The Eggheads' Favourite Game Shows Quiz

Answer: Eggheads

There is no greater way to start a team quiz by the Scrambled Eggheads than have a question about the "Eggheads" quiz show!

An egghead can be described as a very intelligent person, genius, highbrow or mastermind. Set five of these types of people against a team of five amateur quizzers and you get the British quiz show "Eggheads". Each amateur plays against a chosen "Egghead" in a specific category. The player, either "Egghead" or challenger, who wins the most points out of three questions wins the round and goes on to play in the final. It goes to sudden death if there is no winner after this time.

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Answer: University Challenge

"University Challenge" has been screened in the UK since 1962 and over the decades it has had some, now famous, contestants, including, author Sebastian Faulkes, actor and presenter Stephen Fry and Julian Fellowes the writer of the currently much acclaimed, "Downton Abbey". Right teams, fingers on the buzzer and your starter for 10!

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Answer: Eleven

This show, which ran from 1999 to 2010, was hosted by the jovial Eddie McGuire for most of its history. Its original format of asking eleven questions, beginning with a prize of $1,000, was later changed to fifteen questions. In 2007 the maximum prize pool was raised to five million dollars for a short while, but this was very quickly dropped back to the original million not long after. Though many got close to the top mark, only two contestants ever managed to take home the top prize pool, both pocketing a million dollars in 2005.

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Answer: Reach For The Top

"Reach For The Top" got its start in Vancouver in 1961 with the first national version happening in 1965 with teams from Vancouver, Regina, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, and Toronto.

There have been international games between champions as well as a bilingual championship including the "Genies en Herbe" winners...and, in 1983, a team from Prince Edward Island made the nationals including yours truly.

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Answer: Art Fleming

The idea for "Jeopardy" was conceived on an airplane flight by Merv Griffin's wife, Julann, when he was trying to come up with ideas for a new game show, after lamenting the fact that there had been no successful game shows since the quiz show scandals of the 1950s. She suggested a concept in which the contestant is supplied clues to a different category first and is then required to supply an answer to the question for that category. Merv liked the idea so much and was able to convince NBC on the idea, even without a pilot. All the other choices are well known former game show hosts.

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Answer: Pointless

Contestants are given questions that 100 members of the general public have previously been asked, with the aim of not only providing a correct answer but preferably an answer that has been given the fewest times by the public.

Scores are then awarded based on the number of times each answer was previously given during the poll, the lower the score the better. If nobody has previously given the answer offered by a player, no points are awarded and it's therefore pointless. 100 points are given for incorrect answers, and the team with the highest score by the close of each round is eliminated.

A cash prize of £1000 is given each day which is increased accordingly on each occasion it is not won. An additional £250 is also added for every pointless answer given.

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Answer: Chuck Woolery

January 1975 saw the debut of "Wheel of Fortune" hosted by Chuck Woolery and featured Susan Stafford as the young lady in charge of letter turning. First televised in 1975, three contestants spin a wheel which determines the amount of money up for grabs. They then choose a letter of the alphabet which is added to a blank word puzzle on a big screen. The first to guess a name, phrase or title wins bonus money.

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Answer: What's My Line?

"What's my Line?" was first broadcast by CBS in the United States in 1950 and was presented for its first seven years by John Daly. Subsequent presenters were Wally Bruner and Larry Blyden. The original CBS show ceased in 1967, although it has resurfaced in syndication and live formats since.

The UK version ran on the BBC from 1951 to 1963, with Eamomn Andrews being the presenter. Regular panelists were Lady Isobel Barnett, Barbara Kelly, David Nixon and Cyril Fletcher. There were a number of short-lived revivals during the 1970s to 1990s.

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Answer: Top of the Form

"Top of the Form" was introduced in 1948 as a radio show for secondary school teams, and in 1962 also began broadcasting on UK television. A decision was taken to end the show in 1986, owing to the competitive nature of the show conflicting with educational principles at that time. Film star Hugh Grant was a former contestant on the show, representing the London based Latymer Upper School.

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Answer: It's Academic

Such was the popularity of the programme that it became a spin off in other American states as well as overseas in Australia. The quiz features three teams with three students in each team, playing five rounds, with the highest scoring team crowned the winner at the end of the game. Up until 2012, it was in the "Guinness Book of World Records" as the longest running quiz programme in the history of television.

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