I only saw ITV’s Tipping Point for the first time two days ago, which is co-incidentally when an email dropped in saying that they are looking for contestants for series 4. So if you fancy it, go for it.
The press release says:
“We are searching for fun, confident, outgoing people who want the chance to win thousands of pounds using a combination of skill, judgement and chance. To apply for the show, please e-mail apply@rdftelevision.com
-fill in the application form and send it straight back to us.
Hey – I did I wedding on Saturday which was a big hit. “That was brilliant – you really made the day!” said Louise the bride and obviously she was being nice but it was a lot of fun.
A lot of folk have said they can’t imagine how a quiz fits into a wedding party but it does, and does so quite nicely. Just after the food – everyone is still too blubbered to start dancing and on SOME of the tables the conversation MAY have run dry.
enter the quiz – gets everyone talking, everyone having fun without having to get up yet. Perfect! By the time my hour has come and gone, everyone’s re-charged and ready for the evening’s entertainment. Yeah!
Boring, boring brag off the other week. I asked pub quizzers, as a side-contest, to write down the best thing they had ever done.
Look at these rotten brags:
I performed on stage at Carnegie Hall in New York, Mozart’s Requiem Mass.
Thrown out of 1st class on a flight by Gary Rhodes for being a drunken idiot.
Went to Edinburgh Zoo, was stung by a bee escaping from a rampaging cow and fell into the shark tank.
Played a live swan like a guitar at the pond next to Arthur’s seat. I regret nothing.
I have, twice in six days, paid a taxi driver to clean up my sick. I appeared in court the next day both times. As a solicitor.
Sky dive for teenagers dying of cancer.
I won Tough Mudder.
Won gold for my country at world championships.
I’ve met the Queen, John Cleese, Ant & Dec, and Rowan Atkinson. Emili Sande offered to buy me a drink. I saved my company £3 million – seriously (that’s my job). Alan Shearer is my nemesis. My life is Awesome.
Helped hundreds of people through the “Bedroom Tax” debacle. (Without us they wouldnae hae their hooses).
Trekked the Himalayas.
To be fair the one about the swan is cool. And it was the winner.
Despite being rubbish the first time, I gave the idea of a best-fact contest another run a few Thursdays ago. Here are some of the sightly better “facts” that quizzers came up with:
There are 15 calories in one ejaculation of human sperm
Blind people who are allergic to dogs get a guide-Shetland-Pony. They have special little shoes.
The guy on Princes Street who stands on his upside-down, on his head, in bucket holds the world record for standing upside-down, on your head, in a bucket and that record is 1 hour and 53 minutes
In 1999, all of the world’s Viagra came from Cork (in Ireland).
Roger Federer was gifted a cow by the Swiss Government for winning Wimbledon.
Russell Brand has a third nipple.
The guy who invented the ‘Segway’ died on a Segway by driving off a cliff.
I haven’t fact-checked any of the others but, thinking the last one has to be too good to be true, I’ve just looked it up and it’s true… nearly. The actual inventor of the Segway is an American fellow called Dean Kamen who is still alive and doing just fine. But in 2010, the Segway company was bought by an English entrepreneur, Jimi Heselden, who did indeed fall off a cliff in North Yorkshire while riding a Segway round his estate just a few months after buying the company.
I had a wee bonus-prize contest at one of my quizzes last night where I asked teams to write down the very best fact they knew, with the winner to be judged on the “fact” that sounded more or less true and was the most entertaining.
Here is the list of what our teams came up with:
Boiling water freezes faster than cold water.
The Adelaide river is in the Northern Territory.
The only male actor to play a woman in every film they made is Lassie.
There are 239 beans in a tin of Heinz – just one more and they’d be 240.
The main food ingredient in dynamite is peanuts.
They can fit 2.6 billion transistors into a 22 nano-meter space, now powering our PCs.
The Royal baby and Blue Ivy Carter are very distant cousins through French ancestors.
The USA are the current holders of the Olympic Men’s Rugby gold medal.
If you draw a circle around the outside of the Great Pyramid of Giza, then draw one inside as close to the [illegible] as possible, the difference in circumference lengths is equal to the speed of light.
Hippos sweat their own suncreen. And it is red!
The duck-billed platypus is the only venomous mammal in the world.
The Mantis Shrimp can shut its claws so quickly it creates a sonic boom and stuns its prey.
Rats can’t spew
The Kimono Dragon has 2 penises and the female kangaroo has 2 vaginas.
I like quiz teams doing doodles to accompany their answers. This team maybe got carried away and forgot the answers, concentrating instead on the doodles:
The guy on the right of this photo is called Troy. An Irish bloke who was at the Newsroom the other Thursday, boozing it up, quizzing it down, and having a rare old time for himself.
As a quizmaster I meet loads of faces but I can’t remember all their names. In fact, I can’t remember 20% of their names. There are a lot of Adams. there are a lot of Lauras.
To my shame, there are regulars who have been coming to the quiz for years whose names I still can’t get to stick in my head. And there are bar staff whose names I just can’t seem to fix and then it gets to the point where it’s slightly demeaning to them and embarrassing to me to ask them again.
But Troy? I only met him once and I can remember his name easily. Why? Because it is a belter.
My conclusion and advice: if you’re having children, give them memorable names.
