Rosie and Nicola Dempsey are sisters. They are also very clever comedians. Together, they are known as Flo and Joan. For a pair of Brits, they do very well at a quiz with more than a few questions about particularly Australian things - like the name of the new premier of Tasmania, the Australian cricketer who was player of the tournament at the 2022 ICC Women's World Cup, and which NSW town has an annual Elvis Festival. See their show "Sweet Relief" at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival...
Apr 15, 2022•32 min•Season 3Ep. 11
They're back again! Julia and Brian are the very well quiz credentialed stars of The Really, Really Good Friday Rockwiz Special, on at Hamer Hall in Melbourne on Good Friday. This is their third appearance on The Saturday Quiz and they really, really couldn't have done better. With questions ranging from music to mathematics to the countries bordering Thailand, they come through with all the answers. https://www.artscentremelbourne.com.au/whats-on/2022/contemporary-music/rockwiz-really-really-go...
Apr 08, 2022•36 min•Season 3Ep. 10
Given that the Melbourne International Comedy Festival has just opened, it seemed appropriate to have two international comedians take on the quiz this week. Cal Wilson has been in Melbourne for several years, but at the time of recording, Mark Watson had only been in the country for twelve hours. This presents a challenge, as there are quite a few questions about Australia in this quiz. https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2022/shows/i-ve-gone-to-a-lot-of-trouble Support this show http://supporter...
Apr 01, 2022•27 min•Season 3Ep. 9
Floyd and Cameron are both comedians with shows coming up at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. On this episode, they come up against quite a few very tricky questions. But both of them manage to shine with some individual brilliance. Floyd draws on her high school French and Cameron knows more than a thing or two about the films of Will Smith. Catch their shows here: https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2022/shows/highly-strung https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2022/shows/electric-dreams...
Mar 25, 2022•35 min•Season 3Ep. 8
Tripod return to the quiz to put their collaborative efforts to the test. Scod is in danger of having his "nerd" credentials revoked. Yon knows the colour of a literary dog. And Gatesy isn't so sure that his contribution can be counted as a whole person. https://3pod.com.au Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-saturday-quiz . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Mar 18, 2022•28 min•Season 3Ep. 7
in this episode, award winning comedians Hannah Camilleri and Nat Harris answer questions in categories it seems they didn't even know existed. Ancient empires is easily their toughest subject, and for someone who claims not to have studied maths in her final years of high school, Nat does pretty well with a question about the square root of 169. See their show at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2022/shows/pet-nat-han-ah-chocolat Support this show h...
Mar 11, 2022•32 min•Season 3Ep. 6
Answering the questions on this episode are two festival directors from Adelaide. Rachel Healy has been the joint artistic director of the Adelaide Festival since 2017 and the Jo Dyer is the director of Adelaide Writers’ Week. They've both had long and distinguished careers in the theatre in Australia, but how well do they know their chemistry, geography and sport? You might be surprised. Follow Jo Dyer on twitter - @instanterudite Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-saturday-quiz ....
Mar 04, 2022•32 min•Season 3Ep. 5
John has to get his mouth around a whole lot of tricky surnames on this episode - and unfortunately he falls at the first hurdle. But that's ok, because his guests are very forgiving. Comedians Ivan Aristeguieta and Kirsty Webeck manage to come up with most of the correct answers to this week's quiz. They know the difference between gold and iron, they know which team just won the Superbowl. But do they know what "cocky's joy" is? No. No they do not. https://ivancomedy.com.au https://www.kirstyw...
Feb 25, 2022•27 min•Season 3Ep. 4
It's odd that Chris Ryan and Luke Heggie are making their second appearances on the show, given how much disdain they both seem to have for trivia and quizzes. Thay happen to do quite well this time around, with questions on seasons, horns and a tricky one about the transference of the sovereignty of Christmas Island. See them both at comedy festivals around the country: https://www.lukeheggie.com https://chrisryancomedy.com Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-saturday-quiz . Hosted...
Feb 18, 2022•27 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Geraldine Hickey returns to do the quiz again. This time she's brought along her friend Vidya Rajan. The two of them talk polar bears, Mark Twain, and everybody's favourite spread: Nutella. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-saturday-quiz . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 11, 2022•33 min•Season 3Ep. 2
The Saturday Quiz returns for a third season! To start things off, John is joined by two of Australia's leading political satirists. Mark Humphries can be seen ding funny things on the otherwise very serious 730 programme on the ABC. And Dan Ilic is the host of the multi award winning podcast A Rational Fear. Follow them both on twitter: @markhumphries @danilic Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-saturday-quiz . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Feb 04, 2022•35 min•Season 3Ep. 1
It's a rematch of last year's finale episode! Zoë Coombs Marr and Kate Jinx go head-to-head with Sarah Snook and Dave Lawson. So many questions to get through there's barely time for an anecdote. Thank you to all the guests and all the listeners this year. Hope you all come back again next year. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-saturday-quiz . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Dec 17, 2021•52 min•Season 2Ep. 47
Best friends since childhood, Em Rusciano and Michael Lucas both have careers in the entertainment industry. She is a comedian, writer, singer and radio & television presenter who earlier this year, was the runner-up on The Masked Singer. While the tv drama Michael created and wrote, The Newsreader, just won Best Drama at this year's AACTA awards. Together, their knowledge of pop-culture is almost unsurpassed. Their knowledge of geography, on the other hand is terrible. Support this show htt...
Dec 10, 2021•28 min•Season 2Ep. 46
This episode marks the third appearance on this podcast by Virginia Gay. Is she getting better at quizzes? Not really. But she is having a great time. She has brought along one of her co-stars from The Boomkak Panto - which is a play that she also wrote and co-directed. Rob Johnson shows off his general knowledge and reveals a few hidden talents too. There's a little bit of swearing on this episode - but not much. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-saturday-quiz . Hosted on Acast. ...
Dec 03, 2021•29 min•Season 2Ep. 45
This week, to celebrate the return of live theatre to the stages of Melbourne, the guests come from the cast of As You Like It which has just opened at the Melbourne Theatre Company. By her own admission, Christie Whelan Brown does not have much confidence in her general knowledge, but she is anything but dead weight on this episode. James Mackay is keen to give anything a go and has some excellent anecdotes to go along with his answers. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-saturday-...
Nov 26, 2021•30 min•Season 2Ep. 44
Another couple of returning guests, Julia Zemiro and Brian Nankervis share a similar love of quizzes with the host John Leary. Politics is no obstacle for them. Geography is a breeze. And even though literature is one of the categories they both declare an interest in, it's the literature question which proves the trickiest for them in this week's quiz. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-saturday-quiz . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Nov 19, 2021•32 min•Season 2Ep. 43
They've been on the show before almost exactly one year ago, but that doesn't mean Nakkiah Lui and Gabe Dowrick exactly know what they're doing. But they do each have a chance to shine on this episode of The Saturday Quiz. Gabe draws on his deep knowledge of cinema to pull out the answer to a geography question and Nakkiah uses her recent personal experience to nail the one about fashion. After you've finished listening, make sure to stream their very funny show "Preppers" on iview https://iview...
Nov 12, 2021•29 min•Season 2Ep. 42
The questions in this episode could've been hand-picked for the guests. Paul Bongiorno has been a member of the Canberra press gallery for thirty years and Sean Kelly was an advisor to two Labor prime ministers. There are politics questions, Italian cuisine questions and questions about a media personality (who just happens to work at the same television network as Paul), so they were always going to do well. Throw in the fact that the Saturday Paper sub-editor and writer of the quiz, Cindy MacD...
Nov 05, 2021•27 min•Season 2Ep. 41
On this episode, John is joined by two men who really know their way around podcasts and radio. Matt and Alex hosted Triple J’s highest rating breakfast show for three years and now make the daily podcast All Day Breakfast. But how is their general knowledge? Well, as a matter of fact, they do very well at this week's quiz - only really stumbling when it comes to a question about Latin abbreviation. They breeze through the film question, the art question and especially the sports question. Vote ...
Oct 29, 2021•29 min•Season 2Ep. 40
These two old friends claim not to know very much, but with the right hints, they get quite a few correct. Rick Davies pledges not to Google anything, but Ryan isn't so keen on making any promises. Their questions range from geography to crime novelists to botany and vexillology. Keep listening to the end to hear where Ryan got his start in the whole business. And here's the link to Rick's commercial: https://youtu.be/-__347W9S9Y Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-saturday-quiz . H...
Oct 22, 2021•31 min•Season 2Ep. 39
Mabel and Benjamin come from opposite ends of the quiz spectrum. Ben has been doing so much quizzing during lockdown that he's had to scale it back a bit and limit himself to pop-culture trivia. Mabel on the other hand, doesn't do any quizzing ever. Together they end up doing quite well. But like everyone, geography proves a challenge. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-saturday-quiz . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Oct 15, 2021•30 min•Season 2Ep. 38
As Petra knows from her own time hosting trivia nights during lockdown, quizzes are a whole lot easier when you're asking the questions. She turns out to be justified in her low expectations of her partner Victoria, and together they struggle through the first few questions. But their optimism keeps them afloat. Every question asked gets them closer to one they might know! And there's a surprising twist in the final one. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-saturday-quiz . Hosted on ...
Oct 08, 2021•34 min•Season 2Ep. 37
Matthew Le Nevez and Brendan Cowell have performed together several times over the years, but arguably never as well as they do here at the quiz. Several questions fall in their laps and there are even a couple that relate back to the last time Brendan was on the podcast. Matt get's to reference his recent experience on Celebrity Masterchef and Brendan plugs his new novel Plum. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-saturday-quiz . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inform...
Oct 01, 2021•28 min•Season 2Ep. 36
There is an inordinate number of questions on this episode that have names as their answers. After a rocky start, actors Michelle Lim Davidson and Chum Ehelepola manage to stumble upon quite a few of them. And along the way, Chum learns that Japan still has an Emperor and Michelle remembers what the recent winner of the US Open women’s singles title had for dinner... but alas, not her name. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-saturday-quiz . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy fo...
Sep 24, 2021•31 min•Season 2Ep. 35
As self-confessed sports ignorants, Toby and Luke were never going to get the sports question. But after John describes Goalball from the Paralympics to them, they might give it a second chance. However, they do know the what the highpoints of Cape Town and a sailing ship are called. And they both draw on their formative schooldays to find a couple of answers too. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-saturday-quiz . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Sep 17, 2021•30 min•Season 2Ep. 34
Two of the nicest people you could ever hope to meet are the guests this episode. Geraldine Hakewill and Mark Winter celebrate the regional Victorian release from lockdown by staying in and doing the quiz. And they do quite well! Mark shares a personal story about his parents to recall some details about the 9/11 World Trade Center attack and Geri uses her father's birthday to get the answer to a question about astrology. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-saturday-quiz . Hosted on...
Sep 10, 2021•30 min•Season 2Ep. 33
This week's guests take a little to get going. Maria made her coffee too weak and Corrie feels like a big sack of sighs. But once they get in their rhythm, they do really well. Maria draws on her early Catholic education and Corrie finds an interesting connection with her name and a native Australian animal. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-saturday-quiz . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Sep 03, 2021•29 min•Season 2Ep. 32
Both this week's guests are award winning comedians and podcast hosts who studied English literature at international universities. But that's not all they have in common. Sami Shah and Alice Fraser are also both quite good at the quiz and neither seems impressed by John's additional facts about Thailand's flag, the past host of Australian Survivor or a long dead Prime Minister. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-saturday-quiz . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more infor...
Aug 27, 2021•31 min•Season 2Ep. 31
Last time they were on the show, comedians Celia Pacquola and Luke McGregor didn't fare too well. And this time they don't do much better. To be fair, the questions do seem to be a little trickier. It starts with a tricky one about American literature and includes a challenging one about Australian art. Celia stumbles onto the answer for the question about politics, but neither of them are any good when it comes to sport. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-saturday-quiz . Hosted on...
Aug 21, 2021•33 min•Season 2Ep. 30
Last time they were on the show, comedians Celia Pacquola and Luke McGregor didn't fare too well. And this time they don't do much better. To be fair, the questions do seem to be a little trickier. It starts with a tricky one about American literature and includes a challenging one about Australian art. Celia stumbles onto the answer for the question about politics, but neither of them are any good when it comes to sport. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-saturday-quiz . Hosted on...
Aug 20, 2021•33 min•Season 2Ep. 30
