"Quiz night live" on FTN
Discussion
Mornin' all
question for you. For those of you that don't know what I'm referring to; it's one of those infurating programs with a good looking guy and a good looking girl that just persuade you to phone in on a premium rate line to answer what APPEARS TO BE a very simple question with the promise of £50k (yes, it's alot of money!).
Anyhow, I watched one the other day and it was a crossword style board with numbers written in letters (i.e. eleven, six etc) and in each of the beginnings of the words, was a number (i.e. 11, 6 etc).
The question was simply "add all the numbers". So, I did the obvious one; all the words plus all the numbers. Somebody answered that, they got it wrong. Adding all the numerical numbers I thought, a trick question, but somebody answered that also and got it wrong. So, I could not for the life of me work out the true answer. People were coming up with the weirdest answers though; quite how I don't know, but they were.
So, long story short, they didn't give the answer out (kept on promising, never did..the sods) and so I never found out. But flicking through it again last night had similarly apparently simple questions.
So people, what are the answers!?!
(PS: They do an excellent job of persuading the dumb public to call in. It's a real good lesson in selling tactics and similar; even if it does annoy you!)
question for you. For those of you that don't know what I'm referring to; it's one of those infurating programs with a good looking guy and a good looking girl that just persuade you to phone in on a premium rate line to answer what APPEARS TO BE a very simple question with the promise of £50k (yes, it's alot of money!).
Anyhow, I watched one the other day and it was a crossword style board with numbers written in letters (i.e. eleven, six etc) and in each of the beginnings of the words, was a number (i.e. 11, 6 etc).
The question was simply "add all the numbers". So, I did the obvious one; all the words plus all the numbers. Somebody answered that, they got it wrong. Adding all the numerical numbers I thought, a trick question, but somebody answered that also and got it wrong. So, I could not for the life of me work out the true answer. People were coming up with the weirdest answers though; quite how I don't know, but they were.
So, long story short, they didn't give the answer out (kept on promising, never did..the sods) and so I never found out. But flicking through it again last night had similarly apparently simple questions.
So people, what are the answers!?!
(PS: They do an excellent job of persuading the dumb public to call in. It's a real good lesson in selling tactics and similar; even if it does annoy you!)
Here's a link to a guy who saw a different question but same principle, and asks his question in a far more articulate way;
www.ecademy.com/node.php?id=62162
www.ecademy.com/node.php?id=62162
And here's a link to a guy who posts the answer to a question
http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/vi
The question is:
one plus five minus six plus twenty two divided by two
and the answer is
5800
http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/vi
The question is:
one plus five minus six plus twenty two divided by two
and the answer is
5800
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