Celebrities On General Knowledge Quizzes. How Come Celeb's Are Nearly Always

[gollob]

very thick on GK quizzes yet they are always clever when they appear on Countdown. Are most selected for being thick yet Countdown only select clever people

[Denton]

He's winding you up,Naomi.

[Old_Geezer]

Countdown standards seem to accept anyone, but to be a high scorer you need to have a good vocabulary, have a keen eye, analytical mind, and be able to do sums. Whereas general knowledge requires a good memory for all sorts of useless info. Different skills.

[naomi24]

Weecalf. You wouldn’t be earning any money. You’re not a celebrity.

Denton. ;o)

[andy-hughes]

Countdown does indeed require a specific set of skills, namely the ability to create words from letters, and work out maths sums.

I would be useless at both, but my general knowledge is reasonable, so I would actually appear reasonably bright on something like The Chase, but thick as a timber yard on Countdown.

[retrocop]

I think some so called celebrities deliberately portray themselves as thick bimbo airheads. For some reason they must think it's funny. You know the type," I can't even boil an egg giggle giggle". Being a fairly competitive person, when it comes to quizzes, they irritate the hell out of me.

[weecalf]

Think earn means you get something you deserve as in Ive answers questions so I’ve earned the money .

[andy-hughes]

retrocop - // I think some so called celebrities deliberately portray themselves as thick bimbo airheads. For some reason they must think it's funny. You know the type," I can't even boil an egg giggle giggle". Being a fairly competitive person, when it comes to quizzes, they irritate the hell out of me. //

You are in good company with Chris Rock.

One of his most famous routines is the difference between black people and (guess the word).

He hates that the fact that the second group are actually proud of not knowing things - and you (and I) can entirely see where he is coming from.

We have two local radio presenters who have the 'I don't know anything, I'm a thick Stokie, me ...' persona, and I never listen to them for that exact reason.