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Australian Quiz Champion
In the late 1940s and 1950s the Australian National Quiz Championships were run and broadcast live by ABC Radio. The quiz was arranged to promote the federal government's security loans for post-war reconstruction. Since 2007 the Australian Quiz Championship has been run by Quizzing Australia in conjunction with the World Quizzing Championship The World Quizzing Championships is an individual quiz contest organised by the International Quizzing Association (the umbrella organisation of various quizzing organisations from more than 25 countries around the world). The competition has bee .... Winners Individual Multiple individual titles *9 - Issa Schultz *3 - Ross Evans Pairs Teams External links Quizzing AustraliaWorld Quizzing Championship References {{Reflist Quiz games Trivia competitions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ABC Radio And Regional Content
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is the national broadcaster of Australia. It is principally funded by direct grants from the Australian Government and is administered by a government-appointed board. The ABC is a publicly-owned body that is politically independent and fully accountable, with its charter enshrined in legislation, the ''Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983''. ABC Commercial, a profit-making division of the corporation, also helps to generate funding for content provision. The ABC was established as the Australian Broadcasting Commission on 1 July 1932 by an act of federal parliament. It effectively replaced the Australian Broadcasting Company, a private company established in 1924 to provide programming for A-class radio stations. The ABC was given statutory powers that reinforced its independence from the government and enhanced its news-gathering role. Modelled after the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), which is funded by a televi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Quizzing Championship
The World Quizzing Championships is an individual quiz contest organised by the International Quizzing Association (the umbrella organisation of various quizzing organisations from more than 25 countries around the world). The competition has been staged annually since (since 2004 in more than one country simultaneously) with an increasing number of contestants from an increasing number of nations. Since 2006, the competition has been staged on the first Saturday of every June. As of 2022, Pat Gibson and Jesse Honey, both from England, hold the title for the highest-scoring quizzers with 186 out of 240 total points. Format The World Quizzing Championships are in the form of a written test taken by individuals that is conducted at various points around the globe. Each competitor faces the same questions (translated into their mother tongue in many cases) at approximately the same time. There are 240 questions, divided into eight categories, and are given out in two packs of four ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Issa Schultz
Issa Schultz (born 1 March 1984) is an English-born Australian television quiz personality best known for being one of the "chasers" on ''The Chase Australia'', where he is nicknamed "The Supernerd". In addition to his current role on ''The Chase Australia'', Schultz is also a nine-time winner of the Australian Quizzing Championships (2011, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022) and seven-time Pairs champion (2012–17, 2020). He also appeared on '' The Rich List'', where he won $200,000 in 2009, as well as ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?'' and ''The Einstein Factor''. His name Issa is an Arabic version of the name "Jesus", which he was named after a best friend of his parents when they worked in Qatar in the 1970s. Schultz and his family moved to Australia from Britain in 1995. They settled in Tewantin, Queensland and Schultz attended Noosa District State High School. He was one of the four school captains in 2001. In 2017, Schultz appeared as a celebrity contest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brydon Coverdale
Brydon Coverdale (born 19 September 1981) is an Australian television quiz program personality best known for being one of the "chasers" on ''The Chase Australia'', where he is nicknamed "The Shark". Coverdale grew up in Camperdown in Victoria and attended Mercy Regional College. In later life he moved to the city to study journalism. He is a fan of sport, particularly cricket. Prior to ''The Chase Australia'', Coverdale appeared on several other Australian quiz programs, including ''Million Dollar Minute'' where he won $307,000 in 2014. He became the first grand champion of '' Pass the Buck'' where he won $38,788 in 2002. He also won a total of $32,000 on ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?'', appeared on ''The Weakest Link'' in 2001, ''Deal or No Deal'' in 2005 and was a quarter-finalist on ''Letters and Numbers'' in 2011. He has also appeared on ''Sale of the Century'' and ''Wheel of Fortune''. Coverdale also worked as a reporter and assistant editor at ''ESPNcricinfo'', a new ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quiz Games
A quiz is a form of game or mind sport in which players attempt to answer questions correctly on one or several specific topics. Quizzes can be used as a brief assessment in education and similar fields to measure growth in knowledge, abilities, or skills. They can also be televised for entertainment purposes, often in a game show format. Etymology The earliest known examples of the word date back to 1780; its etymology is unknown, but it may have originated in student slang. It initially meant an "odd, eccentric person" or a "joke, hoax". Later (perhaps by association with words such as "inquisitive") it came to mean "to observe, study intently", and thence (from about mid-19th century) "test, exam." There is a well-known myth about the word ''quiz'' that says that in 1791 a Dublin theatre owner named Richard Daly made a bet that he could introduce a word into the language within 24 hours. He then went out and hired a group of street children to write the word "quiz", which w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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