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What makes a quizzer?
/0 Comments/in TV Quiz Shows /by David McGaugheyI wrote a few months ago about the issue of gender bias in quizzes from a writer’s point of view. The question has reared its head again recently in a somewhat blunt and unhelpful way. I have little to add to what I wrote then, beyond saying there would be a few more things I […]
William G Stewart
/2 Comments/in Uncategorized /by David McGaugheyAlthough it’s now a few months since he died, I thought I’d write about William G. Stewart, the host of Fifteen-to-One. I loved Fifteen-to-One as I was growing up – it is easy to forget what an oasis of quizzing it was in the early-to-mid 90s. University Challenge didn’t come back till 1994, Millionaire and […]
The Gender (Bias) Question
/1 Comment/in Professional Quizmasters, Quiz Questions /by David McGaugheyI’ve had the question of gender bias in quizzing on my mind a fair bit recently, but have been directly prompted to write this by this spectacularly grim exposé of a men-only charity event in London. Some will be shocked, some less so. I think I’d be more shocked if I hadn’t been involved in what is […]
Only Connect Series 13: a Question Editor’s Perspective
/0 Comments/in TV Quiz Shows /by David McGaugheyHaving written Only Connect questions for a few years, my colleague Jack Waley-Cohen and I (I being David McGaughey) took over from Alan Connor as Question Editors in 2016. Halfway through the broadcast of our first series in the role (and as the show moves back to its natural home on Mondays), I thought it […]