Mr.Mister I would have been able to get a large number of those. But would have taken more than a minute for 29.

That's the thing though. I am pretty safe myself - though I tend to mix up island nation capitals in the Caribbean or Pacific, so one of these could kill me - but the time is harsh. 30 in 60 seconds sounds easy, but watching this I don't think I could do it even if only "safe" questions were asked.

It's a very common category on Pointless

Makes bloody Osman look small

That giant is the late Neil Fingleton.

He knows his sh*t and contestants don't know they're sh*t.

The capitals I know are A B C D E etc

He would’ve known about it before the show started

+bluebear1985 It's now 58. EDIT: I was looking at the wrong record, it's 52.

That's still impressive :)

I know every capital quite well and getting 30 in one minute seemed hard enough; getting 52 is incredible

My question is, was it verbally asked or already written, then it's impressive that BOTH the questioner and the answerer can get 52 or even 45 in one minute.

yea but imagine you never practiced them, also he didn't get virtually any easy ones which there are allot

Amphan none, he just didn't answer them fast enough the first time.

"Congo" presumably not deemed correct as ambiguous. RoC and DRoC.

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Kingstown is the Capital of St Vincent. Roseau is the capital of Dominica.

They probably didn't count "Congo" as correct for "Brazzaville". There's two Congos so they would probably only have accepted "Republic of the Congo".

It's called editing, mate.

@@SundaeRoast You've replied to a comment that included a question. A question that you are obviously unable to answer. Your reply told the world that the television programme Pointless (or Pointless Celebrities, we haven't actually established which) is edited. This is a fact that no one asked about or disputed. You've added nothing to the human understanding of the world or the structure of this particular episode of Pointless (or Pointless Celebrities). Think about what you have done, Johnny. You've made a fool of yourself and wasted everyone's time., "mate".

@@jeffrey44 TL;DR

You realise the show is edited, right, Jeff? 🤦‍♂

@@GroundhogRoy Thanks Roy. I do realise that, yes. It's usually edited down to about 45 minutes or so I believe. This episode of Pointless Celebrities (or possibly Pointless with celebrities) must have been particularly low on banter if they managed to fit the world record shenanigans in. Do you agree with my hypothesis? That question is open to everyone.

define "easy"? he knows a lot lmao

I'm assuming they're randomly drawn, or otherwise drawn up by some mystical means determined by the Guinness peeps, not by the person trying to break it, or their team.

The questions are given by Guiness and are randomly ordered

Leopold Slikk You name a country, and I'll name them

Reading it is one thing. Remembering it is quite another.

It honestly isn't hard. I could name at least 150 capital cities off of my head and assign at least 120 of them to countries

in 1 minute?

Go to sporcle (or a similar site), try it out. Also, manudude is correct - time IS an issue. I would know all 50 US states, but how quickly when prompted I don't know.