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5 minutes ago, SuperBacon said:

 

Just give an answer! Answer all the questions with Keith Houchen if you have to. It’ll be right for one of them (I’ll leave it up to you all to think of a question for that answer)

 

Who beat SuperBacon in the Off Topic poster of the year 2019 award and also has the most upvotes on UKFF?

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3 minutes ago, Bicurious Dad said:

The idea is that if they answer then they'll be given the right answer there and then, passing saves a couple of seconds each time which might mean an extra question to answer at the end

I’d rather take the chance to be honest. You’re only there possibly once, might as well make the most out of it. I solemnly swear right here and now that if I ever make it on, every question I don’t know I will answer with a posters username.

”Who invented the Skip?”

”Punkstep”

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I can't bring myself to watch Only Connect anymore as the friend I used to watch it with took his own life a couple of years ago. Love that show as well. Just not ready yet. 

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I thought the Joey Deacon photo was Harry Patch (First World War legend) so didn’t get that connection. I did get the Star Wars one though.

Currently a bit obsessed with Richard Osman’s House of Games though. I want his suitcase.

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34 minutes ago, Monkee said:

I thought the Joey Deacon photo was Harry Patch (First World War legend) so didn’t get that connection. I did get the Star Wars one though.

Currently a bit obsessed with Richard Osman’s House of Games though. I want his suitcase.

That looks like such an interesting show. 

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4 hours ago, Monkee said:

Band of Brothers.

Unless they’d also accept ‘Keanu Reeves Films 1986-2000’

See, I thought you were also an F-1 and Star Wars aficionado as well? If not, surely you're enough of an enthusiast that it wouldn't take you long to get up to specialist subject level with a bit of genning up? 

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I had an unsuccessful audition for Mastermind last year and the key to get on the show is to pick something that hasn't been done before. 

In the application form it asked to pick three specialist subjects and I chose Archer (The spy one), Edvard Grieg and the Mosconi Cup. 

Other than Archer I don't know a lot about the other subjects, but I think I was selected for audition because it was such a diverse range of subjects, but they were topics that I could easily cram study. 

My mate Michael made the final in 2014 and he was desperate to do Wrestlemania so he could get a  free trip to either Full Sail or Greenwich but it was considered too 'low brow' so he did the Salem Witch Trials instead and got a free trip to Boston, whilst the winner chose Philip Larkin and got a trip to Hull. Who was the real winner? (No offence @tiger_rick)

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10 hours ago, Monkee said:

Currently a bit obsessed with Richard Osman’s House of Games

Through work I ended up chatting to Angellica Bell at an event last year, and the week previous she'd been on House of Games. Rather than talk about something interesting I asked her about this far-better-than-it-should-be quiz show. The two nuggets of 3AM girls trivia I scooped were:

1. All five episodes are filmed in one day, in a studio in Glasgow. 

2. Scarlet Moffat forgot to pack knickers, so borrowed some from Angellica. If you compare the size of these two women this boggles the mind. 

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I'd feel compelled to try and get Street Fighter in there, possibly something Marvel related (Squirrel Girl, methinks), some kind of French Touch (electronic music gubbins, although maybe try and narrow it to Daft Punk/Justice) Scott Pilgrim, and maybe try and get some homework done about the work of Yuzo Koshiro. 

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20 minutes ago, Onyx2 said:

. All five episodes are filmed in one day, in a studio in Glasgow. 

The earlier seasons were filmed in London I believe, but the most reason series was definitely filmed in Glasgow (the move was to do with some very dull financial loophole with how funding is doled out by the BBC during commissioning), and they did 100 episodes in four weeks, which is a mad amount in such a short time frame.   

 

2 minutes ago, Rey_Piste said:

She lost a good chunk of weight.

This was definitely filmed either before said weight-loss, or after she had returned to her former physique as she was definitely closer to the picture on the left. 

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12 hours ago, Keith Houchen said:

I’ve had a few five pointers over the years. The only one I can remember off hand was “1923 FA Cup final” 

I've definitely got at least two, though the only one I can remember was "Mogwai Multiply". 

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