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Airdate: The National IQ Test

Eddie & Livinia will test WAGs, tradies, entrepreneurs, sports fanatics, Generation Y, and impersonators and home viewers.

As previously noted, Nine will revive The National IQ Test next month, an event it aired in 2002 and 2003 (but hey they already brought The Block back too).

Similarly, this was a big event when it first aired with viewers playing along with questions that had been published in metro newspapers. McGuire hosted the previous events, alongside Catriona Rowntree.

Six groups will join McGuire and Nixon and compete on language skills, memory, spatial awareness (that could be a stretch) and arithmetic.

There will be groups of WAGs, tradies, entrepreneurs, sports fanatics, Generation Y, and impersonators. Each group will have a celebrity captain.

McGuire says, “This is a fun night for young and old and a way to prove to your friends and family that you’re actually a lot brighter than they might give you credit for. The most interesting thing that came out of the last tests was that people produced results that showed they were far more intelligent than they actually thought they were.”

Scorecards will be published in News Limited papers around Australia on Sunday, November 7, and Tuesday, November 9.

It airs 7:30pm Tuesday, November 9th.

20 Responses

  1. My 11 year old son did the test and was very successful but he was very disappointed at the end when he couldn’t work out his IQ as it only showed us from 16yoa.
    Is there any way we can work out his IQ from his results
    Would appreciate your feedback
    Thanks

  2. After 90 minutes I gave up – I heard one of the contestants mention 90 minutes so I suppose the other 30mins i.e. 25% of the time was taken up by ads – I was extremely dissapointed that the show was so disjointed – so little questions and so much talk about so little and so few questions – the Towers of Hanoi was obviously known by the Gen Yers so was not a true IQ test – A Pox on Channel 9 for making what should have been a great IQ Test instead a Test of being bored to death.

  3. My mum and i watched it, but we could not get the scores, whats with that?
    They took so long explaining stuff and not enough time giving the total end Score, or IQ resolt!

  4. @David S. – True enough! Anyone who watches the same Ep of 2.5 Spams more than twice in a year shouldn’t be allowed to vote. Or have children.

  5. A complete waste of time (well, it is Nine after all). The nation’s IQ is demonstrated every time the TV ratings are released. Unfortunately the results are anything but encouraging.

  6. What’s the bet Collingwood gets some sort of mention? Yep i agree, this show looks boring and silly and should have been left in the past where it belongs. Channel 9 could do with some people who are capable of thinking outside the box and coming up with new ideas.

  7. ryaneco, Seven had The National Life Expectancy Test and Ten did some weird Environment Climate Change thing which wasn’t in the same world as Seven or Nine’s tests. I think Seven did alright with theirs but Ten’s bombed.

  8. Does anyone believe 9 would air this show if it showed their viewers to be below average IQ? It’s a nice ego boost for the nation to be told ‘hey, you’re all smart’!

  9. I wish Channel 9 would stop referring to this as an “IQ Test” – they should just call it a quiz or something. I saw this abortion of a program several years ago, and any relation to an actual IQ test was totally coincidental.

    As I recall, it was such an awful night of television, I ended up changing channels after about 15 minutes. If Eddie is hosting again, you can count me out. Urgh!

    What’s with 9 recycling old ideas that were crap the first time they were on???

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