tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post1524470688983646930..comments2024-03-12T12:54:32.926-07:00Comments on Life After Mastermind: Brain of Britain - Round One - Heat 11Londiniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07871325359167581176noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post-17811359840807199872012-01-28T10:36:54.933-08:002012-01-28T10:36:54.933-08:00Hi Everyone - and thanks for your comments
David,...Hi Everyone - and thanks for your comments<br /><br />David, you make a valid point. For a while now they have made a habit of throwing in a few questions which nobody is going to answer. I don't know why - you could say that it's all part of the quirkiness of the show, which would be fair enough I suppose. But if you happen to get a run of those type of 'what the hell ? ' questions for your first in a set, then it's really galling. <br /><br />Gary - maybe they would all be handy at a bog standard pub quiz. It doesn't necessarily follow. I was told a story by a BoB contestant in the last couple of years. A lady in his heat was in the same hotel that he was. She hadn't scored very well in the show, and so when he saw her in the hotel bar after the show, he was trying to break the awkwardness. Knowing nothing about each other, he guesse4d that the only thing in common they would have would be an interest in quizzes. Nope. She told him that she never watched or listened to quizzes, and never played in quizzes. She'd only entered because her daughter had mysteriously told her she should enter because it was 'her kind of thing'. So he told me, she was actually rather upset about her performance. No need to be, of course - it's just a game and not everyone is going to be very good at it. <br /><br />Now, OK, anyone who wants to apply has got every right to apply. Of all the people who apply, Paul and the team have the right to select whichever contestants they choose. That's the way that it must be. But there were a number of questions - quite a number of questions - in that show that I would normally have expected anyone interested enough in quizzing to apply in the first place to be able to answer. It stuck out in this show because there were four seemingly weaker players in the same heat.Londiniushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07871325359167581176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post-32003789416191189662012-01-25T12:18:07.773-08:002012-01-25T12:18:07.773-08:00I don't believe your comments were mean, Dave ...I don't believe your comments were mean, Dave - it was an underwhelming show. Just fair comment.<br /><br />But I have to agree with David B - I really do find the questions on BoB a bit obscure at times; I made the point the other week that they asked a medical question that I had never heard of - so what chance a non-doctor? But then rather it too hard than too easy, I think - it is supposed to be one of the 2 pinnacles of GK quizzing and the questions should be set to sort out the very best from the merely good. So I don't blame Monday's contestants for struggling, I dare say they'd all be more than handy at a bog-standard pub quiz.drgaryegranthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02660095695123216649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post-17146382104948458742012-01-24T02:17:24.154-08:002012-01-24T02:17:24.154-08:00Yeah as I said on TQA.....I managed to get much hi...Yeah as I said on TQA.....I managed to get much higher on this set than ever before on Brain of Britain. No disrespect but if I was in another heat and runner up this year Id be kicking myself I wasnt in this heatDanielFullardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07635161450969202410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post-75237687506464709852012-01-24T00:24:03.404-08:002012-01-24T00:24:03.404-08:00I was in the previous heat and console myself with...I was in the previous heat and console myself with the fact that I was playing with some excellent quizzers. The combined score of all the correct answers in Heat 10 was 50, the combined score of Heat 11 was 31. Even with a runaway winner, as Roman was on Heat 10, the totals should still roughly balance out, given you are looking at roughly the same number of questions. Luck of the draw, win some, lose some. It's one of the things that make quizzing fun.bjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15575475115415555273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post-31652945147095087772012-01-23T14:41:35.009-08:002012-01-23T14:41:35.009-08:00I've been meaning to say this for weeks, but s...I've been meaning to say this for weeks, but since this week's show illustrates my point nicely I'll chime in now.<br /><br />Is it me or has the difficult level gone up a level since the days of Jorkins setting the questions and Robert R asking them? I used to really enjoy the questions on BoB because they really were a good test of general knowledge - nothing too specialist but a nicely testing standard that might be likened to that used by Fifteen-to-One in the old days.<br /><br />But nowadays it seems to be packed full of questions that I really don't care about, of the type "The merriwhittle is the poetic name for which African bird?" and "Which doctor was MP for Scarborough in 1857?"... made-up examples but you get the point. They seem to be so remorselessly you-know-it-or-you-don't.<br /><br />And I have to say, even with several A Levels and a degree in the sciences, I really struggle with some of the science questions they come up with.davidbodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06069767281654752637noreply@blogger.com