QuizList

Two postings this week, will post next week as usual though there probably won’t be much to report.  And there will most likely be the usual QuizList review of the quizzing year.  This used to be the QuizList Awards with categories you’d expect like ‘QuizMaster of the Year’ but others also including ‘The High Moral Ground Award’, the ‘Whose Round Is It’ Award, etc.  Maybe I’ll think about a few of those…

Where have all the Christmas quizzes gone?  Long time passing.  I think at this stage we’re moving on to those dreary ‘Quizzes of 2008’ when you are reminded of all the ‘key events’ like who won the Eurovision Song Contest and Big Brother.  There’s lots of stuff you’ll have forgotten at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008

So to my verdict on what is the best tv-based pub quiz machine game.  It’s ‘1 versus 100’.  Plenty of questions, no Dermot, and no other diversionary activity.  A question is posed, you are given three alternative answers, you have two chances to dodge and one to double your score.  Answer it right and you knock out the ‘members of the 100’ who supposedly got it wrong.  Get to zero without a wrong answer and you get through to the money board where theoretical amounts such as £20 and £10 appear and you usually end up with £2-£4.  I think it was once £5 and I think it was once 75p.  Sometimes you’re given a chance to bail out and if the offer is £3-£4, take it.  In all probability you won’t win much higher.  Problems with this one?  When they begin asking a lot of date questions and a personal problem I also have is hitting the middle answer of the three alternatives.  Fat Finger Syndrome or something like it, I suppose.

Season’s greetings to you all, have a good break from work and a good day on Thursday!