*Minor Spoilers* I remember seeing previews of this show when it originally aired in the U.S. around '12,'13 on FOX I believe. I wasn't interested at all, just thought it was a cheesy game show. But I enjoy the quality of the questions, they're just challenging enough for reasonably educated folks but there's definitely a great deal of facts to be learned from it. The issues I have with it r pretty small minus a few things: 1) Sometimes having Brooke say correct/incorrect and giving the correct answers takes up time 2)They tried too hard to make some of the questions raunchier or "funnier" than necessary. But all in all I do enjoy this show enough to where I set a reminder everyday it comes on. HOWEVER there's one episode in particular I have a huge issue with. Aren't there like screening procedures that take place to ensure contestants have enough intelligence to give The Beast a good run?? Season 1, episode 2 featured Moly, (Mensa member who never heard of amethyst, what Obama's oldest daughter's name was, nor the newspaper Woodward & Bernstein wrote for SERIOUSLY) Christian, (said JFK was buried next to Marilyn Monroe WTF) and Aaron (basically said nothing during the final chase). These 3 r LITERALLY the worst game show contestants I've ever seen.
They had a 3 step head start, yet reached 7 steps, 3 people could only answer 4 questions in 2 minutes??? I understand the lights and cameras make people nervous but this was ABYSMAL; just proves Mensa membership and high degrees don't make ya smarter always... P.s. I was also surprised the Beast didn't know it was a James Cameron movie with the line "I'm king of the world" nor that baby blue jewelry boxes came from Tiffany and Co.
They had a 3 step head start, yet reached 7 steps, 3 people could only answer 4 questions in 2 minutes??? I understand the lights and cameras make people nervous but this was ABYSMAL; just proves Mensa membership and high degrees don't make ya smarter always... P.s. I was also surprised the Beast didn't know it was a James Cameron movie with the line "I'm king of the world" nor that baby blue jewelry boxes came from Tiffany and Co.