Can You Guess the Capital Cities? | Pointless

[@brontewcat]

I am astounded that Vivaldi wasn’t on the list.

[@22espec]

same

[@rogerjohnson6676]

Excellent, then I won't guess him when I'm watching. I hate people who comment on answers like no one sees the comments while it's loading. Arsenals

[@matheuscastello6554]

@@rogerjohnson6676i think you should be mad at youtube for showing the top comment. people don't know they will get the top comment i guess. it's very unfortunate so many videos spoiled by it

[@Running_Colours]

This shows why top 100 made by individual critics are hardly ever relevant, no matter the topic, at least in terms of relevancy, which is quite important to the tv show.

[@jamesbutler6253]

Because he was a one-hit wonder, and real classical music fans cant stand him.

[@GirGir183]

Fiirst question was basically "name any classical ccomposer you've ever heard of" thinly disguised as something specific.

[@dothedo3667]

But Vivaldi wasn't on there, so it's not that simple.

[@Antsapantsa]

That Sibelius guess was pure class

[@GustafHabram]

Crazy only four people said it. Finlandia is a masterpiece

[@jozsefnemedi8472]

But how wasn't Vivaldi in top 100?

[@greybirdo]

How on earth could the Red Priest not be on the list of 100 greatest composers? The Four Seasons is among the most popular pieces of classical music ever written.

[@FenceThis]

popularity doesn’t equal greatness though I personally estimate Vivaldi as a great composer too

[@greybirdo]

@@FenceThis , Le Quattro Stagioni has been popular for centuries. It's not Baby Shark. It's enduring popularity is indeed one marker of its greatness.

[@tapio_m6861]

@@greybirdo We have to circle back to this in a few centuries and see whether baby shark is more popular to Four Seasons. My money is on "yes it is"

[@greybirdo]

@ ok, see you in 2324. I’ll be waiting…

[@stoopidapples1596]

​@@greybirdoActually, little known fact, baby shark was written by Mozart in 1654, and was based on the ancient greek tale of Babicus Sharkicus, who was a mutant human-shark creature ate his entire family in order to maintain his youthfulness

[@jk177717]

People were asked to name a significant NZ city starting with A, and only 11% managed "Auckland". Miindblowing. But not as mindblowing as more than half the survey not naming Mozart as a composer of a Classical Top 100 piece.

[@MrYamazaky]

Is that how it work? I thought 11% said "Auckland" as a reply for "Cities Beginning with the letter "A"".

[@Dovicz]

​@@MrYamazaky yeah that's how it works, they then add the clues for the show but people on the street are only asked about A-letter cities

[@reformed_attempt_1]

wat? who cares about NZ

[@johnsmith-gq5jw]

76% of people couldn't get slam-dunk from a thorough description of it and half the letters?!

[@CG-hq3ek]

Brits, so not shocking.

[@KenTrosper]

I always have my pointless answer ready for Composers and I always go with the one that shares his name with a pop performer from the 60s and 70's.

[@fak119]

Grimm Bros.?

[@blrbrazil1718]

The "not that one" :o)

[@matheuscastello6554]

richard should add antananarivo to his list of best named capitals, i think it's worthy of top 2 or 3

[@bloemkoolendestreetgang450]

My word that name is annoying to pronounce

[@fak119]

Everybody knows that, even English!

[@stoopidapples1596]

Ulaanbaatar and Mogadishu also come to mind!

[@popciclewede]

Madagascar tight? Wow so many A. Apitals in the wlrld, Capitals too

[@Crvena27]

That first round was a piece of cake for me since I live in a neighborhood where most of streets are named after classical music composers.

[@gofast.havefun]

How on earth did people get "chillax" but not "lightsabre"??

[@prothello]

Perhaps people assumed that it was already in the dictionary.

[@ShaqPlaque]

Saber versus sabre likely threw them off

[@stoopidapples1596]

The spelling is weird and not everybody is a star wars fan. Chillax is a very common word today.

[@Kernel15]

Anyone else noticed that after the first round, their scores were going up in steps of 15? 4 - 19 - 34 - 49

[@frankbrodie5168]

There's no pointless dolphins in the world. I've never swum with them sadly. But I have seen them up close in the wild on the far northern reaches of the UK. And not from a boat trip either. When touring Scotland with the wife and (then young) kids, we noticed a lighthouse brown tourist sign that desinated a spot of interest. Turns out it was a place where the dolphins regularly swim near to the shore to play. There was a spot no more than 20 feet across on the waters edge crammed with camera bods. And the dolphins did in fact swim in and play for 10 minutes or so whilst we were there.

[@otokouno]

Vivaldi not on the list was criminal

[@purshottamadevadhikar5035]

Vivaldi's technically baroque not classical, so might be why they didnt include him.

[@martin3203]

@@purshottamadevadhikar5035It’s classical composers in the broad sense of “classical music”, not in the sense of “classical period”. For instance you have both Bach and Sibelius on the list, none of whom lived in the classical period between roughly 1750 and 1820.

[@prosquatter]

​@@purshottamadevadhikar5035 so was Bach

[@kenlee1416]

It's probably a survey made of people who have minimal to no liking of Baroque music. It is the same with jazz music where a majority of fans totally ignore traditional jazz of the 1910s to the 1940s, including those recorded later but in that trad style.

[@pyro2404]

Vilvaldis viewed as a one hit wonder by most experts. The four seasons being that wonder.

[@Ecrocken]

This has to be the most British game show I've ever seen!

[@clickbait3753]

as an American I love it lol, some of the gameshows here are just comically easy.

[@ConcreteAngelx3]

How is 7K a “colossal” prize amount?😅

[@deddyson]

The final round is ridiculously complex

[@MADEcurious777]

Love the show's design. It moves extremely slow for me.

[@eliasshakkour2904]

YESSSSS!!!!!!

[@nevillemignot1681]

I would have thought that the burial place of Hailie Selassie's younger brother, Prince Lowlee Selassie was the family vault may have also be mentioned.

[@kerlyenai]

I was thinking of less well known composers. I started with Monteverdi, Rimsky-Korsakov, Balakirev, Kodaly. Then I thought they might not be on the list so I went Lizt, Satie, Bartok and Chostakovitch. Never thought Debussy (or any of the others, apart from Sibelius) would rank so low. How was Vivaldi not on the list!

[@dakzibbon6589]

After we saw Vivaldi was not on the list, I began to worry that Paganini might also not be up there. Or at least be pointless with his Flight of the Bumblebee

[@ajmilagros]

Who were those 100 people being surveyed in the first 2 rounds - school children? I was shocked how low some of the more obvious answers were. I’ve noticed in general, Brits are pretty good at geography, but how did only 28 people get Aberdeen in their own country?!

[@jebespolitiko]

it's that brits ain't pretty good at geography, like the anglos across the pond aren't

[@tomthornton6259]

Where were the capital cities? A couple of the 'Cities beginning with A' were, but that still wasn't the round. A good episode this time, but disappointed in the clickbaity /misleading title

[@MrBenedictus25]

How did only 49 people das Mozart. WHO are they asking. He IS the Messi of Classic music

[@FYYTWYFN]

No that is Beethoven, Mozart is more Maradona

[@MrBenedictus25]

Okay. Please explanation

[@FYYTWYFN]

@@MrBenedictus25 Beethoven was the best there is and Mozart was also brilliant but also a bit mad

[@MrBenedictus25]

@FYYTWYFN Mozart was the Best there IS. In my biok and yes He was crazy. So what

[@FYYTWYFN]

@@MrBenedictus25 no problem he was crazy, but Maradona was also crazy and brilliant so he is more similar. And Beethoven is seen as the best composer in the world even before Mozart and Bach.

[@pdruiz2005]

Ian McEwan - "Atonement" (fabulous novel, made me cry), Salman Rushdie - "The Satanic Verses" (heard it was a great novel, Rushdie was almost killed over it by Islamic fanatics). I haven't the foggiest idea who Iris Murdoch is. Never heard of her.

[@Gibraltariano]

I can’t help with that, so let’s go with one that either of know anything about 🤦‍♂️

[@blrbrazil1718]

I think he admitted he thought the Booker Prize was for something else.

[@junkerinhistrunker]

this is a great idea for a gameshow but it is sooooo sloowwww movvvinggg. why does he have to read all of the questions a second time when they are on the board?

[@eliasshakkour2904]

YES!!!! And there’s too much talking/banter in between plays.

[@Craicfox161]

It’s on the BBC so they don’t need to rush for ad breaks

[@GirGir183]

Does anybody know which series this episode comes from?

[@scottfhannigan]

Gee Richard becomes sarcastic and flippant when a subject comes along that he knows nothing about.

[@Smokeyr67]

It's called self deprecating humour

[@hunterxhunter777]

43:38

[@ARCtheCartoonMaster]

21:55 Woohoo! Adelaide represent! :D

[@ARCtheCartoonMaster]

0:26 You mean golf?

[@GirGir183]

Lee on podium looks attractive....but rediculously, unnaturally tall in those high heel boot thingys.

[@rosebuster]

Oh wow. This is probably the first time when I knew every single answer to the questions of round 2. I'm good at cities. That was surprisingly easy for me.

[@dothedo3667]

I was going to make fun of the name Huw but then I realized it's probably just Welsh

[@georgb710]

only 3 people naming aviginion was mind blowing.

[@dothedo3667]

I completely forgot. It was a "oh duh" moment for me when it showed the answer. To be fair I only actually know it from the song lmao

[@pdruiz2005]

49 out 100 of these surveyed people got Mozart. And you're expecting THIS LOT to remember that Avignon was the second city where the Popes have historically resided? LOL...

[@Feldiman2u]

I got 10 of the Cities

[@g30rg3cu4413]

I got all 12!

[@iduscl125]

Its called Franz Joseph Haydn

[@MelissaThompson432]

I always get confused because Johnny Whittaker played Jody on a series from my childhood, "Family Affair." You say "Jodie Whittaker," I see a curly haired 8 year old.

[@helenbartoszek243]

I remember that show, it was shown in Australia. It also starred Sebastion Cabot and Brian Dennehy (I think, not sure if I spelt Brian's surname correctly) I don't remember the little girl's name, but her doll was called Mrs Beasley.

[@MelissaThompson432]

@helenbartoszek243 Brian Keith. An easy mistake, actually, though Keith is older. The little twins, Buffy and Jody, had a high school age sister named Cissy. Uncle Bill had a butler named French, Mr. French, (Cabot) who acted as nanny.

[@helenbartoszek243]

@MelissaThompson432 Brian Keith, that's right! I forgot about Cissy and you reminded me that he was the kids' uncle not father.

[@MelissaThompson432]

@@helenbartoszek243 🙂

[@Aboleo80]

Vivaldi became so popular in pop culture that people are starting to feel ashamed to say they like him because it is too popular. I guess it is his fault that he wrote pieces that will be liked amongst the masses forever and the purists have to look down upon him because his mysic is in a commercial or a movie or made into a pop song.

[@pdruiz2005]

Honestly the only thing modern people know of Vivaldi is "The Four Seasons." That's about his only great composition. The rest of his output is decent but forgettable, mostly because Vivaldi had a memorable way of starting a piece of music and coming up with great melodies. But then after those amazing openings with innovative motifs his works tended to just repeat themselves over and over and over again. Vivaldi was lousy at coming up with compelling harmonies, chords, counterpoint and endings.

[@megarockman]

Shouldn't a pointless trophy be a sphere?

[@justincronkright5025]

Missed a major joke there... 'Ehhhhmmm', sorry was starting to voice along with it there for a minute. Although the word 'major' at the first part of this post was stupid enough I have to say. The dictionary part definitely partakes in the point of this show at least, being pointless.

[@glossamano1899]

Unwatchable now with all the ads. Used to be ad free.

[@MelissaThompson432]

I don't get many ads. It depends on the algorithm. It varies by viewer.

[@CasimirdeHauteclocque]

100 ppl 100 seconds to name composers and only half says “Mozart” ?! Do you include toddlers in your batch of people ?

[@skippynz]

Poor Tāmaki Makarau pronunciation being butchered like that :(

[@annettewalter2273]

Huw has a dry sense of humour. I haven’t read any Booker prize books but I’m reading all the time.

[@frankbrodie5168]

His answer of 'Bark.. Back.. Batch..?" in the first round marked him out as a thorough sort of chap. lol

[@paddotk]

Engelbert Humperdinck is on the list of classical composers?! His music is NOT classical.

[@pdruiz2005]

Engelbert Humperdinck is a legit German composer of the 19th century. That weird singer from the mid-20th century decided to take his name. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engelbert_Humperdinck_(composer)

[@paddotk]

@pdruiz2005 oh, I see. Of all the names that singer could've chosen, he went with THIS one...

[@NovImpression-sh1kz]

Rachmaninoff.

[@NovImpression-sh1kz]

Bizet

[@foureyes1700]

So shocking that people are so dim.

[@wintersbabyy]

Not interested in the back stories. pLAY THE DAMN GAME

[@eliasshakkour2904]

YESSSSS!!!!!!

[@anyoldactress4078]

Gareth should disown Huw. Astonishingly stupid and arrogant.

[@brendenvarty3266]

Huw was annoying

[@anyoldactress4078]

He’s worse than annoying. Just an utter ars ehole.

[@francocabernet11]

These hosts and their humour are the worst 🤢

[@RockyMtnRebecca]

Good grief - all they do is chat! lol Play the game!

[@TheConjurer-o3z]

How tf is bro that much taller than his dad... paternity test anyone?

[@KAKE-26]

Kyle is hot 🔥🥵

[@frankbrodie5168]

What is it with saying "so.." before every sentence? I'm coming across as an old fart here I'm sure. But it's awful to listen to people butchering what should be simple grammar.

[@Running_Colours]

I mean, Alex Armstrong finishes almost every single sentence with indeed, even when it's irrelevant grammatically, and it does not seem to bother you so whatevs 🤷🏼

[@helenbartoszek243]

It's a thinking pause, same as starting a sentence with 'err' or 'um'. Or the word ' well,' ......

[@Craicfox161]

Because they’re Cambridge lads

[@Feldiman2u]

This is the 3rd episode (that I have seen) where the "US VICE PRESIDENT" has not been selected @PointlessUK = please send that episode's link/full episode

[@ajmilagros]

Probably a pretty easy one if you know any names of the vice presidents

[@kenchristie9214]

My favourite Mozart piece is "Rondo Alla Turca". Or, as I love to call it Lemmings. Tchaikovsky is nothing like Coldplay. Tchaikovsky composes music instead of crap.

[@dot8209]

Turkish March movement 3 over Lacrimosa?!!!

[@joeshermer7220]

Yes Coldplay is crap compared to Tchai, but the joke still works, when one guy said Tchai music was anguished (true), then the the other guy joked that similarly Coldplay apparently tries to be emotional and anguished too, but Coldplay crap instead of Tchai good. My only experience with Coldplay was watching him make fun of himself on a Ricky Gervais sitcom episode, where Coldplay sang, yes, a crap song attempting to be anguished about failed love or whatever.

[@emjai2122]

Sorry, but writing musicals 🎭 is a far more interesting pastime than wrestling 🤼