The Saturday Quiz

Damienne Pradier and Tony Briggs play their cards pretty close to their chests. They both had early early careers in completely different fields before pivoting into film and television production. Damienne was an artist and a jeweller and Tony was a track and field athlete. What is numismatics the study or collection of? Who is the author of the book A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to...

For this episode, John is joined by Jonathan Biggins, an actor, writer, director and comedian probably best known for his performances in The Wharf Review over the course of the last two decades, where - for comic effect - he pretended to be various politicians. While his other guest doesn’t need to pretend to be a politician, because she actually is one. Tanya Plibersek was elected to the House o...

Brother and sister Ashley and Wendy Zukerman grew up in Melbourne, but now call New York home. Ashley is an actor whose credits include Succession, Manhattan and he has recently been announced as the titular character of the new Langdon tv series. Wendy is no stranger to podcasts. She is the host of the long-running Science Vs . podcast from Gimlet media which takes on fads, trends and the op...

Actors and real-life married couple Kate Mulvany and Hamish Michael take on the ten questions from the quiz this week. Kate is a longtime fan of the show, but Hamish doesn’t know what he’s in for. Not many of the questions are correctly answered with the first guess, but they get there eventually. Which is the least populated of New York City's five boroughs? The Spanish Riding School is in which...

For the first time on the podcast, John is joined by three guests: Scod, Yon and Gatesy who make up the comedy trio Tripod. There’s a healthy amount of competition amongst these guys and even a little cheating - which is dealt with swiftly and decisively. Quite a few correct answers are somehow stumbled upon, but mostly after a lot of hints. How much does it cost to send a regular letter or postca...

John is joined by comedians Chris Ryan and Luke Heggie as they take on the ten questions in the quiz. It’s a tough one this week, with a few geography questions and a particularly tricky chemistry one. They do manage to get a couple of the early ones… but thereafter, they get a little lost. The winner of the US Masters golf tournament is presented with a jacket of what colour? Punta Gallinas, the...

Josh Earl and Ben Lomas take a moment away from their own podcasts to take on the Saturday Quiz. And even though Josh was once the host of Spicks and Specks, they fall at the first hurdle which is a music question. It’s pretty smooth sailing thereafter though, so they certainly don’t disgrace themselves. What aircraft has not been flown commercially since October 2003? Which country last month won...

What do you get when you take two journalists who’ve known each other since high school, and ask them a bunch of general knowledge questions?  You get a cracking good episode of The Saturday Quiz. Jacqueline Maley and Jordan Baker sail through this quiz with barely a misstep.  What is the name of the pilgrimage to Mecca that is one of the Five Pillars of Islam? What is 11 cubed? And what...

This week, John is joined by two small town gals made good in the big city, Geraldine Hickey and Kirsty Webeck. They may not know anything about opera, and their sense of geography is all over the place, but they make up for it with hilarious anecdotes about getting piercings in the back of a bus and revelations of debutant balls. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-saturday-quiz . Th...

Coinciding with the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, this week’s guests are 100% comedians and 50% international. Alex Ward hails from Queensland, but Lloyd Langford is completely Welsh - he even knows why the leek is the Welsh national emblem! Together they do extremely well at the quiz and supply many hilarious additional facts along the way.  Support this show http://supporter.acas...

Joining John this episode are a magician and an actor. Can they pull an answer out of a hat? Or just act like they know what they're talking about? James Galea and Charlotte Nicdao do their best with questions about Australian Prime Ministers, triangles, and collective nouns. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-saturday-quiz . This podcast is made on the land belonging to the Wurundje...

The tables are turned on Julia Zemiro and Brian Nankervis who are more used to asking the questions than answering them. But the host and co-creator and adjudicator-where-necessary of the long running and much loved music based quiz show, RocKwiz do exceedingly well at The Saturday Quiz, ignorance of furniture, royalty and the NFL notwithstanding. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-s...

Award winning brand strategist, Lucy Cochran and her husband - also an award winner - actor, writer, singer, composer Eddie Perfect, take on the ten questions in the quiz this week. There are no questions on Eddie's expert subject of Broadway musicals, but there is a question about cricket - which his first musical was about. In fact, the only question that really stumps them is which actress link...

Not content with having had one host of The Feed as a guest last week, this week John is joined by Alex Lee and her partner, actor Benedict Hardie. They're lucky enough to get the nerdiest sport question in the history of the quiz and Benedict also makes use of his knowledge of the lyrics of Weird Al Yankovic. But do they know the year that the Queen called her Annus Horribilis ? Support this show...

Taking the quiz this week is actor and writer Virginia Gay, who isn’t a “mollydooker” and doesn’t know what one is, and newly announced host of Mastermind on SBS Marc Fennell who, despite having a Walkley award, was under the misconception that the vaccine making company CSL was the same company as the sugar producer CSR. They make quite a few diversions on their way to the answers - but ultimatel...

The brain power of the guests, Tim Ferguson and Maynard, are severely tested in this first episode of the second season of The Saturday Quiz. They have almost zero knowledge of New Zealand autobiographers, and even less knowledge regarding Netball. But they can give you their opinions of James Bond songs... it's just a pity that there aren't any questions on that subject. Support this show http://...

That's right! The Saturday Quiz will be back for a second season! With new guests and some of your favourites from season 1. Hit subscribe wherever get you get your podcasts so you never miss an episode. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-saturday-quiz . This podcast is made on the land belonging to the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation. We pay our respect to their elders past an...

Four times as many questions plus two times as many guests equals more laughs than it’s possible to quantify. In this final episode of The Saturday Quiz, two teams of returning guests - Zoë Coombs Marr and Kate Jinx, and Sarah Snook and Dave Lawson - go up against each other in the ultimate battle of general knowledge. How does Dave’s expert category of “colours” fare against Zoë’s encyclopedic ma...

The two guests joining John on this season’s penultimate episode are show business royalty. Mitchell Butel is an actor, singer and the artistic director of the State Theatre Company of South Australia, and Nancye Hayes AM is currently starring in Mitchell’s production of the play Ripcord to socially-distanced packed houses. Nancye was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in 2014 for signif...

Artists Amrita Hepi and Jason Phu do extremely well at the quiz, even though the one question in Arita’s expert category nearly trips her up. We never find out what Jason’s expert category might be, but he does know what colour Mickey Mouse’s shoes are and which part of the body tinnitus affects. He also thinks Nicholas Nickelby sounds like the name of an annoying person. Guests: Artist and dancer...

Try as they might, old friends Agatha Gothe-Snape and Alison Bell just can’t seem to find the answers to the questions in this week’s quiz. But there’s plenty of laughter along the way as the artist and actor struggle to name Australia’s deputy opposition leader, the solar system’s hottest planet, and the No.1-ranked golfer in the world. Guests: Artist Agatha Gothe-Snape and actor Alison Bell Supp...

The outgoing artistic directors of Sydney Festival and the Australian Ballet, Wesley Enoch and David McAllister, combine forces to battle against their impending irrelevance, by doing extremely well at the quiz. Whether it’s questions about WWII tanks or Greek mythology, these two pass with flying colours. They even ace the sports question. But like everyone else, they come undone with geography....

In this episode, writer, actor, activist, and recently one of Who magazine’s sexiest people of 2020, Nakkiah Lui and her tv editor husband, Gabe Dowrick, tell us how many teeth an adult human should have, figure out which European nation owns the Dodecanese islands, and discuss the number of presidents of the United States who have died in office. Guests:  Nakkiah Lui and Gabe Dowrick Backgro...

Emily Barclay and Tom Ward like going to amusement parks. But Emily is too scared to go on any of the roller-coasters, so Tom has to do so on her behalf. Their approach to the quiz is much the same. Tom goes hurtling towards answers he clearly doesn’t know, while Emily chimes in from a safe distance. The daffodil is the national flower of which British country? What nationality was Hans Christian...

Besides complaining about how much harder their questions are compared with previous episodes, Australian actors Damon Herriman and Brendan Cowell do manage to get some clean answers away. But they don’t know what’s made in the Dutch city of Delft, nor what branch of zoology ornithology deals with, nor the novelist who wrote ‘Fahrenheit 451’. They can tell you all about luge in Queenstown, New Zea...