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Am I reading the winners table wrong? It says Nick Terry scored 433 and Dag Griffiths scored 432. Yet above, it says: "The maximum score [433] has been achieved only once by Bill McKaig, a minister from Glasgow. The feat of answering all 40 third round questions correctly was also achieved by Daphne Fowler and Michael Penrice who both finished with a score of 432." While I'm here... what happened with the tie? Did they have to find another Etruscan urn or something? :) -Nommo
Ah... I can see I've made a boobboo here. My source for the scores was http://www.quizplayers.com/quizplayers/fifteen_to_one. The scores they have listed against each series is actually the score of the person who was top of the finals board, and not the score of the winning finalist. I'll have to correct it. As for the tie: Yes they did have to find another urn or something. One of the winners runs a postal quiz that I take part in sometimes, he put a note in the handout a few months ago, but I've forgotten the details. Mintguy 16:31 23 Jul 2003 (UTC)
I think Fifteen to One has been axed, but I can't find any info on it.
Darn shame indeed, it would be abhorent if it was not brought back!!!!!!!! is quizzing gold without the personal rubbish that i for one dont care about in the slightest. Together let us have a toast for hte quiz show that changed the world forever. 'to 15 to 1'. Does anyone want to meet together and recreate the magic unoficially? perhaps we could could get together and quiz for prizes? i have a faux greek kebab that could be a mighty prize for that person lucky enough to get their hands on it!!!!! I look forward to any reaction. lets make the magic happen and not leave this as a pipe dream. thanks Malcolm Umbar
It was certainly a lot better than that pointless crap Deal or No Deal with that gobshite Noel Edmonds. Beat the nation was a great little quiz which filled the gap left by 15 to 1 for one series in 2004. I created a stub for it yesterday as, surprisingly, none existed before. Both that *and* 15 to 1 should be brought back IMV, perhaps they could alternate every six months or so? Martyn Smith 15:10, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
I was first a contestant in '94 and got to the second (knockout) round. At that time it would not have been possible to play the game again. However in 2000 the rule was altered so that anybody who had been a contestant more than two years ago could apply for another go (going through the qualifying auditions the same way as totally fresh contestants). I subsequently appeared again on the show in 2001 (getting to the third round and finishing third), and once more in the very last series, i.e. autumn 2003 Martyn Smith 21:30, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
I was wondering, what font did 15 to 1 use on the very last series? Lenny 17:36, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
This section reads more like a (relatively poor) commentary than an encyclopedia article. Shouldn't it be deleted, or at least severely truncated?--PaulTaylor 13:34, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
How did they get the show to 30 minutes every time. Presumably it could run and run in the first round if the contestants kept giving correct answers--Screen42 16:05, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
It's possibly too granular, but what time was the show usually broadcast? I remember it generally being on in the early evening, too late to catch after a day at work, but I assume it moved around over the years. -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 12:09, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
"In the grand final of series 29 shown in December 2000 (where Matti Watton won), one contestant, who was standing at position 4, could not be identified for legal reasons" - what's the explanation as to how/why this occurred? The only explanation I can think of is that the person was convicted of some sort of crime between the filming and the broadcast - was this the case, or was it something else entirely.......? -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 11:09, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
Doesn't really work even then, it was the grand final. Surely it'd be easy to work out the missing contestant might just be whoever got through to the final in an earlier show but didn't appear on TV in the final? Duds 2k (talk) 17:00, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
I'm fairly certain that 15 to 1 was broadcast in letterboxed 16:9 ratio in the late 1990s, as part of an experimental run of analogue widescreen transmissions sponsored by the EU. Can anybody verify this? Mrstonky (talk) 02:56, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
I'm sure the lady who sometimes did the voice over can't be the Sarah Wynter of the linked article. I remember "Sarah" as sounding quite middle-aged, yet Sarah Wynter is quite young and this doesn't seem to fit in with her career anyway. JRawle (Talk) 14:29, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
is it possible for someone to put up the 2013 Fifteen to One logo somewhere on this page? Visokor (talk) 12:53, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
Why have the details of the original series celebrity specials (in 1990 and 1992 I believe) been removed? They were won by Nigel Rees and Patrick Stoddart (I provided a reference for the latter info). David Smith9 (talk) 14:33, 21 August 2023 (UTC)