In It To Win It

[FoxLee2]

I was catching up with yesterday's In It To Win It and one question was 'which national capital is furthest south?' The options were Sydney, Cape Town and Wellington. I was under the belief that Canberra is the capital of Australia and Sydney is only the capital of New South Wales.

[Gizmonster]

You are correct, Canberra is def the capital of Australia.
I bet they had a few letters/emails, etc, over that blunder lol :P

[Hopkirk]

What did they give as the correct answer?

[FoxLee2]

Seems a pretty big mistake by whoever at the Beeb.

[FoxLee2]

The contestant offered Sydney (!) but the answer is Wellington in NZ

[Hopkirk]

Well I don't see a mistake, as Sydney was not the correct answer.

[Cloverjo]

The question implies that all of the options are national capitals.

[Hopkirk]

.. or you could say that the question asks for one national capital.

[FoxLee2]

I may not have put the exact wording, it could have been which of these national capitals.....They should all have been national capitals. If there was a question about rugby players (well there was actually) the three options should all have been rugby players and not one and two cricketers.

[Hopkirk]

OK, I concede you have a point, but I doubt the Beeb will lose much sleep over it.

Different story if the correct answer was wrong.

[wolf63]

I think that Australia has one national capital but as few cities that are state/area capitals. Sydney is a capital but not of the entire country.

[gingejbee]

Ah....I know the answer to this, Dale. It isn't A because...blah, blah......it isn't C because blah, blah...(have I wasted enough time yet, Dale)....so, it must be B, Dale.
"would you like me to take B as your answer then?"
"Er, yes please Dale. Oh, it might be A after all".
And so on...and so on....

[FoxLee2]

It's the same on Eggheads - they go through all the options and then settle on the obvious one which they knew all along. It happens on Decimate too although in that case, the majority of contestants have to examine each answer as they seem to have such poor general knowledge e.g. Nixon was the first President to live in the White House or Wat Tyler was involved in the Gunpowder Plot.

[chaptazbru2]

I love this show, but you are right gingejbee, the time wasting is beyond belief !

[Sipowicz]

Hasn't Dale piled the weight on? Doesn't look healthy!

[ichkeria]

Cape Town isn't really the national capital of South Africa either.
That's generally accepted as being Pretoria depending on your definition of "capital". Certainly if you had to pick just one, Cape Town would be an odd choice

[novalis]

Cape Town is S.A's legislative capital. Pretoria its administrative capital and Bloemfontein its judicial capital. I agree with al the comments about the time-wasting.

[Supermike]

It's strange because I don't watch In It To Win It but they had exactly the same question on Pointless. Is that a coincidence?

[chaptazbru2]

Talking about Pointless, did anyone hear Richard say, a couple of nights ago, that Prince George was born in 2010? He wasn't !

[weecalf]

I thought the capital of Australia was A