Beat the Geeks
| Beat the Geeks | |
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Beat the Geeks Season 1 title card
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| Genre | Game Show |
| Created by |
Mark Cronin James Rowley |
| Directed by | Richard DiPirro (credited as R. Brian DiPirro) |
| Presented by |
J. Keith van Straaten (Season 1) Blaine Capatch (Season 2) with Tiffany Bolton |
| Starring | See below |
| Composer(s) | Jon Ernst |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 130 (1 unaired during original broadcast) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Mark Cronin |
| Producer(s) |
Richard G. King Beth Greenbaum |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 22 minutes |
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| Original network | Comedy Central |
| Picture format | NTSC 480i |
| Original release | November 7, 2001 – October 7, 2002 |
Beat the Geeks is an American comedy game show that aired on Comedy Central from 2001 to 2002. The show was rerun on The Comedy Network in Canada and reruns currently air on G4techTV Canada and Prime in New Zealand.
On the show, contestants face off in trivia matches against "geeks" who are well-versed in music, movies, and television, as well as a fourth guest geek with an alternate area of expertise which varies from episode to episode. The object is to outsmart the geek at their own subject; as a handicap, the geeks are given questions of considerably greater difficulty than the contestants. Beat the Geeks was taped at the Hollywood Center Studios.
In the first season, the three contestants compete against each other to answer eight questions, two from each category; the Geeks do not play in this round. The first four questions (one per category) are worth 5 points each, and the second four are worth 10 points each. Occasionally, the geeks would give a fact after the question.
The format was changed for the second season, wherein the three contestants compete against each other and the Geeks to answer four pairs of questions, one from each category. The first question of each pair is a toss-up for the contestants, and is worth 10 points. The one who answers it then faces the relevant Geek to answer a follow-up question which they must ring in to answer. During this face-off, if the contestant rings in and gets the question wrong or the Geek rings in and gets it right, the contestant loses 5 points. However, if the contestant gets the question right or the Geek gets it wrong, the contestant wins another 10 points. In almost all episodes Blaine waited until the first follow-up question to explain this, using the line "here's how the follow-up works: if you beat the geek you get 10 points, if he beats you, he knocks you back five."
In both seasons, the player with the fewest points after the round is eliminated. In the event of a tie, a numerical tiebreaker question is asked; the winner is the player who comes closer to the correct answer without going over. If both go over, the closest guess wins.
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