Don't know if anyone's seen this show, but it's quite good. It's a quiz that is kind of similar to Family Fortunes in some ways. Basically, they ask 100 people a question and give them 100 seconds to come up with as many answers as they can prior to the show. The contestants then get asked those questions, but unlike Family Fortunes, their aim is to come up with correct answers that as few people as possible have given, with the ultimate being a correct answer that none of the 100 people gave, i.e. a pointless answer.
So, as an example, if the question was to name a character from Friends, you wouldn't say the likes of Phoebe, Ross etc, as they will have scored very highly. You'd want to give the more obscure answers like Gunther, Ursula, Susan etc.
Anyway, at the end of the show, they're left with one team of two people. They are given one final question (they get to choose from three categories), they have a minute to come up with 3 answers, and if any of those 3 answers is a pointless answer, they win the jackpot, which goes up by £1000 a day until someone wins, plus they add £250 for any pointless answers given during the show.
Anyway, the other day the final couple chose cricket as their last question, and they had to name players who had played cricket for England (test match, ODI or T20), but were born outside of England. I managed to get two pointless answers from my 3 guesses. Anyone else fancy a crack at it? I may not remember all the pointless answers, but I can probably remember most of the ones they gave (there are quite a few).
The guy doing it on the show (who basically over-rode his sister on choosing cricket even though she said she knew nothing about it) gave two of his guesses as Ian Bell and Ronnie Bopara. Both of those were wrong (he got Bopara wrong on two counts, name and he was born in England). His third guess was a correct answer, so I won't say it, but it wasn't a pointless answer (4 or 5 people said it I think).
Only BCFA team to beat BSXI 4 times since 12th December 2009.....
