The TV Quiz Show Thread

[peoffrey]

He’ll surely deny but I always understood that @Prestwich_Blue was a contestant on something once. Countdown?

 

[aguero93:20]

I'm with the OP.

Give him a kick up the arse for me.

 

[Zubrman]

Give him a kick up the arse for me.

I L'dOL on the bus reading that!

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

He’ll surely deny but I always understood that @Prestwich_Blue was a contestant on something once. Countdown?

I was a grand finalist on 15-to-1 but was the last one out before the final three. I know that in my heat, my mind went blank for a few minutes and I was getting questions wrong that I really should have got right. For instance "Which Canadian city is named after Mount Royal on which it stands?" The answer is obviously Montreal (which is the French for Mount Royal) but I said Quebec!

Later on it clicked back into gear and I went on a run of answering questions which got me a winning score that also got me into the grand final. In that heat there was a girl next to me who just lost her nerve completely and I'm sure she gave wrng answers deliberately just to get out as quickly as possible. So I have every sympathy for anyone who just goes blank when under pressure.

But one of my colleagues was on Countdown and he got to the final. He was a few points behind and it all came down to the conundrum. He's a crossword expert so it should have been meat & drink to him. I saw it almost straight away (it was EPISCOPAL) and I was screaming at the TV, even though I knew it'd been recorded months ago. But neither of them got it and so he was only runner-up.

 

[peoffrey]

What was Richard Whiteley like? I’d have tried to spell rude words with consonants and vowels before asking for four large numbers to upset Carol Vorderman.

 

[aguero93:20]

What was Richard Whiteley like? I’d have tried to spell rude words with consonants and vowels before asking for four large numbers to upset Carol Vorderman.

Mad bastard.

 

[dronefromsector7G]

What was Richard Whiteley like? I’d have tried to spell rude words with consonants and vowels before asking for four large numbers to upset Carol Vorderman.

I’d have loved one from the bottom with Carol

 

[Kompany Car]

I just had my dinner ruined by watching an episode of The Chase, were a young woman, thick as the sauce in the neck of a bottle, got 0 money and not one question right.

Fair play to stupid people and I would never have a go at them. Let’s face it, that would be a full time job on this site, :) but for fuck sake, at least they don’t apply to show the world how cretinous they are by going on TV where people can recognise them.

I know this is a form of OCD/Tourette’s on my part, but Jesus H Christ, it really gets on my wick

She didn’t

I watched the same episode and think she said she had aspirations of becoming a lawyer. Could you imagine being arrested for something you hadn’t done and she turns up to act as your defence solicitor ?

 

[peoffrey]

I’d have loved one from the bottom with Carol

Welsh bird > Red slag Riley.

 

[BimboBob]

I’d have loved one from the bottom with Carol

One third of the Holy Trinity.