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Old 03-01-2017, 17:22
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She's in the police? So that's hat hair from those big helmets?
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Old 03-01-2017, 17:23
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She wants to learn to ride a motorbike. Looks like she arrived on one!
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Old 03-01-2017, 17:24
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But he didn't make it to the next round whereas the contestant who only earned £2k in the cash builder did get back. I'm not sure what that proves though..
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Old 03-01-2017, 17:25
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I like her X-ray shirt. If the Tory cuts to NHS continue we'll all be getting one of them.
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Old 03-01-2017, 17:26
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But he didn't make it to the next round whereas the contestant who only earned £2k in the cash builder did get back. I'm not sure what that proves though..
You are quite right Lizzie but all I was saying is give peace a chance. Or if he's the brain of Britain he can't be thick.
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Old 03-01-2017, 17:27
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She's doing well. Meanwhile backstage the 'Brain of Britain' is probably trying to work out how to open the toilet cubicle door.
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Old 03-01-2017, 17:28
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Certainly. I'd question whether those questions were selected specifically for that head to head.
They often do that to the very bright ones. And then on Celebrity Chase they often give them questions on their own subject area!


Claire's doing well...!
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Old 03-01-2017, 17:29
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Yes. I deleted that bit but you were too quick for me!
(I nipped to the kitchen to make a cup of coffee and Mark demolished her while my back was turned).
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Old 03-01-2017, 17:30
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They often do that to the very bright ones. And then on Celebrity Chase they often give them questions on their own subject area!


Claire's doing well...!
VERY well. I take it back about her hair. It's obviously to keep her brain warm.
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Old 03-01-2017, 17:33
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VERY well. I take it back about her hair. It's obviously to keep her brain warm.
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Old 03-01-2017, 17:36
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Bit unfortunate how the Gala Bingo adverts portray Jenny and Shaun as jovial, energetic comedy characters, whereas the show's been spending ages trying to portray any Chaser as an intimidating figure of quizzing doom. (Shaun in particular having been Mr Grumpy for 8 years now),

An odd choice for the advertising campaign...
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Old 03-01-2017, 17:51
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Claire a bit unlucky there because cricket does use television umpires!
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Old 03-01-2017, 17:54
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Awww. I so wanted them to win.

P.S. I've voted for The Chase on Nationaltvawards.com. Have you?
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Old 03-01-2017, 17:55
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That was close, a valiant effort by the 2 girls.
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Old 03-01-2017, 17:56
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Awww. I so wanted them to win.
Good game tho.
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Old 03-01-2017, 18:28
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She's in the police? So that's hat hair from those big helmets?
I think she's slightly balding. Clair Balding.
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Old 03-01-2017, 20:31
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Was Nigel actually Brain of Britain?

Also, anyone else seen the new break bumpers? They're a bit corny but I don't mind them. At least they're getting the Chasers involved in them for once.
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Old 03-01-2017, 21:03
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Was Nigel actually Brain of Britain?

Also, anyone else seen the new break bumpers? They're a bit corny but I don't mind them. At least they're getting the Chasers involved in them for once.
Yes. Nigel Jones won Brain of Britain in 2015. 5 Eggheads have been previous winners, but no Chasers strangely enough
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Old 03-01-2017, 21:04
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Aha - so it's not the contestants getting thicker, it's the questions getting harder!
Yeah, but they do also have different types of questions that vary in difficulty, I remember reading that somewhere, but not sure where. It's to make it manageable for the players, but I can sort of see it, when they ask easy questions that some people online get quite angry about being given to the chaser and such, whereas there are obviously longer and harder ones. I personally, have always taken the view that as the show goes along, I would imagine the qs become more obscure, but then again I've heard the same question in more than one show before. :]
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Old 03-01-2017, 21:05
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Yeah, but they do also have different types of questions that vary in difficulty, I remember reading that somewhere, but not sure where. It's to make it manageable for the players, but I can sort of see it, when they ask easy questions that some people online get quite angry about being given to the chaser and such, whereas there are obviously longer and harder ones. I personally, have always taken the view that as the show goes along, I would imagine the qs become more obscure, but then again I've heard the same question in more than one show before. :]
Brian of Britain would have done better than him.
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Old 03-01-2017, 21:08
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It was hard for Brian, you sense that the producers put in the current media questions in purposely to try and trip him up.
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Old 03-01-2017, 21:14
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It was hard for Brian, you sense that the producers put in the current media questions in purposely to try and trip him up.
They have an adjudicator called Beyond Dispute so I'm pretty sure the questions will be random. They wouldn't be allowed to simply put questions in to deliberately try to get rid of a player
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Old 04-01-2017, 00:42
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It was hard for Brian, you sense that the producers put in the current media questions in purposely to try and trip him up.
What would be their motivation for doing that? To save money? He was only playing for £9K and if they didn't want him in the final round they could have just refused his application altogether. Or to increase the tension? Well personally I would have liked to see the Brain Of Britain versus Mark Labbett in the Final Chase - that would have been good viewing.

As for 'current' media questions - the movie question was from 2003. And he correctly answered a 2004 pop music question in his cashbuilder, so he can't be too bad at pop culture. I didn't have a clue on the Mura/YouTube question either, but cat was the obvious answer for anyone who's ever used the internet. It's possible he thought it was too obvious, but he didn't seem to have any reasoning for choosing parrot.
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Old 04-01-2017, 01:11
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They have an adjudicator called Beyond Dispute so I'm pretty sure the questions will be random. They wouldn't be allowed to simply put questions in to deliberately try to get rid of a player
To make that claim you'd have to know what the adjudicator does. Would it be a requirement that all questions have to be random or simply that all question have to be unseen previously by the contestant and chaser?

I'm always a bit suspicious at how frequently Chaser's specialist subjects crop up. Shaun will nearly always get a football question and law/legal terminology, Anne's shows feature a lot of questions about literature, Paul's shows always have a few about different parts of the body and Mark gets a lot of mathematics questions.

Having an adjudicator might mean nothing more than ensuring the Qs are unseen by the chaser and contestant and to rule over disputed answers and if any timing issue occur e.g if an answer was before or after the buzzer.
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Old 04-01-2017, 08:16
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Awww. I so wanted them to win.

P.S. I've voted for The Chase on Nationaltvawards.com. Have you?
Yes!

Thought Claire was very good yesterday - and the guy from Brain of Britain was "unlucky" to get 3 pop-culture questions - you could tell he was on much firmer ground with all the others.
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