no not really, just happens with a series. people watch the first few episodes, then more and more people drop off later on. look up basically any game playthrough with numbered episodes and the first episodes do the best, with middle sections being baron, and finales have a bit more than that because people skip to the end edit: seem to have misread your comment, i think the REAL answer is that people just like the alesmen
The Alesmen are a perfect example of why they need to raise the points amount for the first two connecting sections. I like the missing vowels round, and they should keep it, but it needs to not be as important as it is overall. The first two rounds are far more reflective of a teams connecting skills, and each point that they earn takes a lot more knowledge than guessing at the missing vowels. Missing vowels is still a fun round to be sure, but it needs to be outweighed by the first few rounds. I'd say, up the other rounds by one or two points per answer - for example, instead of a 2 point answer, it would go up to a 3 or 4 pointer. That way a team as good as the Alesmen wouldn't be punished as much for not being fast on the buzzer.
The missing vowels round only earns one point per correct answer and is still a test of recognising connections with the added test of speed. It is perfectly fair.
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I'm always awed by the contestants of this show, they're always so incredibly bright. These questions are incredibly fiendish and for them to even get a few right is very impressive.
I'm watching an episode of the game show Tenable and The Wrights are the contestants. This time with son and his fiancee. And Rosa is now wavy brown haired. Looks totally different
After rooting against the alesman in the previous game I think they redeemed themselves quite spectacularly in this one, that choice to go for water in round one showed good natured acceptance of their previous loss and they came off as a lot less off putting in general loved some of their witticisms in this episode
Briefly skimming the Wikipedia article, it looks like it's a case of "all Sabertooth Tigers are Sabertooth Cats, but not all Sabertooth Cats are Sabertooth Tigers."
Gutted for the Alesman. Once again let down on the vowel round (though admittedly this time they also performed poorly on the first two, despite pulling it back in the wall). I now want to go back to their first two walls to see whether them losing tonnes of points on the vowel round is a trend haha
An interval in music can be both harmonic and melodic. It's an harmonic interval when two notes form a chord (i.e. one note above or below the other and played simultaneously). A melodic interval is formed between two notes which are adjacent to each other (i.e. played one after the other). Therefore, in the Wrights' connecting wall, Victoria Coren is wrong to say that the musical terms are all exclusively connected to harmony. Just for the sake of clarity, like.
That's an extremely fine hair to split, and the connection between the four is specifically harmony, regardless of whether one of the four fits into other categories.
the bigger issue here is that "root" could be argued to belong to this category too and thus its the first wall I've seen that doesn't have one exclusive correct solution
Yes, but if you move "Root" into the music category, which musical term are you going to swap it with? Triad beer, suspension beer, interval beer or cadence beer? There are always red herrings in connecting walls, but only ever one perfect set of four groups of four.
I don’t think having given an answer that was wrong that contestants should be allowed a second chance and then give a different answer, which is then correct, which is what happened with the Alesmen. That’s allowing extra thinking time, which is not fair to the other team, and offering two different answers. This is not the same as giving a partly correct answer and then being allowed a chance to refine that answer.
5:33 "johny depp" "i don't know who that is" ..... dang i mean i get maybe you dont watch his shows, but hes popular enough where most people have heard of him at least. Or did i mishear what they said
Some of us just don't have the brain space for who a celebrity is. I feel it's POINTLESS trivia. I can't keep up with them, and one time I challenged myself to name TWENTY different celebrities with their names right and everything, and frankly, it was a challenge. Johnny Depp, however, is Captain Jack Sparrow!
Swedish person here: The reason the word "omelette" is used to make people smile is because in Swedish is a matter of pronunciation. The emphasis is on the second syllable and not the first, so the smile the e sound makes is more pronounced, and it's also closer to the e sound in the English "lettuce", as opposed to the English pronunciation of "omelette", which is a more "subdued" e sound, like in for example "chess". So basically, don't blame us being dour, blame Victoria not knowing how Swedish words are pronounced ;-)
Great teams, but the guessing during that very straightforward sequence about Belfast party politics says a lot about how little British people know or care about that part of the U.K. ... They got the point though, but that was a very basic question for this programme.
