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2 unusual facts about Quiz


Alan Coren

He was invited to be one of the regular panellists on BBC Radio 4's new satirical quiz show, The News Quiz.

Ghost word

"Quiz" also has been associated with apparently deliberate false etymology.


Amar Chitra Katha

It so happened that a quiz contest aired on Doordarshan in February 1967, in which participants could easily answer questions pertaining to Greek mythology, but were unable to reply to the question "In the Ramayana, who was Rama's mother?".

Andrew O'Keefe

From 2007 until 2009, O'Keefe hosted the quiz show The Rich List and in 2006 took the helm of Weekend Sunrise, which he currently hosts on Saturday and Sunday mornings with journalist Monique Wright.

Ardenne High School

The school has won Television Jamaica's Schools Challenge Quiz competition five times, in 1973, 1997, 1998, 2000 and 2013 joining Wolmer's Boys School and Munro College with five wins and trailing Kingston College with ten wins.

Barry Simmons

Barry Simmons (born 1948) is a quiz show contestant and was the winner of the BBC Two show Are You an Egghead? and as a result became the sixth Egghead, joining Kevin Ashman, C. J. de Mooi, Daphne Fowler, Christopher Hughes and Judith Keppel on the regular show on 2 December 2008.

Bill Beaumont

He went on to be another captain, this time on the BBC quiz show A Question of Sport.

Brain Quest

Brain Quest is a series of educational flashcards that quiz children on a variety of subjects including Science, Math, English, Geology, History and others.

Brendan O'Carroll's Hot Milk and Pepper

Production company Frontier Films devised Brendan O'Carroll's Hot Milk and Pepper as a comedy quiz show vehicle for Brendan O'Carroll.

CBS Television Quiz

Quiz moved to Mondays on February 2 and was now preceded by a civilian-defense program (later an American Red Cross program), which along with the news summary required the show itself to decrease to 50 minutes.

Chicken 65

Amitabh Bachchan's Kaun Banega Crorepati (Season 1), featured Chicken 65 as a Buhari invention as did Siddarth Basu's Quiz Time on Doordarshan in the 90s.

Ciara Whelan

In 2006, she began presenting with Channel 6 (now 3e), fronting their live-interactive quiz show, Quiz 6.

Danijay

His second single, "I Fiori di Lillà" (The Lilacs) featured Italian singer-songwriter Alberto Fortis and was played on the Italian quiz show Passa Parola.

Dash and Will

The duo found exposure through appearances on numerous Australian television programs, including children show Saturday Disney and music quiz shows RocKwiz and 'Spicks and Specks'.

Dawid van Lill

They also compiled questions for the M-Net sports quiz programme Going for Gold, as well as for two series of the SABC 3 quiz show Greed, e.tv’s Mahala on e and he was a consultant and researcher for SABC2’s Flinkdink and SABC3’s Weakest Link.

De La Salle Santiago Zobel School

Zobel has been a consistent top performer in academic contests such the Metrobank-Mathematics Teachers Association of the Philippines-Department of Education Math Challenge, the Discovery Channel Whiz Quiz Contest, numerous AMA Computer University Information Technology Contests, and the Inter-school Computer Science QuizBits Contest of the Philippine Science High School, among others.

Erland and the Carnival

The track "Everything Came Too Easy" was inspired by a speech by Charles Van Doren to the House Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight, a United States Congress subcommittee, investigating a rigging scandal on the quiz show Twenty One.

Glenn Ridge

In April 1991, Ridge joined the Nine Network as host of the prime time quiz show Sale of the Century with co-host Jo Bailey, taking over from Tony Barber and Alyce Platt.

Hi-Q

Kimberly-Clark Hi-Q is a U.S. high school academic quiz competition originating in Delaware County, Pennsylvania

Delco Hi-Q is an academic quiz competition in Delaware County, Pennsylvania

IBM Research

IBM Research was behind the inventions of the SABRE travel reservation system, the technology of laser eye surgery, magnetic storage, the relational database, UPC barcodes and Watson, the question-answering computing system that won a match against human champions on the Jeopardy! television quiz show.

Jabab Kinte Chai

Inspired by the British game show Sell Me the Answer it is basically a quiz show with a mix of bargaining.

Jana Bach

In 2006, Jana Bach took a job hosting the late-night call-in quiz show Lanotte on the commercial German channel 9Live.

Jim Peck

His first hosting job came on the Ron Greenberg-produced hard quiz The Big Showdown, which ran on ABC from December 23, 1974 until July 4, 1975.

Kids' Lit Quiz

The quiz was created by Wayne Mills, an educator at the University of Auckland, who wears a purple and black hat while hosting this literary quiz.

Landmark quiz

The 20th edition of the Landmark Quiz was held in 6 cities Hyderabad, Bangalore, Delhi, Pune, Mumbai and Chennai.

Landmark Quiz is an annual quiz contest instituted in 1992 by the Landmark Bookstores owned by Tata Group through its Trent (westside) brand.

The 20th edition of the landmark quiz was once again held in each of the 4 cities Bangalore, Pune, Mumbai and Chennai and the winner and runner up from each city went onto to the national finals which was held on 15 August 2011 after the Chennai Regional finals.

The 19th edition of the quiz was held with a Regional Finals held each at Bangalore, Pune, Mumbai and Chennai respectively.

Logi Bergmann Eiðsson

Logi was a sports correspondent, and later news reporter, anchor, producer and deputy head of news for Sjónvarpið; in addition to hosting the quiz show Gettu betur for six years.

Luke Toyne

Toyne has also presented live and pre-recorded TV, radio and corporates: quiz, youth, gambling and entertainment formats for MTV, GCap and O2 and appeared as a dating correspondent on Nihal’s BBC Asian Network show and Richard Bacon and Stephen Nolan on BBC Radio 5 Live.

Lydia Dean Pilcher

After receiving an MFA at New York University Graduate Institute of Film and Television in 1983, Pilcher began her career making documentaries and working in the production department of feature films including After Hours (dir: Martin Scorsese); F/X (dir: Robert Mandel); Round Midnight (dir: Bertrand Tavernier); Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (dir: John Hughes); Mississippi Burning (dir: Alan Parker); and Quiz Show (dir: Robert Redford).

Maeroa

That same year, the school hosted the Newscruise Challenge, an annual interschool news and general knowledge quiz sponsored by the Waikato Times.

Math 55

In 1994, 89 students took the test given after 3 weeks: students scoring more than 50% on the quiz could enroll in Wilfried Schmid's Math 55 (15 students), students scoring between 10 and 50% could stay in Benedict Gross's Math 25 (55 students), and students scoring less than 10% were advised to enroll in a lower-level course such as Math 21, multivariate calculus (19 students).

Matt Arnold

He then worked as a runner on the ITV daytime quiz show Talk About, before returning to college to study journalism at Highbury College in Hampshire.

Mike Royko

Every spring he would devote a column to a "Cubs Quiz", posing obscure trivia questions about mediocre Cubs players from his youth, such as Heinz Becker and Dom Dallessandro.

Newsgame

This includes a number of subcategories that dive into different ways to incorporate gaming elements into journalistic work, whether they be long-form documentary news games (JFK Reloaded), games that simulate real-world systems (Sweatshop or Darfur is Dying), interactive infographics (Budget Hero), or quiz/puzzle-based games (Scoople).

Nina Violić

She also hosted the Croation version of the quiz show The Weakest Link.

Oh My Goddess!

A Dreamcast quiz game titled Quiz: Ah! My Goddess - Stay With Fighting Wings was released in August 1998 for the Sega Dreamcast.

People's Postcode Lottery

From 2008-2010, People’s Postcode Lottery sponsored the Postcode Challenge, a quiz show hosted by Angus Purden on STV.

Philippe Falliex

#Le grand quiz des histoires de France, hosted by Laurent Boyer

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team and Red Rescue Team

The player starts out as a human who turned into a Pokémon, which can be one of sixteen Pokémon (Bulbasaur, Squirtle, Charmander, Cyndaquil, Totodile, Chikorita, Treecko, Torchic, Mudkip, Pikachu, Eevee, Machop, Cubone, Psyduck, Meowth, and Skitty) and is determined by a personality quiz taken at the beginning of the game.

Rolf Kirkvaag

Among the shows he hosted were the children's show Titten Tei and the radio quiz show 20 spørsmål (20 Questions).

Round Britain Quiz

Round Britain Quiz (or RBQ for short) is a panel game that has been broadcast on BBC Radio since 1947, making it the oldest quiz still broadcast on British radio.

RÚV

Gettu betur is a popular annual quiz tournament pitting teams from senior secondary schools around Iceland against each other in five rounds which are broadcast on radio and TV.

Sam Barthe School for Boys

Much like the popular quiz shows Jeopardy!, the Prep Quiz Bowl featured teams of highly gifted academic students from schools of all sizes from around the region, testing students knowledge and game strategy in a head-to-head elimination tournament lasting several weeks.

Save His Shoes

Masi has worked on the album for a period of two years from 2007 to 2009 with Raine Maida and Chantal Kreviazuk, Jim Beanz, Cutfather and Jonas Jeberg, Quiz and Larossi, Anton Malmberg, Elias Kapari, and Eric Sanicola.

Sporting Triangles

The game received low to average scores across several magazines: Your Sinclair rated the game 40% whilst rival Spectrum magazine Crash gave it 48%, stating: "A mediocre conversion of a less than brilliant TV quiz and for sports fanatics only".

Think Fast

Think Fast!, a children's quiz show on the Nickelodeon network

What I Go to School For

On 4 November 2012, Michelle Blair appeared as the correct answer in the "line-up" section of BBC TV comedy music quiz show Never Mind the Buzzcocks.

Winnebago language

So far, he’s worked up a language quiz game based on the show "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?} and has been using Facebook and YouTube videos to get young people engaged. "The world is moving so fast with technology, and our youth are the ones who are going to carry the language on,” he said.


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