I'm fairly clever....
they reckon I have an IQ of 168 (Mensa measured it), so why the hell have I been so thick on TV quiz shows?

Anyone remember a show called (I think) '1000 to one'?
The basis was that 1000 people met on Brighton seafront. In front of them were two bloody big circles. They asked a question about how long it had been since the Brighton Belle train had run from London to Brighton, and gives two answers.
990 people go to the correct answer.
I suppose it could have been worse, it could have been 999, and I could have been the only pillock to have got it wrong.
(Adding insult to injury, the tv company had laid on a special train from Victoria, and everyone got an introductory pack about the contest... with all the relevant answers for the first couple of answers in it, as I found out reading it on the way home.)

But it is nice to know that its not only the public that are thick.

There was an early Channel 4 quiz called 'Password'.
Hosted by Tom O'Connor, I appeared at the end of one show and the start of the next.
I can't remember who I was with in the first, but in the second it was Jill Gascoine.
Now, the idea of the game was to get your celebrity partner to say the chosen word by giving them a one word clue. For example, if the word was 'cereal' you might say 'cornflakes'. You had a go, the opposition had a go, it came back to you, there was a maximum of three goes each. You could use descriptive or rhying words too.
So I start trying to get Jill to say 'Shingle':
"Beach?"
"Sand!"
"Shale?" (the opposition)
"Rocks?" (Kenneth Williams)
"Smaller?"
"Pebbles?"
"Smaller!"
"Sand?" (already been said, but looking confused.)
My last word. Throwing it at her as hard as I could mentally I said "Jingle?"
A fly buzzed between her ears and missed her brain by a good three foot. "Beach?"
You could see the lightbulb shining over Kenneth Williams and he smiled at his contestant.
"Jingle?"
"SHINGLE !!!!" lights flashed, bells rang, and Tom O'Connor gave me a book of Modern Quotations and that was it...
(Well, not quite. A week later I got a cheque for the £66 I won too.)

Now, you might think this is just sour grapes.
A few weeks later I'm watching Frank Bough on morning TV, and there's an item about thick celebrities on quiz shows.
And guess who they show trying to guess shingle?
To me, that must mean they thought I'd been really bloody obvious.

Its about thirty years ago, I don't hold grudges....much.
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Dunno if this shows your age or mine
But I did just have to look up Jill Gascoine.




Would!
(Milo Minderbinder, Wed 17 Jun 2009, 11:04, closed)

Would too!
Even if she is 62 now.
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