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@bagpuss63 - "that arrogant (thin, dark) bloke got on my nerves" - ah yes, CJ de Mooi. He irritates everyone. He mugs melodramatically if his team mates get answers wrong, but I reckon he is the most frequently eliminated egghead. I remember one question the answer to which was "guitar". He looked at the 3 choices and said "Well, it's absolutely definitely categorically NOT guitar" then just shrugged when told it WAS guitar, as if to say, well it doesn't matter - he does that a lot when he's wrong.
Anyway gollob, it does seem to me the teams have a very odd approach to this contest - you think they'd select particular specialists for the different subjects but then they put someone in to do, say, sport and they start by saying "This isn't a strong subject for me" - well why have they been picked to do sport?!
The other one that winds me up is when they try to justify not knowing something by frowning and saying "Hmm, this is a bit before my time." The only quiz presenter I've heard challenge that was Victoria Coren on Only Connect, when someone played that card she said "So? Hitler was before your time, you've heard of him, haven't you?"
Usually I want the Eggheads to win anyway.
Anyway gollob, it does seem to me the teams have a very odd approach to this contest - you think they'd select particular specialists for the different subjects but then they put someone in to do, say, sport and they start by saying "This isn't a strong subject for me" - well why have they been picked to do sport?!
The other one that winds me up is when they try to justify not knowing something by frowning and saying "Hmm, this is a bit before my time." The only quiz presenter I've heard challenge that was Victoria Coren on Only Connect, when someone played that card she said "So? Hitler was before your time, you've heard of him, haven't you?"
Usually I want the Eggheads to win anyway.
I actually went with my team to an interview for Eggheads. It was a team of 6 and all our players beaten their opponents ,then we won the team game. Never heard another thing from the Eggheads researchers.. Could not believe that the team we beat 7-0 turned up on the programme and they were just as useless.
So the moral is if you want to get on Eggheads try not to be too bright.
So the moral is if you want to get on Eggheads try not to be too bright.
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