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My 14 yr old was SOOOOO pleased with himself for getting the Olympic sport question right (but "architecture"????????, that's the sort of thing I'd expect to find out on QI!)

I have a feeling the final may be just a tad tricksy!

K
 
I said I found it engaging so does not disappoint me. Stating that I believe a show will not do well does not mean I want it to flop.

A "zero" rating is under 60,000 viewers I believe and is what much of BBC4 gets. Care to post your figures?
 
The mathematicians beat the worRABmiths in the first round.

The questions today were as tough as ever. That 8,000,000,008 one was particularly devilish!

And there's going to be a third place play-off this year. At least that makes the series slightly longer.
 
I rather like how some of her comments are becoming increasingly surreal and odd, I think it shows how she's relaxing into the role.

Well done to DavidBill, that score of 33 must be one of the best achieved.
 
I genuinely LOL'd (for the first time in quite a while :cry: ), and I'm glad they didn't KowTow to the idiots who think that Greece is something to cook chips in ... :cool: :o
 
Blimey, give us a chance. We're normally under way in under 3 minutes! It's title music, hello, one question to each team captain, the rules and we're off.
 
I reckon the riddles were designed so that you could come to any bloody conclusion you wanted! Although quite why that would be, I don't know...
 
its Ok, but what with the alpha, beta, gamma etc

just takes itself too seriously

but its better than the smug eggheaRAB, (and they DO get easier questions) and the insufferabel Round Britain Quiz
 
Mental and sexual stimulation. The perfect combination ;)

I still remember her spirited defence of Giles receiving the 'bad sex' award.

Oh yes, the quiz is pretty good too.

I vote for the QI appearance since the lady has obviously inherited her father's wit.
 
Now I like to watch this the morning after during breakfast. Its purely for convenience you understand, and not in any way a sad, contrived mid-life crisis attempt for me to imagine having breakfast with Ms C.
Maybe I was in a bad mood because the dogs were being annoying and had made me drop my toast, but were last nights captains appallingly slow at hitting the buttons during the Wall?
At one point the other chap on the Bridge Players had to lean over and get things moving, else they were getting nowhere and I was shouting at the telly during the Fantasy Writers efforts "Just Press Something!!! Use your mind to move your arm and start hitting buttons!!!"

Good lord.
 
It was part of the art competitions section which were part of the Olympic games between the World Wars. They awarded medals in architecture (including, in some years, medals for town planning!), literature, music, painting and sculpture.

Other defunct Olympic events include polo, rugby, golf, cricket, croquet, pelota, lacrosse, jumps from a standing start, dumbbells, obstacle course, underwater swimming, club swinging, rope climbing, one-handed weightlifting, motor boating and, get this, freestyle swimming for sailors.

David
 
The Cobra question was so unique it could only be aerobatics, as Mr Alesmen said, but are the other Round 1 first questions equally unique and therefore rely on a contestant simply having that knowledge to hand?

Presumably if a question was "Beethoven" it could be deaf composers, it could be films about dogs.
 
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