The answer to the "puzzle" below was 506. How on earth do they arrive at that figure? Sooner they get rid of these quiz channels the better. Lazy programming. </p> </p> </p>
Only they know Apparently the phone in ran for 3 hours and no-one got it. </p> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6441463.stm </p>
I think someone at ITV should be forced to explain that answer. They made £1.5m a DAY off phone-ins apparently.
"Its not particularly difficult" they claimed Well I must be thick then I want Men and Motors back on Freeview with The Sweeney hunting fictional robbers
Hurrah Its not been replaced with Men & Motors (why not?) but at least ITV Play has gone for good. </p> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6447375.stm </p>
I want Men and Motors back Cant see how showing ITV2 twice is of any real benefit to anyone now that video recording equipment has been invented
I would say or rather hope that its a temporary situation and they'll be putting something worthwhile on in the near future. Like M & M as you say. Probably end up being another film channel. I don't have a PVR but I see little value in these +1 channels. Its as lazier programming than the quiz channels.
ITV's Answer ITV was embarrassed yesterday into revealing how to answer a £30,000 late-night maths quiz problem that nobody — including Oxford University’s Professor of Mathematics — seemed able to solve. Viewers of Make Your Play, which appeared on ITV on February 22, were asked: “Add the pence, listed: Two pounds, 25p, £1.47, 16p and fifty pence.” A prize of £30,000 was on offer, but calls were charged at 75p a time. Later that night, the answer was given as 506, although simple addition produces the answer 438. ITV explained that the answer could be reached by breaking up the figures in the list to find all the references to pence. Thus: -Two pounds is 200p plus 2p (two p) and 1p (p at the beginning of “pounds”) which makes 203p -25p: 25p plus 5p and 1p (the p symbol) = 31p £1.47 = 147p 1 -6p: 16p plus 6p and 1p (p again) = 23p -Fifty pence: 50p plus 50p (fifty p, a shortening of pence), 1p (reference to pence) and 1p (p only) = 102p -Adding 203p, 31p, 147p, 23p and 102p gives a total of 506p Another answer! two pounds = 200 £1.47 is 147+47+7 = 201 25p is 25+5 = 30 16p is 16+6 = 22 fifty pence = 50 pence + p + p = 3 total 506 Yet another answer! two pounds (weight) = 268 25p = 25 £1.47 = 147 16p = 16 fifty pence = 50 ------- total 506 None of em are mine, i aint that bright, so take your pick.
