Game For A Quiz - The Gameshow Showdown

May 28 2021 10 ep. 30 mins 23

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An attempt to discover the best British quiz-slash-game show ever made through a series of cunning and arbitrary tests by two friends who have wasted - sorry invested - a lot of time on quizzes, questions and quick fire rounds over the past something years. No specialist knowledge here - just enthusiasm, the odd argument and a lot of spare time. Come on down!

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Game For A Quiz: Starmakers

May 28 2021 45 mins

Hello, welcome and finalise your answers for another showdown between two game shows just minding their business but happen to have something in common. Or at least they sort of do as this week Ben Baker and Christine Coulson are putting two very different kinds of quiz against each other under the heading of "STARMAKERS": meaning shows that made their hosts a household name.

Game For A Quiz: Pub Classics

May 14 2021 41 mins

Pubs! Remember them? With their sticky carpets, awkward toilet conversations and Deal or No Deal fruit machines just waiting to fleece you of your pound coins. They're also home to many different games and so, with people slowly returning inside bars, that's what we're paying tribute to today with darts vs snooker (there's sadly yet to be a full shove ha'penny series...) represente

Bonus Round 3

May 07 2021 16 mins

We asked 100 people...and over seven responded with something other than court proceedings! Yes, its time once again to check with the results of the listener poll of Pointless vs Family Fortunes and read your feedback. To get a bit of perspective on the Lord Bob era Fortunes we decided to view a 1983 episode of its originator Family Feud and....well, lets just say there's opinions

Game For A Quiz: We Asked 100 People

Apr 30 2021 39 mins

We asked 100 people if they'd like to listen to a podcast where Ben Baker and Christine Coulson smash two classic quiz or game shows against each other in an almighty trivia battle to decide which is the greatest of all time. They weren't home. Still, we did it anyway so get your Pointless air drums and Family Fortunes wrong noises ready as things are about to get 100% serious. But

Bonus Round 2

Apr 23 2021 13 mins

A mini-episode looking at your feedback on our Luck and Teatime Classics episodes including the shows getting those all important bonus two points from the public vote. There's also a special Gold Run surprise for Ben, we remember Masterteam and the awkward 5:35pm slot that existed in 1987 then we all jump into a swimming pool at the end. Give us your feedback on Twitter, Fa

Game For A Quiz: Teatime Classics

Apr 16 2021 41 mins

Picture the scene. You're in from school, you've slung your bag into the corner determined not to do your homework until the last minute and all you want to do is slump down in the comfy chair with some appropriate TV. Welcome to the world of 'teatime classics' - quizzes that captured a nation over their egg and chips - with two titans of the field going head on as Fifteen To One b

Bonus Round: Time

Apr 09 2021 18 mins

What could be better than time? Extra time of course! Here's Ben and Christine with an 'after hours' follow up to the "Time" episode featuring your feedback, the winners of the public poll between Every Second Counts and 1000 Heartbeats, Christine's visit to the click and collect for some themed ephemera and a special round of Daniels' finest. Give us your feedback on Twitter

Game For A Quiz: Luck

Apr 02 2021 43 mins

Are you a lucky person? Ben Baker and Christine Coulson aren't but that doesn't stop them getting together for a friendly conversation on the subject of "luck" in game shows, pitting the 90s version of "Bruce Forsyth's Play Your Cards Right" and "Deal Or No Deal" against each other like the lucking luckers they truly are. Which will win when judged on host, theme tune, set, p

Game For A Quiz: Time

Mar 31 2021 40 mins

We've all got a favourite game show. Like the BBC point based one hosted by the lad with the ears or its ITV rival in which a chaser chases some contestants in a chase...I forget the title. (Speed 2?) But which is the BEST quiz or game show ever? Well, that's what Ben Baker and Christine Coulson are hoping to find out in this new series pitting two examples of the genre again

What Is Game For A Quiz?

Mar 31 2021 1 mins

Not sure whether to subscribe to this clearly wonderful podcast about quiz and game show nonsense? Let the hosts Ben and Christine lure you in and explain the premise in 103 seconds. Ah go on. You'd have only wasted that time anyway.