The Rich List
Jan 31st 2007 | 12:22 am
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The Rich List
This has been bugging me since last night, when Channel 7 started their new quiz 'The Rich List'.
The quiz involves asking two competing 'couples' to bid how many things on a list they think they could name. e.g. Number of Elton John songs to make the Billboard top 40. Then each team bid, I could name 10, well we could name 11, alright we'll name twelve, then we'll name 13 and so on,until one team calls the others bluff and says, alright name them.
Now this is quite obviously a rip-off of a daytime tv quiz in the UK. I remember people bidding on how many of something they could name, and then eventually one person would say, ok, name them. Its not family fortunes, though its not a million miles way from the idea either.
What was that quiz show?
The quiz involves asking two competing 'couples' to bid how many things on a list they think they could name. e.g. Number of Elton John songs to make the Billboard top 40. Then each team bid, I could name 10, well we could name 11, alright we'll name twelve, then we'll name 13 and so on,until one team calls the others bluff and says, alright name them.
Now this is quite obviously a rip-off of a daytime tv quiz in the UK. I remember people bidding on how many of something they could name, and then eventually one person would say, ok, name them. Its not family fortunes, though its not a million miles way from the idea either.
What was that quiz show?
Jan 31st 2007 | 12:29 am
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Re: The Rich List
This has been bugging me since last night, when Channel 7 started their new quiz 'The Rich List'.
The quiz involves asking two competing 'couples' to bid how many things on a list they think they could name. e.g. Number of Elton John songs to make the Billboard top 40. Then each team bid, I could name 10, well we could name 11, alright we'll name twelve, then we'll name 13 and so on,until one team calls the others bluff and says, alright name them.
Now this is quite obviously a rip-off of a daytime tv quiz in the UK. I remember people bidding on how many of something they could name, and then eventually one person would say, ok, name them. Its not family fortunes, though its not a million miles way from the idea either.
What was that quiz show?
The quiz involves asking two competing 'couples' to bid how many things on a list they think they could name. e.g. Number of Elton John songs to make the Billboard top 40. Then each team bid, I could name 10, well we could name 11, alright we'll name twelve, then we'll name 13 and so on,until one team calls the others bluff and says, alright name them.
Now this is quite obviously a rip-off of a daytime tv quiz in the UK. I remember people bidding on how many of something they could name, and then eventually one person would say, ok, name them. Its not family fortunes, though its not a million miles way from the idea either.
What was that quiz show?
Jan 31st 2007 | 1:39 am
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Re: The Rich List
Sound a lot like WipeOut (the one with Paul Daniels). They are shown a grid with lots of answers, and are given a question (I think about 2/3 of the cells were correct) and they had to bid against each other to say how many they could get correct. In my student days it was standard TV fodder 
Jan 31st 2007 | 9:08 am
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Re: The Rich List
Sound a lot like WipeOut (the one with Paul Daniels). They are shown a grid with lots of answers, and are given a question (I think about 2/3 of the cells were correct) and they had to bid against each other to say how many they could get correct. In my student days it was standard TV fodder
Jan 31st 2007 | 7:57 pm
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Re: The Rich List
Sound a lot like WipeOut (the one with Paul Daniels). They are shown a grid with lots of answers, and are given a question (I think about 2/3 of the cells were correct) and they had to bid against each other to say how many they could get correct. In my student days it was standard TV fodder
Yip, thanks, thats it. Wipeout. That'll stop bugging me now!
The Rich List is a very similar, they just don't provide the answers,
JTL
Jan 31st 2007 | 7:59 pm
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Re: The Rich List
Jan 31st 2007 | 8:50 pm
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Jan 31st 2007 | 8:53 pm
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Re: The Rich List
There's no hope.
Feb 1st 2007 | 3:37 pm
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Re: The Rich List
.Neither of the two new quiz shows really grabbed me. 100 vs 1 might grow on me. Why did the get rid of 'Millionaire' anyway? Were they sick of paying royalties to Celador or something?
Feb 1st 2007 | 4:39 pm
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Re: The Rich List
Deal or No Deal is the only game show I like, although we call Andrew O'Keefe "Mr Cheese" in our house as he is a bit cheesy!!!
Cant be arsed with all these silly new game shows.... but I think The Master has to be top of the crap heap for pure boredom factor.
Cant be arsed with all these silly new game shows.... but I think The Master has to be top of the crap heap for pure boredom factor.
Feb 1st 2007 | 5:19 pm
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Re: The Rich List
Don't say that to Mrs JTL she hates Deal or No Deal, she reckons it needs no skill or general knowledge and is just a form of televised gambling. She still watches it tho' .
Neither of the two new quiz shows really grabbed me. 100 vs 1 might grow on me. Why did the get rid of 'Millionaire' anyway? Were they sick of paying royalties to Celador or something?
.Neither of the two new quiz shows really grabbed me. 100 vs 1 might grow on me. Why did the get rid of 'Millionaire' anyway? Were they sick of paying royalties to Celador or something?
Feb 2nd 2007 | 3:59 pm
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Feb 2nd 2007 | 10:21 pm
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Feb 2nd 2007 | 10:22 pm
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Re: The Rich List
That's probably what makes it watchable. You know that the guy or gal up there is just battling the odds, simple as that.
