August 17, 20195 yr On a related note, ITV are making a three-part adaptation of the stage play about the cheating major who tried to cheat his way to a million pound win. Michael Sheen will be playing Chris Tarrant.
August 25, 20195 yr With 6 new contestants who can each have 3 "phone a friend " nominations, are there 18 members of staff scattered all over the country on the off chance that one might be called?
August 25, 20195 yr Not knowing that The Observer is published on a Sunday. #decline That was pretty staggering. It's not like it's the world's oldest Sunday paper or anything. Oh, hang on, it is.
August 25, 20195 yr With 6 new contestants who can each have 3 "phone a friend " nominations, are there 18 members of staff scattered all over the country on the off chance that one might be called? There must be unless they gather some of them together in a single location.
August 25, 20195 yr When you compare this potential jackpot to the likes of Pointless & The Chase it still absolutely dwarfs them. One day I'ma apply for one of these shows... I think Mastermind would be the best quiz show for Buzzjackers to enter...all those musical specialist subjects we'd excel at!
August 25, 20195 yr I think Mastermind would be the best quiz show for Buzzjackers to enter...all those musical specialist subjects we'd excel at! I've auditioned for Mastermind on 5 separate occasions. I never made it on the show though, the general knowledge usually trips me up (although given that it's Mastermind, there's nothing "general" about it). No surprises what my specialist subject was (one which someone else chose in 2016).
August 26, 20195 yr I've auditioned for Mastermind on 5 separate occasions. I never made it on the show though, the general knowledge usually trips me up (although given that it's Mastermind, there's nothing "general" about it). No surprises what my specialist subject was (one which someone else chose in 2016). I got the same score as the contestant on that occasion. Obviously, I didn't have the pressure of the chair and the spotlight; OTOH, I didn't spend any time revising. As for the general knowledge, I get much better scores now than I did in my teens and twenties. I can usually beat at least one of the contestants (I beat three last week). I think it's just that I've had a lot longer to learn stuff rather than the questions being easier.
August 26, 20195 yr Going to watch this on catch up. Such a shame I have a free house for a week as I have nobody to play along with :lol: My Dad is usually the opposite to me. He’s good at the sport questions and politics where as I don’t have a clue. I very often find on quiz shows if somebody gets a question wrong I always seem to know it! I think the things I know a lot on are things most people don’t. Like the charts, reality TV etc. I remember instantly knowing the Spice Girls question last series before the answer even come up!
September 2, 20195 yr I think that's the first time I ever got the million pound question right :o I knew it would be Marilyn Monroe as soon as Audrey Hepburn was the first option, really quite easy to work out considering she died at 36 in 1962! I wanted to scream when his friend said Judy Garland, did she look 13 in The Wizard of Oz!! :arrr:
September 2, 20195 yr Sounds like I need to watch tonight’s! The question the other night what the woman lost over 90K on I knew the answer too quite confidentially from studying Tourism for my degree and then from doing cabin crew training I’m good at questions on where countries are or what sea is where etc. I surprise myself when I watch this with some things I know it’s only really sport where I’m absolutely clueless unless it’s a total obvious question like when did England win the World Cup :lol: But the question the other day on England managers I wouldn’t have had a clue at that. I like to watch this with my dad as we’re usually like polar opposite with what we know past like the 8,000 pound mark. Edited September 2, 20195 yr by Jordan Lee
September 2, 20195 yr I think that's the first time I ever got the million pound question right :o I knew it would be Marilyn Monroe as soon as Audrey Hepburn was the first option, really quite easy to work out considering she died at 36 in 1962! I wanted to scream when his friend said Judy Garland, did she look 13 in The Wizard of Oz!! :arrr: At least the contestant had dismissed Judy Garland for precisely that reason. I had done as well as Wizard Of Oz is one of the few films where I know its year of release. I'd dismissed Julie Andrews for the same reason as the contestant as well - I knew Sound Of Music was 1965 and couldn't believe that she was nearly 40 when that was made. However, that still left me with two choices! I have occasionally known the million pound question, including the one with the person who was disqualified for cheating. I knew that one before the answers came up. It just happened to be something (what is the name of the number that is one followed by a hundred zeroes) I'd found out when I was about ten and always remembered :lol:
September 2, 20195 yr I knew the Marilyn Monroe one! I didn't know everything else though so I'd have never got to the question in the first place.
September 2, 20195 yr Author I think that's the first time I ever got the million pound question right :o I knew it would be Marilyn Monroe as soon as Audrey Hepburn was the first option, really quite easy to work out considering she died at 36 in 1962! I wanted to scream when his friend said Judy Garland, did she look 13 in The Wizard of Oz!! :arrr: I knew it was Marilyn Monroe as she died in 1962 aged 36 so 1926.
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