Tipping Point- Are They Making The Questions To Hard For The Average Person

[gollob]

On today they had

What sport is played at Wimbledon
What is the first letter of the word Gnome
The feet are at the end of what limbs in the human body
What film producer and director was married to Lilian Disney
Butcher, baker and who else makes a well known sayng
What is the plural of Millenia
How many borders does the UK have(No answer then after time 0)

Surely they cannot make then any harder

[jno]

the first letter of gnome is a fair question when it's spoken rather than written. What was the right answer for borders?

[bednobs]

surely the UK has 1 border?

[emmie]

they are not hard questions surely?

[elliemay1]

Answer was one, N.I borders Eire

[lankeela]

Are they running repeats? I am sure a contestant a couple of days ago had been on before, and the iron question answer I knew for definite he was going to say velvet before he answered so I must have seen it before. Also sure some of The Chase have been repeats lately and I don't mean the late night ones.

[Georgiesmum]

Minty, do you remember Blockbusters?

[Georgiesmum]

Anyone remember Criss Cross Quiz with Jeremy Hawk?

[chrissa1]

I get that the questions in the first rounds have to be fairly easy to get the game going, but the “iron curtain” question when he’s got to the final was just unbelievable!! Where has he been for the last 30 odd years? Laughable!!

[jno]

you could talk about England, Scotland and Wales being countries (they have their own football teams, for instance) and claim they had borders - which are shown on maps.

The plural of millennium could be millenniums
http://grammarist.com/plurals/millennia-vs-millenniums/

So some of those questions are debatable, though the possibility of multiple answers makes them easier, not harder.

Where has he been for the last 30 odd years?
Where's the Iron Curtain been for the last 30 odd years? Easy enough for someone like me who lived through it; for most people alive today, it vanished before they were born.

[Old_Geezer]

I'm unsurprised the borders one didn't get an answer. Do they mean internal border, external, land borders, or do water ones count, do we count every country the other side of water or is that one border. The question is too wide in possible interpretations.

[mikey4444]

I have mentioned this before but just where do they get the contestants from ?

Perhaps they put an advert in one of the tabloids, asking for very thick people to apply, to make complete fools of themselves on the Telly ?

[murraymints]

G's mum..can I have a Pee please ? titter...

[murraymints]

they want diversity and good telly Mikey..most quiz shows now are entertainment value rather than " who is the smartest "

[murraymints]

I had a friend on 321 ..remember dusty bin ? she went on to win a whole range of garden furniture..BBQ... Gazebo ETC ETC...she lived in a 3rd floor flat ! so they, off screen, gave her the cash value....

[Cloverjo]

I think they do advertise in the papers.
I don't think they're particularly looking for thick people. As has been said before on here, on the programmes that give money away they don't want very clever people. However, I agree, on TP the questions are stupidly easy.

[Cloverjo]

OH was on 15 to 1 some years ago. He went out on a question about the price of the TV licence. He'd never bought one, so didn't know the answer.

[dannyk13]

//Are they running repeats?//
Yes

[mikey4444]

Minty, and others........In my mind, an erudite quiz, with reasonably difficult answers, would be much more entertaining, than this kind of codswallop, where the nation is sitting, waiting for thick people to make a mistake.

Its like some kind of uneducated-porn, in the same way that the Kyle show is poverty-porn.

The only quiz program I watch is University Challenge, which I am aware doesn't really fit in with the kind of program that is mentioned in this thread.

I have never seen this program, nor even heard of it, but if the questions above are typical of the kind that are asked on a regular basis, than the program makers ought to be asked to explain.

[murraymints]

that's entertainment !! if they get the viewing figures then they must be providing what the audience wants ! Light hearted tea time show that must have the nation shouting at the telly !

[dannyk13]

A quiz on BBC 1 called 'Impossible' has just finished.I suggest the producer of 'Tipping Point' has a look at it and see what kind of questions should be asked on a quiz show.