Tv Quizzes - do you participate?

Pointless sometimes, House of Games, Mastermind mainly for the general knowledge and Only Connect. We’re in a weekly quiz team, so it all helps.

Beechnut

Particularly proud of myself when watching sudden death Eggheads one day when I got one right that Kevin got wrong.

*Beechnut’ I can just imagine how proud you must have felt!

I do a lot of yelling during The Chase but the contestants never hear me.

I'm not keen on Lingo as there isn't a correct answer to shout at the tv.

We just talk to the TV whenever! 😆😆
Especially if the news is on (BBC, in particular, as it gets our goats up).
I used to love my eldest GS watching the quizzes with me after school as we'd both shout out the answers!

Yes! Liking Puzzling with Lucy Worsley too.

My favourite quiz is 'Pointless'. I always call the answers out. But some of the recent episodes are a repeat of last year. I recognised some of the contestants.

We never miss Richard Osmun House of Games, Guardian Saturday Quiz and Guardian Thursday Quiz.

1%club,University challenge, Only Connect, Pointless

I enjoy Tipping Point and The Chase. I am no longer quick enough mentally to compete. I am amazed at how little some of the youngsters know.

I like the Chase and 1% club but think Pointless is very aptly named. I also like University Challenge and Only Connect and am flushed with success if I manage to answer a question correctly.

My DH and I love the quizzes and always shout the answers, We've even been on some together we went on David Dickinson's Name Your Price and won £5.000,DH won £10,000 on Impossible I have been on Winning Combinations and was out first. Even if you lose, the people running the shows pay expenses and hotel bills if you have to stay overnight, it's great fun.

We watch Pointless and Countdown daily. Think they can help to keep minds sharp. Although we do sometimes find ourselves almost dozing off during Countdown. 😁

I’m always chuffed if I know UC answers and proudly let my DS1 & DD2 know, as both went to uni, that I’m not as thick as I think …!
Only Connect is good too!
BTW I live on my own and always talk out loud, just to myself ….!!!

I'm addicted to television quizzes too. University Challenge too science based these days for normal mortals?!! Glad a lot of you like Only Connect. My son is one of the question setters..........added difficulty for me when I watch it is trying to work out which questions he's written !!! I'm totally addicted to Countdown - hardly ever miss an episode. Good for the brain...

I watch tipping point and shout out the answers, contestants are often very poor on history questions but I am rubbish at sport and pop music so each to their own.

My favourite is Only Connect, so difficult (for me) but when I get a correct answer makes me feel really good. The missing vowels and the wall are OK it's the others that amaze me when they're so left field.

harrigran

I watch tipping point and shout out the answers, contestants are often very poor on history questions but I am rubbish at sport and pop music so each to their own.

If I do watch that I start shouting "oh, don't be So Stupid!!"
Then realise I'm hopeless at film and pop music 😁

The only one I bother with these days is the 1% Club. I got bored with Tipping Point and The Chase, it's time the were given a rest, they're on 5 days a week 52 weeks a year with so called celebrity versions at weekend. Even Beloved has had enough of them, and this a woman who can watch property programmes all day Saturday and Sunday when she's doing nothing else.

The Chase and Lingo for me. Too much unnecessary chat on Pointless makes it boring.

harrigran

I watch tipping point and shout out the answers, contestants are often very poor on history questions but I am rubbish at sport and pop music so each to their own.

Ditto.
I watch most quiz games. I find them better than the endless violent series, murders, threats, etc.

Always interacting and shouting, Family thing I think we all love them. A sister won the weakest link, and many, many years before that even another sister won a prize appearing on Take your Pick. Although that was more of a game show probably.

MerylStreep

I’m in a quizz team so the chase is a must.
Pointless is pointless.
I refuse to watch or listen to jeramy vine. A shame as my team were on Eggheads some years ago.

Hooray!! Someone else who cannot stand Jeremy Vine - ( or should he be called jammy Vine?)

To add to the list I quite like the newish one on Channel 5 - called Puzzling, I think

I have actually been on quite a few TV quiz shows with varying success.
I still have to give all the answers at home. My best moment is when I know an answer that the eggheads/university students/masterminds fail on!

Oh, yes. Countdown is my favourite, particularly the maths rounds. When there are several of us together, it gets pretty noisy. Unless there is a reason why we haven’t been able to watch it, mum and l ring each other every day and compare notes on our own triumphs (o lack of them) and what we thought of the contestants. We lik other quizzes but Countdown is our favourite.