Current UK TV quiz / game shows

Pointless is my absolute favourite. I want a I heart R O shirt the guy the was wearing yesterday.

UC, motherfuckers. Though I'm always a bit gutted when the music round is about anything other then pop.

UC, tho i'm mostly gutted when the music round is about pop.

UC. One great regret of my University years is not getting it together to try out.

Pointless, by a long way.

UC over Pointless. Was an Eggheads stan but then I overdosed, watching it every day after work for a month or two. Mastermind is too dull if you know nothing about the specialist subjects. Million Pound Drop has far too many "which happened first" questions which always end up being a complete guess. Weakest Link has the fatal "vote the best person off" flaw.

most of these are functionally useless as quizes to play along with - too stupid or not enough questions or the presence of George Lamb stops you ever watching it in the first place.

Mastermind's longevity i think is interesting cos ledge has identified the massive flaw in the format - first half of the show used to be quite meaningless back in the day when specialist subjects were obscure. obv nowadays in the world of "the Harry Potter films but not the books cos too much work" as specialist subjects it's a bit less obscure, just dull in a different way.

Pointless is big fun, might apply at some point. The Weakest Link has the fatal "95 percent of the questions could be answered by a 10 year-old" flaw. love Only Connect, obv, and The Chase is often a decent quiz fix, just on at a wrong time. UC is head and shoulders just by sheer number of actually challenging questions within yr half hour.

Eggheads question difficulty is pretty decent I think, a few no-brainers in there but it's actually quite tricky to beat them - yeah I used to take a running tally :/ The overwhelming annoyance factor for me ended up being the stupid contestants, I actually started to feel sorry for the Eggheads not getting a decent challenge. "You don't know that 'quid pro quo' means 'this for that'?! And you can't even work it out?" *throws shoe at TV*

yeah Eggheads questions are ok, they should do less multiple choice imo, main ish for me is slow pace of the show plus at least 3 Eggheads who u wdn't wanna be stuck in a lift with

Pointing and laughing at CJ is all part of the fun.

it's true he is fun to laugh at

think I mentioned that an acquaintance had an OC team in the 'come and have a go' thread; in the end they won the series. V impressive to me, was just gawping at their final fill-in-the-vowels round.

UC, because you feel smart if you get more than 10 right in any episode.

As opposed to "feel stupid because you got more than 10 wrong" in WeakestLink.

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yeah i remember u mentioning it woof, which series was it?

This one just gone - the final from last month.

oh right! was it the team that didn't beat us who won the final, i can't remember now?

i think so - you played the Antiquarians, who lost the final to the Analysts, captained by the person I know (who also seems to be the Quiz League of London's 'Brain of London'.)

feel I should be amused by 'brain of london' but really i covet the title.

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yeah that's right. Analysts seemed like pleasant peeps iirc

hardcore quizzers are a different breed tho, i'm happy to just watch the TV nowadays

Pointless by miles. My crowning achievement of 2011 was being called a clever clogs on Twitter by Richard Osman. I absolutely love it, it's my total favourite show, and the only one I'd consider going on.

I also love University Challenge and Only Connect, and am generally quite good at both.

I still like Countdown too (lol underemployed), and particularly like when Rachel can't do a numbers round and gets pwned by Jeff who is actually quite good at it. I await the Nick Hewer era with some trepidation.

Mastermind can fuck off and get a new presenter. I hate Humphrys on it with a passion - he keeps laughing at things and being annoying.

They should totally bring back 15 to 1 though. That was the daddy.

Saw Humprheys being ultra-annoying on Celeb Mastermind, if he's like that on the normal one too then ugh for sure. And he says "yes" not "kolekt".

15 to 1 was hardcore, true. Humphrys is a terrible host, his "so, your specialist subject was the life of Colley Cibber, do you like Colley Cibber?" shtick is agony

xps

yeah, i occasionally encounter the hardcore & that just isn't me. I am fascinated by their twilight world of sitting around pub tables, but I don't think I could join it.

Never seen "Pointless"! Have only watched Mastermind a couple of times since Humphreys + dumbing way down occurred. Univ. Chall. is unassailable imo.

Bear in mind Mastermind is wayy easier if "Celebrities" are involved, particularly for Round 2.

Yeah, I saw some of that, celebs are thickos.

Went for Only Connect, UC and Pointless also great though.

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1. University Challenge
2. Mastermind
3. Pointless

University Challenge and Mastermind are top because they're the best pure quizzes (although i pretty much ignore the specialist subject rounds on Mastermind). Pointless has a nice concept but it's just too slow moving. It was interesting to see the difference in speed on the recent Christmas editions of UC, i'd say they got through about half as many questions due to the doddery nature of some of the contestants. Agree with the 15 to 1 love, just a load of questions and and no bullshit.

(xp) I missed that one! You know the actor Paul Bradley (he's in Holby City at the moment)? I used to occasionally do pub quizzes with him and he did the Life and Work of Captain Beefheart and got *ONE question wrong, I didn't let him live that one down.

(*Who was the Alex in the Beefheart song, "Owed t' Alex". Jesus what a howler!)

(Had to look it up, was thinking "who *else* could it be?" (ans: nobod else)

i like the fact tom d is pals with nigel from eastenders

The questions may have been dumbed down on Celeb Mastermind, but Humphrys' annoyance levels exactly the same.

I don't think I've got a single general knowledge question wrong on this entire run of Celeb Mastermind. I've done pretty well on most of the specialist rounds too - they are way too general to be considered to be purely for experts on the subject.

I remember Myleene Klass was on one time an her specialist subject was "Season 3 of Sex and the City". I've often wondered what kind of restrictions there are on your choice for that round.

when the proper series was first resurrected under Humphrys there was a woman who took "the Harry Potter movies" as her specialist subject. I think there were 3 of them at the time. did the stress.jpg

tho i remember a documentary many moons ago when Magnus Magnusson was still doing it and one of the setters said that the narrower the subject a competitor chose, the more likely they were to get hyper-obscure questions about it, whereas a relatively broad specialist subject usually got relatively shallow questions

hooked on 'Pointless', love that show

Myleene Klass

She got all but one question correct on her specialist round, and got all but one wrong on the General knowledge round.

ailsa is correct up above. 15 to 1 was the best.

a friend of mine used to run 15 to 1 contests in the pub every few months. they were the best.

My family got the Pointless board game for Christmas. The satisfaction of getting a pointless answer against your nearest and dearest is quite something.

idk anything about UK game shows, but is the Cube about an extra-dimensional box filled w/ rooms and each room is filled w/ death traps and a group of humans w/ different skills (math person, computer person, autistic person, politician person, old professor) are put in the box each season and filmed as they try to escape and die one by one?

close enough.

yeah except it's a group of humans w/ no skills

i hate The Cube with a vengeance btw

I have never seen the Cube, but it's on ITV so it's probably shit (as opposed to that Jeremy Kyle one which is *definitely* shit, even though I haven't seen it either).

I once beat that bloke who got full marks on 15 to 1 in a pub quiz once. Being recognised as a clever clogs by Richard Osman gave me a similar sense of sad bastard pride.

Pretty sure Duglas Stewart from the BMX Bandits was once on 15 to 1. Didn't do very well.

btw i voted pointless, and i want that Pointless game!

bevis frond was a regular on Countdown iirc

Really? Missed that.

lol this is from his wiki entry:

In 1991, Nick Saloman was a contestant on the UK television station Channel 4's game show Countdown. He, other than pro footballer Neil MacKenzie, is probably the nearest the show has come to having a celebrity as a contestant outside of the occasional deliberate celebrity editions of the game. Nick has long hair. He is a supporter of Queen's Park Rangers F.C.

My family got the Pointless board game for Christmas. The satisfaction of getting a pointless answer against your nearest and dearest is quite something.

OMG, this actually exists! Christmas present for the inlaws sorted already. Ta!

Pointless has a high potential for annoying pricks to win annoyingly.

Yes, tonight's guy was a smug annoying bastard. Also thought Jimmy Nail was in Reservoir Dogs. You should get money knocked off your prize fund for giving a stupid answer like that.

Pointless would be better if they added more rounds and spent less time showing boring stuff like chatting with contestants, contestants dithering over answers, and the countdown meter dropping. None of those things needs to take up as much time as they do.

It used to be like that in the olden days on BBC2.

Pointless wouldn't be the same without the chatting with contestants though. Also Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman are quite adept at it, especially compared with Anne Robinson, Davina McCall, and the absolutely painful George Lamb. I often wish there was time for Victoria Coren to chat to teams a little more, but Only Connect is lightning fast.

Yes, the banter is a good part of it. Would kick it with Armstrong and Osman, def.

University Challenge over Only Connect.

I do enjoy Pointless from time to time too, mind you.

I have never heard of 'Perfection' or 'the Bank Job'.

I am upset at the lack of love for Only Connect in this thread.

Only Connect is cool but it's kind of its own thing. My talents lie in simple regurgitation of trivia so i prefer the shows that focus on that

Only Connect is v. cool but UC is the supreme ruler.

had to turn off 'the bank job' just there. surely the worst of the list above. christ, it just goes on and on and on...

"Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" seems to be missing from the list - that's still on, isn't it?

I like The Chase. The more straight ahead general knowledge the better imo. 15 to 1 was indeed the daddy - no fucking around just question after question after question.

Pointless is ok but I'm not sure about the machinations of the "we asked 100 people" aspect - like Family Fortunes but always looking for the bottom answer. Do the 100 people asked try to give obscure correct answers or do they just rhyme off as many as they can remember? Who are these 100 people - randomers on the street? Online googlers?

Weakest Link would be good with less of the ritual between round humiliation of the working classes for not being gameshow presenters.

I hate that Eggheads presents the multiple choice answers on screen but not the questions - this stops you from being able to play it in the pub without the sound up.

The 100 people can be remarkably obtuse. Name a 20th century monarch, top answer was QEII, named by a stunning 59/100. idk maybe the other 41 got confused about which century or said "queen elizabeth" which was disallowed.

I hate that Eggheads presents the multiple choice answers on screen but not the questions - this stops you from being able to play it in the pub without the sound up.

this is a truth bomb

"Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" seems to be only celebrity specials nowadays. Correct me if I'm wrong. I deliberately took those out of the list because
(a)celebs are thick, questions are too easy and they're boring to watch
(b)otherwise you get into things like All Star Family Fortunes, A Question of Sport, Buzzcocks which are not serious game shows.

neither's Bank Job or Weakest Link tbf, but the point stands

(xp) I missed that one! You know the actor Paul Bradley (he's in Holby City at the moment)? I used to occasionally do pub quizzes with him and he did the Life and Work of Captain Beefheart and got *ONE question wrong, I didn't let him live that one down.

(*Who was the Alex in the Beefheart song, "Owed t' Alex". Jesus what a howler!)

― Tom D (Tom D.), Thursday, 5 January 2012 13:08 (2 days ago) Permalink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk_l1pKTUZg

Got 8, btw (memory is shot to shit ;-))

uni challi > pointless > only connect >>>>>> eggheads

the rest can suck a fuck

not to take away from the og, but def think they should try a smarter BBC4 riff on pointless

I like Mastermind, Pointless and University Challenge. Haven't seen most of the others. Have the Pointless board game and it's brill. Here is a picture of my friends who were on Pointless and won!! Sadly some ppl won the jackpot the day before they did so instead of 12,000 some odd pounds they walked away with a respectable 3k.

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pointless board game

!!!

what

Yes!!! Get it - it is awesome :)

Um, I am sorry that is so huge. Oops.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/University-Games-Pointless-Board-Game/dp/B0045D2AO2

should totally have bought that for the olds for xmas instead of this abomination
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I love almost all trivia (except sports and particularly questions about soccer and cricket which makes some of the pointless questions p tough for me) so I'd prob like the music quiz game tbh.

Would have easily walked away with £100k on Who Dares Wins tonight - Pointless without having to second guess 100 randomers.

I haven't seen Pointless. More love for Only Connect here (and extra love for providing plenty of play-at-home boards online). Really, really miss UC as well.

I've noticed that when I play along with Only Connect at home I do far better if I have company to act as a team, helping me realise the connections I can't quite put together alone. Monday nights are very exciting in our house.

I can get several rounds of Weakest Link with every answer correct and think nothing of it, but I get very excited if I get anything by myself on Only Connect.

unichal > oncon > pointless (haven't come up with a really cool contraction for that yet). the rest range between things i'll watch when there's nothing else on and abominations. i think i preferred the original format of pointless, the new rounds don't demand the level of ~knowledge~ i want from my tv quizzing.

who in london wants to watch / compete at quizzes with me? i have no one since i moved here. :'(

The new format of Pointless is because they are running out of finite lists to use.

I miss the bang bang bang of Fifteen to One. My ex-husband went on it and got to the final three. William G. Stewart was extremably personable.
It's Pointless all the way for me, followed by University Challenge. Can't abide John Humphrys or Victoria Coren (unpopular, I know) so their shows are pretty much out, and there's something about the dead air of Eggheads that really puts me off it. Plus it annoys me the way they encourage everyone on it to SHOW YOUR WORKING OUT, even if they're obviously just guessing.

@merdéeyes "really cool"

We need to have an ilx Pointless throw down

xp REALLY COOL

countdown?

Ahh, Victoria Coren's awkward presenting style when among even the nerdiest of the nerds wins my heart

bump, because poll closes in 2 days and it's the first time in ages I've come home in time to watch Pointless. Is there any other show where Turkmenistan can give 2 middle aged ladies so much pleasure? Also anyone lucky enough to have seen Nick Hewer's hosting skills on Countdown yet?

He's rubbish.

He's awful, yes. Pointless is the best thing on the telly.

I hate this new format on University Challenge whereby I thought we were through with that Karran chap ages ago and he keeps not flushing due to stupid endless weird round-robin thing.

Any contestants who try making a joke on University Challenge should be docked 50 points. I don't understand the point of this knockout system. Are they just squeezing some extra episodes into the series or something?

Pointless is the only one of these I make any effort to watch.

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i like the format on UC which is into at least its 3rd year just cos it means there's more shows of UC. On the other hand i wd like Karran to be eaten by Ounces yeah.

Pointless is great but got a bit silly. The here-are-all-the-answers-now-choose-one rounds are patronising.

They have to do them because they are running out of finite lists. I do hate them though (except when I work out why a wrong answer is wrong, that's a nice wee side game).

don't see why they can't recycle lists, i shudder to think what kind of dude wd have the entire run of the show memorised

You don't have to make much of an effort, I find. When they repeated a load of episodes of Pointless recently, I remembered a lot of the answers from the first go round, and I am by no means a quiz genius.

There's "Memorising", and there's "remembering".

There's a lot of finite lists. Infinite, even!

I was visiting my grandparents last week and we were having dinner while watching Pointless, and when the two guys won the £7,000 maximum prize open to them they both started crying. It was bizarre and make me anxious for what they must be like watching Million Pound Drop.

Has Pointless appeared on pub quiz machines yet? Not sure how the format would work but I'm getting bored of the same old shite on the itbox.

Million Pound Drop is terrible so no rush

Pointless couldn't work on a quizzer because it's not right or wrong answers so much as assigning a random value to right answers.

I have a pretty good return from Million Pound Drop on quiz machines though.

you are way more patient/dedicated than me with crap triv machines tbh

Gave up on triv machines years ago when they started making it harder and harder to win on them

not really harder, just more time consuming

The Q music quiz was a great way to waste time about 5 years ago. I'd happily spend all night putting a quid in and taking a quid out.

i have more or less given them up now unless there's nobody in the pub i wanna talk to

Way more unemployed with more time.to kill, more like.

I still miss Weakest Link quiz machines. That was like free money.

They've totally changed the format of the Deal or No Deal one too, that used to be piss easy and now it isn't.

i quite like the Chris Tarrant one with the coloured boxes, and i always enjoy that Around the World with That Posh Twunt one, but the other change in my habits is i play them more for the enjoyment (or not) of the particular game now rather than having particular ones i know i can smash

Yeah, there's too fecking many of them now. Charley Boorman one (except for that pish balloon-flying game) and Blockbusters and Talksport or Match of the Day are my fallbacks. Never really been bothered learning the rules for the Tarrant one.

Now I want to go to the pub.

I love the balloon flying game even tho it is impossible to go more than two gas tanks.

do you remember way back in the day the game where you had to shoot down balloons to win points? that was awesome fun and more or less money all day.

I can't handle the Boorman one at all. MOTD is easy money still. My local has the easy Deal too. I stopped playing the things for ages but have recently started again, tragically.

My fingers are getting itchy... don't think of the pubs I drink in have one though.

I think we have a thread for quiz machine games but it's probably just me and NV swapping tactics.

that's more or less how i remember it. think dom was onboard too.

If I noticed it I probably raved about Give Us A Break for a couple of posts. That was free money.

Pub Quiz Machines: S/D

Dom P gold

Give Us A Break was oldschool, man, but that damn thing paid out like the DSS. We used to call it a "Scouse Bank Account". I've won off Weakest Link before, it just needs hella money in it in order for it to pay out.
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the biggest free money machines of all time for me were the early versions of Adders and Ladders and Monopoly, used to be able to play those until they were spitting air. pocket full of 10p pieces is a bit unwieldy.

lol thread ends with me pointing out my weak Catholic credentials as an excuse for not knowing about saints

When it comes to giving away cash at random to poor unfortunates then Mario Balotelli has a long way to go to compete with old school Give Us a Break machines

Of course, there were regional differences to Give Us a Break machines, machines in areas with high concentrations of dimwits used to pay out like nobody's business

the thing was that most of the earlier machines had no system for stopping you winning if they'd already paid out, they could make you answer some more questions but the jackpot was usually always reachable. plus i suspect they had much smaller question banks, and rarely used the "bullshit question so obscure that we can always tell you you've got it wrong and you've no way of knowing otherwise" technique

"bullshit question so obscure that we can always tell you you've got it wrong and you've no way of knowing otherwise"

around these parts those were known as "cricket questions"

it's odd, i somehow learned a lot of the "what did new zealand score in the first innings of the 2nd test in 1978 against pakistan" questions on the old Ten Quid Grid machines

I took over £20 out of quizzers last weekend between Talksport, Million Pound Drop, and whatever the music one is with a cartoon Ozzy on it where you collect gold discs.

xposts, yes, Paisley is a happy hunting ground for the quiz machine afficionado. Also Dennistoun, I've taken a fair whack out of the machine in the Duke on my way to the football.

Has anyone ever won money off the Eggheads one?

actually now i think about it i was probably generally better at remembering questions when i'd only been drinking for 5 years rather than 25

think i might have nicked the odd quid off Eggheads but it's just like a stupidly churlish Pub Quiz game imo

yes, Paisley is a happy hunting ground for the quiz machine afficionado

I was thinking more of more rural pubs, going back years now of course

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frankly i'm disappointed

perfection and the chase are alright, but rly? weakest link, get tae fuck.

I really don't understand how Pointless can be that popular. I would also have thought Countdown would have garnered more votes, maybe it would have if Whiteley and Voderman could be at the helm still?

I do love Countdown, but Nick Hewer is terrible. I liked Jeff Stelling a lot, but haven't really taken to Rachel (possibly because I am not a boy).

Pointless = knowledge, geekery, hosts who delight in zinging contestants and each other. What's not to love?

Still never seen it but if it's better than UC then it must be something special

"Films with Tom Cruise in!"

"oo, I dunno, how about Top Gun? I know it's a bit old..."

Yes, laughing at idiot contestants is part of the fun with every show though. The good thing with Pointless is that the hosts also mercilessly take the piss out of people who say stupid things, you feel like they're on your side. I would take that any day of the week over Jeremy Kyle's patronising "that was a good guess, but it's wrong" comments on Eggheads when someone says things like "Top Gun? I've never heard of it but I think that was probably George Clooney, it's definitely not Tom Cruise".

Years ago a woman responded to a 'countries beginning with A' question with 'Africa'. In another episode, a bloke volunteered 'Florida' as a country. Both were ridiculed, and rightly fucking so.

My favourite FamFortunes bit OF ALL TIME!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2AWKfMvDtw

The best worst Pointless answer of recent times was "Name an official language of Switzerland"..."We'll play it safe and go for English".

One of my favourite Weakest Link answers:

Q: In the modern Summer Olympic Game, the equestrian sports are jumping, eventing and which other?

A: Shooting.

... can really appreciate the thought processes going on there

From "SwissInfo.ch":

Switzerland has four national languages: French, German, Italian and Romansh. English, though not an official language, is often used to bridge the divides.

that must be some sort of record for the biggest shower of illiterate bastards ever on Pointless

They are pretty poor!! Prize fund rolling over, I should think.

Waterfalls! No chance. Not that I know more than one.

Can't believe I didn't know what Pointless was 18 months ago and squandered my vote on UC!

OK, just watched my first episode of "Two Tribes" the new Richard Osman fronted show. It's my new favourite.

Yeah it's fun

Nah, real disappointment compared to Pointless. The questions are too easy.

Quite like the starting each others' clock format of the final round, mind.

Pointless is a great concept with an irritating execution. It spends too much time showing contestants deliberating and numbers going down and not enough time on actual trivia.

97% of quiz shows do that tbf

I was expecting them to cross reference the answers, like to see if people who own a cat are more likely to answer questions about plantagenet kings correctly or whatever. it's still pretty good though obv nowhere near as great as pointless

I watched the first episode of Two Tribes and got every single question right, so no amount of Richard Osman is going to make me stick with it.

...I haven't watched it past that, perhaps it was a weird "100% of people who Richard Osman called clever clogs on twitter know everything about everything" anomaly

Pointless is a great concept with an irritating execution. It spends too much time showing contestants deliberating and numbers going down and not enough time on actual trivia.

― salsa shark

Completely disagree. Pointless is the most genius concept in the history of trivia shows because you can continue to think about the questions during all the guff. Also Richard and Xander's interactions are gold.

A question like 'Think of the most obscure Southern hemisphere country in Africa you can' is a gift that keeps giving, to pick a recent example.

should they continue making Pointless after Alexander Armstrong decides to pack it in y/n

n, also the format has necessitated more use of rubbishy questions over time

'Pointless with Nick Knowles'

Yeah questions are definitely getting worse. Still the odd cracker though.

TBH Xander is less vital than Richard - any extremely amiable posh bloke would kind of do.

that kind of makes sense- but who? most of the amiable TV posh blokes I can bring to mind come off as too dim, Ben Fogle for example

Armstrong is good at being wry without appearing supercilious

Palin?

Michael Palin would be perfect but is probably too old and/or rich to do it

He meant Sarah

Haha

Previously I would've said you could get rid of Armstrong as long as you kept Osman, but I can't fucking stand Two Tribes, and think Osman is terrible and boring on it. So I think Pointless only works with the particular chemistry it has.

That's probably entirely fair. Osman is WAY funnier than Xander on Pointless, but, yeah, he's sparring with an old uni mate.

I just watched an episode of Two Tribes on the iplayer where one of the contestants was this conspicuously working class guy from Salford and there seemed to be this slightly awkward atmosphere with Richard making point of observing how clever he was, maybe I'm just projecting though

He often makes a point of being much more common than Xander on Pointless. Think he might have a (very slight) working class chip.

I was thinking along the lines of middle class anxiety about seeming patronising or snobbish on RO's part, but this may all just be in head

I don't mind The Chase, though Bradley Walsh is a bit of a wanker obviously.

I like The Chase.

Anything with quickfire general knowledge questions > anything else.

Anything with quickfire general knowledge questions > anything else.

this would include Cleverdicks though, and that's the most depressing show in the world

And Eggheads. Eggheads is rubbish.

Yeah, I was put off the Chase for ages by the words "Bradley Walsh" but it and, surprisingly,Bradley are both pretty good. Would be immeasurably improved by getting shot of Shaun Wallace, he is so much poorer than the other three chasers.

Mark Labbett was in our local pub the other night.

Eggheads is not quickfire. It's also multiple choice

which means it's shit

I was about to moan about Eggheads not putting questions on screen then did a quick ctrl-f

I hate that Eggheads presents the multiple choice answers on screen but not the questions - this stops you from being able to play it in the pub without the sound up.

― I was otherwise very normal before I became (onimo), Friday, 6 January 2012 15:29 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Bored, so giving Cleverdicks a go on Challenge. Widdecombe is an appalling host.

Also, there was a round on campaigning organisations and one supposed cleverdick decided that the organisation most likely to have their logo displayed by Barcelona on their shirts was ETA.

Haha, trolling surely?

The cleverdick, not you.

I don't think he was. He seemed somewhat incapable of humour.

I like The Chase.

Anything with quickfire general knowledge questions > anything else.

You can play Cleverdicks yourself on the Challenge TV website:

http://www.challenge.co.uk/games/play-cleverdicks.html

it's multiple choice though and you can get quite a way by just methodically clicking through all the options, also includes clips of Ann Widdecombe shrieking at you

Eggheads is not quickfire. It's also multiple choice

which means it's shit

― Number None, Monday, September 8, 2014 3:01 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

also the questions on The Chase are mostly too shit to make it a quiz fix

Fifteen to One and University Challenge are obviously the GOAT. Nothing else compares

Pointless has joined the pantheon.

The new Celebrity version of Fifteen To One is pretty bad. The questions are far too easy and the host is no William G Stewart.

The non-celeb one isn't great either. Too much faff and too much Toksvig.

I didn't know there still was a non-celeb version.

Fifteen to One and University Challenge are obviously the GOAT. Nothing else compares

I'll give you 15-to-1 but for me UC has always struggled to set its brow at the ideal height to appeal to the masses (by masses I mean anyone who isn't or wasn't in a UC team) without being too easy.

Pointless seems too much like finding the bottom answer in Family Fortunes for me.

Pointless seems too much like finding the bottom answer in Family Fortunes for me.

― I misuse (onimo)

This is essentially what it is, but that is a really good idea!

It isn't really like that

Bottom answer on family fortunes would be like "something found in the kitchen" or whatever bullshit and there would be a trillion "obscure" answers

The point of pointless is that it's actual general knowledge questions pertaining to actual facts

quizplaining

What good can come of confessing to murder in your autobiography, eh?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-37437498

Always hated CJ.

(also I take back the bad things I said about nu-Fifteen to One, oops)

always thought daphne was the one most likely to be a murderer

Yeah, that's a lady with some dark secrets. I hope the forthcoming new Eggs have some juicy anecdotes.

oh, this is a poll. never mind, it'll do

Crystal Maze. how can a team calling themselves The Science Geeks be so illogical and so poor at puzzles.

now having trouble finding Canada on the map!

now having trouble opening a suitcase...