Pointless Answer

[zebo]

Round on Famous Williams. The writer of Hamlet was William Tell!

[delboy3]

What a plonker.

[horseshoes]

Priceless! Never mind Pointless!

[Buenchico]

Hamlet? How the hell can a contestant be expected to know who wrote all those old cigar commercials?
;-)

[mushroom25]

amusing when the last pair were asked to talk their way through the board.

"well obviously the playwright is Shakespeare". well, excuse me, no it wasn't; it could have been William Tell.

[sddsddean]

I thought everyone knew that William Tell wrote the theme to The Lone Ranger!

[aelmpvw]

in his mind it was probably a toss up between tell and hank

[mushroom25]

who's William Hank?

[zebo]

Isn't a definition of an intellectual someone who hears the William Tell overture and doesn't immediately think of the Lone Ranger?

[zebo]

My all time favourite is The Suez canal connects the Red Sea to what other body of water. Answer, the Thames! Not Pointless obviously.