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  • Screen Test (2)
    276 B (30 words) - 00:48, 16 August 2017
  • Screen Test
    *[[Screen Test (1)]] - 1970-84 BBC children's film quiz. *[[Screen Test (2)]] - 1998-9 BBC radio film quiz hosted by Brian Sibley.
    238 B (34 words) - 11:47, 11 September 2018
  • Test the Nation
    <div class="image">[[Image:Test the nation logo.jpg]]</div><div class="box"> The ultimate in playalong quizzes: a national test, no less, in which absolutely everybody can take part, by interactive TV, …
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  • That'll Test 'Em
    …ng, ''That'll Teach 'Em''. A team of three kids take on their parents in a test of knowledge, comprehension and who's the best at stuff. Each round is bas…
    2 KB (289 words) - 04:14, 27 April 2020
  • The Great British Test
    Following the Beeb's success with [[Test the Nation]], ITV1 attempted to get in on the act with this show, based on… |The Great British Driving Test
    1 KB (190 words) - 16:23, 25 February 2019
  • The Personality Test
    [[Category:Radio|Personality Test, The]] [[Category:Comedy Panel Game|Personality Test, The]]
    2 KB (257 words) - 21:24, 26 December 2023
  • Trivia Test Match
    ''Trivia Test Match'' was also broadcast in the BBC World Service. A listener wrote,
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  • Test
    …n the title or content, try [http://www.ukgameshows.com/p/index.php?search=test&ns0=1&ns14=1&title=Special%3ASearch&fulltext=Search&fulltext=Search a full…
    233 B (41 words) - 10:10, 18 February 2011
  • The Litmus Test
    [[Category:Radio|Litmus Test, The]] [[Category:Panel Game|Litmus Test, The]]
    331 B (40 words) - 02:41, 11 August 2021
  • Screen Test (1)
    Once the show proved its potential, two series of ''Screen Test'' were made for most of the 1970s, reducing to one series in the autumn fr… …thirty-odd years on, received e-mails from students asking for the 'Screen Test' theme tune for use in pub quizzes. Brian Trueman and Jan Pinkava also app…
    5 KB (805 words) - 20:24, 12 October 2023
  • Test Drive
    [[File:Test drive title.jpg|300px]] [[File:Test drive answers.jpg|400px]]
    2 KB (256 words) - 08:41, 10 February 2023

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  • Weaver's Week
    |Test Drive; Wie is de Mol final
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  • Contestant Calls
    Want to be on TV to win lots of cash, have the holiday of a lifetime, test your knowledge, or generally make a prat of yourself? This is the page to …
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  • Weaver's Week 2010-03-28
    …ange each week, the arrangement doesn't. Round one is always an individual test, one person racing to complete a task as quickly as possible. While they'r… Round two is a test of skill and intelligence. Again, the opening episode asked the competitor…
    25 KB (4278 words) - 10:27, 6 March 2011
  • Index L
    |[[The Litmus Test]]
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  • Weaver's Week 2004-12-11
    …words they'll ever be asked on the show. In effect, Hard Spell is a simple test of memory, and not of spelling. That's with the possible exception of one … * Three-quarters of a minute is an awfully short time to test someone's knowledge of anything, especially when they've come all the way …
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  • Weaver's Week 2005-02-13
    … threshold from banal to ludicrous. There's been a high-tech experiment to test whether it was possible to answer the programme's questions using a comput… … dancing to a Busted track - but which one? This column finds your average Test The Nation to be a little easy, but BOBP was far more taxing - we scored j…
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  • Gyles Brandreth
    [[The Personality Test]] (guest host)
    4 KB (618 words) - 09:28, 25 February 2023
  • Index S
    |[[Screen Test (1)]] |[[Screen Test (2)]]
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  • Masters of Combat
    …, 3 and 5 are tests whereas rounds 2, 4 and 6 are actual fights. The tests test things that good martial artists should be good at (breaking boards, punch…
    4 KB (751 words) - 07:43, 26 February 2023
  • Peter Dickson
    [[Test the Nation]]
    2 KB (266 words) - 17:58, 29 August 2014
  • Join Us
    …s to supply you with a user login. But first we'd like to set you a little test of your game show prowess. Have a go at answering the following questions:
    1 KB (263 words) - 13:11, 20 July 2007
  • Index G
    |[[The Great British Test]]
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  • Adam Hart-Davis
    [[The Personality Test]] (guest host)
    3 KB (527 words) - 05:09, 21 November 2016
  • All About You
    A sort of primitive [[Test the Nation]]-type playalong quiz, on a different subject each week. Viewer… Test titles included (in running order):
    863 B (126 words) - 06:12, 7 February 2021
  • All Over the Shop
    …t order, consumer questions based on a comedy clip, and the infamous taste test round where the contestants had to work out whether paying the extra for q…
    1 KB (180 words) - 19:25, 19 March 2018
  • Anne Robinson
    [[Test the Nation]]
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  • Bamber Gascoigne
    …w. It's now certainly safe to say that both shows have more than stood the test of time, since they both originally ran for 25 years before being first ax…
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  • Bare Necessities
    … in the obvious obstacle course on the last day. This obstacle course will test the survival skills of our two teams to the very limit. Oh hang on, that's…
    11 KB (1741 words) - 23:01, 13 October 2021
  • Beauty and the Geek
    …ct to differential equations? In each episode, the partners are put to the test to see how much they've taken on board, with the worst performing couple b…
    2 KB (318 words) - 02:33, 16 March 2023
  • Ben Shephard
    [[The Great British Test]] (co-host)
    1 KB (218 words) - 22:28, 12 September 2023
  • Big Brain Game
    …eleb through five rounds of hot puzzling action. Each round is designed to test a different area of the brain - creativity, logic, spatial awareness (usua…
    2 KB (346 words) - 20:19, 12 August 2017
  • Blockbusters
    During the rehearsals of the first Sky One series, when someone did a test Gold Run they'd put up gag prizes; two of them included an old rusty lawnm…
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  • Blue Peter
    Blue Peter does [[Test the Nation]], basically, complete with studio teams, red-button interactiv…
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  • Body Heat
    A Multi Stage Fitness Test. Basically a ‘bleep’ test, where contenders had to cover successive 30 metre lengths to a pace set b… Back to the bleep test, and the rule is that missing the bleep three times in a row meant elimina…
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  • Bollywood or Bust
    …ibed the show as "like a cross between [[The Price is Right]] and [[Screen Test]]. It has all the glitz and glamour of a Saturday night game show, but it'…
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  • Born to Win
    …ports that they've been practicing so they've devised lots of new tests to test strategy, power, strength, endurance, agility and co-ordination. In each e…
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  • Brian Johnston
    [[Trivia Test Match]]
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  • Busman's Holiday
    …iving-errors, and deciding which three would cause him to fail his driving test and, probably best of all, the first of two Royal Navy-related brainteaser… … Football Referees; Hot Air Balloon Pilots; Airport Officials; The Clergy; Test Track Drivers; Billingsgate Fishmongers; Sandhurst Lecturers; Registrars; …
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  • Carol Smillie
    … on a list of people with high IQs on the Mensa website after taking an IQ test "for fun" while hostessing on ''Wheel of Fortune'', but was removed in 200…
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  • Celebrities Under Pressure
    …the Z-list of preference practises some exciting task (invariably a memory test or shooting hoops from a distance). The week of thrills and spills that fo…
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  • Cheggers Plays Pop
    … the Top Ten Hammer Game, whereby the kids from both teams would race to a test your strength machine and attempt to light up the top ten songs in the sin…
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  • Countdown
    …as originally commissioned for just seven weeks. However, it has stood the test of time. It celebrated its 1000th edition on 2 July 1990, its 2000th editi…
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  • Crackerjack
    …as: "Ooh, I could crush a grape", along with others such as: "Ooh, I could test-drive a Tonka!" "Ooh, I could wrestle an Action Man!" "Ooh, I could duff a…
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  • Dancing on Ice
    …her silly way) but mostly quite sound. In particular, the "Ultimate Skills Test" placed a particular emphasis on technical ability at just the right stage…
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  • Deal or No Deal
    …also came across as incredibly petty (and besides, if you really wanted to test a player's resolve in that situation, the smart thing to do would be to ma…
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  • Demolition Day
    …g and hard structures to act as protection. These would then be put to the test, and whoever the resident expert considered the best would be given the ad…
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  • Dog Eat Dog
    …mpelling ideas. The mental ones are the sort of thing you'd get on a MENSA test or puzzle magazine which you can play along at home. The physical stunts a… …ently-shaped pieces of plastic. In all cases, Ulrika would say, 'The route/test is exactly the same for both of you, so how much time you choose to spend …
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  • Driving Force
    … reversing a trailer into some traffic cones, a tank/duck military vehicle test, and a skidpan round. Rather than being a proper series, it was an annual …
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  • Esther Rantzen
    [[The Personality Test]] (guest host)
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  • Film Buff of the Year
    Basically a grown-up version of ''[[Screen Test]]''. Four contestants answered absurdly difficult questions on the buzzer …
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  • Flatmates (2)
    The final test involves the candidates giving their final words in order to convince the …
    5 KB (785 words) - 10:32, 26 October 2020
  • Gabby Logan
    [[The Great British Test]]
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  • Award Winners
    ***''also nominated'': A Question of Sport, Have I Got News for You, [[Test the Nation]] **Game Show: Test the Nation
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  • History of the Game Show
    …bounded in ''[[Game for a Laugh]]'', while we saw relationships put to the test for the first time in the form of ''[[Blind Date]]''. The UK had been bash…
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  • Auditioning For Game Shows
    …zzer game. This is the most important part of the audition - a personality test. Just remember to keep smiling and keep chatting. If you can't think of an…
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  • All-time Poll
    … to celebrate UKGameshows.com hitting the big time, we felt it was time to test the barometer again.
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  • The Ingrams Millionaire Trial
    To test this theory, the jury was shown the tape of the unaired show, during which…
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  • Game Show Spoofs
    *[[Screen Test (1)|Screen Test]] - a couple of brief clips turn up in the film ''Son of Rambow''. The mov… *[[Dale Winton]] challenges Renton to 'Take the Test' in the film ''Trainspotting''.
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  • H&p@bbc.
    In the Screen Test, members of the public were edited into classic films using clever technol…
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  • I'm an Aussie... Get Me Out of Here!
    …'t quite good enough for the main show) so that the production company can test and fine tune the set and the various challenges and surprises that would …
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  • Jeremy Hardy
    [[That'll Test 'Em]]
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  • TV Guide 2020-07-18
    *'''The Personality Test''' (Radio 4 Extra, 9am and 2pm).
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  • John Sergeant
    [[The Personality Test]] (guest host)
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  • Judgemental
    Round two sees the contestants' own knowledge put to the test for the first time. Six categories are revealed. The first contestant to p…
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  • Looks Familiar
    …nt'), Denis Norden was joined by three personalities for a popular teatime test of showbusiness knowledge concentrating on the 1930s and 40s.
    1 KB (167 words) - 00:52, 20 August 2019
  • Lorraine Kelly
    [[The Personality Test]] (guest host)
    2 KB (230 words) - 18:56, 3 November 2022
  • Many a Slip
    One round concerned a memory test, where a short poem or jokey story was read out, then returned to later in…
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  • Mark Curry
    [[Screen Test]]
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  • Masterchef
    <div class="image">[[File:Masterchef tasting.jpg]]''The test everyone dreads...TASTING!!!''</div>
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  • Masterchef Goes Large
    … Pressure Test") and preparing their best two-course meal ("The (er) Final Test"). …kery test along similar lines to the ''Professionals'' series "Elimination Test" (but this time with a choice between cooking meat or fish, along with a s…
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  • Mastermind
    Considered by many to be "the ultimate test of memory and knowledge", ''Mastermind'' is a simple quiz. However, at tim… …t pretend that it's a close match", declared Humphrys, "but we're going to test your general knowledge anyway", and King went on to score a total of 24. O…
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  • Memory Bank
    … to wait until the host gives them permission to buzz, making it as much a test of reaction as memory.
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  • Mercenaries
    …re "hacker's challenges" where contestants put their hacking skills to the test. Winning these not only earnt themselves extra 'creds' but also gave some …
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  • Mind Games (2)
    …en most of them before - not a problem with a quiz, which is essentially a test of memory, but a bit of a minus in a show supposedly about ''working thing…
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  • My Kind of Music
    …o be fair. Three couples put their musical and performing knowledge to the test for a big cash prize.
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  • Nadia Sawalha
    …y all failed! (Sawalha, it should be mentioned, was taking her lessons and test while heavily pregnant).
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  • Neil Fox
    [[The Great British Test]]
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  • Now Get Out of That
    '''1981''' - endurance test around Eastnor Castle, Herefordshire.<br>
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  • TV Guide 2016-03-26
    *'''Mastermind''' (BBC2, 9pm; Wales, NI 9.30) ''Thunderbirds'', English Test cricket, Elizabeth Gaskell, Seven Years War, Ryder Cup, Battle for Berlin.
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  • Panic Mechanics
    …d one pedal each. Furthermore, one driver had to face backwards as well to test both agility and communications. Winning this challenge have you a major edge in the final test, e.g. in a racing challenge you might get a turbo booster. Unfortunately, …
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  • Pencil and Paper
    …ons in a manner not dissimilar to playing along with pencil and paper to [[Test the Nation]] forty-years later.
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  • Perseverance
    …quiz gradually changes from a test of general knowledge in round one, to a test of memory in round three. Which actually sounds quite good in theory, but …
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  • Phil Tufnell
    …elbourne Boxing Day test of 1990, and took five wickets in just his second Test. Tufnell always had a difficult relationship with the cricketing establish… …ecome a valued contributor to sports quizzes and a regular summariser on ''Test Match Special''.
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  • Phillip Schofield
    [[Test the Nation]]
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  • Press Ganged
    …e someone off. Cue a huge amount of backstabbing and bitchiness. The final test takes place on La Gomera, and involves tests to recover parts of a cannon …
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  • Main Page
    <pick>[[Image:Banner Test the Nation.jpg|Test the Nation]]</pick>
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  • Weaver's Week 2024-01-14
    …uld be forgiven for thinking it was just strength and power they wanted to test. The contestants certainly got the idea that they just wanted to test strength and power. People were voted off just because they appeared weak.…
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  • Quisine
    The inevitable taste test: Can you name each different cheese by taste alone? That will be something…
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  • Raven
    …ch warrior race just once, the three winners keeping lives. A fairly basic test of strength and technique, played in each Tournament except the Fifth and … …''' Climb up a ladder of rings and beat your opponent to the top. A simple test of strength and technique. Also played in the Third Tournament, as '''Tree…
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  • Robot Wars
    …stance. There was a three-way choice of routes. Typically, one route would test speed, one manouverability and the others would lead to a rumble with one … …therefore provided a lot of the interest. Each different task would aim to test out a particular skill of a robot, however it was pure luck as to what dep…
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  • School's Out
    To the contestants before the French test: "Bon chance!" …ed less than 24 hours after More 4's similarly curriculum-themed [[That'll Test 'Em]]. (21, as a matter of fact.)
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  • Scrapheap Challenge
    …-day shooting schedule with the build still done in one day, but the final test the next day. An hour's "tinkering time" became enshrined in the rules whe… …ause the budget didn't cover the cost of transporting their machine to the test ground. It does seem a bit much to ask a team based in Cornwall to travel …
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  • Screen Test
    *[[Screen Test (1)]] - 1970-84 BBC children's film quiz. *[[Screen Test (2)]] - 1998-9 BBC radio film quiz hosted by Brian Sibley.
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  • See Hear on Saturday Quiz
    …team mate can guess it" things and some non-quizzy rounds such as a memory test and short IQ puzzles.
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  • Shattered
    …ndemol's plans to use mild electric shocks on the doors in Monday's memory test would not only cause fear and unnecessary suffering amongst the players, b…
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  • Sid Waddell
    [[Screen Test]] (director)
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  • So You Think...?
    [[Test the Nation]] [[The Great British Test]]
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  • So You Want to be Top?
    …ts for the circus". In 2003 they were back on TV in ''Twins - The Identity Test'', which the BFI tells us was a "BBC 1 programme seeking to find the most …
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  • State Your Case
    …ake good use of £100? Of course you could! But can you prove it? ABC will test your case, and the viewers will decide."
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  • Sticky Moments
    …o out. Leaving two people remaining. They would go through to the toughest test yet, the '''Sticky Moments School of Acting''' where they would act out a …
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  • Stu Francis
    …razy phrases, such as, "Ooh, I could wrestle an Action Man!" "Ooh, I could test-drive a Tonka!" "Ooh, I could jump off a dolls' house!" "Ooh, I could duff…
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  • Sue Perkins
    [[The Personality Test]] (regular panellist)
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  • Superdogs
    … variety of events, such as the gun dog finding objects in a lakeland area test, the race-to-the-catapult-thing-and-catch-a-ball game and the obligatory d…
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  • Superhuman
    …ting 30 minutes sleep and 30 minutes playing a monotonous computer game to test their alertness. Another round of elimination follows. The scoring system … The equipment used in the Fearlessness test was built by Jonathan Hare of [[Rough Science]] fame.
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  • Telly Addicts
    …ile:Kennedy sarah capture.jpg]]''There was also a round called "Telly Star Test", which only lasted one series and telly stars like [[Sarah Kennedy]] asks…
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  • Terror Towers
    …ted their orders through simultaneously, but more than anything this was a test of how loud you could shout more than can you guide someone through a maze…
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  • Test the Nation
    <div class="image">[[Image:Test the nation logo.jpg]]</div><div class="box"> The ultimate in playalong quizzes: a national test, no less, in which absolutely everybody can take part, by interactive TV, …
    5 KB (839 words) - 03:46, 8 July 2023
  • That'll Test 'Em
    …ng, ''That'll Teach 'Em''. A team of three kids take on their parents in a test of knowledge, comprehension and who's the best at stuff. Each round is bas…
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  • The Apprentice
    …icked up the slack, except for 2022's tenth episode where a positive COVID test meant Mike Soutar had to cover for him.
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  • The Crystal Maze Background
    …ld work in practice, so often small models of the games were made first to test them.
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  • The Games
    …s training in six different sporting disciplines which are then put to the test live every night for a week.
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  • The Great British Test
    Following the Beeb's success with [[Test the Nation]], ITV1 attempted to get in on the act with this show, based on… |The Great British Driving Test
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  • The Krypton Factor
    In the other test, balance-beams linked the Fleischmann Flexibility Tests and Minnesota Manu… From the 1988 series onwards, the Response Test consisted purely of flight simulator tests: these included a Sea Harrier J…
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  • The Masterspy
    Next came a '''practical test''', such as handcuffing all three agents to a wooden "maze" wall and waiti…
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  • The Movie Game (1)
    …jpg|400px]]''The contestants get ready to put their movie knowledge to the test (with 1988 series winners Sarwar Uddin and Jenny Bates in the green team).…
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  • The Music Game
    As a test of musical knowledge, ''The Music Game'' was never intended to compete wit…
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  • Toyah Willcox
    [[The Personality Test]] (guest host)
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  • Trust Me
    ''The Invisibility Test graphic''</div> …&pound;100 to room A. The room B inhabitants are asked the '''Invisibility test''' - "If you were invisible, would you pick people's pockets, watch people…
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  • TV Guide 2019-06-22
    *'''Test Drive''' (BBC Scotland, 8.30).
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  • Weaver's Week 2001-01-16
    …nd NBC in the US. Two pilots are being shot in London around this time, to test out various format tweaks and hosts. One will be hosted by Richard Hatch, …
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  • Weaver's Week 2001-02-27
    …gs to slow it down. It's always a good idea to waste time if it is a timed test." …r rooms chatting on the phone like school girls so we ended up failing the test."
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  • Weaver's Week 2001-03-06
    Week 5: (L) Intelligence test: David does very well. "Was it that you were genuinely stumped, or do mole…
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  • Weaver's Week 2001-04-17
    …ll *fail* the test. The contestant picking up the most votes will take the test. Fail, they're out. Succeed, and they get to nominate one of the people wh… …llenge, a word-play challenge, an observation challenge, a math and memory test, and a soft-stepping challenge.
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  • Weaver's Week 2001-06-12
    Wednesday: The team are woken at 7am to carry out the first aid test, on which they've gambled 60% of their food budget. A meteor has landed in…
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  • Weaver's Week 2001-07-31
    In the test, each player must get one of two questions correct. The housemates pretend…
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  • Weaver's Week 2001-09-11
    …ir pupils. Weakest Link Daily (round maximum: &pound;1000) put this to the test last Friday, with a Teachers' Special. Anne Robinson commented: "Round 2, …
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  • Weaver's Week 2002-05-11
    …ke These at 1800, Waiting Game at 1855, Jet Set at 1935, then make way for TEST THE NATION at 2010. Anne "Wink" Robinson and Phillip "Gopherman" Schofield…
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  • Weaver's Week 2002-05-18
    …ill develop other projects for NBC, including a talk show and a version of TEST THE NATION. …uch reliance was placed on a self-selecting group of webheads who took the test online; and a far greater problem with the way that there was no measure o…
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  • Weaver's Week 2002-06-01
    …ey will now be heading off up the M40 to front Channel 4's coverage of the test match at Edgbaston. Suze will continue to threaten her kids with detention…
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  • Weaver's Week 2002-06-29
    …od thing about Spencer coming out of the house now is the way he's able to test some of television's best and/or most viewed interviewers. He rode roughsh… …tion, in which the new boyfriend meets the father and takes a lie detector test and everyone gets very embarrassed and it's clear from minute two that the…
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  • Weaver's Week 2002-08-03
    …t August, ITV has commissioned a full series of NICKED! The quiz show will test the veracity of some contestants, known as "The Accused," and the recall s…
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  • Weaver's Week 2002-08-10
    …ell one does at nationally televised tests. As ever, all groups taking the test on the internet scored well over the notional average of 100. Full breakdo…
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  • Weaver's Week 2002-08-17
    …ll after a while. Paul is seen in the title sequence taking a lie detector test. No polygraphs are used in the show. In the opening round, the cars and drivers take a skill test, to see just how well they can (or can't) manoeuvre. This can be entertain…
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  • Weaver's Week 2002-09-28
    …G BREAK on BBC1 at 1930 We. Probably the remote as people turn over to the Test Card Channel.
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    …r, the teams get an hour to tinker, before their contraption is put to the test. The winners progress to come back later in the series, with the ultimate …
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  • Weaver's Week 2002-11-02
    … quiz, and do it all for charity. Ten years later, [[Anne Robinson]] would test the nation again. Records do not show whether Annie was on a team, or how …
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  • Weaver's Week 2002-11-30
    …ctive extravaganza" - [[Test the Nation|TEST THE NATION: THE NATIONAL 2002 TEST]]. [[Anne Robinson]] and [[Phillip Schofield|Gopherman]] will pose lots of…
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  • Weaver's Week 2002-12-14
    Anne and Pip [[Test the Nation|TEST THE NATION]] on news and current affairs at 2030, with results after the n…
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    We expect everyone to do better on the TEST THE NATION 2002 repeat at 1930 on BBC Choice on Jan 1. JUST A MINUTE has i…
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  • Weaver's Week 2002-12-28
    …ING LINES 4]] and working well with [[Anne Robinson]] on [[Test the Nation|TEST ... THE NATION ... TWO ... THOUSAND ... AND ... TWO]] at both IQ and knowl…
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  • Weaver's Week 2003-01-04
    A test rig, consisting of a tin of cat food inside a...
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    …, Young endgames are as much psychological as testing, and certainly don't test skills in a manner completely inconsistent with the rest of the show.
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  • Weaver's Week 2003-03-22
    …hallenges varied each week, there was a broad pattern. One challenge would test the ability to find one's way around an unfamiliar city, another would be … Not only do these challenges test each competitor in a myriad of ways, but they're also laced with the local…
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  • Weaver's Week 2003-03-29
    Anne and Phillip hosted the third interactive [[Test the Nation|TEST THE NATION]] last Saturday night. The first one told us how well we did at… This week's third show was about a Women's Magazine Test On National Telly. Pick up any edition of "Gal Monthly" and you'll find zi…
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  • Weaver's Week 2003-04-05
    …vestigative procedures, and must now put their knowledge and skills to the test.
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  • Weaver's Week 2003-04-19
    …something twice over two days. With each line of enquiry there is a hidden test. The Killer is playing with the investigators and sets a game up for them,…
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  • Weaver's Week 2003-05-03
    … to run a voice analysis on the tapes claiming to come from the killer. Or test the baby for DNA? And how come they consider emails sent from a laptop as … …g how to do IQ tests. [[Test the Nation|TEST THE NATION 4: THE NATIONAL IQ TEST 2003]] begins at 2000 Sunday on BBC1.
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  • Weaver's Week 2003-05-10
    …osted the snappily named [[Test the Nation|TEST THE NATION THE NATIONAL IQ TEST 2003]]. The results showed that a quarter of a million web players hadn't …
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  • Weaver's Week 2003-05-24
    '''Jade''' (4th on BB3) has failed her driving test, made a comedy video that pretends to teach exercises, and fallen pregnant…
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  • Weaver's Week 2003-08-30
    …ge to speed of recall on problems that can be expressed simply. It doesn't test the ability to solve problems requiring more than about ten seconds though…
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  • Weaver's Week 2003-09-06
    …onaire?|Millionaire]] at 2035, while Gopherman and Annie [[Test the Nation|Test The Nation]]'s general knowledge at 1930. [[Fame Academy|Star Academy]] sh…
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  • Weaver's Week 2003-09-13
    Annie and Gopherman's [[Test the Nation|Test. The Nation]]. The National. General. Knowledge. Quiz featured an interest…
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  • Weaver's Week 2003-09-20
    …ng for Michelle PI. At least there's no such confusion when voting by SMS. Test this theory tonight: If PI contestant 10 does better than expected, it's o…
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  • Weaver's Week 2003-10-25
    out of the test closest to their home sport, and the contestant opts to sit out
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    smug host. This column always thought University Challenge was a test of
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  • Weaver's Week 2003-12-13
    The BBC's confirmed four more [[Test the Nation|TEST THE NATION]] programmes next year, including one themed around the driving test. For those of us who prefer to walk and take
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  • Weaver's Week 2003-12-27
    column always thought University Challenge was a test of general knowledge, not
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  • Weaver's Week 2004-01-10
    the doors in Monday's memory test would not only cause fear and unnecessary to test their presidential mettle and to show viewers what really goes on in
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  • Weaver's Week 2004-01-17
    this week. The Monkey also has the Grate British Driving Test at 2100 Monday.
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    "The spiders that featured in Peter Andre's test must have been extraordinarily
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    … to wait until the host gives them permission to buzz, making it as much a test of reaction as memory.
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    2010 BBC1 [[Test the Nation]]: The National Test<br> this show. Test proper begins around 2030, results follow the news at 2200.
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    …, where celebs appearing on [[Test the Nation|TEST THE NATION THE NATIONAL TEST]]
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    Saturday BBC1, and was more noticeable here than in [[Test the Nation]].
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    Where do we go from here? If UC is to become a simple test of reflexes, then be If UC is to be a test of deduction and logic, then the buzzer format can only
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    training have been for the contestants, and a test on some automated rowing
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    cricket test series against the West Indies.
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  • Weaver's Week 2004-05-08
    ... not the ultimate test of will, spirit, and political acumen, but a big roll
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  • Weaver's Week 2004-05-22
    has even more statistical rubbish in [[Test the Nation|TEST THE NATION]], [[Angus Deayton]] is smug on
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  • Weaver's Week 2004-06-12
    will tell you, are no test of intelligence) while the "strongest" spun a
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  • Weaver's Week 2004-06-26
    Andrew Lyman, Test Career of Geoffrey Boycott. 14 (0) + 12 (3) = 26 (3)<br>
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    Tony Bell, The 1981 Ashes Test Series. 11 (0) + 7 (4) = 18 (4)
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  • Weaver's Week 2004-08-14
    life. A fairly basic test of strength and technique. Raven, this test of skill and tactics is the signature game.
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  • Weaver's Week 2004-09-04
    The BBC has [[Test the Nation]]: The National Music Quiz at 2030 tonight; the
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  • Weaver's Week 2004-09-11
    [[Test the Nation|TEST THE NATION]] had its national music quiz last week. Amongst the featured which shows that if there's ever a Test The Nation The National Statistical
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  • Weaver's Week 2004-10-02
    …mingham, was the only person to answer all 70 questions correctly in the [[Test the Nation]] pop quiz show last month.
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  • Weaver's Week 2004-10-30
    ==[[The Great British Test|Test The Nation: The National Spelling Test]]== …ere to raise oodles and oodles of money for ITV's emptying coffers, and to test the nation's grammar skills along the way. Though it was billed as an educ…
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  • Weaver's Week 2004-11-13
    … today, BBC1) and ITV poses [[The Great British Test|The Great British Pop Test]] (2145 today). E4 is taken over by 9 Live from 1000 weekdays, Masterteam …
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  • Weaver's Week 2004-12-04
    More than ever, this series of Scrapheap felt like a test of construction ability, and the nous of the experts, rather than the inge… …r. Where both experts are proposing similar ideas, the contest is a simple test of construction. Where one team comes in with a weaker design, they'll hav…
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  • Weaver's Week 2004-12-18
    Channel 4 has lost the rights to test match cricket. From 2006, there will be an additional 30 episodes of ''Cou… … Challenge]] and [[Mastermind]] programmes. The [[Test the Nation]] annual test airs this Sunday, while BBC4 repeats old editions of [[Mind Games]] most n…
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  • Weaver's Week 2004-12-28
    …ral knowledge quizzes required some minor celeb input, from the input to ''Test the Nation'' to the round on ''Beat the Nation''. The big hits of the year… …music test, during which David Mellor didn't sing. By the time of the 2004 test, we were beginning to wonder if the show was becoming a glitzier 100%, wit…
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  • Weaver's Week 2005-01-09
    … that the average score in the nation was 39; the average according to the test's designer was 42. Given that internet viewers tend to be slightly clever … …ed with pens and paper - maybe the producers have learned that UC is not a test of memory. Still, any excuse to hear Brian Sewell say "Va-va-voom" is wort…
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  • Weaver's Week 2005-01-16
    …s the judging panel for one minute. Half of them stayed for the schmoozing test the next day, with just fifteen being quizzed about their policies. Perhap…
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  • Weaver's Week 2005-01-30
    …e completely arbitrary nature of the contest, the opening show used the IQ test score claimed for the celebs. …k's highlights include Tom O'Connor on Countdown, the Great British Memory Test on ITV, and the arrival of Anne Robinson and Bob Monkhouse to primetime Ch…
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  • Weaver's Week 2005-02-06
    '''Bad news!''' But he was on the ITV Memory Test.
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  • Weaver's Week 2005-02-20
    ;5.15 BBC-1 [[Screen Test]].
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  • Weaver's Week 2005-03-06
    … Mr Sugar treated the programme as an extended job interview and practical test, he couldn't fire the contestants, as he hadn't employed them in the first… * [[Test the Nation|Test The Nation, The National Entertainment Test]] will provide plenty of opportunity for BBC cross-promotion next Saturday…
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  • Weaver's Week 2005-03-20
    …n The National Know Your BBC Test]]. Well, they called it an Entertainment test, but half the questions required knowledge of BBC productions.
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  • Weaver's Week 2005-04-10
    …ead and had accumulated that memory bank of trivia that television quizzes test.
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  • Weaver's Week 2005-05-01
    …n in a way that could only be improved by careful and judicious use of the test card and some music. Right from the start, things were not looking good, a…
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  • Weaver's Week 2005-07-03
    …been on screen more often than anyone except Carol Hersee, the girl in the test card. Richard always came across as a bit of a bumbler, someone who didn't…
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  • Weaver's Week 2005-07-17
    …eports from a Vorder-class on the London Eye, and footage of a short timed test they did last week, there are enough clues to solve the entire puzzle. …t of claims that Phillip "Gopherman" Schofield makes at the end of every [[Test the Nation]].
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  • Weaver's Week 2005-07-24
    … full series. It does show that ITV is capable of making good quizzes that test and reward properly. The underlying format could, perhaps, provide an outl… …compare this show with [[The Great British Test|The Great British Spelling Test]] last year, which did at least make an attempt to explain why the English…
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  • Weaver's Week 2005-08-07
    … of challenges that require them to put their dexterity and agility to the test," and "the final challenge they will face will be worth an infinite amount…
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  • Weaver's Week 2005-08-14
    … Way Of The Warrior has been made even tougher, with additional hazards to test even the finalists. The first half has been radically re-modelled, with a …
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  • Weaver's Week 2005-09-11
    …ey''' has elected to talk about [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_cricket Test Cricket Since 1945], though not including the current, gripping, series. H…
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  • Weaver's Week 2005-09-18
    In addition to the navigation test, there are practical experiments, tricky enough to shred the nerves of tho…
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  • Weaver's Week 2005-09-25
    …iel: the competing teams are "28 of the most impressive" in the qualifying test, and the host's hair seems to have gone much greyer over the summer. The S…
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  • Weaver's Week 2005-10-16
    [[Test the Nation|Test The Nation, The National English Language Test]] really should have come with a money-back guarantee. Ten of the 70 quest…
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  • Weaver's Week 2005-10-23
    … its "Reading And Writing" initiative. That's the hook behind the recent [[Test the Nation]] language special, and this series.
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  • Weaver's Week 2005-12-18
    On BBC1, [[Test the Nation|Test The Nation The Annual National Test Of The Year]] takes place tonight (8.30). [[Hard Spell]] returns for a sec…
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  • Weaver's Week 2005-12-30
    [[Test the Nation|Test The Nation The National Test]] had the usual slew of outings: BBC Entertainment (March), Twentieth Cent… Best Game Show: Test The Nation ''(UK)''<br />
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  • Weaver's Week 2006-01-08
    …-one ever faces elimination from lack of lives. That theory was put to the test one week, and the preferred resolution was clearly staged, and rather unsa… …bstacle course. There is a place for physical ability in the final, but to test nothing else can and does lead to unsatisfactory final results. Is it sati…
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  • Weaver's Week 2006-01-15
    Why the much slower pace? ''Spelling Bee'' is a test of deduction. The words are chosen for their difficulty, and graded to bec… …''Spelling Bee'' uses a complete dictionary as its resource, and is more a test of wordsmithery. It also has an indefinite length, the BBC would have to c…
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  • Weaver's Week 2006-02-05
    …ple decision, ''Raven'' is far more challenging, asking its competitors to test themselves to their very limit, and for little reward other than the honou…
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  • Weaver's Week 2006-02-12
    …don''', taking [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England_Cricket#2000s English Test Cricket Since 2000], and by the way he slides into the chair, you might th…
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  • Weaver's Week 2006-03-05
    …uff]], [[Countdown]], and winning the celebrity panel on [[Test the Nation|Test The Nation 2003]].
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  • Weaver's Week 2006-04-02
    …ven]] from the start (CBBC, 1pm and 6pm weekdays); [[Blue Peter]]'s annual Test The Nation's Children (BBC1, 5pm Monday and Wednesday) - and it was good t…
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  • Weaver's Week 2006-04-16
    … current crop of quizzes based on school. Next week, Channel 4's [[That'll Test 'Em]] and BBC4's [[Top of the Form]] night. …er day completed, a bonus of &pound;500 for passing all parts of the timed test. The clock counts down in the bottom right corner, and slowly changes colo…
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  • Weaver's Week 2006-04-23
    ==[[That'll Test 'Em]]== …h quiz, [[Ask the Family|Dick And Dom's Ask The Family]]. In comparison, ''Test 'Em'' lacks the bravery of last year's hidden gem, relying as it does on e…
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  • Weaver's Week 2006-04-30
    Using this hypothesis, we can test producer [[Glenn Hugill]]'s assertion ([[Weaver's Week 2006-03-05|reported… '''Koushik Chattergee''' will be telling us about Test Cricket between [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_cricket_team India] a…
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  • Weaver's Week 2006-05-07
    …tuck at around 650,000, roughly twice More 4's ''Deal'' repeats. ''That'll Test 'Em'' had 270,000. Annoyingly, no scores are available for UK Gold.
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  • Weaver's Week 2006-05-14
    …plays a major game for larger prizes (around &pound;1500); and following a test of skill or judgement, could play for the grand prize (of the order of &po…
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    [[Test the Nation|Test The Nation's Know Your Globe]] test tonight at 8, hosted by Anne and Gopherman, with special guest Rosie May. …
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    [http://www.talenttv.com Talent TV] - Diverse shows including Test The Nation, The Villa and Best of Friends.
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  • What Do You Know? (1)
    …nd were asked to point out the two deliberate mistakes. There was a memory test interlude called ''Hear Hear'' too.
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  • What Do You Know? (2)
    …"pencil and paper quiz", which sounds rather like a primitive version of [[Test the Nation]].
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  • Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Results 2
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  • Wife of the Week
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  • Willie Rushton
    [[Trivia Test Match]] (team captain)
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  • Wine Hunt
    …fy the extremely expensive wine out of four samples given in a blind taste test to win a &pound;1,000 case of it. The other prizes also had wine connectio…
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  • Would You Pass the Eleven Plus?
    A [[Test the Nation]]-style interactive quiz based on the old Eleven Plus exam. To … …orthernireland/11plus/programme.shtml bbc.co.uk: Programme info and online test]
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  • Young Driver of the Year
    … but the programme-makers and some of the contestants argued that it was a test in the use of many different types of vehicle and that the speed aspect wa…
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  • Zero to Hero
    …nce to test their designs on a scaled down version of the challenge in the test zone. By this time they must have a working prototype ready and the hero t… …. After the 3 hours are up the sirens wail again and the teams head to the test zone to look for weaknesses in their design. Each team gets 30 minutes in …
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  • Index P
    <pick>'''Pilot show''' - A test episode of a programme that is made in the knowledge that it may never be … |[[The Personality Test]]
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    …''Researcher''' - A member of the production team who may write, devise or test questions and games. They might also book celebrity guests, find backgroun…
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  • Index T
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  • Weaver's Week 2006-07-16
    …ted to the oh-so-prestigious 9.25 Sunday morning slot. [[The Great British Test]] fell by the wayside, [[Bognor or Bust]] didn't even make it past the M25… … the Geordie's production company offered a new game, and called it '''Con.Test''', ITV snapped it up on the spot.
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  • Weaver's Week 2006-06-11
    … million viewers, with ''HIGNFY'' coming an inch behind. 4.1 million for ''Test The Nation'', 3.9m for ''Question of Sport'', but ''Millionaire'' finished…
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  • Weaver's Week 2006-07-09
    …ce, and if the BBC deigned to put its INFAX database back online, we would test our observation. She's raring to answer every question, and finishes on a … …catch an hour-long [[Just a Minute]] (BBC7, 11am today). [[The Personality Test]], a show where the host asks questions about themself, could be an intere…
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  • Britain's Top Dog
    According to Liza Tarbuck, the rounds are designed to test dogs' "natural instincts and innate abilities", which is rather interestin…
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  • The Personality Test
    [[Category:Radio|Personality Test, The]] [[Category:Comedy Panel Game|Personality Test, The]]
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  • Puzzle Panel
    In each half-hour programme, the panellists bring along a puzzle to test the other two panellists and the host, who has no prior knowledge of the q…
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  • Perfect Strangers
    Before the show, the eight contestants do a written test to judge how intelligent they are. The contestants then meet each other fo…
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  • All Time Top 30 Hosts
    …estion mark) which rather fell flat on their face. Her stints as host of [[Test the Nation]] have been rather more successful, however. …rprise in honesty - a master of show-must-go-on live television (hosting [[Test the Nation]] and [[Dancing on Ice]]), he also hosted easily the best lotte…
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    [[Test the Nation]]
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  • Sandbox:Main Page
    …guest host spot in the most recent series. There's also change afoot for [[Test the Nation]], with [[Danny Wallace]] replacing [[Phillip Schofield]] as An…
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  • Weaver's Week 2006-08-27
    … delivering viewers to other programmes? It's a very difficult question to test, but we can get some measure of the intention by looking at the programmes…
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  • Weaver's Week 2006-09-17
    …the results, 5.1m for the performances) take the other podium positions. ''Test The Nation's Patience'' had 5.1m seeing the questions, but only 3.85m chec…
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  • Unanimous Press Release
    …rate pleas for the money - but were they telling the truth? A lie detector test will reveal the truth.
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  • Weaver's Week 2006-10-22
    …ge set for ''Skatoony'', an animated game show made by the people behind [[Test the Nation]], and currently airing on that well-known quiz channel, Cartoo…
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  • Football Icon
    …roup is put through a series of tasks, challenges, and matches designed to test their football prowess. Each week, one player is eliminated until only thr…
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  • Faking It
    Although not a game show in its traditional sense, there was a test at the end of each episode where the newly-trained victim had to perform a…
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  • Big Bumper Science Quiz
    …ith a 1970s schools programme, a Cbeebies show and one of those marathon [[Test the Nation|Anne Robinson pub quiz shows]]".
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  • Weaver's Week 2006-11-19
    …and replacing it with something that could never pass the Old Grey Whistle Test. <!--Eds: no italics-->
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  • Weaver's Week 2006-12-03
    Next week's highlights include the return of [[The Personality Test]] (Radio 4, 6.30 Wednesday) - this week, it'll be hosted by a Tub of Lard.…
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  • Viewer of the Year
    …long the lines of [[100%]] with the addition of clips and chit-chat a la [[Test the Nation]]. The bottom ten players were eliminated every few rounds, wit…
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  • UK Game Show Records
    …second-most frequently seen face on British television, second only to the test card girl Carol Hersee. |4<!--Don't Scare the Hare, The Personality Test, What the Dickens?, Win, Lose or Draw Late-->
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  • Weaver's Week 2006-12-17
    …l be published in advance of the auditions, allowing everyone in the UK to test their general knowledge and polish their quiz show skills.
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  • Your Country Needs You!
    … times, and much more atmospheric (sometimes for the right reasons) than [[Test the Nation]].
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  • Weaver's Week 2006-12-31
    … certain something. High point of the year, though, is [[PokerFace|The Con Test]], aka ''Poker Face'', Antan Dec's game of knowledge and bluff. A week-lon… …mported ''Game Show Marathon'', and More4 gave nothing more than [[That'll Test 'Em]] - still, if you're showing ten million episodes of ''Deal Or No Deal…
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  • Weaver's Week 2007-01-14
    …nusson would show neither mercy nor pleasure from the experience. He would test and probe and tease out the last drop of knowledge from the contender's me… …de of the loch to the other over some unstable steps), as these challenges test the same skill twice. Indeed, this duplication of skills may well have aff…
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  • Weaver's Week 2007-01-07
    …e page. While the sleepy motif wouldn't work well with the UK lottery, the test of memory probably would. Even better, the game has natural breaks in whic…
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  • New Shows Archive
    |[[Test Drive]] |[[That'll Test 'Em]]
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  • Trivia Test Match
    ''Trivia Test Match'' was also broadcast in the BBC World Service. A listener wrote,
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  • Relic - Guardians of the Museum
    …ree games, the final act, which decides whether the team win or lose, is a test of the knowledge gleaned from the three short films. For this, Agatha and …
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  • Weaver's Week 2007-02-04
    …illion for its return on Saturday. 5.35 million stuck around for ''The Con Test'', causing ''One Versus One Hundred'' to slip to just 4.95 million, barely…
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  • Weaver's Week 2007-02-11
    …g Brother'' final (6m). ''One Against One Hundred'' (5.45m) beat ''The Con Test'' (5.1m), which still beat ''A Question of Sport'' (4.95m). ''Deal or No D…
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  • Weaver's Week 2007-02-18
    …gy student studying the idea of framing to watch loads of television, this test plays no further part in proceedings. Over on ITV, [[PokerFace|The Con Test]] (or whatever they're calling it this week) is nearing the end of its sec…
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  • Weaver's Week 2007-02-25
    …es [[50/50]] (BBC1, 4.30 weekdays). Next Saturday sees [[PokerFace|The Con Test]] reach its Million Pound Final, and the start of a new series of [[Fame A…
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  • Sgrin Ti Syniad?
    Two teams of celebrities test their knowledge on film and television.
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  • Category:Health and Fitness
    … Formats where ordinary members of the public are challenged to improve or test their diet and fitness levels. Most formats involving skilled amateur or p…
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  • Grand Slam Quiz
    …te-night interactive quiz special, using almost the exact same format as [[Test the Nation]].
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  • Weaver's Week 2007-03-11
    The grand final of [[PokerFace|The Con Test]] last weekend was an interesting affair. For starters, it's only the thir… …, taking 9.05 million viewers against the back end of the rugby. ''The Con Test'' took 5.5 million, pipping ''When Will I Be Famous'', which went out on a…
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  • The Underdog Show
    …e concept is possibly a bit redundant considering none of these shows ever test the core canine talent of bounding up to strangers and attempting to rip t…
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  • Weaver's Week 2007-03-18
    …ARB ratings to 4 March. ''Dancing On Ice'' had 9.25 million, and ''The Con Test''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Million Pound Final took 6.55m. But ''TV Burp'' (5.45…
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  • What Would Your Kid Do?
    Each test looks at a different part of a child's psychology. Will your child be hone… Jason introduces the test from the studio, and then we start the film package. Jason explains what's…
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  • Brian Trueman
    [[Screen Test (1)|Screen Test]]
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  • Cwis Pop C2
    Midweek quiz segment for Welsh-speaking secondary schools as they test their knowledge on contemporary Welsh music - a straight knockout contest …
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  • Weaver's Week 2007-04-01
    …allenges, as a psychological investigation, as a detective hunt and memory test. [[Glenn Hugill]] was an exceptional choice to host the show. The viewing …
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  • Janet Street-Porter
    [[The Personality Test]] (guest host)
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  • Weaver's Week 2007-05-06
    …the next stage, a computerised question bank. The best responses from this test would progress through a couple of rounds of studio heats until the best 2… …ayers were taken off-screen, and sat some sort of test. The top ten in the test played on the opening show, then those who were still seeking a place in t…
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  • Weaver's Week 2007-07-01
    ''This isn't fair. It's no longer a test of knowledge.'' …Joel for an hour (ITV, 8.30 Saturday), and the return of [[The Personality Test]] (Radio 4, 6.30 Wednesday). It doesn't include [[Tycoon]], the ITV busine…
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  • News Archive
    …running quiz, [[Mastermind]]. Over ten programmes, the debonair Lynam will test contestants over the usual specialist subject and general knowledge rounds…
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  • Weaver's Week 2007-07-08
    …etween contestants, quietly purloined from Antan Dec's [[PokerFace|The Con Test]], but leaving the levity behind. And the ball-picking routine borrows the…
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  • Weaver's Week 2007-08-19
    …d to those interested in [[Test the Nation|Test The Nation The National IQ Test]], it goes out at 6.40 and 9pm on Bank Holiday Monday, eight days from now…
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  • Weaver's Week 2007-08-26
    …hows with simple titles: [[Test the Nation|Test The Nation The National IQ Test 2007]] (BBC1, 6.40) and [[World's Strongest Man|Britain's Strongest Man]] …
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  • Weaver's Week 2007-09-02
    …y, the test tells nothing more than how good you are at doing this sort of test. "What type of penguins were featured in this film" is a trivia question t… …s mis-calibrated by about half a standard deviation. At least one previous test had a mean score of somewhere around 111, showing (if nothing else) that i…
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  • Weaver's Week 2007-09-16
    …in. ''The Eurovision Dance Contest'' had 4m viewers, and ranked ahead of ''Test The Nation''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s results show, seen by 3.55m. …nd'' suffered from being on against the How Good Are You At Doing IQ Tests test, down to 1.5m, and ''Ready Steady Cook'' is ticking over on 1.4m. On Chann…
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  • Take on the Takeaway
    The second portion of the contest is the speed test - basically, it's the bit where they do the actual cooking. For this part,… Finally, it's the taste test: blindfolds on, marks out of 20. Whichever meal scores most, wins.
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  • Scots on the Box
    …a, Alex Norton, Sanjeev Kholi, Neil Oliver, Susan Calman and Mark Nelson - test their memories of Scottish television. Essentially it was video clip (both…
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  • Classical Star
    …very little music in it, and there was no chance for interested viewers to test the talent of the performers.
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  • Jennie Bond
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  • Weaver's Week 2007-10-21
    …y score since the television revival began in 2003, we can put this to the test. For each contender, we have the number of correct answers in the speciali…
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  • Test
    …n the title or content, try [http://www.ukgameshows.com/p/index.php?search=test&ns0=1&ns14=1&title=Special%3ASearch&fulltext=Search&fulltext=Search a full…
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  • Weaver's Week 2009-12-20
    Round two: what's on fourth? The first set looks like a Rosarch test to us, but turns out to be the characters played by Best Actress Oscar win…
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  • Bill Bailey's Birdwatching Bonanza
    …are set a series of six challenges. Four of the challenges are designed to test specific birdwatching skills, while the other two are bonus rounds. A stra…
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  • Breaking Into Tesco
    ….jpg]]''Eventual winner Nick Smallwood (left), Simon Rimmer and Jenny Cook test out Jenny's curry noodle soup''</div>
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  • Britain's Best Brain
    …ess conditions", in a series of five rounds, each specifically designed to test one of the five parts of the brain.
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  • Greatest Game Shows
    |[[The Krypton Factor]]||Seminal test to find the United Kingdom Superperson.
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  • Match Play
    …, along the lines of [[Quiz Ball|Quiz Ball]] or [[Trivia Test Match|Trivia Test Match]].
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  • Rachel de Thame
    …igner. She was spotted while doing a garden design course, asked to screen-test for ''Gardeners' World'', and has been co-presenting it and other horticul…
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  • Step Up to the Plate (1)
    …er is done, wheel out the food critic from backstage, have him blind taste-test the two identical (sort of) dishes, while the chefs and cooks pull faces a…
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  • Street Striker
    …rd series) compete against each other in a series of six tasks designed to test their football skills. These tasks take place in a variety of urban settin…
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  • Swots
    Rounds included a spelling test, quickfire maths, questions on a particular subject, a specialist subject,…
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  • Taste the Nation
    [[Test the Nation]], a BBC participation quiz from earlier in the same decade.
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  • The Big Food Fight
    …what you ate''' (a simple "name the year" clips round), some sort of taste test in which unusual flavours are incorporated into, say, an ice cream or a sa…
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  • The Litmus Test
    [[Category:Radio|Litmus Test, The]] [[Category:Panel Game|Litmus Test, The]]
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  • Tonight's the Night
    … audience and whoever won got a prize for their audience member. There's a test for a member of the public - if they can appear with some professional per…
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  • Totally Saturday
    … bit was to spell out words. The better players went on to the end game, a test of reactions to earn miles and win a foreign holiday in somewhere exotic.
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  • Don't Forget the Lyrics
    …do we really know the lyrics? ''Don't Forget the Lyrics'' puts that to the test. [[Shane Richie]] hosts and together with a live band challenges contestan…
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  • Brainbox Challenge
    … each show gets to play the Bonus Game, the Brainbox Challenge, which is a test of remembering the shape displayed two before the current one. There's £5…
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  • Weaver's Week 2007-12-23
    David gets a question about ABBA, a thoroughly confusing question about Test matches, and Smallhead talking through the buzzer again. He takes the lead… …s from 31 Dec). We're particularly looking forward to seeing John Humphrys test [[William G. Stewart|William G. Stewart]]'s knowledge (31 Dec) and seeing …
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  • Weaver's Week 2007-12-30
    …ll by giving away a few grand each. A second series of [[PokerFace|The Con Test]] was rather lost on Saturday nights, and a [[Supermarket Sweep|Supermarke… |29||Test the Nation||27/08||3.57
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  • Weaver's Week 2008-01-20
    …done on Australian television a couple of decades ago – but it is a good test of the performer's quality. And it gives the producers an excuse to book t…
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  • Weaver's Week 2008-02-03
    Just to prove our point and test our resolve, once in a while we unearth a long-lost gem that makes our poi…
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  • Weaver's Week 2008-02-17
    …re fallacy than fact. It's not as though the claim needs much testing, but test it we should. To put this flimsy theory to the test, host Alan Carr has invited along five of the best celebrities money can b…
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  • Weaver's Week 2008-02-24
    …come the new gold standard of one-day competition. None of it's as good as Test cricket, naturally. But we digress. Mr. Rutherford has turned up in a brig… …in-Jitsu]] (7.30am) and [[Brainbox Challenge|Brainbox Challenge]] (6.30pm) test mental agility. [[Masterchef|Masterchef]] reaches its seasonal final, [[Wi…
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  • Weaver's Week 2008-03-02
    In both shows, the games are designed to test mental agility, mental flexibility, and processing. There are observation …
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  • Weaver's Week 2008-04-13
    …and teachers of music are politely declined, but anyone else is welcome to test their knowledge in three rounds over half-an-hour. Three contestants appea…
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  • Weaver's Week 2008-04-20
    …move to a grown-up slot as soon as they could. Speight was an exception to test that maxim.
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  • Weaver's Week 2008-04-27
    …ded from ''Test The Nation The National How Good Are You At Doing IQ Tests Test'', in which the players must work out the symbol to complete the sequence,…
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  • Weaver's Week 2008-05-04
    …n contributors. But then, the hint's in the title. This isn't so much of a test of predictive power as an excuse for some banter. Hence the name.
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  • Weaver's Week 2008-06-22
    …r waiting six months between heats and finals, it's said. This match could test that maxim: Michael won his eight games at the start of the year, Peter hi… Another test for the theory that newly-qualified contestants, such as Jonathan from Jun…
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  • Weaver's Week 2008-07-06
    :5.10 BBC1 [[Screen Test|Screen Test]]
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  • Weaver's Week 2008-08-10
    …s only one question in the ''Going for Gold'' rounds. It's not a brilliant test of the contestants, and there's just enough room to lengthen one of the fo…
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  • Weaver's Week 2008-08-24
    … This time, she's gone for something completely different, South Africa in Test cricket, 1946-70. She's done her film at Lords' cricket ground, and talks … Mrs. Arthur reminds us that after 1970, the team was banned from Test cricket in protest against its government's apartheid policy, not to retur…
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  • Weaver's Week 2008-08-31
    … televote. How depressing. How tedious. How utterly predictable. This is a test of fine arts, not popularity. We begin with this week's [http://www.w3.org/TR/turingtest/ Test That Fails To Recognise People With Disabilities As Human].
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  • Weaver's Week 2008-09-07
    … show that made sense when seen in the original Flemish. This isn't a good test of memory, and doesn't make sense when seen in the original Dutch.
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  • Weaver's Week 2008-09-28
    …rcus asks contestants to complete the statements they've just seen. It's a test of short-term memory, and doesn't really encourage understanding in the wa…
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  • Weaver's Week 2008-10-12
    …ars-West-Indies-Cricket-1928-2003/dp/1870518780/labyrinthgames West Indies Test Cricket 1976-91]. He is a Famous Name in the world of quiz, sometimes desc…
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  • Weaver's Week 2008-11-09
    … part says it's good to see Going for Gold back, we'd far sooner it were a test of European unity, of the whole continent ganging up and saying "That Henr…
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  • Weaver's Week 2008-11-30
    … the details have been changed, but the basic principle – that this is a test of leadership – survives. …preme champion. No! That's next week! These would-be leaders weren't being test on their physical prowess, but on their leadership qualities. Could they i…
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  • Weaver's Week 2008-12-28
    …he even better. [[University Challenge|University Challenge]] continued to test the nation's students with tough but fair questions, and [[Mastermind|Mast…
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  • Weaver's Week 2009-01-25
    …the early rounds is worth a few seconds in the messy Messy Messy Mess Test test, the final game to determine the overall winners. A fun little touch means… …th [http://www.bothersbar.co.uk/ Mr. Bother] that this week's Intelligence test on [[The Krypton Factor|The Krypton Factor]] would have worked better with…
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  • Weaver's Week 2009-02-08
    … a test of skill and athleticism; ''Total Wipeout'' is as much an athletic test as it is one of perseverance and the ability to make a fool of oneself on …
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  • Weaver's Week 2009-02-15
    …teen heroes were kitted out in shiny new costumes, and given challenges to test their superhero mettle. While racing across the finish line, could they he…
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  • Weaver's Week 2009-03-08
    …llating quizzing, this week was finding out one of them had failed a drugs test at the warm-up event two weeks previously, and the battle we watched avidl… ''Matt Foster completes his intelligence test.''
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  • Weaver's Week 2009-03-15
    …e; with the most rudimentary strategy, the game quickly degenerates into a test of luck like certain other ones we could mention.
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  • Weaver's Week 2009-03-29
    …ys the favourite to lose ''Big Brother'', never likely to pass her driving test, never set to last two weeks with Charles Ingram and his daughters, a ludi…
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  • Weaver's Week 2009-04-05
    …e fiction and computer games. In fairness, ''Knightmare'' hasn't stood the test of time as a television spectacle, but there is surely scope for a longer …
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  • Weaver's Week 2009-05-10
    …it comes to structuring a coherent narrative. There were similarities to a test in the previous show, when they had eight minutes to guide a coach party r…
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  • Weaver's Week 2009-05-31
    …e's also hosted some daytime shows for Carlton. General knowledge / memory test [[Perseverance|Perseverance]] was an interesting diversion when it aired i…
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  • Weaver's Week 2009-06-28
    …ter game Advent and its many derivatives. There was a prologue, an initial test that would help the explorers to make sense of the world around them, and …
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  • Weaver's Week 2009-07-05
    …hey do. Radio Scotland marks its independence with ''The Auld Grey Thistle Test'' (6.10 Friday), and the country contributes new Saturday night guessing g…
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  • Weaver's Week 2009-07-12
    …lightly better on a set about liquid physics, but do remember the Ten Ball Test cricket fans suffered in February, and can tell their Lithuanian from thei…
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  • Weaver's Week 2009-07-19
    …ort pilot season of ten shows. They've presumably done it so that they can test the various permutations, and iron out some of the little glitches as they… …posed last week. Is it better than [[Golden Balls|Golden Balls]]? Yes, the test card would be preferable. Is it better than ''The Weakest Link''? There's …
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  • Weaver's Week 2009-08-02
    …d Alert]] was almost as bad. [[Winning Lines|Winning Lines]] has stood the test of time brilliantly, and both [[1 vs 100|One Versus One Hundred]] and [[Wh…
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  • Weaver's Week 2009-08-23
    …nd "voce" is Latin for "voice". '''Jim Laker''' took nineteen wickets in a Test in 1956; twenty years later, his namesake Freddie started Laker Airways an…
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  • Weaver's Week 2009-09-06
    …so A-B-A is "yes", B-A-A is "no" – and men's performance in this sort of test really does deteriorate after they've been talking to a woman they find at…
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  • Weaver's Week 2009-09-13
    …ould have been classed "skill" or "mystery" – there's usually a "mental" test in there, but the restricted dimensions of the playing area mean there can…
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  • Weaver's Week 2009-09-27
    "It's the toughest test on television," says the bloke talking. Excellent! He'll shortly transform…
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  • Weaver's Week 2009-10-11
    For our money, the highlight of the show comes with the "Taste Test" round. Here, unusual flavours are blended into one dish – a sausage mad…
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  • Weaver's Week 2009-11-01
    …nt), a sort of ''Big Brother'' on the road; and with television's toughest test of its time [[The Search (1)|The Search]] (C4, 2007). There will be more o… "Welcome to the toughest test on television," says our host [[Gordon Burns|Gordon Burns]]... who really …
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  • Weaver's Week 2009-11-08
    …cording to the scientific burble that accompanies the show) is designed to test the part of brain that focusses on mathematical operations. In turn, the c… …he challenges are properly orthogonal to each other, there's no attempt to test the same thing twice. The set design is clean and simple, the graphics are…
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  • Weaver's Week 2009-11-22
    …lenge would go down in [[The Crystal Maze|The Crystal Maze]] as a physical test, and the ones between tend to a skill game, a mental game, and one that de…
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  • Weaver's Week 2009-11-29
    …cend the limits imposed by their usual life. It's a chance for children to test themselves, it's a chance for children to change themselves. Both of the f… … Again, ITV had a copycat show, [[The Great British Test|The Great British Test]] (2004-5), which added ''Pop Idol'''s [[Neil Fox|Dr. "Neil" Fox]] and los…
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  • Poll of the Year 2009
    …tainly been interesting if the 2010 version with it's lack of intelligence test would poll so well) but are thankful that what's there works well. …ight of its quiz credentials. We particualarly like the Accumulatower, the test of knowledge and plastic cup-based construction skill. You thought it was …
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  • A League of Their Own
    …drew 'Freddie' Flintoff and their guests put their sports knowledge to the test.
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  • Weaver's Week 2010-01-31
    …ic method adopted by the Hitchhikers stands them in good stead, it doesn't test them at all. Philosophers spend a long time going down the column, but the… …not going to object too loudly, it's a dashed good show and it's stood the test of time. Not quite a perfect round, but 13 (0) is a good score to go.
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  • Weaver's Week 2010-02-07
    …e valuable area without getting caught on the detritus. This was as much a test of the human controller as of the zook. Timing was the only human involvem…
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  • Weaver's Week 2010-02-28
    These four people are about to take the toughest test on television, says the host. Er, no, that would be the Surely Impossibly …
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  • Weaver's Week 2010-03-14
    …re particularly impressed by the Golden Staircase, a deceptively difficult test of balance and co-ordination. Demon Causeway was another "new" game we enj… … less than last year's, for the simple reason that there's no intelligence test. While we appreciate 90 seconds of rapid-fire (well, moderate-fire) questi…
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  • Weaver's Week 2010-04-04
    …e host doesn't know much about game shows, suggesting this is the toughest test on television. A similar and more credible claim will be made on ITV less …
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  • Gameshow General Election 2010
    …at that - which then comes back for a further series with the intelligence test removed. That's a bit like having ''The Krypton Factor'' without an assaul…
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  • Iron Chef UK Press Release
    …orked at Saveur magazine, which is a magazine in the States, both in their test kitchen and on the editorial side. And I also worked at a non-profit organ…
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  • Weaver's Week 2010-04-25
    …rom the loser. There are many variations on this idea, many more things to test &ndash; we're not sure how one might go for vertigo in a studio setting, e… …d|National Football League (US)]] (20 November) and begins with the screen test for Fred Astaire, the one saying he can dance a bit. He also remembers who…
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  • Weaver's Week 2010-05-09
    …ive broadcasts &ndash; [[Talking Telephone Numbers]], [[Winning Lines]], [[Test the Nation]], [[Dancing on Ice]], all edge-of-the-seat stuff, and all mast… … one-season wonders, great fun while they lasted but they've not stood the test of time. We'd want to watch [[19 Keys]], [[Duel]], [[Without Prejudice?]],…
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  • Weaver's Week 2010-05-16
    ''Two Argonds test the Vortex.''
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  • The Drop Dead Show
    …out the risk factors that can lead to premature death. There was a proto-[[Test the Nation]] element about assessing your own risk of pegging out early, b…
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  • Weaver's Week 2010-06-13
    …d it to bring some recruits from a hundred years ago into his world. He'll test them on the skills they need to deactivate robots, and will send the best …
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  • Weaver's Week 2010-06-27
    … Make the trays large enough to contain a million pounds easily, this is a test of knowledge not of stacking.
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  • Weaver's Week 2010-07-11
    …the race-against-time elements from [[Ready Steady Cook]], the blind taste test from programmes like [[The Restaurant]], and rows like a mild and insipid …
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  • Weaver's Week 2010-07-18
    …ge|Celebrity Masterchef]] (BBC1, from 8pm Wednesday). Ten more celebrities test their ability to cook while under pressure. No, never heard that before.
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  • Weaver's Week 2010-08-08
    …ly held to be the greatest cricketer of the 20th century. He was active in Test matches from 1928 to 1948, where he averaged 99.94 runs between dismissals…
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  • The Great British Bake Off
    …g contest. Each week sees the home bakers set three challenges designed to test a particular baking discipline. The home baker judged the best at the end … …. The first is almost exactly the same as ''MasterChef'''s "Classic Recipe Test", using one of either Berry or Hollywood's favourite recipes (jammy shortb…
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  • Take it Like a Fan
    …g the attending supporters a chance to put their football knowledge to the test. If they can correctly answer a variety of football-related questions (wit…
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  • Weaver's Week 2010-09-05
    …, nor the criteria by which the judge will be marking. The third and final test in each show is a prepared challenge, such as making a basket of small rol…
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  • Weaver's Week 2010-09-26
    No, this is not '''Test Match Special''', this is the Radio Addicts: Dave Clark of Life After Mast… Mr. Humphrys, look, this is not the toughest test on television. No-one gets muddy. No-one falls in the water. No-one constr…
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  • Weaver's Week 2010-10-10
    …sing power; (iv) a standard or means for deferred payment. There will be a test later, Mr. Johnson.
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  • 10 Jonathan
    …challenge, a beach sprint, a 3.5km road cycle race, an upper body strength test and a 2km fell run.
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  • Weaver's Week 2010-10-31
    …thought had died with [[Test the Nation|Test The Nation The National Testy Test]].
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  • Weaver's Week 2010-11-14
    Toughest test on television is this show? Oh. We thought that was balancing a goldfish b…
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  • Weaver's Week 2010-12-05
    … Say you love me]" (Caution: contains strong language) is the exception to test the rule, apparently a simple love song with subversion in the lyric and n…
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  • Weaver's Week 2011-02-13
    …ss stress, and be more likely to produce a measurable response to the real test questions. Liars can beat the measurer by altering their physiological res…
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  • Weaver's Week 2011-03-06
    …rises three rounds, which can be taken in almost any order. One round is a test of how well the players know their popular culture. In the opening episode…
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  • Weaver's Week 2011-03-13
    …tty much what it says in the billing. Two teams of children are invited to test their skills and judgement by buying some items, converting them into some…
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  • Weaver's Week 2011-05-01
    …es. This was completely irrelevant for such frippery as Channel 4's ''Star Test'', where young people were asked to call in and say if they believed Clint…
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  • Weaver's Week 2011-05-29
    …n the teeth of a howling gale. Sinitta is singing while taking her driving test and having stuff thrown at her, that brings to mind a classic Trevor and S…
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  • Red or Black?
    …who get that right take part in ''Duel'' - no longer a random guess, but a test of remembering something the players saw for a fleeting moment.
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  • Weaver's Week 2011-06-19
    Some viewers will be interested in ''Four Rooms'' as a test of negotiating skill, whether the seller or the dealer will come away with…
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  • Weaver's Week 2011-06-26
    …ost 60 hours, sometimes appearing in five or six places at once, a feat to test even the most ambitious presenters.
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  • High Stakes
    …rying to figure out if these numbers correspond to the contestant's D.N.A. test.''</div> …Tuesday evenings, a part of the schedule where ITV had trouble beating the test card. Viewers in Northern Ireland saw ''High Stakes'' after 11pm, the tour…
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  • Weaver's Week 2011-07-17
    We've done the mind, we've done the body, how's about a test of hand-to-eye co-ordination? Our imagination says that the new pastime of…
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  • Weaver's Week 2011-07-24
    …re prefixed by musical stabs, while one or two begin with a long ramble to test the audience's comprehension before reaching the question &ndash; a discus…
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  • Weaver's Week 2011-08-14
    …, to work out who would be best at which part of some activities. Or it'll test their resilience, how well they stand up to difficult situations. At some …
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  • 500 Questions
    …tions'' is an intense battle of brainpower hosted by Giles Coren that will test even the smartest of contestants with a relentless stream of demanding que…
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  • Weaver's Week 2011-09-11
    …otland? No, Australia, as Darwin's the next clue, but what's the sequence? Test match locations? Victoria has no idea: it's actually Australian state and …
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  • Weaver's Week 2011-10-09
    …lence, hoping to tell the story of the song by their actions alone. It's a test of how well the teams know their pop music, and of the talents of choreogr… … or Odyssey. Atlantis was the fourth to fly into space; Enterprise was the test shuttle, used for a handful of landings in 1977. The Unionists see 3: Man,…
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  • Weaver's Week 2011-10-16
    …onnect play online], for people who are in front of a computer and want to test themselves against the contestants. There's clearly a set of weather thing…
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  • Weaver's Week 2011-11-06
    … rection when things jump out from the dark recesses of a building. It's a test of physical ability, of being able to sprint 200m in 30 seconds after walk… And, ultimately, it's a test of teamwork. Do players trust the anonymous person they've met that night,…
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  • Ben 10 Ultimate Champion
    …tions about the programme. Then comes a physical challenge, a construction test, and a specialist subject chosen by the leader, which turns into an observ…
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  • Weaver's Week 2011-11-13
    …'Baywatch''. Later on was the Amazing Rowing Challenge, a simple endurance test of continuing to work on a rowing machine. Scheduled to last about three h… …ad in last week's ''Observer''. Speak for yourself; this column watches to test the limits of its own knowledge, a process by which we'll absorb a few fac…
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  • Show and Telly
    …lass=image>[[File:Show and telly set.jpg|400px]]''The set could be used to test colour balance.''</div>
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  • Weaver's Week 2012-01-15
    …yone and everyone. Throughout his career, Bob Holness sought knowledge, to test the boundaries and perhaps to expand them.
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  • Weaver's Week 2012-01-29
    …dition to the regular round of introductions, the first episode featured a test of Natalie Cassidy's acting skills: she wore a whisper clip and was slippe…
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  • Weaver's Week 2012-09-16
    … than the traditional chat in a wood-panelled office, and perhaps a staged test on the workfloor, ''Secret Interview'' takes cameras to follow around two …
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  • Weaver's Week 2012-02-26
    …eligibility for UK immigration. ''Test The Nation The National Nationality Test'' (9pm Thursday) isn't a show in itself, but is the starting point for fur…
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  • Weaver's Week 2016-11-20
    … but it's carried by the skill of the panel. The show passed the six-laugh test with flying colours, everyone had something to say. It went at the right p… …uct a gadget from bits and pieces, to fill a task. Best performance in the test wins points, but there are also points for the quality of teamwork.
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  • Weaver's Week 2012-03-11
    …ing [[The Apprentice|The Apprentice You're Fired]], ''The Old Grey Whistle Test'', and (in a nod to last week's show) the satires of William Hogarth. It's…
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  • Weaver's Week 2012-03-18
    [[File:Bank job s2 test card.jpg|400px|The Bank Job]]
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  • World Series of Dating
    … an actual sports show, with commentary and slow-motion replays, and not a test to see who can bore the ladies least. Thaila Zucchi appears as the pitchsi…
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  • Weaver's Week 2012-04-08
    …ing order of difficulty. The game was partly human relations, but mostly a test of remaining cool under fire. If you can keep your head while all around a… …e will remember ''The Weakest Link'' most of all for people who failed the test of remaining cool under fire. One of the concluding episodes was from peop…
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  • Weaver's Week 2012-06-17
    …n't as didactic as [[Test the Nation|Test The Nation The National Patience Test]], and it's more entertaining. If we look hard enough, there's a proper pu…
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  • Kitchen Wars
    …n the final, where once again their food and service skills are put to the test, before finally a winning couple is announced.
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  • Weaver's Week 2012-07-29
    Round three is the Intelligence test. All they've got to do is assemble a set of twelve pentominoes (and a big … …ourse some miles away. There's the traditional combination of obstacles to test all parts of the body &ndash; upper- and lower-body strength, stamina, bal…
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  • Weaver's Week 2012-08-05
    …ng. We're not entirely convinced that this was the best way to present the test for viewers. The contestants indicated their answers by pushing buttons on… Round two is Mental Agility, a two-part test. Part one is a difference from ten &ndash; Dick will give five numbers, an…
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  • Weaver's Week 2012-08-12
    This is a simple test of memory, and we can expect the contestants would clear the board within …
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  • Weaver's Week 2012-09-09
    … [[QI]] (BBC2, 10pm Fri) and [[The Million Pound Drop Live]] (C4, 9pm Fri) test arcane knowledge. [[Dragons' Den]] (BBC2, 9pm Sun) pretends it's not a gam…
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  • Weaver's Week 2012-10-14
    [[File:Bank job s2 test card.jpg|400px|The Bank Job]]
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  • Weaver's Week 2013-01-06
    …er to be, but couldn't communicate that to the viewers, or design tasks to test the relevant abilities, and the result was a cringeworthy point-and-laugh …
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  • Weaver's Week 2012-11-04
    …ming for double-top, the dart lands out and there's no score. It's a great test of skill, and because the legs last that bit longer, the better player win…
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  • Weaver's Week 2012-11-11
    … against Sunday lunchtime repeats of ITV2's ''The Only Way is Essex''. The test seems to be "would you let a seven-year-old watch this unaccompanied?" The…
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  • Weaver's Week 2013-01-13
    It's clear that ''Fake Reaction'' is a test of acting skill and ability. Can the ex-''Eastender'' convince that he's n… Perhaps that's why producers STV have decided not to play up the acting test, because it makes the ITV2 audience think of dead skulls and luvvies and i…
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  • Weaver's Week 2013-01-27
    …eing ever-so-slightly cheeky, we suggested last October that ITV had run a test of ''Splash!'' The trial was an impromptu pro-celebrity event, staged at t…
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  • Weaver's Week 2013-02-03
    … Krypton Factor]] aren't entirely unreasonable, though there's no physical test, and most contestants don't do anything that has the fitting shapes togeth… … up is a group challenge for all six players. This could be an observation test, trying to concentrate on two or three performances at once and answer que…
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  • Weaver's Week 2013-02-17
    …onotony. The intervening verse is semi-spoken, and doesn't make for a good test of performance skills.
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  • Ultimate Shopper
    Four women who believe they have an eye for style are put to the test in this fashion-based challenge.
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  • Weaver's Week 2013-06-09
    …ions and solve modest crossword clues. Even within the confines of a paper test (expensive props are not possible in a distributed event with zero budget)… …ic perspex box, ten foot in every direction, and filled with challenges to test people to the limit. DASH was held in a dozen locations, it's run on a bud…
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  • Ashes Pub Quiz
    …Australia, answer trivia questions about cricket in general, and the Ashes Test matches in particular. Part of the entertainment came from discussion and …
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  • Weaver's Week 2013-07-07
    …. The contestants might know how this happened. They sit an examination to test how well they knew their method. But this doesn't make for good television…
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  • Weaver's Week 2013-07-14
    While there's an edit point for Victoria to test that claim, we'll advise it's walls [http://www.bbc.co.uk/onlyconnect 318 …
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  • Big Star's Little Star
    …hild will be asked six questions, each with three answers. These questions test their knowledge of each other ("What would daughter's dream day with mummy…
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  • Weaver's Week 2013-07-28
    …hile blindfolded, that becomes a challenge in itself. It might have been a test of how well the presenters coped with unfamiliar and disconcerting experie…
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  • Weaver's Week 2013-08-18
    …obvious faces before the decision's made. In theory, this is meant to be a test of strategy, but there's rarely a reason for the player in front to answer…
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  • Poll of the Year 2014
    …:Square Vote.jpg]]</div>It’s the New Year, and that means it’s time to test the game show waters with you: the reading public once again, with the UKG… * "By no means the finished article but passes the lots of questions test. [[Eggheads]] should be worried if this gets adopted by the Osmaniacs."
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  • Weaver's Week 2013-09-15
    …hild will be asked six questions, each with three answers. These questions test their knowledge of each other ("What would daughter's dream day with mummy…
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  • Weaver's Week 2013-10-13
    …a mere six months after it had been taken off air and been replaced by the test card and a tone.
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  • Weaver's Week 2013-11-10
    …ch as catching balls on the fly, and there's generally some sort of mental test, like a jigsaw puzzle involving water troughs. There's very little out-and…
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  • Weaver's Week 2013-12-01
    …o achieve here: is it to find the emotional tipping point of the captains? Test their ability to act? To get lucky in selecting people who will believe an…
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  • Weaver's Week 2013-12-08
    To test this thesis, Bacon has invited three viewers to his studio in Trafford. We…
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  • Weaver's Week 2013-12-15
    Back to the Oenophiles, with De Bono's thinking manager, and England Test cricketer, and they're going for caps, coloured caps. No. UN peacekeeper a…
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  • Motor Morphers
    …ials and a limited amount of time before putting their construction to the test.
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  • Weaver's Week 2013-12-29
    …e shows that divided opinion. [[Britain's Brightest]] was a bold effort to test various forms of intelligence, let down by some dubious production decisio…
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  • Poll of the Year 2013
    …tal Maze| Crystal Maze]]), and perhaps it was at the wrong time - a mental test is perhaps not welcome in the slot most casual viewers now associate with …
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  • Reflex
    Two teams of three family members compete in five rounds that test speed and reactions. We'll see people falling through eight-foot balloons,…
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  • Weaver's Week 2014-02-16
    Being a winter sports programme, it was always going to test various winter sports. Sliding down an ice slope on a tea-tray, and on som… Ski-jumping was presented as a test of distance, but it appears there was a style element as well. This was dr…
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  • Weaver's Week 2014-03-23
    …C Trust, but the head and shoulders of a dummy. This is a purely technical test, and the competitors are ranked in order. "A thorough dope test," is what we're promised this week. The '''Scribblers''' are [[Charlie Bro…
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  • Weaver's Week 2014-03-30
    …tions they would need to place. In this question, they would be allowed to test answers as often as they wanted until they got all five right; a score of …
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  • Weaver's Week 2014-04-06
    …Daniel Peake takes on a Mystery Challenger in fifteen challenges that will test them mentally, physically, and psychologically. More at [http://www.bother…
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  • Weaver's Week 2014-04-27
    "Luck has nothing to do with it," remarks host John Humphrys. It's a test of nerve, knowledge, and - well, yes - a bit of luck in getting questions … …osted by Humpty from ''Play School''. Rounds included The Old Grey Whistle Test, in which a group of old men (including Jonny Ball and Denis Taylor) whist…
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  • Weaver's Week 2014-05-04
    …stant, all they know is that they'll face a physical exercise and a mental test on the route to the riches. …d start, one correct answer in the quiz, three repetitions in the physical test. Always, Paddy splutters "Is that it?" with a snort of derision. Was he ex…
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  • Weaver's Week 2014-05-11
    …eir wires crossed, and sent an entry for ''The Eurovision Old Grey Whistle Test''. "Three minutes to Earth" is three minutes of prog rock weirdness, it's …
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  • Weaver's Week 2014-07-27
    …&ndash; Members of the public have a week to learn a brand new skill, then test it in front of a live studio audience. Fantastic prizes await. But before …
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  • Weaver's Week 2015-10-11
    [[File:Bank job s2 test card.jpg|400px|The Almost Impossible Gameshow]] * ''The Eureka Moment'': Two couples test their scientific knowledge, facing dangerous tasks. Good to see CBBC's Ult…
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  • Weaver's Week 2014-08-10
    …]] without the pantomime, this show popularised innovations like the Bleep Test and the Batak Wall. In lesser hands, this could have been deathly dull, bu…
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  • Weaver's Week 2014-08-17
    … and tools and opportunities to meet their goals. Life is a perpetual beta test: try, fail, amend, repeat. …sed gambling syndicate. We cannot rule out the possibility. But nor can we test that theory. There's no way to contact everyone who voted in the final few…
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  • Bad Bridesmaid
    …ity hybrid that puts patience, perceptions and friendships to the ultimate test with hilarious and heart-warming consequences."
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  • TV Guide 2014-09-06
    …ctivity around the fringes. The new appalong show '''[[Pyramid]]''' gets a test run (S4C, 5.25 Mon), '''[[Just a Minute]]''' reaches episode 900 (Radio 4,…
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  • Weaver's Week 2014-09-07
    The new appalong show [[Pyramid]] gets a test run (S4C, 5.25 Mon), [[Just a Minute]] reaches episode 900 (Radio 4, 6.30 …
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  • Weaver's Week 2014-10-12
    According to the ITV blurb, all this is designed to test friendships to breaking point. And again, we don't quite see how this happ…
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  • Weaver's Week 2014-10-19
    '''The Algorithm''': A player sits a 100-question test before a computer. The player's team are to predict the player's answers t…
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  • Parlour Games
    * '''Memory Test''' (National Programme, 13 August 1939), host Freddie Grisewood. * '''A.R.P. General Knowledge Test''' (Home Service, 24 September 1939)
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  • Weaver's Week 2014-11-30
    [[Mastermind]] continued. "The ultimate test of nerve and knowledge" claimed the host, betraying his trademark cavalier…
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  • Weaver's Week 2014-12-07
    …id tie-breaks, and helps the show to come out on time. And there's a small test of memory &ndash; teams are expected to remember questions the others pass… …en for a right answer, the question dies if a wrong answer's given. It's a test of buzzer speed and chancing one's arm from very short snippets.
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  • Weaver's Week 2014-12-21
    …es began with an apology from the continuity announcer, and ended with the test card and a tone. …s for the Gamesmasters on the first players to reach multiple centuries in Test cricket. Butler and Kennedy? We're not talking Willow's dates in ''Buffy''…
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  • TV Guide 2015-01-17
    *'''The Personality Test''' (Radio 4 Extra, 9am and 6pm) Janet Street-Porter. First outing on 4x fo…
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  • TV Guide 2015-01-24
    *'''The Personality Test''' (Radio 4 Extra, 9am and 6pm) Lorraine Kelly.
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  • TV Guide 2015-02-14
    *'''The Personality Test''' (Radio 4 Extra, 9am and 6pm) Toyah Willcox.
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  • TV Guide 2015-01-31
    *'''The Personality Test''' (Radio 4 Extra, 9am and 6pm) Andrew Neil. CAUTION: contains Andrew Neil…
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  • TV Guide 2015-02-07
    *'''The Personality Test''' (Radio 4 Extra, 9am and 6pm) Edwina Currie.
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  • TV Guide 2015-02-21
    *'''The Personality Test''' (Radio 4 Extra, 9am and 6pm) Eve Pollard.
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  • Weaver's Week 2015-03-01
    The programme could test people's memory of the really obscure moments, those the producers tried t…
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  • Wild Things
    …e are a couple of races involving all the animals at once. There's a skill test in which the human is in deadly peril and can only be saved by their anima…
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  • Weaver's Week 2016-07-10
    …h the war in Iraq, he faced criticism in his own cabinet and a significant test at elections in June.
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  • Weaver's Week 2015-05-10
    Next up comes a test of upper-body strength. This week, it's a ring hang. Move rings from peg t… The final test is another fixture: the Warped Wall. This starts flat, rapidly becomes ver…
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  • The Box
    The best dish in this second test allows host James Martin to decide who wins the coveted Cook of the Day aw…
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  • Weaver's Week 2015-06-14
    …experience/ there are gifts to entice people] to spend now, consume later. Test the games for &pound;25, attend the red carpet opening night for &pound;10…
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  • Weaver's Week 2015-07-19
    …omen was about men. A prime-time commission that does not pass the Bechdel test? Quite remarkable. …ng lives, without a single man in sight. The show doesn't pass the Bechdel test, but the commercial just might? Strange days indeed.
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  • Rebound
    Inspired by the bleep test used by athletes, apparently. …r replacement for [[The Chase]] alongside [[Freeze Out]] in August 2015 to test out new quiz formats. It was recommissioned for a second series and aired …
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  • Weaver's Week 2015-08-16
    …wed a clip of a feud on [[Gamesmaster]], but failed the basic journalistic test. What's the story here? Let's recap. Dave Perry and Dominik Diamond had eg… …or]] where they abseil down the BBC buildings in Salford, the intelligence test is replaced by a Make-Off, and the questions come from Sam and Mark.
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  • Weaver's Week 2015-08-23
    …Flockstars'' works. Take some celebrities. Give them a new skill to learn. Test them on this skill. Make it so that if things go wrong, they go wrong in a… "'''Test them on this skill'''." Eventually, they wend their way to the "Flockstars…
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  • TV Guide 2015-09-26
    *'''Blink''' (C4, 12.05am) A test of musical knowledge and reaction speed. This week, Joel Dommett (from BBC…
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  • Eternal Glory
    …g into the sea? The winners in this round took an advantage to part two, a test of controlling one's body - heart rate, or balancing on team-mates. The wo… The night duel was a test of patience and concentration. For example, two players would stare at fiv…
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  • Weaver's Week 2015-10-04
    …than playalong [[In It to Win It]] did on the red button in 2003. But as a test ground for the technology, a way to prove the development is working and l…
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  • TV Guide 2015-10-17
    *'''Eternal Glory''' (ITV, 8pm; UTV 11.10) A test of strength endurance over water, a gruelling team event and a sporting ve…
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  • Weaver's Week 2015-10-25
    …tly revealing questions, as was the way on confession-box chat show ''Star Test'' circa 1990.
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  • The Great Pottery Throw Down
    …heel (often several of the same thing within a time limit) and the '''spot test''' in which the contestants are given something already made to decorate o… …Dancing on Ice]] pro skater Sylvain Longchambon, who modelled for the spot test in the final.
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  • Weaver's Week 2015-11-15
    This second test might be of co-ordination, or ability to control heart rate, or something … …dentified in parts 2 and 3, takes place at night. It's the "Night Duel", a test of extreme patience and reaction speed. At some point tonight, something w…
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  • Weaver's Week 2015-11-22
    …iginal title '3000'?" The offer of "Sleepless in Seattle" passes the smell test, it's a film that people have heard of.
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  • Weaver's Week 2015-11-29
    …e can hear it in a Disney Channel remake of Snow White, so passes the Cool test. We can hear Eastern echoes, which will help the Eastern bias of the conte…
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  • Weaver's Week 2015-12-20
    ''The Krypton Factor'' is an all-round test to find the United Kingdom Superperson. It wasn't enough to be physically … ''Ninja Warrior UK'' is an all-round test to find the best athlete in the country. Get from the start to the finish,…
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  • Got What It Takes?
    …ter-ball skittles, penalties against the England goalie. Whoever wins this test pushes their child into the final slot. Kevin Adams motivates like a tough…
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  • First Class Chefs
    The press release said that the series would test menu selection, food knowledge, buying, cooking, and mass production. All …
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  • Weaver's Week 2016-01-03
    …e Brain]]''', joined the early evening rotation &ndash; it had stumpers to test everything except trivia knowledge. Between this show and ''1000 Heartbeat…
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  • The Getaway Car
    Five couples test their driving skills on specially-made courses. The best couple races The … Dermot keeps saying how ''The Getaway Car'' is "the ultimate relationship test". We don't see this - we do see lots of people getting somewhat stressed w…
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  • Weaver's Week 2016-01-31
    … in one simple way. It's not about singing. It's not about dancing. It's a test of showmanship. We don't need to hear [[David Walliams]] sing. In fact, we…
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  • Weaver's Week 2016-02-14
    When reviewing a panel game, we use the "six laughs" test. If the show causes us to laugh six times in a 30-minute episode, it's a c…
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  • Weaver's Week 2016-02-21
    Dermot O'Leary is the host, and he promises "the ultimate relationship test". So it's going to be an hour of people sitting around in their room, open… So, what has this got to do with relationships? Does this test the dynamic of the couple, work out who drives and who navigates? Or does …
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  • Weaver's Week 2016-03-06
    Does it succeed? Just about: we passed the six laughs test in the closing minutes of two sample episodes. Could it work as a show for…
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  • Weaver's Week 2016-03-13
    …there no way to link the children's dance task with some sort of dexterity test for their mothers? We got only the most tenuous links to performing popsta…
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  • Weaver's Week 2016-04-03
    …y works of Bill Frindall. One of the questions was about Andy Lloyd, whose Test career lasted about 30 minutes before being hit on the head. The round's a…
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  • TV Guide 2016-04-23
    *'''Masterchef''' (BBC1, 8.30) Relay invention test.
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  • Weaver's Week 2016-04-24
    …art of the television furniture. There are rituals &ndash; the mystery box test, the food science challenge, "cooking doesn't get tougher than this". Seri… The basic idea is the Mystery Box test from ''Masterchef''. Take three cooks. Give them the same box of ingredien…
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  • Weaver's Week 2016-06-19
    …outube.com/watch?v=zMLE7a3faI4 Black Hole]''' was the Elimination match, a test of logic. On a triangle grid of length six, there are 21 spots. Each playe…
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  • Weaver's Week 2016-07-03
    ''The egg test shows it's yolkful.'' …ut. And the whole show has a feelgood factor, people doing silly things to test their ingenuity for no reward other than a golden hammer.
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  • TV Guide 2016-08-27
    *'''Pointless Celebrities''' (BBC1, 5.50) Test Match Special special. From 29 August last year.
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  • Top Class
    Also in the show is "Test the Teacher", Calman's self-confessed favourite round - classroom staff ar… Watching the teachers attempt the 'Test the Teacher' round. The results have been variable; some have done very we…
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  • Trycar
    …urpose. The best competitor will win further instruction and sit their LGV test. The assessment's taken by experienced examiner Rusel Jones, with input fr…
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  • Weaver's Week 2016-10-02
    The questions are written for children at the top of primary school. They test things covered by that age. For the CBBC target audience &ndash; a younger… [[File:Top class test teacher.jpg|400px|Top Class]]
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  • Weaver's Week 2016-10-09
    The offer on ''Go for It'' is simple. Complete a difficult test of your skills in the time allowed, and win &pounds;1000. Fail, and you'll…
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  • Weaver's Week 2016-10-16
    …s have done better. In a test of skill, there is no room for fortune. In a test of precision, ''My Kitchen Rules'' is once again sloppy and itchy.
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  • Weaver's Week 2017-01-01
    …uestions from Susan Calman, the starter-and-bonus structure is leavened by Test the Teacher, the team's Pet Subjects, and a quickfire buzzer round at the …
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  • Weaver's Week 2017-02-26
    …n a role on ''The Next Step'', and competitors were given precise tasks to test all of the skills. Can they dance. Can they act. Can they improvise. Can t…
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  • 5 Gold Rings
    The final is one question: either a test of memory, or a prediction. The team with more money chooses whether to pl…
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  • TV Guide 2017-03-25
    *'''Masterchef''' (BBC1, 8.30) Amol Rajan sets a celebrity test.
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  • Me and My Dog (2)
    …trust each other, can the humans think like their dog, and an intelligence test. The tests may be good visuals, but they're also rigorous. This paddleboard test asks whether the dog trusts the human to keep the board stable, and whethe…
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  • TV Guide 2017-04-01
    …' (BBC2, Tue) has a new host. '''[[Me and My Dog (2)]]''' (BBC2, Wed) is a test of dog, human, and Chris Packham. There are new episodes of '''[[Pointless… *'''Me and My Dog''' (BBC2, 8pm) Chris Packham hosts a test of dog and man united.
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