you cant beat a university education

[sunnybob]

Watching the chaser on TV. A uni graduate is answering the questions.

Question; "what is the only known planet in the universe to contain life?"
Confident answer (after 2 seconds concentrated thought) "Mars".

 

[DiscoStu]

He probably has a degree in media studies!


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[bugbear]

He probably has a degree in media studies!

Or Philosophy, Politics and Economics - future leader, and we're all messed.

BugBear

 

[No skills]

I often feel they should be beaten. Generally with sticks.

 

[NazNomad]

Maybe they meant 'intelligent life', to which the answer would not have been Earth.

Mars was as good a guess as any.

 

[Johnboy]

On pointless the other day a uni student answered Paris when asked to name a country ending in 2 constanants.

A while back the question a gave a location and date and the contestant had to say who was asassinated then. The answer given to Dallas in 1963 was JR!!

John

 

[Phil Pascoe]

I have a friend who is the greatest all round quiz player I have ever met, his general knowledge is probably about three times mine, and mine is good. He went on 15 to 1 and went out in three questions, all of which he knew the answer to but didn't remember in time. He always maintained that people who have never been under those spotlights should keep their opinions to themselves as they have no idea what it is like.

 

[thetyreman]

I thought the answer was Titan

 

[John Brown]

If that was really the question, then it's a stupid one.
I would imagine it was more like "Which is the only planet in our solar system known to contain life"

 

[Woodmatt]

On Pointless last week one of the questions was, name a country with its last two letters being consonants. A 3rd year Student at Warwick University answered Paris.Even the two hosts of the show had trouble stopping themselves laughing.Sorry just seen that Johnboy had already put the same post.

 

[Inoffthered]

Watching the chaser on TV. A uni graduate is answering the questions.

Question; "what is the only known planet in the universe to contain life?"
Confident answer (after 2 seconds concentrated thought) "Mars".

Not as stupid as the effort of David Lammy MP on Mastermind....well worth looking up on Youtube.

Q."Who succeeded to the throne at the age of nine following the death of his father Henry VIII.

A. "Henry VII"

Q.What was the married name of the scientist Marie Anne Pierre who won the nobel prize for physics in 1902

A "Antoinette"

 

[Rorschach]

I have a friend who is the greatest all round quiz player I have ever met, his general knowledge is probably about three times mine, and mine is good. He went on 15 to 1 and went out in three questions, all of which he knew the answer to but didn't remember in time. He always maintained that people who have never been under those spotlights should keep their opinions to themselves as they have no idea what it is like.

I agree, I can do well in conversation, put me on the spot though and I often go blank.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Did anyone see Celebrity Mastermind over Xmas - some of the "celebrities" were mind numbingly stupid. Of course, it makes you wonder why we presume athletes, footballers, pop singers and so on are intelligent.

 

[DiscoStu]

I'm of the opinion that anyone who is reasonably intelligent is unlikely to want to appear on tv. I'd hate being recognised everywhere I went and not being able to go out for a quiet dinner without people asking for selfies etc.


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[RogerP]

TV quizzes are usually not a test of intelligence but of memory.

 

[RogerM]

There was a primary school teacher on The Chase a few weeks back who said that he had never heard of "Isambard Kingdom Brunel". I have noticed on The Chase that there is often a bias towards the specialisation of the Chaser. Just see how many medical or human biology questions come up when Paul Sinha (who is a former doctor) is The Chaser. I also suspect that there is an extensive rehearsal period during which the programme makers will assess the contestants own strengths and weaknesses and the questions will reflect those.

On one occasion when Bradley Walsh told a contestant who had gone for the middle figure that he would have had 3 opportunities to play for the larger figure, the contestant just shrugged and said "they would have been different questions". I'm sure he was right.

 

[RogerS]

I thought the answer was Titan

Wasn't he the geezer who painted those two blokes on a donkey ?

 

[Racers]

Did you see the episode of Pointless where in the final they thought the best answer in a question about elements was Unobtainium!

Pete

 

[graduate_owner]

My all time favourite is from the Weakest Link. Question - what T was the means of escape from Colditz during WW2?

Answer - herbal tea?

K

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Name a dangerous race? The Arabs.
Name a bird with a long neck? Naomi Campbell.
Name a famous bridge? Bridge over Troubled Water.