Pointless- New quiz show on BBC2 (merged)

They said they thought he would be less well known because he was the most recent so they were possibly just trying for a Pointless answer. But, yean, maybe not, it would have been funnier if they had gone through them all and then said David Steel.
 
what gets me about the show is that sometimes there is no pointless answer to certain questions .

should there not always be at least one pointless answer ?
 
Sometime I wonder why some people apply to go on quiz shows. A US state with a coast line and they said Mexico and Detroit. :D
Mind you I am not good on football or films so I would not win either.

I can't believe that there are several people who live in Britain who don't know what the currency of this country is.
My guess is that it is more likely that they didn't know what the word "currency" meant.
 
My husband and I had managed to name 22 of the 32 teams (best final questions for us out of any of the episodes we had seen) and decided we would have picked the Cardinals, Bengals and Titans. Very frustrating not to be able to compare with the other pointless answers!

I was also incredibly surprised that only 4 people had named the Napoleonic wars and American Revolution.
 
Firstly, count me in as another Pointless addict :)

It grabbed me in the first series, and it's even better entertainment the second time around.

Alexander has markedly relaxed into his role now; he always seemed ever-so-slightly aloof in the first series, as if he wasn't sure he wanted to be part of 'a cheap daytime quiz' and consequently kept his business hat on. This time around, the banter between Alexander, Richard and the contestants is clearly warm and friendly, and makes for entertaining daily viewing.

I'm not completely won over by the new second-round format - picking from a list of answers seems like cheating, almost - but I can see why they did it. And it's always pleasing to see a quiz show with a challenging finale. On a number of occasions, the three choices have been Hobson's; something which ups the tension to a suitable level for a final. It can make for a captivating watch.

Speaking of which - and the biggest reason for my post - I have to congratulate and thank Jamie and Michael for being such awesome contestants. Boys, if you ever read this: you may have undeservedly lost out on 625 quid each by the skin of your teeth, but you managed to say 'jizz' - hell, you were positively invited to say it - on daytime BBC. It doesn't get much better than that :D :)


Hmm... not sure I do.

If they'd have continued with the order established at the start - giving those who had performed best in earlier rounRAB the first go - then, because it was the sixth question, the second-best contestants would always hold a crucial advantage in a sudden-death situation. Would that have been fair?

I'm assuming that was the line of thinking. If it had been a coin toss or something, they'd have mentioned or showed it.
 
Im wondering if 90's boybanRAB will come back on as a choice. I grew up listening to a lot of boy banRAB (my taste in music has got a lot better as ive got older, i promise) so id probably do very well on 90's boybanRAB i think.
 
It probably was since the goalscorers question was clearly rebranded as the 'Premier League' one later on. They should have just stuck with the original name since then they would have known what they were going to get rather than just pop music which is far too broad a category. Although they themselves said the same thing about Oscar Winners and then decided to pick Pop Music which is even more wide ranging so their logic didn't make much sense.
 
Even worse today. "James Bond villains". I was gearing up to show off my nerdish knowledge and, poof, "here are all the answers for you, folks"!! :mad::mad::mad:
This is the only part of the program I dislike (I even like most of the "banter") :o
 
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