Pointless-Tonight's Answer On Who Are They

[gollob]

Tonight's programme wanted to know who sang "White Christmas" with the initials B C and Who partnered Emu with initials R H
The answers given by the university boys Jake and Olly were Barry Carlisle and Rolf Harris. Where they answering deliberately wrong or were they really that thick?

[jeffa]

White Christmas remains one of the biggest selling songs of all time, the biggest depending on how you calculate it.

Do you know who wrote the piece of music usually called "The Blue Danube"? If you do, how can that possibly be? It's way before your time.

[sandyRoe]

I'd guess older people pick up a lot of facts by a sort of osmosis. Uni students are probably at the start of that process and haven't amassed the piles of useless information that us oldies have.

[jeffa]

Ever watched University Challenge?

[Old_Geezer]

I didn't see the show but surely the point of the pointless contest is to give answers others didn't think of, so they'd deliberately not say the obvious ones but take a punt on something they thought might be true ?

[FredPuli43]

Jeffa, The Blue Danube was composed by Johann Straus II. I had to look it up.

[anotheoldgit]

If the 'young uns' are to be excused for not knowing much about past things, why do the young uns' on AnswerBank, always think they know so much about how things were in the past?

[FredPuli43]

You are familiar with the idea that young 'uns think they know everything, AOG?

As to history, it is better if you have through some of it, to give personal experience. But experience is only personal, one person's account. It may be that historians and the sources they provide give a broader and better account than that of one individual.

[jim360]

The young'uns on AB are a different class of young 'un!

[FredPuli43]

^"have loved through some^

[FredPuli43]

jim, I may be a young 'un to some on here, and I'm 66 !

[Tilly2]

The two lads tonight weren't bad.

[FredPuli43]

They were pretty good . Recognising the dust cover of the first edition of The Great Gatsby with the title removed was quite neat. There weren't obvious clues, unlike with the one for The Maltese Falcon. They were good in the other rounds too. They were students. They didn't know who was Labour Chancellor from 1950-1 so didn't attempt that one, but they might be forgiven not knowing that

[Tilly2]

I didn't get Nick Clegg!

[weecalf]

Rod Hull answer to question on the popular pointless less than 24 later Hull wins the year of culture .Coincidence or just plain spooky ?

[Postdog]

The silliest one of all was tonight about Marlon Brando films. The women said they knew them all (every other letter missing job) but gave the one anyone could have got. As a result, highest score.

[Tilly2]

I didn't like the daughter.