Game For A Quiz - The Gameshow Showdown
10 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 3 years ago -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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Episodes
Game For A Quiz: Starmakers
May 28, 2021 23:00 - 45 minutes - 107 MBHello, 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. We start with squeaky bum time as Magnus Magnusson helms the original "Mastermind" then its onto the 90s for the da...
Game For A Quiz: Pub Classics
May 14, 2021 23:00 - 41 minutes - 98.3 MBPubs! 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...) represented by two legends of lager-swilled leisure - BULLSEYE and BIG BREAK. Can a bad host sink an actually good serie...
Bonus Round 3
May 07, 2021 23:00 - 16 minutes - 38.6 MBWe 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. And kissing. Too much kissing. NOTE: We had a few issues with Ben's side of the recording on this one and eve...
Game For A Quiz: We Asked 100 People
April 30, 2021 23:00 - 39 minutes - 92.6 MBWe 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 not the old Channel 5 game show 100% That is a different thing. Watch the Family Fortunes episode here: https...
Bonus Round 2
April 23, 2021 23:00 - 13 minutes - 33.5 MBA 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, Facebook or Instagram. It might end up in a future "Bonus Round" podcast! Produced by Ben Baker. A sensational spin-o...
Game For A Quiz: Teatime Classics
April 16, 2021 23:00 - 41 minutes - 96.1 MBPicture 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 battles Blockbusters. Christine Coulson and Ben Baker will put both through their paces with fan enthusiasm, int...
Bonus Round: Time
April 09, 2021 23:00 - 18 minutes - 44.8 MBWhat 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, Facebook or Instagram. It might end up in a future "Bonus Round" podcast! Produced by Ben Baker. A sensational s...
Game For A Quiz: Luck
April 02, 2021 23:00 - 43 minutes - 112 MBAre 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, playability, buzz, prizes and a mystery category? Which of the hosts gives you the jibblies the most? Will you go hig...
Game For A Quiz: Time
April 01, 2021 06:00 - 40 minutes - 104 MBWe'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 against each other. In this first episode both put forward a mighty example of shows that used time in an interesting way...
What Is Game For A Quiz?
April 01, 2021 05:00 - 1 minute - 3.95 MBNot 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.