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The latest wrong answer to a racing question on “The Chase”:
Which precious metal appears in the name of three Grand National winners? Gold, Platinum or Silver.
The contestant selected Gold but the answer is Silver. Chaser Mark “The Beast” Labbett got it right.
It was very unfortunate for the contestant. He went for the higher offer of £64,000 and if he had answered correctly he would have banked the money for the final Chase.
I thought it was Silver because I thought of Silver Birch and Nicolaus Silver. I expect I have missed something obvious with the third one!
I had to Google it, Ascestic’s Silver in 1906.
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Silver Birch came immediately to mind so I think I’d have had to go with that.
I had a look, there are no ‘platinums’ and ‘gold’ appears only in Golden Miller. I can understand why you’d put gold if you didn’t know to be honest.
Re Eggheads, I’ve also not seen it for years, it’s a bit boring really and yes Kevin does come across alright. I seem to remember he was once Peter Kay’s phone a friend on Who Wants to be a Millionaire? A useful friend to have in that situation!
Labbett said he did not know for sure but he remembered Silver Birch, hence his answer.
The two contestants who made it to the final round had £11,000 in the bank and set a target of 16. Labbett caught them with 10 seconds to spare.
He said remembering Silver Birch – and the contestant getting it wrong – cost the team victory and £25,000 each. Otherwise the contestant would have got home, taken the prize fund to £75,000, added another step to their starting position and he almost certainly would have correctly answered at least one or two questions the pair did not know.
I think the Chase is quite well handicapped, any reasonably competent player should make it to the final round from the middle starting point but it’s not too easy or difficult. At the end it’s quite often won or lost on a moment like you describe above.
Eggheads is stacked in favour of the pros, once they have at least three in the final, it’s very unlikely they won’t know something between them or be able to work it out.
It is why I believe the teams should always take on Kevin Ashman in the earlier rounds. If they can knock him out, their chances of winning in the final are far higher.
I actually wanted the Chaser to win this evening. First one got £7k but was caught, seemed like a good player too, his seven were on a range of subjects and he hit the post at the end for an eighth.
The other three all took the low offer (£1k, £1k, £2k). The last one was offered £118k after also getting seven right. I’d have gone for that all day long. The two were never going to win alone and if I wanted to win a grand I’d go on Pointless. Rather go out in flames. In the end the three set a respectable 20 and Mark caught them with about five seconds left. They’d have hosed up with the fourth player but three low offers is a no from me.
Once of the Chaser’s questions was ‘the Qatar Goodwood Festival is held in what sport’ which he of course knew. Racing got a mention in a multiple choice question about a course that shares its name with a type of cravat (Doncaster, Newmarket or Ascot). Never heard of it but I guessed Ascot correctly, just sounded right.
The latest reminder that things which are well known in racing are not necessarily well known by the public from “The Chase”:
Question: In which area of horse racing was Martin Pipe the Champion Trainer? Flat, Point To Point, National Hunt?
The contestant selected Flat. Chaser Mark Labbett chose the correct answer.
It made no difference. The contestant had taken the low offer of £2 and got back to be part of a team of 3 with £7,002 in the bank. They set a target of 19, which Labbett failed to reach with a score of only 16.
The latest reminder that things which are well known in racing are not necessarily well known by the public from “The Chase”:
I find the general knowledge of people entering quizzes like “The Chase” to be lacking, not just in racing, but in anything before they were born, or lack interest in. In other words they expect everything to revolve around them.
Also in quizzes like the Chase they have big dreams of what they do when they win, but don’t try for the big money.
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But you can give them to the birds and bees.On “Pointless” the hosts used to gently tell off anyone who said they did not know the answer because “it was before my time”.
From The Chase this evening. Mark was set 18 by a team of three and rattled through the first 17 with 40 seconds left. Then ‘in Australia, what is known as ‘the race that stops a nation’?’. He said ‘Gold Cup’ in the sort of tone that suggested he knew he was wrong. The contestants didn’t have a clue and he did belatedly realise it was the Melbourne Cup. Apparently he’d even been to the race during his time on the Australian version. I imagine he was kicking himself for not getting the perfect 18 especially as he had all the time in the world. Happens to the best of them.
Last night’s Mastermind asked which famous horse race was won in 2023 by Corach Rambler (Derek Fox got a mention in the typically long-winded question).
The contestant hesitated slightly but got it right. I feel it was probably the only horse race that she knew the name of but at least she got it
From an episode of “The Chase”:
Bradley Walsh: Down Royal and Downpatrick in Northern Ireland are venues for the racing of which animals?
Contestant: Cows.
That’s brilliant. I hope that conjures up as funny a mental image for everyone else as it does me.
I have seen camel racing on TV in the Middle East which is quite the spectacle. Literally dozens of the things, all with a robotic jockey on their backs being followed by a fleet of vehicles with blokes hanging out of the sunroofs presumably controlling them.
“I find the general knowledge of people entering quizzes like “The Chase” to be lacking, not just in racing, but in anything before they were born, or lack interest in. In other words they expect everything to revolve around them.”
There was a classic case of the above on an episode I watched last night.
The contestant was a young woman, probably late teens or possibly early 20s. She scored zero in the cash builder round (to be fair, I have seen other contestants get that score).
Paul Sinha was quite kind to her, which was a wise move. If he had made any of his usual sarcastic comments it might have looked like bullying.
He had to do minus £1,000 for the low offer and £10,000 for the high offer, matching what had already been banked by the first two contestants. She sensibly opted for the low offer.
Unfortunately she only answered one question correctly (a lucky guess) before being caught. But it became a little annoying when she constantly wailed that the questions were about things “before her time” or said she had never heard of any of the people mentioned.
If you are young and go on a quiz show, it is highly likely you are going to be asked about things that happened before you were born! If you are not interested, maybe quizzes aren’t your thing?
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