Pass the Buck (2)
Synopsis
BBC Daytime in "good quiz" shocker!
Fred "two N's" Dinenage was wheeled out of obscurity to host this extremely nifty lunchtime quiz.
In the opening game, ten players stand at the top of a staircase and must give a correct response to an open-ended category such as "Oscar winning actresses" or "Boy's names ending in -Y". Unlike Talkabout or the board game Outburst, any valid response is acceptable - sometimes there are hundreds of answers you can choose from. Answers must be given in 3 seconds without repeating an earlier response.
Fred Dinenage. Behind him stand two of the ten contestants in a semi-circleThe five remaining contestants are then given three "colours"- green, yellow and red. Substitute "colours" for "lives" and all you have is a five-player version of Fifteen-to-One. Not a very subtle rip-off, but never mind.
The remaining two players go through to the final round, where over 90 seconds each player alternately answer (scoring points along the way) until one of them fails to answer. By necessity, the scoring always pretty remains close unless a real thicko has managed to fluke it thus far.
Later series have been hosted by Eamonn Holmes, and have included a new round played twice each show called the Memory Moment where 18 words are read out and have to be recalled by the contestants or they're out. (A later quiz, Memory Bank, would use a similar challenge as its endgame).
Good game, nicely done.
Key moments
The staircase has nice lights in the floor which indicate who is next to answer. Very cute.
Catchphrases
"And, Geoff, the buck restarts with you."
(Fred Dinenage, referring to answers that defeated contestants could have given): "Easy for me to say - very difficult when you're stood up there!"
Inventor
The Chatterbox Partnership.
