With judicious mugging up and the odd educated guess, you'll convince your spouse or flatmate you're a secret genius
August means different things to different people. For some, it means a renewal of support for their football team. For others, it means their therapist is on holiday. But for a specific type of person – sedentary nerds – it means just one thing: the return of. But it also represents your last chance to mug up on strategies for convincing your friends and family that you are, actually, a secret genius. Because this is a new dawn forused to be simple: You’d memorise the periodic table.
The most cynical way to improve your performance as an armchair contestant is to make a cursory investigation into so-called “women”. After decades of exclusion from questions , creative women have been foregrounded in recent series. If you see a moody Renaissance painting in the picture round, could it beAnd then, in terms of your understanding of the world, there’s now limited point learning the US states and their capitals.
The music round is a tough place to look clever. On the rare occasions the show makes a swerve into popular music – a snippet of Sade or morsel of Meat Loaf – your buzzer speed will reveal you as a philistine. The trick is to work out how to make an educated guess during the interminable classical music, operatic or jazz interludes. There are some simple rules: if it sounds like multi-layered string music, guess Bach. If it sounds all delicate and melodic, guess Mozart.
But most of all, enjoy the early rounds. Some people don’t realise it but the knockout rounds of the competition are significantly harder. By the spring, the field will be winnowed, the middling teams dispatched with merciless alacrity by the dominant swots, and watchingwill be an altogether more humbling experience. But for now – even if it only impresses your spouse, flatmate or dog – these tips will take your quiz game to the next level.
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