Pointless Will Gompertz music howler

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Yes - so if the task was to name a composer who wrote a "Pastoral Symphony", you'd avoid Beethoven, (unless you didn't know of any others) because that's too obvious - so you might go for Vaughan Williams (in the hope that your opponents only knew of Beethoven and RVW, so they'd be scuppered with having to say Beethoven) but better still would be Handel, Rawsthorne, or Glazunov. If someone offered "Tallis", they'd get 100 points, because it's an incorrect answer.

The questions are put to 100 members of the general public who are given 100 seconds to name (for example) "as many operas by Verdi" as they can. Answers like La Boheme or The Ride of the Valkyries (or, ahem, The Four Seasons) are weeded out, and if the contestants offer Il Due Foscari they'd win zero points, and an extra £250 is put in the "kitty".

If they offered Il Due Foscari they would score 100, as the title is I due Foscari, and Pointless is quite pedantic about getting titles absolutely correct.