LetsSingIt's Pointless Quiz #35 [Ended]

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Joeyy | 02-05-2015 17:44

*Introductory theme tune*

To me and Jeff and our recent/upcoming birthdays.

BYOC (...cake). Also, it's World Naked Gardening Day. Go and plant a tree in the nuddy. I'm not watching.

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. looking up answers; asking others)

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: CaptainStabbin, aka Joe
RUNNER-UP: Cheater138, aka Sarah

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Joeyy | 02-05-2015 17:47

ROUND #1

Our first category is (our old friend)...

WORDS

Check yo alphabet. I gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many...

WORDS ENDING IN '...ACK' THAT APPEAR ALPHABETICALLY BETWEEN 'BLACK' AND 'JACK'

...as they could. I'm looking for any word which has its own entry in the Oxford Dictionary of English that ends '...ack' and appears alphabetically between those two words. As always, no proper nouns or hyphenated words, and I can't accept "blackjack".

fishmunky | 02-05-2015 17:49

Flack

Captain_Keeta | 02-05-2015 18:05

Aback

Captain_Keeta | 02-05-2015 18:06

I take that back.

Hijack.

kalsonberry | 02-05-2015 18:23

hatchback

indiechick_ | 02-05-2015 18:32

cutback

Juliet86 | 02-05-2015 18:44

Argh, I can't think of any good ones. I'll have to say one before any of you take the few I do have.

Hack.

Joeyy | 02-05-2015 18:50

You could've taken longer; something better might've come to mind.

...Not that that's necessarily a bad choice. :p

Juliet86 | 02-05-2015 19:06

Maybe. I even tried to make one up, but nothing sounded like it could be a word.

CarlJ | 02-05-2015 19:30

clack

Joeyy | 03-05-2015 19:53

I like the word clack.

Bump!

Cheater138 | 03-05-2015 20:02

camelback

Joeyy | 04-05-2015 19:29

One more hour.

PinkFloyd | 04-05-2015 20:02

Frack

CaptainStabbin | 04-05-2015 20:07

Diamondback

Joeyy | 04-05-2015 20:36

ROUND #1 RESULTS

Three pointless answers, great job. Three of you leaving us, too. We say farewell to...

Lisa: 64 (HACK)
Ant: 57 (FLACK)
Carl: 41 (CLACK)

Congratulations...

Sierra: 25 (FRACK)
Jeff: 7 (HIJACK)
Sarah: 5 (CAMELBACK)

Bruna: 0 POINTLESS!!

(CUTBACK)
Joe: 0 POINTLESS!!

(DIAMONDBACK)
Kaleb: 0 POINTLESS!!

(HATCHBACK)

Thanks for playing! You had some tough competition.

Captain_Keeta | 04-05-2015 20:40

Sweeeeeet.

Joeyy | 04-05-2015 20:43

You'd be out if you were on the show and you gave ABACK as your answer.

They don't let contestants answer again when they make a mistake. (Think that actually happened in this round, actually - someone mucked up their alphabet.) But I've always let you lot off.

Captain_Keeta | 04-05-2015 20:44

I appreciate that Joeyy.

Joeyy | 04-05-2015 21:17

There were a number of other pointless answers, including

BLADDERWRACK
BOOTBLACK
CALLBACK
CASHBACK
CHEAPJACK
FIGHTBACK
FLASHBACK
HAYSTACK
HUMPBACK

BLADDERWRACK means, "A common brown shoreline seaweed which has tough strap-like fronds containing air bladders that give buoyancy".

CHEAPJACK means, "A seller of cheap inferior goods, typically a hawker at a fair or market".

Joeyy | 04-05-2015 21:22

ROUND #2

Your category for Round #2 is...

FILM

And the question concerns...

THE 2014 OSCARS SELFIE

I've linked you to the most re-tweeted photograph in history (at the time of recording) – taken at the Oscars in 2014, the selfie. There are twelve people in that photograph; I need you to name any of the twelve people you're about to see. Aim for the obscure, as always.

Captain_Keeta | 04-05-2015 21:27

!

Meryl Streep

PinkFloyd | 04-05-2015 21:28

Kevin Spacey

indiechick_ | 04-05-2015 22:04

Angelina Jolie

CarlJ | 04-05-2015 22:08

and i'm out again.......and the second round i pretty much know them all..was watching the oscars when they took that selfie

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