We were once told we had wrongly named the emperor of Japan (apparently we said "Agahito", not Akihito), and one team nominated a man with a speech impediment as question-master, because only they could understand him.
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Divided is a British game show that aired on ITV from 18 May 2009 to 7 May 2010. It was hosted by Andrew Castle with Charlotte Hudson as the Question Master for Series 1 and Rachel Pierman as the Question Master for Series 2.
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The official name of The Brains Trust was initially Any Questions?. McCullough was the first chairman, or “question- master” as the role came to be called. He used the name The Brains Trust from the start of the show in January 1941, and this became its official name in September 1942. The role of question-master was later alternated with others, but McCullough remained a regular until the radio version closed in May 1949.
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William Donald Hamilton McCullough (15 August 1901 - 19 January 1978) was an Irish born British writer and broadcaster. He was the first question-master of The Brains Trust radio programme from its foundation in 1941.
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Positions for a typical individual quiz played in the QLL, SK=Scorekeeper, QM=Question master, BC=Bonus counter Many quiz leagues run individual competitions. QLL's uses the MIMIR quiz format (named after Mímir, a god of Norse mythology who was renowned for his knowledge and wisdom). Matches are played in groups of four with positions drawn at random and each person has 3 questions addressed to them, in each of 5 rounds. Time to answer is at the discretion of the question master but a wrong answer or a pass gives any of the other three an opportunity to score a bonus point.
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While Deshwitat trains, Rett and the others go to meet Rang. She has gained power by drinking Millenear's blood, the blood of a "god seed." She has little control over her new-found powers and Rett and his companions kill her. In Hong Kong, before reviving Millenear, Rett and the others question Master Tae about Millenear's origin.
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Works on radio included Country Call, Meet The People and Around The Country. However, it was through television that Murphy was to become most widely recognised. His break came on the 1960s agricultural series Land Mark. This led to the roles of question-master and question-setter (and later on as adjudicator) on the joint RTÉ/BBC production of Cross Country Quiz.
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The Big Pork Pie was a regular feature from Series Three where a member of the audience with an embarrassing secret was sat in a big pork pie, made to wear a lie detector and questioned by Noel. Noel himself was subjected to this torture on one episode, with Bob Monkhouse taking on the role of question master and as a result it turned out that Noel's middle name was Ernest.
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In 2010, O'Connell took part in a Eurovision edition of PopMaster on BBC Radio 2's Ken Bruce Show, losing to John Kennedy O'Connor. He was again a contestant on 17 May 2013, winning the contest against Ken Bruce, with John Kennedy O'Connor as question master. On 17 March 2011, he announced via Twitter that he had been replaced as a commentator for the Eurovision semi-finals as the BBC 'refreshed' their Eurovision team. He appeared in the 2011 documentary The Secret History of Eurovision.
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Before Big Brother, Bentley starred in several TV adaptations of Catherine Cookson's novels where he honed his now familiar Teesside accent. He also starred in several TV commercials as well as minor parts in feature films, such as Mad Dogs and Englishmen, which starred Joss Ackland, C. Thomas Howell, and Elizabeth Hurley. Aside from Big Brother, Bentley could be heard on Channel 4 as a continuity announcer until he left after ten years, when he reprised his Big Brother narrator role on the revived Channel 5 series. Another of Bentley's roles is the unseen question master on Sky One quiz show, Dirty Money.
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Two teams, one home, one away play each other, responding orally to a questionmaster. Positions for a typical league quiz played in the QLL, SK=Scorekeeper, QM=Question master, TK=timekeeper The QLL format consists of 64 questions in 8 rounds of 8 questions each asked to individuals on the teams alternately. Correctly answering your own question scores 2 points though it can be passed within the team (if the player chooses not to answer) or over to the other team (if the player or team answer wrongly or choose not to answer) for one point. In the QLL format, there is no conferring as such.
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"Emily Maitlis" – profile, "BBC Newsnight", 30 March 2006. Retrieved 13 August 2010. She also covered the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong with Jon Snow for Channel 4."Emily Maitlis: A lot of front", – profile, The Independent, 19 March 2006. Retrieved 13 August 2010. She then moved to Sky News in the UK as a business correspondent, and then to BBC London News when the programme was relaunched in 2001. During 2005, Maitlis appeared as the question-master on the game show The National Lottery: Come And Have A Go. She was a regular presenter on BBC News Channel for a decade between 2006 and 2016, alongside Ben Brown and Jon Sopel. She also presented BBC Breakfast and from May 2006 until July 2007 presented STORYFix on BBC News, a light-hearted look at the week's news set to up-beat music. In July 2007, Maitlis was appointed as a contributing editor to The Spectator magazine, an unpaid post.
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