TV Quiz, trivia and game shows

[bobandbill]

What sort of shows in this genre (I suppose it is a genre) do you watch? Killing time in quarantine and getting back into a few of them I used to watch in Oz. (I'll post about them in more detail later)

 

[Starlight]

I used to watch quite a lot of them!

I was more into general knowledge trivia type programs, rather than the ones that are more like a game with a quiz tacked on, if that makes sense. My partner quite enjoyed those. We used to really enjoy one called pointless, where you had to find the most obscure answer to a question, but we stopped watching that after one of the hosts done some disagreeable things towards a marginalised community.

I haven't watched any quizzes in quite some time because I can't watch live TV now, so I rarely turn the on tv anymore, unless it's to watch something on Netflix or Prime.

 

[moon]

I've honestly never been interested in them. There's a very popular one in Sweden though called På Spåret meaning "on track" which is a pun on the teams trying to figure out geography, history and culture questions related to areas they literally pretend-travel to on train tracks as their booths resemble different train cars. I bet at least a third of swedes still watch it religiously every Friday d:

 

[Devalue]

Usually prefers word and survey-based game shows. Watches Chain Reaction (essentially Two Word Chain in Forum Games) sometimes. Serves as a good distraction while walking around inside.

Pays passing attention to trivia-based shows. Knows too few answers to participate well. Draws most of them out too long. (Applies to a lot of game shows, admittedly.)

 

[professor plum]

my favorite gameshow of all time is Match Game. I used to watch reruns of the 70s run of it back at my grandmother's house, or even late at night. I quite like the recent reboot of it on ABC, but part of me misses the forced innuendos due to censorship at the time.

I'm also partial to Family Feud and Wheel of Fortune.