The Forum Games Pointless/PEEHS Advent Calendar 2022

HildaOgdenx

I did eenie meenie and ended up with Mayo 😁

HeidiHeidi

Well all I can say is, thank goodness for lifelines!!

On two fronts - I hadn't a notion of using mine yet, but got distracted and totally forgot to send in an answer.

And the answer i would have sent in was almost certainly going to be Mayo.

Phew!!

Electric Nitwit

To the movies today!

Question 17: name one of the actors playing santa below

Electric Nitwit

One hour warning for @StrawbsM

Electric Nitwit

Today's santas were...

Tim Allen (The Santa Clause), Edward Asner (Elf), Jim Broadbent (Get Santa), Kurt Russell (The Christmas Chronicles)

David Huddleston (Santa Claus: The Movie), Edmund Gwenn (Miracle on 34th Street, 1947), Richard Attenborough (Miracle on 34th Street, 1994), Paul Giamatti (Fred Claus)

Electric Nitwit

Slightly surprisingly, Paul Giamatti is the sheep, guess he has a distinctive face but people think he's not obvious.

Kurt Russell is just one behind.

Tim Allen is surprisingly low, and Richard Attenborough is the best answer luvvies.

No one got Edmund Glenn, from the original Miracle

Bit of a slip for current spooner, Strawbs, that could be costly

Electric Nitwit

Barna steals a march on BuileBeag, but that lifeline will come into play one day. Edser has a good jump into the podium positions but it's all still very tight in the midtable.

Will Strawbs' lifeline help her off the bottom? Or is the gap getting too bad. Butty must be breathing a little sigh of relief today

Electric Nitwit

Following on very closely from yesterday

Question 18: name one of the actors playing Scrooge below

HildaOgdenx

For the Santa, it just happened that I watched a bit of Miracle (Richard Attenborough) last weekend.

For this one, I picked the one I knew straightaway. Most likely a sheep 🐑 but what the heck!

HeidiHeidi

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120010103#Comment_120010103

Delighted for ya.... any lifelines on sale, I'll pay well.... 😫

Posy

I was tempted to play mine today, but I'm keeping it in case there's a day I totally forget to send an answer in. 😂

HildaOgdenx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120010594#Comment_120010594

I'm already practising my gracious loser face. I'm fairly sure I won my wooden spoon on PEEHS 🤣 and I have no hope this time around either 🤣.

Must say I'm enjoying the game though!

Electric Nitwit

Today's Scrooges were...

Patrick Stewart (A Christmas Carol, 1999), Albert Finney (Scrooge, 1970), Kelsey Grammer (A Christmas Carol, 2004), Jim Carrey (A Christmas Carol, 2009)

Michael Caine (The Muppet Christmas Carol), Tim Curry (A Christmas Carol, 1997), Guy Pearce (A Christmas Carol, TV Series, 2019), Christopher Plummer (The Man Who Invented Christmas, 2017)

Electric Nitwit

Jim Carrey sheeps, perhaps as people thought it was a clever answer!

The more obvious Michael Caine is just a point back

The real movers are Necro with a fine ace, and jluv and Liz with just 2 each.

ari and aaron suffer today, though it's a travesty that Michael Gambon scores as badly as Jeremy Beadle

Electric Nitwit

Barna holds on to the top, but Necro's ace and Shane's see them jump into second, just a point back.

BuileBeag is still lurking and holding a lifeline, as are DvB and guiri. The bookies still have it wide open

Posy

I was convinced that Patrick Stewart would sheep! Happy enough with 4 so, considering. 🙂

StrawbsM

I thought Albert Finney would be a top scorer so stayed off him.

Electric Nitwit

Some more pointless word games today!

Below is a list of people born on Christmas Day, but with alternate letters missing. I've also given the year of birth to help you

Question 19: name one of the Christmas Day births listed below

1642 I_A_C   _E_T_N

1899 H_M_H_E_   B_G_R_

1944 J_I_Z_N_O

1949 S_S_Y   _P_C_K

1954 A_N_E   _E_N_X

1957 S_A_E   _A_G_W_N

1968 H_L_N_   C_R_S_E_S_N

1971 J_S_I_   T_U_E_U

StrawbsM

i have worked out all but 2

HildaOgdenx

Same here. 😁

Now to pick a 🐑 😁

HeidiHeidi

I have 7.5 - just can't figure out half of one of them!

HildaOgdenx

Oh just figured one of the two I couldn't get 😁

Posy

I figured out 3 on the way to work, then when it was nearly time to get off the bus, so I picked the sheepiest one and sent it in so I wouldn't forget. 😄

Electric Nitwit

One hour warning for @Mutleyboo

Electric Nitwit

Here's today's answers...

1642 I_A_C _E_T_N Isaac Newton

1899 H_M_H_E_ B_G_R_ Humphrey Bogart

1944 J_I_Z_N_O Jairzinho

1949 S_S_Y _P_C_K Sissy Spacek

1954 A_N_E _E_N_X Annie Lennox

1957 S_A_E _A_G_W_N Shane MacGowan

1968 H_L_N_ C_R_S_E_S_N Helena Christensen

1971 J_S_I_ T_U_E_U Justin Trudeau

We've got a couple of big scores, an ace and one that wasn't picked at all...

Electric Nitwit

It's a big score for Sissy Spacek.

Butty aces with Shane MacGowan, which will affect the bottom of the table.

Shane and guiri pick up a handy 2pts, which will affect the top of the table

Electric Nitwit

Shane jumps into a joint lead, but it's still close enough at the top...

StrawbsM

Shane fecking MacGowan! Well done butty on that one. And who is the J one? Those were the 2 I didn’t get

Can’t believe nobody picked Annie

Aisling(",)

I had to Google who Jairzinho was.im not a big football person.

Raging I didn't go for Annie Lennox,I thought it was too obvious.

Posy

I thought everyone would go for Shane McGowan. Fuuuuuuuu...

DvB

For the first time genuinely changed my answer at the last second, from Annie Lennox, thought it was too obvious... to Helena Christensen... f**k it anyway!

Still good craic this though.

HeidiHeidi

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120015825#Comment_120015825

Exactly what I did 😭

Posy

That's what I did too. Daaaamn. 😖

Rikand

Had them all worked out and would have picked jairzinho. I'd be back inside the top 5 with that one :P

Electric Nitwit

Music today. Band Aid have recorded one of the most iconic Christmas songs, but how much attention have you paid to the latter versions?

Question 20: name one of the artists from Band Aid 30 (2014) in the picture below

Electric Nitwit

Loads of answers to go for today...

1 Kyle Simmons (Bastille)

2 William Farquarson (Bastille)

3 Guy Garvey (Elbow)

4 Chris Wood (Bastille)

5 Chris Martin (Coldplay)

6 Dan Smith (Bastille)

7 Seal

8 Bob Geldof

9 Karl Hyde (Underworld)

10 Roger Taylor (Queen)

11 Joe Sugg (youtuber)

12 Alfie Deyes (youtuber)

13 Grace Chatto (Clean Bandit)

14 Milan Amin-Smith (Clean Bandit)

15 Louis Tomlinson (One Direction)

16 Zayn Malik (One Direction)

17 Liam Payne (One Direction)

18 Niall Horan (One Direction)

19 Harry Styles (One Direction)

20 Olly Murs

21 Sinead O'Connor

22 Ellie Goulding

23 Jessie Ware

24 Ed Sheeran

25 Zoe Sugg (youtuber)

26 Angelique Kidjo

27 Emeli Sande

28 Paloma Faith

29 Midge Ure

30 Bono

Electric Nitwit

What the hell happened here?! What is it about Paloma Faith?

Plenty of good aces at the other end, this could shake the table up a bit

Very harsh on Neo, as Luke Patterson is the drummer with Clean Bandit and did play on the record, but he's not in that photo

Electric Nitwit

Shane takes the output lead, but guiri is just behind with a lifeline. Barna and BuileBeag take a tumble

(Slight error in that last table, kitten no longer has a lifeline)

HeidiHeidi

Ah ffs!!!

Loughc

Well I guess you just gotta have faith.

Electric Nitwit

Simple one today

Question 21: name one of the gifts given in The Twelve Days of Christmas

StrawbsM

My final entry just submitted. Have a good Christmas everybody. I know I will

https://youtu.be/XfR9iY5y94s

xxxxxx

Electric Nitwit

Half hour warning for @Mutleyboo

Electric Nitwit

Nice simple one for the answers...

No one went for the pipers, but everything else was picked

Electric Nitwit

Incredibly, there's a five way sheep!

Which means most people get the same score

Well done to Homer and ari for picking up a nice couple of aces

Electric Nitwit

No change at the very top, but a climb for Barna, Homer and Soapy

Electric Nitwit

At the bottom, we say goodbye to Strawbs who is eliminated today!

...not really, she's off to Australia so dropping out. We send her on her way with a wooden spoon, and they'll be another for whoever is bottom at the end of the game

StrawbsM

Awwww my first present of the festive season. Only a pair of Louboutin’s will top that spoon 👠 🥄

Loughc

@Posy get out of my head

Posy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120023802#Comment_120023802

Mwah-ha ha.