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11th November 2024
12:57pm GMT
Pointless fans have been left stunned after the first correct answer in Pointless history scored 100 points.
The much loved quiz show has been going since 2009 with Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman the original hosts.
The aim of the game is for contestants to score as few points as possible by giving obscure correct answers that no one else from a panel of 100 anonymous participants can think of to general-knowledge questions.
If none of the panel has said that correct answer, you get zero points and this is known as a pointless answer.
If you give an incorrect answer you score 100 points.
However, one contestant was left shocked after giving a correct answer that still scored 100 points because all 100 people surveyed gave the correct answer.
After his partner, Susan had scored 22 points, David decided to play it safe when answering a question about food categories.
He had a choice of Parmesan, Porcini, Peento, Plaice, Pappardelle and Prosciutto and he had to select one and give what type of food it was.
He decided to go for the top one, Parmesan and said cheese which of course was correct but all 100 people also said cheese.
The pair became the first contestants in Pointless history to receive 100 points for a correct answer.
However, thanks to a strong performance from Susan, the couple still managed to win both the round and the show - though not the jackpot.
To date, two other 100-point correct answers have been given.
One was by contestant in 2013, when the category was "Capital Cities" and the clue "Hosted the 2012 Olympics" - the answer was London, of course.
She and her dad survived the round, but didn't win the show.
Antony Worrall Thompson also gave a correct 100 point answer on a chefs edition of the show when all 100 people knew the foodstuff omitted from the film title [blank], I Shrunk The Kids.
On the first go in the same round, Worrall Thompson's team mate Rustie Lee correctly stated that 'Peach' was the missing word in James and the Giant [blank].
However, this scored 89 points, giving the pair a total score of 189, the highest score ever recorded on the programme, without giving an incorrect answer.
