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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,321 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    Roger_007 wrote: »
    Irish couple were brilliant but unfortunately only won £2000. Best character on the show recently was a tiny asian guy called Kwok. He laughed his way through the whole thing but got to the head-to-head twice. His co-competitor was about 18 ins taller than him. They were like a comedy duo. Great entertainment value.

    I'm a day behind, saw one with him.
    The irish couple were very good. I reckon the jackpot should start at €2500. €1000 between 2 people is just too low.

    Was just talking to my wife, you can really be shafted by the subjects. 2 that regularly come up are politics and the monarchy. Almost always from the UK. Have no idea about either.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,416 ✭✭✭Jimmy Iovine


    Cienciano wrote: »
    Was just talking to my wife, you can really be shafted by the subjects. 2 that regularly come up are politics and the monarchy. Almost always from the UK. Have no idea about either.

    The River Liffey was a clue in another recently and the answer was very, very low. There was another Irish related question as well. I think it may have been a county.

    You can get lucky.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    Kwok was great. Everytime a new subject came up the first thing that came to mind was that Kwok wouldn't have a clue. He was great fun though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,321 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    The River Liffey was a clue in another recently and the answer was very, very low. There was another Irish related question as well. I think it may have been a county.

    You can get lucky.

    A few months ago it was irish prime ministers. I'm bad enough with irish politics, not a clue of english.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,134 ✭✭✭gubbie


    The River Liffey was a clue in another recently and the answer was very, very low. There was another Irish related question as well. I think it may have been a county.

    You can get lucky.

    That one was funny. I believe the guy said something like "I dunno how to pronounce this, it sounds French, the river Liffey..." I can't even remember what he guessed but the subject was cities that begin with a D.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,444 ✭✭✭✭Skid X


    gubbie wrote: »
    That one was funny. I believe the guy said something like "I dunno how to pronounce this, it sounds French, the river Liffey..." I can't even remember what he guessed but the subject was cities that begin with a D.

    I think he said it was in Dunkirk.

    In Dunkirk's fair city, where the girls are so pretty ... :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,134 ✭✭✭gubbie


    Skid X wrote: »
    I think he said it was in Dunkirk.

    In Dunkirk's fair city, where the girls are so pretty ... :P

    There was another where the category was "European cities of culture". They were given a picture similar to this

    Cobh-Co.Cork_.jpg

    And they guessed Venice.
    (This is cobh, the answer was Cork but I used this photo because it had old looking houses and a river in front with shipping boats)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,786 ✭✭✭delbertgrady


    I think, to make matters worse, that one of the womans' parents was from Cork and she had been to Cork herself. Torture.

    I thought they
    got gypped very badly
    in the final yesterday evening. They went with British Actors and were asked to name
    Nicholas Lyndhurst films or TV appearances. Despite his lengthy career, that's ridiculous. There are the obvious three TV programmes (two of which they said) and after that, it's very tricky.

    Kwok
    screwed up on the Brideshead Revisited question though. Practically handed the other team the point.

    (I've put in spoilers in case anyone had yesterday's recorded and hadn't watched it yet.)

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,786 ✭✭✭delbertgrady


    Cienciano wrote: »
    Was just talking to my wife, you can really be shafted by the subjects. 2 that regularly come up are politics and the monarchy. Almost always from the UK. Have no idea about either.

    Re: Politics - one of the best ones I saw was when a young couple went with that as their category in the final, and were asked to name female members of Tony Blair's first cabinet. I wouldn't have had a clue, but the guy was doing a Politics Masters and was involved in local government, so really knew his stuff. He came up with three. The first answer was wrong. BOTH his other answers were Pointless.

    Every day, I pray for Music and Film related categories to be chosen.

    One woman on recently remarked that "Irish Playwrights" often comes up (which it does) and nobody ever takes it (which they don't), and she said that she'd like to have a go at it. She wasn't offered it. Argh!

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,134 ✭✭✭gubbie


    Every day, I pray for Music and Film related categories to be chosen.

    I always like to try and guess what the question will be. It's really hard to get a pointless answer in film. You have to know the early movies by actors


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,886 ✭✭✭✭Roger_007


    I am always amazed at why people choose "actors" or "actresses" in the final. Unless you have an encyclopaedic knowledge of the whole film and TV industry you will never win with that subject. In fact Richard has pointed out a couple of times that it was the most difficult subject.
    I thought the Irish couple who won the other day were very clever to chose "panel shows" as their subject. Even if you were not that familiar with whatever show was the subject, you would probably be able to guess some names and have a good chance of getting at least one right.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,786 ✭✭✭delbertgrady


    Re: Gubbie - "It's really hard to get a pointless answer in film. You have to know the early movies by actors".

    Yeah, that's true, unless it's an old school Hollywood person, in which case more recent films tend to score lower, or even Pointless answers.
    There was a team on recently who were asked to name Tilda Swinton movies, and they came up with two that were reasonably well-known (one was Benjamin Button), but had actually scored quite low. None were Pointless, though.
    However, Richard remarked that basically ALL of her Derek Jarman collaborations were Pointless (early films, as you said), as was The Deep End, which was the one I'd gone for. Very well done to me for saying that at home. :)

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,786 ✭✭✭delbertgrady


    Roger_007 wrote: »
    I am always amazed at why people choose "actors" or "actresses" in the final. Unless you have an encyclopaedic knowledge of the whole film and TV industry you will never win with that subject. In fact Richard has pointed out a couple of times that it was the most difficult subject.

    I think TV Series or Sitcoms are the worst. At least with Actors and Actresses you stand SOME chance of not making a complete clown of yourself, I feel very sorry for people who land themselves a question for a TV show that they're not remotely familiar with.
    A recent pair were asked to name recurring characters from 24, a show they'd never seen. As Richard said, dead easy if you watched it, but impossible if you didn't.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,134 ✭✭✭gubbie


    I always think that geography is a good one, especially if you watch pointless a lot and know the favourites such as the Central African Republic


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,321 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    Roger_007 wrote: »
    I am always amazed at why people choose "actors" or "actresses" in the final. Unless you have an encyclopaedic knowledge of the whole film and TV industry you will never win with that subject. In fact Richard has pointed out a couple of times that it was the most difficult subject.
    I thought the Irish couple who won the other day were very clever to chose "panel shows" as their subject. Even if you were not that familiar with whatever show was the subject, you would probably be able to guess some names and have a good chance of getting at least one right.

    The only reason people pick it is because they mightn't have a clue of the other subjects. Take a gamble.

    What annoys me is if the subjects are along the lines of:
    Football, canadian politics, spanish pop, irish playwrights, soaps.
    Guy is an expert in football, watches it all the time, but his girlfriend rules it out because she knows nothing about. So they go with spanish pop because they both went to spain once.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,134 ✭✭✭gubbie


    Cienciano wrote: »
    The only reason people pick it is because they mightn't have a clue of the other subjects. Take a gamble.

    What annoys me is if the subjects are along the lines of:
    Football, canadian politics, spanish pop, irish playwrights, soaps.
    Guy is an expert in football, watches it all the time, but his girlfriend rules it out because she knows nothing about. So they go with spanish pop because they both went to spain once.

    Football is usually a pretty bad one too, because a lot of English people know a lot about soccer


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,786 ✭✭✭delbertgrady


    gubbie wrote: »
    I always think that geography is a good one, especially if you watch pointless a lot and know the favourites such as the Central African Republic

    A mother and daughter team had to name countries South of the Equator. During their deliberations, they immediately said the Central African Republic and half laughed about it, like it had become cliché and predictable: they didn't make it one of their three, and none of their answers won them the money. The Central African Republic was right and it was Pointless.

    But my "favourite" screw-up was the mother and daughter who went for Modern Artists, mainly on the daughter's insistence. The question was to name nominees for the Turner Prize. "What's the Turner Prize?", says the bewildered girl. Turned out she thought Modern Artists meant pop music artists and she knew nothing about art. Even Alexander and Richard were visibly thinking, "WTF?!".

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,134 ✭✭✭gubbie


    There was also the round with "answers ending in -io" and the clue was to do with a painter. The guy went for "Carl-vaggio"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,321 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    Central African Republic, Comoros, San Tome and Principe, Vanuatu and South Sudan.
    They're all my stock geography answers :cool:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,311 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    UK political parties or MP's is an easy one if you're into Northern Ireland politics, more or less guaranteed a pointless answer!

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,321 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    K-9 wrote: »
    UK political parties or MP's is an easy one if you're into Northern Ireland politics, more or less guaranteed a pointless answer!

    Oh yeah, forgot about NI. Newry is always a good on UK cities which has come up a few times.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,383 ✭✭✭S.M.B.


    Just had a look at the Irish winners episode and I think I could have actually beaten them (especially giving their one dud answer) had I been on the show. I couldn't ask for a better set of rounds than.

    Football > 90s Bands > UNESCO Sites > The Apprentice > QI Panelists

    That wouldn't be far off the list of interests I'd give at the start of the show.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,321 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    You can get good subjects, but a lot depends on the order you go in. For instance, the "actors in harry potter" question and you're going first, you'll end up picking a big actor. People have time to think if they're further down the line.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,786 ✭✭✭delbertgrady


    Cienciano wrote: »
    Central African Republic, Comoros, San Tome and Principe, Vanuatu and South Sudan.
    They're all my stock geography answers :cool:

    ... and Seychelles! :D

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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,391 ✭✭✭PhiloCypher


    While I like the concept of having to choose the least popular answer like a reverse family fortunes I can't for the life of me understand why this show has a thread let alone one this size.


  • Registered Users Posts: 16,305 ✭✭✭✭Mr.Prodston


    While I like the concept of having to choose the least popular answer like a reverse family fortunes I can't for the life of me understand why this show has a thread let alone one this size.

    I guess it's because people like the show and as they say in economics it's all about supply and demand.

    Let's just agree to disagree:


    Poor old Richard takes grave offence too, and as a frequent poster in his favourite pointless thread he will not be pleased :pac:



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,444 ✭✭✭✭Skid X


    While I like the concept of having to choose the least popular answer like a reverse family fortunes I can't for the life of me understand why this show has a thread let alone one this size.

    Other threads are available.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,886 ✭✭✭✭Roger_007


    While I like the concept of having to choose the least popular answer like a reverse family fortunes I can't for the life of me understand why this show has a thread let alone one this size.
    I think it has a lot to do with the quality of contestants which is much higher on average than on Family Fortunes. The presenters on Pointless are top notch and make the show entertaining in an understated way rather than manic like FF. Also the topics are more varied and interesting and FF has no equvilent of Richard Osman who really makes the show work.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,786 ✭✭✭delbertgrady


    Well, we gave one hundred people one hundred seconds to name as many television quiz shows that were better than Pointless, but no answers were forthcoming.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,752 ✭✭✭brian_t


    The couple from Northern Ireland who appeared in the first episode of the new season (April 3rd) have written about their experience here http://www.outlooknews.co.uk/articles/news/32991/my-pointless-quiz-challenge/

    out-14929c.jpg

    Iain and his quiz partner Grace on the set before filming


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,038 ✭✭✭Go Harvey Go


    Skid X wrote: »
    Richard will be a guest on '8 out 10 Cats does Countdown' on Friday on Channel 4 at 9pm

    <slightly-off-topic>

    8 out of 10 Cats is doing Countdown again?!? :eek:

    </slightly-off-topic>

    Re: Politics - one of the best ones I saw was when a young couple went with that as their category in the final, and were asked to name female members of Tony Blair's first cabinet. I wouldn't have had a clue, but the guy was doing a Politics Masters and was involved in local government, so really knew his stuff. He came up with three. The first answer was wrong. BOTH his other answers were Pointless.

    It has happened before, though, that all three answers given in the final have been Pointless.

    Remember the tennis buff who single-handedly won £14,750? The question was "Grand Slam winners of the 1990s". ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    <slightly-off-topic>

    8 out of 10 Cats is doing Countdown again?!? :eek:

    </slightly-off-topic>
    They're doing a whole series of it I think.

    Today's Pointless was great. Words ending in -rage made me laugh.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    ^^ -rage


  • Registered Users Posts: 16,305 ✭✭✭✭Mr.Prodston


    Believe it or not but I got Arbitrage, i guess great minds like Xander and myself think alike :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    Believe it or not but I got Arbitrage, i guess great minds like Xander and myself think alike :pac:

    My husband got vicarage. Can't believe the vicar didn't think of that one! He also got a pointless answer in the final. Thought that was a difficult round.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,444 ✭✭✭✭Skid X


    <slightly-off-topic>

    8 out of 10 Cats is doing Countdown again?!? :eek:

    </slightly-off-topic>

    Yes, they seem to be milking it a little bit.

    In other Richard Osman news (I'm not obsessed with him, honestly :o) he was on the Radio 4 Panel Show 'The Unbelievable Truth' this week.

    You can hear how he got on here http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01rvnxc/The_Unbelievable_Truth_Series_11_Episode_2/

    Link expires on Monday Evening.


  • Registered Users Posts: 16,305 ✭✭✭✭Mr.Prodston


    Skid X wrote: »
    Yes, they seem to be milking it a little bit.

    In other Richard Osman news (I'm not obsessed with him, honestly :o) he was on the Radio 4 Panel Show 'The Unbelievable Truth' this week.

    You can hear how he got on here http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01rvnxc/The_Unbelievable_Truth_Series_11_Episode_2/

    Link expires on Monday Evening.

    I think it's safe to assume that most of us here are at the very least a little obsessed with the legend that is Richard Thomas Osman.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,825 ✭✭✭lertsnim


    Shakespeare vs the PE teachers :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 16,305 ✭✭✭✭Mr.Prodston


    Another classic episode, what were the odds that there'd be so many PE teachers. When your wan said she was a PA it was priceless!

    I also may have gotten John Russell as a pointless answer, in my defense he was an answer to a very similar question in the head to head last week. Even Richard wanted Football :pac:


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    John Russell was one of mine too :) Actually surprised it was pointless though. There were several low scorers but not pointless that I'd never even heard of.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    Loved Alan's response when Cliff said Brunei. I don't think he had much confidence in him after yesterday.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,416 ✭✭✭Jimmy Iovine


    I've just come to the 'strange' answer in the latest episode. I don't know if I can't continue. How could he make that mistake?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,629 ✭✭✭✭siblers


    I was struggling to think of any words ending in rage and the fact he was first up he probably just paniced, felt sorry for him really.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,321 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    siblers wrote: »
    I was struggling to think of any words ending in rage and the fact he was first up he probably just paniced, felt sorry for him really.

    Think Richard did too. He didn't take the piss. Felt a bit sorry for him too, I always struggle with words ending in


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,812 ✭✭✭Addle


    He's a big lad!


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,800 ✭✭✭Lingua Franca


    quickbeam wrote: »
    John Russell was one of mine too :) Actually surprised it was pointless though. There were several low scorers but not pointless that I'd never even heard of.

    Same here, we came up with a lot of what we thought were decent answers (mostly due to 19thC prime ministers having been a question recently!) but none were Pointless. Not even the Earl of Liverpool.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,383 ✭✭✭S.M.B.


    I've had 2 pointless answers in a week (QA Panelists and Ryder Cup Golfers). On a roll.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,786 ✭✭✭delbertgrady


    siblers wrote: »
    I was struggling to think of any words ending in -rage and the fact he was first up he probably just panicked, felt sorry for him really.

    What about a few weeks ago when Xander thought he was oh-so-clever for coming up with "befriend" for "Words ending in -ind"? Richard had a field day! :D

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,444 ✭✭✭✭Skid X


    If anyone wants to be a Pointless Contestant, Endemol are taking applications now. All the details are here ...

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtours/shows/beonashow/pointless_2013
    Can you name a musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber? Can you name a footballer with more than 100 Premier League goals? Can you name a type of lettuce, or an obscure variety of potato? If so, you could be in with a chance of winning big money.

    Four pairs of contestants will be pitted against each other as their general knowledge skills are put to the test. Could you trust your friend, your dad, your girlfriend or your work colleague under pressure? We'd like to hear from pairs of people who think they can take up the challenge.

    Pointless is produced for the BBC by Endemol UK.


    Auditions will take place in Belfast, among other places.

    Go on, you know you want to!

    Edit: As 'Dozen Wicked Words' says in the next post, you need a Britain or Northern Ireland address.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,325 ✭✭✭✭Dozen Wicked Words


    Skid X wrote: »
    If anyone wants to be a Pointless Contestant, Endemol are taking applications now. All the details are here ...

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtours/shows/beonashow/pointless_2013




    Auditions will take place in Belfast, among other places.

    Go on, you know you want to!

    I think you are supposed to be UK resident though, so nab a friend/family members address for application.


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