Angela's Blog O' Fun

Have you seen the new show 1 vs 100? It's very fun and exciting - a bit faster pace than Deal or No Deal, but not quite as funny as Takeshi's Castle, but that's a whole other blog post. I really like this show so far. It's trivia with a twist. The questions are worded cleverly.

For example, "If you snuck into your neighbor's garden and took a leek, would it be?"
A) an onion-like vegetable B) a broccoli-like vegetable C) a tomato-like vegetable

The contestant is up against 100 members of "the mob" which sometimes include trekkies, beauty pageants, wrestlers, teachers, nuns, or Ken Jennings, the Mormon Jeopardy champion. (What do you think he'll do with all that money, anyways?) Sorry, tangent.

For each question the contestant gets correct, they earn money for every mob member that gets it wrong. The first question is worth $100, the second is worth $250, then $500, $1000, $1500, $2000, $3000 and so on. They can win $1,00,000 if they eliminate every member of the mob.

Each contestant is also allowed 2 "helps." For the first help, they select one of the answer choices they would like to know more about. Everyone in the mob who chose that answer is lit up in yellow. The contestant gets to choose one of those mob people and ask why they picked their answer. For the second help, two mob members are randomly chosen - one who answered correctly and one who answered incorrectly. Each mob member explains which answer they picked and why.

Here's a cool twist: The mob members have to be honest about which answer they chose, but they DO NOT have to be honest about WHY they chose it. Pretty cool, eh? (Yah, its cold here in da U.P.)

As a bonus, if a contestant answers incorrectly, they are finished and their winnings get divided by the remaining mob members, and those mob members get to continue with the next contestant.

The show is on NBC on Friday evenings. You can see pictures and get more information at: www.nbc.com or click here to get directly to the 1 vs 100 site.