Reach For The Top
Published August 15, 2004
I was just channel flipping, and had one of those ohmighod moments when TVO started showing an episode of Reach For The Top, which is a Canadian high school quiz show which has been on the air, like, forever.
How forever? Well I was on it when I was in grade 9. And I was a major dork. Guess what, nothing has changed in 30 years, they still have a kid from grade 9 and he's still a dork (actually, all of them are).
Though they've tried to make it more like a reality show, it is still two teams of high school kids trying to answer, for ten points, a whole bunch of questions. What most people watching don't know is the teams get a whole pile of questions and answers up front to memorize as drills, but I totally smoked their asses on the free bonus questions. Stupid kids.
What amazes me are the prizes, Palm Pilots and whatnot. All I got was a BTO LP, and a half hour on regional teevee.
- Reach For The Top
- Published: August 15, 2004
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- Filed Under: Books: Reference, Video: Reality TV, Video: Television
- Writer: Jim Carruthers
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Reach for the Top is awesome. We got the MP3 players for prizes, as well as train tickets. Thats about $400 in prizes. Not bad for a few hours work. What memorization. We never practice, ever. We just do this stuff for fun.
We meet at lunch to argue over answers. It gives us something to do, and a place to hang out where nobody can bother us.
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