{"id":9454,"date":"2016-08-28T10:01:13","date_gmt":"2016-08-28T09:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=9454"},"modified":"2016-08-28T10:27:25","modified_gmt":"2016-08-28T09:27:25","slug":"top-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=9454","title":{"rendered":"Top Class"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"#hostholdingfourquestioncards\"<\/a>

#hostholdingfourquestioncards<\/p><\/div>\n

Coming soon to CBBC: Top Class<\/strong> with Susan Calman<\/a>, a show which aims to find Britain’s smartest school and looks excitingly like it has a passing resemblance to top\u00a080s quiz First Class<\/strong>. I hope there are Paperboy<\/em> and Hypersports<\/em> rounds! What’s behind the spinning golden disc! Etc!<\/p>\n

Anyway I’m only mentioning this here because here’s a promo shot of Calman holding FOUR question cards. Is this cheating or does it make it four times as good?<\/p>\n

Anyway right now I’m currently addicted to watching old episodes of High Rollers<\/strong> on Youtube, the US quiz from the 70s and 80s based around dice-game\u00a0Shut the Box<\/em> hosted by Alex Trebek then Wink Martindale. I remember watching it on satellite in the late 80s (I can’t remember if it was part of Sky 1’s Panel Pot Pourri<\/em>\u00a0strand or Lifestyle with Diddy David Hamilton). The Martindale version would be the show I grew up with and I love\u00a0everything<\/em> about it (one of the all time great themes! Glamorous set! What passes for 1980s US quiz show trivia! When one of the prizes was a bonus game! Golden dice because why not!).<\/p>\n

The game, by modern standards, actually isn’t all that great – probably a little too much passing the dice in the hope the opponent rolls bad and loses the game rather than gambling to try and take prizes, but right now I also don’t care. Here is a random episode. Have a good rest of Bank Holiday!<\/p>\n