Have we done "Pointless"?

[Gangster Octopus]

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10^7 guests wrote: Orient?

Whenever I've been, they've played at Brisbane Road...

[tracteurgarcon]

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Gangster Octopus wrote:

Orient?

Whenever I've been, they've played at Brisbane Road...

It's the official name due to Barry Hearn's sponsorship.

[slackster]

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Indeed. Has been for over a decade now. But even Hearn never calls it anything other thn Brisbane Rd publicly.

[cantagalo]

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Bloody hell. The couple today chose 'Scandinavian Playwrights' - plays by Henrik Ibsen. One answer with one point and two pointless answers.

They were good.

[Taylor]

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They were good, yeah, but at the same time it's a bit of a know-it-or-you-don't thing, isn't it? You either say "who's Henrik Ibsen?", or you say "ummm I only know Hedda Gabler, Peer Gynt and A Doll's House", or you actually know about Ibsen, in which case almost any of his other plays will be pointless. Happy to see them win, rather than the copper, though.

[cantagalo]

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True. And the 'Scandinavian Playwrights' category had been up there for some time so I guess you could have prepared for Ibsen or maybe Strindberg. Can't think of any others!

Last year, I remember seeing a category for 'Brazil'. Does anyone know whether anyone ever chose it and, if so, what the question was?

[Gerontophile]

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What is the main ingredient in a 'Caiparinha'?

[Wyatt Earp]

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cantagalo wrote: True. And the 'Scandinavian Playwrights' category had been up there for some time so I guess you could have prepared for Ibsen or maybe Strindberg. Can't think of any others!

Last year, I remember seeing a category for 'Brazil'. Does anyone know whether anyone ever chose it and, if so, what the question was?

Yeah, it was naming Brazilian states. Can't remember whether they won.

[cantagalo]

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Ah thanks. I thought it might be Brazilian states. There was an 'India' category and that was Indian states.

Oh well, that's my best chance of ever winning Pointless gone.

[Wyatt Earp]

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They haven't yet done German Bundesländer, which would be my dead cert.

[Central Rain]

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Wyatt Earp wrote: They haven't yet done German Bundesländer, which would be my dead cert.

Are you going for Sachsen-Anhalt or Saarland?

[Wyatt Earp]

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Those two and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, I thought.

[Squarewheelbike]

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Caught the repeat of the celebrity one the other night. Chelsea Healey thought the anagram of Olympic host cities that was Beijing was Belgium!

[Alderman Barnes]

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My guess would be Bremen, but I'm hopeless at that game. I thought that chap was going to wipe the board with his stoat.

[Crystal Staples]

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When Richard talks about Fulham it reminds me of the line in Fever Pitch about football fans being like the dogs that resemble their owners.

[wittoner]

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The round yesterday on Conservative PM's was fairly depressing, from the schoolteacher who cheerfully admitted that though she knew loads of politicians' names she wasn't sure which party they belonged to, to the Welsh girl who thought David Lloyd George was a Conservative, topped off by the lad who passed A level politics who thought Enoch Powell was once PM.

It's not often the thought crosses my mind that Michael Gove might be on to something but that was one of them.

Also I would dispute the inclusion of David Cameron on the list of correct answers. Technically he's not a Conservative prime minister but a coalition one surely?

[Mitch]

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No, I think they're techically right - a "Conservative Prime Minister" is related to the party that they belong to, not to the party that has the most MPs at the time? Good spot though!

[Gangster Octopus]

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However he is right about the frightening lack of knowledge displayed by the contestant.

[cantagalo]

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And the way he seemed almost proud of his ignorance.

I'm not keen on the re-vamp of the final round. It's hard enough to think of answers in one category within 60 seconds but having three just makes it too unfocussed.

[Alderman Barnes]

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So, how many OTFers were shouting at their tellies today then?

[cantagalo]

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I reckon most of us would have won today.

Even Roy Hodgson was Pointless.

[cantagalo]

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Topic: Assassinations

Question: Assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas

Answer: JR

[Gangster Octopus]

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Don't tell me; I'll see that later...

I was delighted to get Robin And The Seven Hoods the other day.

[Diable Rouge]

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Think we'd all have won the final category - personally, found the Bundesliga clubs easier to remember, but depends on your speciality.

[Gangster Octopus]

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Much respect to the guys who spotted Edward Heath's wife the other day...