Why refuse to answer a quiz question?
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- Опубліковано 25 тра 2024
- Stuart Goldsmith, Sophie Ward and Katie Steckles face a question about a question about questions.
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the Welch pronunciation was actually really close. the CH sound at the end was the correct one
I got it almost immediately, but I thought he hadn't lost out because the _Chaser_ was a fan of the same club, and had offered him an extra 500 euros to make up for it.
I guessed the answer from a Foil, Arms and Hog sketch about a man from Cork who was asked a quiz question about...
the capital of Ireland, and couldn't bear to give the right answer.
People from Cork are a bit special.
Just found it, it was a Scottish man and his reaction is brilliant!
Edit: found the Irish one right after. The Scottish is about a sport like in this video - that was what I thought of.
I love that you actually transcribed the Welsh /çx/ sound, top notch work!
Subtitlers working overtime in this one
They're consistently the best subs I've ever seen on youtube and then STILL they amaze me with further additions
I didn't know the answer. But after revealing it had something to do with Sports, it became clear.( Watching this Video from Mönchengladbach). And the rivalry goes so far, that a few years ago, the fans of cologne destroyed many fences, Bus Stops and so on after a game. We lived around 1km from the Stadium. The determination of personal details of around 30 agressive fans happend on the parking Spot of our Neighbour(who didn't to be at home). After around an hour a policewoman in full body armor came over and asked if she could use our toilet(we stood at our window, watching what happend). we said yes no problem. after she came back we said, if your colleagues want to use the bathroom too, they can use it. two minutes later we had many police officers standing in front of our balcony. 🤣🤣
A few years ago the Cologne fans stole the large club banner the Mönchengladbach Ultras used, and ripped it to shreds live during the game. "Was ist der Unterschied zwischen einem Gladbach-Fan und einem Penner? Der Gladbach-Fan hat keine Fahne."
I am absolutely baffled by this. I cannot imagine being so loyal to a club or something that you don't even want to admit when they lost. It seems a bit cultish to me, but I guess because I'm not into soccer at all I just can't understand it.
It's the reason hooligans exists. Because of a lot football fans says this: Football is not life and death, it's more important then that.
I've seen American fans of gridiron football go to more extreme lengths of devotion. It's not exclusive to association football.
As a non-sportsman who has sportspeople in my family... Yeah. It's culty. Sometimes people do it ironically, but sometimes it's real.
i guess it's hard to fathom unless you grew up in a town with fervent football culture? like in england, some of these rivalries go back decades, and your grandfather's grandfather may have been just such a fervent fan too. it goes beyond casual fandom and literally becomes part of the family ethos -- except it's for the entire town.
Image if the question had been "Which theme park management game released in 2016 causing the death of a beloved series?".
Cologne as name for perfume is actually because "Eau de Cologne" is French for the (in)famous Kölnisch Wasser (water from Cologne)
And if it doesn't come from Cologne it's actually referred as "Sprudel Wasser"
Why is it infamous? Is there anything bad about it I should know?
@@piranha031091 it's often seen as tacky, old fashioned, and/or low class.
@@piranha031091 It's named after the brand "4711", a brand of perfume that started during Napoleon's occupation of the city around 1800. The scent is considered very old-fashioned today. Although their Cologne (city) flagship store apparently still attracts tourists. I personally do love their bottle design, very pretty.
@@piranha031091 It's cheap and considered unsophisticated by snobby people. The original formulation that gave name to this particular fragrance is still in production by the same company that started it. It's called 4711, named after the building number where the company is located.
Welsh pronounciation of German words, that was a new one. 🙂
Also, knowing how the Chase works is kind of important for this question.
@@57thorns Not necessarily, other than knowing there wouldn't have been any in-game payoff to not answering. That's easily something the host could tell them if they hadn't been sure.
and it even worked. oO Wasn't perfect German sounding, but really close... especially compared to the other attempt . Hearing him say the "welsh" version out of context would make me think he speaks german somewhat fluently, maybe lived here... in the other version I wouldn't have known what he meant
@@woodfur00 From the comments it sounds like not getting the $500 wouldn't mean he'd immediately lose the game. That would have been good to know. I thought something had to have happened in the game itself.
I mean I do like pronouncing Spanish and Italian foods with a double L as if they were Welsh. Tortelloni, quesadilla...
(A kinda not so fun) fact about German Chase - they used to have a Chaser who was Polish. She lived for a long time in Germany and is a good quizzer, but not being a native speaker and missing a lot of basic German culture knowledge really hurt her performance. She lasted just 5 episodes before being resigning - she won only one of them, when she had to catch a really low score (9 I believe)
Do you think Klaus' spouse maybe lives in a Klaus spouse house?
Things look good when you realise that German _Haus_ sounds pretty much like the English word. "Spouse" though, is _Ehepartner._ That'd be one heck of a slant rhyme.
And if there was a rodent living in the walls, that'd be the Klaus spouse house mouse....
And of course the Klause spouse house mouse would *need* a pet louse
Thumbnail game is on point as always, amusing and related to the question without spoiling anything, cheers to whoever keeps coming up with them.
The first thing I think of is that time "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" had "Which of these vehicles has a rudder?" as one of the easy sub- $1000 questions.
Both "boat" and "plane" were listed as possible answers.
Did the contestant know that both were correct? Or, more interestingly, did they select the one that wasn’t meant to be correct and argue?
@@bamweasel They chose "boat", which I suspect is supposed to be the "correct" answer.
No idea what would have happened if they said "plane".
German here... Seriously do that welsh thing. I'm amazed, that was very German sounding indeed. Even the ö was half decent (compared to the other attempt^^). But if I would hear a Brit say Gladbach like that I would assume that they lived in Germany and or speak the language somewhat fluently.
If you do that and remember that: ie -> ee (like eel) and ei -> i (like in like I, with both ignore the first letter and say the second one like in english, but long) you are good to go.
"First one does the walking, second one does the talking," was the mnemonic in my German classes in school here in the US.
Great work on the captions
I was trying to remember if The Chase has a shared prize pot or individual pots - if the latter, then an opponent winning would get a smaller pot which would be a sort of victory. I think that it might actually be a team game though, so that doesn't work.
I hadn't even considered that the advantage might be *outside* of the game.
I also couldn't work out why someone would deliberately not answer. I'm definitely in Tom's camp of not understanding the mentality of sports cults.
The Chase has a shared prize pot.
I'd just answer the question, it's money in the bank. 🤭
And you'd have missed out of a gesture from your favourite team!
@@SmallBlogV8
Oh no! 😆
I got everything right - apart from thinking it was Fortuna Duesseldorf!
I thought Kaiserslauten.
ETA - So you know more about germany than me as they are a rival.
I got it since "Cologne" was read for the first time, but I know way too little about German football I didn't even try to guess which team it was
I didn't think of football initially, but my first thought was "Is he from Düsseldorf?"
Love it!
loyalty breeds good things sometimes.
As a German hearing you trying to pronounce those names, I feel much better now about my very Teutonic English.
I'd love to see a video of this
Cologne has actually two rivals, so it's either Fortuna Düsseldorf (which, fun fact, are still playing for a spot in the 1st division of Bundesliga, while Cologne will play the 2nd division next year, they just got relegated) or Borussia Mönchengladbach. But considering how crazy Gladbach and Cologne fans are against one another, I'd say it's Gladbach.
That's awesome 😂😂
I knew the answer from the getgo and was then surprised that it was Mönchengladbach and not Düsseldorf, Cologne's actual rival city
I got the bit mixed up and thought this was referring to the final question of a head-to-head round to get a player through to the final chase.
My guess was: All other teammates had been eliminated and he was the last remaining. If he got it right he would have been in the final round on his own for 500 euros which is tough to win. (UK at least) rules state if everyone is eliminated before the final round, then the team nominates a single player to play for 1000 euros. So it would be for more money on a team mate who might be better.
So after driving forklifts Klaus went on to be a contestant on a game show?
That was quick
"Why refuse to answer a quiz question" That's fantastic grammar
you can't have a question about borussia mönchengladbach and not mention Paul O'Connell on Question of Sport!
That was the elite moment
I grew up with the Magpies/Crows rivalry, so the Clemson/Crimson Tide relationship looks like brotherly love from my perspective. F the Crows!
In a late Eighties Italian TV series a character took part in a TV quiz, and upon being asked about the 1984 Euro Cup final between Roma and Liverpool, he answered that that match never happened. This is the clip: ua-cam.com/video/yJ_nC3W4y74/v-deo.html.
Yul Brynner was a lifelong Liverpool supporter but hated wearing aftershave.
Yul never wore Cologne.
haha love it
When is the technical difficulties crew coming on lateral?
I wonder if he hates people calling it “Cologne” not “Köln”
My first thought was he wanted to play alittle bit stupid to get a better offer from the chaser.
Initial thoughts: I know nothing about "The Chase" specifically; but I gather it's a publicized game show à la "Who wants to be a millionaire". Maybe because Cologne has two (or more) ambiguous names for it: cologne, cologna, colognia, colonia, ..., and he didn't want to fall into some bureaucratic dismissal. Perhaps the name at the time referred to by the question was different than today's name?
Or according to what I've got from the thumbnail, it was ambiguous whether saying "yes" or "no" would block him from progressing forward to earn more. "Yes" to 500 could have been interpreted as a "thanks for playing, bye, and here's your chosen 500 cop-out reward". "No" could have also been interpreted as "if he doesn't even want 500, he definitely doesn't want any of the better prize above 500, so give him nothing".
The right solution to such awful, dirty, weak, set-up, is to state the conflict and not answer as they sort it out.
Except the city name is Köln. English uses the fr€nch name for some reason. So no ambiguity in German.
lol I missed the phlegmy pronunciation sound at first so I thought Tom just said "German is famous for having many sounds"
Once I heard cologne I wondered if it had to do with the rivalry between gladbach and and cologne.
If it's a Deutsch version of 'The Chase', wouldn't the answer have been Köln?
It was. The question is translated. Obviously.
ha, of cours-(!)-so why didn't they translate:
*Mönchengladbach* 🙂
@@nbell63 To what? Monk‘s canalized rivulet?
There is no internationally accepted translation of MG, so it’s written in the German form (kinda like most foreign cities apart from really prominent ones)
@@nbell63"Mönchengladbach" seems to be the name that English speakers use for this city, just as they use "Cologne" for the other city.
(for example, you'll find the descriptions of these two cities in the English wikipedia in the articles "Mönchengladbach" and "Cologne ").
so we can say that both city names have been properly transferred for use in English.
Great question.
(I love Sofie's voice).
Why no full episodes?
Welch pronunciation, haha
Just looked at the Bundesliga results that year, and Cologne only won the second highest German league (Bundesliga 2), and Mönchengladbach was already in the highest league. So Mönchengladbach wasn't even beaten by Cologne, so he must have just been annoyed that they will have to play against them again next year.
Cologne and Gladbach were rivals for the Bundesliga trophy back in the 70s. Before many of today's fans were even born. At the time in 18/19 they did indeed not even compete against each other. It's just weird how hate seemingly won't die, it even gets passed down to future generations.
It's quite a while that Cologne has actually won anything, while Gladbach is quite successful at the moment. Cologne just got relegated to 2nd division again (my brother in law is a huge Cologne fan, he was quite annoyed that they're in 2nd division again and how poorly they performed last year). A team like this is called a "Fahrstuhlmannschaft" (elevator team) here in Germany, because they constantly go up and down again.
@@MyRegardsToTheDodo like we would describe a yo-yo team then!
…football fandom is really, really weird. But I guess most fandoms are pretty weird once you get to the real hardcore people who are super emotionally invested.
I dunno, investing that much mental energy and that much of yiour personality and identity into something just doesn't seem very healthy to me.
It really takes a nosedive when you consider that all religions are just fandoms of their respective books...
As one of the few Germans, who absolute dislikes football, I find it toddler level childish of him and downright enabling from the club to have paid him for that.
His last name was Cologne, and he just showed his ID?
This is just me being pedantic, but the German city of Cologne is not pronounced the same way that cologne would be pronounced in English, because the German name of the city is Köln
I don't know how to describe the exact pronunciation, but it's not the same, if someone has a way of explaining the pronunciation that would be helpful lol, but otherwise you can just look it up
Köln ~ Kurl-n or Curl-n with a hard C is my best guess at the pronunciation without using IPA
This is just me being pedantic, but places can have different names in different languages. The city is called Köln in German and called Cologne in English, just like how 中国 is called China in English despite those sounding nothing alike. If you go to the Wikipedia entry for the city Cologne then you can see the IPA for how it is pronounced in English, or listen to an audio clip.
Which version of the name you should use depends very much on context. Köln is the official version used by the government. If you stand in front of the townhall the seal reads "Köln". Cross the road to the convention center and a lot of signage and announcements will be in english and say "Cologne" to acommodate foreign business travellers. Talk to a local and he will call it "Kölle" because that's the name in the local dialect. If you then still have the time to visit a museum or the ancient city wall you'll see latin inscriptions reading "CCAA" (Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium), because the city was founded by the romans.
And yes, people do argue about which one to use. A couple of years back we had a group of local businesses lobbying the townhall to introduce english language announcements on trains and trams. Again for the foreign visitors to the convention center. The local government gave in by the tiniest amount and now we have those announcements on the train from the airport to the trade fair. Most of everything else is still in german.
But there you have it, people from Kölle campaigned for saying Cologne.
As a big sports fan, sports fans are the most insufferable people on earth lol
Soccer fans are nuts.
My first thought: Surely it's not just due to the particular format of The Chase, no? i.e. If you are confident in your own ability, you can essentially hustle them, and pretend to get answers wrong in the first 'cash builder' round, so that your high offer given by the chaser is a ludicrously high amount.
That would be my guess, but it seems far too uninteresting to be chosen for a question on the podcast! (Unless they totally run out of ideas!)
Contrary to popular belief, Welsh was not invented in 1953 when Joseph Stalin had a stroke.
With blue hair and blue nails and that accent, Katie comes across as a City fan. I hope she enjoyed the cup final. 😈👹👹👹
That guy was just stupid. I'm a huge fan of an American football team. For $500 I would name who beat them in a Super Bowl.
We are talking pointless football here.
"Pointless" refers to the ball not the game. An American football has two points as the ball is not spherical. A soccer ball is spherical and is thus has no points. Therefor it isa pointless football.
Yea, but American Football is not played with the foot most of the time, so it's actually just Rugby with a lot of protective gear.