've just got 2 names mixed up.
Yeah I think so, shows how peoples minds work under pressure and it made me laugh. Perhaps it might inspire Sir Lenworth to do that as an character if he ever revived his impersonating acts in showbiz again.

Bit of a humour bypass there mate, it doesnt go down well even in an institution like DS
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Old 23-09-2016, 11:05
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Only well known to football fans perhaps!
There is always a presumption on popular quizzes that everyone is knowledgeable of football and failure to understand that many have no interest.
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Old 23-09-2016, 11:41
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There is always a presumption on popular quizzes that everyone is knowledgeable of football and failure to understand that many have no interest.
If a general knowledge quiz show ruled out using questions on subjects that many people have no interest in, I'm not sure their would be many subjects left to use.

The 'failure' here was on the part of the FM who seems to assume that everyone knows the nicknames of West Ham and Tottenham Hotspur football clubs.
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Old 23-09-2016, 13:08
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If a general knowledge quiz show ruled out using questions on subjects that many people have no interest in, I'm not sure their would be many subjects left to use.

The 'failure' here was on the part of the FM who seems to assume that everyone knows the nicknames of West Ham and Tottenham Hotspur football clubs.
One would hope that a contestant on a quiz show would have at least some general knowledge to play with. Whilst many may not know that Norwich are known as The Canaries, or Derby The Rams for example, the fact that "spur" is part of Hotspur should be some sort of clue.

In fact from this list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...United_Kingdom they're all pretty random except for Hammers and Spurs.
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Old 28-12-2016, 20:02
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Tonight's University Challenge: Paxo: Give me the name of the Republic whose territory lies within the red outline (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...entered%29.svg)

St Hilda's: Uzbekistan? Paxo: Good heavens, no!

St. Anne's: France? Paxo:No, it's Kiribati!
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Old 28-12-2016, 21:14
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Tonight's University Challenge: Paxo: Give me the name of the Republic whose territory lies within the red outline (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...entered%29.svg)

St Hilda's: Uzbekistan? Paxo: Good heavens, no!

St. Anne's: France? Paxo:No, it's Kiribati!
How I saw it was that St. Hilda's (Geras) buzzed in accidentally with no idea so Uzbekistan was a deliberate nonsense answer.

France was not a stupid answer is it is a republic which had many overseas territories in the Pacific. It may have only been a slight mishearing of the question to assume that the question related to a former colonial power, though in this case it was the UK rather than France. (But I had to Google to check.)
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Old 28-12-2016, 21:16
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Tonight's University Challenge: Paxo: Give me the name of the Republic whose territory lies within the red outline (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...entered%29.svg)

St Hilda's: Uzbekistan? Paxo: Good heavens, no!

St. Anne's: France? Paxo:No, it's Kiribati!
Must have a look at the recording to see how she could have come up with Uzbekistan, see if any any other red lines. I could understand France with the various bits of French territory in the Pacific.
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Old 28-12-2016, 22:18
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Pointless today

Alphabetically, a USA president beteen Bush and Reagan.

Answer. James Callaghan .
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Old 28-12-2016, 23:54
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On Family Fortunes (back in the late 80s or 90s) they had

Name a tall bird?

Naomi Campbell.
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Old 29-12-2016, 07:59
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Tonight's University Challenge: Paxo: Give me the name of the Republic whose territory lies within the red outline (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...entered%29.svg)

St Hilda's: Uzbekistan? Paxo: Good heavens, no!

St. Anne's: France? Paxo:No, it's Kiribati!
My first guess was France as well as it looks like French Polynesia which is part of the French territories (and the wording of the question was like a trap)

but UZBEKISTAN?

Sorry Adele
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Old 29-12-2016, 09:23
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My first guess was France as well as it looks like French Polynesia which is part of the French territories (and the wording of the question was like a trap)

but UZBEKISTAN?

Sorry Adele
I went back and looked at the recording, the map only shows the Pacific so even more puzzled by the Uzbekistan answer. Would love to see or hear her explanation!
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Old 29-12-2016, 09:40
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I went back and looked at the recording, the map only shows the Pacific so even more puzzled by the Uzbekistan answer. Would love to see or hear her explanation!
Perhaps the contestant was colour blind and transposed the land/water areas in her mind? She had got a number of difficult questions correct before that so she was no dummy..
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Old 29-12-2016, 13:39
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Perhaps the contestant was colour blind and transposed the land/water areas in her mind? She had got a number of difficult questions correct before that so she was no dummy..
That's why I would love to get an explanation, I can't see any obvious reason looking back at the map.

Must see if anyone has Tweeted her!
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Old 29-12-2016, 13:48
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Recently on Tipping Point:

"In the musical, there were Seven Brides for how many Brothers?"

Contestant: "Pass"

Even if they'd never heard of it you'd think "seven" would have been a reasonable guess.
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Old 29-12-2016, 15:05
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Q: According to Christianity, who was said to have been crucified at Calvary?
A: Joan of Arc.
Another gem from Tipping Point.
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Old 29-12-2016, 15:21
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Tonight's University Challenge: Paxo: Give me the name of the Republic whose territory lies within the red outline (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...entered%29.svg)

St Hilda's: Uzbekistan? Paxo: Good heavens, no!

St. Anne's: France? Paxo:No, it's Kiribati!
A Lot of quiz show contestants geography knowledge is poor, such as the woman on Pointless who thought The Netherlands was the largest country in Europe. You'd think they'd brush up on subjects which are common before making their appearance.
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Old 29-12-2016, 16:35
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On Family Fortunes (back in the late 80s or 90s) they had



My memory of the Naomi Campbell question was that it was "Name a bird with a long neck?"
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Old 29-12-2016, 17:28
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Some dumb woman on University Challenge a couple of nights ago thought St Paul's Cathedral had been destroyed by German bombs in the 1940s.
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Old 29-12-2016, 17:37
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Recently on Tipping Point:

"In the musical, there were Seven Brides for how many Brothers?"

Contestant: "Pass"

Even if they'd never heard of it you'd think "seven" would have been a reasonable guess.
"93" would have been a better answer than "Pass".
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Old 29-12-2016, 18:06
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Some dumb woman on University Challenge a couple of nights ago thought St Paul's Cathedral had been destroyed by German bombs in the 1940s.
Well it wasn't destroyed but did suffer a couple of hits.
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Old 29-12-2016, 18:07
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Not strictly a quiz I suppose, but flicking round the
channels today I caught five minutes of so called
'Celebrity Catchphrase' and I have to say that David
Haye, Andrea McLean and Louis Walsh, have to be
the three thickest/dumbest/most useless 'celebs' I
have ever seen taking part in any of these things!
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Old 29-12-2016, 18:32
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Some dumb woman on University Challenge a couple of nights ago thought St Paul's Cathedral had been destroyed by German bombs in the 1940s.
Perhaps she used to listen to William Joyce!
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