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"In which country was the Battle of Waterloo fought? Which member of the Think Tank do you want to help you?"
"Belgium." "Yes, but which member of the Think Tank do you want to help you?" "I don't need any help. The answer's Belgium. I've been there. I've seen the battlefield." "Well, which member would you like to back you up?" "None of them. I know the answer. I don't need any back up." "But you need to pick a Think Tank member." "Why?" "Because you just do. We need to eliminate one from the round." "Why?" "Because it's the rules. It's so they can't help later on in the round." "This is just daft." "CUT!" OK, that didn't actually happen on the show. Just my bit of fun.
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Lucy is quite attractive
![]() With regards to Dunkirk, i'm used to it being spelt Dunkerque, so the spelling threw me a bit and had me doubting. Think Tankers are all a bit too smiley for me and why did Bill make the girl wave goodbye to the bloke called Tristan at the end? I only joined in after 10 minutes had gone - did she fancy him? Still, the potential money is more than Pointless, which makes little sense. |
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I hadn't noticed
![]() With regards to Dunkirk, i'm used to it being spelt Dunkerque, so the spelling threw me a bit and had me doubting. Think Tankers are all a bit too smiley for me and why did Bill make the girl wave goodbye to the bloke called Tristan at the end? I only joined in after 10 minutes had gone - did she fancy him? Still, the potential money is more than Pointless, which makes little sense.
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"In which country was the Battle of Waterloo fought? Which member of the Think Tank do you want to help you?"
"Belgium." "Yes, but which member of the Think Tank do you want to help you?" "I don't need any help. The answer's Belgium. I've been there. I've seen the battlefield." "Well, which member would you like to back you up?" "None of them. I know the answer. I don't need any back up." "But you need to pick a Think Tank member." "Why?" "Because you just do. We need to eliminate one from the round." "Why?" "Because it's the rules. It's so they can't help later on in the round." "This is just daft." "CUT!" OK, that didn't actually happen on the show. Just my bit of fun. ![]() Then in the final round, it's an unseen question (for the contestant and the 'won' Tankers) which they can work as a team to answer. |
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I've watched bits and pieces of the episodes so far and it seems OK; better than The Edge.
I don't care about the Think Tankers supposedly stupid answers. |
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"In which country was the Battle of Waterloo fought? Which member of the Think Tank do you want to help you?"
"Belgium." "Yes, but which member of the Think Tank do you want to help you?" "I don't need any help. The answer's Belgium. I've been there. I've seen the battlefield." "Well, which member would you like to back you up?" "None of them. I know the answer. I don't need any back up." "But you need to pick a Think Tank member." "Why?" "Because you just do. We need to eliminate one from the round." "Why?" "Because it's the rules. It's so they can't help later on in the round." "This is just daft." "CUT!" OK, that didn't actually happen on the show. Just my bit of fun. ![]() This is exactly how I feel when watching it. |
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Also, in the rounds where they all give answers to a question, surely some of them must be "fed" wrong answers? I can't believe somebody actually genuinely thought the nickname of any football team was Quality Street or Maltesers?!
Is Toffees is such a obvious name for a football team? If it didn't actually exist it would sound like a made up multiple choice joke answer. Quality Street was a Celtic FC team in which Kenny Dalglish played, Maltesers is a more plausible nickname for a football team if a town had a malting tradition. Quote:
With regards to Dunkirk, i'm used to it being spelt Dunkerque, so the spelling threw me a bit and had me doubting.
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"In which country was the Battle of Waterloo fought? Which member of the Think Tank do you want to help you?"
"Belgium." "Yes, but which member of the Think Tank do you want to help you?" "I don't need any help. The answer's Belgium. I've been there. I've seen the battlefield." "Well, which member would you like to back you up?" "None of them. I know the answer. I don't need any back up." "But you need to pick a Think Tank member." "Why?" "Because you just do. We need to eliminate one from the round." "Why?" "Because it's the rules. It's so they can't help later on in the round." "This is just daft." "CUT!" OK, that didn't actually happen on the show. Just my bit of fun. ![]() It is like if someone was on the last question of Who Wants to be a Millionaire and refuses to use any lifelines left and just answer because of their utter confidence and then they loose the money, a large section of the audience will be cheering their misfortune for being so stubborn. |
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There are just members of the public given 500 plus questions to answer in a supposedly single sitting. I think it works best when the contestant has to find the right answer when only a single person gave it rather than just choose the most commonly given answer every time.
Be better I think if the contestant had to "bet" on which of the Think Tank they reckoned would get a question right - based on their background interests, profile etc. (Which I think was kind of the idea of Judgemental a few years back.) But what do I know
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There are just members of the public given 500 plus questions to answer in a supposedly single sitting. I think it works best when the contestant has to find the right answer when only a single person gave it rather than just choose the most commonly given answer every time. A bunch of Eggheads would ruin the show in my opinion..
To me the whole idea of the Think Tank doesn't make sense. They're supposed to be there to help the players, but they don't seem to have any special quizzing ability. When I watched it yesterday, I'd missed the start, so I didn't know who these Think Tank people were. After watching it for a while I just assumed that they were future contestants who did maybe half a dozen shows on the Think Tank before they competed for the money, a bit like the Usual Suspects on Perfection. So there would be a sort of rolling Think Tank with one player leaving it and another joining every day. I'm not saying that would be any better, but at least it would make sense. Then I discovered that the Think Tankers are permanent and don't compete for the money at all. So I thought, "Well, what's the point of them?" Apart from the lady in the top left corner, who was pretty good, none of them seemed any great shakes at quizzing. It seems they're people who applied to be on the show as contestants, and the producers, for whatever reason, have decided they'd be good telly. |
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It strikes me that in the head to head, if you know the answer, you should actually pick the best Think Tanker left to help you, given that you have to pick one.
In the example above, if I went first and got the Waterloo question as my first question, I'd pick the woman in the top left corner to help me. Why? Not because I need any help with the question, I know the answer's Belgium. But by picking her, I knock her out of the round. So my opponent's now one behind and can't use the best quizzer to help them on their first question if they don't know it. |
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A bunch of Eggheads instead of the Think Tank might well ruin the show. But it's not much of a show to start with.
To me the whole idea of the Think Tank doesn't make sense. They're supposed to be there to help the players, but they don't seem to have any special quizzing ability. When I watched it yesterday, I'd missed the start, so I didn't know who these Think Tank people were. After watching it for a while I just assumed that they were future contestants who did maybe half a dozen shows on the Think Tank before they competed for the money, a bit like the Usual Suspects on Perfection. So there would be a sort of rolling Think Tank with one player leaving it and another joining every day. I'm not saying that would be any better, but at least it would make sense. Then I discovered that the Think Tankers are permanent and don't compete for the money at all. So I thought, "Well, what's the point of them?" Apart from the lady in the top left corner, who was pretty good, none of them seemed any great shakes at quizzing. It seems they're people who applied to be on the show as contestants, and the producers, for whatever reason, have decided they'd be good telly. |
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Less than stellar performance today in the head to head round today by the Think Tankers. The head to head round's about the only bit of this that's worth watching, just because it's so farcical.
For a start, most of the Think Tank are no help with the questions. I think two out of eight of them knew the answer to their question (not surprisingly, top left woman was one of them). It got even funnier when the contestant knew the answer and the Think Tanker didn't, like this comical exchange: Bill: Jay McGuiness, who won Strictly Come Dancing this year, was a member of which boyband? Who are you going to pick to help you? Contestant: I'll pick Abi. Abi: Oh, I know this, it's on the tip of my tongue, one of their singles was called Lightning, I know this.. Contestant: It's The Wanted. I knew it was The Wanted. One of them thought St Patrick's day was in April. The contestant correctly said March. The we got to the so-called Impossible Question - Which member of the Blackadder cast was knighted in 2013? Tony Robinson. I knew that, the contestant knew that, but none of the eight members of the Think Tank did. Most of them put Rowan Atkinson. It's not much of a concept when most of the time it seems the contestants who are on the show seem to have better general knowledge than the people that are supposedly there to help them. |
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It strikes me that in the head to head, if you know the answer, you should actually pick the best Think Tanker left to help you, given that you have to pick one.
In the example above, if I went first and got the Waterloo question as my first question, I'd pick the woman in the top left corner to help me. Why? Not because I need any help with the question, I know the answer's Belgium. But by picking her, I knock her out of the round. So my opponent's now one behind and can't use the best quizzer to help them on their first question if they don't know it. If your opponent gets a question on boy bands they probably wouldn't choose an old lady to answer it. If you then get a question on history you still have her in to help you. Given that they're generally thicker than the contestants I don't think it would be worth knocking them out. |
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Im just watching this show because of the attractive woman I think Abi is gorgeous and has a great personality also Anisha has a great rack and seems nice and friendly
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Im just watching this show because of the attractive woman I think Abi is gorgeous and has a great personality also Ainsha has a great rack and seems nice and friendly
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Oh well, that's the main thing for a quiz show
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You're also punishing yourself though.
If your opponent gets a question on boy bands they probably wouldn't choose an old lady to answer it. If you then get a question on history you still have her in to help you. Given that they're generally thicker than the contestants I don't think it would be worth knocking them out. Consider an extreme example. The game is tied at three points each. There are two Think Tankers left, one top quizzer and one clueless. You are asked the question, and you know the answer. Which one should you pick to help you? Clearly you should choose the top quizzer. That knocks them out of the game and your opponent is left with the clueless one who will probably be no help to them. Remember if you go first and you know the answer, you will by definition be in front. Therefore, as the leader, you should want the Think Tank to be as little help as possible. Look at this this way: a lead is more valuable the more difficult the questions are. Knocking out the best quizzer makes the remaining questions more difficult. Therefore you should knock out the best quizzer. Suppose there was a top quizzer on the Think Tank that knew the answer to nearly every question. If you go first, you must choose them on the first question, even if you know the answer. Otherwise you are probably just gifting your opponent the next point. |
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Are any of the Think Tank actually any good, though? That supposed genius bloke (glasses, bow tie etc.) reckoned he'd studied the works of Skakespeare for three years, but still managed to forget one of the three plays that feature two named individual characters in their title, thus misleading the contestant into giving the wrong answer.
I think I'll watch today's show to see if it has improved (and for a laugh). |
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Are any of the Think Tank actually any good, though? That supposed genius bloke (glasses, bow tie etc.) reckoned he'd studied the works of Skakespeare for three years, but still managed to forget one of the three plays that feature two named individual characters in their title, thus misleading the contestant into giving the wrong answer.
I think I'll watch today's show to see if it has improved (and for a laugh). Cleve is the one that's supposed to be good on music, (or at least he seems to be the one they ask for help if it's a music question), yet in the last two days in the head to head, he didn't know that 1989 was an album by Taylor Swift, who's one of the biggest stars on the planet at the moment, and the day before, he didn't know that Jacqueline du Pre was a cellist. |
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Well, that's Antony and Cleopatra, Troilus and Cressida, and Romeo and Juliet. I remembered them fairly easily and I'm no Shakespeare expert, but I know the names of the plays. It's fairly standard quiz stuff. Any decent quizzer should be able to name most of them. I think there's about 38. Give me a pen and paper and I'd get most of them in ten minutes. I'd probably miss a few of the more obscure ones.
Cleve is the one that's supposed to be good on music, (or at least he seems to be the one they ask for help if it's a music question), yet in the last two days in the head to head, he didn't know that 1989 was an album by Taylor Swift, who's one of the biggest stars on the planet at the moment, and the day before, he didn't know that Jacqueline du Pre was a cellist. |
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Somebody today (and most of the Think Tank!) thought Eddie Murphy played eight roles in Kind Hearts and Coronets...
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Somebody today (and most of the Think Tank!) thought Eddie Murphy played eight roles in Kind Hearts and Coronets...
![]() I can understand they may not have seen that wonderful old film, but not remembering that the family members Murphy did play was the Klumps baffled me a bit. |
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The Impossible Question - Sri Lanka didn't exist until 1972 - correct answer should have been Ceylon.
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The Impossible Question - Sri Lanka didn't exist until 1972 - correct answer should have been Ceylon.
If he'd said Sri Lanka it would be a bit harsh to disallow it - it's the same country, just a different name. |
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