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


    That was probably my best final question ever: I had
    Central African Republic, Chad, Djibouti, Democratic republic of Congo and The Former Yugoslavic Republic of Macedonia
    to name a few :pac:


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


    Best final round ever!!


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


    Alexander usually asks how they will spend their winnings after the first guess has beeen scored.

    When he switches and asks them before any guess is scored you know that the first guess is going to be pointless.


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


    lertsnim wrote: »
    Best final round ever!!

    Yep,
    Great to see Xander trying to persuade them to go for the Central African Republic. I forgive them both for their pronunciation of Bodhrán!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 318 ✭✭muckisluck


    Skid X wrote: »
    Yep,
    Great to see Xander trying to persuade them to go for the Central African Republic. I forgive them both for their pronunciation of Bodhrán!

    Me too but it took me some time. How hard can it be to get it a bit better than any of the efforts we heard.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,631 ✭✭✭✭siblers


    Anyone watch today's show? One lad didn't know what a consonant was.
    Would have nailed the final question with Angola and Mozanbique


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


    It was dreadful. I nearly felt sorry for him when he had to ask what it was but it was just too stupid.

    Didn't like the pair in the final. I did a lot of shouting at them over their arrogance.


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


    siblers wrote: »
    Anyone watch today's show? One lad didn't know what a consonant was.
    Would have nailed the final question with Angola and Mozanbique

    I got Congo. Kazakstan and Venezuela 1 pointers.

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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 318 ✭✭muckisluck


    It was dreadful. I nearly felt sorry for him when he had to ask what it was but it was just too stupid.

    Didn't like the pair in the final. I did a lot of shouting at them over their arrogance.

    Boy was I glad they didn't win. I felt genuinely sorry for the poor guy who had to ask what a consonant was. I'm sure he will never live it down now that it has been broadcast.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,631 ✭✭✭✭siblers


    Canada was an awfully poor answer, silly of them to dismiss Mozanbique, surely go for Mozanbique and risk being wrong than go for one of the most obvious answers. Hopefully the jackpot will build up a bit, final round is always better when there's a nice jackpot to play for.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 66 ✭✭SK76


    Richard was on Have I got News for You a few weeks back and said that during recording the day before the category was famous assassinations. A woman said that she only knew one and would have to go for the obvious one. The clue was Dallas and lee harvey Oswald. She said JR Ewing


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


    brian_t wrote: »
    Alexander usually asks how they will spend their winnings after the first guess has beeen scored.

    When he switches and asks them before any guess is scored you know that the first guess is going to be pointless.

    And they always say they'll spend it on a holiday


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


    Cienciano wrote: »
    And they always say they'll spend it on a holiday

    I'm waiting for someone to say they would spend the money on cocaine and strippers. I could be waiting a while though.


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


    Didn't like the pair in the final. I did a lot of shouting at them over their arrogance.

    Was delighted they didn't win the money either. They were full of themselves.

    I thought they would have edited out the asking what a consonant was.


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


    I agree that they should have edited out the guy querying what a consonant was. Most unfortunate.
    I had opted for Democratic Republic of Congo in the final. Win!

    I have rarely seen two contestants as good as they were (arrogance aside) crash and burn so spectacularly in a final round. Complete goons. Also, using the Anthology-era Beatles singles as answers is an old trick that any regular viewer-turned-contestant perhaps should have picked up on.
    There was a round before where they wanted two-word title Beatles singles, and Real Love was very low, possibly pointless. When the question appeared yesterday, I immediately thought that Free As A Bird and Real Love were the obvious ones to go for, but I was surprised that BOTH were Pointless. I also think the young lad opting for Come Together was sheer fluke. Most people don't know that was a single, and I'm wondering what his other guess would have been.

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


    We did pretty badly playing along with yesterday's show - our football grounds answers were Sheffield United (me, 100 points) and Villa Park. Beatles songs answers were Yellow Submarine and Norwegian Wood (me again, another 100 points). And then for the final we came up with 7 pointless answers between us.


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


    We did pretty badly playing along with yesterday's show - our football grounds answers were Sheffield United (me, 100 points) and Villa Park. Beatles songs answers were Yellow Submarine and Norwegian Wood (me again, another 100 points). And then for the final we came up with 7 pointless answers between us.

    The two of you came up with 7 Pointless answers in the final and you still say you did pretty badly?! :eek: :eek: :D;)


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


    We'd have been out in the first round!


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


    We did pretty badly playing along with yesterday's show - our football grounds answers were Sheffield United (me, 100 points) and Villa Park. Beatles songs answers were Yellow Submarine and Norwegian Wood (me again, another 100 points). And then for the final we came up with 7 pointless answers between us.

    I'd pride myself on my footballing knowledge but I'd have been blown out of the water with the level scoring. Having said that I got Deepdale/Preston and Home Park/Plymouth so would have been safely through. I was just surprised at how many people actually knew the lowest ones. Depends on the day though, would have been a bloodbath on another easily.

    My knowledge of consonants would have scraped me through the Beatles :pac:

    And I went to town on the final question. Democratic Republic of Congo is the new Central African Republic I reckon. It's capital Kinshasa was a very low score for some question last week too.

    Who says that Arts is useless, as for a Geography assignment I was given it as my country to research :D


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


    I'd pride myself on my footballing knowledge but I'd have been blown out of the water with the level scoring. Having said that I got Deepdale/Preston and Home Park/Plymouth so would have been safely through. I was just surprised at how many people actually knew the lowest ones. Depends on the day though, would have been a bloodbath on another easily.

    My knowledge of consonants would have scraped me through the Beatles :pac:

    And I went to town on the final question. Democratic Republic of Congo is the new Central African Republic I reckon. It's capital Kinshasa was a very low score for some question last week too.

    Who says that Arts is useless, as for a Geography assignment I was given it as my country to research :D

    A few countries questions I went with Chad and it was pointless. That's up there too.
    Didn't like that guy who didn't know what a consonant was, fist pumping when he got one right. Glad he went out!


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


    He'll be on again today. I felt bad and embarrassed for him at not knowing what a consonant was but his constant fiddling with his cufflinks soon beat that out of me. He only stopped fiddling to fist pump.


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


    I'm beginning to realise that I'm a little obsessed with Game of Thrones/A Song Of Ice And Fire as I was thinking the ancient city of Valyria was bound to come up :pac:

    Also does anyone else think that the final questions are easier in the last few weeks whereas the first 2 rounds are much more difficult. Another 4 pointless answers for me today in
    Ivanesavic, Nalbandian, Soderling and Tsonga
    :cool:


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


    That guy who didn't know what a consonant was. His sons back must be broken from carrying him through the show


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


    I reckon I got three pointless answers in the final on tennis stars - definitely one for sure as the named him (Todd Martin) but I'd have to put money on my others being pointless too (Magnus Norman and Thomas Enqvist). :chuffed

    Some finals are south harder than others though, it really is pot luck if a decent question comes up.

    Oh, and I'd be screwed in the anagram rounds - I'm useless at them. They could be listing members of my own family and I'd not recognise them.


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


    quickbeam wrote: »
    Oh, and I'd be screwed in the anagram rounds - I'm useless at them. They could be listing members of my own family and I'd not recognise them.

    I am generally hopeless at them but managed all of them today, though it took a while for Bayern Munich


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


    The film title anagrams during the week were very good, but - like that majority - I didn't spot the last one as being Chariots of Fire. I think the problem was I assumed there was a "The" in the title, and started trying to decipher the other letters. :rolleyes:

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


    Crowdology™ is an online research community. We value and reward our members for doing fun, topical online surveys on behalf of companies who want to measure public opinions on a wide range of subjects. Our clients span leading consumer brands, media, advertising, Public Relations and publishing companies.

    If you're a fan of the quiz show Pointless, you might have noticed our name pop up in the credits as we poll the 100 people.

    http://www.crowdology.co.uk/about_us

    You get paid to be one of their 100 people polled but you do need a valid British Postcode.
    General Knowledge and the Great British Public


    Earlier in the year Redshift Research was fortunate to work on a TV Quiz Show.

    The format of the show was not dissimilar to another classic British Quiz show, Family Fortunes.

    The quiz participants were asked a series of general knowledge questions, but instead of identifying the most popular answer (which was the basic premise of Family Fortunes), the contestant needed to identify the least popular answer.

    The maximum points would be awarded for a pointless question – e.g. where the contestant selected the answer identified by no one else.

    The contestant was effectively competing against the great British public.

    In order to identify the least commonly identified answers, Redshift conducted extensive polls using its own online access panel, “Crowdology”.

    Crowdology is a panel of thousands of people which is representative of the UK population by gender, region, and age, and whose opinions can be called upon on any subject, product, event or issue.

    The format of a quiz show which pitches the individual against the audience, or the wider population is both popular and, in terms of the objective of gauging popular opinions, a technically appropriate methodology.

    The sceptic might be distrustful of the capabilities of “Jo public”, in their ability to get general knowledge questions right.

    One of the objectives of the quiz show (and the polling we did) was to identify pointless questions – e.g. where an answer was not correctly identified by anyone.

    In fact this was not as easy as one might expect.

    Across a range of general knowledge questions the wider public was able to identify the correct answers, even though they had a strict time limit to answer them, and they were not given the advantage of a multiple choice or coded list.

    Remember, this was not a sample of experts, or skewed towards a group of the most highly educated or those interested in history, art or science, but a general, albeit nationally representative sample of the great British public, warts and all.

    And for the most part they got it right!
    http://www.redshiftresearch.co.uk/widsom-of-crowds-and-market-research


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


    'I love facts': Pointless co-host Richard Osman is quizzed on his unlikely rise to geeky, gawky fame.

    The Independent has an interesting interview with Richard today.

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/i-love-facts-pointless-cohost-richard-osman-is-quizzed-on-his-unlikely-rise-to-geeky-gawky-fame-8586691.html


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


    brian_t wrote: »
    http://www.crowdology.co.uk/about_us

    You get paid to be one of their 100 people polled but you do need a valid British Postcode.


    http://www.redshiftresearch.co.uk/widsom-of-crowds-and-market-research

    Just signed up for it there. Hope I get asked a few of the questions.


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


    Brian T - Excellent interview. Thanks very much for the link.

    Jimmy Iovine - It's bad enough that you make a fortune on those headphones of yours, but that you can qualify for the vox pop in Pointless is almost as jammy as being on the show itself. Grrr. :D

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


    Jimmy Iovine - It's bad enough that you make a fortune on those headphones of yours, but that you can qualify for the vox pop in Pointless is almost as jammy as being on the show itself. Grrr. :D

    Ha ha. I wonder how many questions they ask in the one go and how they ensure that you don't check answers up before answering. It would be very easy to skew the results.

    Mind you, if I actually read the information posted above I'd probably have find that out.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,631 ✭✭✭✭siblers


    Am I the only who doesn't really like Celebrity Pointless? It is fairly dependent on who is on but the woman who was on with John Culshaw today was incredibly annoying.


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


    She wouldn't shut up and the way she was leaning on the podium really annoyed me. Michel Roux cane across really well and Joe Swash and Biggins had great attitudes towards the whole thing.


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


    siblers wrote: »
    Am I the only who doesn't really like Celebrity Pointless? It is fairly dependent on who is on but the woman who was on with John Culshaw today was incredibly annoying.

    Penny Smith. ;)

    Even when she was GMTV's news anchor, she was very much like Marmite - you either liked her or you didn't.

    And I'm afraid to say that I like her.

    I'm even more afraid to say that I consider her a MILF... :o:o:o:o:o;)

    attachment.php?attachmentid=54956&stc=1&d=1320847613


    This episode was, of course, a repeat - she didn't have red hair for very long. ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,351 ✭✭✭NegativeCreep


    Penny Smith. ;)

    Even when she was GMTV's news anchor, she was very much like Marmite - you either liked her or you didn't.

    And I'm afraid to say that I like her.

    I'm even more afraid to say that I consider her a MILF... :o:o:o:o:o;)

    attachment.php?attachmentid=54956&stc=1&d=1320847613


    This episode was, of course, a repeat - she didn't have red hair for very long. ;)

    Ahh of course!.


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


    I don't bother with the celebrity editions. There's always one over inflated ego on there that annoys me.


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


    Xander Armstrong tweeted this earlier, the Croatian version of Pointless:



    It's safe to say that we'd all still prefer our Richard but Xander could be under threat :pac:


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


    Well I'd still prefer Xander. :D

    If a lady had to present the show, then Claudia Winkleman would be my choice - like Xander, she's in her early 40s, studied at Cambridge and is effortlessly witty. She'd probably work quite well with Richard, too.

    Looking at that clip, it's pretty clear that the Croatians haven't spent as much money on the show as the BBC has... ;)


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


    At night I dream of… climbing and being high up – and having to climb down. I don't know what that signifies. If anyone fancies having an amateur pop at interpreting it I'm open to all comers.

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/my-secret-life-alexander-armstrong-42-comedian-8483768.html

    Maybe he's subconciously worried about his job security on Pointless. :)


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


    They only showed Episode 18 of 55 of series 9 last Friday.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01s4v0m

    Wonder why we are back to repeats this week.
    .
    .

    They are showing series 5 starting at episode 13

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0148qpk/broadcasts/upcoming

    Coincidentally this is the same series they are currently showing on Challenge.
    Its from 2011.


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


    brian_t wrote: »
    Wonder why we are back to repeats this week.
    No idea why today's #Pointless is a repeat. First weekday repeat all year though. Will find out if its just a one-off.
    The Radio Times says #Pointless repeats all week. Won't last too long I'm sure. We're busy filming as many as we can.

    https://twitter.com/richardosman


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


    Anyone watching this? Hebridean Islands in Round One. Torture! :D

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


    Anyone watching this? Hebridean Islands in Round One. Torture! :D

    I think the only contestant I like is the one who went to Ireland :pac: The questions are dire too so far. The improvements have been vast in 2 years or so


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


    Skid X wrote: »
    The Radio Times says #Pointless repeats all week. Won't last too long I'm sure. We're busy filming as many as we can..
    https://twitter.com/richardosman

    It will be repeated into next week too.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01529m9


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


    Noooo! I hate the repeats. Only 3 subjects to pick from in the final, and the first 2 rounds aren't as good a format as the new ones.
    But that blonde student was easy on the eye :cool:
    Funny when they played a clip of yer mans band, Elliot Minor


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 706 ✭✭✭Ilovelucy


    Love the show - hate repeats! Although it's easy to get one up on my husband who has only started watching recently.


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


    Repeats up to and including next Monday http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b015fbdt


    While we were enjoying the day off - the boys were busy working.
    Filming 4 episodes on this sunny Bank Holiday. Pointless never sleeps.
    https://twitter.com/richardosman


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


    All next week will be repeats http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0148qpk/broadcasts/upcoming


    Richards twitter update
    In the last 2 months we've recorded 96 new episodes. Just 27 more and then a nice break. And we're recording our Xmas special next week!
    https://twitter.com/richardosman


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


    brian_t wrote: »

    Noooooooooooooooooooo :eek:

    It was also some kind of sick joke having the football managers question on Wednesday considering my whole world was crumbling due to Sir Alex Ferguson's retirement. I thought I could take my mind off it for a few minutes but no :(


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


    And new episodes starting again on the 27th I think.

    Richards latest twitter update

    https://twitter.com/richardosman


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