Pointless - 100 people

[birdling]

Love Pointless.
Just wondering about the 100 people they ask the questions to, though. Has anyone on here ever been one of those asked?
Sometimes the results are a bit odd....
I often wonder if they just make them up 🤣

I used to get surveys through for them years ago. Not sure why it stopped tbh.
I found majority of questions seemed much harder in real life when you had to type the answers than when you watch on TV!

I'm sure it is. I didn't realise it was online. I imagined them going up to people in the street in a 'have you got a spare 100 seconds?' kind of way. 😂

I did read once that they don't know it's for Pointless, but I don't know how they find the people.

I do wonder if it's for the endless surveys that are often recommended on here as a way of earning extra money. Earn 10 p by answering the questions sort of thing.

I agree that some of the results are a bit odd. One that always sticks out for me was that only 98/100 were able to correctly identify a lion in a clear picture of said animal. Likewise only about 40/100 people knew that Cologne was in Germany.

My ex and some of his family went one family fortunes once and they were asked the questions.

I've been on Pointless, my partner and I were curious about how it all works. The producer told us it's a phone surgery but they don't always get 100 answers. Showbiz innit.

I have to remind myself that Cologne is in Germany - I know it is, but for some strange reason my brain really wants me to think it’s in France. So if I was particularly distracted on the day I might have answered incorrectly; or at least some years ago I might have - I think by now I’ve probably cemented it into my knowledge bank well enough that I’d definitely remember. Lots of people don’t know much about geography but they might guess from the word that it could be French (possibly because of the scent association?) so I could actually see that one being quite likely.

*survey

I used to be on a survey site called Crowdology and had a few surveys which were v obviously for Pointless although it didn't specifically say so. Most of them had time limits, which does make it harder than you'd think to get the right answers (although fairly sure I'd have recognised a lion!) One I remember was obviously for the final question on the theme of Rebels - had to name actors in Rebel Without a Cause, Rebel Wilson films & stops on Madonna's Rebel Heart tour. I saw the question come up on Pointless several months later!

There was one the other day where they had a picture of a bus, 3 letter clue and it began with a b. I think that the result was somewhere in the 80's. I was incredulous 😂

Heh. I wonder if people get a form of stage fright where they just can’t think. If there’s a very short time limit that could well be the case. And I’d also posit that some people might second guess if there’s something else in the picture they’re supposed to be seeing? Then they might not get the right answer in time.

I really want to be one of the '100 people given 100 seconds' now 😁

I was one of the 100 people for a nature-themed version of Pointless at a national event. I ruined everything by knowing the names of too many species of wild cats.

There was once one that was the colours in Joseph's coat in the song from the musical.

There were quite a few Pointless answers. DSis and I said they mustn't have had anybody who'd been in the musical at school in the 100 because we could still reel them all off twenty-odd years later!

I saw one about Aha one time and I'm sure they must have asked 100 people leaving an Aha concert as some of the more random songs were mentioned.