Who Wants To Be A Millionaire

[geeks]

Vipers said:

It's basically either you know it or you don't know it.

Friend I used to work with was a "Pro" game-show contestant, he used to say a similar thing; There are no easy questions and no hard questions, there are simply questions you know the answer to and questions you don't!

[Cobnapint]

geeks said:

Friend I used to work with was a "Pro" game-show contestant, he used to say a similar thing; There are no easy questions and no hard questions, there are simply questions you know the answer to and questions you don't!

There ARE basic questions to which you would expect 99.9% of the population to know the answer to. As demonstrated by the first 3 or 4 giveaway questions in the show. They're there to warm the contestant up and get them to £1000 to make a show of it.
If the questions they ask at the top of the board were to appear at the bottom I don't think many would bother watching.

[Frank7]

Vipers said:

Interesting Frank, wondering what area you were brought up on, I grew up in Thornton Heath near Croydon in the 50's never heard of them, wondering if Larkins weren't national, just localised.

I was born in Bermondsey, but we moved to New Cross during the war, I was about 18 months old then.
Later, when my dad was demobbed, my mum wanted to move closer to her parents, who’d been bombed out in Bermondsey, and had relocated to Dagenham.
It was there that I found out about monkey nuts being peanuts, I think that the peanut factory was in East London, maybe Canning Town?
I suffered Dagenham right up until my late teens, then I met a Bermondsey girl at The Lyceum one night, and that was that, married at 21, I slid back to civilisation.
In Rotherhithe now, with wife # 2, there won’t be a # 3.

[kowalski655]

I remember monkey nuts from being a kid in Essex, unshelled peanuts, and absolutely disgusting

[Jasandjules]

I used to love shelling and eating peanuts from the monkey nuts....

[FiF]

Jasandjules said:

I used to love shelling and eating peanuts from the monkey nuts....

You'd love this place then. Sit down and the server shovels a generous pile of monkey nuts on the table. There to be shelled and eaten while looking at menu, ordering etc. Shells go on floor, gets a bit deep on really busy nights. Nut allergy sufferers give a wide berth.

http://www.churchstreetsaloon.se/konceptet/

[thegreenhell]

FiF said:

You'd love this place then. Sit down and the server shovels a generous pile of monkey nuts on the table. There to be shelled and eaten while looking at menu, ordering etc. Shells go on floor, gets a bit deep on really busy nights. Nut allergy sufferers give a wide berth.

http://www.churchstreetsaloon.se/konceptet/

The Old Ale House in Truro is like that.

[Laurel Green]

Heads up.

[snuffy]

I'd guess. Viking.

[Laurel Green]

I guessed Voyager.

[snuffy]

Laurel Green said:

I guessed Voyager.

I went for that until he went 50/50.

[Laurel Green]

I can't believe one of them got the starter question wrong.

[snuffy]

Chile

[Laurel Green]

She should know that answer being in the Army.

[MikeyC]

I could have sworn 'The Favourite' won BP
oops !!

Knew the Vikings landed on Mars, but couldn't be sure if they were the 1st to just do a fly-by

They generally did quite well tonight I thought!

[Vipers]

Good programme, but two things niggle me.

Those who explain in detail about each option and why it's not right, then finally say the one they think is right.

And I do wish Jeremy wouldn't dither with his response.

[nicanary]

Applications for the next series end on 24 October 2019. I've just completed mine, and would like others to know that there is a stress on just how good it would be if you could tell all your online friends about your application. I.e. I reckon you've got no chance if you don't involve in social media.

I'm not a 13-year old schoolgirl. I'm up the creek.

[KingNothing]

nicanary said:

Applications for the next series end on 24 October 2019. I've just completed mine, and would like others to know that there is a stress on just how good it would be if you could tell all your online friends about your application. I.e. I reckon you've got no chance if you don't involve in social media.

I'm not a 13-year old schoolgirl. I'm up the creek.

That's me fked again then if that's the case, I didn't fill in in any of the boxes asking for your social media profiles.

[nicanary]

KingNothing said:

nicanary said:

Applications for the next series end on 24 October 2019. I've just completed mine, and would like others to know that there is a stress on just how good it would be if you could tell all your online friends about your application. I.e. I reckon you've got no chance if you don't involve in social media.

I'm not a 13-year old schoolgirl. I'm up the creek.

That's me fked again then if that's the case, I didn't fill in in any of the boxes asking for your social media profiles.

I'm not saying that it's the end of any realistic success with my application, but I fear the worst. Surely they're always going to "randomly" pick applicants who will best serve their marketing.

[Frank7]

Vipers said:

Good programme, but one thing niggles me.

Those who explain in detail about each option and why it's not right, then finally say the one they think is right.

I couldn’t agree more, once, watching “Eggheads”, a contestant was asked something like, “Which river flows through Belgrade?”
The options were something like a) Rhine, b), Volga, and c) Danube.
He pursed his lips, and you could virtually hear it coming, “Mmmm, the Rhine is in Germany, can’t see it going all the way to Serbia, and the Volga is in Russia, does it run through Moscow? No, I think that may be the Moskva, or Moscow river, mm but would it stretch to Belgrade?
The Danube flows through lots of cities, I’ll plump for the Danube.”