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Post by drjeffsdiscobarge on Aug 29, 2019 18:01:40 GMT
Can't remember the show,but a few years back,sports question,they asked,name a dangerous race,someone replied,The Arabs. Family Fortunes mate. Google funny family fortunes answers, there's some belters! Q. Name a bird with a long neck. A. Naomi Campbell Q. Name something you wash A. My sister. Q. Name something red A. My cardigan. :-)
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Post by Boothen on Aug 29, 2019 18:50:00 GMT
I have a friend who used to work in TV production, and in her time she worked behind the scenes on a few of the larger TV Quiz Shows. She told me that on quite a few of the shows she worked on contestants are vetted for how thick they are, because if they simply allowed through all the really brainy ones the shows would haemorrhage money.
One of the members of a pub quiz team I used to be on applied to appear on a few shows and for each one he, and the other applicants in his pool, received a test quiz which pretty much decided as to whether they'd progress onto the show itself. 99% of the people who aced that test quiz were not asked back. Then again, most shows are crooked in favour of the regulars anyway. Eggheads for example, the Eggheads actually know in advance what topics and subjects will be asked and also have a long list of all the questions. They don't know the specifics, like what questions will be asked, but they know just enough to give them a slight edge.
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Post by LL Cool Dave on Aug 29, 2019 21:45:59 GMT
Boy on what I think may have been Junior Mastermind about 10 years ago. Aced all the proper difficult questions about history and science etc then answered 'who won the first series of Pop Idol?' with John Lennon.
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Post by Boothen on Aug 29, 2019 22:01:58 GMT
Quite some years back we were in a quiz and a girl on one of the opposing teams, a team of law students if memory serves, played holy hell with the adjudicator over getting a question surrounding the battle of Hastings wrong. She flew into a right rage and demanded a new quiz because, and I paraphrase, "how was she supposed to know the answer to that when it happened nearly a millennia before she was born?".
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Post by brilittle on Aug 30, 2019 10:14:35 GMT
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Post by thequietman on Aug 30, 2019 11:18:11 GMT
On Pointless a couple of years ago, the production team were going through some practice questions with us to get us used to the idea of how the program would flow.
There was a particularly obnoxious woman, a gp who'd you'd have thought had some modicum of general knowledge to back up her attitude. Apparently not.
Practice question: "name a metallic element in the periodic table". Her answer: "steel". Production crew member: "oh dear, that would be 100 points, steel isn't an element". Her: "yes it is" Production: "no, I'm afraid it's an alloy"
Her: "Huh. Ok, bronze" Production: "100 points again"
She threw a hissy fit & walked out.
Best bit about the whole show (apart from meeting Bradley Walsh who was filming next door & was a top chap) - to draw what podium we'd be standing on, they brought out a bag with coloured table tennis balls in. We were all heartily encouraged to chant as loudly as possible: "ball bag, ball bag, ball bag". Which we did with gusto, just as some BBC top brass were wandering past.
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Post by bathstoke on Aug 30, 2019 14:09:26 GMT
On Pointless a couple of years ago, the production team were going through some practice questions with us to get us used to the idea of how the program would flow. There was a particularly obnoxious woman, a gp who'd you'd have thought had some modicum of general knowledge to back up her attitude. Apparently not.
Practice question: "name a metallic element in the periodic table". Her answer: "steel". Production crew member: "oh dear, that would be 100 points, steel isn't an element". Her: "yes it is" Production: "no, I'm afraid it's an alloy"
Her: "Huh. Ok, bronze" Production: "100 points again"
She threw a hissy fit & walked out. Best bit about the whole show (apart from meeting Bradley Walsh who was filming next door & was a top chap) - to draw what podium we'd be standing on, they brought out a bag with coloured table tennis balls in. We were all heartily encouraged to chant as loudly as possible: "ball bag, ball bag, ball bag". Which we did with gusto, just as some BBC top brass were wandering past.
I’m chanting it now...
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Post by bathstoke on Aug 30, 2019 14:14:23 GMT
That’s really musical for HMHB
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Post by elystokie on Aug 30, 2019 14:31:45 GMT
I have a friend who used to work in TV production, and in her time she worked behind the scenes on a few of the larger TV Quiz Shows. She told me that on quite a few of the shows she worked on contestants are vetted for how thick they are, because if they simply allowed through all the really brainy ones the shows would haemorrhage money. One of the members of a pub quiz team I used to be on applied to appear on a few shows and for each one he, and the other applicants in his pool, received a test quiz which pretty much decided as to whether they'd progress onto the show itself. 99% of the people who aced that test quiz were not asked back. Then again, most shows are crooked in favour of the regulars anyway. Eggheads for example, the Eggheads actually know in advance what topics and subjects will be asked and also have a long list of all the questions. They don't know the specifics, like what questions will be asked, but they know just enough to give them a slight edge. As well as not winning any money the hard of thinking can be very entertaining so it's a win win for the tv companies I suppose, I'll bet most of us don't shout at the telly nearly as much when there's a clever twat on.
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Post by RF10 on Aug 30, 2019 16:03:37 GMT
One of the best episodes of Always Sunny when they go on Family Fortunes.
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Post by mattyd on Aug 30, 2019 16:33:32 GMT
Tonight on Tennable. Name 10 EU Countries that contain either an F or an S.
So...They get 9, and they are in alphabetical order as follows.
Austria. Belarus. ?????? Estonia Finland and so on...
So final contestant works out alphabetically it must be between Belarus and Estonia... El Salvador.....
( Answer was Cyprus )
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Post by claytonscrubs on Aug 30, 2019 18:16:04 GMT
Tipping Point... Which "So called " sea is the worlds largest salt lake. This thick cunt, torn between The Atlantic and The Pacific...And he's a fucking teacher. Talking of teachers, have a look at this idiot on Pointless. “I’m gonna say, Mexico” 😮 *Shocked silence* I’m not homophobic, but this guy’s more camp than a branch of Millets!
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Post by foster on Sept 2, 2019 12:22:09 GMT
Lady on TV now just got asked:
'What sport features in Cinderella man, Raging bull and Rocky?'
her answer...
'Philadelphia!'.
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