[Shaun]

We have regained a Nick and picked up a parmnion! We have, however, misplaced Ashley again... so we're now at 17 players.

1) Name a team to have played in the Premier League, that starts with the letter S

Southampton - 12
Sheffield United - 5

2) Name a famous basketballer

Kobe Bryant - 6
Michael Jordan - 6
LeBron James - 3
Dennis Rodman - 1
Shaquille O'Neal - 1

3) Name a sport that doesn't use balls

Badminton - 8
Swimming - 5
Boxing - 2
Athletics - 1
Fishing - 1

4) Name a female tennis player, other than the Williams sisters

Martina Navratilova - 6
Maria Sharapova - 4
Steffi Graf - 4
Anna Kournikova - 1
Naomi Osaka - 1
Virginia Wade - 1
and none for Margaret Court, homophobic bitch

5) Name someone who's won the Formula 1 Drivers' Championship, other than Lewis Hamilton

Michael Schumacher - 12
Jensen Button - 2
James Hunt - 1
Nico Rosberg - 1
Sebastian Vettel - 1

6) Name a type of golf club

Driver - 8
Putter - 6
Iron - 3

7) Name someone who's headlined the Super Bowl halftime show

The Weeknd - 5
Lady Gaga - 4
Beyonce - 3
Madonna - 2
Janet Jackson - 1
Jennifer Lopez - 1
Tina Turner - 1

8) Name an English football stadium, other than Wembley

Old Trafford - 13
Anfield - 3
White Hart Lane - 1

9) Name one of the events in a women's heptathlon

100m Hurdles - 9
800m - 3
High Jump - 3
Javelin - 1
Long Jump - 1

10) Name a country that takes part in the Six Nations rugby tournament, other than England

Wales - 11
Scotland - 4
France - 1
Ireland - 1

11) Name a famous racehorse

Red Rum - 10
Seabiscuit - 3
Shergar - 3
Frankel - 1

12) Name a professional football commentator

Martin Tyler - 5
Gary Lineker - 4
John Motson - 3
Clive Tyldesley - 2
Gary Neville - 2
Chris Kamara - 1

13) Name an England football manager, other than Gareth Southgate

Sven Goran Eriksson - 6
Roy Hodgson - 3
Sam Allardyce - 3
Alf Ramsay - 2
Bobby Robson - 1
Kevin Keegan - 1
Terry Venables - 1

14) Name a famous cyclist

Bradley Wiggins - 8
Lance Armstrong - 8
Chris Hoy - 1

15) Name a Dutch football legend

Johan Cruyff - 11
Robin van Persie - 2
Arjen Robben - 1
Dennis Bergkamp - 1
Marco van Basten - 1
Virgil van Dijk - 1

SCORES

Cherie - 115
Shaun - 114
MTVN - 111
Alf - 107
hijaxers - 106
Black Dagger - 105
James - 105
Kate! - 99
Mitchell - 97
Denver - 93
Nick. - 92
Calderyon - 91
Jessica - 91
Niamh - 86
Kazanne - 84
Strictly Jake - 82
parmnion - 72

[Alf]

A Swede beating the only man that won us the World Cup.

[Alf]

Gary Lineker is not a football commentator, he's a show host, a show anchor.

[Shaun]

1) Name a famous song released by The Bee Gees
2) Name a band or artist who has released a song called "The Power of Love"
3) Name a famous song released by Miley Cyrus
4) Name a band or artist who has released a song called "Poison"
5) Name a band or group with only two members
6) Name a Christmas song
7) Name a member of the band Fleetwood Mac
8) Name a genre of music that you might associate with the music of Rihanna
9) Name a country that has won the Eurovision Song Contest in the 21st century
10) Name an album released by Lady Gaga
11) Name someone whose music was still released post-humously
12) Name an instrument you might find in the percussion section of an orchestra
13) Name a classical composer that isn't Mozart or Beethoven
14) Name a famous musician who - you think - has no talent (I want to start fights with this one <3)
15) Name someone who has sung an official Bond theme, other than Shirley Bassey

REMEMBER: If you wish to take part in this game, you must PM your answers to me. Discussion of the answers in any form in this thread (or indeed elsewhere) is not permitted, and I'll have to penalise you for cheating or attempting to influence others' answers.

Round 8 will be open until Tuesday, 4 May (at roughly the same time as this, probably?)

[Alf]

Sam "one week in the job" Allerdyce, also tops Sir Alf.

[Shaun]

yeah Sven winning that question was odd to me... he managed us nearly 20 years ago and didn't really acheive anything remarkable.

I went for Keegan because I thought he was a big enough name to outweigh the recent options (I knew that Capello, Hodgson, McClaren, Allardyce etc. wouldn't win)

[Alf]

Some of these answers?

I reckon people have been sending their pointless answers into you Shaun.

James Hunt?

[Shaun]

It was news to me that Nico Rosberg won a season...my F1 knowledge ended in around 2008 when he was still an up-and-coming nobody

[Alf]

I guess people just didn't think of Boxing? By far a more well known sport than badminton. I must admit, Badminton never entered my thoughts for a second.

[Alf]

Also, what was it about the 100m hurdles for the heptathlon question that made it so popular?

I expected tighter scores for that question. Didn't expect a near on landslide.

[Calderyon]

Poor showing here as well.

[Cherie]

How did I do that?

[Cherie]

How did I do that?

[Ammi]

...I’m not sure that question 14 will work for Pointless....it could be so obscure and very time taking to Google to confirm ...?...is there any guidance you can give me for these like with the sport ones, Shaun...?..

[Ammi]

...well done btw...Cherie, Shaun, Matt, Alf and Jaxie.../...the top 5.....

[MTVN]

Originally Posted by Alf

I guess people just didn't think of Boxing? By far a more well known sport than badminton. I must admit, Badminton never entered my thoughts for a second.

I think it's just because Badminton is the closest to being a ball sport without actually being one if that makes sense

[Shaun]

Originally Posted by Ammi

...I’m not sure that question 14 will work for Pointless....it could be so obscure and very time taking to Google to confirm ...?...is there any guidance you can give me for these like with the sport ones, Shaun...?..

it's basically a "personal opinion" question so nothing's factually correct, but at the same time nothing is technically wrong either

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Alf

I guess people just didn't think of Boxing? By far a more well known sport than badminton. I must admit, Badminton never entered my thoughts for a second.

I said Boxing too, never even thought of Badminton either, I briefly considered F1 because there was an F1 question on the list

Originally Posted by Alf

Also, what was it about the 100m hurdles for the heptathlon question that made it so popular?

I expected tighter scores for that question. Didn't expect a near on landslide.

It's first on the list

[Niamh.]

I did horrifcally though waa

[MTVN]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I did horrifcally though waa

Go for Ireland on 6 Nations by any chance?

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by MTVN

Go for Ireland on 6 Nations by any chance?

That was me

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by MTVN

Go for Ireland on 6 Nations by any chance?

Nope I actually did get top in that one

[hijaxers]

Originally Posted by Cherie

How did I do that?

Well done Cherie

[Calderyon]

I had at least 2-3 answers initially correct, but changed them.

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by hijaxers

Well done Cherie

Thanks Jax, winning a sport is especially satisfying you did well also