Hey,
Anybody seen the recent series of 'are you an egghead'?
Pat put in a very strong performance and was a deserving winner I think.
Thought that Olav would have progressd further, I guess there is a strong element of luck, given the small question sets and limited answers to choose from.
Some good quizzing to be seen though I thought!
Are you an egghead?
there was a quiz programme with a massive jackpot on bbc couple of yrs ago hosted by myleene klass(part of lottery show on sat) .wasnt the favourite to win it a guy called olaf but the final was contested by the fattest man in swp and a woman who didnt have a clue, who somehow actually won the thing.sorry to be vague.jackpot was at least £150,000
research proves me to be correct the fat ****er is Mark Labbett , his body size corresponds to the size of his ego and.....
We found out a bit more about this potential winner.
1. Olav Bjortomt is 28 years old.
2. He's a freelance journalist from Littlehampton, West Sussex.
3. He writes website reviews for the Times 2 supplement every weekday and also sets the weekday quizzes.
4. Olav's Mum is Filipino and his Dad is Norwegian. He has two younger sisters (14 & 20) and a younger brother (26).
5. He has a History degree and a Postgraduate Diploma in Newspaper Journalism from Nottingham Trent University, and is proud of having won more Student Journalism Awards in one year than anyone ever before.
6. He won the World Quizzing Championships in 2003.
7. Time Out described him as a 'former child quiz prodigy and a rising star of the quiz world'.
8. He answered 97 per cent of his questions correctly during the show.
weird looking.......perhaps his head is metamorphosing into an egg
so is Myleene Klass (half norwegian/half austrian)
known as the peoples quiz.
dont let the fact he comes from Littlehampton put you off visiting the place,last time I visited there was no evidence of his playing prowess on the machines.
We found out a bit more about this potential winner.
1. Olav Bjortomt is 28 years old.
2. He's a freelance journalist from Littlehampton, West Sussex.
3. He writes website reviews for the Times 2 supplement every weekday and also sets the weekday quizzes.
4. Olav's Mum is Filipino and his Dad is Norwegian. He has two younger sisters (14 & 20) and a younger brother (26).
5. He has a History degree and a Postgraduate Diploma in Newspaper Journalism from Nottingham Trent University, and is proud of having won more Student Journalism Awards in one year than anyone ever before.
6. He won the World Quizzing Championships in 2003.
7. Time Out described him as a 'former child quiz prodigy and a rising star of the quiz world'.
8. He answered 97 per cent of his questions correctly during the show.
weird looking.......perhaps his head is metamorphosing into an egg
so is Myleene Klass (half norwegian/half austrian)
known as the peoples quiz.
dont let the fact he comes from Littlehampton put you off visiting the place,last time I visited there was no evidence of his playing prowess on the machines.
Nice one cool. I remember watching some of that People's Quiz, my only memory being that of the big guy, or 'fat ****er' as you say. I remember his bulk, couldn't remember the fact that he was a banker though.
Olav's various TV appearancess include 15 to 1 and Grand Slam, another C4 quiz where each contestant paid a £1000 entrance fee. (If memory serves me right I think grecian mentioned this show on here some time ago.) The Grand Slam show passed me by but I'm now reading that Mark Labbett also appeared in its one and only series the winner of which was Clive Spate. (Was he the guy who sneaked back on 15 to 1 in a different guise?)
And checking on Pat Gibson, I thought I recognised the boat - a Mastermind champ and the 4th (ratified rather than rat) winner of a Tarrant million. Also see that 'yesterday' he actually achieved Eggheadhood. Will he take up his new post in the New Year then? I might be ultra-saddy and set the PVR or whatever it's called.
Olav's various TV appearancess include 15 to 1 and Grand Slam, another C4 quiz where each contestant paid a £1000 entrance fee. (If memory serves me right I think grecian mentioned this show on here some time ago.) The Grand Slam show passed me by but I'm now reading that Mark Labbett also appeared in its one and only series the winner of which was Clive Spate. (Was he the guy who sneaked back on 15 to 1 in a different guise?)
And checking on Pat Gibson, I thought I recognised the boat - a Mastermind champ and the 4th (ratified rather than rat) winner of a Tarrant million. Also see that 'yesterday' he actually achieved Eggheadhood. Will he take up his new post in the New Year then? I might be ultra-saddy and set the PVR or whatever it's called.
(Was he the guy who sneaked back on 15 to 1 in a different guise?)
no that was Trevor Montague who we discussed on the forum earlier in the year (A-Z of everything).He does a blog on the internet about various things including quizzing and trivia machines.
Having, at least superficially something in common and respecting his books and scam on 15-1 I sent him an e-mail but he never got back to me.
no that was Trevor Montague who we discussed on the forum earlier in the year (A-Z of everything).He does a blog on the internet about various things including quizzing and trivia machines.
Having, at least superficially something in common and respecting his books and scam on 15-1 I sent him an e-mail but he never got back to me.
Hehe, good thread.
I haven't seen any of the latest series of AYAE, but had heard beforehand who won it, and there's no doubt the series generated the right winner. Pat Gibson is generally regarded as Kevin Ashman's closest all-rounder on the British quiz scene: he's a total all-rounder and a very worthy Egghead indeed.
Olav is indeed a pal of mine. He underperformed a bit on AYAE, I think, but then as others note it is a very chancy format with so much depending on how the questions fall on the day. He got beaten early on by the Mastermind champion David Clark, who isn't in the same league as Olav but is very dangerous on his day, as he showed. I'm not sure whether they plan to film another AYAE series, but if they do Olav will be in the hunt for the title - he's definitely in the chasing pack of three or four behind Kevin and Pat, which is not bad for someone who's 30 (I think it still says 28 on Wikipedia, but he's a few years older now). And as Cool suspects, he doesn't play the machines (although he used to enjoy and do well on the first TFD) - the top boys have to target their abilities, and playing SWPs is a distraction for these guys from their mainstream quiz activities.
The show a few years back was 'The People's Quiz', and as Cool recalls the two favourites were Olav and the outsize Welsh quizzer Mark Labbett, now a 'Chaser' on ITV's 'The Chase'. But again that was a pretty chancy format, and the winner was Stephanie Bruce - a stronger quizzer than Cool suggests, but not in Olav's or Mark's league. Still, having won £200,700 on it I doubt she worries about that too much.
Both Olav and Mark, but (IIRC) not Pat, appeared on 'Grand Slam' a fair few years back. I think they were drawn to play one another early on, which was a bit of a shame: Olav won that and (IIRC) advanced to the semi-finals. The winner, Clive Spate, was an ex-Countdown series champion and ex- British Scrabble champion with superb word and numbers skills, which allied to a pretty decent general knowledge meant he was a fairly clear winner of the series.
I haven't seen any of the latest series of AYAE, but had heard beforehand who won it, and there's no doubt the series generated the right winner. Pat Gibson is generally regarded as Kevin Ashman's closest all-rounder on the British quiz scene: he's a total all-rounder and a very worthy Egghead indeed.
Olav is indeed a pal of mine. He underperformed a bit on AYAE, I think, but then as others note it is a very chancy format with so much depending on how the questions fall on the day. He got beaten early on by the Mastermind champion David Clark, who isn't in the same league as Olav but is very dangerous on his day, as he showed. I'm not sure whether they plan to film another AYAE series, but if they do Olav will be in the hunt for the title - he's definitely in the chasing pack of three or four behind Kevin and Pat, which is not bad for someone who's 30 (I think it still says 28 on Wikipedia, but he's a few years older now). And as Cool suspects, he doesn't play the machines (although he used to enjoy and do well on the first TFD) - the top boys have to target their abilities, and playing SWPs is a distraction for these guys from their mainstream quiz activities.
The show a few years back was 'The People's Quiz', and as Cool recalls the two favourites were Olav and the outsize Welsh quizzer Mark Labbett, now a 'Chaser' on ITV's 'The Chase'. But again that was a pretty chancy format, and the winner was Stephanie Bruce - a stronger quizzer than Cool suggests, but not in Olav's or Mark's league. Still, having won £200,700 on it I doubt she worries about that too much.
Both Olav and Mark, but (IIRC) not Pat, appeared on 'Grand Slam' a fair few years back. I think they were drawn to play one another early on, which was a bit of a shame: Olav won that and (IIRC) advanced to the semi-finals. The winner, Clive Spate, was an ex-Countdown series champion and ex- British Scrabble champion with superb word and numbers skills, which allied to a pretty decent general knowledge meant he was a fairly clear winner of the series.
Just to add that there is a pretty big gap between the 'TV Mark Labbett' and the real Mark Labbett. He knows he is a very good quizzer and is happy to tell you if you ask him but he is also a really nice guy and extremely gracious and helpful to fellow quizzers, especially those that are new to the activity. If any of you have ever appeared on TV shows you may have encountered the way they seek to get you to act differently from your normal persona, or how they edit shows to highlight one aspect over another.
Ironically both series of Are You An Egghead? (which I didn't appear on, in case you are wondering!) suffered from editing that made the quizzers looked less able and more boring than is often the case - they kept in a lot of the endless 'I think it's answer B because of X and Y' verbiage and edited out many of the Sudden Death questions that were needed when the two contestants were level at the end of a round. I hardly watched any of the shows for that reason, plus the endless repetition required of Dermot Murnaghan - at least 5 minutes of every show was taken up by his repeating the same stock phrases. The same faults apply to the main Eggheads show as well.
Ironically both series of Are You An Egghead? (which I didn't appear on, in case you are wondering!) suffered from editing that made the quizzers looked less able and more boring than is often the case - they kept in a lot of the endless 'I think it's answer B because of X and Y' verbiage and edited out many of the Sudden Death questions that were needed when the two contestants were level at the end of a round. I hardly watched any of the shows for that reason, plus the endless repetition required of Dermot Murnaghan - at least 5 minutes of every show was taken up by his repeating the same stock phrases. The same faults apply to the main Eggheads show as well.
Agreed.Nil Satis wrote:Just to add that there is a pretty big gap between the 'TV Mark Labbett' and the real Mark Labbett. He knows he is a very good quizzer and is happy to tell you if you ask him but he is also a really nice guy and extremely gracious and helpful to fellow quizzers, especially those that are new to the activity. If any of you have ever appeared on TV shows you may have encountered the way they seek to get you to act differently from your normal persona, or how they edit shows to highlight one aspect over another.