Test the nation

ricey

Anyone watch test the nation? And txt in for it.
Post your scores if you did, I know im after doin crap...lol

crosstownk

Damn - I forgot all about it due to the effects of good weather and beer.

Wertz

Aye forgot about it myself...switched on to catch the news and was presented with an audience of screaming clapping people of various work professions covered by shaky camera work and some typical Ray D'arcy banter....the few questions I caught seemed pretty easy...couldn't bring myself to keep watching though.

Wonder can ye do this on the web after the fact? I know you could with the BBC one...
[edit] Apparently not.

byte

http://www.rte.ie/tv/testthenation/play.html

Working atm.

robo

I got 51 out of 70...I did it online.
Memories...:rolleyes:

Brian017

36:o

mikemac

41

A lot of those questions wouldn't be known by young people

robo

micmclo wrote:

41

A lot of those questions wouldn't be known by young people

Well I ain't that young!

Zaph

47

seamus

36. There was a lot of stuff there that would have occured when I was only a toddler, so that's where I fell down most.

dajaffa

43 but I wasn't even alive to know the answers to some of those questions

radioman

44/70

Jesus though Miriam O Callaghan is making a complete b0llox of things. She can't read her autocue properly and everything she says seems so very scripted

ricey

micmclo wrote:

41

A lot of those questions wouldn't be known by young people

Me2 i got 41

RuggieBear

42

Basq

29.. gah, i stink!

Always been poor at keeping up with current (or past, for that matter) events!

FlutterinBantam

No way I'm going to have anything to do with Miriam O' Callaghan.... frozen face..... learn to pronounce your "t's" and don't depend on yr tits...... other than that..... hey....

Wertz

byte wrote:

http://www.rte.ie/tv/testthenation/play.html

Working atm.

Ah nice one.

48/70

J.R.HARTLEY

only got 65, was sure i had them all right, was sickened when my brother beat me, thought it went ok, miriam had a few problems with the autocue, the camera near the end was constantly focused on the sets pipe structures and you could here the stage staff introing after the ads, but all excusable as it's the first time.

delly

41/70

It seems more a test of how many great things RTE have given us over the years, rather than anything else. Load of pants tbh.

Trotter

53.. Not bad for a 25 year old!

Rollo Tamasi

72

eirebhoy

J.R.HARTLEY wrote:

only got 65, was sure i had them all right, was sickened when my brother beat me

:eek: I'd say you 2 did well in the leaving cert anyway with memories like that.

daveirl

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europerson

I got 56.

J.R.HARTLEY

eirebhoy wrote:

:eek: I'd say you 2 did well in the leaving cert anyway with memories like that.

don't be silly i cogged an answer or 2 from my brother (3 in all honesty).
to be honest some questions i found tough, i got the mobile phone question wrong and i guessed the microwave question. i found the guess the years very easy thanks to such big news stories and the fact that i love music.

Baggly

32....well, ya see.....yeah....yeah, that sucks

Mossy Monk

70/70 it told me

i am in the top 1%

delly

Mossy Monk wrote:

70/70 it told me

i am in the top 1%

Pfft, hAx0rd the gibson more like....

Hermione*

I got 48 doing it online, didn't think about some of my answesr fully as one eye was watching the timer all the time. I'm a bit annoyed with myself, but it's more than 50% anyway.

BenjyS

Texted in the answers during the show and got 54/70 in the top 5%. Got most of the questions in round 1 wrong.

ifconfig

Such original programming RTE (not!)

Carbon copy more or less of those UK test the nation (or whatever
they called it over there - with Anne Robinson master of ceremonies
for the evening a few years back)

Miriam O'C : Morticia Old Callous One ....

(pseudo-D4 vowel substitution cipher algorithm can be used to
convert the following ciphertext into normal written English)

"Lats sallabrate thass baink holliday with a bralliant quezz show complate
with aur own salaction of salabritays from tha hallowed walls of Montrowse.
I'll be intarmangling the quazz answers to the quastions with some assarbic
liberal anacdoubts whach cleeerly damonstrait my Dablin fower soudoo labaral
Dannybrawk intallajantsia opanions on currant afarrs"

sallabraties team ancludes:

Daz Kahal
Addie Hawbs
Sharlay Bard

mike65

I'm guessing the format is being traded by the bbc or the production company (many BBC shows are "bought in" from indy houses these days)

Mike.

The Song Thrush

34, but not bad since I'm only 20 and half the questions were about sport.

daveirl

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Telefís

ifconfig wrote:

(pseudo-D4 vowel substitution cipher algorithm can be used to
convert the following ciphertext into normal written English)

"Lats sallabrate thass baink holliday with a bralliant quezz show complate
with aur own salaction of salabritays from tha hallowed walls of Montrowse.
I'll be intarmangling the quazz answers to the quastions with some assarbic
liberal anacdoubts whach cleeerly damonstrait my Dablin fower soudoo labaral
Dannybrawk intallajantsia opanions on currant afarrs"

sallabraties team ancludes:

Daz Kahal
Addie Hawbs
Sharlay Bard

LOL

Absolutely perfect ifconfig - you have her to perfection!
Isn't she the crassest yoke going? All of those Americanised, mid-Atlantic, D4 and DART inflections roilled into one, not to mention her constant brash shouting, makes her truly one of the most extraordinary televisual phenomenons of our times. A remarkable RTÉ creation, of the very highest order of generator of inexplicable rage and irritation.

Even so, I've always liked her - very personable on screen, a consummate professional, knows Northern Ireland inside out, and makes for an impenetrable interviewing force. Just a shame her general 14 year old, hair tossing, like whatever, Friends generation demeanour is a matter of national embarrassment when dealing with foreign guests.

Mossy Monk

ifconfig wrote:

Such original programming RTE (not!)

yeah, we better mention all the other channels that do shows in other countries also

Big Brother, an idea spawned on continental Europe but many different versions of it in different countries
Countdown was taken from a French channel i believe
Deal Or No Deal has many different foreign variants
what about all those countries that do Who Wants To Be A Millionaire
i see ITV have a Price Is Right programme running atm
The Weakest Link has been done all over the world too
there is so many

shame on all these channels for lack of originality :rolleyes:

BuffyBot

I'd rather RTE do what they did last night and actually pay for the format instead of their traditional stealing of other people's formats.

Indeed. Their cheap knock-off's can be pretty terrible. I'm surprised they haven't been tackled over one of them.

nollaig

Did it online, Got 57. I'm 22

J.R.HARTLEY

Mossy Monk wrote:

yeah, we better mention all the other channels that do shows in other countries also

Big Brother, an idea spawned on continental Europe but many different versions of it in different countries
Countdown was taken from a French channel i believe
Deal Or No Deal has many different foreign variants
what about all those countries that do Who Wants To Be A Millionaire
i see ITV have a Price Is Right programme running atm
The Weakest Link has been done all over the world too
there is so many

shame on all these channels for lack of originality :rolleyes:

lets not stop there mossy, lets not forget how they robbed the news, and weatehr forecasts, and the idea of a current affairs program, we also werne't the first country to have soap operas, or sports coverage.

Dustaz

i got 51

Boards ppl seem to have done far better than the national average.

Dustaz

J.R.HARTLEY wrote:

lets not stop there mossy, lets not forget how they robbed the news, and weatehr forecasts, and the idea of a current affairs program, we also werne't the first country to have soap operas, or sports coverage.

Precisely, therell always be idiots getting uppity about something on RTE, regardless of quality or originality.

As for people slagging off one of our most genuinely warm and intelligent presenters, sigh, itll be the 8 kids under attack next.

Telefís

Oh please - of course she's one of RTÉ's best assets, an outstanding broadcaster in fact, but that's not to say her presentation and camera deliverance leaves much to be desired.
How anyone cannot fail to be mortified over her ridiculously casual, Americanised schoolyard-like diction I do not know. It's simply unreal.

Dustaz

Certainly she has an affected accent, but id rather listen to her than hector for example.

ifconfig

Telef&#237 wrote: »

Oh please - of course she's one of RTÉ's best assets, an outstanding broadcaster in fact, but that's not to say her presentation and camera deliverance leaves much to be desired.
How anyone cannot fail to be mortified over her ridiculously casual, Americanised schoolyard-like diction I do not know. It's simply unreal.

Exactly. I lampooned the accent/affect , inflections etc.
Apologies if I went about OT.

Telefis analysis is spot on as far as I am concerned.
A strong TV persona for sure and arguably one of RTEs best
The accent/inflection irritate (pet peeve for me); She's not alone
I could think of a few AA/business summary/prime timers mostly
female but a few male (including one radio sports commentator
who begins his reportage with moi noym is..... )

Trotter

AA Roadwatch - On the Sayth Side, a lorry has spilled brayn liquid all over a rayndabout..

The drive me maaaaad! :eek:

Ruu_Old

35/70 half way there.

AliasFan47

D'arcy and O'Callaghan were terrible. I cringed when after just doing a short intro to somethinh which Miriam couldn't do right D'arcy went said without the slightest scent of sarcasm "Well done, Miriam". Its her job to present she doesn't need to be praised duringthe programme.

Elmo

D'arcy and O'Callaghan were terrible.

I thought that they where the only good thing about this show.

Unfortunately the show had bad graphics, bad set design and bad production values.

The RTE all stars should just have been call celebrities. Why do we have such a hard time in Ireland calling personalities celebrities?

You would think that X-Factor:Battle of the stars actually contained stars!!!!

Northside Punk

I was on it (football fans) 54/70

Telefís

Out of interest Northside Punk was this shot in Studio 4 in the Television Centre at Montrose, or a soundstage on the campus or elsewhere? It would appear to be breaking with convention with being the latter. Thanks!