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25 Sep 2006, 18:57
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Phone a friend!
While watching "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" earlier with my sister, she posed the question "Who would you have for your phone a friend?".
For the foreigners amongst you, it's quite simple.
It's a general knowledge quiz show where you answer multiple choice questions.
One of your "lifelines" (if you get stuck and don't know the answer) is to phone-a-friend, where you phone up one of three preselected friends and give them the question, to see if they could help you.
So if you could choose one person from GD to have as your phone-a-friend, WHO WOULD IT BE? AND WHY?
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25 Sep 2006, 19:00
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Re: Phone a friend!
Jakiri because he would know.
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25 Sep 2006, 19:01
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Re: Phone a friend!
Googlebot as it has seen and read everything.
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25 Sep 2006, 19:02
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Re: Phone a friend!
Sport - Lok
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25 Sep 2006, 19:10
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Re: Phone a friend!
a2 probably
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25 Sep 2006, 19:24
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Re: Phone a friend!
A2/Phil and making sure they have google up and running for the duration of the show.
Tomkat for male/female gender issues
JBG anything beer related.
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25 Sep 2006, 19:27
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Re: Phone a friend!
Tacitus wouldn't be a bad choice. He seems to have a lot of information on hand.
Yahwe also knows a fair amount but he would probably spend most of the alotted time telling me what a spastic I was for not knowing to begin with.
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25 Sep 2006, 19:43
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Re: Phone a friend!
I only trust Yahwe to be able to know something I don't
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25 Sep 2006, 19:48
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Re: Phone a friend!
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Jakiri because he would know.
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He's also quite likely to ignore the answer and point out that the question's wrong. Or tell you that the answer's not one of the four options.
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Originally Posted by Squidly
A2/Phil and making sure they have google up and running for the duration of the show.
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I've always wondered how they'd stop this sort of thing. I mean, not Google, because the "I'll tell you in 15 seconds <tap> <tap> <tap> 1974" might give you away, but I don't see why you couldn't have your phone-a-friend in a room with twenty other people who all listen to the question on speaker-phone and scribble down the answer on a piece of paper and show the friend if they know the answer.
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Tacitus wouldn't be a bad choice. He seems to have a lot of information on hand.
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You'd get the answer, but you'd also get the entire historical and social background to the answer. How well this would work in a 30-second phone call I'm not too sure.
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Yahwe also knows a fair amount but he would probably spend most of the alotted time telling me what a spastic I was for not knowing to begin with.
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Or making you tell him how tall you are before he decides to help you.
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25 Sep 2006, 19:52
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Re: Phone a friend!
Probably Tact, Mark or T&F but it'd depend on the question. I think for sheer broadness I'd go with Mark.
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25 Sep 2006, 19:56
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Re: Phone a friend!
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Originally Posted by Tomkat
For the foreigners amongst you, it's quite simple.
It's a general knowledge quiz show where you answer multiple choice questions.
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yes, yes, i know the show.
and i would have chosen jakiri (seems to have a decent level of general knowledge) or you tom, because you know things i don't (i'd be fked if i'd get a question about big brother for example).
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25 Sep 2006, 19:59
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Re: Phone a friend!
Dante and Deepflow.
For drug related questions.
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25 Sep 2006, 20:00
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Re: Phone a friend!
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Originally Posted by Proteus
I've always wondered how they'd stop this sort of thing. I mean, not Google, because the "I'll tell you in 15 seconds <tap> <tap> <tap> 1974" might give you away, but I don't see why you couldn't have your phone-a-friend in a room with twenty other people who all listen to the question on speaker-phone and scribble down the answer on a piece of paper and show the friend if they know the answer.
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I would assume the people you choose as your phone a friend are sitting in a room somewhere near the studio with a phone line that goes direct to them.
If it was just them at home the person could be ordering a portable back hair remover from qvc when Chris Tarrant rings.
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25 Sep 2006, 20:26
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Re: Phone a friend!
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I would assume the people you choose as your phone a friend are sitting in a room somewhere near the studio with a phone line that goes direct to them.
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Since you're allowed upto 5 friends and there are something like 10 contestents (overall, not who necessarily play) per show, I doubt this is what happens. According to Wiki they phone your friends when you start playing and tell them to be ready.
Anyway, to answer the question I'd have to agree with the Tact / Mark consensus which is building up. Leshy also knows quite a lot too, Vermillion is an obvious choice and dda is old so presumably if alzheimers hasn't kicked in must know a lot of old useless crap. More generally I'd have someone who is competent in using Google (and who could type quietly to deal with Proteus point) which would be most of the regular users here (well, certainly most of the computerish people) but in particular the likes of Nodrog, Leshy, Gayle29UK, s|k, etc.
There are plenty of smart people here but their knowledge is either too specialised (computers, maths, the law, etc) or they would know very similar things to me anyway. I'm pretty sure if there was a "General Knowledge" based question on computers I'd have a good chance of getting it so having a bunch of people with Computer Science degrees waiting would be pretty useless.
I think there was a case where some guy just asked five professors from different disciplines at his local university. That seems like quite a good idea.
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25 Sep 2006, 21:52
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Re: Phone a friend!
Ideally I'd pick someone who knows about soaps and Big Brother and other such nonsense, so whoever that categorises. Someone like Dace or TK or someone.
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25 Sep 2006, 23:40
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Re: Phone a friend!
I definetly wouldn't pick my fiance, she's not the most brilliant in the world. I'd just make sure that she was my friend I get to take with me to the taping, then she wouldn't have to know she wouldn't of been my choice.
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25 Sep 2006, 23:43
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Re: Phone a friend!
for Killing Skatemouth FC (Pompey (Scum)) Ben Thather
for PA issues Fiery
For GD Pilgrim
For sport and science no-one
For life issues i would fone my mum just tp laugh at her not having aclue as per usual
For everything else theres mastacard
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25 Sep 2006, 23:50
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Re: Phone a friend!
None of those people are GD posters but ok thanks for coming here have a complimentary flannel and little scented soap.
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26 Sep 2006, 02:42
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Re: Phone a friend!
i wish we actually had them .
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26 Sep 2006, 05:04
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Re: Phone a friend!
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Originally Posted by Proteus
I've always wondered how they'd stop this sort of thing. I mean, not Google, because the "I'll tell you in 15 seconds <tap> <tap> <tap> 1974" might give you away, but I don't see why you couldn't have your phone-a-friend in a room with twenty other people who all listen to the question on speaker-phone and scribble down the answer on a piece of paper and show the friend if they know the answer.
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The answer is they don't, or at least not our version anyway.
During one episode of the Australian Who Wants To Be A Millionare, the contestant stated that the phone-a-friend she had chosen was in a loungeroom with 3 other people, 1 of which was operating a computer connected to the internet, another with encyclopedia on hand and that they were all working together to help find the answer. Neither the presenter nor the shows producers appeared to have any problem with this and treated everything as normal. In the end it didn't help anyway because of that limiting time factor.
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26 Sep 2006, 09:29
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Re: Phone a friend!
They have 30 seconds to answer.
In theory if you had 30 seconds you should be able to find out the answer on google, as long as you're reasonably quick at it.
It often takes the contestant about 15 seconds to read out the question and possible answers though.
Assuming it takes 5 seconds to type the question in, and then another 5 to process the results (load them and then look at the answer), that really only leaves 5 seconds or so to give the answer back.
So there often simply isn't enough time to do it.
...I don't like to admit to it, but I was curious to see how long it took so I got my sister to watch Millionaire on mute and then read out the question and answers to me. It is POSSIBLE to get the answers in time but it isn't that easy
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26 Sep 2006, 09:35
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Re: Phone a friend!
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I was curious to see how long it took so I got my sister to watch Millionaire on mute and then read out the question and answers to me. It is POSSIBLE to get the answers in time but it isn't that easy
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26 Sep 2006, 09:50
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Re: Phone a friend!
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...I don't like to admit to it, but I was curious to see how long it took so I got my sister to watch Millionaire on mute and then read out the question and answers to me. It is POSSIBLE to get the answers in time but it isn't that easy
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If you were doing it seriously then you could probably develop some sort of intermediary system which might help. Or two people with networked machines to check through the results or something like that).
For most questions I wouldn't imagine it would be very difficult with Google's help, but so what - that's one question out of the 12 or whatever it is - which is why I doubt the producers care too much.
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26 Sep 2006, 10:07
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Re: Phone a friend!
I would probably go with T&F, Dante, Yahwe, Jakiri and 1-X as my phone a friends, it covers quite a broad knowledge base to be honest plus I know a fair bit myself.
On random shit, I swear I know a load of random stuff, **** knows how. Part of it is down to an education, the other part is probably watching crap on TV at 4am.
I also read the sun most days and nick the office copy of heat so I'm pretty upto date with all the celeb shite.
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Re: Phone a friend!
a roomful of friends, one of them holding the phone.
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26 Sep 2006, 18:58
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Re: Phone a friend!
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Originally Posted by Madina
I would assume the people you choose as your phone a friend are sitting in a room somewhere near the studio with a phone line that goes direct to them.
If it was just them at home the person could be ordering a portable back hair remover from qvc when Chris Tarrant rings.
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They don't put you in any room, they call your house - some guy who was at my school some time ago was on Who want to be a millionaire and phoned one of my teachers as his phone a friend.
Theoreticall, you could use a speakerphone but then you need to get it in there without being caught etc, or you could have a few people waiting with google ready so they can get the answer ASAP.
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26 Sep 2006, 19:04
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It's funny because people often choose their teachers as their phone-a-friend but could you imagine someone choosing me as anything beyond a "pop culture knowledge" expert
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Re: Phone a friend!
I'm confused as to when everyone lost respect for my genius
Tomkat though, especially now when I presume he spends all day reading Hello and watching Neighbours.
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Re: Phone a friend!
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As for twatbags that think they know everything, I would like to call Yahwe and DDa to the stand.
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26 Sep 2006, 20:55
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Re: Phone a friend!
I'd phone Vampy, I mean its not like she's going to hang up.
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26 Sep 2006, 21:07
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Re: Phone a friend!
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dda is old so presumably if alzheimers hasn't kicked in must know a lot of old useless crap.
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Thank you for saying that I must know a lot of old useless crap instead of merely pointing out that I AM a lot of old useless crap.
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26 Sep 2006, 22:09
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Re: Phone a friend!
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It's funny because people often choose their teachers as their phone-a-friend but could you imagine someone choosing me
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Re: Phone a friend!
Would pick id if the topic was pies.
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26 Sep 2006, 23:44
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27 Sep 2006, 02:21
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In fact Dante and I are frequently owned by pub quiz machines.
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Thats probably a pretty good indication of hether someone would be good at phone-a-friend or not. Anybody constantly winning money on the it-boxes??
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27 Sep 2006, 03:58
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Re: Phone a friend!
I would choose Yahwe, because I know he would be around to pick up the phone.
You guys didn't think of that aspect.
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27 Sep 2006, 05:07
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Re: Phone a friend!
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In fact Dante and I are frequently owned by pub quiz machines.
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This is lies.
(Besides, most of the questions on millionaire are fairly easy compared to such things)
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27 Sep 2006, 09:05
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Anybody constantly winning money on the it-boxes??
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**** the fruit machines, its all about the it boxes. Pub quiz and bullseye all the way, thats how the cool kids make the money!
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27 Sep 2006, 10:25
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I'd phone Vampy, I mean its not like she's going to hang up.
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Re: Phone a friend!
If I went on the show I would have Ninja_Spammer as one of my phone a friends mainly because I live with him and he'd probably be miffed if I didn't, and also because he is one of these people who knows random facts about things, particularly history. However if I was to have someone other than him it would be Mark for the sheer ammount of knowledge that would be available to me.
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Re: Phone a friend!
Phil^ - I want somebody who understands what I am asking within a few seconds and only needs another few seconds to Google for it. Plus he wouldn't make me feel embarrased on national television which is something I can't say from a lot of other people here ;-)
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