Certain People On Quizzes

[bobbie22]

I often watch quizzes, and some people say, when asked " this is not my area of knowledge", when previously in the quiz they have not answered any questions correctly with the same reply. Does this mean that the have no area of knowledge? So why do they go on quizzes? Just having a moan.

[Old_Geezer]

I guess it means their area of expertise hasn't come up in the questions so far.

[gingejbee]

Then there's the " that was before I was born" get-out....

[trt]

Agree bobby, tend to hear it more on Eggheads, and I don't know why, but I get really angry when they say ''not my forte'', all posh like!

[Jackdaw33]

At university, whenever you asked a history don a question the standard reply was, 'not my period'.

[cupid04]

I like the one quiz I saw once when a female contestant said I know the answer to that, I've been on holiday there, then proceeded to get the answer wrong ;-)

[jim360]

Who doesn't want to appear on TV though? If you look stupid, at least people have looked at you.

Not my mentality. I'd rather go on a quiz show in the hopes of doing well, or at least not doing terribly.

[Jackdaw33]

I shall never forget one of the rare episodes or Eggheads that I watched.

Jeremy: Which was the first of the Road to... series starring Bob Hope and Bing Crosby?

Cocky old git: (starts singing)...like Webster's dictionary we're morocco bound...It's the Road to Morocco, Jeremy.

Jeremy: No, it isn't.

His face was a picture.

[jim360]

Jackdaw... he still did better than I would have. Never even heard of that series of films. Still, it's kind of funny to watch the cockiness I guess!

[Peter Pedant]

I did fifteen to one when I was first ill 1999
( day time tel was a bit tedious and I thought I could do better )

one other was a Latinist and there was an astrophysicist who had to repeat a year as he was too busy doing pub quizzes and the rest were the usual jumble of bank managers and telephone sanitisers....

Mastermind - you have your fave specialist subject and if you are invited back then you have to choose another
which accounts for some of the players seeming to know bagger all about their specialist subjects
and then in the final you can go back to your real one

I have been reserve for university cock up no less than four times !
( 1972, 2000 ( O.U.) 2005 professionals, 2014 old baggers ) we caned them in the 2014 series and my old college invited us back for a free dindins....too ill to go and too far....

you should swat a dictionary for these - 1972 Pears encyclopedia and 2005 - I did four small dictionaries - biog, modern history, words and a fourth

yeah you should read them from end to end. It is pretty boring stuff.

in the last one - someone in the audience gasped - god the reserves know all the answers .....

The old rule in the seventies was that the students union got £200 for every round competed ( so you still got £200 if you lost and were knocked out ) - with Bamber Grassgroin yeah I am that old - so we ( the junior common room for young gentlemen- please ) netted £600 which is nearer £6000 nowadays

fifteen to one you get a stewart thingey tee shirt ( I didnt get one )

oh and you are limited to three per year .....

[Jackdaw33]

You're just a bairn, Jim.

Talking about Millionaire, remember the woman who thought that an elephant was bigger than the moon, or was that a spoof?

[Peter Pedant]

// At university, whenever you asked a history don a question the standard reply was, 'not my period'.//

yeah Jackie... in cambridge pharm - some one asked a question afterwards about Drug X and he said - I am sorry I have not prepared that ..... wow
we didnt bother to ask any other questions on the course

[Peter Pedant]

Jack I thougt I might try again if I go into remission
but chemo ( I hadnt realised ) really does screw up your memory
( both short term and archival ) its awwwwwful

[Jackdaw33]

http://imgur.com/gallery/U7qHFT3

[bobbie22]

Loved the comments. Thanks xx

[murraymints]

our Jim did uni challenge !! clever lad is our Jim !!!

[bobbie22]

One more point, if I may. They are now showing old editions of Eggheads with Daphne. I really like quizzes though, and I actually answered one question on University Challenge the other day. The rest were not my forte, alas.

[bobbie22]

Admirable, Jim. Did not go to university, wish I had