Has anyone ever been one of the 100 people questioned for Pointless?

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1. All 100 are me

2. I assumed they just ask the people in the audience and use their repo see in future episodes

3. I was asked to do it once but I didn’t see the point.

4. The audience are the ones who are surveyed.

   Presumably none of the people you know have ever attended a recording of Pointless, which is why none of them have been asked.

5. What’s the point of this pointless post?

6. I thought they asked the audience

7. I did it once. They lead you into a white room where Alexander Armstrong is sat at a desk. As he asks you 100 questions Richard Osman stalks the floor, walls, and ceiling like a praying mantis.

   Getting an answer wrong results in Osman lashing out with one of his powerful forelegs whilst Armstrong stares at you slowly breathing though his nose like a paedophile watching a primary school during playtime.

   It was a pretty good way spend an afternoon to be honest.

8. Always wondered the same thing about Family Fortunes.

   I suspected the producers just made the answers up.

9. My mum did the surveys a few times. It was all done on her computer and would void your answers if you clicked off the tab within the 100 seconds. Not sure which of the polling companies they currently primarily use but if you do online surveys there’s a chance you might end up being one of the 100 people!

10. Thru internet surveys

11. Side note, the Pointless boardgame is utter shite. Unless we read the rules wrong (entirely possibly) the first three rounds have no bearing on who wins, it rests entirely on the final round. Pointless crap.

12. I don’t know who or where they ask but I’ve found more success playing along by rewording it to “we asked 100 radio 2 listeners” and found I’m more likely to get the angle of what’s a pointless or popular answer

13. Nope, but in 1988 I got asked five questions from a production worker from ITV’ Catchprase. I just said Turkey five times…….

14. Yes. Its done online. Its handled through an agency, you register with them then you get asked to complete surveys. Some of them are for Pointless, some for Family Fortunes and some are for marketing purposes.

    If you are interested, the company that runs it is called Redshift Research. You can join them and become a member of the “Crowdology” team. In theory you are not supposed to know that you are answering Pointless Questions but you can always tell since the questions come in batches in the same format and sequence as you would see on the show. The craziest ones are the last round questions since you frequently don’t know any answers at all.

    I’ve seen questions I have answered come up on the show regularly. It is very easy to spot them especially the head to heads since they have visual or audio clues that you recognise. The anagram questions are a big giveaway too. You do get paid but its only a tiny amount of money.

    I did it for about a year then couldn’t really see the point anymore, especially since I had stopped watching Pointless on a regular basis.

15. Nearly. I had an email saying I might get questions but they never arrived. They did say it was pot luck

16. I’d love too be one of a 100 people.

17. I would absolutely LOVE to be on that show!

18. Yes! I was asked in a large shopping mall. If I remember correctly, the questions and answers I gave were this:
    Name an animal that we eat, but doesn’t eat us: Dragons
    Name something people groom themselves with: A bride
    Name something people are afraid of: The Nightman