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the bad tempered klavier
The aim of this round is to see how much of a song a team can sing when accompanied by a pianist who is not only tone deaf, but incompetent - and as Richard Clayderman is unavailable, here is Colin Sell.

bardeoke
It is a version of Karaoke from Tudor times where revellers made sport of the Green Man, the Queen’s Head, the King’s Arms, and anything else found lying in the street on the way to the pub. Bardeoke involved performing over Shakespearean hits of the day. This tradition is still kept alive by rugby players and financiers, but nowadays they tend to restrict themselves to playing over The Merry Wives of Windsor.

beat the clock
The original was hosted for many years by Bruce Forsythe, who delighted audiences with his many catchphrases - the most famous being What do you mean a wig? In the original version of Beat the Clock people had to complete a party game but against the clock, in this version people have to complete a party game but then different people have 30 seconds to guess what game they are playing.

bed time stories
A team has to tell a story occasionally signalling a sound technician to play a sound effect. Unfortunately the technician cannot hear the story being told so just plays any old sound effect. The team then has to work the sound effect heard into the story.

blankety blank
A word in a well-known phrase or saying is replaced by the word blank, and the teams have to provide a suitable replacement.

blatant lies
The teams suggest the most obviously untrue statements imaginable. The idea for this game arose recently when Barry told us his tailor said he has the body measurements of an Olympic athlete with the muscular structure of a 20 year old. Ludicrous! As if Barry Cryer has ever seen a tailor.

blind date
One panellist takes on the role of the questioner, the rest as the blind date candidates. The Chairman takes on Cilla’s rôle. It’s a lorra lorra fun.

blue peter
This round takes us back to the golden days of that perennial children’s favourite Blue Peter. Even that show has succumbed to the electronic age with children impressing presenters with their skill on a 3GHz computer. Whatever happened to those simpler days when two sixth formers could satisfy Val Singleton with a toilet roll tube? The teams are asked to show what they can make with just a few spare household items.

blurb
The Chairman asks one of the teams to describe a book, film, play, or TV show in the most amazing terms possible, from which the other team has to identify it.

boardo
The teams play a couple of rounds of the boardgame.

book club
Panellists are asked to suggest titles for books that would be popular in a particular club.

break it gently
One team assume the roles of a famous pair, and the other team have to break a piece of news to them gently, with the first team trying to guess the news.

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