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  • Опубликовано: 25 дек 2024

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  • @Antsapantsa
    @Antsapantsa Месяц назад +74

    That Sibelius guess was pure class

    • @GustafHabram
      @GustafHabram 27 дней назад +1

      Crazy only four people said it. Finlandia is a masterpiece

  • @brontewcat
    @brontewcat 10 месяцев назад +219

    I am astounded that Vivaldi wasn’t on the list.

    • @22espec
      @22espec 7 месяцев назад +5

      same

    • @rogerjohnson6676
      @rogerjohnson6676 2 месяца назад +7

      Excellent, then I won't guess him when I'm watching. I hate people who comment on answers like no one sees the comments while it's loading.
      Arsenals

    • @matheuscastello6554
      @matheuscastello6554 Месяц назад +43

      @@rogerjohnson6676i think you should be mad at youtube for showing the top comment. people don't know they will get the top comment i guess. it's very unfortunate so many videos spoiled by it

    • @Running_Colours
      @Running_Colours Месяц назад +9

      This shows why top 100 made by individual critics are hardly ever relevant, no matter the topic, at least in terms of relevancy, which is quite important to the tv show.

    • @jamesbutler6253
      @jamesbutler6253 Месяц назад +2

      Because he was a one-hit wonder, and real classical music fans cant stand him.

  • @greybirdo
    @greybirdo Месяц назад +51

    How on earth could the Red Priest not be on the list of 100 greatest composers? The Four Seasons is among the most popular pieces of classical music ever written.

    • @FenceThis
      @FenceThis Месяц назад +5

      popularity doesn’t equal greatness
      though I personally estimate Vivaldi as a great composer too

    • @greybirdo
      @greybirdo Месяц назад +7

      @@FenceThis , Le Quattro Stagioni has been popular for centuries. It's not Baby Shark. It's enduring popularity is indeed one marker of its greatness.

    • @tapio_m6861
      @tapio_m6861 Месяц назад

      @@greybirdo We have to circle back to this in a few centuries and see whether baby shark is more popular to Four Seasons. My money is on "yes it is"

    • @greybirdo
      @greybirdo 29 дней назад +1

      @ ok, see you in 2324. I’ll be waiting…

    • @stoopidapples1596
      @stoopidapples1596 22 дня назад +3

      ​@@greybirdoActually, little known fact, baby shark was written by Mozart in 1654, and was based on the ancient greek tale of Babicus Sharkicus, who was a mutant human-shark creature ate his entire family in order to maintain his youthfulness

  • @Crvena27
    @Crvena27 Месяц назад +9

    That first round was a piece of cake for me since I live in a neighborhood where most of streets are named after classical music composers.

  • @matheuscastello6554
    @matheuscastello6554 Месяц назад +25

    richard should add antananarivo to his list of best named capitals, i think it's worthy of top 2 or 3

    • @bloemkoolendestreetgang450
      @bloemkoolendestreetgang450 Месяц назад +2

      My word that name is annoying to pronounce

    • @fak119
      @fak119 25 дней назад

      Everybody knows that, even English!

    • @stoopidapples1596
      @stoopidapples1596 22 дня назад +2

      Ulaanbaatar and Mogadishu also come to mind!

    • @popciclewede
      @popciclewede 14 дней назад

      Madagascar tight? Wow so many A. Apitals in the wlrld, Capitals too

  • @jk177717
    @jk177717 Месяц назад +53

    People were asked to name a significant NZ city starting with A, and only 11% managed "Auckland". Miindblowing. But not as mindblowing as more than half the survey not naming Mozart as a composer of a Classical Top 100 piece.

    • @MrYamazaky
      @MrYamazaky 28 дней назад +4

      Is that how it work? I thought 11% said "Auckland" as a reply for "Cities Beginning with the letter "A"".

    • @Dovicz
      @Dovicz 26 дней назад +2

      ​@@MrYamazaky yeah that's how it works, they then add the clues for the show but people on the street are only asked about A-letter cities

    • @reformed_attempt_1
      @reformed_attempt_1 23 дня назад

      wat? who cares about NZ

    • @johnsmith-gq5jw
      @johnsmith-gq5jw 21 день назад +1

      76% of people couldn't get slam-dunk from a thorough description of it and half the letters?!

    • @CG-hq3ek
      @CG-hq3ek 17 дней назад

      Brits, so not shocking.

  • @GirGir183
    @GirGir183 Месяц назад +24

    Fiirst question was basically "name any classical ccomposer you've ever heard of" thinly disguised as something specific.

    • @dothedo3667
      @dothedo3667 12 дней назад +3

      But Vivaldi wasn't on there, so it's not that simple.

  • @KenTrosper
    @KenTrosper 9 месяцев назад +4

    I always have my pointless answer ready for Composers and I always go with the one that shares his name with a pop performer from the 60s and 70's.

    • @fak119
      @fak119 25 дней назад

      Grimm Bros.?

    • @blrbrazil1718
      @blrbrazil1718 18 дней назад

      The "not that one" :o)

  • @otokouno
    @otokouno 5 месяцев назад +41

    Vivaldi not on the list was criminal

    • @purshottamadevadhikar5035
      @purshottamadevadhikar5035 Месяц назад

      Vivaldi's technically baroque not classical, so might be why they didnt include him.

    • @martin3203
      @martin3203 28 дней назад +9

      @@purshottamadevadhikar5035It’s classical composers in the broad sense of “classical music”, not in the sense of “classical period”. For instance you have both Bach and Sibelius on the list, none of whom lived in the classical period between roughly 1750 and 1820.

    • @prosquatter
      @prosquatter 24 дня назад +1

      ​@@purshottamadevadhikar5035 so was Bach

    • @kenlee1416
      @kenlee1416 21 день назад

      It's probably a survey made of people who have minimal to no liking of Baroque music. It is the same with jazz music where a majority of fans totally ignore traditional jazz of the 1910s to the 1940s, including those recorded later but in that trad style.

    • @pyro2404
      @pyro2404 13 дней назад +1

      Vilvaldis viewed as a one hit wonder by most experts. The four seasons being that wonder.

  • @Kernel15
    @Kernel15 Месяц назад +17

    Anyone else noticed that after the first round, their scores were going up in steps of 15?
    4 - 19 - 34 - 49

  • @gofast.havefun
    @gofast.havefun Месяц назад +39

    How on earth did people get "chillax" but not "lightsabre"??

    • @prothello
      @prothello Месяц назад +4

      Perhaps people assumed that it was already in the dictionary.

    • @ShaqPlaque
      @ShaqPlaque 28 дней назад +3

      Saber versus sabre likely threw them off

    • @stoopidapples1596
      @stoopidapples1596 22 дня назад +1

      The spelling is weird and not everybody is a star wars fan. Chillax is a very common word today.

  • @frankbrodie5168
    @frankbrodie5168 10 месяцев назад +4

    There's no pointless dolphins in the world. I've never swum with them sadly. But I have seen them up close in the wild on the far northern reaches of the UK. And not from a boat trip either. When touring Scotland with the wife and (then young) kids, we noticed a lighthouse brown tourist sign that desinated a spot of interest. Turns out it was a place where the dolphins regularly swim near to the shore to play. There was a spot no more than 20 feet across on the waters edge crammed with camera bods. And the dolphins did in fact swim in and play for 10 minutes or so whilst we were there.

  • @Ecrocken
    @Ecrocken 19 дней назад +1

    This has to be the most British game show I've ever seen!

    • @clickbait3753
      @clickbait3753 6 дней назад

      as an American I love it lol, some of the gameshows here are just comically easy.

  • @nevillemignot1681
    @nevillemignot1681 10 месяцев назад +1

    I would have thought that the burial place of Hailie Selassie's younger brother, Prince Lowlee Selassie was the family vault may have also be mentioned.

  • @ConcreteAngelx3
    @ConcreteAngelx3 18 дней назад +8

    How is 7K a “colossal” prize amount?😅

  • @deddyson
    @deddyson 25 дней назад +2

    The final round is ridiculously complex

  • @tomthornton6259
    @tomthornton6259 17 дней назад +3

    Where were the capital cities? A couple of the 'Cities beginning with A' were, but that still wasn't the round. A good episode this time, but disappointed in the clickbaity /misleading title

  • @MADEcurious777
    @MADEcurious777 7 дней назад

    Love the show's design. It moves extremely slow for me.

  • @ajmilagros
    @ajmilagros Месяц назад +3

    Who were those 100 people being surveyed in the first 2 rounds - school children? I was shocked how low some of the more obvious answers were. I’ve noticed in general, Brits are pretty good at geography, but how did only 28 people get Aberdeen in their own country?!

    • @jebespolitiko
      @jebespolitiko 13 дней назад

      it's that brits ain't pretty good at geography, like the anglos across the pond aren't

  • @junkerinhistrunker
    @junkerinhistrunker 9 дней назад

    this is a great idea for a gameshow but it is sooooo sloowwww movvvinggg. why does he have to read all of the questions a second time when they are on the board?

  • @GirGir183
    @GirGir183 Месяц назад

    Does anybody know which series this episode comes from?

  • @rosebuster
    @rosebuster Месяц назад +1

    Oh wow. This is probably the first time when I knew every single answer to the questions of round 2. I'm good at cities. That was surprisingly easy for me.

  • @ARCtheCartoonMaster
    @ARCtheCartoonMaster Месяц назад

    21:55 Woohoo! Adelaide represent! :D

  • @Gibraltariano
    @Gibraltariano 5 месяцев назад +11

    I can’t help with that, so let’s go with one that either of know anything about 🤦‍♂️

    • @blrbrazil1718
      @blrbrazil1718 18 дней назад

      I think he admitted he thought the Booker Prize was for something else.

  • @scottfhannigan
    @scottfhannigan 10 месяцев назад +11

    Gee Richard becomes sarcastic and flippant when a subject comes along that he knows nothing about.

    • @Smokeyr67
      @Smokeyr67 Месяц назад +6

      It's called self deprecating humour

  • @GirGir183
    @GirGir183 Месяц назад

    Lee on podium looks attractive....but rediculously, unnaturally tall in those high heel boot thingys.

  • @MrBenedictus25
    @MrBenedictus25 Месяц назад +4

    How did only 49 people das Mozart.
    WHO are they asking.
    He IS the Messi of Classic music

    • @FYYTWYFN
      @FYYTWYFN 26 дней назад +1

      No that is Beethoven, Mozart is more Maradona

    • @MrBenedictus25
      @MrBenedictus25 26 дней назад

      Okay. Please explanation

    • @FYYTWYFN
      @FYYTWYFN 26 дней назад

      @@MrBenedictus25 Beethoven was the best there is and Mozart was also brilliant but also a bit mad

    • @MrBenedictus25
      @MrBenedictus25 26 дней назад

      @FYYTWYFN Mozart was the Best there IS. In my biok and yes He was crazy. So what

    • @FYYTWYFN
      @FYYTWYFN 26 дней назад

      @@MrBenedictus25 no problem he was crazy, but Maradona was also crazy and brilliant so he is more similar. And Beethoven is seen as the best composer in the world even before Mozart and Bach.

  • @Feldiman2u
    @Feldiman2u 10 месяцев назад +1

    I got 10 of the Cities

  • @dothedo3667
    @dothedo3667 12 дней назад +1

    I was going to make fun of the name Huw but then I realized it's probably just Welsh

  • @ARCtheCartoonMaster
    @ARCtheCartoonMaster Месяц назад +1

    0:26 You mean golf?

  • @Aboleo80
    @Aboleo80 9 дней назад

    Vivaldi became so popular in pop culture that people are starting to feel ashamed to say they like him because it is too popular. I guess it is his fault that he wrote pieces that will be liked amongst the masses forever and the purists have to look down upon him because his mysic is in a commercial or a movie or made into a pop song.

  • @georgb710
    @georgb710 28 дней назад

    only 3 people naming aviginion was mind blowing.

    • @dothedo3667
      @dothedo3667 12 дней назад +1

      I completely forgot. It was a "oh duh" moment for me when it showed the answer. To be fair I only actually know it from the song lmao

  • @iduscl125
    @iduscl125 13 дней назад

    Its called Franz Joseph Haydn

  • @MelissaThompson432
    @MelissaThompson432 2 месяца назад +4

    I always get confused because Johnny Whittaker played Jody on a series from my childhood, "Family Affair." You say "Jodie Whittaker," I see a curly haired 8 year old.

    • @helenbartoszek243
      @helenbartoszek243 Месяц назад

      I remember that show, it was shown in Australia. It also starred Sebastion Cabot and Brian Dennehy (I think, not sure if I spelt Brian's surname correctly) I don't remember the little girl's name, but her doll was called Mrs Beasley.

    • @MelissaThompson432
      @MelissaThompson432 Месяц назад +1

      @helenbartoszek243 Brian Keith. An easy mistake, actually, though Keith is older.
      The little twins, Buffy and Jody, had a high school age sister named Cissy. Uncle Bill had a butler named French, Mr. French, (Cabot) who acted as nanny.

    • @helenbartoszek243
      @helenbartoszek243 Месяц назад

      @MelissaThompson432 Brian Keith, that's right! I forgot about Cissy and you reminded me that he was the kids' uncle not father.

    • @MelissaThompson432
      @MelissaThompson432 Месяц назад

      @@helenbartoszek243 🙂

  • @glossamano1899
    @glossamano1899 2 месяца назад +1

    Unwatchable now with all the ads. Used to be ad free.

    • @MelissaThompson432
      @MelissaThompson432 2 месяца назад +2

      I don't get many ads. It depends on the algorithm. It varies by viewer.

  • @justincronkright5025
    @justincronkright5025 28 дней назад

    Missed a major joke there... 'Ehhhhmmm', sorry was starting to voice along with it there for a minute. Although the word 'major' at the first part of this post was stupid enough I have to say.
    The dictionary part definitely partakes in the point of this show at least, being pointless.

  • @NovImpression-sh1kz
    @NovImpression-sh1kz 5 дней назад

    Rachmaninoff.

  • @annettewalter2273
    @annettewalter2273 10 месяцев назад +4

    Huw has a dry sense of humour. I haven’t read any Booker prize books but I’m reading all the time.

    • @frankbrodie5168
      @frankbrodie5168 10 месяцев назад

      His answer of 'Bark.. Back.. Batch..?" in the first round marked him out as a thorough sort of chap. lol

  • @NovImpression-sh1kz
    @NovImpression-sh1kz 5 дней назад

    Bizet

  • @skippynz
    @skippynz 21 день назад

    Poor Tāmaki Makarau pronunciation being butchered like that :(

  • @RockyMtnRebecca
    @RockyMtnRebecca 17 дней назад +2

    Good grief - all they do is chat! lol Play the game!

  • @paddotk
    @paddotk 4 дня назад

    Engelbert Humperdinck is on the list of classical composers?! His music is NOT classical.

  • @wintersbabyy
    @wintersbabyy 10 дней назад

    Not interested in the back stories. pLAY THE DAMN GAME

  • @foureyes1700
    @foureyes1700 20 дней назад

    So shocking that people are so dim.

  • @brendenvarty3266
    @brendenvarty3266 10 месяцев назад +6

    Huw was annoying

    • @anyoldactress4078
      @anyoldactress4078 9 месяцев назад

      He’s worse than annoying. Just an utter ars ehole.

  • @francocabernet11
    @francocabernet11 9 дней назад

    These hosts and their humour are the worst 🤢

  • @anyoldactress4078
    @anyoldactress4078 10 месяцев назад +6

    Gareth should disown Huw. Astonishingly stupid and arrogant.

  • @snarkybuttcrack
    @snarkybuttcrack Месяц назад

    Dolphins are really quite sweet, especially if they are poached in a little white wine. I wouldn't poach baby orangutan though, they are better deep fried.

  • @TheConjurer-o3z
    @TheConjurer-o3z 27 дней назад

    How tf is bro that much taller than his dad... paternity test anyone?

  • @KAKE-26
    @KAKE-26 10 месяцев назад +1

    Kyle is hot 🔥🥵

  • @frankbrodie5168
    @frankbrodie5168 10 месяцев назад +1

    What is it with saying "so.." before every sentence? I'm coming across as an old fart here I'm sure. But it's awful to listen to people butchering what should be simple grammar.

    • @Running_Colours
      @Running_Colours Месяц назад +1

      I mean, Alex Armstrong finishes almost every single sentence with indeed, even when it's irrelevant grammatically, and it does not seem to bother you so whatevs 🤷🏼

    • @helenbartoszek243
      @helenbartoszek243 Месяц назад +2

      It's a thinking pause, same as starting a sentence with 'err' or 'um'. Or the word ' well,' ......

  • @Feldiman2u
    @Feldiman2u 10 месяцев назад +1

    This is the 3rd episode (that I have seen) where the
    "US VICE PRESIDENT"
    has not been selected
    @PointlessUK = please send that episode's link/full episode

    • @ajmilagros
      @ajmilagros Месяц назад

      Probably a pretty easy one if you know any names of the vice presidents

  • @kenchristie9214
    @kenchristie9214 9 месяцев назад +5

    My favourite Mozart piece is "Rondo Alla Turca". Or, as I love to call it Lemmings.
    Tchaikovsky is nothing like Coldplay. Tchaikovsky composes music instead of crap.

    • @dot8209
      @dot8209 Месяц назад

      Turkish March movement 3 over Lacrimosa?!!!

    • @joeshermer7220
      @joeshermer7220 8 дней назад

      Yes Coldplay is crap compared to Tchai, but the joke still works, when one guy said Tchai music was anguished (true), then the the other guy joked that similarly Coldplay apparently tries to be emotional and anguished too, but Coldplay crap instead of Tchai good. My only experience with Coldplay was watching him make fun of himself on a Ricky Gervais sitcom episode, where Coldplay sang, yes, a crap song attempting to be anguished about failed love or whatever.

  • @emjai2122
    @emjai2122 Месяц назад +1

    Sorry, but writing musicals 🎭 is a far more interesting pastime than wrestling 🤼