Pointless Yesterday

[Barsel]

One of the questions was, 'name a Prime Minister or Chancellor whose second name contains A as the first vowel.'
Someone said Savid Javid and it wasn't allowed because it's Sajid Javid!
Seeing as how they were asking about the surname, don't you think not allowing it was mean and petty?
They knew who he meant, and yet they disallowed it and so that person went out.

[Cloverjo]

Well, the question did ask for name of the person not just the surname.

However, I agree Pointless does have a lot of inconsistencies. I remember once a contestant said the Swedish climate change activist’s name was Greta Thornberg, and they let him have that, but in the same show disallowed Tammi (Tanni) Grey Thompson.

[smurfchops]

The Chase is the same.

[novalis]

The worst example I have ever seen of this was in a lunchtime quiz hosted by Eamonn Holmes about 20 years ago. The contestant was asked 'Who was the Prime Minister at the start of the the 20th century?' and he answered 'Lord Salisbury'. EH said 'No, it was Robert Cecil' and the contestant missed out on a cash prize because of that. Lord Salisbury and Robert Cecil were one and the same and he had the title when he was PM.