Ok, not seen the tweet or watched it. I'll have a go:

Amanda Carreras

Got to be one of the early ones, which are before my time. Gonna have to say Feliciano Lopez, even though I think it will score highly as I have a brain freeze tbh

Bangkok?

For info, in that final round you can choose your 3 answers from any question, eg. they could all be from one of the 3 questions if you wanted.

I go :

Question 1 : Amanda Carrreras and Emily Webley-Smith

Question 3 : San Jose

What impressed me most was that Richard pronounced "Broady" correctly ... I also thought his accidental "Dmitry Turns-us-off" was spot on

I think most of us would have assumed Amanda was the most obscure answer for the WTA top 500 category ... and been shocked to see Laura get only 19 points, Anne 1 and JoKo (in particular) 0.

I was surprised at Cincy being pointless too - I mean, it's a Masters and he's won it twice, you'd think a few people in 100 would know! Then again, if they have 100 seconds to name titles, it must take quite a chunk of that just to reel off all the even more obvious ones. I think I'd have assumed Marseille was the most obscure Murray title city (quite an early one, only won it once and not a randomly guessable capital city), but obviously it wasn't necessary to go that obscure.

As for Henman losses at Wimbledon, I'd forgotten a couple of them - but Prinosil is always a good obscure Tim at Wimbledon fact, since he lost to the German before he (Tim) had even registered on the radar for most people.

Lisa's not impressed:

"So first someone called me the boring one on here, now today I was on the show pointless #waahhhhh :("



I'm pretty sure calling her "the boring one" wasn't one of my crimes 

Interesting perception issue later in the thread - someone said "British female tennis players in the World top 500'. Tough category to be fair! ;)" and she replied "haha there's more than there are British men that's for sure hahaha" - if even a player thinks that, I guess we shouldn't be surprised the media often seem to think that too.

Talking of Lisa, she's been out for quite a while now (and had been playing well), I hope she's going to be back in action soon.

Helen40 wrote:

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Can't believe Hewitt was pointless, he was the only one I was certain of.
I take it Windley, Fitzpatrick, Moore, Murray were pointless then?
I would never have gone for Cinni, I I am also stunned that that was pointless. How did Miami do?

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Only 4 of the British women in the top 500 as at the end of 2012 had been mentioned - Laura by 19 of the 100 people, Anne by 1, Hev and Bally by unspecified numbers. So the winning, i.e. 'pointless,' answers were:

JoKo - Sam - Tara - Naomi - Lisa - Jade - Amanda - Emily - Mel

Given the surprise missing answers (e.g. Hewitt) in the other categories, the 100 who were asked did surprisingly well on Murray title cities. The pointless answers were:

Bangkok - Cincy - Montréal - Toronto - Marseille - San José - St Petersburg

... which means at least one person must have got each of these:

London - New York - Miami - Doha - Madrid - Rotterdam - Valencia - Brisbane - Shanghai - Tokyo

Of course, they might have asked a different set of 100 people and found one or two tennis fans in the set they asked about cities.

For the record, the full set of pointless answers for players who had beaten Tim at Wimbledon were:

López - Hewitt - Philippoussis - Grosjean - Prinosil - Tursunov - Ancic - Martin

... which means only these must have been got by at least one person:

Sampras - Federer - Ivanisevic - Stich

Quite surprising that whoever remembered Stich didn't remember Hewitt!

steven wrote:

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Congrats to one of our forum members, Jonny O'Mara's dad Dave, who was apparently won Pointless today with Jonny's brother on the day tennis hit back!

A pity they missed out on the British Tennis category by a few days, but it seems they didn't need it

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Did they win the Jackpot or just the show.

Really missing my English TV !!

-- Edited by Bob in Spain on Tuesday 24th of September 2013 07:28:16 PM