What The Dickens?

[DeborahJames]

Calling all clever clogs - or those of you simply wanting to show off at your next pub quiz. Get ready to expand your brain and raise your smile with Sky Arts brand new quiz show, What the Dickens?

Hosted by the irrepressible Sandi Toksvig with a team of other wit tingling contestants: Marcus Brigstocke, Mariella Frostrup, Rory McGrath to name drop just a few.

Find out how you rate, then send to friends and finally sort out once and for all who knows their books best.

TRY THE QUIZ (http://www.skycreative.tv/what_the_dickens/)

[gg106]

Can't seem to get the quiz to load. Am I doing something wrong?

[DeborahJames]

How bizarre, it works for me?

Try again by copying in this link: http://www.skycreative.tv/what_the_dickens/

Let me know!

[gg106]

still no joy.

It takes me to a sky page with a tool bar at the top, but not directly to the quiz. Do I have to navigate further? Will try searching the site for the quiz.

[gg106]

Still no joy. Found the link but does not take me to a quiz.

[megustaleer]

Got to the quiz straight away. Score 8/12 (worst section "in the style of")

Comment on my effort is too long to write & couldn't 'copy & paste' it. Basically it says I am a bit of a literary nerd who has no friends :p

[David]

Glad to say I got the full 12!

I've moved the quiz into Central Library, DeborahJames, since the section you posted it in is intended only for quizzes and promotions open specifically to BGO subscribers.

[Grammath]

Eleven for me. Got the wrong Shakespeare play.

[Jen]

I got ten, a lot of guesses and deduction rather than knowledge.

[mac]

8 out of 12 for me

[jfp]

I felt I was lucky to manage 7/12 given that I started disastrously by getting all four of the film questions wrong...
It transpires I'm "middle-of-the-road" in my cultural competence...

[chuntzy]

9 out of 12 for me.

[lucyb]

12 for me. Makes a change...

[Royal Rother]

9/12

[Dabarai]

Got to the quiz straight away. Score 8/12 (worst section "in the style of")

Comment on my effort is too long to write & couldn't 'copy & paste' it. Basically it says I am a bit of a literary nerd who has no friends :p

I've had the same score! Never tried War and Peace.

[Jenmcd]

11/12 - slipped up on the Barbara Cartland question

[gg106]

Finally got on to it.
10 out of twelve. Emabarrasingly got the kermit the frog and robert powell answers wrong!! I obviously don't watch enough TV!!

[Elfstar]

9/12. Well could be worse.

[MisterHobgoblin]

I felt I was lucky to manage 7/12 given that I started disastrously by getting all four of the film questions wrong...
It transpires I'm "middle-of-the-road" in my cultural competence...
Snap - I also got the Barbara Cartland one wrong. It told me in the summary that I was fond of drama, especially if it had someone famous in it. I have a shelf of unread classics and a shelf of watched DVDs. I'm not sure how they guessed this guilty secret from my scores...

[Calliope]

7/12. I got all the 'losing the plot' ones right, but fell down in the other two... I've never read Barbara Cartland so wouldn't recognise her style at all, same goes for cook book authors.

[Cootisms]

A fairly respectable 8/12 , getting the Shakespeare play wrong, the one about who played Frankenstein in film wrong & couldn't decide between Cartland & Cookson and guessed wrong. For the film questions, I guessed a few of them & was lucky!
Was a bit annoyed by my 'culture vulture' description, which said I'd discount the Harry Potter books on principle, but that's so untrue... I read anything (& everything!).

[Barblue]

8 out of 12 for me - I may be the cat's pyjamas, but I have never read War and Peace. However, Ulysses is another matter ...

Great way to pass the time on a sleepless night!

[FirelightSpirit]

11/12 for me. Got the Shakespeare question wrong. Many of the others were guessed, but I thought it was easy enough to pick the right answer.

[kelby_lake]

9/12!

[Ian]

10/12 - thought i knew which ones i got wrong, however it was just the last two, not bad for a literary twit.

[Lady Lazarus]

7/12 for me... didn;t do v.well on the TV questions, or the Shakespeare...

[Cathy]

9/12

[Hazel]

10/12 - hated the graphics though, very irritating.

[David]

hated the graphics though, very irritating.
Mmmm, I agree. If I'd had a games console gun I would have tried to plug it in the laptop and shoot those bl**dy flying books!

[Flingo]

8/12 for me - and losing the plot was where I lost it...

[Bill]

I am producing the second series of the show which inspired this quiz, What The Dickens? with Sandi Toksvig, which is why I won't be around on here much in the next few weeks (no change there then, I hear you say). When I was offered the job two or three weeks ago, I googled the show's title to see what I could find, and was soon led to this thread on my own website!

I only got 8 out of 12. :o

[Hazel]

I only got 8 out of 12. :oDon't worry Bill, those who can't...produce. ;)

[tom.allison]

10/12, got the Cartland/Cookson wrong..haven't read either author, or watched any adaptations

let's not get into whether Robert Powell played God or not, thorny theological debate!

[Ophelia]

11/12...pretty geeky.

[tagesmann]

9/12. Did really badly with the weather.

[Clandestine]

11/12 Culture Vulture (got Camus wrong) :o

[Tiggs]

Ah well, I got 6/12. The response was quite complimentary to my score so I am not that worried that I only managed to get half right. Not very good on the classics so that probably let me down a bit.

[helenoftroy]

10/12, oh dear! Wrong on 11 and 12!

[Momo]

10/12
Comment on my effort is too long to write & couldn't 'copy & paste' it. Basically it says I am a bit of a literary nerd who has no friends :pSame here. Maybe that's the reason we're here??? ;) ... hated the graphics though, very irritating.I so agree. They were just horrible.

[Bill]

Just to let you know that the first episode of What The Dickens?, produced by me, goes out tonight on Sky Arts 1 and HD at 7.35pm. It's presented by Sandi Toksvig, with team captains Supersizer and recent winner of Maestro, Sue Perkins and comedian Chris Addison, star of BBC2’s Lab Rats and BBC4’s The Thick Of It. The first show features Robin Ince and John O'Farrell.

If however, you can't access Sky Arts, or if you want to a little taster, here is an exclusive clip from tonght's show:

http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http://www.skyarts.co.uk%2Fvideo%2Fvideo-what-the-dickens-series-2-episode-12%2F

All the rounds are new. Yes, and I’m Mickey Mouse introduces a member of the public who happens to have the same name as a famous fictional character, with the teams given 90 seconds to identify them through ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ questions. In ‘Love It Or Loathe It’, that week’s guests are invited to choose a subject from the arts that either delights or disgusts them. They must then claim that they both love it and loathe it in turn, with the opposing team then deciding in which of the extreme opinions expressed lies the truth.

If you can watch, please do - and let me know what you think. We need all the feedback we can get!

For those of you with Virgin, all the Sky channels return tomorrow, so if you have the right package, you'll be able to watch the repeats, which go out at these strange times:

Sky Arts 1 1:30pm Thu 13 Nov
Sky Arts 1 12:35am Sat 15 Nov
Sky Arts 1 11:40am Sun 16 Nov

If you're on Facebook, you can get updates via the What The Dickens? Events page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=34352416865

[Barblue]

If you can watch, please do - and let me know what you think. We need all the feedback we can get! Only just got round to watching this. Here are my personal comments.

Liked the format. Great to immerse oneself in literature in this way.
I love Sandi Toksvig anyway. She chaired it well, but did seem to make things easy for the teams at times - especially the picture quiz. But was that because they were a little obscure I wondered.
My favourite round was Yes, and I'm Mickey Mouse, although I was surprised at how quickly the teams guessed the names - probably because they are so clever.
All the other rounds were entertaining and informative.
The programme went very quickly so I knew I had enjoyed it.
One quibble - I found the set too blue. It felt too big and too cold. Maybe I'll get used to it.

[Grammath]

Bill, I don't have Sky at home, but I wondered if the series would be available via the Sky Player? I just had a quick look and can't find it on the website.

[Bill]

I've moved this thread from Central Library.

Only just got round to watching this. Here are my personal comments.

Liked the format. Great to immerse oneself in literature in this way.
I love Sandi Toksvig anyway. She chaired it well, but did seem to make things easy for the teams at times - especially the picture quiz. But was that because they were a little obscure I wondered.
My favourite round was Yes, and I'm Mickey Mouse, although I was surprised at how quickly the teams guessed the names - probably because they are so clever.
All the other rounds were entertaining and informative.
The programme went very quickly so I knew I had enjoyed it.
One quibble - I found the set too blue. It felt too big and too cold. Maybe I'll get used to it.

Thanks for that, Barblue. I'm delighted you like the show. We're very pleased with it, and I hope we've shown that being on a minority channel with a small budget doesn't mean you have to appeal to the lowest common denominator. And I'm glad too that the only part of the show you didn't like was the only bit I had no control over - the set! It's the same one as the first series, which I wasn't involved in and which was very different to this one (the series not the set).

Grammath, the show should be on Sky 3 soon hopefuly, which is on Freeview, but you can see a number of clips here:

http://www.skyarts.co.uk/video/