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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2020 20:51:25 GMT
I would also have needed the 50:50 for the religious question, but I knew the others up to 250K. I didn't know the last two but think I would have guessed them. I seem to remember the prime-minister question coming up on The Chase but didn't really remember the answer.
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Post by HoraceCoker on Sept 11, 2020 21:40:47 GMT
I would also have needed the 50:50 for the religious question, but I knew the others up to 250K. I didn't know the last two but think I would have guessed them. I seem to remember the prime-minister question coming up on The Chase but didn't really remember the answer. .....I knew the PM question.....youre right....it's cropped up somewhere recently before....lucky with some of the questions ....no girl band or popular culture question....but I reckon he would have probably known the answers to those questions too.....nice guy... |
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Post by HoraceCoker on Sept 11, 2020 21:45:02 GMT
No sport or technology, either. Of course, we don’t know who all his friends were who might’ve covered his gaps. He only mentioned his dad and brother. ....his brother won 500K on the show so back-up was no problem... |
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Post by HoraceCoker on Sept 12, 2020 1:32:43 GMT
.....funny....as soon as that guy was introduced at the start I knew he was the one....
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Post by beverley61 on Sept 12, 2020 7:10:32 GMT
Of course my cynical history teacher friend thinks this was a fix. She said any history teacher would've got most of them and the rest were absolute quiz gems. She is probably right but she is also wrong because you have to put yourself out there and do it. That alone knocks 90% of us out of the game. Would he have been stumped on a question about Emmerdale or the Spice Girls?! Maybe, but he'd revised and he said he and his brother do this list thing all the time. Besides he might be an avid watcher.
Good on him for having a go.
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Post by technicolour on Sept 12, 2020 8:26:41 GMT
Me and your history teacher would get on.
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Post by marion on Sept 12, 2020 8:49:47 GMT
The questions were in today’s paper. I got up to £32k but would have been guessing after that.
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Post by linseed on Sept 12, 2020 10:10:43 GMT
Yes I got them right up to £32k, but would have got the £64k one wrong, so that would have been it.
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Post by pandaeyes on Sept 12, 2020 10:59:37 GMT
Good Luck to him. It's a shame it was 'leaked' out before the series had begun. I too would have liked him as my teacher.
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Post by beverley61 on Sept 12, 2020 11:11:50 GMT
Me and your history teacher would get on. She is convinced the question setter played to his strengths giving him an advantage. I know there were questions that were his subject - history and politics and that there weren't any about modern culture or such, was there a literature one? But we dont know he wouldn't have aced them. |
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Post by technicolour on Sept 12, 2020 13:42:21 GMT
Me and your history teacher would get on. She is convinced the question setter played to his strengths giving him an advantage. I know there were questions that were his subject - history and politics and that there weren't any about modern culture or such, was there a literature one? But we dont know he wouldn't have aced them. Of course, they couldn't be sure he'd win but I think they played to his strengths and hoped at least for a big win to get publicity. As he said about the Million Pound question, any history teacher worth his salt would know it. Good luck to him anyway. |
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Post by yankee on Sept 12, 2020 13:59:55 GMT
The 1994 film "Quiz Show" is about a scandal in the 1950s by which an unattractive, unegaging man (John Turturro) was making his way, over the course of a number of episodes, up to the "big win" on a popular US quiz show.
But the producers caught wind that despite the fact he might eventually win the highest prize, the TV audience didn't like him because he wasn't attractive or charming and came across as smug. So ratings weren't skyrocketing like they should.
So they brought in a handsome and charismatic contestant (Ralph Fiennes) and began feeding him the answers so that he was quickly catching up and eventually passing the less appealing contestant (who was winning fair and square).
In the process they created great drama + a likable contestant vs. a contestant you love to hate = big ratings.
BUT, the Turturro character didnt go away quietly, alerted the authorities and a scandal ensued, which eventually disclosed fixes were happening on many TV game shows.
It's hard to imagine that 70 years later such rigging still goes on.
But I suppose the producers could say it's all just entertainment.
No different than professional wrestling which is fixed as well.
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Post by beverley61 on Sept 12, 2020 19:37:48 GMT
She is convinced the question setter played to his strengths giving him an advantage. I know there were questions that were his subject - history and politics and that there weren't any about modern culture or such, was there a literature one? But we dont know he wouldn't have aced them. Of course, they couldn't be sure he'd win but I think they played to his strengths and hoped at least for a big win to get publicity. As he said about the Million Pound question, any history teacher worth his salt would know it. Good luck to him anyway. My son got Callaghan and Bluebeard, he said they were about the only modules in history GCSE that he paid attention to, because they were interesting to boys - oh and the Expansion of the American West. Good history teachers can change the modules to suit the demographics of the group. This probably correct because my youngest daughter did Queen Mary I and Women's Suffrage amongst others, she did get lumbered with The Weimar Republic though. |
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Post by pandaeyes on Dec 22, 2020 11:12:54 GMT
Celebrity Special on Boxing Day, at 9.30 pm.
Piers Morgan and Jordan Banjo play for their respective charities. Repeated on Tuesday 29th at 11.05 pm.
Next one on Sunday 27th at 9.30 pm, with Prue Leith, Kym Marsh and Ronni Ancona in the chair. Repeated on Wednesday 30th at 11.50 pm.
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Post by pandaeyes on Jan 16, 2021 10:27:48 GMT
New series starts on Sunday (17th) at 8 pm. It's repeated on Friday at 11.05 pm.
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Anymore to come?
