Brawl 10: Pointless

[xofelf]

{ROUND 10: BRAWL}

Pointless

You know what we really need more of in this game? Game shows. We really need so much more of them, and thankfully Mish Mash has run a fair few to choose from! Pointless was even part of the game show marathon(RIP). If you're really good at knowing the stuff no one knows or cares about, this is the game for you!

Welcome to the syndicated version of Pointless, the quiz show where the popular answers mean nothing and the obscure answers mean everything.
For each questions, the BBC polled 100 people and gave them each 100 seconds to come up with as many answers as possible for each subject. Find out what they didn't know, and you'll end up victorious!

For the first two rounds, teams will answer separately, but you will be able to come up with an answer together in Round III and the Final.

All answers must be thought of by yourself; this isn't a test of how well you can Google answers.

Round I

A category for the question will be revealed and teams will choose who will give an answer for the first pass. The other member will give an answer for the second pass.
The question will then be revealed (see Question Formats, below). Starting with the player in Position #1, they give an answer and it is scored (see Scoring, below). This repeats down the line until the player in Position #2 gives their answer.
After that, the other players in each team will get a chance to answer in reverse order, starting with the player in Position #2 and ending with the player in Position #1.
The team will the lowest cumulative score through Round I will receive a point.

Round II

A category for the question will be revealed and teams will choose who will give an answer for the first pass. The other member will give an answer for the second pass.
The question will then be revealed (see Question Formats, below). Starting with the player in Position #1, they give an answer and it is scored (see Scoring, below). This repeats down the line until the player in Position #2 gives their answer.
After that, the other players in each team will get a chance to answer in reverse order, starting with the player in Position #2 and ending with the player in Position #1.
The team will the lowest cumulative score through Round II will receive a point.

Round III

The two teams now go head-to-head for the Pointless trophy and the chance to try to win the Jackpot. Team members can confer with each other before giving their answers in this round.
The team with the lowest combined score during Rounds I and II gets to go first and gives an answer for the first question. The other team then gives an answer. If it is a Clues and Answers question and they believe the first team answered incorrectly, they can give another answer to the same clue.
Once both answers are given, the scores for those answers will be revealed. The team that got the lowest score receives one point.
The team that gets to answer first then changes to the other team and the next question is asked. The first team to score three points (factoring in the points given during Rounds I & II) wins the game, and the losers are eliminated from Clash of the Mash.

Question Formats

There are three possible formats of questions in Rounds I-III.

• Original Format
  : The questions will have been posed to 100 people by the BBC. Each person polled had 100 seconds to come up with as many answers as they could. Each player will choose an answer, with no prompts or possible choices given.
• Possible Answers
  : The question will have been posed to 100 people by the BBC. Each person polled had 100 seconds to come up with as many answers as they could. A number of possible answers are given on each pass (7 in Round I, 6 in Round II and 5 in Round III), and each player will choose one of those answers. On each pass, at least one answer is incorrect.
• Clues and Answers
  : The question is a two-part subject. A number of items for the first part of the subject will be listed for each pass (7 in Round I, 6 in Round II and 5 in Round III), and each player will choose one and give the corresponding other half of the answer.

Scoring

After an answer is given, the answer will be scored. If the answer is incorrect, it scores the maximum of

100 points

.
If the answer is correct, a number of points will be given equal to the number of people polled who also gave that answer.
If a correct answer is given that nobody polled came up with—a Pointless answer—

0 points

will be given.
If the two teams are tied at the end of Round I or Round II, each team will give an additional answer until the tie is resolved. If scores are tied in Round III, nobody gets the point and another question is given.

A dice roll will determine which pair goes first. Five minutes will then be given for every answer.

[xofelf]

Klick and racefan, please pick which pair you would like to go against. You may not pick Ani and piggy. You may pick from:

• Cephrir and Radja
  Xalxe and Shadoweh
  Red Coyote and Zoraster
  Save the Dragons and Haschel Cedricson
  pablito and DeathRowKitty

If scheduling is a problem, the live nature of this can be dropped but it would be MUCH appreciated if it didn't have to be. Also with American Thanksgiving being this week, it's entirely understandable if it's gonna be a bit problematic.

[xofelf]

Well, I've already been informed by Radja that it will probably be damn near impossible to schedule a time where this can be done live, but what the hell, let's see if it MIGHT be possible to find something.

[xofelf]

Okay so like, obviously this isn't like saying HA YES XOF CAN BE HERE AT EVERY TIME EVER thing here. This is simply, a doodle of, knowing that: one of you lives in Willy Wonka land, three different timezones, two of you work away from internet things, two of you have significant others who would probably want to see you at some point, and three of you may have to do Thanksgiving things during this week MAY mean that schedules are super extra fucked so let's find if there's any hours of time where all 4 of you are even going to be online all at the same time during the next week before I just say let's fully scrap the live portion of this. I will note that tonight I personally can't run this because I have already booked up my entire night. BUT if this isn't live, I can start this tonight.

Please fill out this doodle: http://doodle.com/poll/qdmstzh6sfif9ra7

[xofelf]

^_^ YES SHOW ME ALL THE TIMES

[xofelf]

This is only to see if live things work. It's totally fine if they don't It can work without that.

Basically, you're filling out your availability. Yes is you can be here, (Yes) is if you HAVE to you can, No is nope never. And it defaults to No.

Also, I'm not entirely sure how long this should take. My best guesstimate is 2 hours or more. But I could be entirely wrong on that.

[xofelf]

Okay, well, Ceph, does 3-5 EST next Saturday or Sunday work for you? Those are the only times where everyone else overlaps. And while I'd rather not wait a whole week, if that's what we have to do to schedule people, that's what we'll do. /Or/ would you all rather just not wait for that and play this non-live but with the awareness that as soon as you possibly can answer things would be preferred?

[xofelf]

Yes, well.

[xofelf]

Mkay, since you're all the most accommodating guys on the planet(no really, ALL of you said whichever is fine, no preference) in the interest of not dealing with a surprise work emergency deciding to take away the for sure time for the live challenge, scrapping the live deadline part to this. Just asking that as soon as humanly possible submit. But the first part of this will be going up

Tomorrow, November 20th at 3 PM EST

.

[xofelf]

No.

[xofelf]

Hi superfriends! It's that time! Are you ready? Cuz well, if you're not, too bad! I will first give you the general category of what the first topic is, and then decide which team will be going first while you decide which of you will be taking the first crack at this category. Now remember, once you decide between yourselves who will be taking the first spot here, you may NOT talk about the categories or anything at all with your partner outside of the thread until round 3! You may not help each other until that point. Good luck!

[xofelf]

1: Klick and racefan
2: Ceph and Radja

Original Roll String: 1d2

1 2-Sided Dice: (1) = 1

Which team goes first?~

[xofelf]

Generic category to decide who is taking first is:

Geography

Klick and racefan, who would like to go first?
Ceph and Radja, you then decide who goes after.
And then I will reveal the complete category.

[xofelf]

Alright, sounds good! Once Ceph and Radja tell me which of them will be going first, I can give you all the category!

[xofelf]

Sounds great!

So the order we have here is first up will be racefan!

*applause and cheers*

and then Cephrir

*more applause and cheers*

then Klick

*applause and cheers continue*

and finally finishing up will be Radja

*applause and cheers of a finale-like sort*

The specific category that you will be coming up with things for is:

Deserts of the World

Give me a correct answer and hope that the least amount of people gave this answer. Incorrect answers get the maximum value of 100 points. Points are bad. Good luck!

[xofelf]

Yes indeed! The Kalahari Desert is a desert covering much of Botswana, parts of Namibia, and regions of South Africa. How many points did this net you?

Spoiler:

42!

Whenever you like, Ceph!

[xofelf]

Botswana is my favourite dessert, I don't know what you're talking about.

[xofelf]

Well, you're not wrong. The Gobi Desert is a vast, arid region in northern China and southern Mongolia. But is this better or worse than racefan's desert?

Spoiler:

74!

Klick?

[xofelf]

And this is why it's not live! *finger guns and walks out of the studio to go lay down for a week*

[xofelf]

Oh what's that? Fucking no one in the world knows this? Ok

See? Now it's fair!

[xofelf]

Did you do it?

Spoiler:

Answer	Score
Eukelade	15
Europa
Greip
Himalia	27
Megaclite
Mundilfari

You did it!

Let's see the rest of them! It was discovered in 2003, and named in 2005 after one of the muses.

Answer	Score
Eukelade	15
Europa	83
Greip	INCORRECT
Himalia	27
Megaclite	23
Mundilfari	INCORRECT

[xofelf]

So now we get to the fun rounds! You may now confer with your partner! First category in round 3 is:

U. S. History

[xofelf]

Because they have the least cumulative points, Klick and racefan go first!
The more specific category is:

U. S. Presidents

Give me the name of a U. S. President. You only get one submission. Either of you may post, and you may talk among yourselves to figure out who you want to name here. The score is tied at 1 to 1. Remember, first team to 3 points total wins the Brawl. Good luck!

[xofelf]

Oh hey, I like that guy. He's got a super cool name. He was also President from July 9, 1850 – March 4, 1853, and at one point was part of my favourite named party of all time, the Know Nothing party. But who else knew who the heck this president was?

Spoiler:

60!

Is that good, or is that bad? We'll just have to see~

Ceph/Radja?

[xofelf]

Yes indeed. He's a beautiful president, I mean just look at him:

BEAUTIFUL.
He was also president from March 4, 1877 – March 4, 1881. Now did you do better than racefan and Klick?

Spoiler:

55!

Just barely! But that's a point to your team.

[xofelf]

Next category is:

Entertainment

[xofelf]

More specifically, your category is:

Songs and Movies With the Same Name

Stars and Year	Song/Movie Title	Artist and Album
Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek (1995)		Eagles - [Eponymous]
Jason Biggs, Chris Klein (1999)		Don McLean - [Eponymous]
Robert Downey, Jr., Jeff Bridges (2008)		Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Sarah Jessica Parker, Helen Hunt (1985)		Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual
Vincent Price, David Hedison (1958)		U2 - Achtung Baby

These songs and films have the exact same name. You have the actors who were in them and which year the movies were released. And which band or singers sang the songs and which album they were on. All you have to do is give me a correct answer that is on this table and hope it has the lowest number of correct responses. Good luck!