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University Challenge

hopeandjoy said:
That's because that's where he got the name. A porno called "Deep Throat". I know this because I once watched a series on the Sexual Revolution and have a good head for useless trivia.
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Aw, now that I know that it's kind of less funny, haha. I could have sworn that one of those categories was going to be porn movies... the guy totally agreed with me man. "They're all... films..."
 
Fellow plebs of tcodf, I am curious about how many of these questions you manage to actually answer :o I got like FIVE in the finals video which is probably my PERSONAL BEST and I wonder how much I need to milk the excuse of being neither British nor American to explain how much I don't know :D
 
Ether's Bane said:
Not necessarily.
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American TV quizzes are a totally different beast. There's far fewer of them, but they're less afraid of actually giving money away. When it comes down to playing for money, British TV quizzes usually feature the player against the game, rather than against another player. So there's no guarantee that anyone will win any money, and it's easy to minimise how much prize money you have to pay out by not letting good players on.

Also, it makes for boring television if one person wipes the floor with the rest.

(But, yes, I would probably give Jeopardy a shot given the chance.)

And Only Connect match 3, featuring the most shoehorned Pokemon reference ever.
 
opaltiger said:
American TV quizzes are a totally different beast. There's far fewer of them, but they're less afraid of actually giving money away. When it comes down to playing for money, British TV quizzes usually feature the player against the game, rather than against another player. So there's no guarantee that anyone will win any money, and it's easy to minimise how much prize money you have to pay out by not letting good players on.
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This is probably because there was a scandal in 50s about American game shows rigging the game. Regulations were then imposed, but it killed the genre until the 70s. I assume they wanted to get back public trust, so more money for contestants.
 
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