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I assume the episode was made not long after Royal Ascot that year. The race did make the front page of several papers and I am sure it was reported on the BBC News as well.
A reasonable quizzer should have known the answer. I doubt Sinha is a massive racing fan but he locked in his answer straightaway.
Yes, The Queen’s winners at big meetings usually made somewhere in the last five minutes of the BBC news as I recall. Perhaps a case their need to cover the Royals positively trumping their instinct to cover racing negatively for once.
Two racing questions from the same set in this evening’s final chase.
‘In 2016, who became the second jockey to be knighted?’
None of the three contestants knew and they passed.
They did at least get ‘the Triple Crown of Hurdling is contested in which sport?’ which was asked a few questions later.
Not that it helped, they set only 13 and despite a couple of pushbacks Jenny Ryan won at a canter.
Triple crown of hurdling is that a thing, never heard of it.
The things I want most in life are the things that I can't win.
There was a question on “The Chase” in the cash builder round which asked “The racehorse trainer Gerald Barnard Balding was better known by which first name?”
Most racing fans will know it was Toby. But I thought that was quite a specialist question in the cash builder round where the contestant does not have multiple choice.
Yes I would be surprised if more than one or two of the Chasers even knew that with or without multiple choice, I don’t recall any of them showing themselves to be a racing fan.
Today’s amusing “answers to a question on horse racing on a television quiz show” is taken from “Richard Osman’s House of Games”.
To explain, it features four “celebrities”. In one round they play as two teams of two.
Today’s pairs round was called “Distictly Average” where they were asked a question with a numerical answer. Each person in the pair has to write down their own answer, with the average of the two then taken as the pair’s collective answer. The pair that is closest to the answer wins the point.
One of the questions today was “How many winners did jockey AP McCoy ride in his career?”
The winning pair put 29 and 1,000. The losing pair put something like 65 and 200. The first pair won with an average of 514.5. All the contestants were shocked at the correct answer being 4,300+.
That’s spectacular, especially in a show where the questions are generally on the easier end of the scale.
I’m not a massive fan of House of Games. It’s a bit of harmless fun and vaguely amusing but I guess I don’t really like that’s it’s restricted to celebrities (term of course used loosely). To me quiz shows should be about ordinary people with the occasional charity special for famous people.
The host is probably the most famous one on there sometimes, and I do quite like him generally. I suspect he’d have had a fair on the McCoy question if he didn’t write it, think he’s a fairly big sports fan and he’ll know a lot of statistics from his time on Pointless.
Osman claimed he did not know but I think he was protesting a bit too much. I doubt he is that interested in racing but he knows a lot about stats and quirky facts. McCoy won Sports Personality of the Year, so he is not unknown outside of racing’s insular world.
Agree about the game. I think the rounds vary in quality. It also depends on the celebrities. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. I only started watching it during lockdown when I was working from home. I have not seen it much since everything got back to something like normality.
I must admit I had not heard of either of the women yesterday (they put the very low answers). The two men were Milton Jones (a comedian, I believe) and Martin Roberts, host of “Homes Under The Hammer”. Not exactly the A List! Jones gave the “best” answer with 1,000.
I know the daily prizes they win are cheap but I wonder if they have to declare it in some way, like on their tax return along with their appearance fee?
Having looked up who was on, I know Milton Jones and Ria Lina from Mock the Week, think they are both on the panel show merry go round. He does a lot of wordplay/pun type comedy which is alright as part of a panel show but I’m not sure I could go and watch him do it for an hour on his own. Only saw Lina a few times, doesn’t seem any better or worse than the average panel show regular.
No idea on the other two, I hate property programmes and couldn’t be bothered to look into the other one any further.
Osman’s fingerprints are on a lot of TV shows, even if he doesn’t appear. I suspect he’s carved out a very lucrative career.
I think he was a producer on “Deal Or No Deal”.
He is making plenty of money now from his books. I think I read Spielberg has bought the film rights to the first one.
He has given up his role on “Pointless”. Presumably he does not want to be the sidekick anymore.
I think the show has lacked something since he left. They tried to replace him with Sally Lindsay. I like her, she is funny and a good actress. But she did not look comfortable in the role and it did not work.
I believe they are rotating the sidekicks but he’s still doing the celebrity one.
I do think he’s going to be hard to replace. The thing is, as we have alluded to, he probably knew half the answers without looking them up. You aren’t going to find that many people with that genuine interest in the trivia. I think him and Armstrong go back a long way too so they will have chemistry that’s hard to replicate.
Tend to prefer The Chase anyway if I put the TV on at that time.
I believe Armstrong and Osman were friends at university.
“Pointless” is OK but “The Chase” is far better. Being up against a top quizzer gives it an edge and Bradley Walsh is superb as the host.
Always found the prize money on Pointless both low and unfair. It’s equally difficult to win every day but if ten people before you fail, you get £11k, if somebody won the day before you get a grand. As a contestant I’m not going through all that for a grand (or is it split so £500?).
Walsh is indeed superb and I like the Chasers as well. They play their roles well whilst still retaining a sense of humour. I haven’t seen Eggheads for years but their pro quizzers mostly came across as smug and cold.
There is only 1 quiz worth doing and sadly as the man is in the great working club in the sky it now can’t be done …
No racing questions yesterday but had to feel for yesterday’s team. When I came in they had two back with £4,100 (so presumably a middle and low offer). The last chap up took £86,000 (good decision, clearly with weak players so they had no chance on their own, may as well go for broke) and got back with Paul Sinha one step behind. Sinha immediately knew he’d got one wrong after answering so perhaps lucky but very well done.
Their first minute was awful and they looked to be heading for a total that ITV could have trusted me to defend. However the £86k chap went on one and dragged them to a respectable if not spectacular 16.
In the end Sinha won by a second. The sickening part? First question of their final chase was answered correctly but by the wrong person which of course cost them £30k each. I would not be sleeping well after that!
A sickener, for sure.
I used to watch “Eggheads” but I got a bit bored with it. Rather like “Pointless”, it seems unfair how some teams can win a large prize by virtue of rollovers but if the very next team achieve the same thing they only win £1,000.
I have probably mentioned it before but I used to know some people at work who formed a team and appeared on “Eggheads”. The only one who was pleasant was Kevin Ashman. All the others were totally up themselves. Daphne was the worst, so they said.
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