Daily Mail suggesting the couple who got the Doctor Who question wrong will be invited back on Friday. Or Saturday.
Good stuff. One definitive answer in future, yes?
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Daily Mail suggesting the couple who got the Doctor Who question wrong will be invited back on Friday. Or Saturday.
Good stuff. One definitive answer in future, yes?
That was rumoured with the other pair too though. I think best for the show really to move on and if they have invited them back let them win nothing off camera instead rather than wasting airtime.
I’d also say in this case as it’s still ambiguous whether Sylvester McCoy was the right answer rather than giving the money they’d have won on that question they should back up and give them a new question at £650,000. My interpretation of the question would agree with their original answer of David Tennant.
It shouldn’t be ambiguous. THAT IS THE POINT.
That is why they should back up a question rather than continue based on McCoy being the correct answer.
…Especially considering there’s an equally valid arguement for McGann (by about 40 days, iirc)
(Just to clarify it depends on if you go from first television appearance to last television appearance or from first television appearance to first television appearance of the next Doctor – The distinction only makes a difference for Paul McGann and Colin Baker (Since… Uhh… Sylvester McCoy was playing the sixth Doctor for the regeneration scene. In a blonde wig.)
Yes, I would be happy with that option. The point is it should have never been an issue in the first place.
And to remind us of the actual question:
“Which actor played Doctor Who for the longest period?
* Sylvester McCoy
* Paul McGann
* Christopher Ecclestone
* David Tennant”
In terms of “played” well Sylvester McCoy didn’t “play” the Doctor for that nine year period – he played it for two years then made a brief cameo return some years later.
It is why I definately think they should back up an answer – there may have been arguments that David Tennant wasn’t the correct answer but there are just as valid arguments that Sylvestor McCoy isn’t either – hence proceeding as if it is is just as wrong as proceeding as if it was David Tennant.
As others have pointed out, this is further complicated by the audio versions…
Is Aldehyde an alcohol or not? Maybe I’m using it in a non-standard sense but I found it in two good books listed under ‘alcohols’.
I never thought my chemistry degree would come in handy here!
Aldehydes are a class of chemicals, much like alcohols are, so as such, no they are not. They are related though and alcohols can easily be converted to aldehydes (methanol to methanal, ethanol to ethanal etc.) and vice versa.
Hope that helps!
Bit puzzled why my sources say they are. Is there any other way, or archaic way, of describing them as such?
Not to my knowledge… That is indeed a puzzle though. If you’re willing to share your sources I’ll gladly take a look and see if I can shed any light on the situation though?
Just realised why you’re asking this after spending half an hour with the iPlayer. Probably not worth spending a lot of time on it now, eh?
I’ll second the motion that Aldehydes aren’t alcohols – since they don’t possess the requisite -OH group… also puzzled which sources are saying it is!
I think David should now invite all the contestants back for another go.
I don’t want to piss on the parade of what is otherwise my favourite gameshow of the last decade, but I’d question isopropyl’s place in that group as well… Techincally, isopropyl is a 3-carbon group attached to a molecule. Isopropyl alcohol is certainly an alcohol, but the two are distinct things.
(Sorry David – I guess this is the price of demanding perfection!)
Where are this week’s new connecting walls on the BBC website?
Hmm, I’ll prompt them in the morning.
I do think that, like most of you, the majority of the MPD’s flaws would be filled in should the show just be pre-recorded (as for questions that are topically relevant, then just record them a week before broadcast or something). If you’d really want to add stats about the online game players or the Twitter feed, surely that all can be added on-screen live in post-production?
That’s a really good point indeed.
Two question controversies in the same series run in which each contestant only answers 7 questions? That is disgraceful.
I’ve seen the credits. They have verifiers. I like how they phoned the BBC/Doctor Who team AFTER the question had been asked as opposed to being part of the initial question writing. Good practise there.
That is true, although it is very difficult to ring up somewhere and say “Hello, we’re from a £1m quiz show and we’d like to check one of our questions…”
Even so, even the most cursory Googling ought to have shown that this was fraught with problems.
Yes, as I pointed out in an earlier post, if Weakest Link can fact check the 500-odd questions it asks on a weekly basis, The Million Pound Drop has no real excuse.