Quiz Night

Inspired by fellow blipper Blipper's Daily? yesterday and his macro extension tube blip I decided to have another play with a set today too.

So, in best 'Ask The Family'* tradition, can you tell what this common every-day object is? Buzz in when you know the answer...

* 'Ask The Family', for those too young or for those outside of the UK, was an archetypal 1970s early evening quiz show that featured two teams of families (two parents, two children) competing against each other. Chaired by a very straight-laced curmudgeon called Robert Robinson some rounds involved just parents, some just the children, but the one that always stuck with me ('cause I was brilliant at it) was the photo round where the camera dollied back from an extreme close up of an object and the teams buzzed in when they recognised it. The other thing that sticks in my mind was that I had never ever met any families that resembled any of those that appeared on the show; the parents were always civil servants or teachers and the kids looked like they had turned sixty by the time they turned ten.

Trying to recreate something along these lines today conjures up a cross of a Jeremy Kyle track-suited, tattooed and pierced freak show with questions along the lines of those ridiculously difficult phone-in quizzes during the ITV ad breaks: you know the type; "Britain's new Prime Minister is... a) David Cameron b) David Beckham c) Simon Cowell"

Television in the seventies was a strange beast indeed. Reality in the tens is too.