I can say that if I had answered any of those questions like "David Ricardo" or "Giants' Causeway" I wouldn't have been proud to do it at all. It's one thing to start a question on Tipper Gore by saying she used to play drums in a band called the Wildcats, or that Max Born was Olivia Newton-John's grandfather, or that Mexico City is the home of the world's biggest yam (to make up an example because I can't think of one that's not about a person), because those are actual facts. Even if someone might know nothing but that tidbit (for example, I once answered with "Cicero" after the only clue had been the one thing I know about him, that being that his name means "chickpea"), an expert on the topic is still more likely to know the fact. Starting out with nonsensical rebus clues that lead to words that happen to be the same as the answer just distracts people from the actual facts and makes people feel, well, dirty. I have no idea (well, until that post) what the Giants' Causeway is - not what continent it's on, or what millennium it was built in, or whether it's fictional or real or mythical, but I'd heard the phrase, and I think I would have put together the "Giants" and "Causeway" clues, buzzed in with the answer, and immediately apologized while my teammates groaned. Either we know some actual funny fact about the subject of the question, or we shouldn't bother forcing one. Michael davies mld6_at_...
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