stupid is as stupid does

5/7

I got 5, too.

It's not stupidity though, it's a series of small, cumulative ignorances. Any of those questions, except possibly the one about the insects, are easy if you know the answer, and a 1 in 4 shot if you don't.

4/7 by the way. 🙂

4/7. I am guessing he did not get multiple choice…

I must be thick as s**t I only got 2/7

and I pretty much guessed those 😆

So how many would you have got if it hadn't been multiple choice, clever clogs?

3/7, and not at all embarrassed about the ones I got wrong (most of them I would have probably passed).

I watched it on the night it was shown. He did look rather embarrassed.

I bet it is easy to go to pieces when the lights are on you and you have an audience at your back.

I got 6 btw. Need to brush up on my US geography.

5/7 bovvered…

7 here 🙂 🙄

only because it was multi-guess though
reckon I just might've got 5 if I'd been in the pub answering without mcq and no pressure – less if I was on telly I'm sure

6/7

Although about 2 if they weren't multiple choice

Also, Mastermind lacks the drama of Who Wants To Be A Millionnaire, say. You can just sit there and be persistently wrong, whereas WWTBAM only allows you to screw up one multiple choice question, so there's only so much of an ignormaus you can look. 🙂

4/7

guess work mostly. shame they didn't say how he done in his specialist subject.

6/7 though the Chopin was a total guess – is that really general knowledge ??

6/7, but for example with no knowledge of the french language i could only tell 'maillon fable' was 'weakest link' because i use maillons as connecters in caving. without that little bit of nonsense experience i would have looked like a ignoramus. sometimes knowledge comes to you in roundabout ways.

also, especially with classical music, i cant help feel that some of these things are general knowledge for a specific group of people, in a period of time that has passed. much the same feeling that i get with university challenge. i can answer a fair few questions but i dont feel that i have learnt the answers in the way they think i should have. its basically just accumulated reading and tv watching in my own time rather than a very specific type of education.

1 correct in his general knowledge I think.
How could you get earwig incorrect?

A friend did it a couple of years ago.
Scored 29 and still came 2nd.

5/7

Lack of general knowledge, yes or perhaps memory under pressure – stupid not necessarily. Isn't intelligence the application of what knowledge you have not the quantum of knowledge itself?

1 correct in his general knowledge I think.
How could you get earwig incorrect?

Think by the time he got that far it was probably too obvious.

I'm at the same ranking as Singlecrack – 2/7. 😆

Does anyone know how he did in his specialist round? Pity the beeb have to ridicule a contestant on their own show IMO.

4/7 here. Much easier when its multiple choice. Those were hard questions and without the multiple choice how many would we have got?

7 with the guess being question one.

5/7 – had no chance with the Chopin. Most of the others were deduced rather than outright guesses.

6, but guessed a few and then struggled with a few others. would probably have failed if it wasn;t multiple choice.
US geography not a strength of mine, but went for the french connection= Wrong

6/7, but a couple were just picking an answer at random so I only actually knew 4, and it's unlikely I'd have got the French Weakest Link one without the hint.

So in all honesty I'd probably have only got 3 in a Mastermind format.

3/7 and feel no shame

4 correct answers in his chosen specialist subject

(this was the most painful to witness as he clearly did not know much at all, so why he selected the subject is anyone's guess)

1 correct answer in his general knowledge

Can you imagine the ribbing he'd have got the next day at work!

5

7/7, but I watched it on the night
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those questions were on the tough side for Mastermind though, and his specialist subject (some Turkish leader) was pretty obscure so I imagine the researchers had a job judging how hard the questions were
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poor guy was beading at the brow

5 out of 7 but i totally guessed 3

I got 5, but would have scored lower if it wasn't multiple choice.

4/7 however only because it was multiple choice.

3, but I do well in Eggheads 🙂

5/7 and I would have got 4 if it hadn't been multiple choice.

2/7

corroded – Member
…no chance with the Chopin

Erm…was it not the only french-looking word there?

6/7, got the one about capacitors wrong.

5/7 – but I did know them. The two guesses were both wrong. I thought they were quite hard for Mastermind.

3 out of 7, screwed up on the Earwig, thought it was too obvious!!

5/7 but general knowledge is bunk "knowing many things does not teach wisdom" as Heraclitus said.

Should've known about Pierre.