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The premise of this podcast is simple: Each week John Leary is joined by a different pair of celebrity guests. He asks them the 10 questions from the quiz in The Saturday Paper and they do their best to answer them correctly. It ain't rocket science -- but the questions might be! Follow John on Twitter @johnnyjohnleary Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-saturday-quiz. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Is there such a thing as an innovation roadmap in farming and agriculture? Probably not. But consider this podcast the next best thing. Deciding whether to invest in new agtech? Trying to fund or future-proof your next project? Want to value-add to your business, or maybe just keep up with industry changes? We pick the brightest minds, examine the latest research and map out a step-by-step process to help you implement change. Hear from farmers, scientists, technologists and ag industry lead ...
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This is the 200th episode of The Saturday Quiz, and what better way to mark the occasion than by having two of the funniest comedians to have ever answered the quiz, do it all over again? Zoë and Alexei have never been on the show together, but their rapport is brilliant. And somehow, they wind up with mostly correct answers. As always, play along …
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The last time Geraldine Hickey and Vidya Rajan were on this podcast together, they performed remarkably well, pretty much getting ten out of ten. Will they be able to do the same with this, somewhat more difficult quiz? Listen to find out! Also listen if you want to hear all the bonus facts about pigeons that the ABC cut out of Geraldine’s appearan…
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Stephanie Caccamo and Elenoa Rokobaro are two of the cast members of Well-Behaved Women - a show with music and lyrics by Carmel Dean and directed by Blazey Best - which has just opened at Belvoir Street Theatre. Well-Behaved Women celebrates extraordinary women who have made history. From Cleopatra to Virginia Woolf to Frida Kahlo and more, these …
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The Melbourne Fringe Festival has just kicked off, which means that there are over four hundred and fifty events vying for your attention. One of them stars this episode's guests Hannah Camilleri and Oliver Coleman. It’s a play called Prune which is a comedy about a woman who won’t get out of the bath. Both Hannah and Oliver have been nominated for…
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Real life couple Hannah Waterman and Huw Higginson are performing as husband and wife in the moving play about love, loss and laughter Colder Than Here at the Ensemble theatre. On this episode of the Quiz, they do exceptionally well and take some fascinating trips down memory lane... and all sorts of other lanes too! Get tickets to Colder Than Here…
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Julia Zemiro has been on this podcast many times before, but this time she’s brought along Susie Youssef to partner with. Which is kind of what she’s done with her tv show Great Australian Walks on SBS. She was the solo host of the first season, but now for the second season, Julis is sharing the hosting duties with Susie and Gina Chick. Great Aust…
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It’s no secret that this podcast skews towards the big cities of this country, mostly those on the Eastern Seaboard. In fact, most podcasts in general favour the big cities. Kirsten Diprose and Damian Callinan are doing their bit to change that with their brand new podcast: Town Criers. She's a journalist and and he's a comedian and together they a…
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Joining John to answer the questions on this episode of The Saturday Quiz is the director Bert LaBonté and one of the actors Ras-Samuel from the Pulitzer Prize winning play Topdog/Underdog, which is playing right now in the Lawler at Melbourne Theatre Company’s Southbank Theatre. The Suzan-Lori Parks play tells the story of Lincoln and Booth, two d…
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Alexei Tolioppoulos and Lauren Bonner have both recently joined a real-life pub trivia team. But that doesn't mean they get all the questions correct on this episode. Alexei learns that no matter how good you are at your expert category, if the questions don't tend that way, you're in for a world of pain. Support this show http://supporter.acast.co…
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If you're a reader or listener of any of the Schwartz Media publications, you're sure to have encountered Erik Jensen and Michael Williams. Erik is the Editor in Chief at Schwartz and Michael is the Editor of The Monthly magazine, as well as hosting the podcast Read This. They're both intimidatingly intelligent, so it's no surprise that they do ver…
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Runt is a brand new family movie in cinemas around the country from September 19, but if you’re in Melbourne, you can see it at MIFF on the 25th of August. Written by Craig Silvey, based on his book of the same name and directed by John Sheedy, Runt tells the story of Annie Shearer and her best friend, a stray dog called Runt. When her family's far…
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The Melbourne International Film Festival has just opened! On this episode of the quiz, the guests are MIFF programmer Kate Jinx and pop culture author and critic Brodie Lancaster. Jinx's MIFF list: Matt and Mara https://miff.com.au/program/film/matt-and-mara Welcome Space Brothers https://miff.com.au/program/film/welcome-space-brothers The World A…
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Gabbi Bolt and Maverick Newman are both extraordinarily multi-talented performers; They sing, they dance, they act, they even play classical piano in the hilarious parody musical Murder For Two, which is an outrageous blend of music, mayhem, and murder. In this hilarious 90-minute show, two performers play 13 roles – not to mention the piano – in a…
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For only the second time, this episode of the podcast is recorded in situ (Latin) in the same room as the guests! Melbourne Shakespeare Company returns to fortyfivedownstairs to present possibly the most famous play in the English language - Shakespeare’s timeless tragedy Hamlet. And John has crashed their rehearsal room to ask the actors playing L…
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It is rare for a piece of independent theatre to earn itself a return season. Rarer still for that return season to be on the main stages and tour around the country. And even rarer yet for that piece of theatre to be a brand new play from a debut playwright. But that is exactly what has happened for actor and playwright Emmanuel Mattana and direct…
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This special bonus episode is to make up for the episode missed a few weeks ago. The Canberra Theatre Centre has curated an electrifying performance series under the banner of “Valence”. Shows that will ignite the senses and challenge perceptions, made by artists exploring the now, pushing the boundaries of convention, and which invite viewers to c…
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Madeleine Stewart and Bec Charlwood are two comedians who are part way through a tour around the country with a night of comedy appropriately called Are You Pulling My Leg? This show brings brings together some of Australia’s funniest comedians with disability or chronic illness for a raucous accessible comedy event offering entertaining and uncens…
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Claire Bird and Hugo Williams are both members of Ponycam Collective. What is a ponycam collective? Well, that is a good question that Claire and Hugo are probably well equipped to answer, but which, unfortunately, is not on the quiz, so there’s not much point in asking them. Although performing seemingly pointless tasks does seem to be very much p…
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Sweeney and Ethan are award winning comedians who have combined comedy and wine-tasting to create one hilarious show. That doesn't necessarily mean they're great at trivia though... Get tickets to In Pour Taste at Bondi Festival here: https://www.bondifestival.com.au/event/in-pour-taste-show/ Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-saturda…
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Two years ago, British comedy musical duo Flo & Joan (aka real life sisters Rosie and Nicola Dempsey) came and did the quiz and were justifiably stumped by a whole lot of Australian-centric questions. This time around, they're lucky enough to get at least one question right in their trivia sweet spot. If you're in Adelaide, go see a show at the Ade…
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As well as making this podcast, John is also an actor. Right now, he's rehearsing a brand new play by Francis Greenslade called The Platypus which also stars Rebecca Bower. And since they are the two people he's seeing the most of these days, it seemed perfectly logical that they should be this episode's guests. They're also both very clever people…
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The podcaster community is a tight one. We tend to all have the same challenges of finding fresh guests for each episode. Invite one podcast host to be a guest on your show, and they’ll put you in touch with another who could be a potential guest, or they’ll introduce you to a podcast that you may not have been aware of. Todays episode is a case in…
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Grant Piro and Alison Whyte are two of the hardest working actors in the country. Stars of stage and screen, they are both in the very special production of Death of a Salesman directed by Neil Armfield which has just opened at the Theatre Royal in Sydney. Get your tickets here: https://salesmanaustralia.com.au/ Support this show http://supporter.a…
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Comedian Tarsh Jago and cabaret artist Imogen Whittaker met in the considerably unlikely world of Aboriginal health policy and advocacy. But these friends found that they share a great deal of common ground. In their defence, the first half of this quiz is pretty tricky. Question writer Cindy MacDonald really didn't hold back this week. See how you…
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Liam Pieper and Sofija Stefanovic are old friends who went to high school together. They've since both gone on to write moving and funny memoirs about their childhoods. Sofija wrote about being an immigrant kid in Australia during the dissolution of Yugoslavia, while Liam used his teenage experience of selling pot around the suburbs of Melbourne fr…
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Sean Kelly and David Marr are two of the sharpest minds in the country writing about politics and unflinchingly examining our history and national character. They are both appearing at the Melbourne Writers Festival on the panel discussion Year in Review: Australian Politics with Laura Tingle and Michael Williams to talk about the year in Australia…
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This episode is possibly the most chaotic the podcast has ever been. Demi and David are masters of surfing the absurd and are both very comfortable teetering at the edge of the abyss of improvisation. They are also both very funny people. See Demi and David in their show at the Sydney Comedy Festival: https://www.sydneycomedyfest.com.au/event/demi-…
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Annie Louey and Mohammed Magdi are comedians dating across continents. Annie is Chinese-Australian living in Melbourne. Mohammed is Egyptian but has lived in China for 11 years. Annie is still getting used to learning about her own Chinese culture through an Arab. They first met on Love Island, aka Hong Kong. Annie returned to Australia with a long…
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Fern Brady and John Kearns were both contestants on series 14 of the UK tv show Taskmaster - in fact they even scored the exact same amount of points to finish joint last. The good news for them on this podcast is that since there are no other competitors on the quiz, no matter how badly they do, they will finish joint winners Get tickets to Fern’s…
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Zoë Coombs Marr and Tom Walker are two of the funniest and most creative comedians at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. If this episode of the quiz is anything to go by, there are very few boundaries either of them are too cautious to cross. This one comes with a bit of a content warning, so if you’ve got little ones listening, you might…
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For an episode of a quiz podcast to promote two comedian's shows at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, there is an awful lot of chat about soccer in this one. According to the webpages for their shows Chloe Petts and Rob Auton are both English comedians "fresh from Edinburgh" - but as Rob says, what it really should say is that they're "m…
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The episodes of the Quiz with Brian and Julia are always a bit longer than normal and this one is no exception. Stop reading this and just press play and enjoy. Watch the RocKwiz cover of "Keep on Rockin' In The Free World": https://youtu.be/dc455XOLGxk?si=SOrRyE54g7jQTYCq Get tickets to RocKwiz Live! RocKwiz’s Really Really Good Friday: https://ww…
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In this episode, regular guest Kirsty Webeck has brought along a newbie to the quiz, Fellow comedian (and almost fellow Canberran) Daniel Connell. They are both on the road right now, taking their shows around the country. Kirsty's is called "I'll be the Judge of That" and Daniel is a "Little Aussie Battler" But before they do, they have ten questi…
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From paying to be nominated for awards to getting your friends to write your reviews, it's not always easy to make it as a comedian in this country. Two of the best join John on this episode for their fourth time on the podcast - Luke Heggie has been described as “an efficient punchline machine,” while a reviewer called Chris Ryan “one of those rar…
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Rebecca Massey and Shannen Alyce Quan are both actors soon to appear in Belvoir’s Holding the Man. This new production comes nearly 20 years after the plays premiere in 2006. Written by Tommy Murphy, the play brings to life the heartfelt and heartbreaking memoir by Timothy Conigrave, about his fifteen year relationship with John. From falling in lo…
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The only other person to have hosted this podcast, William McKenna returns as a guest with Laurence Boxhall. Appearing for possibly the only time together on stage in the play "Milked" at Fortyfive Downstairs, these two show off their knowledge across multiple categories including nineteenth-century physicians, US geography and big land animals. Ge…
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This is only the second episode of the podcast with just one guest, but Michelle Brasier has more than enough talent to make up for it. Writer, actor, singer, comedian - you name it, she can do it. She's on here today to promote her show at the Malthouse Outdoor stage "Michelle Brasier Songs with my Friends. If you're in Melbourne tonight, you shou…
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Usually, the guests on this show - mostly actors and comedians - tend not to have the answers to the sports questions, since the fields of theatre and sport tend to remain somewhat seperate. However Tristan Black and Anthony Taufa are currently starring in “Alone It Stands” at The Ensemble Theatre. Written by the Irish playwright John Breen, it tel…
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For the first episode of the fifth season of The Saturday Quiz, we're very lucky to have musical theatre heavyweights Tim Minchin and Andy Karl. Tim has written the songs for the musical Groundhog Day and Andy sings them - day, after day... after day. Get your tickets to Groundhog Day - The Musical here: https://groundhogday.com.au/ Support this sh…
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As we do every year, the rules change for the final episode of the season. Now it is a competition and scores are very much kept (poorly) The same core group has returned, Kate Jinx and Zoe Coombs Marr on one team and Dave Lawson is joined this time by Ryan Shelton stepping in for Sarah Snook. There are forty questions to get through, so settle in …
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Two of the nicest people in comedy come together to take on the quiz in this week's episode. Kirsty Webeck and Lizzy Hoo have both been on the podcast before, but this is the first time Kirsty has likened herself to Jennifer Garner or Lizzy has reminisced about Zac Efron in the shower. Sign up to their mailing lists to get details of their gigs her…
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Adam Zwar and Luke Arnold both star in the Stan series Scrublands. The rural noir mystery about a journalist investigating a spree-killing that isn’t all that it seems. They’re also both authors - Adam's memoir Twelve Summers links the significant moments of his life with the ups and downs of the Australian cricket team and Luke has written a serie…
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Hayley and Mandy share a lot. A surname, the same profession and right now they’re sharing the stage in a play that they shared the authorship of. They also seem to share the same voice! Dirty Birds is playing right now in the Heath Ledger theatre for Black Swan, until Sunday the 10th of December. Get your tickets here: https://blackswantheatre.com…
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Two award winning comedians test their knowledge against the quiz this week. Tom Ballard and Dilruk Jayasinha cover a lot of ground in this episode - from Antarctica to pigs to the very nature of evolution and life itself. Get your tickets to the live taping of both their shows on the 4th of December at The Corner Hotel in Richmond here: https://co…
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For the second week in a row, this episode's guests are cast members from the final production of the year for one of the country’s major theatre companies. This time it’s Belvoir’s turn. The Master and Margarita opened just the other night to five star reviews across the board. The wild Bulgakov novel has been adapted and directed by Belvoir’s art…
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As the end of the year fast approaches, theatre companies around the country are mounting their final productions. Shows at this time of year are usually fun, rambunctious affairs full of hope and laughs. Sydney’s Ensemble Theatre is no exception, with the world premiere of Mark Kilmurry and Jamie Oxenbould’s new comedy “Midnight Murder at Hamlingt…
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Chris Taylor and Andrew Hansen have a long history of creating comedy and satire for the ABC. Happily, that association is set to continue with their upcoming series ‘Australian Epic’. The 6-part extravaganza that takes some of the country’s most colourful true stories, and turns them into musicals. From Steve Bradbury’s unlikely gold medal on ice,…
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Two former wizards on the podcast today. Gillian Cosgriff and David Simes. Gillian the queen of quizzes and former guest. David Simes. Hater of all things quiz related and podcasts. Listen to see how this goes down. Go See 'Actually, Good' - Gillian's 'Best Show' Award winning show. Find dates at her instagram @gilliancosgriff Support this show htt…
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Melbourne Theatre Company's most recent play 'My Sister Jill' stars this weeks guests. Lucy Goleby and James O'Connell have worked together on many projects. Can they work together to answer Cindy's 10 questions. Listen and find out! 'My Sister Jill' is playing at the Sumner Theatre for one more week. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/th…
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