I was tipped off about a new quiz podcast the other week, Here’s What You Do which launches properly today. It is the brainchild of James Smales (who helped developed Bother’s Bar favourite The Answer Trap amongst other things), Dave Maguire (game designer for things like entertainment shows like Celebrity Juice) and their non-TV mate John.
Always happy to give this sort of thing the time of day, especially when someone who helped develop Bother’s Bar favourite The Answer Trap is involved and rather helpfully having listened to the first episode I thought it was good fun and it’s the sort of thing I’m happy to recommend to you. The premise is that these three people come up with quiz formats which they play with each other, some serious, some silly, then at the end they each decide whose they thought was the best.
I won’t spoil too much, but the first episode features a multiple choice quiz where the multiple choices double each time (which goes precisely as far as the joke needs to work), a quiz that involves using chips and an increasingly difficult list quiz.
They’ve got six episodes in the can with new eps going out every Wednesday, I’ve no idea how successful it will be (it’s basically starting from a standing start) but I’m interested to see how it develops.
Some might suggest sharing a podcast title with something that already exists and is popular might be a strategic error but we’ll see. Here’s a Linktree link with all the links to subscribe to it.
Here’s also a teaser clip for episode one:
Multiples Choice is probably my favourite if only because I wanted to know how they were going to label answers 27-32. Wiggle Room was probably the best quiz though.
What’s quite quickly apparent is that if you come up with quizzes and quiz formats for a living you’d assume they’d be pretty decent at quizzing. But no!