Where do they dig up these contestants?
Bradley must struggle to keep his composure,today’s programme.
Question. Where does someone called a Dundonian come from?
Answer. Cardiff:!:
I heard that one.
One from one of my Wednesday night quizzes of old…
Before Everest was discovered, which was the highest mountain in the world?
From Yorkshire, I would think.
Joking aside I do not like all the waffle on some programs but my volunteer driver and getting close to being a friend was on Egg Heads-seems they are told to ramble a bit before giving the answer. It makes us feel clever.
They are picked for KWP, aka knicker wetting potential.
Wash yer mouth out Purwell…
The waffling is meant to make the Eggheads appear cleverer because they answer straight away.
I always thought that the ‘Waffling’ was to make the programme more interesting to the viewer and explaining things that we probably didn’t know. Most of the ‘Eggheads’ are past or present world champions, I don’t think they need to ‘bull themselves up’ They are very clever, or at least, they’ve got extremely good memories. It’s a bit like my old maths teacher used to say. “I won’t necessarily mark your sum wrong if you give an incorrect answer, as long as you show the working out and that is correct”
I usually got that wrong too. 
On Tipping Point today:
Q: ‘Brickie’ is short for a person of what profession?
A: Plumber
Q: Who was the British monarch when David Cameron became Prime
Minister?
A: Pass
Nervous Contestant
On Tipping Point today a contestant passed on Question.
Who was the monarch when David Cameron became PM?
There is a time limit and I think he misheard. Felt he knew more than the lady who got through to the end round who waffled on a bit.
Ha ha. my apologies, I just posted the same thing on the ‘Heard on a quiz show’ Thread.
Question. Anagram of swap.
Answer. Bee.
Tipping Point penalty point.
Hahaha. Just where do they dig them up?
Does anyone remember the hilarious Fanny Chmelar question?
Another nervous contestant.
Question.
What is another word for ‘squander’ that can also be food dipped in batter and deep fried?
Answer.
Scampi.
Either that or she had never made a fritter.
Ha ha. Yes I heard that too. Brilliant.