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The Ultimate News Quiz 2009

with quizmaster Anne Robinson

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Quizmaster Anne Robinson

The Ultimate
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News Teams

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BBC TV News
Emily Maitlis

BBC 24

Channel 4 News

Five News

ITV News
Alastair Stewart
Katie Derham

Newsnight
Kirsty Wark
Jeremy Paxman

Radio 4
Kirsty Young

Sky News
Dermot Murnaghan
Kay Burley

Today & WATO

The Ultimate News Quiz 2008

The 2008 event took place on Friday January 25th and once again the event was held and hosted by Bloomberg at their ultra trendy headquarters in the City of London.

This year the quiz master was be joined by a quiz mistress, with Andy Marr and Kirsty Young dishing out the questions and keeping the teams in order.

 

Ultimate News Quiz winners—January 2008

Another great night was had by one and all at the Ultimate News Quiz and the 2008 winner came from the brainy end of the braodcast specturm with Radio 4 coming out top of the class followed by last year’s winner, ITV News, in second and first timers Endemol in 3rd place.

Radio Four win Ultimate news quiz

Radio Four win The Ultimate News Quiz 2008

It looks like we've increased the ammiunt of money raised for our chairities NCH and SPW by a staggering 50% to more than £60,000, helped by some very generous auction bidding.

Highlight of the night was Kirsty Young paying an extraodrinary £1,400 for a pair of M&S jocky pants signed by Jeremy Paxman!

Andrew and Kirsty with Paxo’s pants

Andrew and Kirsty with Paxo’s pants—I hope they're clean!

Katie Derham and Jeremy Paxman

Kirsty Young, the proud winner…
of Paxo’s pants!

Most of our teams have already said they want to come back again next year, so to avoid disappointment book your tables early!

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