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 Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-saturday-quiz . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Nov 11, 2022•34 min•Season 3Ep. 41
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 challenges, prejudices and inequalities that surrounded them. But how do they do at the quiz? Well, a few mo...
Nov 04, 2022•30 min•Season 3Ep. 40
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 on the first of November. And Michael showed his competitive spirit against his fellow Triple J host...
Oct 28, 2022•35 min•Season 3Ep. 39
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://www.davidstrassman.com And listen to his palaeontology podcast here: https://www.paleonerds.com Suppor...
Oct 21, 2022•32 min•Season 3Ep. 38
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.abc.net.au/video/CO2105V007S00 And watch the old Sunrice commercial here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...
Oct 14, 2022•36 min•Season 3Ep. 37
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" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZiJnQrsyiM Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-saturda...
Oct 07, 2022•32 min•Season 3Ep. 36
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 to promote it. Seeing it on opening night was truly one of the most exhilarating nights in the thea...
Sep 30, 2022•31 min•Season 3Ep. 35
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 are. Andy Matthews and Pat McCaffrie are both writers and comedians who you should follow on twitte...
Sep 23, 2022•30 min•Season 3Ep. 34
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 manage to get the sports question. Listen to this episode and then head over to Carriageworks to hear ...
Sep 16, 2022•31 min•Season 3Ep. 33
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. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-saturday-quiz . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Sep 09, 2022•41 min•Season 3Ep. 32
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 to one of the questions. https://iview.abc.net.au/show/summer-love Support this show http://supporte...
Sep 02, 2022•39 min•Season 3Ep. 31
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 the first half of this episode. With not many correct answers going their way. Listen to find out i...
Aug 26, 2022•34 min•Season 3Ep. 30
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 identity, class and culture, privilege and entitlement - which are all themes touched on in this episode...
Aug 19, 2022•34 min•Season 3Ep. 29
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 relationship with his father. Both films are part of the program at this year's MIFF. And even if you're no...
Aug 12, 2022•36 min•Season 3Ep. 28
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 are given. Book tickets to their MIFF show here: https://miff.com.au/program/film/its-fine-im-fine S...
Aug 05, 2022•32 min•Season 3Ep. 27
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 on Apple Podcasts here: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/see-also/id1613072110 Support this show...
Jul 29, 2022•36 min•Season 3Ep. 26
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. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-saturday-quiz . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jul 22, 2022•31 min•Season 3Ep. 25
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 Malthouse in Melbourne and you should get your tickets right now! https://www.malthousetheatre.com.a...
Jul 15, 2022•31 min•Season 3Ep. 24
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 to a few of the questions. They barely put a foot wrong across politics, geography and linguistics......
Jul 08, 2022•33 min•Season 3Ep. 23
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.humanitix.com/the-saturday-paper-x-miff-quiz-night-22 Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-s...
Jul 01, 2022•34 min•Season 3Ep. 22
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 connection to the opening question... but how well do they keep it up? Click this link to get your tickets t...
Jun 24, 2022•32 min•Season 3Ep. 21
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 Megahertz. Today's guests are representatives of each of those teams. Moozy is a musician who plays...
Jun 17, 2022•25 min•Season 3Ep. 20
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 winning comedian and also has some bona fide quiz credentials - as a writer and producer of tv shows Quest...
Jun 10, 2022•32 min•Season 3Ep. 19
Catherine McClements and Shiv Palekar can currently both be seen in the Melbourne Theatre Company’s production of The Sound Inside. It’s a play about a literature academic and her student. Both characters come across as particularly intelligent and some of that intelligence has perhaps rubbed off onto the actors because Shiv and Cath barely put a foot wrong in this episode of the quiz. The answers come quickly, regardless if the questions are about sport, linguistics or politics. For tickets to ...
Jun 03, 2022•28 min•Season 3Ep. 18
Christie Whelan Browne and Emily Taheny are both cast members of my favourite satirical news programme "Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell" Between them they tend to play the majority of the female characters on the show and given the results of last week's federal election and the rise of the Teal independents (who pretty much all seem to be women) they’ll probably have quite a few more characters to create for next season. This episode starts with a very tricky question and it's only downhill for Em...
May 27, 2022•32 min•Season 3Ep. 17
Joining John for this special election day episode are two of Australia's foremost political experts. Amy Remeikis is the political reporter for The Guardian Australia and Sean Kelly was a Labor advisor for Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard. But what is their general knowledge like? Do they know how many Catherines Henry VIII married? What about the name of the body of water into which the Nile empties? and when did Nostradamus live? Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-saturday-quiz . Ho...
May 20, 2022•25 min•Season 3Ep. 16
It's duelling soap villains on this episode as Luke Arnold (who played Dr. Lewis Hayes on Home and Away) takes on Laurence Boxhall (currently starring as Corey Smythe-Jones on Neighbours) at the quiz. The answers don't exactly come thick and fast, but there are plenty of laughs to go around. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-saturday-quiz . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
May 13, 2022•30 min•Season 3Ep. 15
Gen and Cath have been friends for a very long time. And in recent years they have collaborated on two plays in which they play two women who start a job agency - the catch being that it is those two women who go and perform all the jobs themselves - even if they're not very good at them. They are very good at the quiz though. Even if they think they're entirely unqualified to do it. https://www.ensemble.com.au/shows/unqualified-2-still-unqualified/ Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/t...
May 06, 2022•36 min•Season 3Ep. 14
New York based siblings Wendy and Ashley Zukerman return to the quiz for a second go. Do they do better than they did the first time? Not really. But that's not the point. Find Wendy's award winning podcast Science Vs. wherever you get your podcasts. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-saturday-quiz . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Apr 29, 2022•32 min•Season 3Ep. 13
These two comedians have their own science based radio show, so the answer to the first question in this week's quiz comes straight out with no hesitation. And in fact, there's barely an answer that they don't come up with. Even the sport question! https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2022/shows/my-client-is-innocent https://play.acast.com/s/two-in-the-think-tank Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-saturday-quiz . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Apr 22, 2022•37 min•Season 3Ep. 12
