[Ammi]

...I’m getting the hang of this now, Shaun.....

[Ammi]

...yeah I just read the OP actually...I maybe should pay more attention to that...

[Jake.]

Originally Posted by Ammi

...I thought it had to actually be a correct answer, though...but I see it doesn’t...it just has to be what most people say but not necessarily correct..?..

Yeah, I think this has stumped me on a couple too

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Jake.

Yeah, I think this has stumped me on a couple too

...I think that’s had me stumped on every single one, Jake...if I’d read the OP, I’d be top leader..*avoids eye contact with Jake and fiddles with iPad keypad...*

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Ammi

...I thought it had to actually be a correct answer, though...but I see it doesn’t...it just has to be what most people say but not necessarily correct..?..

It only has to be correct for Pointless otherwise people could just put down anything they wanted and benefit from it. You're taking a gamble if you say a wrong answer in the Top Answer bit so if it pays off, well and good

[Ammi]

....the way I’m going to think of this is that I have no sheep mindset at all, I’m 100% individuality...

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

It only has to be correct for Pointless otherwise people could just put down anything they wanted and benefit from it. You're taking a gamble if you say a wrong answer in the Top Answer bit so if it pays off, well and good

...yeah I just read that, that it doesn’t have to be correct...I always thought it did, strangely...I would still have done atrociously, had I gone with Guy Fawkes, though...

[Shaun]

Pointless

21 sets of answers this time, so each incorrect answer is worth 21pts! Let's dive in.

1) Name a famous inventor

Shaun - David Brewster
Rob! - Rudolf Diesel
Nicky91 - Nikola Tesla
Mitchell - Tim Berners-Lee
MTVN - Alessandro Volta
AnnieK - Clement Ader
Calderyon - Nikola Tesla
Denver - Joseph Mortimer Granville
Strictly Jake - Abraham Darby
Matthew. - Sukhvinder Javeed
Babayaro. - Lance Hill
MB. - Anyos Jedlik
Smithy - Elisha Otis
Cal. - Douglas Engelbart
Niamh - Friedrich Soenneken
Ammi - Thomas Edison
Liam- - Tabitha Babbit
Cherie - Samuel Cleland Davidson
Jake - Leonardo da Vinci
Tony Montana - George Stephenson
Jessica. - Hiram Maxim
Black Dagger - Charles Goodyear

Just the one shared answer here in Mr. Tesla.

2) Name someone who has appeared on UK currency since 1900 who isn't the bloody queen

Shaun - Lord Kelvin
Rob! - Nan Shepard
Nicky91 - Winston Churchill
Mitchell - Edward Elgar
MTVN - Jemima Puddleduck
AnnieK - Peter Rabbit
Calderyon - Edward Elgar
Denver - Florence Nightingale
Strictly Jake - Elizabeth Fry
Matthew. - Sir William Arrol
Babayaro. - Matthew Boulton
MB. - Alan Turing
Smithy - Winston Churchill
Cal. - Florence Nightingale
Niamh - Michael Faraday
Ammi - Elizabeth Fry
Liam- - Christopher Wren
Cherie - Samuel Clelan Davidson
Jake - Adam Smith
Tony Montana - Winston Churchill
Jessica. - Elsie Inglis
Black Dagger - Michael Faraday

Churchill was the most popular answer in both games, scoring you an unwanted 2pts. Elgar, Faraday, Fry and Nightingale score 1pt.

3) Name a country that no longer exists under that title, other than Zaire

Shaun - The Khmer Republic
Rob! - Upper Volta
Nicky91 - Burma
Mitchell - Kampuchea
MTVN - Swaziland
AnnieK - Sikkim
Calderyon - USSR
Denver - Upper Volta
Strictly Jake - Dahomey
Matthew. - Prussia
Babayaro. - Ceylon
MB. - Savage Island
Smithy - Dahomey
Cal. - Burma
Niamh - Dahomey
Ammi - Siam
Liam- - Nyasaland
Cherie - Transjordan
Jake - Siam
Tony Montana - Newfoundland
Jessica. - Swaziland
Black Dagger - Mesopotamia

An educational game indeed, since I had no idea Swaziland changed their name in 2018 and I was ready to issue some big fat WRONGs It does score a point for being shared, though, as do Siam, Burma and Upper Volta. Dahomey scores 2pts.

4) Name a war that has taken place since the end of WW2

Shaun - Guatemalan Civil War
Rob! - Rhodesian Bush War
Nicky91 - Gulf War
Mitchell - Bosnian Civil War
MTVN - South Sudan Civil War
AnnieK - Yom Kippur War
Calderyon - United States invasion of Grenada
Denver - First Iraqi–Kurdish War (Aylul Revolts)
Strictly Jake - United States invasion of Grenada
Matthew. - Guatemalan Civil War
Babayaro. - Algerian War
MB. - Sand War
Smithy - Cold War
Cal. - Mau Mau Uprising
Niamh - Eritrean War of Independence
Ammi - Vietnam war
Liam- - Cambodian Civil War
Cherie - Falkland War
Jake - Syrian War
Tony Montana - Afghanistan War
Jessica. - Operation Ocean Shield
Black Dagger - Bale revolt

A lot of hand-wringing here on what classes as a war and what doesn't. Technically "Ocean Shield" is an anti-terrorism initiative but it does involve a military organisation (NATO) so it technically might count? Was the Cold War even a war? I don't bloody know any more, so sorry to whoever it was that I got to change their answer for being a peaceful revolution Just the two shared scores here.

5) Name a Russian president other than Putin

Shaun - Konstantin Chernenko
Rob! - Boris Yeltsin
Nicky91 - Vladimir Lenin
Mitchell - Dmitry Medvedev
MTVN - Viktor Chernomyrdin
AnnieK - Dmitry Medvedev
Calderyon - Leonid Brezhnev
Denver - Boris Yeltsin
Strictly Jake - Dmitry Medvedev
Matthew. - Dmitry Medvedev
Babayaro. - Boris Yeltsin
MB. - Nikolai Shvernik
Smithy - Boris Yeltsin
Cal. - Boris Yeltsin
Niamh - Nikita Khrushchev
Ammi - Mikhail Gorbachev
Liam- - Dmitry Medvedev
Cherie - Boris Yeltsin
Jake - Boris Yeltsin
Tony Montana - Boris Yeltsin
Jessica. - Mikhail Kalinin
Black Dagger - Yuri Andropov

I did point out they didn't have to be a president of modern-day Russia, they could've led the USSR, so I think a lot of you played ultra-safe and gave the round's first big score: Yeltsin costs you 7pts, whilst Medvedev scores you 4pts.

6) Name a Roman emperor

Shaun - Hostilian
Rob! - Otho
Nicky91 - Augustus
Mitchell - Nero
MTVN - Balbinus
AnnieK - Hadrian
Calderyon - Aemilian
Denver - Gordian III
Strictly Jake - Otho
Matthew. - Constantine III
Babayaro. - Constantius II
MB. - Theodosius I
Smithy - Valerian
Cal. - Otho
Niamh - Aemilian
Ammi - Claudius
Liam- - Gordian III
Cherie - Majorian
Jake - Licinius
Tony Montana - Macrinus
Jessica. - Elagabalus
Black Dagger - Justinian

A LOT of options to choose from here so there weren't too many casualties, but I had to make sure some chose the correct empire Only Otho scores 2pts here, the rest are just 1.

Name a chinese dynasty

Shaun - Western Liao
Rob! - Qin
Nicky91 - Zhou
Mitchell - Tang
MTVN - Sui
AnnieK - Qing
Calderyon - Liao
Denver - Tang
Strictly Jake - Sui
Matthew. - Qing
Babayaro. - Han
MB. - Later Tang
Smithy - Tang
Cal. - Han
Niamh - Sui
Ammi - Xia
Liam- - Xia
Cherie - Tang
Jake - Later Liang
Tony Montana - Qin
Jessica. - Xin
Black Dagger - Song

I have amended some answers because you may have tried to be cheeky and name a period where 2 or more dynasties had "equal rule" so just changed your answer to the prominent dynasty of the time. Tang scores 3, Sui scores 2, whilst Qin, Han, Xia and Qing score 1.

8) Name a famous person executed in the United Kingdom

Shaun - Thomas Highgate
Rob! - Perkin Warbeck
Nicky91 - Lady Jane Grey
Mitchell - Derek Bentley
MTVN - Richard Harding
AnnieK - Ruth Ellis
Calderyon - Guy Fawkes
Denver - Edmund Dudley
Strictly Jake - Robert Hubert
Matthew. - William Joyce
Babayaro. - Mahmood Hussain Mattan
MB. - Bosavern Penlez
Smithy - Charles I
Cal. - Robert Kett
Niamh - Richard Grey
Ammi - William Wallace
Liam- - Sir Francis Throckmorton
Cherie - Gwynne Evans
Jake - Guy Fawkes
Tony Montana - Walter Raleigh
Jessica. - Josef Jakobs
Black Dagger - Mary Ansell

What a lovely and bloody past we have Just one shared answer, so well done all.

9) Name a dinosaur other than a T-Rex

Shaun - Losillasaurus
Rob! - Ankylosaurus
Nicky91 - Compsognathus
Mitchell - Allosaurus
MTVN - Psittacosaurus
AnnieK - Troodon
Calderyon - Spinosaurus
Denver - Degrootorum
Strictly Jake - Carnotaurus
Matthew. - Megalosaurus
Babayaro. - Pterosaur
MB. - Khaan
Smithy - Stygimoloch
Cal. - Monoclinus
Niamh - Lambeosaurus
Ammi - Velociraptor
Liam- - Embasaurus
Cherie - Suzhousaurus
Jake - Troodon
Tony Montana - Europasaurus
Jessica. - Oryctodromeus
Black Dagger - Allosaurus

Sadly, no one said "Barney" - which would've been amusing for both the cartoonishness of the suggestion, and also because it would've been wrong

10) Name a president who served for 2 terms of office

Shaun - William McKinley
Rob! - William McKinley
Nicky91 - Barack Obama
Mitchell - Woodrow Wilson
MTVN - Grover Cleveland
AnnieK - Ulysses S Grant
Calderyon - Andrew Jackson
Denver - Grover Cleveland
Strictly Jake - Grover Cleveland
Matthew. - James Monroe
Babayaro. - George W. Bush
MB. - William McKinley
Smithy - James Monroe
Cal. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
Niamh - Thomas Jefferson
Ammi - George Washington
Liam- - Calvin Coolidge
Cherie - James Madison
Jake - Andrew Jackson
Tony Montana - Barack Obama
Jessica. - Ulysses S. Grant
Black Dagger - Grover Cleveland

I really need to get better at this "confidently name a well-known answer" malarkey. Cleveland scores 3pts, McKinley scores 2pts, whilst Jackson, Monroe and Grant score 1pt.

Scores

Jessica. - 2
MB. - 2
Ammi - 3
Shaun - 3
Nicky91 - 4
Black Dagger - 5
MTVN - 6
Niamh - 6
Calderyon - 6
Liam- - 6
AnnieK - 7
Matthew. - 7
Babayaro. - 8
Mitchell - 9
Cherie - 10
Tony Montana - 10
Jake - 11
Cal. - 12
Rob! - 13
Strictly Jake - 15
Smithy - 15
Denver - 16

Congratulations to MB and Jessica on a very impressive 2 but in a round where the highest score is 15, I think it's fair to say everyone did well!

[Ammi]

...and congratulations Ammi and Shaun..?..

[Shaun]

Originally Posted by Ammi

...yeah I just read that, that it doesn’t have to be correct...I always thought it did, strangely...I would still have done atrociously, had I gone with Guy Fawkes, though...

Yeah I mean some people are going to answer questions like "name a roman emperor" with Caesar because he's the most famous for being stabbed in the back, et tu Brute?, etc etc, even though some would argue he technically wasn't a correct answer. Most people will name a correct answer because it's the first thing that springs to your head, but often there's a commonly-held wrong answer, the sort of thing QI is good at debunking.

[Shaun]

Originally Posted by Ammi

...and congratulations Ammi and Shaun..?..

I would not like to congratulate myself, or someone of your ilk either

well done ma'am

[Ammi]

...well done Jess and MB......MB, that really was your round completely, you’re a history genius.....

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Shaun

I would not like to congratulate myself, or someone of your ilk either

well done ma'am

I used to have a friend called Shaun
those days are long gone....


...(..well done sir.....)...

[AnnieK]

Well done everyone

[Shaun]

Originally Posted by Babayaro.

Shaun, I said Tang dynasty, did I get a point for that?

I knew I missed off a 1pter for the dynasties question, have added it to your total

[Shaun]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I put that as a disclaimer in my answer but I was hoping people would still say it and they did

I was mildly surprised I was the only one to say Charles I tbh... I would've thought a king being beheaded was more "well known" than being one of Henry VIII's wives or that silly gunpowder man

[MB.]

#CancelWilliamMcKinley (and also Jemima Puddleduck, I just don't trust her)

Originally Posted by Ammi

...well done Jess and MB......MB, that really was your round completely, you’re a history genius.....

Thank you Ammi, you're not so bad yourself I'd be lying if I said Google and Wikipedia weren't my best friends this round, unless I could somehow convince everyone that I have a PhD in the Sand War

[Shaun]

I forgot to say with Pointless for the celebs round, I will allow any show that abbreviates the word "celebrity" in their title (I can't give any examples without giving people ideas for answers).

[Liam-]

Well that was a fall from Grace wasn’t it

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Shaun

I was mildly surprised I was the only one to say Charles I tbh... I would've thought a king being beheaded was more "well known" than being one of Henry VIII's wives or that silly gunpowder man

Well, speaking as someone outside of Britain, I never knew a King was beheaded but Guy Fawkes I knew because you hear of the bonfire day you have over there still today and also Henry the 8th and his many wives/wife executing is something I had heard about

[Babayaro.]

****ing boris yeltsin making my score go from 1 to 8

[Smithy]

Not me going from top to bottom a reverse real life experience

[MB.]

Originally Posted by Babayaro.

****ing boris yeltsin making my score go from 1 to 8

He's having quite the round isn't he

[Babayaro.]

Originally Posted by MB.

He's having quite the round isn't he

He's a real jerk

[Shaun]

can we have ONE THREAD without turning into a heated discussion about a Boris please!