The Saturday Quiz

Jo Dyer and James Galea have both been on the podcast before, but this is the first time they have appeared together. They have a long working relationship and it shows with how well they compliment each other at the quiz. James is the creator and star of the new comedy 'The Crew's Ship' which Jo produced. It is a very funny insider's account of life on a cruise ship inspired by James' experiences...

If you’ve swiped past a satirical news headline in this country and it wasn’t the Betoota Advocate, there’s a good chance at least one of the guests on this episode was in some way responsible.  Charles Firth is a founding member of the Chaser and James Schloeffel created The Shovel. Since 2015 they join forces to create a live wrap up of the year that's been and tour to stages all around the...

Two of Australia's musical theatre queens team up to take on the quiz in this episode. Lucy Durack and Elise McCann talk about everything from trips to the zoo and tertiary education to singing the anthem and meeting royalty. Get yourself a pep-talk in your pocket with the "Hey Lemonade" app, created by Lucy and Elise: https://www.heylemonade.com.au This podcast is made on the land belonging to th...

Dean Thomas and David Ferrier are two commercial radio voices slumming it on a quiz podcast to promote their hilarious new short animated series 'Childish Deano'. Loosely inspired by Dean's childhood and animated by David, the series is about a rambunctious 8-year-old boy with a grown man’s voice and heart of gold. It’s for anyone who went through their childhood blissfully unaware of the challeng...

The guests this week are no strangers to quizzes, given that Marc Fennell hosts the tv show Mastermind , while Michael Hing is the host of Celebrity Letters and Numbers . Nor are they strangers to podcasts in general, with both of them managing to segue from podcasts to our screens with Marc transforming his award winning Stuff the British Stole into a riveting six part tv series, hitting screens...

David Strassman has been entertaining audiences and revolutionising ventriloquism for decades. But what's his general knowledge like? Well... motorsport isn't a strong suit. And singers born in the former country of Yugoslavia isn't something he knows a great deal about. And a children's book series set in Connecticut eludes him. But other than that... Get tickets to David's shows here: https://ww...

If you’ve watched any ABC comedy in the last few years, it’s highly likely that you’ve seen this week's guests.  Annie Maynard played Bess on Upper Middle Bogan and Alison Bell was Audrey on The Letdown . And if you watched Summer Love on the ABC on Wednesday night, you would’ve seen them finally getting to work together playing sisters! Catch their episode of Summer Love here: https://iview....

This week, coming up with the answers is something of a reversal of what the guests usually do. Alex Lee normally asks the questions on the ABC quiz show “Win the Week”  And Alexei Toliopoulos spends his time investigating the puzzles and enigmas on the “Finding” series of podcasts, the third season of which "Finding Yeezus" sees the podcast transform into a web series. Find "Finding Yeezus"...

Long time listeners will recall that in July 2021 Virginia Gay and Robin Goldsworthy appeared on the podcast in anticipation of the opening night of the Melbourne Theatre Company’s production of 'Cyrano'. Unfortunately, thanks to a snap lockdown in Melbourne, that season was cancelled at the eleventh hour. This time, I have waited until the play has actually, definitely opened before I get them on...

It’s no secret that I am a huge fan of Shaun Micallef’s Mad as Hell. Its fifteen seasons across ten years are some of the best political satire ever to grace our television screens. Sadly, that all came to an end on Wednesday night when the final ever episode went to air. But it was particularly sad for today's guests, who now find themselves slightly more unemployed than tv comedy writers usually...

Dr Simon Longstaff is the Executive Director and Dr Tim Dean is Senior Philosopher at The Ethics Centre which is presenting the Festival of Dangerous Ideas at Carriageworks in Sydney this weekend. Seeing as they're both philosophers, they're obviously deep thinkers, but how is their knowledge of trivia? Well, it's quite good, actually. Lots of value-adding in this episode of the Quiz. They even ma...

Welcome to the ONE HUNDREDTH EPISODE of The Saturday Quiz. Joining John for this milestone are Julia Zemiro and Brian Nankervis. They've been on the show a number of times and always have the answers ready. But this quiz is a little trickier than most. This podcast is made on the land belonging to the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and ac...

One of the powerhouse couples of Australian tv comedy. Robyn Butler and Wayne hope are both actors, writers and directors - they do it all! Responsible for the shows The Librarians, Very Small Business and Upper Middle Bogan , as well as their newest show which you can watch on ABC or iview right now Summer Lov e. There are anecdotes aplenty on this episode, and very occasionally a correct answer...

Guy Edmonds and Matt Zeremes have many strings to their bows. They're actors, writers, directors and award winning tv show creators. Recently, they've also become children's book authors. The second instalment in their Zombie Diaries series hits bookshelves on the 7th of September, but you can pre-order now. The one thing they seem not to be much good at, however, is quizzes! It is tough going for...

You would know Fiona and Georgina from their multiple roles on television. Right now, they're both appearing on stage in the Melbourne Theatre Company production of Laurinda . Based on the novel by Alice Pung, Laurinda tells the story of a woman going back to the '90's and re-living her teenage years when she was the recipient of a scholarship to a prestigious private school. It’s a satire of iden...

In a Saturday Quiz first, these guests have never met before. How does that affect their teamwork? Well, they're both quite polite, so James and Stevie are more than happy to let each other have a turn at each of the questions. Stevie has co-written 'Sweet As' which is a coming-of-age road movie set in the Out Back. And James is the director of 'Volcano Man', a moving documentary about his relatio...

The Melbourne International Film Festival has just opened, so on this episode, John is joined by two people who have a show in the festival. Stef Smith is the director and Ana Maria Belo is the lead in the Australian series "It's Fine, I'm Fine" which is having its Australian premiere at MIFF. They start the quiz with a bang and slightly go off the rails at the end. But that's ok. Plenty of hints...

It's not an official podcast crossover, but Kate Jinx and Brodie Lancaster are the co-hosts of See Also - a podcast where they connect the dots of pop culture in wide-ranging chat that takes in movies, music, television and much, much more. Unfortunately for them, there aren't a great many pop culture related questions in this week's quiz. That doesn't really stop them though. Listen to See Also o...

Mark and Geri are two of the nicest people you could ever hope to meet. You'd know them from being on the telly. But what you might not know is that they've just made a movie together. Mark wrote and directed and Geri produced. They're also really quite competent at the quiz. This is their second go at it and just like last time, they do really well. This podcast is made on the land belonging to t...

Last time she was on this podcast, Vidya shared the piece of trivia about Mark Twain being born and dying in the years that Halley's Comet passed by Earth. This time, she shares a very interesting detail about another famous writer. She is joined in this episode by Stephen Nicolazzo, who just directed Vidya's stage adaptation of the classic Australian novel "Looking For Alibrandi". It's on at the...

Stephen Hall is a former Grand Champion from the television quiz show "Temptation" (which was the name they chose when they re-booted "Sale of the Century"), so the expectations were quite high that he would do well at this quiz. He had plenty of help from his "Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell" fellow cast member, Tosh Greenslade who is a self-confessed fact spouter and has many personal connections t...

Chris is one of the original member of the satirical news group The Chaser and Damon is an actor who you can see in the upcoming film Nude Tuesday which is in an entirely made-up language. They're old friends, so expect a lot of backhanded compliments as they take on this week's quiz. If you'd like to come to The Saturday Paper x MIFF Quiz Night, please click on the link below. https://events.huma...

Neither of the guests this week have been nominated for a Logie - but at least one of them should have been. Fayssal Bazzi and Gareth Davies are two of the hardest working actors in the country. You can catch Gary in Baz Lurhmann's Elvis right now. And you'll be able to see Fayssal in AppleTV+'s "Shantaram" as soon as it gets released. They start very strong at the quiz with some personal connecti...

Reclink Australia is a body that provides evidence-based sport and art programs to disadvantaged Australians to create socially inclusive, life-changing opportunities. Their biggest fundraising event is the Community Cup football match between a team made up of musicians and performing artists - the Rockdogs, and a team made up of radio station staff, print media and television personalities - the...

Brydon Coverdale is literally a quiz show professional, appearing as one of the chasers on The Chase Australia, after being a contestant on just about every other quiz show on offer - and he has also just published a book, The Quiz Masters : Inside the World of Trivia , Obsession and Million Dollar Prizes . So it's no surprise that he does very well at this quiz. Justin Hamilton is an award w...