Yes, this was painful

And then Rio 😂😂😂

my reaction exactly.

Of course! lol

All of the first 4 are facepalm

New York WAS briefly the capital of the US, so she does have an argument to make....

Northern Ireland is not a sovereign state that is a member of the UN in it's own right - that would go to the United Kingdom, whose capital city is London. And since London is in the question itself, London would be ineligible and score 100 points, anyway.

I understand though why she might have said that under pressure, New York ball drop is so famous. She likely wasn't thinking

Geography isn’t everyone’s cup of tea mate, also New York is a pretty big city so she assumed it was the capital

@@lewdogzombies considering Geography is one of the most common topics on Pointless, one would assume you’d brush up a bit on your geography before going on 😂

​@@lewdogzombiesEveryone isn't on a TV quiz show though

Alex Salmond: *triggered*

Cardiff and Edinburgh might count one day, but if Northern Ireland leaves the union, it will almost certainly be to join the Republic of Ireland, and so Belfast will still not count!

English nationalism: bad Scottish nationalism: good 🤡🤡🤡🤡

@@remoosecode7558 you are the only person who said that 🤣🤣🤣

@@danielt8449 cope, gnat.

Yeah. I had Belgrade in mind and would have been screwed if I had gone before him.

Belgrade isn't in the UK, I don't see why that would've made a difference! But yeah, they're ahead of us by an hour so would have been wrong for that reason​@@RacingAtHome

Probably 10 or so

I reckon it's better than Lima, which was the crushingly curious one i was after

I went Petoria

@@Sim0n98 Would have been an incorrect answer.

Ha, that's interesting, I went for Montevideo too.

My they're geography experts that failed on a stupid pop culture question...

Yes, you want to give the correct answer that the smallest number of those surveyed in advance (or preferably none) have given. At the end of each round the team with the highest score leaves.

No. Not all that much like QI.

It's pretty much reverse FF

​@@technospyform1578 But in family feud the answers just have to be popular not correct.

@@gboldero1 yes, and the questions are different to reflect that. Pointless has questions which lead to a known set of possible answers. Family Feud/Fortunes has more open-ended questions like "Name something you take on holiday" and I imagine some of the survey results are consolidated into single answers.

Kingston I'm going for

wow i look like i just went to the pointless answers bit :s

Washington DC would have been my answer. That or Lisbon.

Monrovia

Or Lisbon

Yes

Fits all the criteria as far as I see. But it wasn't one if the top 3 so doubtful.

Why would the answer be incorrect? It fits all the criteria mentioned. It's possibly pedantic, but not wrong.

It's not even pedantic. It's just 100% incorrect. "At the same time as London" clearly refers to an entity that isn't London.

Maybe it's my mathematical background, but in terms of logic the question asked is akin to "Give me a positive integer with 2 as a prime factor". Obviously this is true for all positive even integers, including 2 itself. To expand on pedantry: An even more on point formulation in mathematics, the question asked is equivalent to the mathematical statement: x (x∈S) is a representative for an equivalence class with some equivalence relation (~), find an element y such that x is equivalent to y (y∈S such that y∼x). y=x trivially fulfills x~x. In this case x is London, a representative for the equivalence class "capitals with London's time zone". The question that should be stated if you want your interpretation is: find an element y∈S, y≠x such that y~x. Or "give another capital at the same time as London".

Oh just realised it's "...or later", that gives a load more options. Still would've screwed up

misterhamez it's not the capital of your sovereign state as recognised by the UN, which they clearly used to define capital.

It's not the capital of anything! New York state's capital is Albany.

(i think it's a reference to a song but with the words changed around, they're not being serious)

It's a joke, like "England is my city"

How is that a joke?

So frustrating isn't it!

Tegucigalpa, Managua, La Paz, Ottawa

To be fair, Rio de Janeiro only stopped being the capital in the 60s

@@abbyalphonse499 Well that's practically last week. That woman in her 30s clearly didn't get the memo yet that the capital was moved to Brasilia 25 years before she was born. Totally understandable.

A bit *too* clever probably.

Would not that be wrong as they "Do not celebrate new years eve" then? If they celebrate a different date they are excluded from the category.

I think that would be allowed - and would get a big round of applause

It wouldn't be no, because they're talking about the Gregorian Calendar. The Chinese new year is a different system so wouldn't be allowed.

It's 4715 in the Chinese Calendar. So technically they're almost 2700 years early for celebrating each new year.

I think when the 100 people are quized, the less intelligent ones opt to choose common answers in the minute whilst smarter ones don't mention those and try to think of obscure ones so no-one gets a pointless answer - hence why there's very rarely a 100 scoring correct answer

Ireland tends to get overlooked a surprising amount when it's a "quick, think of a nearby country!!" type question. That it's ended up top here is likely testament to the number of people who've picked wrong answers. Like mixing up their east and west. Which happened here too, but the studio contestants have the advantage of being able to profit from others' mistakes. "Oooooooh. _Other_ way from Helsinki, then!"

*Fewer. Fewer than 40. Yes, I know. I'll see myself out.

** Marmite ** Spain is to the left yet it's one hour ahead

What if you were facing south....ah didn't think that through eh 😂

@@Connie_TinuityError this is the one exception I guess. Spain is sort of south of UK and only bit of it is to the left/west. I guess they must have just copied the rest of Europe which is totally to the right/east of UK

@@palermothegoalgod-wd2wp true haha Have to be looking at earth from the side like the view shown on most maps

Ancient Rome had timezones; hardly a modern invention, let alone British. And it's called UTC.

Indeed!!!

Because they're the two highest scoring answers, see 6:30

Like Australia people think capital Sydney and its Canberra that’s not right for this question but a comparison

That was my choice, too.

It would certainly count!

Haha - ask the average Brit what the capital of Canada is, you'd be met with blank stares of people boldly proclaiming "Vancouver" haha. We're not used to the Capital city not being the main attraction!

Mark Shadbolt South Africa has the exact same problem. It literally has 3 capital cities yet neither of them are the largest city there.

@@_Shadbolt_ But the Brits know loads about America. So much for being a Commonwealth member!

@@sweiland75 I think most people would probably say New York or LA to be honest.

@@sweiland75 if makes you feel better I as a Brit have been learning your provinces and territories :p

Serendipitous Illicit add Port Of Spain as well

Aren't you a clever one!

Nick Matthews Bogota maybe

That was mine too, Asunción would also be pretty good, probably

Roseau, (cap of dominica)?

yes i think so because it is not part of the united Kingdom and it is the capitol of ireland

They showed Dublin was the highest scoring correct answer at the end

ITubaUTuba I am Irish 🇮🇪

Liam Kenneally See 6:33

@@DJHGaming *capital. It's a city, not a building in Washington DC named after a hill in Rome.

Dutch is funny

Capital city!!!

@@DJ.V-W Those are both capital cities, amigo.

@@liamwalsh4008 I would slate you for replying to a comment I made three years ago, but you're so right. I must have been half asleep when I wrote that, I'm actually quite good at geography

Wrong video lol

Paris is ahead by one

Madrid?

@@Uebeltank Try any South American capital city. I think Madrid is only just west of London.

​@@jasongoodacre Most capitals west of London work, except that Madrid is UTC+1 in order to share timezone with France.

@@Uebeltank yeah good point London is behind most of Europe. Iceland or Ireland would be ok.

?? You’ve got that the wrong way around lol. Helsinki celebrates it before London because it’s ahead and Washington after London because it’s behind So at 12 midnight London time it’s already 2am in Helsinki (+2 London) and 7pm in Washington (-5 London)

@@paulan7375 oooh yeah oops

You should apply to go on the show!

well, I immediately thought of Caribbean capitals, like Roseau or Castries, but I'm a huge Geography freak

You don't even need to be a 'Geography freak' to be able to name at least one. You have good knowledge though I bet both of those were pointless (I'm not re-watching to find out if they were lol :p).

If I wanted to take part in Pointless and knew nothing about Geography, I'd, well, at least learn a few obscure capitals from several different parts of the world... Unlike those people

It's quite common to have pretty dim contestants on quiz shows - they're often selected for comedy value

5 hours behind London means they celebrate New Year 5 hours after. Washington dc would have been correct

Good one. And you had plenty of time to think about that before writing your comment and making yourself look like a complete fool, too.

They're an hour ahead of London, just like Helsinki

Read the question.

Found another fool, I'm afraid.

No, sorry Fareos count as a part of Denmark

DundonianRider I realised after constructbiggerplay's comment about another fool. My bad. :)

Instead I'd go for Karachi, the capital of Pakistan

@@hollandr71 And you'd be wrong a second time. But why not just keep thwacking balls, sooner or later one of them's bound to find the fairway.

Because they count the UK as one country in this quiz as they only count sovereign states as accepted by the UN. And Belfast doesn't have its own UN seat, only UK, and the capital of the UK is London.

Thomas Combo Greenland is not a country :(

David yeah it is lol

It's not counted as a sovereign state in this quiz. Therefore its capital is Copenhagen, which is east of the UK and therefor would celebrate before. So it wouldn't be an answer. Same basic logic as "Belfast" not being accepted.

@@rossmarshall628 No, it's not, you halfwit. If you're going to correct someone try doing some research first to ensure you aren't spewing nonsense.

This trolling, or extreme brainfart?

No he wasn't, you bell end. Try listening to the rules next time.

The only embarrassing thing around here is your monstrous incompetence when it comes to listening to the required parameters for the answers.

@@user-kr1qq7cz8b It appears he struggles with simple tasks, like listening to the rules.

Northern Ireland is not a sovereign state, so Belfast is not a correct answer