Alright, last post before Christmas. Last year’s 21 Questions Wrong Hotseat seemed to go down well so here’s another festive (it was only meant to be five or six festive questions mixed with normal questions, it turns out to be five or six normal questions mixed with festive questions) twenty-one for you to lord it over the dinner table with after Christmas dinner. Best played with a fast-talking quizmaster and about six people I reckon, but there’s no upper or lower limit.
If you don’t know what this is, it’s the endgame from LEGENDARY Italian quiz Avanti Un Altro multiplayered up. We used to do it on the radio and who knows may yet still again at some point, and not forgetting top celebrity Tom Scott partook in a live action version months ago.
Here is this year’s quiz (corrected) – it includes notes and the rules after the list (which is designed to fit onto one sheet of printed out paper). DO NOT READ IF YOU INTEND TO BE A PLAYER. As ever the questions run the gamut of difficulty – don’t assume they start easy and get gradually harder (the difficulties are mixed to try and trip people up, and part of the fun is the thrill of the chase) but the last two are always difficult but knowable (Q21 is hard at this time of year, much easier a few months later). No question will ever ask what is *not* something as I consider that unfair in the circumstance, and we won’t ask questions that are “according to polls” (unless it’s really really famous).
If you enjoy that and find you can’t get enough I did two more sets last year you can use for yourself – here’s Xmas 2012, and here’s New Year 2012. There probably won’t be a separate NY edition this year unless I’m really bored over the next week.
If you do play let us know how you get on.
AS WELL AS THAT, Fifty 50 Show reaches its landmark 46th episode and Lewis Murphy chats with Daniel Peake and Andrew Sullivan with regards to this week’s hugely exciting Schlag den Raab as well as some other things, I’ve not listened yet.
We’ll be around over the Christmas period, although there probably won’t be a huge amount of updates. Whatever you’re up to, have a good one!
ceasefire!
AUA! stays on until Spring as planned.
BB13 was pushed to February (probably after the 22nd, the last day of the Sanremo Music Festival)
Hurrah!
I’ve not watched AuA in ages, I probably should watch some over Christmas.
I’d like to wish all punters at the Bar a very Happy Christmas!
Just a quick note about the Schlag den Raab ratings I posted on Sunday. Apparently the company that measures the ratings got the share for the 14-49 demo wrong. They missed the last 2 hours of the broadcast (how I don’t know), but the new share is 22.5%, the highest since May 2012.
Would be intrigued to know how many people were watching at two in the morning.
It’s quite funny, we wonder if it would be slightly better with slightly shorter games, turns out the early finishes seem to hurt it somewhat.
Expect thirty minutes of table football 15th Feb!
Actually, audience was steady at 3.18m between midnight and near 2am (finish time). The overall average was 3.26m. It turns out that the late finishes actually help the overall audience and share performances.
Also, Merry Christmas to all at the Bar! 🙂
I did actually play this this evening: eight players, seven minutes, tenner on the line. My younger sister managed to win on the the final go after the bell with the team only managing to get to question 14 on the previous seventeen attempts. My mum wanted to stop and argue over the Enid Blyton question until I pointed out Julian was Famous Five. Great fun!
My days of playing/hosting 21QW are over ever since I tried to film it, ended up not starting the timer, and by default ended up being sick over a seven-month old slab of chocolate laced with habanero extract.
Ironically, exactly the sort of thing that’d probably happen on Italian television.