Posted by: boxer
55/70 - 12/03/2005 21:09
Above average!
55/70
Posted by: Geoff
Re: 55/70 - 13/03/2005 10:47
65/70
I really should get out more!
I really should get out more!
Posted by: boxer
Re: 55/70 - 13/03/2005 11:13
That's pretty spectacular, three off the national winner!
Posted by: Geoff
Re: 55/70 - 13/03/2005 11:42
Thanks 
I wasn't even going to watch it, but I pressed the red button on my Freeview remote and couldn't stop until I knew if I was scoring better than the bankers
I really should get a life though...
I wasn't even going to watch it, but I pressed the red button on my Freeview remote and couldn't stop until I knew if I was scoring better than the bankers
I really should get a life though...
Posted by: frog51
Re: 55/70 - 13/03/2005 19:23
we got fed up when we heard "those were trickier, weren't they" after getting 100% right for the first few rounds. We then went onto the G&T and another channel
Did the surfers finish in last?
Did the surfers finish in last?
Posted by: genixia
Re: 55/70 - 13/03/2005 19:56
What are you on about?
Posted by: g_attrill
Re: 55/70 - 13/03/2005 20:01
This. I thought about watching it but couldn't commit to the two and three quarter hours, especially when presented by Anne Robinson!
Gareth
Posted by: boxer
Re: 55/70 - 13/03/2005 20:06
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Did the surfers finish in last?
I don't know, I can't remember, because I could'nt take my eyes of the bird in the middle of the front row!
Posted by: drakino
Re: 55/70 - 14/03/2005 00:55
23/70 on the web one. At least I know I got the Father Ted question right.
Posted by: genixia
Re: 55/70 - 14/03/2005 02:21
Oh that!
I have an amusing anecdote about the 2004 TNN...
It turns out that (at least) two people scored higher than the advertised at-home high scorer. I was one of them. Sort of...
The Beeb ran the online quiz for a while before the show, and then contacted the highest UK-based scorers to find out if they were willing to be on the show itself.
It just so happens that two of my best mates back home decided to have a crack at the quiz for a laugh and used an amalgamation of their their two names as an identity. For reasons that I'm not entirely sure about, they used a third mutual friend's phone number as the contact number.
Anyway, about a third of the way through the test, they decided that there must be an easier way, and hit google. Lo and behold, someone at the Beeb had already put the results page up and it had somehow gotten spidered. So my two friends duly copied all the answers and clicked submit.
You can only imagine their frustration when they only got 68 out of 70. It turned out that the results page contained 2 errors. So they went through the answers with a fine tooth comb and found the two that thought were the most likely candidates. To test the theory, they re-entered the quiz under another name and were pleased to see that this time they got the full 70/70 score.
I heard about all of this a few days later, when one of them called me in a near-hysterical state, barely able to breathe because of laughter. The Beeb had called the third friend, who had quickly twigged the amalgamated name, told the caller that the person that they were trying to call was out but could be reached on their mobile phone, and given them the number of one of the pair. My poor friend then spent about 20 minutes on the phone resisting overtures from some persistent lady at the Beeb, asking for him to appear on the TTN programme itself, and trying to extricate himself from the situation without giving the game away. Eventually he had to get mad to get her to go away, and told her that he wished that he'd never entered the bloody quiz in the first place, by this time not so far from the truth!
It was at this point that he asked if I had received any phone calls...
I have an amusing anecdote about the 2004 TNN...
It turns out that (at least) two people scored higher than the advertised at-home high scorer. I was one of them. Sort of...
The Beeb ran the online quiz for a while before the show, and then contacted the highest UK-based scorers to find out if they were willing to be on the show itself.
It just so happens that two of my best mates back home decided to have a crack at the quiz for a laugh and used an amalgamation of their their two names as an identity. For reasons that I'm not entirely sure about, they used a third mutual friend's phone number as the contact number.
Anyway, about a third of the way through the test, they decided that there must be an easier way, and hit google. Lo and behold, someone at the Beeb had already put the results page up and it had somehow gotten spidered. So my two friends duly copied all the answers and clicked submit.
You can only imagine their frustration when they only got 68 out of 70. It turned out that the results page contained 2 errors. So they went through the answers with a fine tooth comb and found the two that thought were the most likely candidates. To test the theory, they re-entered the quiz under another name and were pleased to see that this time they got the full 70/70 score.
I heard about all of this a few days later, when one of them called me in a near-hysterical state, barely able to breathe because of laughter. The Beeb had called the third friend, who had quickly twigged the amalgamated name, told the caller that the person that they were trying to call was out but could be reached on their mobile phone, and given them the number of one of the pair. My poor friend then spent about 20 minutes on the phone resisting overtures from some persistent lady at the Beeb, asking for him to appear on the TTN programme itself, and trying to extricate himself from the situation without giving the game away. Eventually he had to get mad to get her to go away, and told her that he wished that he'd never entered the bloody quiz in the first place, by this time not so far from the truth!
It was at this point that he asked if I had received any phone calls...
Posted by: boxer
Re: 55/70 - 14/03/2005 07:51
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The Beeb ran the online quiz for a while before the show
Ah, now you raise an interesting point, having decided yhat this was to be our Saturday evening entertainment, I went on to the site about half an hour before the programme and was rather surprised to find that I could do the quiz.
O.K. so it's not done for prize money, but that might not stop egotistical people from wanting to come first. By the time I was doing it live with the family, I had had time to think about and check my answers, so I could easily come out with a near perfect score.
N.B. The 55/70 is my first score, I could do 69/70 by the time the show was on. And I'm not suggesting people did cheat, just that it was easy so to do.
Posted by: andy
Re: 55/70 - 14/03/2005 11:04
46/70 on the web
(it should have been 50/70, but my mouse control is lacking today)
(it should have been 50/70, but my mouse control is lacking today)
Posted by: RobotCaleb
Re: 55/70 - 14/03/2005 15:07
16/70
That number should actually be much lower. They should have added a 5th choice of 'I do not know' that counts as a wrong answer. If I didn't know, I guessed A. I'm sure that caused me to get some right.
That number should actually be much lower. They should have added a 5th choice of 'I do not know' that counts as a wrong answer. If I didn't know, I guessed A. I'm sure that caused me to get some right.