Eggheads

It's not been on TV for some time. Someone mentioned eggheads in another thread. Saying that some of them were thick. I was just thinking, as you do, who from Wigan World would make a good egghead?

I used to watch Egg Yeds but I got sick of it, but there was a time I wouldn't have minded having a go on The Chase, but not now.

It's difficult to tell who on here would make a good Egg Yed because we all have different general knowledge stored up from years of useless (and useful) information locked in our memories. Some may be good at films, for instance, but I'd be useless. Some will be lousy at history, but I'm pretty good at the old Kings and Queens, and so on and so on.

Who would you choose, First Mate?

Like you say Mollie we all have a basic knowledge but on the day it depends on the questions. I can remember once while on holiday doing a quiz in the hotel and answering most of the questions and winning a bottle of plonk. I sit having my breakfast and do a crossword and its a good job the answers are at the back of the book. Any I don't know I put a circle round the question and on average don't know the answer to maybe 8. Most sports/celebrities I have no interest in so I would be no good on any game show

Walter Hurst from Hindley appeared regularly on there with his team of clog makers

tonker would make a good egghead.
Imagine. his intro
my name is Tonkington Smythe, tonker for short. I,m from 'adock,
not Snellins, that's a different place altogether laaaike. My specialist subject are
Geographical borders in NW England, Solar Energy in Spain. The history of Pimbllets pies and the history of Sloppy Peys. And of course everything else.

walter hurst used to frequent hindley tory club regularly in the nineties.
ps im not a tory.I used to take my missus in on thursdays for the bingo.David Atherton did the calling.

Walters team was called The Mugwumps.

Sonlyme I got barred from there in the 90s I went in for the 1st and final time to a do and turned the Queens photo at the top of the stairs to the wall twice and got my marching orders lol.

Retro 1949...remember Walter well...still meet up with his daughter now and again and her mad
Australian husband . That Eeediot egg yed used to annoy me...forget his name but he liked trains...the Anorak ..

Mr Biker, wasn't that Chris? He's dead now. I stopped watching when that snotty woman with the dark hair came on. Couldn't stand her, and I didn't like it when they kept adding more to their team.

As to The Chase, Peter's right about it depending on the questions on the day of filming as they are random. Many a time I can get 7 or 8 questions right asked of one contestant, then fewer with the next contestant. Sports, politics and celebrities are my downfall, and kids' programmes, so it's a matter of pot luck but, when a really simple question is asked and they give a stupid answer, I just roll up my eyes.