Mastermind

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Why does John Humphries repeat the answer with a minor correction if they are going to accept said answer. It wastes time, and is very annoying. (he did it with Swinburne lady tonight, but he's always doing it).

I suppose it's so he can be told whether it's right in his ear piece, but it's still bloody annoying.

Diplomat man got it right choosing an obscure person no-one's ever heard of as his specialist subject, - he must have only had to read one book, and it will have been the same one as the question setters.

I scored well on parasite man's general knowledge round, (but dismally on his parasites).

Other musings welcome

I always thought it was a way of giving a minor penalty (few seconds) whilst still accepting non-quite-perfection. It fosters the shows reputation for detailed knowledge.

I've decided I must be maturing splendidly, as I can now answer many more of the general knowledge (I'm firmly ascribing that to my increasing knowledge and wisdom, not dumbing down the questions!)

I've definitely got better at the GK with age, (although according to DD, I answer the question just after the contestant has).

I'm also better at University Challenge, - I wonder if I could be in a team of 'people who were at university many years ago'

Or do something at Birkbeck or OU? They seem to put in teams regularly.

And I do think they have dumbed down the questions on that show - particularly the sciences.