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To laugh out loud at 'The Quiz'

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UnagiSalmonSkinRoll · 14/04/2020 23:02

'Cancel the cheque' GrinGrin

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MehitabelWhurl · 16/04/2020 09:53

Actually towards the end I thought Michael Sheen drifted away from Chris Tarrant and towards Tommy Cooper, voice-wise.

MehitabelWhurl · 16/04/2020 09:54

The scene where Charles learns the lyrics to that Craig David song was hilarious 😂

stonebrambleboy · 16/04/2020 09:54

The only time I ever answered all the questions correctly was the night Judith Keppel won. I 'd never come close before. If I remember rightly the show was aired on the same night as the last episode of One Foot in the Grave where Victor Meldrew gets hit by a car. Rumour had it that WWTBAM was deliberately easy that night to ensure there was a million pound winner hence good ratings.

stonebrambleboy · 16/04/2020 09:56

The Primate / Marsupial question was incorrectly answered by a teacher.
The look on her husband's face in the audience was priceless when she got it wrong.

chomalungma · 16/04/2020 09:58

hy would the wife call the other bloke the night before he was due to be on the show

I wonder what was said in the jury room and how long they were out for?

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 16/04/2020 09:59

We didn’t watch it very much but there was an infamous and hilarious one for little money when a contestant was asked for the alternative title for the Archbishop of Canterbury. She was left with two choices: Primate of all England or Marsupial of all England. So she chose.....?

But I wouldn't say that's a categorically easy question for everybody. I find it easy, but I could see how a lot wouldn't find it so simple. If you've never heard of the word 'primate' being used in that context - and don't pick up on the 'prime' i.e. 'first' aspect of it, I can see how your mind could think "OK, so for some reason, the Archbishop shares a title with a class of animal. That in itself is weird, so it could be either of these strange options".

You could have a question abou popular culture, but not everybody is party to that popular culture. If you asked, say, which of these was a popular video sharing website: A. Klip Klop; B. Flip Flop; C. Tik Tok; or D. Nik Nak - tens of millions of people would think that stupidly easy, but a great many older people, even those who use the internet every day, would never have heard of it. I'm not particularly elderly and I've heard of it but I don't know anything about it, how it works or what it's specific USP is.

On the other hand, if you asked what the name of the booby prize on '3-2'1' was, most over 50s would think that a gift question. Anybody under 30, though....

I helped to organise a community quiz last year and one of the questions in a word associaton round I wrote was 'What can go after Time and before Wardrobe'. Most of the women: straightforward; virtually all of the men: not the foggiest.

Moonmelodies · 16/04/2020 10:04

I wonder why they would still protest their innocence to this day, if they were guilty?
Better for them to put their hands up and enjoy lucrative book deals and TV interviews no?

RemotelessControl · 16/04/2020 10:10

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll

I had to think about that question. Is it capsule?

MehitabelWhurl · 16/04/2020 10:10

I don’t get the Time/Wardrobe one 😳

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 16/04/2020 10:11

He did the Chris Tarrant voice perfectly!

I thought he nailed a lot of the mannerisms, but not the dramatic raised voice (e.g. "You have just won A MILLION POUNDS!") - he tended to just shout rather than project in the way that Chris always did.

It did also stray towards Cockney at times, which Chris definitely isn't.

MehitabelWhurl · 16/04/2020 10:11

Ooh I wouldn’t have got that!

MehitabelWhurl · 16/04/2020 10:13

Yes he did drift towards cockney at times, dropping Gs etc.

Still, he’s not an impressionist as such and he got enough right in both speech and mannerisms to blend in.

diddl · 16/04/2020 10:13

I wouldn't have got the time/wardrobe one either!

AngryRedhead · 16/04/2020 10:21

Maybe because it’s very neutral and doesn’t portray them as innocent or guilty? It has no teeth.*

I don’t think being neutral means having no teeth. The entire point of the drama, the reason it was written in the first place, was to be neutral and show both sides.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 16/04/2020 10:27

Yep, it's capsule!

I wonder why they would still protest their innocence to this day, if they were guilty?
Better for them to put their hands up and enjoy lucrative book deals and TV interviews no?

I suppose their line would be that they weren't guilty! Presuming that they had to give the million back (which must have seriously rankled when they realised they could have stopped at £250K and likely got away with it), it made them into celebrities of a sort.

They sold their integrity, not necessarily their shame though (indeed many would probably still admire their tenacity and chutzpah and rationalise that they weren't really hurting anybody - only taking money that ITV was arbitrarily giving away anyway), but they could have hugely monetised it - unless that was forbidden as 'proceeds of crime' maybe?

If anything, I wonder if it might have affected Tecwen much more negatively in the long run as he will have had the enduring indignity of everybody calling him a cheat without all of the resulting media theatre and publicity opportunities (not all of them bad) that the Ingrams had. They could get lucrative work as panto villains (they might have done already!), but he doesn't have the same cachet; if he'd had a less distinctive name, nobody would even remember who he was outside of his own community.

MehitabelWhurl · 16/04/2020 13:34

Just watched the Major Fraud documentary on YouTube. They’re guilty as sin.

She definitely kept glancing towards Tecwen Whittock. She claimed later that she was actually glancing at the monitor to see her husband but it’s clear as day that’s not the case.

Rosehip10 · 16/04/2020 17:32

What was all the mensa rubbish too. Or are mensa covering Craig David and emmerdale these days.

InvisibleWomenMustBeRead · 16/04/2020 23:17

I thought Michael Sheen made a mockery of the programme. I'm not a Chris Tarrant fan but he doesn't seem as much of a dick or an imbecile that Michael Sheen portrayed him as.

Did the actual show ever air?

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 17/04/2020 00:52

What was all the mensa rubbish too.

It was for subtle yet irrefutable proof that he was guaranteed to be excellent at general knowledge, as he had been accepted into a society for people with a very high IQ (by no means automatically congruous with being good at GK).... or had bought himself a badge from eBay!

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 17/04/2020 01:04

I thought Michael Sheen made a mockery of the programme. I'm not a Chris Tarrant fan but he doesn't seem as much of a dick or an imbecile that Michael Sheen portrayed him as.

Did the actual show ever air?

No, he made Chris out to be smarmy and superficial. Chris did always adhere to 'safe' formulaic parameters; unlike Jeremy Clarkson, who just says whatever pops into his head and will happily insult contestants rather than just gently joshing with them - but within those boundaries, he did seem relatively genuine.

I'm convinced that I did see the episode on Challenge once, but that might be my mind playing tricks on me because I've seen so many clips from it in this drama and the various reports and articles.

As we've already said, it's subjective as to what constitutes an 'easy' question, but FWIW, IMHO, I think that Judith Keppel had a much easier set than Charles Ingram did - notwithstanding the big final one being about her own family!! Could there have been any truth in the rumour about her show going up against the big finale of One Foot In The Grave on BBC1? We'll never know. They stated in the show that the computer picks the set at random (assuming that bit is true in actuality), but there would be nothing stopping them from having different 'folders' of questions from which the computer would choose a set, if they so wished. We have the family Trivial Pursuit game, where you take the next question completely at random, so it could be absolutely anything - but if you took it from the under-14s set of cards, it will obviously be much easier than any taken from the adult set.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 17/04/2020 01:05

Am I the only one really wanting to know exactly which parts were based an factual occurrences and which bits were made up added or enhanced for dramatic effect?!

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 17/04/2020 01:11

*Could there have been any truth in the rumour about her show going up against the big finale of One Foot In The Grave on BBC1?

The rumour that they deliberately gave her easier questions so as to lure viewers away from OFITG with the promise of 'THE big episode' - Obviously, the fact that the two were scheduled against each other is beyond any doubt or denial!

fratellia · 17/04/2020 01:19

Agree the scene where he is learning Craig David lyrics is hilarious- ‘On Sunday they just chilled’ 😂

He reminded me of the Prince William in The Windsor’s on this. I’ve watched a bit of the real footage and I think Charles and Diana ingram are made a lot more likeable in ‘Quiz’, they have more of an ‘evil’ look to them in real life.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 17/04/2020 02:30

Agree the scene where he is learning Craig David lyrics is hilarious- ‘On Sunday they just chilled’

I bet they sincerely wish they could 'get a rewind' back to £250K and then cash out there, before they aroused any suspicions Grin

Michaelbaubles · 17/04/2020 06:55

James Graham, the writer, is on Twitter and talks about some of the things that really did happen.

twitter.com/mrJamesGraham