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Television producers like to cook up new formats in order to increase viewership. Like in cooking, some of those are tasty, others are rather tasteless. Can you find out which shows I am recreating with these recipes?

A multiple-choice quiz by WesleyCrusher. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
362,427
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Easy
Avg Score
8 / 10
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2841
Awards
Top 5% quiz!
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Question 1 of 10
1. Let's start with an originally Dutch recipe: Take between 8 and 20 assorted persons, strip off most of their belongings and put them in a sealed house or container. Liberally add cameras, tasks and group tensions. Every week or so, remove the most drained candidate. Cook for at least 100 days.

Which production, having a quite Orwellian name, is this?
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Question 2 of 10
2. Take a ton of clothes, 10 kilograms of make-up, several hundred grams of gold and gems and tastefully arrange all of this on a dozen of young women selected primarily for their outward appearance. Serve on various exotic locales.

Which series, originally produced by UPN, is this the recipe for?
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Question 3 of 10
3. An old recipe from the earliest days of television: Take some everyday persons in their daily surroundings. Cook up a prank. Thoroughly immerse the persons in the prank, dragging out the immersion time and embarrassment level as far as possible. After thorough immersion, add a pointer to an electronic device and serve smiling.

What have I been cooking up now? I'm looking for the original 1948 name!
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Question 4 of 10
4. Take several hundred pounds of excess meat, preferably hip and belly meat. Distribute over a number of candidates, then simmer those candidates in a strict diet. Burn off as much fat as possible, then serve with a rather non-complimenting title for the winner.

Which show can you cook up with this recipe?
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Question 5 of 10
5. Take a house or apartment and add a large amount of possessions and trash. Soak inhabitants in that trash until they desire help changing their lives. Then add cameras and professional aid, thoroughly de-clutter a life and serve the inhabitants with a second chance.

Which format that has also sparked quite some debate is this the recipe for?
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Question 6 of 10
6. Take two married (originally British) couples from as different backgrounds as possible, then mix them up by exchanging one of the spouses. Let simmer for two weeks, then serve both couples at a round table. Add embarrassment, insults and, optionally, even physical violence.

Which somewhat questionable format is this the recipe for?
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Question 7 of 10
7. Prepare a remote wilderness location. Add challenges ranging from mundane to thoroughly revolting. Sift out all comfort and luxury, then drop in between sixteen and twenty candidates. Stir them into several tribes, then gradually eliminate them one by one. For additional spice, add immunities.

Which popular show is cooked up this way?
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Question 8 of 10
8. Take a number of straightforward Americans and wrap them in the absurd trappings of Japanese television. Make them suffer thoroughly while confronted with the entertainment of a culture completely different than their own.

Which not so successful format from 2008/2009 does this recipe describe?
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Question 9 of 10
9. Take a number of well-known popular songs and sift and mash them through less than suitable performers unless almost unrecognizable. From these performers, select those who inflicted the least damage on the songs and gradually cook them under studio lights until thoroughly done.

This is the recipe for many shows, including the internationally known "Idol" series, but which of these came first?
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Question 10 of 10
10. Take (usually) eleven pairs of candidates. Add waypoints, U-turns, road blocks, route info, detours and other components. Season with various means of travel and send across several continents. Mix in difficult challenges, then serve in bite-sized episodes.

Which show that also inspired a number of FunTrivia authors to complete significant feats of fast quiz writing, does this recipe result in?
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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Let's start with an originally Dutch recipe: Take between 8 and 20 assorted persons, strip off most of their belongings and put them in a sealed house or container. Liberally add cameras, tasks and group tensions. Every week or so, remove the most drained candidate. Cook for at least 100 days. Which production, having a quite Orwellian name, is this?

Answer: Big Brother

Named for the constant camera supervision the candidates have to endure in the show, "Big Brother" is very much an experiment in group dynamics. Playing the candidates against each other and increasing tension between them through manipulation by the show's producers keeps viewers interested over a long time.

In later incarnations of the format, separation into privileged and punished sub-teams has added even more tension.
2. Take a ton of clothes, 10 kilograms of make-up, several hundred grams of gold and gems and tastefully arrange all of this on a dozen of young women selected primarily for their outward appearance. Serve on various exotic locales. Which series, originally produced by UPN, is this the recipe for?

Answer: America's Next Top Model

Like "Big Brother", this format has been converted to and aired in almost every Western television market. Using the same "last person standing" principle as most casting shows, young women compete for the title of the respective nation's "Next top model" and a lucrative contract.

A few international versions of the show have included male models as well (the first appearance of males was in Spain 2008 in a cycle featuring both a female and a male competition), the American original has first seen males (competing in a mixed group) for its 20th cycle, begun in August 2013. Internationally, the first male winner chosen from a mixed cast was Vedran Pajo who won in 2010 in Bosnia.
3. An old recipe from the earliest days of television: Take some everyday persons in their daily surroundings. Cook up a prank. Thoroughly immerse the persons in the prank, dragging out the immersion time and embarrassment level as far as possible. After thorough immersion, add a pointer to an electronic device and serve smiling. What have I been cooking up now? I'm looking for the original 1948 name!

Answer: Candid Camera

"Smile, you're on candid camera" has long since become a household saying. This format is the oldest Reality TV format and also can be said to be more "real" than most of the others because the candidates don't know they're part of a TV show before it is too late. "Candid Camera" was preceded by a radio version, "Candid Microphone", but only by a year.
4. Take several hundred pounds of excess meat, preferably hip and belly meat. Distribute over a number of candidates, then simmer those candidates in a strict diet. Burn off as much fat as possible, then serve with a rather non-complimenting title for the winner. Which show can you cook up with this recipe?

Answer: The Biggest Loser

While no one usually wants to be called a loser, in this show, the candidates compete for the title of "biggest loser", because the goal is to lose weight. Invariably, all candidates start out as obese and depending on country and incarnation, the goal is either the highest absolute weight loss or the highest percentage of original weight lost.
5. Take a house or apartment and add a large amount of possessions and trash. Soak inhabitants in that trash until they desire help changing their lives. Then add cameras and professional aid, thoroughly de-clutter a life and serve the inhabitants with a second chance. Which format that has also sparked quite some debate is this the recipe for?

Answer: Hoarders

While the "Hoarders" show itself has not spawned direct copies in other markets, similar formats have also been done in other countries. They are under thorough scrutiny in Europe as they are at least suspected to ultimately cause more harm than good - while the subjects of this format gain access to professional help and treatment they need, they are also publicly paraded in a negative way which can lead to severe problems just as well.
6. Take two married (originally British) couples from as different backgrounds as possible, then mix them up by exchanging one of the spouses. Let simmer for two weeks, then serve both couples at a round table. Add embarrassment, insults and, optionally, even physical violence. Which somewhat questionable format is this the recipe for?

Answer: Wife Swap

This show - which actually does not violate marital trust since there was to be no intimacy between the swapped partners - derived its appeal and novelty from the fact that people were put into a life and corresponding rules as far from their own as possible. During the two-week swap, household rules were made by the partners whose house it was for the first week, while during the second week, the visiting partner dictated lifestyle. What made this show particularly questionable was that there were often children involved who had little or no say in the swap.

The format was abolished in the UK in 2009 but is still being shown in other countries.
7. Prepare a remote wilderness location. Add challenges ranging from mundane to thoroughly revolting. Sift out all comfort and luxury, then drop in between sixteen and twenty candidates. Stir them into several tribes, then gradually eliminate them one by one. For additional spice, add immunities. Which popular show is cooked up this way?

Answer: Survivor

Often set on tropical islands, "Survivor" has used a multitude of picturesque locations to show its candidates in their struggles to avoid elimination and complete the set challenges. Skill is however not the only factor in winning at "Survivor" as the losing candidates are determined by voting and thus a skillful but unpopular candidate has a worse chance to win than one who is worse at the challenges but attracts more sympathies.
8. Take a number of straightforward Americans and wrap them in the absurd trappings of Japanese television. Make them suffer thoroughly while confronted with the entertainment of a culture completely different than their own. Which not so successful format from 2008/2009 does this recipe describe?

Answer: I Survived a Japanese Game Show

First produced as "Big in Japan", this format's entertainment value came from pitting ill-prepared American candidates against the, for Westerners, rather unusual requirements and challenges of Japanese television game shows. Some Japanese formats place very high demands on the candidates and use challenges that would not be suitable for an American or European show, including tasks that measure candidates' pain resistance or cause severe embarrassment.
9. Take a number of well-known popular songs and sift and mash them through less than suitable performers unless almost unrecognizable. From these performers, select those who inflicted the least damage on the songs and gradually cook them under studio lights until thoroughly done. This is the recipe for many shows, including the internationally known "Idol" series, but which of these came first?

Answer: Pop Idol

Worldwide, "American Idol" is by far the best known and also longest-running of these series, but "Pop Idol", the British version of the same show, predated the American incarnation by one year (it was first shown in 2001). The British show however lasted for only two seasons before being cancelled.
10. Take (usually) eleven pairs of candidates. Add waypoints, U-turns, road blocks, route info, detours and other components. Season with various means of travel and send across several continents. Mix in difficult challenges, then serve in bite-sized episodes. Which show that also inspired a number of FunTrivia authors to complete significant feats of fast quiz writing, does this recipe result in?

Answer: The Amazing Race

Of course who could forget "The Amazing Race"? Where most other reality game shows run the risk of being far less than pleasant for the eliminated candidates, this can certainly not be said about the "Race", where even the first to be eliminated get to see several interesting places around the world and to partake in unusual, thrilling challenges and puzzles. Participating in this reality format is already a reward by itself.
Source: Author WesleyCrusher

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