The Rich List

Posted on November 21, 2008
Filed Under Australia - The land down under, Stupidity and randomness, Breaking news, A "How-to" tutorial of insanity |

Now that new season has started, Brian and I watch pretty faithfully. We are admitted trivia buffs and have a lot of fun guessing the lists from the comfort of our games room. For those of you that haven’t heard of the show, here is the Chanel 7 blurb.

“The Rich List is an addictive quiz show hosted by the clued-up Andrew O’Keefe. Pairs of strangers use knowledge and strategy to complete lists that can win them limitless amounts of money.

The Rich List throws strangers together to form two teams of two who compete against each other by filling in missing answers on a particular list. Wide-ranging topics could include films directed by Steven Spielberg, hit singles by ABBA or states with a coastline. “

It’s great! I can find out how stupid clueless smart I am with every game. However I have one bone to pick…

The topics!

One night the rich list (final where they win the money) consists of naming the letters in the alphabet used to spell “super-cali-fragilistic-expi-alli-docious” and the next night it’s name the women who won best actress oscars between 1982 - 1997.

What??!?

Why is one so simple that you are virtually guarenteed the top prize and the other a feat in human memory? One is relateable to pretty much any english speaking person on the planet and the other only for movie buffs who actually watch the oscars?

I get the diffferent topics; sports, geography, movies, music etc… they are all somewhat related to common knowledge (some people will do better than others in each catagory) but for the final list?? You’d want to give everyone half a chance wouldn’t you?

I don’t even think it’s the topic that gets me but the date range attached to it. Why only a 15 year span?

I know that if I ever got on the show and got to the final list and they said ‘Name 15 French open winners between the years 1960 - 1975 I’d be like…

Are you kidding?

 So.. Rich list people…. Are you kidding?

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3 Responses to “The Rich List”

  1. Nicola on November 22nd, 2008 6:58 am

    Yes, I believe they are. And I think that you should fire off an email to Channel 7 to tell them as much!
    Girl power!!
    :P

  2. Linda on January 7th, 2009 8:16 am

    On the other hand one contestant was so dumb he couldn’t name a single character from ‘Alice in Wonderland’. Even if your entire childhood was spent living under a rock, don’t you think the title of the book might give a teensy clue that ‘Alice’ just might be in there somewhere………….HHHHHmmmm. Plus I am not sure Andrew o’Keefe is CLUED UP. He behaves like a bit of a twit………that’s lawyers for you!!

  3. Christina on January 9th, 2009 6:56 am

    LOL SEE?? Inconsistancy! It’s retarded and yet, I am still drawn in to watch every time!

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