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Professional quizzer and fact-compiling author Trevor Montague is infamous in quizzing circles for breaking Fifteen-To-One’s no-returning losing contestants rule by re-applying to appear on the show in disguise under a false name.
Admittedly, you’ve likely never asked yourself this, but the answer is so brilliant you’ll wish you had.
Can you name:
Feels by Calvin Harris, Look What You Made Me Do by Taylor Swift, New Rules by Dua Lipa, and Sign of The Times by Harry Styles Rather than disappear off to his dressing room during breaks in filming, he’d chat to the contestants and he’d be the one teaching everyone the hand-jive.” Bob Holness, we salute you. 5. Why has the prize money never gone up on You’ve Been Framed? A film that's been released in the cinema or on a streaming platform featuring actor Bradley Cooper? That, or they’re just a bit tight. You decide. 6. What’s the story behind the Egyptian hieroglyphs on Only Connect? And how was the audience so well-rehearsed in the moves? That was down to Sir Bob, according to this reminiscence from past contestant Amanda Brewerton from Kilnhurst:
Guardian's of the Galaxy: Vol 2, He's Just Not That Into You, Licorice Pizza, The Place Beyond The Pines The Manchester troublemakers’ idea was to answer ‘Marx’, ‘Lenin’, ‘Che Guevara’ and so on to every question, though as Aaronovitch recalls “Actually, we only knew about five or six revolutionary leaders, so we ran out of that after a while”. Redshift Research , a London-based market research company has conducted all of the Pointless surveys online since the show began in 2009. They identify people to take part in a range of research surveys using their Crowdology online tool and pay them for the time they spend filling in questionnaires. The key thing, according to host Alexander Armstrong is that the people polled aren’t aware they’re answering Pointless questions. “You can’t ‘apply’ to be one of the 100 people because that would then affect the outcome.” 2. Why are Oxford and Cambridge allowed to enter multiple teams on University Challenge? Our companion shows around the world operate their clip fees in a different way to us, and we occasionally discuss whether or not we should be looking to fall in line with what they do. In a University Challenge episode broadcast on the 5th of August 2013, Paxman refuted a formal complaint made to the BBC about the perceived bias in favour of Oxbridge, saying:
Any 'Beatles' UK Top 40 hits with three words in the title.
US abolitionsit known as 'the Moses of her people' for her work freeing slaves through the underground railroad? (HT) It does not stand that collegiate universities have an unfair advantage under the current system of selection. In fact, one could make an opposing case based on the fact that the colleges have a demonstrably smaller pool of students from which to select their team compared to larger universities which don’t operate under the collegiate system.” It’s all down to those universities’ federal systems. As the Executive Producer of University Challenge explains here: Unit for measuring the width of printed matter, equal to the height of the type size being used? (E) Any country in North, South or Central America or the Caribbean which contain the letters G, E or O?
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