We Need Answers 2008 - Semi final 1

"We Need Answers" is a quiz with a difference. Top ranking comedians take part in a knock out quiz to find out which one of them is the smartest, funniest, best at limbo dancing, and all round know-it-all. Led by Mark Watson, Tim Key and Alex Horne, all the questions put to comedians were ones that had been texted to AQA 63336.

Friday, 15 Aug 2008

Last night, Josie Long and Paul Sinha went head to head for a place in the final of We Need Answers. Both highly competitive, the game was tense and fast-paced. Josie and Paul's scores remained neck and neck for most of the rounds. In the risky, You Or Him/Her round, in which correctly answered questions about your opponent are awarded double points, both contestants opted to answer on each other. The audience discovered that Sinha doesn't float and that Josie doesn't easily give up.

After Josie thrashed Paul at making Kinder Surprise toys inside a sleeping bag, leaving him with chocolate flavoured egg on his face, the final round was ultimately decided by over enthusiastic buzzing. Paul scuppered himself by answering too early, too many times, giving Josie the winning advantage.

Sinha's first ever loss in his two years' of competing for the We Need Answers Cup was accompanied by a clog walk of shame. However, on the way out he managed to grab a cheeky kiss from AQA's official photographer, so all was not lost from his point of view.

In front of a whooping and cheering audience, Josie accepted her prize money with great dignity and with a small and unnecessary apology: "I might not have been that funny, but I really, really love this quiz."