Are there any quiz shows that allow Irish contestants on?

Wheety

Schwiiing wrote: »

What would be the craic tax wise with trying to get the million home if you won it?

I don't think it's paid in cash.

That's not it dropping from the ceiling when you win £1m and you have to pick it all up and stick in a suitcase.

Schwiiing

Wheety wrote: »

I don't think it's paid in cash.

That's not it dropping from the ceiling when you win £1m and you have to pick it all up and stick in a suitcase.

No **** Sherlock.


At some point the euro equivalent of 1 million sterling will appear in your account. Bound to raise red flags. How much would you lose in tax? Capital gains rate?

Montage of Feck

Cgt is 33%.

.anon.

ax530 wrote: »

I believe regulations here around prize money do not support the quiz show format we see on UK TV. I have seen Irish contests on countdown.

I wouldn't be worrying too much about prize money if I appeared on Countdown. I remember Richard Whiteley appeared on The Mrs Merton Show years ago, alongside Jimmy Tarbuck. She introduced them as the hosts of "Winner takes All" and "Winner takes bugger all".

BalcombeSt4

Didn't Eamon Dunphy do an Irish version of one of the big British quiz shows years ago either Who Wants To Be A Millionaire or Weakest Link?

cj maxx

Give a northern/ gb address.

cj maxx

I got the chase app. Its very good , but I'm not as smart as I thought
Won £6000 though!!

Bobblehats

BalcombeSt4 wrote: »

Didn't Eamon Dunphy do an Irish version of one of the big British quiz shows years ago either Who Wants To Be A Millionaire or Weakest Link?

Weakest Link. “You have no guile.... no panache!”

Only kidding; never materialised.

dark crystal

dark crystal wrote: »

I love quizzes and I love quiz shows. I had a notion the other day that I might try and enter 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire' or maybe 'The Chase'.

There is an Irish Chaser, Darragh Ennis, who was invited to the role after appearing as a contestant on the programme. I think he might have been living in Oxford at the time though.

A lot of the questions seem to be British-focused anyway — like minor aspects of British pop culture and history that wouldn't necessarily be part of the general knowledge in this country.

Sleepy

I got pages into the application for Bear Gryll's The Island before coming across the stipulation that you had to be a British citizen (presumably simplifies the paperwork since it's usually filmed in British territories).

Zebra3

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

There is an Irish Chaser, Darragh Ennis, who was invited to the role after appearing as a contestant on the programme. I think he might have been living in Oxford at the time though.

A lot of the questions seem to be British-focused anyway — like minor aspects of British pop culture and history that wouldn't necessarily be part of the general knowledge in this country.

Yeah, lots of questions about British monarchs from 500 years ago or so.

jhegarty

Edgware wrote: »

Bring back Bullseye! "Look what you might have won"!

It's a speedboat. It's always a speedboat, especially if the contestant lives on a council estate 300 miles from the nearest body of water.

ShatterAlan

dark crystal wrote: »

I love quizzes and I love quiz shows. I had a notion the other day that I might try and enter 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire' or maybe 'The Chase'. I could do with a few thousand to boost the aul bank account. Imagine my dismay as my dreams fell cruelly down around my ears when I realised that no one from the Republic of Ireland is welcome to apply. For anything. I was devastated.

Then it dawned on me that we don't have any quiz shows based in this country. No more 'Where in the World' or 'Know your Sport'. Nothing. You can't count 'Winning Streak', as that's a Lottery game you have to buy a scratchcard for and I never buy scratchcards. Even if you manage to get on it, it's just about spinning a wheel and hoping for the best. Any idiot can do that.

I remember we had our own version of 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire' back during the Celtic Tiger years with Uncle Gaybo, but that only lasted about 3 weeks. The licence fee revenue probably couldn't withstand paying out the prizes. Now that I think back on it, I'm almost sure when of my ex's friends was on it, but was fairly useless and left with €1,000 or something. I'm almost sure they let Irish people on 'Bullseye' back in the day and that was during the troubles.

So why have we been shunned from British game shows? Has anyone ever been on a TV quiz show (expecting at least one person to mention Blackboard Jungle). Tell us how you did it!

There was Crossfire with Sean Moncrief back in 2013.

lertsnim

Zebra3 wrote: »

Yeah, lots of questions about British monarchs from 500 years ago or so.

The British contestants never know those questions anyway so it would make no difference if it was an Irish person being asked.

ShatterAlan

Edgware wrote: »

Bring back Bullseye! "Look what you might have won"!

Jim: "So Eddie, what do you do for a living? Unemployed? Super, smashing, great.


Any prospects? None? Smashing, super, great.


So you've won £20, smashing. How much did it cost you to come down on the train
from Rochdale? £40? Great, smashing, super."


:pac:

swimming in a sea

I'd say they don't want many above average intelligence, they certainly don't want some University Challenge contestant winning the million in 10 minutes.

dublinman1990

dark crystal wrote: »

I do like Scrabble...

However, I'm fairly sure none of those have cash prizes. Or do they?

The Fifteen to One prize money is £40k when you win the series finale.

YFlyer

How about Blankety Blank?

Hamsterchops

YFlyer wrote: »

How about Blankety Blank?

Terry Wogan was Irish and he was the host.

Loved Les Dawson too, great show, light entertainment & very silly, but great fun

YFlyer

Hamsterchops wrote: »

Terry Wogan was Irish and he was the host.

Loved Les Dawson too, great show, light entertainment & very silly, but great fun

You get a cheque book and pen. OP that be ok?

Badly Drunk Boy

dublinman1990 wrote: »

The Fifteen to One prize money is £40k when you win the series finale.

That was only when it was revived in 2014. In the original version, you got a Grecian urn or some other classical artefact.

razorblunt

I'm pretty sure if you think you'd be good at quiz shows and wanted to go on, you'd have very little change.
They don't want to be throwing away money hand over fist. You'd have to deliberately flunk it early like the concussion tests in rugby!

Unless of course it was Eggheads, that Connect show and Mastermind, then fill your boots.

I'd love to give Pointless a go, I'd be caught out by the British Prime Minister, Home Counties and elements though.
I'm sure you could swot some of them though learn a dozen of each and away you go.

Sardonicat

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

That was only when it was revived in 2014. In the original version, you got a Grecian urn or some other classical artefact.

I'd imagine they'd be worth a few bob, mind.

Fandymo

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

Get Henry Kelly's career resuscitated and Going for Gold uncancelled

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0pvFulUd98

The theme tune for that was written by someone who is now absolutely massive in the music world!!

Fandymo

ShatterAlan wrote: »

Jim: "So Eddie, what do you do for a living? Unemployed? Super, smashing, great.


Any prospects? None? Smashing, super, great.


So you've won £20, smashing. How much did it cost you to come down on the train
from Rochdale? £40? Great, smashing, super."


:pac:

Did you not get your prize and your bfh* on Bullseye??




*bus fare home.

Aglomerado

An Ri rua wrote: »

There's an Irish quiz format where you get your prize in tranches, over 5 years usually.

You get to create the questions yourself, and make them really arcane and obtuse, and the other chaps have to scramble to dig out facts to answer your invariably sh1tebird question.

It's called Parliamentary Questions and its part of an immersive entertainment package called Dail Eireann, where you are immersed up to your neck in sh1t.

Best part is, the less of an education you have, the more likely you are to fly at it. It's s right earner, as quizzes go.

love it... And the killer thing is the information is readily available online but it looks good on kildarestreet.com to have your name beside as many as possible thanks to civil servants doing all the work.
Anyway, back on TV quizzes: would love an Irish Mastermind or something like that, or even Challenging Times for colleges. Really enjoyed the Mastermind final this week with a young PhD candidate taking the crown.

lertsnim

lertsnim wrote: »

The British contestants never know those questions anyway so it would make no difference if it was an Irish person being asked.

Ah the Brirs can surprise you. Often, they won't know where the border is in this country; but they'll know the order of their Kings (Willie, Willie, Harry, Steve... there's a whole poem). History is taught pretty well over there, or so it seems.

I used to feel stupid for never getting the answers to those questions, but then I think "hang on, that's a different country, they weren't our kings"

And then I think "hang on again, they were our kings too" and then I just mentally change the subject.

Badly Drunk Boy

Aglomerado wrote: »

Anyway, back on TV quizzes: would love an Irish Mastermind or something like that, or even Challenging Times for colleges. Really enjoyed the Mastermind final this week with a young PhD candidate taking the crown.

Mastermind can be very annoying sometimes. A lot of the questions are too elaborate and long-winded, and you're not allowed to interrupt with the right answer. I mean, you have a set amount of time but they waste your time with ridiculously long questions.

John Humphrys was always mispronouncing words in the questions but when a contestant in the semi-final or the final gave the correct answer "Pooky Quesnell", Humphrys wasted her time by correcting 'Quesnel' as being pronounced 'Kwuh-nell', not 'Kwez-nell'. :rolleyes:


(Now, where's that trivial annoyance thread?)

Badly Drunk Boy

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Ah the Brirs can surprise you. Often, they won't know where the border is in this country; but they'll know the order of their Kings (Willie, Willie, Harry, Steve... there's a whole poem). History is taught pretty well over there, or so it seems.

I used to feel stupid for never getting the answers to those questions, but then I think "hang on, that's a different country, they weren't our kings"

And then I think "hang on again, they were our kings too" and then I just mentally change the subject.

I was watching Richard Osman's House Of Games today which had ones of my favourite rounds on it: I'm Terrible At Dating. The contestants are given a event or whatever, and just have to guess the year it happened. One of today's was handy enough...I thought. When did the Spanish Armada sail to England? One contestant was 22 years off but the rest were centuries out!

quickbeam

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

I was watching Richard Osman's House Of Games today which had ones of my favourite rounds on it: I'm Terrible At Dating. The contestants are given a event or whatever, and just have to guess the year it happened. One of today's was handy enough...I thought. When did the Spanish Armada sail to England? One contestant was 22 years off but the rest were centuries out!

Saw that too. Some of HoG answers are shocking. I don't think history is taught that well over there to be honest. I mean, not to know the exact date is undestandable, but if you figure that it was under Elizabeth II and she was around in the 16th century then you could make a fair stab at coming close.

The other question in that round was when the Battle of Marathon took place. Again, getting an exact date is difficult, but I'd have thought post people at least knew that it was BCE. I think only one contestant picked a date BCE.

And on Monday's you had a contestant thinking Spain was in Netherlands, and Germany was in France (two different contestants). It does quite astound me the lack of *general* knowledge, never mind specific knowledge.