Who knows?

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Television broadcast
Original title Who knows?
Country of production Germany
original language German
Year (s) since 2015
Production
company
UFA Show & Factual
length 45 minutes
Episodes 587+ in 5+ seasons
(including 2 student specials)
and 22 XXL editions ( list )
Broadcasting
cycle
If in the program: Mondays to Fridays at 6:00 p.m.
genre Quiz show
Theme music Saint Motel - My Type
Moderation Kai plum
First broadcast July 6, 2015 on Das Erste
Moderator Kai Pflaume
Team captain Bernhard Hoëcker
Team Captain Elton

Who knows? is a quiz show that has been broadcast on Erste since July 2015 . The program is moderated by Kai Pflaume .

history

It was first broadcast in July 2015 from Monday to Friday from 6:00 p.m. on Das Erste . In each episode there are two teams, led by Bernhard Hoëcker and Elton , who compete against each other. The audience sitting in the studio can decide which team to join. If a team wins, the money won is divided by the number of spectators who have chosen this team. The quiz show came on the slot of asked - hunted , which was taken over by Quizduell after August 24, 2015 . The show was broadcast by the Slovak TV channel TV Markizá under the name Dobre vedieť! adapted. Meanwhile, the program alternates seasonally with the quiz program Asked - Hunted .

Season Number of episode date
from to
1 31 July 6, 2015 20th August 2015
2 120 March 29, 2016 September 30, 2016
3 165 3rd July 2017 February 23, 2018
4th 142 1st October 2018 3rd May 2019
5 129 September 30, 2019 April 9, 2020 1
1The fifth season ended earlier than planned. Since the broadcast does not work without the participation of the audience, fewer consequences could be recorded in view of the measures taken to address the COVID-19 pandemic .

Game flow

Before the game

Two teams each consisting of a prominent guest and one of the two team captains Bernhard Hoëcker and Elton compete against each other.

The team of two with more spectators behind them can start and choose the category of the first question. Then it goes on alternately. If the number of spectators is equal, a coin is tossed to decide where to start.

At the beginning of each program, presenter Kai Pflaume presents an interesting fact to those present and usually asks the question: "Did you know that ...?"

Main round

There are a total of twelve categories. The respective questions have three possible answers and result in 500 € if answered correctly. Each team can therefore earn a maximum of € 3000 in the main round if it answers all six questions correctly. During the main round, each team also has one opportunity to ask their part of the audience. Then the audience gets up, who think they know the answer. The answer of the selected viewer is then binding for the advice team. The questions are then answered by short films or a presentation (e.g. chemical experiment) in the studio. There are some common categories.

Finale: The master's question

After all twelve questions have been answered, the master question must be solved. First, the category of the question is given, after which the teams decide how much of the money they have earned so far to use. If a team did not earn any money in the main round, it receives a "pity euro" from the moderator to bet. But then the other team has to use all the money they have earned to keep the tension going - the “pity team” can still win, which happened for the first time in the 478th edition. If the master question is answered correctly, the staked amount is added; if the answer is wrong, the amount is subtracted. Candidates have twenty seconds to answer the master's question. The answer to the master’s question is accompanied by a piece of music by Jean Thomé , which was featured in the program What am I? became known as the theme song. The audience usually clap along. In the event of a tie, an estimation question decides. If the estimation question also results in a tie, both teams win; so far this happened once in the 537th edition.

In the end, the spectators behind the winning team receive the money they have earned. To do this, the prize amount is divided by the number of viewers. If both teams answer the master question incorrectly and have each bet everything, the audience will receive nothing.

XXL editions

In the XXL editions broadcast on Saturdays during prime time, three normal main rounds with final master's questions are played, with a total of six prominent guests appearing. If, after a master's question, both teams have the same amount in their account, an estimation question also decides on the victory. A quick guessing round will then be held with the three winners of the rounds. The two candidates who give the most correct answers here also play a final round with Elton and Bernhard Hoëcker. The winner is the team that answers three questions correctly first. The prominent guest of the winning team can decide for which good causes 50,000 € will be donated. Physicist Marcus Weber from the Physikanten & Co. has been providing tricky questions and surprising answers with his experiments in the studio since 2016 .

Episodes

Candidates

statistics

In the 316 programs up to the end of the third season (excluding the XXL editions), the Hoëcker team achieved a total of 164 wins (51.90%), the Elton team 132 wins (41.77%). There was no winner in 18 programs (5.70%). In the 129th and 204th shows, Hoëcker and Elton played together and won against the challengers (0.63%).

Team Elton (Elton with Rita Russek ) achieved the highest ever winnings per capita for viewers at € 127.66 in the 127th edition on August 26, 2016 .

Up to the end of the third season, the regular broadcasts had won a total of € 950,616.80.

The most frequent guests so far have been Christoph Maria Herbst with twelve appearances, Paul Panzer with eleven and Cordula Stratmann , Dietmar Bär , Horst Lichter , Judith Rakers , Jürgen Vogel , Leonard Lansink and Matze Knop with eight.

The guest with the longest winning streak was Dietmar Bär: He has won six of seven appearances so far (three times with Bernhard Hoëcker and three times with Elton) and he also won the third round of the 17th XXL edition with Bernhard Hoëcker , but was eliminated in the quick guessing round out. Jan Hofer and Judith Rakers had the second longest winning streak : Jan Hofer has won six out of seven appearances (three times each with Bernhard Hoëcker and three times with Elton). Judith Rakers has won five of seven appearances so far (four times with Bernhard Hoëcker and once with Elton) and she also won the third round of the 19th XXL edition with Elton , but was eliminated there in the fast guessing round . Atze Schröder was similarly successful, winning three of four appearances so far (once with Bernhard Hoëcker and twice with Elton) and was able to assert himself in both the main and final rounds in his three participations in XXL editions.

Play along

A mobile app called ARD Quiz has been available since July 2017, which you can use to guess and win during the broadcast. In addition, it is possible to virtually duel with the TV team outside of broadcast time, with questions from episodes that have already been broadcast being played. You can also compete against other app players. Since September 2017 there has also been a ranking of all app players.

Odds

The start of the program was already followed by 1.33 million viewers. On average, who knows something like that? relatively successful to date and reached the broadcaster average. The younger viewers in particular saw the quiz show, which made it more successful with this audience than Asked - Hunted . The market share of the total audience was higher for asked - hunted .

The first show of 2016, which was broadcast on March 29, achieved a market share of 11.6 percent with 2.16 million viewers.

The episode broadcast on May 19, 2016, in which Florian Martens and Stefanie Stappenbeck were guests, had the best rate on the Senderplatz des Erste at 6:00 p.m. in over eight years. A total of 2.49 million people watched, which meant a market share of 16.5 percent.

In the course of the third season, the audience rating increased again and again. The episode broadcast on December 4, 2017 with guests Tim Mälzer and Steffen Henssler had the highest audience rating of all seasons to date. With 3.79 million viewers, a market share of 18.1 percent of the total audience was achieved. At the beginning of 2018, the show had over 4 million viewers for the first time and on February 15, 2018, it achieved the previous ratings record with 4.64 million viewers and a market share of 20.2 percent.

Audience ratings for the XXL issues

No. of the edition date spectator Market share
01 July 25, 2015 5.12 million 19.2%
02 02nd April 2016 4.80 million 17.1%
03 July 16, 2016 4.92 million 20.9%
04th August 27, 2016 5.16 million 23.5%
05 December 23, 2016 2.20 million 11.7% a
06th February 11, 2017 5.50 million 18.1%
07th 0July 1, 2017 5.30 million 21.6%
08th 19th August 2017 5.44 million 21.8%
09 December 30, 2017 6.67 million 21.7%
10 0January 6, 2018 5.66 million 18.5%
11 February 24, 2018 6.66 million 22.0%
12 July 21, 2018 4.63 million 20.4%
13 29th September 2018 5.12 million 19.2%
14th November 24, 2018 4.85 million 17.5%
15th December 29, 2018 5.45 million 18.8%
16 0March 9, 2019 5.38 million 19.4%
17th April 20, 2019 4.82 million 19.8%
18th July 27, 2019 4.09 million 18.8%
19th September 28, 2019 5.08 million 19.7%
20th 23rd November 2019 5.56 million 20.5%
21st December 28, 2019 5.75 million 20.3%
22nd 0February 8, 2020 5.66 million 20.5%
aThe fifth edition was actually planned for December 19, 2016, but was only shown on that day from 8:15 p.m. to 9:12 p.m., as the first cut off the broadcast for a special broadcast about the attack on the Berlin Christmas market . At that time, the XXL edition had 3.97 million viewers. The second, full broadcast, which started on December 23, 2016 at 10:10 p.m. and thus later than usual, had a rate of 11.7 percent, which corresponds to around 2.2 million viewers.

Who knows? - The game

On October 18, 2018, the first series of computer games based on the game show of the same name, Who knows something? of the broadcaster Das Erste for the Nintendo Switch , Windows and PlayStation 4 platforms . On October 15, 2019, the second series of computer games, who knows something? - The 2nd game . The computer game was also released for Xbox One on May 11, 2020 . Both parts were approved by the USK without age restriction.

On January 25, 2019, the board game Who knows something? - The quiz game for the whole family from Spieleverlag Schmidt Spiele and, for the first time, since the beginning of 2020 as a daily tear-off calendar from Heye Verlag .

Nominations

literature

  • Who knows ?: Why is the hard drive called "C" and why do frogs close their eyes when they swallow? , Heyne Verlag , ISBN 978-3-453-60489-6
  • Who knows? 2: Why don't birds have teeth and why aren't long car tunnels straight? , Heyne Verlag, ISBN 978-3-453-60518-3
  • Who knows? 3: What helps with poor cell phone reception and why is blue mankind's favorite color? , Heyne Verlag, ISBN 978-3-453-60556-5

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