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£1,000,000 Question

Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2019 2:33 pm
by bazodee
Earlier this week, new British WWTBAM host Jeremy Clarkson delivered his first £1 million question. Here's the clip from YouTube. I'm really happy to see how classic the setting was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72RgD0F ... eMATdM7rCg

Re: £1,000,000 Question

Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2019 2:40 pm
by silverscreenselect
bazodee wrote:Earlier this week, new British WWTBAM host Jeremy Clarkson delivered his first £1 million question. Here's the clip from YouTube. I'm really happy to see how classic the setting was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72RgD0F ... eMATdM7rCg
I liked what one of the commenters said:

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Any question with a Sir Winston Churchill as an option has a guaranteed Winston Churchill as an answer. That is what I learned from years of attending British school.


That's thinking outside the box.

Re: £1,000,000 Question

Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2019 3:22 pm
by jarnon
silverscreenselect wrote:I liked what one of the commenters said:

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Any question with a Sir Winston Churchill as an option has a guaranteed Winston Churchill as an answer. That is what I learned from years of attending British school.


That's thinking outside the box.
The British counterpart of the "Nixon rule." (There's an exception to that rule in the most recently posted transcript.)

Re: £1,000,000 Question

Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2019 5:11 pm
by Spock
jarnon wrote:
silverscreenselect wrote:I liked what one of the commenters said:

Spoiler
Any question with a Sir Winston Churchill as an option has a guaranteed Winston Churchill as an answer. That is what I learned from years of attending British school.


That's thinking outside the box.
The British counterpart of the "Nixon rule." (There's an exception to that rule in the most recently posted transcript.)
I have given my kids a "Dickens rule" for Knowledge Bowl questions. Always go with "A Tale of Two Cities."

Re: £1,000,000 Question

Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2019 7:35 am
by SpacemanSpiff
Spock wrote:
jarnon wrote:
silverscreenselect wrote:I liked what one of the commenters said:

Spoiler
Any question with a Sir Winston Churchill as an option has a guaranteed Winston Churchill as an answer. That is what I learned from years of attending British school.


That's thinking outside the box.
The British counterpart of the "Nixon rule." (There's an exception to that rule in the most recently posted transcript.)
I have given my kids a "Dickens rule" for Knowledge Bowl questions. Always go with "A Tale of Two Cities."
If they're wrong, it'll be he worst of times. :roll:

Re: £1,000,000 Question

Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2019 9:18 am
by themanintheseersuckersuit
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The time Churchill would have been a FS he was wandering in the wilderness