…but you sound like Tom Gleeson, the Australian quiz show host

[Smeg4Brains]

While performing my regular search for the last remaining episode of Mastermind with Red Dwarf as a specialist subject I found an Australian quiz show called The Hard Quiz where contestants also have specialist subjects which recently featured Red Dwarf, so I’ve trimmed it down and uploaded it to YouTube, hopefully it doesn’t get taken down.

While the first round questions were fairly easy I was impressed with the questions in the Head to Head at the end, and I think users of this forum will be especially interested in the final question. It’s a shame Ellie was ‘bit crap’ so we never got the hear the fifth question in that round.

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[Nick R]

I am impressed with him quoting [spoiler] in full, rather than just answering the question about who that line is addressed to. I haven’t memorised that line as word-for-word as that!

[clem]

It’s a shame he didn’t quite namecheck G&T, but still, this is brilliant.

Hopefully that final Mastermind you’re after will turn up eventually, along with Danny on the Celebrity version to go with the other cast members’ appearances on your channel.

[Ian Symes]

We’re sort of famous in Australia!

[Warbodog]

He’s quite good as the Australian Taskmaster host, except when he’s making banter about how established and wealthy he is, frequently.

[Dave]

Excellent.

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

That question about … well us, Daryl, the theme, is a pretty impressive question to have uncovered. All the others are fairly generic “this happened in the show” or can be found through fairly generic means. But to find that piece about the music (which I don’t remember being widely publicised outside of forums and social media?) name check Daryl to boot is pretty damn good sleuthing 

As an aside, I genuinely think Arthur Smith’s “forwards” monologue is the best thing ever recorded and committed to tape in the name of Red Dwarf. Even to this day it doesn’t fail to make me actually laugh out loud.

[clem]

That question about … well us, Daryl, the theme, is a pretty impressive question to have uncovered. All the others are fairly generic “this happened in the show” or can be found through fairly generic means. But to find that piece about the music (which I don’t remember being widely publicised outside of forums and social media?) name check Daryl to boot is pretty damn good sleuthing  

IIRC Howard G acknowledged it on Twitter, and then there were one or two articles on the likes of Ain’t It Cool News or whatever, but yes, it’s an impressively obscure thing to ask about. I suppose it’s called Hard Quiz for a reason. Would the last question have been even tougher and more niche, I wonder? Who came tenth in Ganymede & Titan’s World Cup of Guest Characters in 2017?  

[Smeg4Brains]

I think some of those questions (theme tune, tardis, backwards rant) probably came from one of those ’10 things you never knew about Red Dwarf’ type articles or videos. 

[Dave]

Would the last question have been even tougher and more niche, I wonder? Who came tenth in Ganymede & Titan’s World Cup of Guest Characters in 2017?  

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