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The Great Big British Quiz

(August 2005)

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Andrew Founding member
Can anyone work out what the answer is to this one?
http://www.rp-networkservices.com/tvforum/uploads/roadsignsquiz.jpg

All the callers have come up with many combinations, all of course wrong. One women even was a bit stroppy and said she'd checked the Highway Code and was definally right! She was wrong of course!

Can't imagine what con of an answer they are thinking this time
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Inspector Sands
Not the same channel, but Nation 217 (and presumably the other channels that carry their quiz programmes) had problems with this sort of question:

This is the OFCOM Broadcast Bulletin for the 4/7/05 - http://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv/obb/prog_cb/pcb57/issue38.pdf

Quote:
Road Sign Quiz
Nation 217, 16 May 2005, 23.00
Introduction
A competition involved viewers being shown a number of road signs and asked to
call a premium rate telephone number to identify those that were incorrect. A
complainant claimed that all the signs shown were correct and therefore that the
competition could not be won.
Response
Nation 217 told us that in such competitions, a number of common road signs are
displayed on screen, with some slightly changed. On this occasion, however, the
�answer� slide was displayed, showing all the correct road signs. Shortly into the
competition the mistake was spotted, the game removed and a new puzzle started.
However, during the competition, a caller had claimed that none of the signs were
incorrect. At the time, this had been discounted as a wrong answer. Following a post
show review, this entrant was contacted and sent a cheque for �250, the prize that
had been offered at the time of their call, and all subsequent callers were refunded
their call costs. The broadcaster added that it had put new systems in place to
ensure the error was not repeated.
Decision
While the broadcaster had clearly made a mistake, the competition had been won
retrospectively. We welcomed the action taken by the broadcaster and its assurance
concerning future output. This satisfactorily resolved the matter.
Complaint resolved


The general rule seems to be... never ever call one of these channels, they are all scams
AN
Andrew Founding member
Inspector Sands posted:
Not the same channel, but Nation 217 (and presumably the other channels that carry their quiz programmes) had problems with this sort of question:

This is the OFCOM Broadcast Bulletin for the 4/7/05 - http://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv/obb/prog_cb/pcb57/issue38.pdf

Quote:
Road Sign Quiz
Nation 217, 16 May 2005, 23.00
Introduction
A competition involved viewers being shown a number of road signs and asked to
call a premium rate telephone number to identify those that were incorrect. A
complainant claimed that all the signs shown were correct and therefore that the
competition could not be won.
Response
Nation 217 told us that in such competitions, a number of common road signs are
displayed on screen, with some slightly changed. On this occasion, however, the
�answer� slide was displayed, showing all the correct road signs. Shortly into the
competition the mistake was spotted, the game removed and a new puzzle started.
However, during the competition, a caller had claimed that none of the signs were
incorrect. At the time, this had been discounted as a wrong answer. Following a post
show review, this entrant was contacted and sent a cheque for �250, the prize that
had been offered at the time of their call, and all subsequent callers were refunded
their call costs. The broadcaster added that it had put new systems in place to
ensure the error was not repeated.
Decision
While the broadcaster had clearly made a mistake, the competition had been won
retrospectively. We welcomed the action taken by the broadcaster and its assurance
concerning future output. This satisfactorily resolved the matter.
Complaint resolved


The general rule seems to be... never ever call one of these channels, they are all scams

Correct me if I'm wrong but since when have these channels shown an answer slide? I think they've just made that up
AN
all new Phil
Well I did a bit of research into this and apparently, the channels are under no obligation to either reveal the answer or how they arrived at it. I really can't believe that they can get away with being so dodgy but apparently they can.
WH
Whataday Founding member
Is the answer they are all correct except number 2? I don't think the destinations on the sign match up to the distance and "The South".

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