The TV Quiz Show Thread

Larry Gogan on Irish radio used to have a slot called the just a minute quiz.
There have been some legendary answers given down the years on it.


Larry Gogan: "With what town in Britain is Shakespeare
associated?"
Contestant: "Hamlet."

Larry Gogan: "Name the BBC's Grand Prix commentator? I'll give you
a hint. It's something you suck...." Contestant: "Oh, Dickie
Davies."
(Murray Walker is the correct answer)

Larry Gogan: "What was Jeeves' occupation?"
Contestant: "He was a carpenter."


Larry Gogan: "Complete this well known phrase. 'As happy as.....'
hint think of me."
Contestant: "A pig in sh*te."


Larry Gogan: (after a caller got none of 18 questions right on the
Just a Minute quiz) - "Ah sure the questions didn't really suit
you
did they?"
Caller: "Ah go fu*k off Larry you're only an old bollox."
 
Mozzer said:
Last night's Chase they had £47000 in the pot and someone took the minus £17000 offer! Unbelievable.
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I suppose it depends on what the others say. If they had won £3k in their cash builder, that's £12.5k (/4) or £16.6k (/3) so they're dropping to £7.5k or £10k. Still a decent whack and that extra point in the final chase can be the difference. I wouldn't object if I had put say £40k in.
 
Mozzer said:
Last night's Chase they had £47000 in the pot and someone took the minus £17000 offer! Unbelievable.
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If i was on there and some **** took the minus offer they wouldn't make it back to their chair in one piece.
Cheeky cunts
 
I used to travel all over the North West, so often listened to local radio stations that had phone-in quizzes.
Billy Butler on Radio Merseyside used to have one. Some of the answers from callers were interesting :-

Billy - What are the first names of the following famous people - Hitler ?
Caller - Heil...

Billy - Who am I ? I am a very famous actor who usually played a cowboy or U.S. soldier ?
Caller - Giss a clue Billy ?
Billy - The Hell I will !
Caller - C'Mon Billy, you give everyone else a clue
 
mancity2012_eamo said:
It’s sometimes the more tactically astute thing to do.
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Not when they're thick as fcuk and just stare into space and not answer any questions at the end.
I know it can help sometimes but just the thought of some **** taking the minus offer because they are too stupid to get through and then getting the same money if you win, would send me mental
 
bluemoon32 said:
Not when they're thick as fcuk and just stare into space and not answer any questions at the end.
I know it can help sometimes but just the thought of some **** taking the minus offer because they are too stupid to get through and then getting the same money if you win, would send me mental
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What about if in your scenario you beat the chaser by the equivalent of one question?
 
Platt Lane 59 said:
I used to travel all over the North West, so often listened to local radio stations that had phone-in quizzes.
Billy Butler on Radio Merseyside used to have one. Some of the answers from callers were interesting :-

Billy - What are the first names of the following famous people - Hitler ?
Caller - Heil...

Billy - Who am I ? I am a very famous actor who usually played a cowboy or U.S. soldier ?
Caller - Giss a clue Billy ?
Billy - The Hell I will !
Caller - C'Mon Billy, you give everyone else a clue
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Live radio is great.
I think there are delay safeguards nowadays but a great one from The Gerry Ryan Show over here back in the ‘80s, I think, was a discussion about being buried or cremated.


Gerry Ryan: (during a discussion on whether people would like to be buried or cremated when they die) - "Would you like to be buried or cremated?"

Caller: "Oh, buried Gerry."
Gerry Ryan: "And where would you like to be buried?"
Caller: "Up to me balls in Bibi Baskin!"

This was Bibi (tv presenter) back then.
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DrBlueBob said:
What about if in your scenario you beat the chaser by the equivalent of one question?
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Yeah yeah i know but when people have won through before you and then you give back part of their money just to get through doesn't sit right with me.
Basically you're saying " i'm too thick to get through normally, what i'll do is steal off someone else's efforts and do it the easy way".
Cunts trick in my book, probably best if i don't go on The Chase as i may end up with a jail term
 
bluemoon32 said:
Yeah yeah i know but when people have won through before you and then you give back part of their money just to get through doesn't sit right with me.
Basically you're saying " i'm too thick to get through normally, what i'll do is steal off someone else's efforts and do it the easy way".
Cunts trick in my book, probably best if i don't go on The Chase as i may end up with a jail term
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Thing about that program is you haven’t won any money by getting through. You are just adding to a potential pot.
I get what you’re saying though. Tactically going low is different than taking from the pot.
 
bluemoon32 said:
Yeah yeah i know but when people have won through before you and then you give back part of their money just to get through doesn't sit right with me.
Basically you're saying " i'm too thick to get through normally, what i'll do is steal off someone else's efforts and do it the easy way".
Cunts trick in my book, probably best if i don't go on The Chase as i may end up with a jail term
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I agree with you on the whole fwiw, although sometimes it makes zero sense not to go low. Depends upon the circumstances.

May I recommend applying for Tipping Point as you can be as vindictive as you like without risking a spell in chokey. :-)
 
Back in 2015 I applied to go on the chase. I didn't get a call back until 2017, by which point I'd almost forgotten I'd applied. They asked me ten quiz questions over the phone and I think I answered eight correctly (I remember getting one about the winter equinox wrong). After that, I was invited to an in-person audition at a hotel in Cambridge. The audition was with five other people, and we stood in front of a table of people which included two producers and an assistant. One of the producers looked like Barry Shitpeas from Screenwipe, I'm sure it was him.

One-by-one we had to answer questions about ourselves. When it got to my turn, they read out something from my original application where I'd said I would spend the prize money on "Fast women and slow horses". I couldn't remember writing that, but I probably did it because I never thought I'd get a call back.

We then sat down for quiz where we took it in turns to answer multiple choice questions on a flip-chart; they seemed more interested in the reasons we gave for picking the answers, than whether the answers were right or wrong. I clued onto this, and so on one question about species of penguins they asked me why I picked 'B' and I replied "I wasn't sure so I just went straight down the middle". This wasn't true, I knew the answer, but they seemed to love it.

Finally, we were split into two teams of three. The two I was with were crap; one was a woman in her 60s who was incredibly annoying, the other was a nice Ghanaian bloke who had 14 kids. We simulated the 'Final Chase' and it was filmed. At first, I didn't chime in with any answers - partly due to politeness, but mainly because this woman kept blurting things out. She was getting them wrong, and the other guy had just frozen, so I thought fuck it and went on a quiz rampage.

Managed to get a good amount right but it wasn't enough to beat the other team's score. I also swore when I got a question wrong: the question was "Who ran the Bank of Cuba from 1960-something to some other date" - I should've known it was Che Guevara because I'd read his diaries, but I tried to be too clever and said it was Fidel's brother, Raul. Gave it a big "Bollocks!" when told it was Che and thought that was it for my chances of getting selected.

At the end, we all went back into the waiting room. The assistant came in and asked four people, except for me and annoying lady, to follow her into another room. The other producer (not Barry Shitpeas) then came in and told me and the lady that we had been selected for the Chase. The lady squealed in delight. Now, I can't impress enough just how shit she was at the questions, so clearly they thought her stupidity and annoying nature would make for good TV.

In the end, I never turned up on filming day. I was supposed to be at Elstree studios for 7am on a Sunday, which meant getting up at 4am, and I just said to my girlfriend (now wife) when I woke up "Fuck it, I can't be arsed". It was October, it was dark, it was cold. I was only interested in taking on a Chaser and trying to make some money, but in the lead up to filming day they made it more about the television aspect of it - what to wear, who I could and couldn't tell, how exciting it would be to see how a TV show is made.... just sucked the fun out of it.

They even said that there was no guarantee our episode would even be shown. Apparently this isn't uncommon. I've known two people who also appeared, and one of them didn't have her episode shown because it turned out that one of her team mates went on trial for a serious crime after recording, so they binned the episode. The other girl I know, she was told by the producers to pick the lower offer, even though she didn't want to (she is very, very good at trivia), just to create some TV drama. That was also in the back of my mind when I decided that morning to sack it off.

Anyway, sorry for the long story; just thought it might give some insight into how stupid people end up on quiz shows, or even how people are made to look like arseholes on them.
 
That was an interesting post, @che_don_john . (Jesus but that's a complicated user name to type out!) Didn't know that Che Guevara was ever in charge of the Bank of Cuba. He didn't have any particular qualification in finance or economics as far as I know. He must have found that properly boring. Presumably, part of your user name is related to him?
Just off the top of my head, and without looking it up: I've got a feeling that the winter equinox is 21st December. Am I right? And if so, did you say 25th?
Had a mate who was an actor for a while, and then worked as a floor manager on Jim'll Fix It (yeah, yeah, I know…) He invited me to come along and sit in the audience. A weird experience. They keep stopping it, while they're messing around with camera angles, lenses and suchlike studio business. For sort of anything up to five minutes. So you're sat around doing nothing at all and feeling quite stupid. Also, one of the floor manager's jobs is to walk aggressively (yeah, I know too!) towards the audience clapping their hands like maniacs above their heads when they want the audience to applaud. All quite infantile, and anything but glamourous.
 
che_don_john said:
Back in 2015 I applied to go on the chase. I didn't get a call back until 2017, by which point I'd almost forgotten I'd applied. They asked me ten quiz questions over the phone and I think I answered eight correctly (I remember getting one about the winter equinox wrong). After that, I was invited to an in-person audition at a hotel in Cambridge. The audition was with five other people, and we stood in front of a table of people which included two producers and an assistant. One of the producers looked like Barry Shitpeas from Screenwipe, I'm sure it was him.

One-by-one we had to answer questions about ourselves. When it got to my turn, they read out something from my original application where I'd said I would spend the prize money on "Fast women and slow horses". I couldn't remember writing that, but I probably did it because I never thought I'd get a call back.

We then sat down for quiz where we took it in turns to answer multiple choice questions on a flip-chart; they seemed more interested in the reasons we gave for picking the answers, than whether the answers were right or wrong. I clued onto this, and so on one question about species of penguins they asked me why I picked 'B' and I replied "I wasn't sure so I just went straight down the middle". This wasn't true, I knew the answer, but they seemed to love it.

Finally, we were split into two teams of three. The two I was with were crap; one was a woman in her 60s who was incredibly annoying, the other was a nice Ghanaian bloke who had 14 kids. We simulated the 'Final Chase' and it was filmed. At first, I didn't chime in with any answers - partly due to politeness, but mainly because this woman kept blurting things out. She was getting them wrong, and the other guy had just frozen, so I thought fuck it and went on a quiz rampage.

Managed to get a good amount right but it wasn't enough to beat the other team's score. I also swore when I got a question wrong: the question was "Who ran the Bank of Cuba from 1960-something to some other date" - I should've known it was Che Guevara because I'd read his diaries, but I tried to be too clever and said it was Fidel's brother, Raul. Gave it a big "Bollocks!" when told it was Che and thought that was it for my chances of getting selected.

At the end, we all went back into the waiting room. The assistant came in and asked four people, except for me and annoying lady, to follow her into another room. The other producer (not Barry Shitpeas) then came in and told me and the lady that we had been selected for the Chase. The lady squealed in delight. Now, I can't impress enough just how shit she was at the questions, so clearly they thought her stupidity and annoying nature would make for good TV.

In the end, I never turned up on filming day. I was supposed to be at Elstree studios for 7am on a Sunday, which meant getting up at 4am, and I just said to my girlfriend (now wife) when I woke up "Fuck it, I can't be arsed". It was October, it was dark, it was cold. I was only interested in taking on a Chaser and trying to make some money, but in the lead up to filming day they made it more about the television aspect of it - what to wear, who I could and couldn't tell, how exciting it would be to see how a TV show is made.... just sucked the fun out of it.

They even said that there was no guarantee our episode would even be shown. Apparently this isn't uncommon. I've known two people who also appeared, and one of them didn't have her episode shown because it turned out that one of her team mates went on trial for a serious crime after recording, so they binned the episode. The other girl I know, she was told by the producers to pick the lower offer, even though she didn't want to (she is very, very good at trivia), just to create some TV drama. That was also in the back of my mind when I decided that morning to sack it off.

Anyway, sorry for the long story; just thought it might give some insight into how stupid people end up on quiz shows, or even how people are made to look like arseholes on them.
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Similar to me on the egg heads.
They called us up individually. Gave us 10 questions with 3 options to answer and then 10 straight questions.
Then invited us down to London (no expenses for the audition) and we went up against another team of hopefuls. Wiped the floor with them and said we'd be filming in 6 weeks time (May 2008) which was correct and was shown October 2008.
Our train fare and hotel all paid for (most of the hotel right next to the A 40 west London flyover was used by other BBC quiz show contestants) and £25 meal allowance.
We had to take 3 different shirts with us and they would choose which one we'd wear and it was ironed immaculately. Had a list.... the shirt couldn't be striped or hooped, no advertising on it or names of bands etc.... not black or white and not day glow colours etc.
As you said we were sworn to secrecy over the result of the quiz.
Decent day out all in all even if we did get a pasting
 
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