Who Wants To Be A Millionaire with Jeremy Clarkson

[Dr Rock]

They should let them use google as a lifeline but they have to wear boxing gloves.

[Sebastian Cobb]

The phone a friend segment would've been much better if it just cut to some unsuspecting mate's lounge like those NTV bits in Noel's house party.

I guess it would require the show to go out live though.

[imitationleather]

This is gonna be good, she's got the £64k question wrong!

[Kelvin]

Okay I take it back about the reworked safety net rule.

[Kelvin]

God, they look so gutted when they lose all that money. It's hard to watch.

[imitationleather]

Yoga lady needs to spend less time being in the present and more time reading bloody trivia books.

EDIT: (And an atlas. Cannot believe she got that wrong.)

[Rolf Lundgren]

EDIT: (And an atlas. Cannot believe she got that wrong.)

That was a shocker. Jeremy's being pretty restrained in the face of that stupidity really.

[Kelvin]

That was a shocker. Jeremy's being pretty restrained in the face of that stupidity really.

By telling she was 'a complete failure?

[Dead Soon]

I was sure I heard Phone A Friend participants used to be shut up in a hotel for the duration of filming to negate the possibility of cheating. Do they just not bother now?

First I've heard of anything like this. I had a family member appear on the show in the early 2000's and one of their Phone-A-Friend choices was my then 15 year-old brother in the event of a contemporaneous football question, and when one did indeed materialise my brother was just milling about the house when he was asked to come to the phone.

[Dr Rock]

That was a shocker. Jeremy's being pretty restrained in the face of that stupidity really.

What was the question? I did very poorly in the first one.

[imitationleather]

What was the question? I did very poorly in the first one.

Which country are the Balearic Islands a part of? She said Italy.

[Dr Rock]

Oh, that is dumb.

[Emma Raducanu]

They should let them use google as a lifeline but they have to wear boxing gloves.

Class

[Rolf Lundgren]

By telling she was 'a complete failure?

It was more restrained than my reaction.

[Replies From View]

God, they look so gutted when they lose all that money. It's hard to watch.

Isn't it the whole point of watching?

[machotrouts]

Which country are the Balearic Islands a part of? She said Italy.

In case anyone was thinking of asking me to join their geography quiz team, this sounds completely plausible to me

Please ask me anyway I'm so alone

[Sebastian Cobb]

if it weren't for balearic house i'd not have a clue.

[yesitsme]

Whack yer phone on mute, ask a Lexa, go back to the line and say in call confidence that Alexander Flemming wrote the James Bond books.

Simples.

'Coughing Major' should be a lifeline.

Send a bouncer round indeed.  What a load of nonsense.

[yesitsme]

Little 'un knows a surprising amount of quiz question answers for a ten year old.

Nearly all her info comes from Horrible Histories.  If you're thinking of going on a TV you could do worse than to watch a few episodes.

[EOLAN]

I been reading this thread and the one on Digital Spy over the last day. Reading everyone's opinion on Jeremy; his interaction, his knowledge, his hosting skills.
And I have just finally reread the title and realised oh it's that Jeremy, not Jeremy Paxman as I had believed.

[imitationleather]

if it weren't for balearic house i'd not have a clue.

Me n'all, but Balearic House is surely such a massive thing for our generation (she looked like she was in the 18-60 range that would get this) that "Balearic Islands = Ibeeefa!" should have appeared in her mind's eye.

[marquis_de_sad]

Me n'all, but Balearic House is surely such a massive thing for our generation (she looked like she was in the 18-60 range that would get this) that "Balearic Islands = Ibeeefa!" should have appeared in her mind's eye.

The politically correct term is "jap's eye".

[Replies From View]

And I have just finally reread the title and realised oh it's that Jeremy, not Jeremy Paxman as I had believed.

Jeremy Parksmon.

[Kelvin]

Fucking hell. Clarkson couldn't even answer that scouts question. What a useless tit he is.

[Rolf Lundgren]

Fucking hell. Clarkson couldn't even answer that scouts question. What a useless tit he is.

I'm starting to think the producers have added that lifeline just to stitch him up.

[Replies From View]

Is part of the new format that the presenter has to answer some of the questions?

[Kelvin]

Is part of the new format that the presenter has to answer some of the questions?

The contestant now have "ask the host" as a fourth lifeline, on top of phone a friend, ask the audience and 50:50.

On almost every occasion, he didn't have a clue, and on one he led the contestent away from the right answer and, in a sense, lost her £7000.  Then tonight, he got one (or possibly two) right. Didn't know Beavers were the youngest variation of Scouts, which surprised me.   

[Kelvin]

Why is it that so many of them are leaving with only £1000, do you reckon? Are the questions harder than they used to be, the contestants worse, or was it always like this, and I've just misremembered a higher percentage of contestants leaving at the upper mid tier? I honestly think the contestants aren't as good as they used to be. Some of the basic general knowledge is pretty ropey for people going on a quiz show. Some are using 2-3 lifelines before they reach £1000.

[imitationleather]

I was wondering about this too. I definitely remember that generally more of them would get to £32k over the course of five episodes. But it may just be my memory playing tricks. I speculated maybe being able to place the "safety net" is making them more cautious and aiming lower for what they want to win, but then barely any of them are getting to even place that - they're getting really stupid guesses wrong and losing early on. I guess them really not being as good as the old series could be it. Aren't the people on these shows quizzers who do the circuit of all of them, or is that not such a thing anymore?

The teacher getting the chemistry question wrong and only leaving with a grand looked pissed off, but it was her own fault. Not exactly a hard question and she still had lifelines left.

[EOLAN]

Don't think I going to bother to watch the show until it is on Challenge in six years time. In relation to the "Ask the Host" questions; are most people just asking any old question to him as they are struggling and/or running out of lifelines. Or are some of the more astute ones factoring in their expectation of Clarkson's knowledge/specialist subjects when asking him.