Hard Quiz

Experts in malaria, the Australian Greens, Aussie motorcycle champ Toby Price and comedy duo Lano and Woodley are after Tom Gleeson’s Big Brass Mug. One of them is in for a surprise.

Battle Of The Duds. What do the Wright brothers, The Book of Mormon, Aerosmith and the Volkswagen Beetle have in common? They’re all topics on this episode, where four self-proclaimed experts match wits with the hilarious Tom Gleeson.

Only one contestant can hoist Tom Gleeson’s Big Brass Mug and cry, “Thanks for playing HARD.” This episode’s competing topics are author Kurt Vonnegut, pop star Britney Spears, the Wayne’s World movies, and, er, condoms.

To win Tom Gleeson’s Big Brass Mug, four experts are grilled on their knowledge of cartoon critter Bugs Bunny, collectible card game Magic: The Gathering, AFL footy club St Kilda, and classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird.

Fascinating facts emerge as Tom Gleeson dangles the Big Brass Mug in front of experts in rock icons Deep Purple, Britain’s Isle of Wight, Spielberg’s ET the Extra-Terrestrial, and the Super Netball League.

Tom Gleeson has hard questions on revolutionary Leon Trotsky, film franchise The Fast and the Furious, fun fruit, bananas, and that ball of burning gas: the sun.

Tom Gleeson faces down a bunch of boffins battling for the Big Brass Mug. Fans of Phil Collins, High School Musical, famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and Telecom Phonecards compete to win.

Tom Gleeson and his Big Brass Mug test the mettle of average Aussies with eccentric interests, such as the LA Dodgers baseball team, Project Mercury space program, Lawrence of Arabia, and ’60s comedy Get Smart.

Battle of the Has Beens. Tom quizzes four people he believes have left their best days behind them, Tim Rogers, Rhonda Burchmore, Tony Armstrong, and Ann-Maree Biggar, in a battle of the has-beens.

Four contestants vie for the Big Brass Mug, with Tom Gleeson putting their various specialty topics of Billy Idol, The Witcher, Stephen King’s IT, and ’80s and ’90s supermodels to the test. It’s time to play HARD.