TippingPointFails

An archive page celebrating the occasional idiocy of TVs Tipping Point contestants. 😉 All copyright sits with ITV

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Sorry for the radio silence guys - I was meant to be back from my holiday last Tuesday and only got back last Saturday

While I was away I’ve been thinking about this page - and have come to the decision to stop posting and move on

Thanks for the support 👍

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Oh boy 😂😂

Question - Who was the ruling British monarch when Tony Blair was prime minister?

Correct answer - Queen Elizabeth II

Answer Given - Queen Victoria 🤷‍♀️😂

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My final show before my fortnight’s holiday

Question - Which bulb vegetable has varieties called Hercules and Golden Bear?

Correct Answer - Onion

Answer Given - Bulb Vegetable (he basically repeated it 🤷‍♀️)

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Question - The word LOAF is an ANAGRAM (buzzed) of which word for a young horse?

Correct Answer - Foal

Answer given - 4 🤔

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Question - Australia and which other cricket team compete in a test match series to win the Trans Tasman trophy?

Correct answer - New Zealand (the 2 countries are separated by the Tasman)

Answer Given - Tasmania 🤔

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Question - Burratina is an Italian variety of which dairy foodstuff?

Correct Answer - Cheese

Answer Given - Ice cream 🤔

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Am out for the day - so here’s a recent Dumb Britain to keep you company in the meantime

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Ok - thanks for the confirmation

I will look to post the episode when I get home - but let’s be clear if I’m out for the night, I won’t be coming home at 11 to post the episode

Thanks guys

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Sorry about the silence - life has been crazy busy recently and I’ve often been getting home very late.

I’m about to head off for 2 weeks holiday - but would welcome a guide about whether I should post later or not

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Minimal idiocy today so will take this history fail

Correct Answer - Charles II (post civil war)

Answer Given - Henry VIII (not knowingly restored ever)

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Oh boy - the history curse continues

Correct Answer - Hundred Years’ War

Answer Given - Napoleonic (just the 400 years out)

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Oh boy 😂

Correct Answer - Trumpet

Answer Given - flute (part of the woodwind section)

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Question - vehicles by which German car manufacturer are sometimes informally called VEE DUBS?

Correct Answer - Volkswagen

Answer Given - BMW 😂😂

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Question - in a 2018 musical film, the character played by Emily Blunt who performs the songs “can you imagine that and turning turtle” is which magical nanny?

Correct Answer - Mary Poppins

Answer Given - Nanny McPhee

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Correct Answer - Diego Velazquez

Answer Given - Picasso (born in 1881 and a leading 20th century artist)

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Question - in the human body, the patella is better known as the KNEE what?

Correct answer - Cap

Answer Given - pass 🤷‍♀️

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Question - the chemical element Moscovium is named after a region in which COUNTRY?

Correct answer - Russia

Answer Given - Moscow

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Question - How many vowels are there in the word Private?

Correct Answer - 3

Answer Given - 4

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Borderline fail today

Correct Answer - James

Answer Given - Henry VIII (“he’s the only Tudor king I can think of”)

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Correct Answer - 5 (china, France, Russia, uk and USA)

Answer given - 12

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