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£1,000,000 Question

#1 Post by bazodee » Tue Mar 05, 2019 2:33 pm

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

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Re: £1,000,000 Question

#2 Post by silverscreenselect » Tue Mar 05, 2019 2:40 pm

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.
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Re: £1,000,000 Question

#3 Post by jarnon » Tue Mar 05, 2019 3:22 pm

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.)
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Re: £1,000,000 Question

#4 Post by Spock » Tue Mar 05, 2019 5:11 pm

jarnon wrote:
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.)
I have given my kids a "Dickens rule" for Knowledge Bowl questions. Always go with "A Tale of Two Cities."

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Re: £1,000,000 Question

#5 Post by SpacemanSpiff » Wed Mar 06, 2019 7:35 am

Spock wrote:
jarnon wrote:
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.)
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:
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Re: £1,000,000 Question

#6 Post by themanintheseersuckersuit » Fri Mar 08, 2019 9:18 am

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The time Churchill would have been a FS he was wandering in the wilderness
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feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive

The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.

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