Eggheads

[EcclesCake]

Do you get celebrity specials or one off specials with experts vs the Eggheads?

[MarkRae]

Celebrity specials certainly. As for "experts", the whole point of Eggheads is for existing quiz teams to have a go at beating them...

[EcclesCake]

Mmmm, that's what I thought. They seem to have filmed an episode with a team of people who all share a profession and to some extent could be described as celebrities.

I don't really follow the programmes but this seemed out of character.

[gollob]

They certainly have had Celebrity Specials, but as most celebrities are not too bright anyway in fits in with their policy of not having teams too clever

[MarkRae]

I've suggested on more than one occasion that Eggheads v Chasers would make a great Comic Relief special, but I doubt it will ever happen...

[sandyRoe]

I wonder how a team from AB would fare against them?

[MarkRae]

Probably quite well, I'd reckon...

[jd_1984]

There is a wealth of knowledge on here, I fancy a good team could be put together.....

[EcclesCake]

That could be interesting Mark, the question setters would have a field day.

I don't know how long I'll have to wait for this episode to be aired but await with interest.

An AB team would you have to sit behind a monitor displaying your Avatar?

[EcclesCake]

Although Mark could do without the monitor....

[sandyRoe]

I'd be prepared to give up my anonymity for a share of the prize. How much is it now?

[MarkRae]

> the question setters would have a field day.

I know them all - they'd be more than up to the task... :-)

[pdq1]

A team that comprised or Setphen Fry and LLewelyn Bowen would be very formidable. The latter won a £1m for charity in who wants to be a millionairre. Stephen Fry an ex-Cambridge graduate knows everything.

[sandyRoe]

Would it not be more accurate to say he thinks he knows everything?

[MarkRae]

> The latter won a £1m for charity in who wants to be a millionaire.

Not quite: http://en.wikipedia.o...onaire.3F_controversy


> Stephen Fry an ex-Cambridge graduate knows everything.

Nobody knows everything, nor does Oxbridge mean much these days...

[ladybirder]

Stephen Fry certainly does NOT know everything. I remember when he was a Phone-a-Friend on Who Wants to be a Millionaire and he got the answer WRONG! I know hard to believe isn't it. http://www.guardian.c...eekendstvstephenfrygu

[gollob]

A quiz team I was in went for an audition for "Eggheads" where you have to take a reserve making six. All six beat the opposition and we won the team game. A good audition. We never heard another thing and the irony of it was the team we beat turned up on the programme.
So anybody on AS who is a bit useful has got no chance as they only want mainly cannon fodder

[HowardKennitby]

^

It's not all about knowledge. You have to be able to do 'good television' as well.
A long time ago someone I worked with went to an audition for 15 to 1. He got all his questions wrong but still went forward to the second set.

[gollob]

Having been on the 6th programme of 15 to 1 , i am intrigued by what you mmean by the second set

[HowardKennitby]

I mean that there was a second set of auditions at which he was eliminated.

[pdq1]

Markrae correction....I should have said Bowen reached the £1m question but failed in on a disputed answer. No mean feat anyway!