Gordon Angus Deayton is an English actor, writer, musician, comedian, and broadcaster. He was the original presenter of the satirical panel game Have I Got News for You and the host of British panel show Would I Lie to You? from 2007 to 2008, and a regular cast member of the David Renwick sitcom One Foot in the Grave from 1990 until 2000. He also played George Windsor in the final three series of Waterloo Road.
The News Quiz is a British topical panel game broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
Sandra Birgitte Toksvig is a British-Danish author, comedian, politician, presenter and writer. She is also a political activist, having co-founded the Women's Equality Party in 2015. She has written plays, novels, and books for children. In 1994, she came out as a lesbian.
Linda Helen Smith was an English comedian and comedy writer. She appeared regularly on Radio 4 panel games, and was voted "Wittiest Living Person" by listeners in 2002. From 2004 to 2006 she was head of the British Humanist Association. She met her partner, Warren Lakin, at university, and they were together for nearly 30 years until her death.
Round Britain Quiz is a panel game that has been broadcast on BBC Radio since 1947, making it the oldest quiz still broadcast on British radio. It was based on a format called Transatlantic Quiz, a contest between American and British teams on which Alistair Cooke was an early participant.
Eggheads is a British quiz show produced by 12 Yard. It was first broadcast in November 2003 chaired by Dermot Murnaghan. In 2008, Jeremy Vine became joint chair, and subsequently sole chair. The show has inspired three spinoff series: Are You an Egghead? (2008), Revenge of the Egghead (2014) and Make Me an Egghead (2016). There have also been episodes of the regular series featuring teams of celebrities in their own short series, with their own rolling prize fund.
The Big Fat Quiz of the Year is an approximately annual British television programme broadcast in the last or first week of the year on Channel 4. Essentially, the show is a comedy panel game in the style of a pub quiz. Three teams, of two celebrities each, are asked questions relating to the events of the year just gone by, which they write answers to on an electronic board in front of them. At the end of each round, they then display their answers, scoring a point for each correct one.
Kenneth Robertson Bruce is a Scottish broadcaster who is best known for hosting his long-running weekday mid-morning show on BBC Radio 2 from 1986 to 1990, and then again since 1992.
Brain of Britain is a BBC radio general knowledge quiz, broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
Stein Olav Bjortomt is an English international quiz player, four-time world champion and three time individual European champion. He is the star player of the world's most successful quizzing clubs, Broken Hearts, with which he has won several European championships. He writes questions for University Challenge and The Chase.
Christopher John Hughes is an English television personality and one of Britain's leading quizzers.
Miles Hugh Barrett Jupp is an English actor, singer and comedian. He began his career as a stand-up comedian before playing the role of the inventor Archie in the children's television series Balamory. He also played John Duggan in The Thick of It and Nigel in the sitcom Rev, and has appeared on comedy panel shows. In September 2015, Jupp replaced Sandi Toksvig as the host of The News Quiz on BBC Radio 4.
Counterpoint is a BBC Radio 4 quiz. Described in the show's introduction as "The general knowledge music quiz", the questions are about music, from classical, jazz, pop, musicals, and all other forms of music. It was originally hosted by Ned Sherrin (1986–2006). In the chair for the 2007 series was Edward Seckerson with Paul Gambaccini taking over in 2008, following the death of Ned Sherrin in 2007. Russell Davies took over temporarily in 2013 following allegations made against Gambaccini, who returned to the show in November 2014 after being cleared of the allegations.
Thomas Paul Allen is an English comedian, actor, writer and presenter. In 2005, Allen won the So You Think You're Funny contest.
Connagh Joseph "C. J." de Mooi is a British actor, writer, former professional quizzer and television personality. He first appeared on television quiz show Eggheads in 2003, as one of five original members of the show's eponymous team.
The European Quizzing Championships (EQC) are an annual multi-disciplinary quiz event, in which representatives from various countries compete as individuals, in pairs, and/or in teams.
Rowan David Oakes is an English actor and environmentalist. He is best known for his roles in the series The Pillars of the Earth, The Borgias, The White Queen and Victoria and for his discursive Natural History podcast, Trees A Crowd.
Supriya Kumar "Paul" Sinha is a British quizzer, comedian, doctor and award-winning broadcaster. He has written and performed extensively on Radio 4, and is one of the six Chasers on the ITV game show The Chase.
Thomas Sutcliffe is a British journalist and arts broadcaster. He has presented the BBC Radio 4 arts show Saturday Review since 1999, and until 2022 was chairman of Round Britain Quiz.
Anne Solway Hegerty is an English quizzer and television personality. Since 2010, she has been a "chaser" on the ITV game show The Chase as "The Governess", and was a contestant on the 2018 ITV reality show I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!
