Quote: a plate @ 25th February 2024, 1:26 PM

On the subject of peculiar quiz show answers, there was an episode of Tipping Point once where the question was "who was the Labour deputy leader who wrote a book called how I lost weight and reversed my diabetes". The contestant answered "Agatha Christie".

The correct answer as Tom Watson - fair enough if people don't know that, but it's probably best to at least guess a f**ken politician, or even just say "I don't know"!

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Now that's pure stupidity for you. I know the lights, the pressure, the stress yada yada etc, but seriously! One of my former colleagues in the civil service's son was on Tipping Point once, even my mum said that he was shite. His father was an overpromoted G7 and IMHO a bit of a twat. Me - bitter, much? I was two grades his senior.

Well of course everyone is over-promoted. When you do a good job in a lower grade, you get promoted. Eventually you reach a grade you can't cope with. And there you stay - in a job you're no good at. Meaning every employee in the world is one grade higher than they should be.

I went on 15 to 1 and answered more questions correctly than anyone else but was still knocked out. The format was flawed.

Quote: MrsLogicFromViz @ 25th February 2024, 6:26 PM

Now that's pure stupidity for you. I know the lights, the pressure, the stress

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I can't answer a straightforward question if even a tiny bit of pressure is on me, but that's precisely why I would never go on a TV quiz show.

Quote: zooo @ 26th February 2024, 10:32 AM

I can't answer a straightforward question if even a tiny bit of pressure is on me, but that's precisely why I would never go on a TV quiz show.

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WHY ???!? 😬😬😬

Can you please stop shining that light in my eyes?

I concur Zoo.
There I was on podium 1, and as they started the countdown to the show starting - I felt my legs starting to shake.
Willian G Stewart saw this (the quizmaster) and came over to calm me down.
He actually looked at his question cards and told me 'the first one is a children's TV question.

I was on 15 to 1 years ago, a friend was a cameraman there and they needed extra people to make up the numbers. There was an actor there too, we had to promise not to tell the other contestants. I'd no idea how to play it, and ended up arguing with the presenter before being eliminated.

Quote: Stephen Goodlad @ 26th February 2024, 11:03 AM

I concur Zoo.
There I was on podium 1, and as they started the countdown to the show starting - I felt my legs starting to shake.
Willian G Stewart saw this (the quizmaster) and came over to calm me down.
He actually looked at his question cards and told me 'the first one is a children's TV question.

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Aw!
Can you remember the question?

Yes.
Who presents the children's TV show Newsround?
This was back in 1988ish.

Quote: Stephen Goodlad @ 26th February 2024, 2:37 PM

Yes.
Who presents the children's TV show Newsround?
This was back in 1988ish.

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If anyone didn't know John Craven's name during the late 80s then they must have been living under a rock. Was he part of the Craven A cigarette dynasty? I reckon that he wasn't.

My fave 'sleb 'chosen specialist subject' was Myleene Klass's "The Third Season of Sex and the City" - now that's stupidity for you. I honestly thought that she was clever too as she can tinkle the ivories, but clearly this isn't the case?

This week, on the "celebrity Weakest Link", Helen Flanagan (no, again, me neither):

What C are the white cliffs of Dover made if: chalk or cheese?

Answer: cheese

In trying to justify her answer after being voted off (no, really?) she explained that all she could remember of the question was the word "Dover" and so had in her mind Cornwall/ Cornish so she just said "cheese".

Quote: Billy Bunter @ 9th March 2024, 8:07 PM

This week, on the "celebrity Weakest Link", Helen Flanagan (no, again, me neither):

What C are the white cliffs of Dover made if: chalk or cheese?

Answer: cheese

In trying to justify her answer after being voted off (no, really?) she explained that all she could remember of the question was the word "Dover" and so had in her mind Cornwall/ Cornish so she just said "cheese".

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Unfortunately, due to my previous love of Corrie and the Daily Mail's showbiz pages, I can confirm that Ms Flanagan is a former soap actor, former girlfriend of a footballer and the possessor of a large pair of augmented breasts. Fair play to her for all of the above, but for not knowing that the White Cliffs of Dover are made of chalk, means that she's an utter moron. I mean, we all know that the moon is made from cheese because it was confirmed in an early Wallace and Gromit film.

Oh dear. Helen Flanagan is back on the next programme = Celebrity Pointless. We shall see...

Quote: Billy Bunter @ 9th March 2024, 8:39 PM

Oh dear. Helen Flanagan is back on the next programme = Celebrity Pointless. We shall see...

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Ooh, I used to love a bit of Pointless Celebrities, but don't hugely watch linear TV any more. I'll see whether it's available on the iPlayer (I have a mate who refuses to pay her licence fee and doesn't have it, which I think is rather bizarre because it's not *that* expensive.) I always found that PC didn't dumb down in the same manner as say, Celebrity Catchphrase or Celebrity Tipping Point.