W W T B A M.........

[ToraToraTora]

anyone watch this last night! uses a lifeline on the £100 question! PMSL! Why go on a quiz show when you know effall!

[barry1010]

TTT, he wouldn't have known what Woolies is either

[jno]

///invariably 50/50 leaves the 2 I was thinking it was between anyway. No way is it random///

if it's not random, then they've found some way of reading your mind.

[naomi24]

The worst example of poor quizzing I've seen was on University Challenge a week or so back. The team's knowledge of geography was abysmal. Embarrassing in fact.

[naomi24]

As for 50/50, I would never indicate which answer I was drawn to before opting for that. I'm never sure if it's really random or not..

[ladybirder]

Has anybody ever known the answer to a question that neither team could answer? I have, she says, swanking off;-) Can't remember what it was though:-(

[andy-hughes]

It's a simple fact, if you know something, it's easy to laugh at someone who doesn't, even if you thik what you know is 'common knowledge'.

I know ludicrously obscure things about music and musicians that i would never expect anyone else to know in a million years, but I still falter on some of the 'obvious' quiz questions.

It's all about what you know ... or don't know.

(Mike Pratt who played Jeff Randall in Randle And Hopkirk Deceased co-wrote The Little White Bull by Tommy Steele, with Lionel Bart, and they got an Ivor Novello Award for it.)

[naomi24]

Yes, I have, LB - and I'm showing off too. ;o)

[ToraToraTora]

jno: "if it's not random, then they've found some way of reading your mind. " - no they must predefine which 2 will go in the event of 50/50. Anyone with any quizzing ability will usually be about to rule out 2 of the answers, it always leaves the other 2. Eg there was a question about what is the longest River, Amazon, Nile, Rhine, Yangtze (i made up the last 2 because they are irrelevant to the point) guess which 2 were left after 50/50? yep Amazon and Nile, the 2 that are often argued about depending on measurement etc.

[ladybirder]

Tut N. I might've known you would;-))).

[Ken4155]

I don't believe being able to answer a question the collective brains on UC cannot answer is that rare a thing. I've done it a few times, mainly with sporting or music questions. That would be 'popular' music, not the classical stuff :-)
I'm a tad more chuffed with myself when i get one of the 2nd round Only Connect questions correct on only the 2nd clue and neither team get it after all 3 clues. Now that's showing off ;-))

[ToraToraTora]

AH, Elton John was a session pianist for the Hollies!

[Ken4155]

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=50%2f50+on+who+wants+to+be+a+millionaire&docid=608045422235091633&mid=6AB4EBB9C44B3CB34BB26AB4EBB9C44B3CB34BB2&view=detail&;FORM=VIRE

[andy-hughes]

TTT - // AH, Elton John was a session pianist for the Hollies! //

I'll see you, and I'll raise you - Jimmy Page plays guitar on 'It's Not Unusual'.

[ToraToraTora]

yep they leave the 2 that it must be between!

[nescio]

I have managed to get the fourth in the sequence in round 2 of Only Connect from the first clue alone twice.
Once was "High Level", from which I correctly guessed "Millennium" - bridges over the Tyne, going downstream - High Level, Swing, Tyne, Millennium. The other was "Sharp", from which I correctly guessed "fundamental". So, can any of you ABers tell me what that sequence was?

[ToraToraTora]

AH, I don't have many..... Total Eclipse of the heart was written by Jim Steinman originally for Meatloaf but they'd had a falling out so he let Bonnie Tyler sing it.

[andy-hughes]

TTT - // AH, I don't have many..... Total Eclipse of the heart was written by Jim Steinman originally for Meatloaf but they'd had a falling out so he let Bonnie Tyler sing it. //

No problem - I've got dozens!

Correction Fluid was invented by the mother of Mike Nesmith from The Monkees, and she copyrighted the invention.

When she died, Nesmith inherited half of her fifty-million dollar fortune at the age of twenty-eight - the other half she left to charity.

[ToraToraTora]

I heard somewhere that Brian Wilson sang on a Pink Floyd track, any idea?

[andy-hughes]

TTT - // I heard somewhere that Brian Wilson sang on a Pink Floyd track, any idea? //

An urban myth I would suggest - I am a massive Floyd fans and I have read a lot of literature about them, and never seen BW's name mentioned.

I can't imagine for one moment that the early Floyd sounds wound interest Mr Wilson in the slightest.

[andy-hughes]

TTT - Mybe it's this to which you are referring -

https://www.brain-damage.co.uk/archive/gilmour-inducts-brian-wilson-to-hall-of-fame.html