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And found 'The Great Big British Quiz' again, this time on Channel 199. I had a shot on the website and got through first time! Then got selected to be on air first time. I hadn't even looked at the puzzle - didn't expect to get through! Think I might even have given the same answer as last time, though can't remember. Oops.

I looked at it, and realised suddenly that it was the same puzzle I was talking about in this post here. So that's 9 days later, and they've still got the same puzzle going. 9 days, and they're on about 16 hours a day. Taking... I don't know... at the moment they've got about a caller a minute on, and that's just the ones that get through. At a pound a call - assuming 1 in 20 get on air (probably grossly overestimating, probably a lower ratio people get through to the studio), that's £20 a minute, £1200 an hour.

In the course of this puzzle - 144 hours, that's £172,800. The prize is £30,000.
Even assuming that they get half the cost of the phone call from the telcos, they are really raking it in.

( The puzzle )

Whoa! Grand film. Powerful, moving and quite disturbing. I now fully understand why Philip Seymour Hoffman got the Oscar. Catherine Keener's lovely as Harper Lee :)