How I’ve perfected the sport of watching The Chase (as a non-sports fan)

Grant Smithies is a writer and broadcaster based in Nelson, where he also runs the Family Jewels record store.

OPINION: Plutonium. Winston Churchill. Madagascar. Seventeenth-century. Dung Beetle. Cumulus.

The words roll out like mangled poetry, rich with associations, heavy with history, attended by the blurt of a robot buzzer.

There’s big money to be made. Come and have a go, if you think you’re clever enough. Or stay home and watch from your couch, if you’re not.

I have found the best way to watch the hit British quiz show The Chase is slightly tipsy after a post-work beer, because disinhibition makes the answers come faster, if not more accurately.

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