in other news - Big Fat Quiz

[silverflight8]

For a few holidays now, my brother and I curl up on the couch and watch/try to do Big Fat Quiz of the year, the one hosted by Jimmy Carr in the UK. As we are not British, have never lived there, and are reading the news in small chunks, we are VERY BAD at this quiz. Even though it's a comedy show, we always do worse than all the rest of the teams, like getting 10/50 points kind of bad. The hardest questions are the ones about minor British political gaffes (no idea, though one year I did learn of the Rishi Sunak Sky TV thing) and, hardestof all, the See What You Say segments, where you have to guess a piece of news based on sounding out about 10 pictures. Usually they feature celebrity faces and if you don't know that's George So-and-So then you are just stuck. But I am pleased to report for the first time ever this year we have managed to place 3rd!!! out of 4. We beat 2025's Roisin & Katherine! BY ONE POINT!!

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[inchoatewords]

We watch the Big Fat Quiz, too! We play along, but I never keep track of the score, haha. That's cool, though!

[silverflight8]

haha how do you guys do? Hopefully better than us? We are so bad!

[inchoatewords]

It depends. We paused for the Say What You See segment and I worked it out. But sometimes, like you said, it's folks we don't know.

I love the bits where Charles Dance reads from a memoir. Do you watch any of the other panel shows? We watch lots of clip compilations of Would I Lie to You and 8 out of 10 Cats does countdown.

[hamsterwoman]

But I am pleased to report for the first time ever this year we have managed to place 3rd!!! out of 4. We beat 2025's Roisin & Katherine! BY ONE POINT!!

Haha, congrats!

(I haven't watched this year's Big Quiz, but I recognize the experience from other Britcom game shows and also trying to make sense of Have I Got News For You, the few times I've watched it :)