The hardest ever question

[VeritasVincit]

The most difficult question ever posed was on a recent edition of Celebrity Tipping Point.
No! I wasn't watching it, someone else was.
Q: The metropolitan county of Merseyside is named after which river?

[Zambo]

The most difficult question ever posed was on a recent edition of Celebrity Tipping Point.
No! I wasn't watching it, someone else was.
Q: The metropolitan county of Merseyside is named after which river?

All questions on celebrity quiz programs are easy. We wouldn't want them to appear thick now would we.

Oh, and Ben Shephard is a creepy touchy-feely fucker. He can't keeps his paws of the contestants

[VeritasVincit]

The most difficult question ever posed was on a recent edition of Celebrity Tipping Point.
No! I wasn't watching it, someone else was.
Q: The metropolitan county of Merseyside is named after which river?

All questions on celebrity quiz programs are easy. We wouldn't want them to appear thick now would we.

Oh, and Ben Shephard is a creepy touchy-feely fucker. He can't keeps his paws of the contestants

So you've noticed that about him too.

[Zambo]

Yep, gives you the willies

[kancutlawns]

The most difficult question ever posed was on a recent edition of Celebrity Tipping Point.
No! I wasn't watching it, someone else was.
Q: The metropolitan county of Merseyside is named after which river?

What’s the question?

[VeritasVincit]

The most difficult question ever posed was on a recent edition of Celebrity Tipping Point.
No! I wasn't watching it, someone else was.
Q: The metropolitan county of Merseyside is named after which river?

What’s the question?

Q: The metropolitan county of Merseyside is named after which river?
Or did you mean "What's the answer?"

[kancutlawns]

Oh sorry yes, can you give me a clue as to the answer? it’s beyond my powers of reasoning.

[VeritasVincit]

I haven't a clue. I should be a Tipping Point contestant.

[JimmyDee]

In a blinding moment of revelation I realised how those "Celebrity Mastermind"-type quizzes work.
They don't tell them the answers ... a researcher interviews them some time before the show and the questions are set on the basis of what they already know.

[kancutlawns]

Is Darren Gough on the research panel?

[Hillman avenger]

The most difficult question ever posed was on a recent edition of Celebrity Tipping Point.
No! I wasn't watching it, someone else was.
Q: The metropolitan county of Merseyside is named after which river?

Petingo will know
on Radio Merseyside for years on Sunday mornings there was a quiz called "Hold Your Plums" where the questions were infant level difficult but where the contestants still couldn't handle them. The two hosts, Billy and Wally, took ages, giving clues while a studio audience pissed themselves.
Example

On what side of the road do we drive in Britain?

Don't know Billy, I don't drive

Cue 5 minutes of pisstaking

Then Billy says "tell you what, go to the window, have a look out, then come back and tell me the answer"

Pause

" It's a one-way street Billy"

Hysterics

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=ho ... &FORM=VIRE

[Carlos J]

'Dumb Britain' in 'Private Eye' shows the idiocy of many of the GBP who enter quizzes and quiz shows.

Excluding of course, Das and myself, former '15-1' contestants in the good old William G (permatanned and IMO maybe tooting) days and glamorous Laura, later his young wife.

Streets ahead of the wretched remake with Scandyke Toksvig.

[Roy Twing]

One of our local pub quiz hosts has set up an online version tonight at 8pm, for those of us suffering from withdrawal.
Looking forward to it.

[Basualdo]

There was a legendary one many years ago on the old Downtown Radio. It was probably one that could only happen in Ulster.
The caller got the question wrong and the DJ - who I think was the infamous Big T, a natural for TS if his violent exploits and drinking are anything to go by - started talking to the contestant, who i'll call Linda.

DJ: "So Linda, we know you live in Lisburn but tell us a bit more about yourself. Are you married?"
Linda: "Yes."
DJ - now trying to get blood from a monosyllabic stone: "Any kids?"
Linda: "Yes, two"
DJ - sighing: "And what are they?"
Linda - sounding a little aggrieved: "They're both Protestants!"



Now self disclosure here, I can't laugh too much, the Ulster mindset is a stubborn thing. A few years after that was broadcast I was living and working in Wales. We were in the canteen in work at lunchtime and talking about how shitty our old schools were. A couple of the guys were old enough to have gone to Welsh grammar schools the rest to comprehensive. I was asked, "What type of school did you go to Barry?"
"Old fashioned secondary school," I replied, "We don't have comprehensive education."
"Was it a mixed one?"
"Well, there were a couple of catholics there." I replied clueless.

[Roy Twing]

Whenever this topic comes up (thick quiz show contestants) - this one comes to mind from it'll be all right on the night a long time ago: