LetsSingIt's Pointless Quiz #28 [Ended]

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Joeyy | 24-01-2015 20:31

Dedicated to our three recent birthday girls.

*Introductory theme tune*

Last week saw our pointless answers leader board shook up a bit. Jen is now only one behind B, Sierra's stacking them up, and Practice is shooting up there quite quickly for a newcomer. Jeremy also added his name to it.

So let's see what this week's quiz can produce...let's play Pointless!

Rules of the quiz:
- One answer per person (per round)
- Always give the answer you think the fewest amount of people would know
- If two people give the same answer in a short space of time, the first person's answer will be accepted (but the second can answer again)
- When applicable, a player may pick the same subject as another contestant and provide a different answer if they believe the other to be incorrect
- If you play the first round, please check back in case you make it through to Round #2
- Resist cheating (i.e. searching online for answers)

And of course, respect your fellow contestants and have fun!

Round #1 will be posted shortly and will remain open until Monday (or, when applicable, until each answer is taken) to give everyone a chance of replying.

* offtopic :
The records of previous winners and pointless answers can be found here.

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WINNER: PracticePractic, aka Practice
RUNNER-UP: zjenn4, aka Jen

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fishmunky | 24-01-2015 22:18

i'll give it 24 hours before i post another one

Joeyy | 24-01-2015 22:21

Haha, erm, that's not how it works.

It's a quiz; people who choose to play give one answer each to try and make it through to the second round. If someone posts the rest of the answers, no one else can play. I leave the first round open until Monday (around the same time on the clock as I posted the quiz), when I post the results.

There's a Round #1, Round #2, and a best-of-three Head-to-Head. Whomever wins the Head-to-Head wins the quiz.

fishmunky | 24-01-2015 22:23

man i's been a while since i was here, i guess that explains why the most obvious one hasn't been picked up

Joeyy | 24-01-2015 22:23

It's based on a game show in the UK. The questions are put to 100 people before the show. The aim of the game is to find the answers that the fewest amount of the 100 people said - the most obscure answers.

Joeyy | 24-01-2015 22:23

Haha, yeah. It's not that everyone's stupid.

Joeyy | 24-01-2015 22:30

(As is tradition) For anyone yet to answer, the original question was

ROUND #1

Our first category today is...

LANGUAGES

And the question concerns...

CAPITAL CITIES IN THEIR NATIVE LANGUAGE

I'm going to show you the names of fourteen capital cities, but written in their native language. You need to tell me the English name for each of these capitals. Might sound tough, but you'll probably find the hardest thing is working out the obscurity. Good luck!

TARABULUS
LISBOA
LA HABANA
WIEN
ATHINAI
BUCURESTI
KUNG THEP
KOBENHAVN
WARSZAWA
BAILE ATHA CLIATH
MANSK
AL-QAHIRAH
ROMA
PRAHA

Joeyy | 24-01-2015 22:30

And the available answers are

TARABULUS
LISBOA
BUCURESTI
KUNG THEP
WARSZAWA
AL-QAHIRAH
ROMA

zjenn4 | 24-01-2015 22:44

Al-Qahirah = Cairo

Juliet86 | 24-01-2015 22:45

The only ones I'm sure of are obvious, so I'm gonna take a guess that AL-QAHIRAH is Cairo.

Juliet86 | 24-01-2015 22:45

. I hesitated too long.

Joeyy | 24-01-2015 22:46

Aww.

Juliet86 | 24-01-2015 22:51

I'll have to think a while longer to see if I can figure out the ones I don't know.

Joeyy | 24-01-2015 22:53

Okie doke. It is a high-scoring round in general.

CarlJ | 25-01-2015 12:46

Lisboa=Lisbon, Portugal

Juliet86 | 25-01-2015 19:41

I can't figure out or think of good guesses for the ones I don't know, so I'll say that BUCURESTI is Bucharest and hope to scrape by on that.

Joeyy | 26-01-2015 14:11

Round closes in about six hours, 20:00 on the LSI clock.

JDolla | 26-01-2015 14:26

WARSZAWA - warsaw. Pretty sure I'm screwed on that one.

Joeyy | 26-01-2015 15:39

Maybe, maybe not. This must be our highest-scoring round to date, though it's not the fault of our players.

Joeyy | 26-01-2015 20:03

End of Round #1. Results coming up.

Joeyy | 26-01-2015 20:24

ROUND #1 RESULTS

For Ant's sake: We need two players for the Head-to-Head, but before then we have Round #2 (different subject). There are ten contestants* currently, meaning four players will be eliminated now (based on their high score) and four will leave us at the end of the second round. The four players leaving us now are...

Carl: 93 (LISBON)
Bruna: 85 (ATHENS)
Jeremy: 84 (WARSAW)
Lisa: 78 (BUCHAREST)

Practice: 75 (PRAGUE)
Kaleb: 49 (VIENNA)
Sarah: 45 (COPENHAGEN)
Sierra: 42 (HAVANA)
Anthony: 34 (MINSK)
Jen: 7 (CAIRO)

Just scraped by there, Practice.

Congratulations to you, Kaleb, Sarah, Sierra, Ant, and Jen, who go through to Round #2. Commiserations to the rest of you - I think it was a matter of being stuck with the worst of the lot.

* offtopic :
*One player was disqualified in private; we don't need to make a thing of it.

Joeyy | 26-01-2015 20:25

Let's let Anthony take a bash at the other answers if he knows any of the remaining cities?

Cheater138 | 26-01-2015 20:28

Which ones are left? I'm too lazy to compare lists.

CarlJ | 26-01-2015 20:28

wow i had the most points...!!! oh wait......lol

Joeyy | 26-01-2015 20:29

Me too.

*Looks* Only three, I think.

TARABULUS
KUNG THEP
ROMA

Cheater138 | 26-01-2015 20:31

The first one makes me think of tarantulas.

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