The People's Quiz
| The People's Quiz | |
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| Genre | Game show |
| Presented by | Jamie Theakston |
| Starring |
William G. Stewart Myleene Klass Kate Garraway |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 12 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Fever Media |
| Release | |
| Original network | BBC One |
| Picture format | 16:9 |
| Original release | 24 March – 23 June 2007 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | 1 vs. 100 |
| Followed by | Who Dares Wins |
| Website | |
The People's Quiz was a BBC National Lottery game show broadcast on BBC One from 24 March to 23 June 2007. It was hosted by Jamie Theakston.
Auditions were held throughout January 2007 all around the UK.
The quiz was open to nearly everyone, in that the only excluded categories were:
The first round of the audition consisted of contestants turning up at six major venues in the UK: Birmingham, Cardiff, Glasgow, Manchester, Belfast and London. Contenders had to get ten questions in a row correct to progress to the second round.
Contestants were allowed multiple attempts to qualify but organisational problems meant that this was not always possible at the earlier venues.
On the evening of 5 February 2007, all surviving contestants rang a phone line to receive a randomly selected 20 question quiz. The contestants were split into six categories based on age and sex. The top eight in each category qualified for the final audition round.
The 48 survivors turned up for what had been billed as a three-day quiz boot camp on 16 February 2007. The contestants were split into a male and female group and further subdivided into three age categories:
Each contestant was given a Mastermind style two-minute general knowledge round (interrupting the question master was allowed) and each contestant was then summoned back in front of the quiz panel to hear of their fate: four in each category went through and four did not.
The open auditions were clearly a very ambitious and time-consuming process and teething problems were inevitable. In particular a thread on the Quizzing.co.uk website has led to over 400 posts, many of them from disgruntled contestants.
Complaints ranged from long delays at the early auditions through to being effectively kept in solitary confinement at Pinewood Studios.
Ten players competed in each show.
The first round was called "Only the Strong survive" and was played four times to find the four qualifiers for round two. Each time this game was played the competitors started with one life and were eliminated by getting a question wrong. At the end of the allotted time period - 2 minutes (or 90 seconds in the final show) - all the survivors got an "On the Buzzer" question. A correct answer qualified a player for round two. A wrong answer to the "On the Buzzer" question also eliminated the player and a new question must be asked.
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