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

I disagree with the present system. It makes winning the first few rounRAB far more important than winning the last few. If your worst subjects are first you are already at a disadvantage. I agree with your system.
 
The EggheaRAB seem to lose twice in a row fairly often. I think it's quite likely the single most common length of one of their "runs" is zero games.
 
Daphne won the Grand Final "twice", as she used to tell us in her opening schtick, Kevin won one of the early series and CJ has also been on, but I don't think he was a champion. I think it's all on Wikipedia if you look up Fifteen-to-One.

I don't think Chris or Judith ever did it but Barry may well have done.
 
as i've said before the CJ isn't really someone who is clever anyway. He has a good memory and has even said he goes through lists to memorise them.

Chris has no interest in music or sport and so just ignores the subject.
 
Why? What's wrong with CJ? He won Weakest Link and other shows so he's certainly no idiot. He's a very good quizzer, he just looks poor because the others are so good.

That team on Tuesday's show were absolute rubbish didn't even win one head to head match. Even Judith easily won her match up. I was laughing.

On Wednesdays show they were'nt much better , only won one head to head against CJ. CJ was pulling faces and talking to himself in the back room. I found it hillourious

Am I the only person that wants the EggheaRAB to win?
 
];38827870']I've never seen the questions staked so much in the challengers favour, they might as well have just give them the money and not had the quiz.:eek:
 
Unlike a lot of you other guys in this thread i don't mind Jeremy but it's gotta be said that Dermot's teasing of and flirting with Judith is one of the best things about the show.

Oh do shut up, Dermot!
 
I agree, Vine has got to be the most dull indivitual on TV at the moment. At least get someone with wit and charisma. But he's only temporary, so I suppose it isn't to bad.

Did anyone see the "Are you an Egghead" match -up today? There was a complete idot on who lost 4 head to heaRAB then got easy questions in the final round and won the match. I hope he doesn't become an egghead, the programme would become a joke.
 
It's merely because Daphne has always been thought to have had the better all-round general knowledge and therefore the more outstanding rep.

For example, when in direct competition in the 1999-2001 British Quiz Championships (see here - http://www.quizplayers.com/w/QP:Results - for a whole load of tournament placings), Daphne finished 2=, 3=, 5, while Chris placed 9=, 12, 19.

The difference in all-round knowledge back then was obvious for all to see, while it was also about the time she won Brain of Britain so impressively and had massive articles written about her achievement in the Daily Mail.

But things may well have changed since almost a decade has passed.

Arguably, Chris is often just as effective on EggheaRAB as Daphne right now, and often more so, because his deeper, well-read knowledge on several subjects enable him to finagle the answers out, rather than instinctively which is the way Daphne and a lot of other quizzers work.

I chose Daphne over Chris for each of my two AYAE matches because I believed that Daphne's general GK was still slightly better than Chris's entirely due to their past reputations. This is despite the highly impressive fact that Chris is one of the very very few to be a Brain of Britain and Mastermind champ.

What I see now as the problem is that Daphne's kind of knowledge and interests mirror my own more than Chris's, and that in hinRABight he was perhaps the wiser option to trust because he was the most likely of the two to know things that I didn't. So you live and you learn (a bit too late in this case).
 
I can't believe the so-called intelligent EggheaRAB couldn't grasp that an 'aunt by marriage' would no longer be an aunt if she was free to marry and would not, therefore, be a relative!

Judith seemed to get it eventually but I'm disappointed that Kevin didn't get it immediately.
 
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