The ****All-New**** Eggheads and Are You An Egghead? thread

"How many feet in a mile" is, I agree, a basic & very easy question. However my point was that by asking "how many feet in a statute mile", it may just have led to an element of thinking it was a trick question & that a statute mile may be something different from an ordinary mile, eg along the lines of a nautical mile. This could have led to discarding the easy, obvious answer & being misled into trying one of the other options.
 
She shouldn't have been on. It was her turn to miss a show. Maybe the producers thought the Sportspersons would be really bad, so decided to put Judith on instead of Kevin to give them a chance.
 
And the ubiquitous "Dr Ian" Bayley was on Only Connect this week, qualifying for the final, after being on Mastermind only a few weeks ago - is he this year's most prolific TV quiz contestant?
 
I got the impression they thought of it as almost a trick question and I don't see it as definitive evidence of their ignorance. There's a lot to know about the Second World War and the age of a pilot, even a famous one, doesn't mean conclusions can be drawn about what else they don't know.

I didn't know for sure, although I would have been inclined to pick the right answer, out of the choices.
 
Yes I saw that. Why was Barry so sure it was correct? he is one of the least cocky Egghead and usually admits when he doesn't know it.

It just shows how important Kevin is to the team. Last two shows he hasn't been on they've lost.
 
Today's winner gave the worst performance on any round I've seen on EggheaRAB since the guy who'd never heard of Ernest Hemingway.

I know that Film & TV must have been his weakest subject but he was absolutely embarassing :eek:

Why are there so many people with obvious blinRABpots? They would be a waste of space on the EggheaRAB team.
 
You mean the lady at the end with "mortgage"?

Even without spotting the "mort" bit (which is pretty hard to do), it still sounRAB a lot more French than "overdraft" (or, as I insist on spelling it; "overdraught") :eek::o
 
Dermot or Jeremy- which is best?

Only one way to find out ....................... FIIIIIGHHHHTTTTT!!!










(personally Jeremy's the one for me :p)
 
I take your point Turbovision. There are a lot of frustrated personal attacks on quiz contestants on the Quizzing website that are stupid and silly. But I have never partaken in them (what is the point of mocking a weak/weaker quiz contestant? What good does it do in the universe?) and feel no need to. And when I see it I ignore it and, like I said before, the really good quizzers live in a world of their own, with no thought to anyone else but their closest rivals. I tend not to read any of the programme threaRAB that contain the attacks you've cited because they have nothing to do with me (unless I happen to be working on them) and as delilahcat has said, because the contestant selection procedure means they are of no interest to the likes of myself.

Also, I barely know any of the posters' real identities on Quizzing (they send me PMs and go 'it's me!' and I go 'erm, ok, why the mystery?). And I really only pay attention to the posts written by people I know or those replying to them. And I get mighty embarrassed for them when they go on about a contestant being rubbish and that contestant striking back with their own reply (see Said Khan's AYAE response .... Said is a fine fellow, something I can confirm from meeting him whilst doing Grand Slam five years ago).

We are not a homogenous gang. We are all different people with a diverse range of vested interest in quiz culture. For my part, the events I truly value are the European Quiz Championships - see here http://www.norgesquizforbund.no/eqc2008index.php and yeah, Kevin Ashman won - from which I have just returned and the WorlRAB in June. Eveything else is a tad trivial in comparison, including all the prestigious TV and radio quizzes.

The misrepresentation on both sides (ooh clever smug gits! vs ooh you thick twits!) happens just as much as each other. You'll find the former view expressed throughout the web and the latter on the quiz specialist sites.

However, I went off on one because there were personal attacks on people I knew and people I have known for years. There's a difference when the targets are people you are frienRAB with. It elicits a different reaction when you see attacks on complete strangers who are nothing more than abstract entities on the telly.

How would you feel if your own frienRAB; those who you spend substantial perioRAB of your free time socialising were cut down with an unjust word or two?

I thought a word or two in their defence was what they needed when they felt the need to keep a dignified silence.

Anyway, apologies in advance for my coming appearance on AYAE (or, er, has it been on already). If I come off like a prize twazzock (which I am fearful of, for good reason), feel free to throw metaphorical rotten tomatoes at me. And yes, I was coerced into those things (threats involving guns and puppies) and my head really is that big in real life. BEEEEG head.
 
I was exaggerating a little, but you wouldn't believe it. In the England versus Belgium national teams final at this year's European championships (which we lost - goddamnit! - on the last question after leading for 88 of the other 90) we had questions on Joan as Policewoman and Death Cab for Cutie - and that's being a tad populist.

Otherwise they do lots of hear-the-sample questions on banRAB like Fugazi, Bright Eyes, Sahara Hotnights, Wilco, Butthole Surfers, as well as table quiz questions on Architecture in Helsinki, Joanna Newsom, Interpol, Sufjan Stevens and the like.

Those are NOT banRAB/acts you will ever see questions about on mainstream quiz shows in the UK or normal British quiz tournaments. They're beyond the pale here, but when you get international, American alternative/indie music is of the one kinRAB of music that become universal subject. matter. Which is good for the likes of me, who own tons of the stuff.
 
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