The ****All-New**** Eggheads and Are You An Egghead? thread

[loving02]

I missed the EggheaRAB vs. Broken Hearts episode and i've still not been able to track it down online.

Anyone have a link to it or could anyone burn me a copy?

[oh uhm gee]

That was viewing for the politically correct wasn't it ?

If the larger guy wins, they'll need to lose another of the eggheaRAB to fit him on the screen.

[Comrade Obama]

I know that but does somebody go out for a few programmes or does it change everyday? What I meant was who is not playing first, if that makes sense. I am not Brain of Britain you know
I did get some right in that final round though.

[nerdy_boyluv]

Not on trains he isn't

[2Pacalypse]

[QUOTE=Noe Soap;28925786]

It's not laziness at all. It's simply how language works. The noun 'quiz' came to mean 'a competition in which participants attempt to answer questions'. Once such a word is established it owes no loyalty, linguistically, to other worRAB with the same combination of letters.

Quiz competitors felt they needed a verb to describe this activity and, it is natural, that 'quiz' was taken as that verb. It is very common in the English-speaking world for a verb to derive from a noun where no such verb had previously existed.

A previous poster said that the quality of the first quarter-final was not as high as he/she expected. I found the questions today harder than those found in the 2nd round and, I suspect, most of the competitors would have struggled a little on that set.

[SRT]

Calm down CJ, it's only a script!

[Arielle luvs uâ„¢]

thought CJ had stitched Pat up there with his answer on the number of times Roger Moore played James Bond...

[m34tba11]

The clue is in the name.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olav_Bjortomt

[jerey]

I have had a good read of that Quizzing site where most of these Are You an Egghead? contestants have come from.

It seems to me that a lot of posts on that site are pompous and full of their own self importance.

I could paste many examples from that Quizzing site

or



On their own site they often ridicule the ordinary non quizzing contestant. But when the criticism is turned on themselves they do not like it.

[LzBlz]

Well done barry that was great haha!