The TV Quiz Show Thread

peoffrey said:
He’ll surely deny but I always understood that @Prestwich_Blue was a contestant on something once. Countdown?
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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.
 
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.
 
Magicpole said:
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
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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 ?
 
There was another young girl on the Chase last week. Brad asked her who launched the first holiday package business in 1841. Her answer was Richard Branson.
 
on behalf of the under-performers, the difference an audience and fukc-off huge tv cameras pointing at your face is the crux of the matter. A class-mate, top in every subject, went on Junior Criss Cross Quiz. First question, what do the letters GMT stand for (greenwich mean time ) ? Met with a blank look, ran out of time.
Second question, on a globe, what do we call the lines that connect the north pole to the south pole? (longitude) Another blank look, ran out of time. Third question, preceded by " you really need this", "Which bird has a kick like a mule " ? The kid looked scared, the compere said, "have a guess, or you could be out". Sadly he guessed wrong, "A thrush ?" Afterwards he could not even remember any part of the ordeal apart from the cameras. The lad went on to teach physics at a top university, so, not thick by any means, just not prepared for the glare of the spot-light.
 
bellbuzzer said:
on behalf of the under-performers, the difference an audience and fukc-off huge tv cameras pointing at your face is the crux of the matter. A class-mate, top in every subject, went on Junior Criss Cross Quiz. First question, what do the letters GMT stand for (greenwich mean time ) ? Met with a blank look, ran out of time.
Second question, on a globe, what do we call the lines that connect the north pole to the south pole? (longitude) Another blank look, ran out of time. Third question, preceded by " you really need this", "Which bird has a kick like a mule " ? The kid looked scared, the compere said, "have a guess, or you could be out". Sadly he guessed wrong, "A thrush ?" Afterwards he could not even remember any part of the ordeal apart from the cameras. The lad went on to teach physics at a top university, so, not thick by any means, just not prepared for the glare of the spot-light.
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An ex classmate you say
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bellbuzzer said:
on behalf of the under-performers, the difference an audience and fukc-off huge tv cameras pointing at your face is the crux of the matter. A class-mate, top in every subject, went on Junior Criss Cross Quiz. First question, what do the letters GMT stand for (greenwich mean time ) ? Met with a blank look, ran out of time.
Second question, on a globe, what do we call the lines that connect the north pole to the south pole? (longitude) Another blank look, ran out of time. Third question, preceded by " you really need this", "Which bird has a kick like a mule " ? The kid looked scared, the compere said, "have a guess, or you could be out". Sadly he guessed wrong, "A thrush ?" Afterwards he could not even remember any part of the ordeal apart from the cameras. The lad went on to teach physics at a top university, so, not thick by any means, just not prepared for the glare of the spot-light.
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Boffin goes on to teach at uni shocker...
 
bellbuzzer said:
on behalf of the under-performers, the difference an audience and fukc-off huge tv cameras pointing at your face is the crux of the matter. A class-mate, top in every subject, went on Junior Criss Cross Quiz. First question, what do the letters GMT stand for (greenwich mean time ) ? Met with a blank look, ran out of time.
Second question, on a globe, what do we call the lines that connect the north pole to the south pole? (longitude) Another blank look, ran out of time. Third question, preceded by " you really need this", "Which bird has a kick like a mule " ? The kid looked scared, the compere said, "have a guess, or you could be out". Sadly he guessed wrong, "A thrush ?" Afterwards he could not even remember any part of the ordeal apart from the cameras. The lad went on to teach physics at a top university, so, not thick by any means, just not prepared for the glare of the spot-light.
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No bird kicks like a mule as that would be a mule and therefore not a bird.
 
My mate won £10,000 on the Chase. There was luckily some pretty clever guy who got them through the final chase on there to win and contributed most of the money.

He said that the nerves really do make it a lot lot harder. He had a question about a zombie film that he’d seen about a million times and he got the film completely mixed up with something else. He knew the answer, knew every character’s name and knew the Director but just momentarily lost his head. He said if you’d have asked him in his sleep he’d have got it normally.
 
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