The first sounds mildly autistic and the second reminds me of my dad!QuizMaster wrote:As an inverse argument to this thread, one of the best SWP players I ever knew (in the sense that he could empty certain machines within 30 minutes of being served a drink, such was his instant recall on spoilers) did not know the following:
1/ Who is the lead singer of Queen (we're going back a bit)
2/ With which soap would you associate the character Bet Lynch.
I was dumbfounded - he geniunely did not know.
I also know somebody who is heavily into science (fact and trivia) and linguistics (he is a big help on new question banks), but he doesn't know which football team play at Old Trafford.
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i hesitate to say it but, does anyone in the world not know that roger daltrey was the stosh guy from queen? i can't believe that somebody can become a quizzer without knowing that.
QM, he was pulling your plonker.
i suspect that some people are being overly modest in this thread. clumsy metaphor but, if i held the world record for the coconut chorus i'd make sure everyone knew. that is not impressive though.
but "knowledge is a ceaseless and enjoyable thing" is always the right answer.
QM, he was pulling your plonker.
i suspect that some people are being overly modest in this thread. clumsy metaphor but, if i held the world record for the coconut chorus i'd make sure everyone knew. that is not impressive though.
but "knowledge is a ceaseless and enjoyable thing" is always the right answer.
nobody ever wins on those things.
It certainly can happen (re not knowing something 'obvious'). Two very good quizzers and a couple of the Eggheads recently didn't know which London football team was owned by Messrs Ecclestone, Briatore and Mittal, even when given three options to choose from. At least one of those two quizzers is amongst the top 10 in the country on the formal quiz circuit, and would know thousands of things that I wouldn't, but he didn't know something that to anyone with even a passing interest in English football or Formula 1 was a 'gimme'.
There's obvious and there's obvious NS - the converse of your point is that anyone without any interest in football would be unlikely to know the question you describe - it's not as if the takeover of QPR by those guys has made the front-end of the newspaper, is it? Whereas QM's Freddie Mercury example is something you would really expect absolutely everybody to know, even a High Court judge! But I guess QM's pal took the Bobby Fischer view - Fischer's standard response to any non-chess talk was "what's that got to do with chess?", and I imagine by the same token QM's pal would probably think "no machine asks who is the singer with Queen, so it's simply not worth my knowing that".
I suppose the real point is that we all have areas of strengths and weaknesses in our knowledge which are based on so many factors - age, upbringing, education, career, reading and viewing habits, hobbies and interests, quizzing activities, whether or not we have an enquiring mind...
What is obvious to one person may not be to another. 10 million plus people follow The X Factor avidly and could name all the contestants, summarise their life stories, say what each one is like and tell you who they think should win whereas I for one would not recognise any of them if I sat next to them on the Tube.
What is obvious to one person may not be to another. 10 million plus people follow The X Factor avidly and could name all the contestants, summarise their life stories, say what each one is like and tell you who they think should win whereas I for one would not recognise any of them if I sat next to them on the Tube.